Celtic’s Tannadice Tsunami – This is Pure Beautiful Inventive Football

Well, what can one say about this? In the first place, we must congratulate Ange and the bhoys for a magnificent display of attacking football with nine great goals – and let’s be honest, it really should have been closer to 20!

All the goals were good – my favourite was the second – and this was recognisably a team effort. Frankly it was football in the good old Celtic way – breathtaking, exhilarating, exciting, thrilling and totally satisfying. The nine goals will have outshone and upstaged all the sycophantic crap we heard about yesterday’s four with all these words like “Eurobounce” we’ll  read in tomorrow morning’s papers.

A word of sympathy for Dundee United supporters, by no means the worst set of people in the world, many of whom made their feelings plain long before half-time. One is less sympathetic to the United Board who are clearly not coping with life at all, and with their Manager who seems to be the kiss of death wherever he goes.

He must now go and allow Dundee United to bring in someone else (yet again) or he must have a total clear out. Myself, I tend to believe that he should now consider other forms of employment well away from football management.

There is the sobering thought for Celtic amidst all the euphoria and ecstasy that this was against the worst team in the Premier League. It would be a mistake to think that other teams will be quite as easy. Our next three games are all against teams beginning with the letter R. It would be nice if we could beat all of them 9-0, but I’ve a funny feeling that might not happen! Still 1-0, 1-0 and 1-0 would be good enough to be going on with!

But Ross County first. The big enemy here is complacency and taking them too easily. I know we gave them a bit of a doing a few weeks back, but Wednesday night will be different, and it will be a Cup-tie. We have come a cropper to Ross County more than once in the past.

A slip here and there can be no Treble. But it is difficult, on the basis of the Tannadice tsunami to see any other result than a comfortable Celtic win.

Congratulations once again to the team and to the Manager!

David Potter

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I am Celtic author and historian and write for The Celtic Star. I live in Kirkcaldy and have followed Celtic all my life, having seen them first at Dundee in March 1958. I am a retired teacher and my other interests are cricket, drama and the poetry of Robert Burns.

1 Comment

  1. A result like today, following on from a 7-0 and a couple of 3 goal defeats suggests to me that it’s more than the manager at fault.
    He was a good manager at one pint. Perhaps he’s lost it, but worse managers with supposedly leaser squads have avoided 9-0 defeats.
    United were very good until the second goal. Surely that’s down to the manager? They seemed to lose interest after that, and then completely chucked it early in the second half. Only showed some spirit at 9 to avoid the utter humiliation of 10.