Celtic fans paid £34 to watch Saturday’s match, behind the goal they celebrated Maeda’s equaliser, two minutes later the ‘goal’ was disallowed with only Alan Muir knowing the reason why.
This remains subject to all necessary requirements being satisfied at both Ibrox and Celtic Park.
Lamont saw things differently. Spending your working day in the company of Kenny Macintyre, Jane Lewis, Tom English, Neil McCann and Billy Dodds tends to have that affect. He was gutted that Bayern weren’t comfortably ahead, a goal or two for Harry Kane would have been the icing on his…
From the moment that Jock Stein took over as manager in 1965 to Daizen Maeda tucking away the decisive penalty in the recent League Cup Final Celtic have dominated every decade with the exception of the nineties, or The Asterisk Years as they are correctly referred to.
During a two hour counselling session for angry bears there was one statistic that SSB carefully avoided tonight.Gordon Duncan can reel off the Laws of the Game without any question while angling the direction of the conversation to promote and protect his newest bestie, Willie Collum and his lucrative sideline…
Perched in a seat close to where the West Stand meets the North Stand, Novin holds the camera steady as Maeda’s penalty hits the back of the net for the deciding moment in a contest that lasted close to three hours.
No matter how much you might brace yourself and prepare for it bad news always hits hard with McCann eager to hit out at an alleged penalty for a foul by Liam Scales during the League Cup Final.
Maeda ran straight to Schmeichel who had no more penalties to face, the trophy was won and a party was about to start almost three hours after the match had been scheduled to start.
The 21-year-old midfielder is under contract with Ajax until May 2028 but according to the well informed Gianluca di Marzio Celtic are showing interest in a January deal.
Since the 5-1 victory over Slovan Bratislava in September the home match against the Swiss champions has been viewed as another prime opportunity to pick up points. Any win will ensure further progress, even a draw could be good enough but no-one at Celtic will be thinking that way on…