Celtic clinched the Scottish Premier League title last night, and Gordon Strachan became the first manager since the great Jock Stein to win 3 titles in-a-row.
In what was an emotional night at Tannadice, with fans paying tribute to a Celtic legend, Tommy Burns who sadly passed away.
The achievements of Gordon Strachan has been superb since he joined the club three years ago. He has came in for all sorts of criticism from fans and media this year, he has answered them in the best possible way. He has won 3 consecutive titles, took Celtic to the last 16 of the Champions League in 2 consecutive seasons, I ask what more doe’s he have to do? The fans worshipped Martin O’Neill, but he couldn’t do what Gordon has achieved.
This title win will be a body blow for Rangers, make no mistake about it. They threw away this title, not because of the backlog of fixtures, because of their away record.
Celtic showed why they are the CHAMPIONS, winning their last seven games. The manager stuck with his football philosophy of playing attractive football, and the players showed great character when almost everyone had written them off.
Today, like the rest of the Celtic family, I am feeling absolute champion. Gordon have a cup of tea on me wee man, Aw ra best, Heraldo who always believed, sort of:wink:
Well done to Celtic, but I’ve got mixed feelings about Gordon Strachan. He was the manager who got Coventry City relegated after 30+ unbroken years in the top flight! Admittedly it was always going to happen eventually, but still. It was him! He dunnit!
I’ve popped up to say that I had an awful feeling creep over me in connection with your FIFA/UEFA adventures. You’ve mentioned a few times now that you’ve had to get used to the controls, and it suddenly occurred o me that you might be playing with the default FIFA controls, i.e. Circle to shoot and Square to cross, etc. You can change those to PES equivalents in the menu! (Apologies if you’ve already found this, but it’s possible you haven’t so I just thought I’d mention it.)
You can’t change the R2 sprint, R1 finesse thing, which is a shame, but they’re easy to get used to. The face buttons are the main thing.
Greg
Believe it or not, I just found the control menu last night, along with the formation editing. 1 week later!
I started a Captain your Country mode, I managed to get my surname sort off there’s an “S” added at the end. I have been made captain in a midfield role, pass and move, pass and move, always on the ball, through balls for Miller & McFadden. My Mrs thinks Ive lost the plot, with my excitement.
What an added feature, real football, tactical awareness. I am averaging 9.1.
Gordon Strachan, he comes in for stick by some cretins that call themselves fans, these are probably the guys that NEVER followed the team when we were winning nothing n the 90’s. He has done a great job at Celtic, to get us into the Champions League last 16, 2 years running on our budget. Is close to phenomenal.
He never gets the praise he’s due by the media as they are predominantly Rangers orientated. They don’t even try to hide it. Which makes this league win all the SWEETER.
Yeah, credit for reaching the UEFA Cup Final, but it’s not my idea of football, 9 men behind a ball. The media asked our CB Gary Caldwell “are you envious of Rangers?” he replied “no, we set out to qualify for last 16 of CL, and we done that” To me that’s the greater achievement.
The bias you get through our media is pathetic, as I said it feels SWEET, a right “GET IN ROON YE” to them.
p.s thanks for the control buttons tip mate. Oh the be a pro in FIFA, is it a career mode? If so I am trading in Tiger Woods for FIFA today. I can’t see me playing any other mode for a while, I love it.
Cheers
heraldo - great to hear you’re still enjoying UEFA, and as for Gordon… they don’t make them like him any more. A top-class player and competitor in his day. I can forgive him for the Coventry relegation as it was always going to happen eventually, and he did save us a for a few seasons beforehand.
I cannot believe you’ve been playign with FIFA controls all this week???!!! I bet it was a nightmare of shooting and crossing at the wrong times. They only introduced the ‘PES controls’ option with FIFA06 but it really opened the door for PES players.
I haven’t dabbled much with Be a Pro in FIFA08. Why? Because I find it really, really hard… I’m a wuss with it. I can’t stay in my position and just end up running all over the pitch looking for the ball, thus wrecking my team’s balance and completely defeating the object! BAP doesn’t have a career mode in FIFA08 unfortunately, but it is playable in exhibitions, challenge scenarios, and of course online where 5 can play versus 5. I’ve never tried it but I hear it’s sadly packed with players who get the ball and just keep it rather than pass to team-mates. Only to be expected on the internet really. (Of course there are certain lobbies set up by players who want to play only ‘real’ football, i.e. no greedy kids allowed, but like I say I never play online so I can’t vouch for how good they are.)
I hear FIFA09 will have a full Be a Pro career mode, albeit one limited to 4 seasons (for some reason).
Greg
Yeah I know a total twat!! As I say I only found it last night.
Gordon Strachan is the bees knees in my eyes. A great player, funny guy with a dry sense of humour and a good manager.
Out of all the modes, BAP mode is my favourite. Holding position and shape, it takes me back to my PRO days.
If they have a career mode in 09, I will be one happy camper.
Been playing it solidly since last night, I have been captain for 7 games now, took 4 matches to get captaincy, 3 goals from midfield, 8 assists. On the verge of qualification.
I tried cheating i.e not backtracking my opponent, just to see what happened, my stats went down. Quality, rectified it 2nd half.