Spot Of Bother For Celtic As Kilmarnock Are Beaten

So, here is to the Monday edition to LoTW. Cheers, to all who read this for longer than the average 17 seconds, before pressing the back button, which returns them to something more interesting. Maybe we should try writing something interesting before the 17 seconds is up.....

Anyway, it's always a happy Monday when we go to Kilmarnock and win. We have not been beaten there since May 2001 and seeing Jim Jeffries and Billy Browns greeting faces as they watch their team fail to beat and compete wie The Hoops makes the fact they Kilmarnock never lgot relegated last season all worthwhile.

Celtic, got over their Big Cup exit, wie a 3-1 victory wie goals from Shaun Maloney and Georgios Samaras, who got his 2nd awayday double in a week, and the game saw 3 pens awarded, a sending off and a goal of the season contender.

Big Sammy, Scotlands top goalscorer, produced another MOTM display and showed Man Citeeh what they are missing. In the past few weeks Sammy has shown the folly of them selling him and buying some Brazilian from Real Madrid. Serves them right for becoming the richest club in the world.

Celtic, continued their impressive away form, which is stark contrast to oor functional, pragmatic and poor home displays but still no Celtic game is complete wieoot a missed penalty and a bit of scandal.

Shaun Maloney decided that he would try and hit someone in the stand, who was threatening to sing a 'banned' song, wie his effort from 12 yards. So, when we were awarded a dubious 2nd pen- oor manager says it was a pen and highlights the scud Shunsuke Nakamura received in the aftermath but Alan Coombe say's Nakamura dived and I really think we should believe him as he says there was 5000 Kilmarnock fans there, so he tells the truth- Sammy did the honours wie a not to clever dispatch into the net.

That's not the whole story though. Aiden McGeady, who was benched again, had placed the ball on the spot only to be told that Sammy was to take the kick. In a week where rumours were rife that oor manager and Aiden had fallen out then there is maybe more getting read into this than there was actually behind it. Was Stephen McManus acting on his managers orders or did he just think Sammy had a better chance to score it?

Anyway, Aiden and oor manager have denied that there is a problem but oor managers actions do seem to suggest something different. If that is the case then how long Scotland's Player and Young Player of The Year will be happy at playing 2nd fiddle to the winner of Aston Villa's biggest arse award 2007/2008 remains to be seen.

So....the tinkerman tinkered and promises to tinker as often as a 14 year old wie a copy of Razzle. He brought back in Marc Crosas, Jan Vennegor and Mark Wilson. Out went Barry Robson, injured, Andy Hinkel, who was paying the price for being uninteresting and and Scott McDonald who was paying the price for pies.

All in the changes worked wie all performing well and the only blot on the performance was the loss of the goal and Gary Caldwell getting sent of for an act of stupidity when 3-0 up, 2 mins left and him in the best form of his career. Suspension will give Glenn Loovens his chance against Livingston and Aberdeen this week.

The manager was pleased but said that.....“I thought he [Samaras] was terrific, if lackadaisical at times, like we were as a team. We really need to get our passing spot on and we’ll be a very good team.”....which is a fair shout as the other night proved when we are poor, we are poor and in the games against Motherwell, Kilmarnock and Aalborg BK we have seen somethings that need sorted.

The managers only constants in this spell have been the performances of Caldwell, Sammy and Maloney. We may have found a player in Marc Crosas but his tinkering is bound to be the source of some amusment in up-coming blogs.

So, there was a press conference today regarding tomorrows Diddy Cup game at home to in-form Livingston. Nothing eye-catching came out the press-conference as our manager didn't announce that he was going to play a load of fringe players and youngsters, which he should take the opperchancity to do. The squad was annouced and it was indicated that changes will be made.

Loovens will start and maybe Skippy and Aiden will get 90mins under their belts. Paul Caddis may come in for some needed game time and could Darren O'Dea get a runout? I'm sure the other 14,999 that bother to turn up wie me will be excited at the thought of this. I wonder if we will see Massimo?

Anyway, I'm reminded of nights when we we beat high flying Falkirk 8-1 and beat low flying Partick on pens. Under GS, in the Diddy Cup, we have suffered poor defeats at home to Falkirk and Hearts. Livingston have never beaten Celtic. First ever meeting ended in a 0-0 draw then they have had 17 defeats. Tomorrow night maybe their best chance of changing this record.

They are 17 to 1 wie some bookies could be worth a punt if yer skint and the malaise that we have suffered at home in the Diddy Cup continues.

That's it. Hail Hails are open for the inane pish that gets posted. Lets hope we are celebrating a victory tomorrow night.

Oh Aah Samaras.

Forza