"Don’t anybody start talking about morals, because we don’t have any in football" - the rolling Scottish football thread, season 2014/15

Refereeing was abysmal.

Refereeing was utterly Collum-like in its completely comical ineptitude. Did any pundits really say it was good? Am I right in saying that Leigh Griffiths was booked for celebrating his goal, yet neither McCulloch nor Black were booked for elbowing and kicking?

I'm *still* baffled at that Guidetti thing near the end where he ended up on his arse surrounded by defenders and managed to concede a free kick.

Mackay-Steven and Armstrong apparently having medicals and will sign for Celtic tonight.
£2m is a fair chunk to fuck up your opponent's league cup final team.

You are the ref. Who gets the free kick?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B83jRmHIAAE2HQh.jpg

Which ref am I?

dunno, what's your lodge number?

Ah, I'm not a ref. Can't answer then, sorry!

Easier one

http://youtu.be/eUWUhJVMsYg

a) red card
b) yellow card
c) quiet word
d) blind eye and a drink at your member's club of choice?

Griffiths clearly asking for it. Ten match ban for Neil Lennon.

Am I hired?

One more question: wit school did ye go tae?

:-)

Quite enjoying the wee videos of Ronny Deila gieing it laldy in the pub in Erskine that are doing the rounds just now. Didn't realise he was living round here (two seconds of judicious googling and I now know where he lives).

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He's very shiny.

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i slept through the Celtic v Rangers game. it was case of badly set mobile phone alarm rather than the game being so bad that it induced somnolence, although it was pretty dire from what i watched later. had really wished that the fixture wouldn't happen this season, and that rangers don't get promoted this season - which hopefully is still on the cards. it's a nothing game now, rangers are irrelevant.

I am seeking comfort in the fact that they're so pish that it won't happen again this season because they surely can't make it past another round of the Scottish Cup. Five cloggers, five guys from Newcastle that HAVE to go in the team, plus a goalie (I genuinely thought Cammy Bell was their goalie until Sunday and yon Simonson chump turned up. Turns out Bell's been injured forever), surely Raith are better than that (I only know who they're playing because BBC had an advert on straight after Sunday's snoozefest advertising Sevco v Raith as their live TV game. Honestly? That's the best game they could get? They're at home, ffs, so it's not like they're catering for the millions of not-walking-awayerers who couldn't get tickets.)

Actually, I've just looked at the fixtures. Slim pickings there, but would honestly rather watch Partick v ICT or QotS v St Johnstone. Spartans v Berwick would probably be more enticing, tbh.

To be honest, the rovers have been awful against them this season. I wouldn't hold out any hope that things will be better this time around.

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just a yellow, according to the linesman

lol

It's good we create 20 chances every game, we need them.

Ian Crocker pronounces Bitton's name in a way that makes it sound like he's saying Pete Tong. It's very disconcerting.

we lost a goal - first time in living memory (weeks)

I know. And I am instantly jittery and irrationally worried. Deila out! (not really, I've kind of warmed to the guy now)

cracking double save from Gordon

great result tonight, wish I'd seen it

It was some game. I was watching it on a dubious Brazilian stream. Their commentators are way cheerier than the BT chumps.

Deila can stay, btw.

lol

My cynical heart has melted at Jay Beatty getting 97% of the vote for Goal of the Month. Well done to Hamilton for letting him do it - a nice touch and I think the thread title's just a wee bit wrong right now. Also <3 to Sami taking time out to do a wee congratulations video for him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LPKk4q-gQI&feature=youtu.be

Deila out. It was an exciting game but this guy has basically mastered setting a team up to lose 2/3/4 goals any time we play anyone remotely decent.

I know it's been better domestically but that was always going to happen.

Would we be better or worse off with e.g. John Hughes or Paul Hartley in charge?

I still maintain no-one was even concentrating until someone shouted to tell them who'd killed Lucy Beale. Both Armstrong's goals were just after EastEnders had finished.

I'm prepared to give Deila a bit of time as he at least seems to have found a settled team and they all seem to be playing for him. We really need to sort out our full-backs though. And stop relying on Craig Gordon so much. He picked a bad match to have a stinker in.

Signs your club's squad is too big: Celtic TV facebook page thingie has an interview with Wakaso Mubarak who has apparently been away at the African Cup of Nations and my first reaction was "hmmmm, oh aye, forgot about him, zzzzz". Turns out he got to the semi finals and scored a really good goal, and this all completely passed me by. I also mentioned Derk Boerrigter to my dad at the weekend then had to look him up to see if we still had him.

Mubarak got to the final and scored the opening penalty in the shoot-out.

Our squad *is* too big, but it's all midfielders or strikers who aren't strikers (and are thus possibly midfielders).

I stand corrected.

Jambos hit double figures against the Blue Brazil.

the maroon germany

(damn fucked up the joke, should've said pink huns- youse've been saying that for years!)

Congratulations sktsh - can't remember the last time anyone hit double figures in the league.

Weird day with Motherwell, Ross County and St Mirren all winning. I imagine those well earned 3 points weren't celebrated for long in the dressing rooms - especially with Partick winning as well to maintain their cushion (and costing me £112 on my accy as well, bastards).

Cheers! Have kept as quiet as poss about this season because pride before fall etc but have really enjoyed it. By the tail end of the romanov era it really didn't feel like my club any more. It's nice to have a club - even results notwithstanding - to be proud of.

Quite pleased for motherwell i have to say. Hope they stay up.

Goals 4 and 7 the pick of the bunch, the whole mess made even stranger by the goals all coming in period of less than 50 minutes.

Hearts to win and over 2.5 goals was the safest bet I've had on in years there. St Mirren not conceding did me for £45 on my other coupon. Bastards. It's very hard to get sweary and call St Mirren bastards for winning to nil in a pub in Paisley, btw.

None of us could remember anyone hitting ten either, Celtic's 9 against Aberdeen seemed to be as far as any of us could get.

I remember Morton beating Forfar 9-1 (my dad took my sons to the game - they reckoned Morton scoring 9 made them better than Celtic. I laughed and laughed until we played them in the cup).

Celtic the only team in the top 8 to win this weekend wtf.

Difficult game today with Aberdeen more than matching us for the first half hour or so but then we could have ended up winning by 7 or 8 if we hadn't kept letting Guidetti join in.

Guidetti was fucking mince. Quite an enjoyable game to watch, Aberdeen could be decent if they had any strikers.

Things I didn't know that I've just found out and can't believe I didn't know:

It was Stefan Scepovic's old man who scored the goal for Partizan Belgrade that put Celtic out of Europe that time.

rip dave mckay :(