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Daily Record
04-07-2025
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- Daily Record
Queen's Park vs Celtic LIVE score and goal updates from the friendly clash at Lesser Hampden
Football is back for Celtic as Brendan Rodgers' side kick off their pre-season fixture card against Queen's Park. It has only been a 41-day break for the Premiership champions with the Scottish Cup Final defeat to Aberdeen still fresh in the minds of the boss and players. But it's on to a new season and it's back to Mount Florida - but this time at Lesser Hampden to take on the Spiders. New manager Sean Crighton will be looking to make an early impression - with Queen's Park suffering defeat to Clyde in their only pre-season match so far. But for Callum McGregor and Co it's the start of a campaign where they will look to make it five league titles in a row - and seal a domestic clean sweep. The likes of Kasper Schmeichel, Alistair Johnston and Adam Idah are still to return to Lennoxtown after their summer breaks - and it's a chance for the Celtic' back-up brigade to catch the eye of Rodgers. 17:06Alan Galindo 'When you're a big club they're never friendlies' - Brendan Rodgers Brendan Rodgers has explained the role of the pre-season fixtures for Celtic. They are not long back at their Lennoxtown HQ with the champions set to get first taste of minutes in the legs at the city Stadium. It's then a trip to Ireland to face Cork City at the Pairc Ui Chaoimh. When you drive up the hill here at Lennoxtown and you smell the grass again, it excites you about the season ahead. In the early stages of pre-season, it's really about the physical preparation and getting the players prepared mentally. They don't come together as a group until later on, but we seen the benefits of a really good pre-season last year. And for us, from a tactical perspective, it gives us the opportunity as well to make little tweaks to keep improving and keep ticking away the unpredictability of the team. Pre-season is always a tense and difficult period when you're one of the big clubs because there are no pre-season friendlies. I always call them tests. When you're a big club they're never friendlies. Then you add in to that the qualification for the Champions League. That means that you're trying to get to the end point that little bit quicker, because it's something that's very important to us. So we'll take that last qualification round when it comes and hopefully we'll be in a really good place by that time. 17:00Alan Galindo Pre-season so far So for Queen's Park they have been back on the grass and got minutes in the tank in recent weeks. Sean Crighton's troops have already had three games so far to warm up for the campaign ahead. They are ahead in their preparations with the Premier Sports Cup kicking off next weekend. They started with a 2-0 win over Annan Athletic at tonight's venue before a Glasgow Cup defeat behind closed doors at Broadwood against Clyde. On Tuesday they made the short trip to Coatbridge with two seperate teams - 11 subs at the break - taking to the field. That clash with Albion Rovers ended in a 3-3 thriller. For Celtic, this is the first of a busy pre-season schedule that will see them take in plenty of action on the road ahead of the new campaign.
Daily Record
04-07-2025
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- Daily Record
I battled Odsonne Edouard when I played against Celtic and now I'm about to square up to Hoops in the dugout
The Queen's Park boss reckons his players facing the Hoops in Friday's friendly will prepare them for the energy-sapping Championship Sean Crighton had the unenviable task of marking Odsonne Edouard and his Celtic pals during Brendan Rodgers' first stint in Glasgow. Now the Queen's Park boss reckons his players facing the Hoops in Friday's friendly will prepare them for the energy-sapping Championship. Former stopper Crighton, 35, faced Celtic with Brechin and Airdrie and will do battle with them again this evening when he invites Rodgers and co to Lesser Hampden. He said: 'We need to know where the players are at. 'You're playing a dominant team in terms of having the ball, so it'll show us where we're at fitness-wise as well. It's going to be a really good test. 'I want the players to be prepared for what's coming and what's real. 'We've got all the data we can look at as well and go, 'Look how much we ran against Celtic and how much we ran against an opposition in the Championship or League Cup'. 'As a player, you thrive – it's an automatic thing. You would love to say to players you should be like that all the time but unfortunately they're not. 'When you come up against a Celtic or a bigger opposition, you want to give it your all. They've got a young squad as well, they might catch the eye. 'For me, that means their concentration is better and they've got that wee bit of smartness about them. 'I really enjoyed playing against Celtic. I was playing the first time against Edouard when he was a young boy coming from Paris St-Germain, then you play against Oli Burke. 'It's a tough test but it's good for the players to experience that as well because I know Celtic will be strong, which we're looking forward to.' Queen's have long been linked with a tie-up with Celtic. Asked if tonight could help that process, Crighton added: 'It can certainly help. "It's been rumoured for a few months that we've been in talks with Celtic. Until it's all finalised, we just don't know.' You can get all the news you need on our dedicated Rangers and Celtic pages, and sign up to our newsletters to make sure you never miss a beat throughout the season. We're also on WhatsApp where we bring all the latest breaking news and transfer gossip directly to you phone. Join our Rangers community here and our Celtic community here.
BBC News
15-05-2025
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- BBC News
Crighton appointed Queen's Park head coach
Scottish Championship club Queen's Park have appointed interim assistant Sean Crighton as their new head 35-year-old stepped up to assist first-team coach Steven MacLean following Callum Davidson's sacking in previously coached the Spiders' B team and has worked in coaching at Airdrieonians and Greenock Morton. As a former defender, he made 568 appearances, including spells at Airdrie and Livingston."This summer will be one of change at the football club but having witnessed the depth of talent within the club and worked with them over the past year, I am excited for the challenge ahead," said Crighton. Queen's Park president Graeme Shields added: "Over the past year he has displayed impressive leadership qualities around our training complex at Lochinch, working with both the first team and the B team who he successfully led to a second consecutive SPFL Reserve League title."Sean will now begin appointing his coaching staff and prepare the first-team squad for their return to pre-season training next month ahead of the new campaign."Shields also thanked MacLean, who has left the role he took on last month, while Queen's Park say "updates on the first-team playing squad" will club finished eighth this season, avoiding relegation and the Championship play-offs.
