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What was he booked for? Unsporting behaviour? That's all I could assume it was, and my dad was going off his head at the referee claiming Veratti had done nothing wrong
On passback's.
Quote:
No trickery may be used to get around the terms of the amendment to Law 12. A player may pass the ball to his own goalkeeper using his head, chest, knee, etc.; however, if, in the opinion of the referee, the player uses a deliberate trick -- such as flicking the ball to his head with his foot and heading it to the goalkeeper or kneeling and deliberately pushing the ball to the goalkeeper with his head or knee -- he must be cautioned for ungentlemanly conduct. It makes no difference whether or not the goalkeeper touches the ball with his hands; the offense is committed by the player who is seeking to circumvent both the Spirit and Letter of the Law.
CELTIC could hold future winter training camps in Morocco after a Parkhead delegation visited the African nation.
And they have agreed to play a friendly against Moroccan side Hassania Agadir to mark their 70th anniversary.
The Scottish champions spent this year’s Premiership break in the United Arab Emirates before returning to equal Jock Stein’s side’s record set 50 years ago by going unbeaten domestically for 26 games.
But they could spend future breaks in the Moroccan city of Agadir.
A delegation from Celtic have spent this week in the city at the foot of the Atlas Mountains and are close to reaching an agreement to set up a warm-weather training base there.
Moroccan Government officials and the Agadir Council of Tourish want Celtic to commit to using their facilities for future training camps and are expected to announce an agreement this week.
Hassania Agadir president Habib Sidinou said: “The Celtic delegation visited our stadium and our facilities and were very impressed.
“This is the beginning of a great friendship between the two clubs.
“As part of their visit, Celtic have agreed to play match here to mark our 70th anniversary. The date will be confirmed later.”
Bayern Munich used Agadir as a training base two years ago and several other European clubs have visited too.
Paulo Freitas @Cynegeticus The Maracanã is now without electricity as those who run the stadium have not paid the electricity bills since October.
The mayor who organized the bid fr the right to run the stadium is currently in prison for corruption. The consortium that "won" the bid is headed by Odebrecht who were ball-deep in the Petrobras scandal and have recently been found to have paid off the Peruvian govt for contracts. They are the biggest construction/engineering company in Brazil.
Worse than having no light they have not had any security there for months. Offices have been ransacked and a copper bust of Mario Filho was stolen. a judge has ordered the consortium to restore the security. The consortium are complaining that the IOC didnt hand back the stadium in the same condition as they received it.
The friendly between Brazil and Colombia was played at the Engenhao stadium because of this. Flamengo and Fluminense are looking to play their matches elsewhere this year. its a typical Brazil-sized clustereff.
Brede Hangeland told a Danish newspaper about facing Emmanuel Adebayor (Fulham vs Spurs) at some time doing the match, Adebayor approached him while the game was in progress telling him that he could wait to the match was finish as he was starving and if Hangeland could recommend a restaurant nearby
Later when Adebayor played with Hangeland at Crystal Palace, he (Adebayor) spend the time in the weight room sitting on the floor eating muffins and drinking coffee while his team mates were working out
Brede Hangeland told a Danish newspaper about facing Emmanuel Adebayor (Fulham vs Spurs) at some time doing the match, Adebayor approached him while the game was in progress telling him that he could wait to the match was finish as he was starving and if Hangeland could recommend a restaurant nearby
Later when Adebayor played with Hangeland at Crystal Palace, he (Adebayor) spend the time in the weight room sitting on the floor eating muffins and drinking coffee while his team mates were working out
I just read that article. Doesn't surprise me at all some of the names on there. Berbatov, always struck me as a lazy git
More Sutton and one that will get debated to death no doubt. It's quite interesting.
Only a couple of Celtic current crop would get into Martin O'Neill's 2001 treble-winning team - Sutton Record Sport columnist Chris Sutton believes Brendan Rodgers' charges still have a lot to do to emulate O'Neill's Hoops heroes.
Spoiler: click to toggle
BYCHRIS SUTTON
Celtic equalled the 50-year unbeaten domestic record of the Lisbon Lions this week.
Tomorrow, they can set a new landmark of their own.
As Brendan Rodgers said, it’s a wonderful honour for the current squad even to be mentioned in the same breath as the Lions.
Let’s be clear, records or not, no one will ever get close to the 1967 heroes.
So even thinking of comparing Rodgers’ side with Jock Stein’s team is just silly.
Instead, given they are basically just four Scottish Cup games from a Treble, with the League Cup and Premiership already in the bag, I thought it might be interesting to compare them with the Treble-winning team of 2000-01 I played in.
In 2001, we faced Hearts after returning from a winter break, same as Celtic do tomorrow. It was the first season for O’Neill. Same for Rodgers.
Goalkeeper is close. Rab Douglas was great for us but Craig Gordon might just be better. He was a £9million English Premier League keeper.
I’ve been critical of him at times, especially last season, but Gordon has answered the critics.
In the centre of defence, Rodgers’ team is all about potential. Erik Sviatchenko is growing into a leader and Jozo Simunovic has bags of talent.
Dedryck Boyata also looks to have been improved by Rodgers.
They are young with time on their side but they’d need to keep improving because Johan Mjallby and Joos Valgaeren were simply on a different level.
Mjallby was the complete defender. He had the lot.
Valgaeren was quick, strong and also a good reader of the game. He was everything you want in a modern-day centre-back.
On the sides, it’s hard to compare like-for-like because the systems deployed by Martin and Rodgers are different.
We had wing-backs, more attack minded. Didier Agathe wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea but he could create and score goals, get you up the pitch and also do a decent job defensively.
Alan Thompson would play off the left and was superb at creating things and producing in the big games, while Jackie McNamara was a cracking footballer.
The current wide guys are different and excellent in their own ways. Kieran Tierney is going right to the top.
There is a tendency to focus on full-backs attacking these days but he’s a bit like the Spurs pair Kyle Walker and Danny Rose in that he can defend as well.
Thommo had a superb left foot. His delivery was second to none and his ability to see a pass and execute it was sensational.
He played on the edge but I liked that. Another big-game player who scored some crucial goals for the club.
Tierney is better defensively than Thommo and will develop into one of the best left-backs in Britain if he carries on at the rate he is, while Mikael Lustig never lets his team down.
Lustig is steady, reads the game well and has the versatility to play centre-half and full-back. He gets the nod over Tom Boyd and Alan Stubbs – but only just.
James Forrest and Scott Sinclair have been absolutely brilliant this season with goals and assists. Sinclair’s got Player of the Year written all over him.
Central midfield was one of our big strengths. Neil Lennon and Paul Lambert were brilliant at protecting and taking control of games while Stan Petrov was a box-to-box marvel.
Lennon and Lambert had great experience even before they signed for Celtic which, in truth, only Scott Brown has in the current set-up.
Everyone can see what Brown has done for the club and you could argue his 10th season is turning out to be his best.
It’s not fair to compare Stuart Armstrong and Tom Rogic with Petrov because they are just starting out in their careers.
The way Rodgers has them working, though, they could go on to be every bit as good with hard work and luck.
Up front, there was only one Henrik Larsson for us.
He was untouchable and could do anything. He was a dream with his unselfish attitude, drive and nastiness.
I’m a big fan of Moussa Dembele and Leigh Griffiths, individually.
Griffiths is still underrated by some. A sensational natural finisher with the attitude and work-rate to go with it.
Dembele has the raw attributes to go right the way to the top. Pace, power and he can finish.
I feel there is so much more in the tank, even though he’s an enormous handful now.
But you need a link man and a foil and that was my role. It’s my column, so I’m in!
Looking at both the squads, there is someone who had gifts no one else had then and now.
Lubo Moravcik was a genius. The game was too easy for him.
He played left-back in training and rarely broke sweat.
One day, from near the right byeline about 35 yards out, he lifted his head and floated the ball majestically with the outside of his right foot, inch-perfect into the far top corner of the net.
He just strolled back to his position not gloating or smiling. Everyone else on the pitch stood, jaws dropping.
He had a football brain and the technique to unlock any defence in the world.
Martin was assembling our squad with experience in mind – later adding John Hartson and Bobo Balde in a transfer-market that wasn’t as skewed as it is now – while Rodgers is going with youth and development in his set-up.
Therefore, doing like-for-like comparisons to exact talents isn’t really scientific because some of the boys in the current squad may not be at the levels right now but could get there with time.
However, if I had to select a team today from the combined squads of January 2001 and January 2017, I’d go for a 3-5-2 and play: Gordon; Lustig, Mjallby, Valgaeren; Agathe, Thompson; Lennon, Petrov, Moravcik; Larsson, Sutton.
Clearly, there’s far more from the past in there but, like I said, that’s just down to longevity.
This season and in the years ahead, some of Rodgers’s team such as Tierney, Sviatchenko, Armstrong, Rogic and Dembele, have the opportunity to overshadow boys in our squad. Time will tell.
None of us, though, would get near the Lisbon Lions.
Distribution of more than €150m benefits clubs from 54 national associations and 100 leagues
In accordance with the 2012 Memorandum of Understanding between ECA and UEFA, a total of €150m from the UEFA EURO 2016 revenues was made available to clubs for their significant contribution to the success of the UEFA EURO 2016 and national team football in general.
In total, 641 European clubs from 54 national associations received a share of the benefits. This represents a further increase in beneficiaries (+11.5%) compared to the distribution relating to the UEFA EURO 2012 for which 575 clubs received payments.
With €150m available, €50m was set aside for clubs which released players for the EURO qualifiers during the 2014/15 and 2015/16 season, while the remaining €100m was shared among clubs which released players for the final tournament. A leftover from the UEFA EURO 2012 (€744'937) was added to the amount for the qualification phase.
In accordance with the detailed distribution mechanism agreed between ECA and UEFA, clubs received an amount per player released for each qualifying match, and a fixed amount per player for each day the player was present at the final tournament in France. Details of the distribution mechanism can be accessed here: http://www.ecaeurope.com/PageFiles/8...20Benefits.pdf
The top 10 clubs entitled to benefit from solidarity payments from UEFA EURO 2016 are:
Juventus € 3'484'875.38 Liverpool FC € 3'394'511.33 Tottenham Hotspur FC € 3'066'138.48 Manchester United FC € 2'997'731.85 FC Bayern München € 2'898'339.94 Real Madrid CF € 2'524'835.57 Arsenal FC € 2'463'222.34 FC Barcelona € 2'352'693.90 AS Roma € 2'124'904.29 Southampton FC € 2'094'099.34
Commenting on the solidarity payments, ECA Chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, said:
"Clubs are investing substantial resources in the development of players, who contribute to the sporting and financial success of national team football. Therefore, it is important and fair to recognise and reward the clubs for the release of their players. ECA is pleased that a serious agreement was found with UEFA, which benefits so many clubs from across Europe."
For UEFA EURO 2020, the agreed amount to be distributed among the clubs is set at 8% of the gross revenues of the event with a minimum guarantee of €200m.
Scotland:
Aberdeen FC € 412'639.75 Celtic FC € 449'280.73 Dundee FC € 12'364.75 Dundee United FC € 20'882.69 Hamilton Academical FC € 199'051.39 Inverness Caledonian Thistle FC € 132'018.62 Kilmarnock FC € 338'152.79 Motherwell FC € 38'358.71 Rangers FC € 8'353.08 Ross County € 30'429.06 Saint Johnstone FC € 107'490.26
More Sutton and one that will get debated to death no doubt. It's quite interesting.
Only a couple of Celtic current crop would get into Martin O'Neill's 2001 treble-winning team - Sutton Record Sport columnist Chris Sutton believes Brendan Rodgers' charges still have a lot to do to emulate O'Neill's Hoops heroes.
Spoiler: click to toggle
BYCHRIS SUTTON
Celtic equalled the 50-year unbeaten domestic record of the Lisbon Lions this week.
Tomorrow, they can set a new landmark of their own.
As Brendan Rodgers said, it’s a wonderful honour for the current squad even to be mentioned in the same breath as the Lions.
Let’s be clear, records or not, no one will ever get close to the 1967 heroes.
So even thinking of comparing Rodgers’ side with Jock Stein’s team is just silly.
Instead, given they are basically just four Scottish Cup games from a Treble, with the League Cup and Premiership already in the bag, I thought it might be interesting to compare them with the Treble-winning team of 2000-01 I played in.
In 2001, we faced Hearts after returning from a winter break, same as Celtic do tomorrow. It was the first season for O’Neill. Same for Rodgers.
Goalkeeper is close. Rab Douglas was great for us but Craig Gordon might just be better. He was a £9million English Premier League keeper.
I’ve been critical of him at times, especially last season, but Gordon has answered the critics.
In the centre of defence, Rodgers’ team is all about potential. Erik Sviatchenko is growing into a leader and Jozo Simunovic has bags of talent.
Dedryck Boyata also looks to have been improved by Rodgers.
They are young with time on their side but they’d need to keep improving because Johan Mjallby and Joos Valgaeren were simply on a different level.
Mjallby was the complete defender. He had the lot.
Valgaeren was quick, strong and also a good reader of the game. He was everything you want in a modern-day centre-back.
On the sides, it’s hard to compare like-for-like because the systems deployed by Martin and Rodgers are different.
We had wing-backs, more attack minded. Didier Agathe wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea but he could create and score goals, get you up the pitch and also do a decent job defensively.
Alan Thompson would play off the left and was superb at creating things and producing in the big games, while Jackie McNamara was a cracking footballer.
The current wide guys are different and excellent in their own ways. Kieran Tierney is going right to the top.
There is a tendency to focus on full-backs attacking these days but he’s a bit like the Spurs pair Kyle Walker and Danny Rose in that he can defend as well.
Thommo had a superb left foot. His delivery was second to none and his ability to see a pass and execute it was sensational.
He played on the edge but I liked that. Another big-game player who scored some crucial goals for the club.
Tierney is better defensively than Thommo and will develop into one of the best left-backs in Britain if he carries on at the rate he is, while Mikael Lustig never lets his team down.
Lustig is steady, reads the game well and has the versatility to play centre-half and full-back. He gets the nod over Tom Boyd and Alan Stubbs – but only just.
James Forrest and Scott Sinclair have been absolutely brilliant this season with goals and assists. Sinclair’s got Player of the Year written all over him.
Central midfield was one of our big strengths. Neil Lennon and Paul Lambert were brilliant at protecting and taking control of games while Stan Petrov was a box-to-box marvel.
Lennon and Lambert had great experience even before they signed for Celtic which, in truth, only Scott Brown has in the current set-up.
Everyone can see what Brown has done for the club and you could argue his 10th season is turning out to be his best.
It’s not fair to compare Stuart Armstrong and Tom Rogic with Petrov because they are just starting out in their careers.
The way Rodgers has them working, though, they could go on to be every bit as good with hard work and luck.
Up front, there was only one Henrik Larsson for us.
He was untouchable and could do anything. He was a dream with his unselfish attitude, drive and nastiness.
I’m a big fan of Moussa Dembele and Leigh Griffiths, individually.
Griffiths is still underrated by some. A sensational natural finisher with the attitude and work-rate to go with it.
Dembele has the raw attributes to go right the way to the top. Pace, power and he can finish.
I feel there is so much more in the tank, even though he’s an enormous handful now.
But you need a link man and a foil and that was my role. It’s my column, so I’m in!
Looking at both the squads, there is someone who had gifts no one else had then and now.
Lubo Moravcik was a genius. The game was too easy for him.
He played left-back in training and rarely broke sweat.
One day, from near the right byeline about 35 yards out, he lifted his head and floated the ball majestically with the outside of his right foot, inch-perfect into the far top corner of the net.
He just strolled back to his position not gloating or smiling. Everyone else on the pitch stood, jaws dropping.
He had a football brain and the technique to unlock any defence in the world.
Martin was assembling our squad with experience in mind – later adding John Hartson and Bobo Balde in a transfer-market that wasn’t as skewed as it is now – while Rodgers is going with youth and development in his set-up.
Therefore, doing like-for-like comparisons to exact talents isn’t really scientific because some of the boys in the current squad may not be at the levels right now but could get there with time.
However, if I had to select a team today from the combined squads of January 2001 and January 2017, I’d go for a 3-5-2 and play: Gordon; Lustig, Mjallby, Valgaeren; Agathe, Thompson; Lennon, Petrov, Moravcik; Larsson, Sutton.
Clearly, there’s far more from the past in there but, like I said, that’s just down to longevity.
This season and in the years ahead, some of Rodgers’s team such as Tierney, Sviatchenko, Armstrong, Rogic and Dembele, have the opportunity to overshadow boys in our squad. Time will tell.
None of us, though, would get near the Lisbon Lions.
Thompson at Left back? Think both Tierney and Izzy could have played LB in O'Neill's team. I don't think it's as close as Sutton makes out about Douglas and Gordon. Can't disagree with the rest.
More Sutton and one that will get debated to death no doubt. It's quite interesting.
Only a couple of Celtic current crop would get into Martin O'Neill's 2001 treble-winning team - Sutton Record Sport columnist Chris Sutton believes Brendan Rodgers' charges still have a lot to do to emulate O'Neill's Hoops heroes.
Spoiler: click to toggle
BYCHRIS SUTTON
Celtic equalled the 50-year unbeaten domestic record of the Lisbon Lions this week.
Tomorrow, they can set a new landmark of their own.
As Brendan Rodgers said, it’s a wonderful honour for the current squad even to be mentioned in the same breath as the Lions.
Let’s be clear, records or not, no one will ever get close to the 1967 heroes.
So even thinking of comparing Rodgers’ side with Jock Stein’s team is just silly.
Instead, given they are basically just four Scottish Cup games from a Treble, with the League Cup and Premiership already in the bag, I thought it might be interesting to compare them with the Treble-winning team of 2000-01 I played in.
In 2001, we faced Hearts after returning from a winter break, same as Celtic do tomorrow. It was the first season for O’Neill. Same for Rodgers.
Goalkeeper is close. Rab Douglas was great for us but Craig Gordon might just be better. He was a £9million English Premier League keeper.
I’ve been critical of him at times, especially last season, but Gordon has answered the critics.
In the centre of defence, Rodgers’ team is all about potential. Erik Sviatchenko is growing into a leader and Jozo Simunovic has bags of talent.
Dedryck Boyata also looks to have been improved by Rodgers.
They are young with time on their side but they’d need to keep improving because Johan Mjallby and Joos Valgaeren were simply on a different level.
Mjallby was the complete defender. He had the lot.
Valgaeren was quick, strong and also a good reader of the game. He was everything you want in a modern-day centre-back.
On the sides, it’s hard to compare like-for-like because the systems deployed by Martin and Rodgers are different.
We had wing-backs, more attack minded. Didier Agathe wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea but he could create and score goals, get you up the pitch and also do a decent job defensively.
Alan Thompson would play off the left and was superb at creating things and producing in the big games, while Jackie McNamara was a cracking footballer.
The current wide guys are different and excellent in their own ways. Kieran Tierney is going right to the top.
There is a tendency to focus on full-backs attacking these days but he’s a bit like the Spurs pair Kyle Walker and Danny Rose in that he can defend as well.
Thommo had a superb left foot. His delivery was second to none and his ability to see a pass and execute it was sensational.
He played on the edge but I liked that. Another big-game player who scored some crucial goals for the club.
Tierney is better defensively than Thommo and will develop into one of the best left-backs in Britain if he carries on at the rate he is, while Mikael Lustig never lets his team down.
Lustig is steady, reads the game well and has the versatility to play centre-half and full-back. He gets the nod over Tom Boyd and Alan Stubbs – but only just.
James Forrest and Scott Sinclair have been absolutely brilliant this season with goals and assists. Sinclair’s got Player of the Year written all over him.
Central midfield was one of our big strengths. Neil Lennon and Paul Lambert were brilliant at protecting and taking control of games while Stan Petrov was a box-to-box marvel.
Lennon and Lambert had great experience even before they signed for Celtic which, in truth, only Scott Brown has in the current set-up.
Everyone can see what Brown has done for the club and you could argue his 10th season is turning out to be his best.
It’s not fair to compare Stuart Armstrong and Tom Rogic with Petrov because they are just starting out in their careers.
The way Rodgers has them working, though, they could go on to be every bit as good with hard work and luck.
Up front, there was only one Henrik Larsson for us.
He was untouchable and could do anything. He was a dream with his unselfish attitude, drive and nastiness.
I’m a big fan of Moussa Dembele and Leigh Griffiths, individually.
Griffiths is still underrated by some. A sensational natural finisher with the attitude and work-rate to go with it.
Dembele has the raw attributes to go right the way to the top. Pace, power and he can finish.
I feel there is so much more in the tank, even though he’s an enormous handful now.
But you need a link man and a foil and that was my role. It’s my column, so I’m in!
Looking at both the squads, there is someone who had gifts no one else had then and now.
Lubo Moravcik was a genius. The game was too easy for him.
He played left-back in training and rarely broke sweat.
One day, from near the right byeline about 35 yards out, he lifted his head and floated the ball majestically with the outside of his right foot, inch-perfect into the far top corner of the net.
He just strolled back to his position not gloating or smiling. Everyone else on the pitch stood, jaws dropping.
He had a football brain and the technique to unlock any defence in the world.
Martin was assembling our squad with experience in mind – later adding John Hartson and Bobo Balde in a transfer-market that wasn’t as skewed as it is now – while Rodgers is going with youth and development in his set-up.
Therefore, doing like-for-like comparisons to exact talents isn’t really scientific because some of the boys in the current squad may not be at the levels right now but could get there with time.
However, if I had to select a team today from the combined squads of January 2001 and January 2017, I’d go for a 3-5-2 and play: Gordon; Lustig, Mjallby, Valgaeren; Agathe, Thompson; Lennon, Petrov, Moravcik; Larsson, Sutton.
Clearly, there’s far more from the past in there but, like I said, that’s just down to longevity.
This season and in the years ahead, some of Rodgers’s team such as Tierney, Sviatchenko, Armstrong, Rogic and Dembele, have the opportunity to overshadow boys in our squad. Time will tell.
None of us, though, would get near the Lisbon Lions.
Thompson at Left back? Think both Tierney and Izzy could have played LB in O'Neill's team. I don't think it's as close as Sutton makes out about Douglas and Gordon. Can't disagree with the rest.
Would have agathe over lustig and possibly just have gordon over douglas.
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