Summary
ANY football match is a tapestry of 22 individual narratives and Morton's repeatedly postponed Active Nation Scottish Cup tie against Celtic is no different. Woven into the fabric of the Cappielow side's squad, as the ill-fated fixture makes its third attempt to beat the recent Arctic conditions on Tuesday, are two young players hoping to reconstruct their careers after premature ends to their Parkhead apprenticeships.
Last summer, having lost the under-19 league and SFA youth cup to Hibs, making it three years without a trophy at under-19 level, Celtic decided to take drastic action and culled every player with a 1990 birthday. Having known each other since the age of 10, signing their full-time contracts with their boyhood heroes at the same time, Carlo Monti and Michael Tidser were effectively in the same boat once again. Both 19-year-olds have now washed up in Greenock, even if they took wildly different journeys to traverse the 25 miles down the Clyde.See the full content of this document
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Turning the Tide
Monti, a stocky left-back who represented Scotland at every level from under-16 to under-18 and hits a mean dead ball, was first to leave, in April, and his departure was not entirely related to his footballing ability. Concerns about his attitude an...
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