SANDMAN’S DEFINITIVE RATINGS: CELTIC v FAGAN’S WEASELS
“What is best in life? To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women!”
– Arnie Engels in ‘Conan the Barbarian’ (1982)
THE FRIENDLY GHOST – 6.5/10 – The flying Dane gives us one for the cameras and, late in the game, one for the coronary; a fine stop on the line as the Wish Cousins tried to sneak a spoiler. Commitment to the cause evident as he celebrates a Scales block deep in injury time. Champions League ready, is Kasper.
GREGGS THE BAKER – 6.5/10 – Consistency of a classic sausage roll. Nary a foot out of place, nor his own positional instinct. Denied an assist for Idah by lazy-arsed Palma. About time the new – and well deserved – contract was announced.
WAYNE GRETZKY – 6.5/10 – A Moose with three legs better than… Tony? Maybe a surprise and contentious inclusion given the upcoming glamour games. But if AJ was lame, he showed no effects of international clashes with a regular barnstorming, intense perfromance.
OF JUSTICE – 7.5/10 – Nice test of his resilience as they threw everything and anything they could into our box when the opportunity presented. Liam’s positioning and timing was on-point; rightly reversed decision for his ‘handball’ that had echoes of Bernabei v Dundee United. Right to the death he was in and amongst the difficult deep balls that required bravery and precision.
GET CARTER – 7/10 – Another good tune-up for the Californian Redwood as Beelzebub’s Babes gave him a physical challenge via the portly frottage Shankland and the outright sexual assaults of their centre-back tag-team duo for every corner, throw or free-kick launch. The big mhan handled it as ever – with a snarl and rugged efficiency.
After aw his travellin (pointless, as it tourned out) think Hatate could’ve & should’ve been rested & Bernardo startin ..if Engles had ate start.
Thought Johnstone was poor compared tae his usual standards & kept tryin defence splittin Matt oRiley passes for some feckin reason.
Maeda .. who I’ve ayeways been critical of in the past .. has definitely been worked on by BR as his touch & crossin was actually decent for a change & thought he was oor most dangerous player 1st half.
Kyogo .. King Henrik was never posted missin in as many games as Kyogo .. neither was Hooper or Leigh Griffiths for that matter.
Palma .. needs a shake or a slap .. or both!
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