Yes it's Guardiola, that was a rather pathetic joke I made as I could not remember how his name was spelled. My point still stands though and that is that our team has a staleness about it at the moment with no one in our squad exactly banging on the door looking for a regular start thus enabling our regulars to go unchallenged for their first team place. Whatever the budget we operate under, this lack of competition will eventually lead to a form of complacency.
I always thought Pep Gardai ooh-ah (up da RA) was an Irish polis man with republican tendencies?
I like Pep. I like the way his teams play football, but it's one thing to be judged on the quality of player and budget he had/has at Barcelona, Bayern Munich and Man City - compared to how he might fare with a club like Celtic.
He'd cruise the domestic set-up, but I'm not sure if he would make us any more competitive in Europe?
A packed, well-organised defensive set-up is always difficult to break down, but that's why working on set-pieces and attack vs. defence in training are so important.
I don't blame livi and Brighton for playing the way they did, it's a common enough feature in football and it's a problem teams like Celtic have to solve.
I remember going to games in the late 70's and 80's and the one thing you were certain of, was that Celtic would blitzkrieg their opponents in that first 20-minutes. I've seen that happen periodically in the last 20-years, but not often enough for my liking.
We hit a wee purple patch when Broony was injured earlier in the season, the key to it was hitting teams hard in the first quarter and getting that early goal.