The Poorman's Shaun Maloney, Celtic Beat Hibs, Some Rumours And A Nice Looking Burd.

Hibs turned up on Saturday in a ghastly yellow kit. I huvnae seen anything as ghastly in yellow since Delia Smith shouted "Let's be havin you!!" to some tractor-shaggers in a relegation battle. Apart from a few long range efforts and unjust abuse from some sections from the home crowd, Derek Riordan, disappeared into his lesser-spotted mode that was seen often when he doned the Hoops.

The Poormans Shaun Maloney.

That's Entertainment!!!!

Sang Mr P.Weller from Slough. He must have had The Hoops in mind as penned that modern classic. Celtic's habit of now letting the away team score 2 goals at Celtic Park means that we have seen some great comebacks, Hibs and Aberdeen and one disgraceful defeat this season. Still we can't complain as on Saturday we saw a decent game in Monsoon season.

Celtic beat Hibs 4-2. The highlights from 101 Great Goals are here. As predicted Mick McManus scored and Cillian Sheridan put us 2-0 up. Just when it looked like a case of how many we would score Hibs got back into the game via a wicked deflection. Then just to highlight the joke that is Barry Robson at LB, Colin Nish beasted him down the flank and whipped in an undefendable ball for Real Madrid bound Steven Fletcher to bundle in at the back post. Glenn Loovens and Scott Brown scored to ensure that we got the deserved 3 points.

If Robson had got skinned by Fletcher or the lesser-spotted Riordan then I could understand. But it was Colin Nish who sometimes makes extra money doubling as a footballer rather than his usual lanky piece of pish. Not, that he didnae have a complex at the final whistle..

He moaned: "If it was me (drowning in his own self importance), I would have got sent off." He was talking about the red-cardable tackle that Scott McDonald committed on Irishman David Van Zantan. Even Skippy himself admitted that the tackle was a shocker: "As soon as we made contact I knew it was a bad one and you could tell by my reaction". So, a centre forward commiting a rash tackle. You don't see that everyday.

The manager was pleased and he feels that the 40 odd thousand that paddled and canoed their way to the East End of Glesga were entertained. He said: "The people whe follow our games are getting value for money. We try and play good football and entertain". Like on Wednesday night we entertained the whole of Britain wie oor ineptness.

Still the stats back up his claim. 9 shots on and 8 shots off target, 17 corners to 1 and 61% possession plus a decent game from Andy Hinkel means it was a decent afternoon bar the laspe of 15 mins before HT and just after. Celtic continued their habit of winning when they score first and make it 6 wins in a row domestically scoring 20 goals.

Rumour O'Filter.

Shunsuke Nakamura is rumoured to be wanting to go home. The Japanese Beckham will seemingly be offered the debt of Iceland to return home to play quarterback for the Yokohama Marinos. Some bloke from the Japanese FA said Naka the world: "My child is approaching the age of going to nursery school and I am 30"..unsure where the Japanese bloke gets the idea that means he is leaving but maybe he has just been watchin 'Iwouldratherbeanywhereelse' performances over the last few weeks.

Show us the Yen.

Still ignoring the hole that is left back, Gordon has seemingly dispatched the scouts to Belgium to watch Racing Genk striker Elyaniv Barda. The Israeli has scored 19 goals in 37 appearances for the Belgians after signing for them cause he failed to agree terms wie the mighty Cypriots APOEL. As usual the meeja are reporting a bun-fight between us and relegation haunted Bolton for him.

Ipswich manager Jim Magilton has denied he has appraoched Darren O'Dea wie the view to making him a tractor boy. He said: "He's a good player and he's played well at U21 level, but we haven't made an approach for Darren." I have just put this in so I can sink the blog to a new low by posting a picture of Darren's Burd who has made mair headlines than him this season.

Stan Collymore Bawbag Of The Week

Stan who is usually seen in and around the parks of The Brum or hitting burds in Parisian pubs decided to give us his wisdom on why we shouldnae get into the EPL. He moaned, yes MOANED: "Too many English sides have paid their subs for 100 years to be pushed aside by Celtic, who wouldn't have the quality to survive in the EPL".

Just like Stan, who husnae got the quality to appear on Sky or Setanta but has to talk pish on Channel 5 commenting on UEFA Vase games no-one gie's a monkey aboot.

Kilmarnock In The Diddy Cup.

Fair do's to Kilmarnock for dropping ticket prices to 15 Scottish notes for this one. Wie the game being in the midweek and live on the BBC I'm sure that will attract another 150 through the gates for this one.

Anyway, wie Celtic at the bear bones in the striking department we will probably see Craig Beattie a like Cillian Sheridan continue up front wie the misfiring Scott McDonald. The Irishman said: "I know I'm only in the team because of Injuries but I hope to get a run of games". He is raw. Seems to have a bit of pace and has beefed up a bit since his debut in a Scottish Cup tie in Inversenkie some seasons back.

Another Irishman looking to make an impression is Paddy McCourt. The Irish Nedved, who produced a 8min cameo on Saturday, which had one WAG raving on a radio phone in on Saturday night, said: "I hope I can repay the Celtic fans because they are showing patience and faith in me. The manager has not needed to say much to me because I knew what I had to do.I can tell he is with me without him actually having to say anything. The fitter I have become, the more he has involved me each day with the first-team training. I don't need to be told."

Could we see the first start for Paddy against Kilmarnock as Celtic try to extend our managers 7 game unbeaten run at Rugby Park? Kilmarnock have sneaked to 4th in the SPL but suffered a surprise defeat on Saturday to Falkirk. This was their first defeat in 2 games and their record over the last 8 has been won 4 lost 4.

Ex-playerism comes in the form of David Fernandez who time at Celtic was spent putting oot the cones for training. No ex-Killie players in oor ranks mainly due to them being shite for the last 3 or 4 seasons. Scott McDonald and Nakamura like scoring against Kilmarnock both have scored 4 goals at Rugby Park. Dependant on the team we put oot this could be another comfortable victory but history tells us that the Diddy Cup has seen some poor performances over the last few seasons.

Still, Sheridan should continue his Beattie like rise to fame wie another goal, I will also think one of the CB's will score as we seem to have a threat from the back not seen since Varga and Balde were at their pomp. A 3-1 victory as the defence won't keep a clean sheet.

Hail Hails are open for comments, you don't need to be logged in to Hail and I will see you on Thursday for a post match end of week round up of Celticness. Thanks to Number 7 fae KDS for the Cillian Sheridan photo.

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