On Sunday Celtic travel to Tannadice to take on Dundee United for a 12:30 kick off. Tickets as usual are in high demand by Celtic fans. The game is live on Sky Sports with coverage starting at 11:30. The game will also be streamed outside Ireland and the UK on Celtic TV.
For those of us travelling over from Ireland it will be an early start to catch early flights to make connections with Celtic Supporter Club buses in Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Last Saturday we witnessed a really good game at Celtic Park with Yang the hero on the day for Celtic scoring two really good goals and picking up the man of the match award. Celtic had to battle back from one goal down to a really good Motherwell team.
At 1-1 Celtic were awarded a penalty after VAR intervened. Referee John Beaton missed the foul on Maeda and the red card even though he had a better view than everyone else in a sold out Celtic Park. Once a rangers fan always a rangers fan!
On Saturday evening I had the pleasure of hosting a sold out Tribute Dinner to Lisbon Lion John Fallon. It was a fantastic night and a big shout out to former Celtic striker Simon Donnelly who was our special guest and to everyone who supported the fundraiser for the 12th Lion Charity.
One of the biggest cheers of the night was when full time sounded at Rugby Park with Kilmarnock beating Hearts 1-0 on the plastic pitch. The result means Celtic are now only 2 points behind the league leaders as we head into this weeks fixtures.
Hearts face Dundee at home on Saturday at 3pm. Elsewhere at 3pm Motherwell host Hibs, Falkirk are at home to St. Mirren and Kilmarnock play Livingston. Later on Saturday evening the rangers host Aberdeen at 17:45 at Ibrox. Lets hope Dundee can pull off a shock and Aberdeen can do the same.
Dundee United sit in 7th place in the league table. Last weekend they shared the spoils with Dundee in the derby.
The last time we travelled to Tannadice was for a midweek fixture on December 17th during Wilfried Nancy’s 33 days in charge of football matters at Celtic. It was a game of two halves. Celtic were 1-0 up at half time after Maeda scored on the 13th minute. Celtic missed chance after chance to increase their lead but in the second half they fell asleep and the home side dominated and ran out 2-1 winners.
Nancy looked a lonely figure as he walked up the tunnel that night with some Celtic fans calling for his head while others turned their anger towards the Celtic board members. It was an ugly night in many ways.
By the time Dundee United came to Celtic Park in January, Wilfried Nancy’s short stay in Glasgow was over and Celtic called on Martin O’Neill once again to take charge and on his return he watched his Celtic team score 4 goals without reply from the visitors.
Lets hope MON can sprinkle some of his managerial magic on Sunday and we can banish the bad memories of our last visit to Tannadice. Kasper Schmeichel has now joined the long term injury list at Celtic and most of the Celtic managers press conference on Friday was taken up by talk of his injury and the way it was announced on TV and not through official club channels. But then again Celtic have not a great record when it comes to communication unless its for a new piece of kit from Adidas.
MON also gave an update on Engles, McGregor and Johnston who are all back training with the captain in contention to play his part on Sunday.
Andrew Milne is Editor of More than 90 Minutes & Host of the Celtic Soul Podcast
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