1/30/2002

Scottish Cup Tie moved to Monday evening.

A shocking decision has once again been foisted on to Celtic's huge travelling support with the Aberdeen cup tie being moved to Monday 25th February with an evening kick off.

Celtic Football Club should make a stand on this and refuse to take any match tickets. We've been getting messed around for years now by the men in the suits who claim to run our game. It's high time we started getting back at them. First it was Brockville and now because another team from across the city can't control their fans we are left to suffer the backlash.

1/26/2002

United's mega £18M deal for Keane to ignore Celtic

Manchester United are set to offer skipper Roy Keane a massive four-year, £18 million deal to sign on at Old Trafford for life. The Sun reports that the contract will be worth £80,000-a-week and is £10,000-a-week more than what David Beckham has been offered.

Talks over the new deal will begin in March and United have made the re-signing of Keane a priority with Celtic regularly linked this season.

1/26/2002

Milwall in for Wieghorst?

Mark McGhee is ready to offer Morten Wieghorst a World Cup incentive and a potential Premiership passport with an invitation to join Millwall on loan. The Celtic midfielder has played just two first-team games since recovering from the career-threatening Guillain-Barre Syndrome, scoring against Alloa in the Tennent's Scottish Cup at Brockville a fortnight ago.

Now, with Wieghorst itching to play more regular football at a better level than Under-21s, McGhee has initiated talks to take him to south London on a three-month arrangement.

Millwall, third in the Nationwide First Division, are determined not to let the chance of a multi-million pound promotion to the Premiership slip away for lack of playing cover.

As a result of some injuries, McGhee has identified 30-year-old Wieghorst as a possible recruit, and said: 'I would be interested in taking Morten on loan because he is a quality player and we will try to come to an agreement with Celtic.'

Martin O'Neill has said he would not be averse to some of his fringe players going out on loan and national manager Morten Olsen also indicated a World Cup place might not be fantasy football for the France 98 star - if he could get regular games.

1/25/2002

NO PITCH INSPECTION'S PLANNED FOR RUGBY PARK

A Kilmarnock spokesman has said that no pitch inspection is planned for either today or tomorrow and that the 4th Round Scottish Cup tie between Celtic and Kilmarnock will go ahead as planned live on Sky Sports tomorrow evening.

1/22/2002

Johan dismisses transfer talk.

"This story is total rubbish, I've been here for three-and-a-half years now, so why would I be unsettled now when the team is doing well and so am I?" he told the club's official website. "West Ham might be interested - I don't know - but I'm not even thinking about leaving. I'm very, very happy here in Scotland and have been all along, even when I wasn't playing and the team wasn't doing so well. "My family are settled, I have two kids happy at school, and I'm really enjoying my football. There is no reason for me to move."

1/21/2002

Johan's going nowhere!

Mjallby is staying at Celtic Park, despite weekend reports that he's bound for West Ham. The player's agent says he's got two years of his Celtic contract left and he's going nowhere.

1/20/2002

EAST FIFE STARLET BEING WATCHED?

Premier League champions Celtic have been linked with a shock move for East Fife's rising star Paul McManus, cousin of Hibs striker Tam. The highly-rated 18-year-old is being watched by a number of clubs, but Martin O'Neill's men look favourites to land his signature.

1/20/2002

RUMOUR MILL RUNNING

Johan Mjallby to West Ham for £3 million, someone on the Daily Ranger must be on drugs. The big Swede has been in tremendous form all season and despite what Davy Provan was muttering about when he mentioned that Amoruso at Rangers should be short listed for player of the season, well I thought the panto season was over. Johan Mjallby would be well ahead of Amoruso in the voting for player of the year.

1/17/2002

Disaster looms as SPL decide to launch own TV channel.

With the SPL talks with SKY TV breaking down over a new contract, the news that the SPL plan to set up thier own channel and screen games looks like being a disaster for Old Firm fans. Once again it will be left to Celtic & Rangers to provide the majority of the games with a few token games thrown in not featuring one of the Old Firm. We will probably end up being messed about even more next season with regard to kick off times and the day's of the week when the matches will actually take place.

1/15/2002

SCOTTISH CUP NEWS

Rangers held to nil-nil draw by bottom of Scottish Second Division Berwick.

Tennents Scottish FA Cup Third Round Berwick 0 Rangers 0 FT Attend: 4,280 Half-time: 0-0

Tennents Scottish FA Cup

Third Round replay

Hibernian 4 Stranraer 0 FT

Luna 6 Zitelli pen 15 Smith 47 Hurtado 88

1/15/2002

KILLIE BOSS ACCEPTS REFEREE GOT IT RIGHT

Kilmarnock manager has apologised to referee John Underhill for berating the official after he awarded Celtic a penalty during the Bhoys' 2-0 win at Rugby Park. "The referee got it right now that I have seen it on television," said Williamson.

1/14/2002

Neil Lennon disciplined by club.

It's being reported that Martin O'Neill has fined Neil Lennon two weeks wages for his part in bar room brawl in Glasgow last week.

1/14/2002

Willamson admits mistake over Stan penalty award

Kilmarnock boss Bobby Wilson has admitted that he made a mistake after watching a re-run of the penalty kick incident at Rugby Park on Saturday night.

1/12/2002

NEW CONTRACT TALKS

Martin O'Neill hopes to tie up Bobby Petta's new contract next week, he is also looking at extending Paul Lambert's contract for at least one more season.

1/8/2002

JOHNSON EYES CELTIC REUNION

Kilmarnock striker Tommy Johnson can not wait to have a crack at his former club Celtic in the next round of the Scottish Cup. "I'm just glad we got a home draw, but I didn't think we'd get Celtic. They've got to beat Alloa first, of course," Johnson joked.

1/7/2002

SCOTTISH CUP-TIE GETS GO AHEAD

CELTIC'S Scottish Cup third round tie against Alloa Athletic tomorrow (Tuesday, January 8) is on following a pitch inspection at Brockville this morning. The game was originally due to be played on Saturday but match referee Mike McCurry called the game off because the Brockville pitch was frozen.

Tomorrow night's game kicks off at 7.45pm.

1/7/2002

Lennon in bother again?

Today’s Daily Ranger is again running a story about Celtic’s Neil Lennon being involved in a scrap at a Glasgow night club last week.

The usual unnamed bystander threw in the comment “I can’t believe that Neil Lennon is behaving like this”.

It looks as though the Ranger is starting a campaign to force Lennon out of the door at Celtic Park.

1/6/2002

EX CELT SCORE WINNER IN FA CUP TIE

Alan Stubbs scored the only goal of the game in Saturday's FA Cup-Tie between Stoke City & Everton. The ex Celt relieved the pressure that's been mounting on ex Rangers boss Walter Smith.

1/4/2002

Rafael extends Corinthians loan

Celtic's Rafael Scheidt has extended his loan deal with Brazilian side Corinthians until the end of the year.

The defender, who cost £5million, has been back in his own country since early last season.

Rafael signed for Celtic at the beginning of 2000 from Brazilian side Gremio during the managerial reign of John Barnes.

But he failed to establish himself in the first team and was quickly moved on by Barnes' successor Martin O'Neill.

The player had clocked up only two full appearances and two as substitute for the Hoops and still has two and a half years of his contract to run.

1/4/2002

ALLOA V CELTIC (MATCH OFF)

The postponement of this match should come as no surprise and is a further embarrassment to the SFA following their initial decision to move the game from Alloa's Recreation Park to Brockville.

Both clubs wanted the tie moved to Fir Park rather than Falkirk's ground, which does not come up to SPL standards, but the SFA insisted that the game be played at the nearest ground to Alloa's within the same police authority.

The game is now scheduled to be played at Brockville this Tuesday, January 8 (kick-off 7.45pm). There will be a pitch inspection on Monday morning at 10am.

1/3/2002

WEATHER LOOKS SET TO HALT ALLOA'S CLASH WITH CELTIC

Alloa manager Terry Christie admits the Scottish Cup tie against Celtic is "highly unlikely" to go ahead on Saturday.

O'NEILL ENDS TALK OF OLD TRAFFORD SWITCH

Martin O'Neill has pleaded for all the speculation linking him with Manchester United to be laid to rest.

1/1/2002

CELTIC AIM TO EXTEND LEAD AGAINST MOTHERWELL

Celtic will be looking to increase their 10-point lead at the top of the Scottish Premier League when they entertain strugglers Motherwell.

O'NEILL: NO BID FOR DUBERRY

Martin O'Neill has insisted Celtic have not made a £3million bid for Leeds' Michael Duberry.

1/1/2002

EX CELT VIDUKA SHOOTS LEEDS TO TOP OF PREMIERSHIP

Mark Viduka scored twice inside the first seven minutes to shoot Leeds to the top of the English Premiership earlier tonight at Elland Road, Robbie Fowler also scored to give Leeds a 3-0 win over West Ham United.