Wayne Rooney for Celtic

[reilly_bhoy]

Sat in with the Celtic fans yesterday at the old firm game :p Rooney for Celtic was the chant :D


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thats no me in the photo though :D

[ulster21]

Sat in with the Celtic fans yesterday at the old firm game :p Rooney for Celtic was the chant :D


http://img133.imageshack.us/img133/7835/rooney5pn.jpg

thats no me in the photo though :D

:thumbsup:

[rojinegro13]

how was the game?

[rojinegro13]

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[rojinegro13]

Boss wants another blank show
Newsroom Staff

THE result would certainly have pleased him, as would the fact the victory put his side 13 points clear at the top of the table, but the greatest cause of pleasure for Gordon Strachan from the win at Ibrox last Sunday was that his side had kept a clean sheet.

Much has been made of the fact Celtic have been conceding goals in every game they played in recent months – indeed, the last clean sheet they produced was in the 3-0 victory over Rangers at Celtic Park on November 19, 2005 – but at Ibrox it was a solid defensive performance, and not just from the goalkeeper and the back four.

The midfield and forwards also played their part in what proved to be a comfortable 1-0 victory.

And the Celtic boss was delighted that his players had answered critics of their defensive performances in such a convincing manner and in such a big match.

“For weeks we’ve been scoring goals and letting in goals and everybody’s been saying how we’ve still been letting in goals,” Strachan said. “But last week we didn’t concede and we restricted some good players to very little chances, so that was good.

“It was a different game last week and although we did contain Rangers to creating a few chances, we didn’t make a great deal of chances ourselves, though we thought that was going to be the case, so we’re hoping to pick a team this week that will create more chances.

“I went to see Dunfermline against Livingston and we’ll pick a system, depending on the conditions and how we think they’re going to play. They play a wee bit different from Rangers so we might have to tweak a couple of things.”

Indeed, the Celtic boss hardly needed reminding – though someone did helpfully do so at the pre-match press-conference – that following the comprehensive 3-0 victory over Rangers back in November, his side subsequently lost their next game against Dunfermline, a 1-0 defeat that stands as the only loss at Celtic Park this season.

So there is little danger of complacency at East End Park, and one suspects this has been drummed into the Celtic players throughout this week.

“It is quite unusual for me to be ahead in the league as a manager,” the manager said. “I think it is also unusual for the players to be 13 points ahead, but we must keep that up. We must keep our discipline and keep focused.

“That means every training session has to be focused, if we see anything that looks remotely like complacency in training, then we do something about it.

“When I became manager at Coventry and Southampton, they were both second bottom of the league, and the idea was simply not to get beat. At Celtic you have to win every game so my mindset is a wee bit different. But you only enjoy it when you’re winning so that doesn’t change.”

And if his players can produce another clean sheet this Sunday, the Celtic manager will be even happier.