Celtic Park

You can't exactly write hearts off at this moment in time.

To be fair to hearts, after the pummeling they got at Celtic Park, they've reacted pretty well.

Third part's never an easy place to go.

They get a good three points there.

And obviously, Big Andy's a well-known figure.

He does the whole back, that's for sure.

But I know him well, I was actually at Celtic Park with him.

the last game before the international what was

We lost two goals in quick succession.

I think it was in the space of just three minutes to hand Celta Vigo the victory at Celtic Park.

Question for you, James.

Why do we keep seeing the same shortcomings in Europe and is it a mentality thing as much as anything else?

yeah there you go so that is this week's

just to confirm it's definitely free

okay let's look at the bigger picture in terms of the week ahead for Celtic as mentioned Dundee United at Celtic Park on Wednesday Falkirk away on Sunday question is what are you expecting from these two fixtures James Dundee United unbeaten in five three wins and two draws during that time what are you thinking for Wednesday night Big win against Aberdeen for them, that was

a real...

And I hope that the next two this week against Us United and Falkirk will be much better games with better series performances.

Yeah, so Dundee United on Wednesday at Celtic Park.

They won on Saturday against Aberdeen at home.

Pretty entertaining game from what I saw on Sports Scene, and it was a 3-2 win with a winner coming from Sapsford in the 72nd minute.

They're, like, unbeaten in five.

I don't know if it'll be a difficult game, Reeds, though.

I think Dundee United's record at Celtic Park is utter, utter dogshit.

It's usually a very comprehensive pace thing that we give them.

We're sitting eighth at the time, but we'd expect to compete, mate.

Um, especially at Celtic Park.

Did we compete, Daniel? Slightly in the first half, but I think overall, mate, it was pretty concerning and not a good start to this Europa League campaign, mate.

No, definitely not.

Uh, it's another kind of a disappointing defeat, shall we say, in a long list.

Listen, I don't-- Celtic-Vigo are a good side, but I, personally, I don't think they showed that at Celtic Park.

Um, I think Celtic definitely started off on the front foot in the game.

We managed to get ourselves 1-0 up with a good goal from, obviously, Mika Bower.

And I remember seeing the full force of Tommy.

when we beat Struan Ra 1-0 and I scored and we were awful Celtic Park started first game of the cup we beat them 1-0 went on to win it but that game was terrible they should have won it

that's about January 88 or something wasn't it

Tommy went off his head and all the senior boys were all arguing with each other and I'm thinking we've just won because I'm celebrating fuck it's not about winning we've got to win a certain way these boys are paying good money and it sinks in the boys are paying good money to go and watch and that pissing rain and that wind and you put on a performance like that I mean I just I'll take the win I always want to win I always want Celtic to win obviously I'll take it but there's ways listen seeing skills take a two yard free kick to the goalkeeper done it for me When did we start playing that kind of football? Come on.

We've got teams that are coming on to us.

And it's getting harder and harder.

Everyone used to be scared coming to Celtic Park.

Nobody's scared

But let's talk about Celtic, it's back to business as usual here on the channel.

So here is the league table after matchday 10 in the Scottish Premiership, Celtic maintain their four point lead over Rangers at the top of the table after of course both sides won this past weekend, but things could chop and change very quickly this week in the league because there is some big games, Celtic of course host Dundee United at Celtic Park on Wednesday night and while that's happening, a huge game as Rangers play hearts so it's massive a lot could change this week in Scottish football and you know I think a lot of people are hanging their hats on maybe Rangers slipping up and dropping some points but Dundee United have hit form and right now a lot of people would tell you they're comfortably looking like the fourth best team in the country I don't think that's going to be easy especially when you look at how poor we were yesterday but at the end of all the storms at the end of the 90 minutes what mattered most was three points and Martin O'Neill was full of praise for his players in getting those three points, despite fans, slightly more cynical fans like myself, feeling like there was a lot to be desired from yesterday.

So let's kick off with looking at what the manager had to say because some of the comments have sparked some debate online.

So Martin O'Neill said to Sky Sports following the game that he thought given the circumstances, given the fact that we didn't play all that well, I thought it was our best win of the season.

We might hear results of that later on this evening, if not tomorrow.

I don't expect Celtic to win in this appeal, but just to let you know, the appeal is happening.

So Celtic are going through that stadium pan, of course, to appeal the punishment, ordering the next Scottish Cup tie at Celtic Park to be played behind closed doors that will be heard today Monday the 26th of October the SFA will of course hear that and we'll see what happens from there of course that's in relation to what happened at Ibrox in the quarter finals of the Scottish Cup last season not going to get into it all because I think it's very boring to cover but yeah we'll see if Celtic win that appeal yeah there you go that's happening simple as that Right, that about does it for today then.

Not an awful lot in the way of news.

And of course, as we've touched on in terms of the visitors, they come up here in fine form.

Their away form has also been extremely solid and played 5-1-1, three draws and only lost at Celtic Park, which Scott Bain had a huge hand in.

that defeat that day as well and only going down 2-1 as well so certainly not a disrespectful scoreline at Parkhead as compared to others scoring five goals away from home and conceding five at the same time the other thing that for me that stood out looking at Falkirk's form this season is the fact they've scored in every game bar the opening two games of the season as well so I think as that comment from Michael Taylor says, they're certainly not going to make it easy for us on Wednesday.

They're a decent side, agree Michael, but they're also a side coming up with full of confidence and full capability of finding the back of the net.

So this is the inconsistency of people.

So if you show that and say, why was there no intervention there? Old firm game at Celtic Park, Johnson, oh, we've supported a yellow card, then this.

So that's a problem.

You're looking at different situations.