Sicker than I thought

Despite going back to work, I may not be as cured as I thought I was. The Champion's League games mentioned in the previous post are of course next week. I knew that right!!! I've been unwell lately and er...I'd been sleeping long hours and er...eh..I thought I'd slept for a week longer ok?

SHUT UP AND DON'T JUDGE ME!!!

Good Luck!!

 Well its a big game tonight and one that, if I'm being honest I'd like to see them win. The game in question is of course the Liverpool vs. Chelsea game which hopefully will erupt into a nice big grudge match and hopefully one in which Peter 'Nice Touch for a Big Man' Crouch might even score a goal.

The Rangers game on the otherhand is a different matter. I hope they get stuffed to be honest and to hell with all this 'for the good of scottish football' m'larky.  The SPL has never been healthier in my opinion and this season there really have been very few predictable 'easy' games for any of the teams. Rangers fans, if they're honest with themselves, should be hoping they don't qualify either as a disastrous season could suddenly masquerade itself as a success and all those players that they've been lambasting on the radio will suddenly think they're doing a good job. Yes this is probably just bitterness coz we're not in Europe this season but I don't remember any Rangers fans hoping that we overturned the Bratislava result 'for the good of scottish football'.

Watch it tonight: Rangers vs. Inter Milan 7.00pm on ITV4
                               Liverpool vs. Chelsea   7.30 on ITV2

Sparing green blushes

Celtic's slip up this weekend can be sweeped under the carpet thanks to the rest of the SPL's Big 3 playing sh1te too. Hadn't been to a game in a while before Saturday and was really hoping for a big win from the hoops to brighten up my weekend. It didn't happen however, and the snotfest that is my cold looks like it got off the exit marked Sinuse Infection on the virus super highway. Feeling bloody rotten so I'm hoping the lemsip, Vitamin C (screw you rob!!) and Vics Vaposomethingorother stirfry I'm preparing for my dinner will help we turn the corner (or help me pass out) In the meantime I'm going to sit on our big sofa and wirelessly broadband myself through the misery.

My mate Johnny has a blog now. It's rubbish and I hate him coz he goes places :)

Sick as a parrot

What a rubbish first half that was! The second half was better coz I'd got a cup of bovril and a pie during the break so my cold didn't feel so bad after that. As for the football, that was rubbish in both halves!!!

My head feels like it took a freekick in the face. All bunged up and gross.
Can't believe we lost to Dunfermline. At least Hearts dropped points too and I saw a fight on the way home from the match. That perked up the mood somewhat. Proper fight too, none of this handbags, pushing and shoving weak-ass sh1t. It was a proper dragging-kicking-thumping-the-f*ck-out-of-each-other-my-cave-is-bigger-than-your-cave-king-of-the-jungle-jean-claude-van-damne-is-kickboxer-rocky-I-to-III-don't-talk-about-fight-club kind of a fight.

I'm now going to play online poker and loose the deeds to the house just to make it A FRIGGIN' GREAT DAY!!!

Sick

I'm sick today and kind of pissed off about it! Reminds me of a good joke though:

A guy phones up his work and tells the boss:
"Mate, I can't come into work today, I'm sick!!"

The boss replies "Thats a shame, how sick are you?"

"Well I just slept with my sister....."

boom boom - in very bad taste altogether but that's kind of fitting coz thanks to my delapidating illness I've that gross mucus kind of taste in my mouth at the moment so everything tastes crap.
Just in time for the weeked too. I was planning to dose myself with hot herbal remedies and Vitamin C but a mate in work told me that they've found no proof that Vitamin C helps cure colds and flu ('They' of course being the rulers of the world) . I reckon the power of Vitamin C was the blind belief that it would make you better and so mind over matter, you would get better. But because of aforementioned friend's comments on the matter that blind belief has been taken away from me.

sh1t now my ear is starting to hurt....

CURSE YOU ROB!!!

Season tickets & Thai Brides

Like many fans who can't quite stretch to the lavish extremes of owning their very own ticket, I'm fortunate enough to have a friend who has let me go halfers on his ticket. When the chance came up I was totally made up coz I didn't have the wonga to go all out for one of my own and said friend let me pay him up in installments. We'd take turns with the ticket so we'd both get a go about once a month and both of us were very satisfied with this arrangement.

This blog entry was gonna be about how my friends turn with the ticket 'conincidently' fell on the Hearts and the Rangers games leaving me with games against the mighty Livingston and Dunfermline but reading back over above paragraph I've realised that if you replace the word 'ticket' with 'Thai bride' its makes for the start of a very different story altogether!!!

Bhoy Roy

Now that we've won the league its time to speculate on the next wave of Celtic transfers. With a large Roy Keane shaped hole now on the front door of old trafford it was only a matter of time before all the papers started hinting that Celtic were giving Keano the glad eye. It seems Celtic Chairman Brian Quinn and Keane's agent are playing a backwards game of the age-old 'No, you hang up' phone conversation with each party saying they're waiting for the other to get in touch. So while we're waiting for that mexican (or Irish-Scottish) stand-off to finish I thought I'd throw my two cents (or two pence now I'm no longer living in a Euro friendly city) into the mix.

You see, I've never been a Roy Keane fan and for a number of EXCELLENT reasons:

1. I hate Man Utd. and because until recently he was Mr. Man Utd, I hate him by proxy.
2. He let us down big time with the whole Saipan debacle. I don't care what his reasons were you don't turn your back on playing for your country. I'd give my left leg to play for Ireland (admittedly I'd be fairly sh1te with only one leg but I could go in goals or something)
3. My Dad's from Keane's home county of Cork and he still doesn't forgive Keane for reason 2 above. Loyalty dictates that I side with the auld fella'

Now despite these very conclusive and damning reasons I do see him as an excellent footballer and an asset to any team he is part of. However, Celtic are doing the business right now and there seems to be a good team-spirit emerging from the current squad with many of the youngsters blossoming under Strachans watchful eye. If it was possible to criticise his grace Martin O'Neill , then the one criticism would have to be that he put his faith in his old war horses for too long. Strachan is rectifying that and Celtic (and Scotland) are reaping the rewards. Would it really be worth throwing another battle-weary veteran into the mix now regardless of his obvious pedigree?

Top Of the League

Celtic go 2 points clear at the top of the league after a solid victory on Saturday and Hearts dropping 2 points against Aberdeen (c'mon you reds!!!). To celebrate this momentuous occasion the city had a huge lights and fireworks display in George Square (It may actually have been the christmas light switch-on festival but I like to think it was for the bhoys)

Saturday Predictions

It's times like this that many people would turn to a magic 8-Ball or the toss of a coin to try and predict the outcome of saturday morning's game. Obviously I hope Celtic stuff Rangers (and I mean that in a friendly city rivalry and non-sectarian way Mr. Lawwell) but I thought I would rely on more scientific and non-biased methods to predict a score for Saturday's game. So how's about a simulation of the game on FIFA 2006 with the only input from me being picking the starting 11...

...well simulation has been run and the final score: Celtic 3 Ranger Nil (Ronaldhino scored a hat-trick).

A fair prediction methinks.

Day of the Ginger

Saturday is looming large on the horizon and the passion and enthusiasm for the game is likely to be as fiery as the ginger locks on display. Our very own Ginger Nut, Cap'n Lennon, is leading the team out for his 3rd derby and hopefully 2nd derby win of the season. Wee Strach's team is looking sharp and very much in form so the Ginger Guvnor must be feeling very happy with himself. Stealthy Ginger John Hartson is looking for goal numero 101 and seems to have got over his domestic troubles.

However there's a certain GinGer (see what I did there!!) who probably isn't sleeping quite as well as the rest (with the possible exception of Monsieur Hartson who's camp bed in the doghouse can't be doing his back any favours). Mr.McLeish is up sh1t creek and not even a Prso-shaped paddle can save him now. He's received the backing of his chairman and has a generous 5 days to turn it around with upcoming games against minnows Celtic and Porto. Gingerphiles can relax though coz McLeish's potential replacement is rumoured to be none other than Everton Manager and Duncan Ferguson adopted father, David 'not in europe anymore' Moyles.

The ginger one from Girls Aloud was unavailable for comment.