SPL Saturday September 25th 2005

Celtic 3

Dunfermline 0

1:0 Varga 19
2:0 Camara 39
3:0 Camara 55

Att: 58,213

MIB: Allan Freeland

Celtic: Marshall Varga Balde Valgaeren Sylla Juninho Lennon Petrov Thompson Camara Hartson
subs
Wallace for Petrov 63
McGeady for Juninho 82
Laursen for Hartson 82

This is why people leave early. Alright Dunfermline turned up with ten defenders and a goalie, but keeping the likes of Wallace and McGeady on the bench until the dying minutes of the game does seem a bit pointless when the game is clearly won. Why not give the lads a run out to try and get the crowd going with some decent wing play?

That said it's a good day when that is our chief complaint. Some people are actually grousing that the games are becoming a bit 'boring'. Well maybe so, but it certainly beats the 90s days of losing games to the likes of Dunfermline and Falkirk. That was none too exciting.

Anyway, while everybody was still comfortably seated Varga got the ball rolling by poking the ball in from a corner before Camara showed that he does know how to header a ball. Shame the goalie saved it, but happily he put it to Henri's feet and we were two up.

As a matter of fact Stillie went on to perform heroics throughout the afternoon. God only knows what the score might have been but for his interventions. One stop from a point blank effort six yards from the line was in the Jim Montgomery against Leeds class.

Camara is a player who is improving almost as each game passes. He was outstanding again in this game and might yet give OFM and the board a bit of a decision to make come the end of the season if he keeps this up. He is forming quite a prolific partnership with BBJ who, clearly stung by managerial remarks about his fitness, managed to build up a fair head of steam today.