Jeffrey Schlupp of Celtic with Celtic Manager Brendan Rodgers as he walks off the pitch to be substituted for Greg Taylor of Celtic. Celtic v Dundee United, Premiership, Celtic Park, 15 February 2025 Photo: Stuart Wallace
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THE NOTAPRODDYGAL – 7.5/10 – A more complete Celtic line-up than anticipated. Expected changes were minimised and it does give pause for reflection – does he consider Bayern a longshot or done? The CBs and Calmac weren’t on my team-sheet and with them all playing 90 I’d say he thinks Tuesday will be a Hail Mary and his main concern is getting domestic business sealed. That was implemented with United’s recent defiance
in mind and comfortably executed. So he’ll be pleased to sense that record title within range and treat the Champions League as a jolly Bhoys outing; and who knows if that just might be the best way to go about it? We’ll soon see…
🗣️ “The quality of our football was at a really high level”
🗣️ “We can recover for a different challenge on Tuesday, we’ll relish it”Brendan Rodgers on Celtic’s 3-0 win over Dundee Utd and their upcoming UCL playoff second-leg against Bayern Munich ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/nph2vPcbq2
— Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) February 15, 2025
Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers is seen during the Premiership match between Celtic and Dundee United at Celtic Park on February 15, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
MIBBERY – 5/10 – Little Nick ramped up to his annoying best at times; nothing terminal, but some excruciatingly irritating calls of such abstract, surreal and arbitrary nature that you wondered if he sees the game through contact lenses designed for him by Salvador flaming Dali.
Callum McGregor of Celtic celebrates after scoring the opening goal during the Premiership match between Celtic and Dundee United at Celtic Park on February 15, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
OVERALL – 7.5/10 – Only Lawrence Of Arabia has handled Arabs better than we did today. When you look for a competent, controlled victory that seems the very definition of run-of-the-mill, this was it. But it was more than just that – it was three championship points against a side that has excelled mostly to date, posing us stubborn resistance with a bit of a bite to be wary of. So the Bhoys dispelled notions of fatigue and focus being elsewhere to deliver a proper champions performance and brush aside the third-place club. A bonus was three thrilling goals, each a contender for memorable mad moment of the month.
So it’s sixteen clear and sweet. And means we get to savour the ironical Valentine’s weekend clash in Edamberg with vague amusement as the Incestuous Derby Of Aesthetic Dread is played out Sunday lunch-time just as holy places close their doors; no coincidence there…
Jota of Celtic celebrates after scoring his team’s second goal during the Premiership match between Celtic and Dundee United at Celtic Park on February 15, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
It’s nature’s revenge as the perverted passions of the mutant spawn of grotesqueries raised from the genetic clay and abandoned by the elder Gods, play Russian roulette against each other. Who do we want to lose? Both of course.
Can you sense the anguish in the air? It’s the existential stench of the establishment and the inbred institutional seethe of this blighted wee land as the Celtic upstarts close in on a football title that means so much more than the statistical data point it will be recorded as; it’s their eternal societal torment. And that smell… It smells like…
VICTORY.
Go away now.
Sandman
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LOOKING AT TUESDAYS GAME I THINK A CHANGE OF SHAPE IS REQUIRED 3,5,2 MAYBE ?