Another week, another series of discombobulating outcomes relative to performance.
In which Celtic decide to join Heart of Midlothian and The Rangers in being a bit crap but winning anyway. With a goal from a set piece! Holy moly! It’s the future.
Being an ol’ Da, I subscribe to all these accounts on X that show goals from the 1960s, 70s, 80s etc. Love it. What is apparent apart from the weekly Somme re-enactments and fans crushed behind barriers, is the nature of most of the goals. I’d characterise the majority as: ball lofted into the box, chaos ensues, it falls to an attacker, and somehow the goal is scored.
And here we are. The Rangers now launch any throw, free kick or open play ball into the box at the earliest opportunity and hope. Hearts get the ball quickly to their three forwards and trust they will “do magic”. And it seems Martin O’Neill wishes to sign the modern equivalent of Bobo Balde, Neil Lennon and Chris Sutton through the spine of the team so we can go back to 2004 and score loads of headers.
This week’s set of dissonance triggers underlying performance markers, then.
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