 Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Celtic’s year viewed through a 90 minute panorama
Despite earning a very credible draw on a sweltering plastic pitch in Moscow, Celtic will have to play at their very best to progress to the Champions League group stage. One slip, a brief lapse of concentration, and Spartak could be handed control of the tie.
I don’t know what is it like to motivate yourself when you earn over £500k per annum; they will have different to the reasons from those that make me pull on my trousers each morning, but all their training, their careful eating, the tours away from home, the pride and joy at earning a contract with Celtic in the first place; for Celtic players, it is all about tonight.
Nothing else matters.
At 7:45pm, 60,011 Celtic fans and players will engage in a hugely important game of football. The next 12 months of our joint existence as a football club can be viewed through the panorama of 90 minutes. The game will not be ours by default; it will need to be earned by skill, enduring effort, concentration and a whole lot of backing from supporters.
We do not win them all, but tonight is time to touch the same place in our soul we found the day Barcelona, Juventus, Manchester United and Benfica came to town.
I have confidence in the Celtic players; I am proud of each and every one of them for achieving at a level I could only dream about. Make some great memories Celtic.
Labels: Match Preview
174 Comments:
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Hi Paul,
A few folk sportingly congratulated me last night and in the same spirit I would like to wish you good luck tonight. Hopefully come May we will beat you in the final in Moscow :-)
This isn't really football but I thought it may be useful to some of you over the next few days depending on how it goes tonight :-)
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Pablophanque :- You are in fine form today, if your team shows as much passion and dedication tonight I can't see you having any problems. Sorry to hear you had to give up your ticket as I know what it meant to you. If this is your last game for a while then go have a great time and give it laldy
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Well said. The butterflies are coming on now.
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C'Mon the hoops
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True enough our whole season will be defined in 90 minutes tonight. Failure is NOT an option.
Come on The Hoops!
2 - 0 tonight!
Hail Hail!
RobinBHoy
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Prior to the game, we will also be reminded that none of this really matters with the memory of Antonio Puerta.
Hopefully we will beat Spartak, draw Sevilla and be able to pay our respects in the way only we can.
Go Celtic!
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Pablo,if you are out there,
sorry,been busy.
Have just seen your email.
Will respond some time tomorrow(my time).
Wee bit worried about tonight for some reason,don't know why,was more confident before the first leg.
Here's hoping.
Away for a kip before the game.
(hopefully)
All you people going there.
Give it heaps.
Good luck to the manager and players.
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BRING IT ON!
It will be cat and mouse for 30 minutes then Spartak will score. We'll respond and equalise by half time. 2-1 to the hoops on 75. 2-2 on 84 and a hell raising last 6 plus 3 injury time will see Scott Brown seal the winner and send us home in raptures.
Either that or 0-0.
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Not sure I like either scenario BlantyreKev. I want the tie done and dusted by half time as i'm not sure my nerves could handle such a nail biter!!!
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Blantyrekev - I just could nae handle that I'm afraid.
2 Nil by half time would be just CHAMPION for this Bhoy !
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Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo from last post
This is hardly groundbreaking stuff; "PLC directors in money making ploy shocker" What's next in your exclusive list:
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo @ 17:03
Some politicians cannot be trusted.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo @ 17:09
Tinytim doesn't like Gordon Strachan
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo @ 18:33
Man lands on moon
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo @ 18:59
Hemdani to sign for Osasuna
Gies a break. The board are what they are: business men.
Do you think we, as customers, are to stupid to work this out ourselves and need you to highlight it to us?
We have a succesful team and a profitable business, so what's the problem? I would certainly prefer our current fortunes to the alternative.
Therags...
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A 4.45am kick off this morning for me so hopefully it will be worth it..Give the bhoys a big cheer for all the expats around the world thos who are lucky enough to be there...
If we play like we did against hearts we will win- if we play like we did against kilmarnock, falkirk or spartak away we will be out tomorrow....Come on the hoops!!!
If Strachan goes with Hartley we are going for a nil-nil....If its mcgeady hold on to your seats!
Kitalba- hopefully you get a chance to watch it...
Shame Prudent plc couldnt have helped narrow the odds for tonight but that conversation is for later...
On this Paul- after the game could you let me know for the last five seasons what the figures are for:
net transfer spend
PBIT after adding back depreciation/amortisation
Debt
hail hail
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Edward,
all nice and relaxed after last night then?
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Blantyrekev @ 13.02 if it goes like that I’ll be dead on 85 mins.
I’ll settle for 1-0 after ten minutes
2-0 after twenty and a third just before half time.
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Ted, many thanks. You are da man.... :o)
3 - 0 the good ghuys. See you all there.
TTFN.
pablophanque
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Killerheels :- Very much so thanks, it's strange to read all the comments from other posters today and see how many reflected my own state of mind yesterday, ranging from a quiet confidence to bum clenching panic and quite often both within minutes :-)
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ps, Kano, enjoy tonight and hopefully we'll be watching from the same hemisphere very soon.
pablophanque
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Paul,
“I don’t know what is it like to motivate yourself when you earn over £500k per annum”
– Get some more pay per click adverts on here and I reckon you could find out! I can just imagine Aww no now Annoni’s reaction.
And to tonight. I am going for a resounding six nil walloping of the Moscow Mules.
Therags...
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Have been a long time browser of this blog. Had to join to refute the absolute nonsense in the (second) latest article. Paul- the Hemdani story was broken by the record on Friday 24. It was splashed all over their back page. So before patting yourself on the back - a quick check will reveal that they published the story a full three days before you claim to have 'dug it out' on Monday. There is no conspiracy here Im afraid.
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You have to hand it to BBC Scotland - their way with is impressive. Last night, whilst showing the Spartak players at the airport Rhona informed the nation that Celtic were "nursing" a 1-1 scoreline in to the game. And so we limp on into the tie.
Tomorrow I look forward to hearing how we weakly hobbled into the group stage, and hopefully how we fell face first into pot 2.
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ok, here is my prediction for tonight..
1-0 celtic
Donati to score in the 43rd minute with a thumping header at the near post. watched him go there for almost ever corner, and naka has found him a few times
Come on Celtic
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can I get rid of the image of Paul putting his trousers on.
I'm off to phone that link edward left.
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I remember how we played at CP after we came back from Amsterdam with a 3.1 win. We didn´t know how to approach that game and hence the 0.1 loss. Thank god that this one is different. I know we dont need to score but we must go out looking for one first and keep Spartak on the back foot until the ref blows up for time.
I hope it doesn´t go to penalties. If it does and with King Artur in fine form I believe that it will swing our way. It may be ok against Milan away but not Spartak at home. I would be interested in hearing from anyone with a photographic memory how many times we have been involved in European shoot outs and what´s the statistics there.
If we win this one and strengthen before the deadline. Then we could go all the way and I truly belive that.
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Paul67
Prediction time in the city.
Celtic will score, very early.
A second goal to Celtic ,within minutes, will be a body blow from which Spartak shan't recover.
Killerheels:
I fudged.
I had help.
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What I am about to write may be quite unpalletable to most and possibly inappropriate(and slightly bizarre) but................
I caught a wee glimpse of the dispiccable John(Bomber) Brown last night on Wee arra peepel TV, remember him that deliberately whacked the ball into the family enclosure at CP and booted Tommy Coyne after he had scored, aye him!
If given the choice of -
1. Bomber suddenly passes away tonight and Celtic progress to the CL group stages, or
2. Bomber survives and we are eliminated.
What would you chose on the pretext that your anonimity would be preserved?
I hope you all see the funnier side of my nervous pre match connundrum.
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Paul,
This is going to be one of the most nervous days of my life, right up there with the wedding day, man u, milan away last year and numerous others celtic related. This is a bit more nervy than most considering what is at stake. Finely balanced, could go either way, clawing onto an away goal, 1 second from losing the tie, jeez I'm gonna need a few snifters before the game for these nerves, but I'm going to stick by my prediction from 2 weeks ago, 1-1 in the first leg and 1-0 tonight. My stomach's doing cartwheels, has been since first thing this morning, cant wait to set off for the game, only 6 hours to go.
Come on the Celtic!!!!!!!!!
nakagod
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Aviewfromabove, take a look back at my ‘State of the club’ article from a few weeks back for financial info for seven years, it takes too long to collate this stuff, so I am not going to do it later for five years.
On the PLC not narrowing the odds a bit, our net spend this summer has been £7m. How much do you think would have been the right amount?
I believe most people would expect a figure in this region, but I also believe that whatever the figure, there will be someone saying …
“Spend more money, spend more money, spend …..”
Therags, :-)
Thejudge, never reading that publication I cannot comment, but I am sure we are all happy to hear from someone who does read/write for it. Take good care of yourself, as you are an increasingly scare commodity.
Whitedog, :-)
Abby, I am not the predicting type, the word jinx has been used.
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test
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Therags,
It´s a process that I am going through and you will have to be patient with me. I am going from being a Celtic supporter (me) to a Celtic customer (like you)
I´m not sure if I ever want to become like you or associated with being just a Celtic customers so please cut me some slack.
I am also not so simple minded to consider that there is only one other alternative.
But Hey thats your limitation not mine. We are a non exclusive club and will take any diddies money - even yours. :-)
Hail Hail
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Edward wrote to you about that Rangers reserve keeper. Two threads back now.
Cheers Blantyrekev
Anybody found a decent bet for tonight ?
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killerheels - option 2, we proceed into group stage. JB will die eventully anyway. Now if our qualification meant he became immortal then.......
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KillerHeels :- Tut Tut, I thought Celtic fans had a liking for crabbit greetin faced red headed nyafs ;-)
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First of all nobody from our club asked my for a public retraction.
I offered it in reciprocation of the courtesy and trust that our club extended to me, a mere supporter, and a distant one at that.
It is the least I can do and though I am not too happy in myself about the circumstances of it. I am happy with the way the club deported itself and the professional and very tolerant manner in which I was treated.
Continually.
Along with a lot of very devoted supporters of our club, in the country, in which I reside in, I will not get to see the game live tomorrow.
It is unfortunate but such is life.
With the game not being shown live in this country our club was acting in the best interest of all supporters, in all countries around the world, especially Scotland.
Unequivocally our club would not be held to ransom. What has occurred is unkind to certain supporters down here but I am entirely satisfied that our club did all that it realistically could, not to let us down.
I am humbled by the way I was treated by our club.
The brown stuff surely hit the fan.
I along with others have emails that vindicate the actions of our club but cannot say anything further. The moral of confidentiality binds me but trust me our club did right.
I am often guilty of reading between the lines in certain communications and coming up with the wrong conclusions. On this occasion I did not read between the lines and came up with wrong conclusion.
Sometimes you can shaft yourself every which way you turn.
If anybody is realy that interested then I would refer you back to
28/08/07 13:29, NeilR
28/08/07 11:58, Citibhoy
Neither seams to have it one hundred percent correct but neither is a million miles away either.
(don’t forget to hold down your shift key when clicking on these links, new window)
That’s me. My club did me and every other non CH67 supporter in this country right.
Aw-Naw.
Mate trust me. I was wrong. Albeit I have emails from other parties that led me to reach the wrong conclusions but I was wrong.
When I do eventually get back to Glasgow I hope we can have a beer in the company of a few others. I like your passion. I will gladly share a pint and a conversation.
Here’s one for you and you really couldn’t, make this up.
At around six this evening, our time, I was conversing with some of the CSC members local clubs and OUR club. Obviously, about this subject matter.
I get an email and a phone call from of all places The Rangers Supporters clubs of this country. “Don’t trust what you’re being told was the jist of it”. They were right.
I unreservedly apologise to our club and to its commercial management team.
Oh!!! and by the way… we won tonight.
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Ed-
sorry, I get a bit weird on nerves.
Did you watch him last night...........scary or what, imagine he was yer Dad
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kitalba
You're some guy. Well said sir. And thanks for the heads up on the result - the advantages of living 11 hours ahead eh :-)
Can I refer you (and Awe Naw) to my post right at the end of the last thread, rather than repeating it here.
I'm starting to get tense now - but not half as nervous as some of the Spartak Moscow players are going to feel when they walk out onto the pitch tonight.
We can do it. All of us.
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Kitalba,
as I said earlier. You´ll need to consider CH67 if you want regular uninterrupted viewing of Celtic it´s in everybodies best interest.
btw I´ll take a non scoring draw
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Nae Bread Nae Brains,(previous thread)
I'm not an authority on either city, having been in Dublin numerous times and in Cork twice.
However ,my son who has worked in Dublin and now works in Cork, prefers Cork as he says,"it's what Dublin was like ten years ago".
I guess it all depends on what you are looking for. Cork, I would say is a more friendly city.
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NeilR-
I am banking on the Spartak players kacking it big time.............ahhhhhhhhhh I canny work!
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Nots ure if this has been posted here today but I think this is what tonight is all about.
Celtic FC Passion
Now let get our there and lket them know just who CELTIC FC are!!
Hail, hail!
/Bishop B
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Paul Ha! I looked into my crystal ball and had a blurry vision of your 'I dont read it so cant comment' retort not but half an hour ago. Interesting you pass comment on the content of publications you dont read. What about Sky, or the BBC? Or the Evening Times. Do you ignore them too? Because contrary to your post - they reported it on the 14th - three days before you revealed it to the world. Thats lazy journalism im afraid and this type of paranoia - where we see a hidden agenda everywhere we look - does us no favours in deciphering real media bias.
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aw-naw
we gotta have a beer mate.
I'll tell you something that you probabley already know.
All around this world there are thousands upon thousands of Celtic Supporters who will do anything to see their team. I am merely one of them.
To be treated by our club with respect and courtesy and to have the commercial trust extended is humbling.
Mate I know every thing is not perfect but lets just have that beer.
Me. I don't care. I just want to go through.
Now I'm gonna track back on what I've missed.
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killerheels
If given the choice of -
1. Bomber suddenly passes away tonight and Celtic progress to the CL group stages, or
2. Bomber survives and we are eliminated.
At this precise moment in time i would plump for choice 1. I know this is morally wrong but hey,the Hoops are playing & any help is appreciated.If a man has to die for the cause,then it may as well be John Brown.
This opinion may well change later but as i say,whatever it takes to get us through.....
Hail Hail
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WhiteDogHunch :- Thanks, with Paul supplying a rolling news service today it's hard to keep up sometimes :-)
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JB does become immortal.
His body lies moulderin'in his grave,but his soul goes marchin'on.
Aye,and I can guess what choon his soul marches to.
Anyways,tune for tonight has to be'It ain't the Meat,it's the motion!
Originally recorded by the Swallows in 1951,but covered by Freddie King,Maria Muldaur and the mighty Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes.
So lots of Motion from the team,lots of Emotion and Commotion from the Support
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Thejudge – I have to refute your point. The record carried speculation that Hemdani may be the subject of a bid from Osasuna or Derby.
The same article also claims that Ian Murray joined Norwich for £250,000…
Paul’s post on Monday claimed that the deal was already done and Hemdani would join. Further speculation on CQN implies that the deal was actually completed at the time of the Cuellar deal.
Therags…
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Got to hand it to Rangers .Not to lose a goal over both ties as
they did in the 2nd quali as well is impressive.
I totally agree about the AJAX analogy. Although we are through as things stand psychologically we will be up to winning this one.
Wether we do so remains to be seen.
One plea is that we shouild not get on the teams back if we dont score in the first hour it will only encourage Spartak.
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Kitalba, well done with that balanced contribution.
Thejudge, quite right, why do I pay attention to any of them? Chill, remember how valuable a demographic you are.
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Paul67
I know that you agree with the following:
Celtic's Spending Budget Figure for new incoming transfers has been categorically stated,many times in the past, on this Blog.
The Budget is Seven Million Pounds NET... was last year... and this year is no different.
The word NET, is of extraordinary importance.
Keep that word in mind when digesting this information.
A favorable run by Celtic , in the Cl,this year, will see an increase in that figure come next summer window.
How do I come by this information, is of no importance.
Trust me.
The Celtic profit figure has not the slightest influence, in the amount put aside for the acquiring of incoming personnel.
The Incomers Budget is a separate entity,which is decided well in advance, and is adhered to religiously, under the present Administration.
Only events of biblical proportions will invoke a change.
I may as well admit,this much.
The above information was given to me by my boyfriend.
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thejudge-
thank Christ you've turned up to keep us properly informed!!!!!
Do you ever work with Donald?
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Kitalba
I was in Oz during our run to Seville. I used to get up at 5am and get the bus into Sydney CBD, a wee internet cafe on George Street.
Paid my £4.99 each game and got a PPV version on the 'fishal web site. Absolutely hopeless connection and hopeless quality when it did come through. The line was shared by all who were in the cafe so the more that came in the poorer the stream. Obviously as the games kicked off at 6.45am there weren't too many about and I usually got the first half not too bad. Folk would come in and I'd stare at them angrily til they left again but some put up with my glare and the second half was always one constant buffering session and I would switch to audio only.
One wee Japanese guy was always there playing online 'shoot em up' games. I hated that guy. He was making Celtic 'buffer'. The audacity!
That changed with Celta Vigo away. Buffering stopped as BBJ held off his man at the edge of the box and despatched a shot low towards the corner. Then it buffered again just as the ball crossed the 6 yard line!! I had no idea if it went in. Switch to audio, quick! 10 seconds later they were still celebrating and I knew we'd scored. I jumped out my seat, screamed, nearly strung myself up with the cord of the headphones and landed on the floor. My Japanese friend came over to see what the hell had happened, realised what I was doing and smiled with a polite expression that could only have meant "gaun yersel".
One day I'll look back at that like people do at black and white tellies or TV pre-remote control!
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Kittoch (from 2 threads back)
Your info on Ronnie L was misdirtected, as I think it was Bloke109 and Whitedoghunch who were debating the big keepers Rangers career, whereas I simply commented on the/our school. As for the Walker brothers, I would agree that John was probably more naturally talented than Andy and was prob the better player at schoolboy level, however, Andy's development (and level of application) at Motherwell, saw him progress markedly in a very short space of time and having played with and against both as adults, there's no doubt that the better player was the one who made a living in the game.
I also played against my former PE teacher when he was at Alloa and even though it resulted in a crowd of my former schoolmates and his former pupils coming along and giving big Ronnie pelters for the full 90 mins, he took it in the spirit it was intended and had a laugh about it afterwards. As Blantyre Kev says, a genuinely nice guy.
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DILEMA
Do i go with my Lisbon Lions tshirt the nite or Hoops?
Lisbon tshirt is grey and has massive silver foil text displaying LISBON 67
OR
new Hoops
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
www.confused.com/lennondinho18
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The power of faith!
If you want the banality of cowardly certainty then get yerself along tae Princes Square on Buchannan street and have a swaatch at Focault's pendulum as it traces out its interminable, invariable predetermined path, reflecting and confirming the fact that not only does the earth spin on its access, but it does so with a metronomic regularity of 23.93 hours per cycle.
(Ha. You all thought there was 24 hours in a day. Well adjust your watches now for not only are you older than you think, but tonight’s game is just that wee bit closer!)
As you escalate your way to the top of that monument to capitalism, peer down the rod and bob as, prompted to swing on a single plane, it deviates in harmony with the earth spinning round and round, round and round, never ending or beginning in a never ending…..(whoops nearly broke into song there).
Which when you come to think about it, is a damn good thing since just about everything we rely on to walk, talk, eat, breath, sleep and generally function as human beings is a consequence of this monotonous regularity of the cosmos.
But there again superficially this existence of ours can just seem so depressingly pointless!
Born, Breathe, eat, sleep, work, yer fingers tae the bone, worry, worry, worry, get bashed, stop worrying, get hangover, worry worry worry and die!. Get buried, become one with universe, but have no real say in or influence over anything!
Laws of motion, thermodynamics, relativity, gravity, conservation of energy, genetics… all just part of an accidental orchestral composition now controlled by a manic dictatorial conductor defying us to play flat and not sharp, jazz and not class, greens instead of blues.
As last nights ‘Cote du Rhone Villages’ evaporated from my bloodstream and the burr of the dawn traffic drifted through my open window, I roused from my slumber, looked out of the window, greeted the day with a Gary Pendrey scoreline and contemplated a world that would go through the same old routine as yesterday, will do the same tomorrow, and will keep doing so until such time as the sun’s diminishing fuel causes a supernova, we all disappear in a fireball while in another constellation, another solar system, and another inhospitable planet, an infinitesimal bit of dirt for some reason or another replicates itself and the whole damn thing starts over again.
(Then 4 billion years later the universe will echo to a renewed….. “No Huns on Vulcan…… there’ll be no Huns on Vulcan……”)
But look under the surface , and what do we find. Certainty may allow us to survive, but it is uncertainty that makes us alive!
It is uncertainty dreesed in its Sunday best, the unexpected that makes us laugh and cry, thrive and grow, imagine the future, regret the past.
It is this that makes life worth living.
So its time to play a major instead of a minor, a seventh instead of a diminished and remind that control junkie in the sky with his set score and his focault’s baton of universal laws, that we have our own wee band about to break into his sterile controlled world of stiff shirts, pressed suits and viola strings.
Meet rock and roll and meet ‘the uncertainty principle’, that blip in the universal laws, a ripple in the fabric of space and time, that just gives us the chance of unpredictability, allows the concept of chaos, creates the mirage of control and endows us with the illusion of free-will and choice.
But control and free-will are only mirages and illusions when uncertainty runs unfettered.
Tonight is different. There will be no mirages and no illusions.
Tonight the our wee rock and roll combo is about to hit them chords, batter them scales, and show the world and the great megalomaniac in the sky that this is our world, as we bring the inexplicable uncertainty to heel by the even greater mystery that is faith with its power to service the highest ideals.
Tonight on the celebration of the Feast of ‘Uncertainty’, a party in its honour will be held at Celtic Park, Kerrydale Street Glasgow G40, (arrive 7.15 for a 7.45 start) where each and everyone of us will demonstrate just how ultimately powerful our faith and support can be.
Observers from Moscow will be there to verify the magnificence of what is about to be undertaken.
So……
As you don your colours, think not that you are going to a football match where the prize may or may not be entry to the Cl group stage; instead think about how those colours arose, think of who has worn them down through the decades, think of the achievements, and think of the sacrifices made to glory the humanity at the core of each and every one of us.
As you walk, drive, fly your chosen route to Celtic Park, bar, computer screen, or radio don’t just think of the ninety minutes ahead and the eleven players on that park, go instead with a smile on your face, a steel in your eye and a gallusness in your stride. Think of tonight as a present to you from the generations that have gone before; a reward that says not only thanks for keeping the flame alight, but one that reminds you of the responsibility to care for the gift and pass it on not only undamaged but enhanced to the generations to come.
As you stand on the slopes of Paradise or watch and listen from afar, don’t just join in with the words, the tunes or applause, instead remind the world of all that has gone before, what we are, why we are here and where we are going. Make the passion shine and explode like a nebulae not to intimidate our visitors but to inspire everyone around you and those who have the privilege to wear the hoops tonight.
As the theatre of the evening unfolds on the greatest stage in the world, don’t just see 4-3-3, or 4-4-2, passes and tackles to be attempted, gaps to be filled, balls to be reached, and goals to be scored, instead harness all that belief and faith inside and around you, shout it out and create in this holy ground an aura of invincibility that will infuse, enthuse, nurture and inspire every player to run a yard faster, sprint a yard further, stretch a foot higher, see a pass better, and take the risks needed to achieve what is necessary.
And then when that greenest of places in this dear green city is rocking and rolling to the sight of heroic deeds on the park, fuelled by the similarly heroic unbending belief off the park, we can all say that we, the players, we the support in the ground, we the watching and listening diaspora– we as one Celtic, harnessed uncertainty, controlled chaos and even if it wasn’t enough it was our very best.
But somehow I think it will be good enough, somehow immovable objects will be moved, unstoppable forces will be stopped, and we will all have played our part!
So let’s get them Celtic!
More than a club!
Hail Hail
Estadio.
Disclaimer: Please note that all of the foregoing applies to the manifest mystery of the natural world, the harmony of majestic star formation with the enchantment of conscious thinking, the magic of music and the rigour of mathematics all brought together in the seething soul of emotions by the travails of such great Celtic supporters as Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, Archimedes, Da Vinci, Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein Heisenberg and our very own Gerald O’Donnell** . It has absolutely nothing to do with what goes on in Edmistion drive, where the inhabitants, beliefs, traditions and culture are the self proclaimed product and of a pre-big-bang, post digestive evacuation of a mythical giant tortoise’s alimentary canal!
** Gerald O’Donnell – Initials G.O.D.
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Kitalba,
Sounds good to me. I suggest that we have it in Restaurant 7 along with a slap up meal just to re-inforce what good customers we really are !
BTW I have a spare season ticket that I can lend you if your struggling to get to a game
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Len Brennan - Now that hit the spot !
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Jokes about a Rangers man who is still alive dying....am I the only one who thinks that is well out of order....a minority of 1? Even our resident Teddy thinks its funny. Sorry guys, I find that sort of 'joke' truly nauseating.
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Blantyrekev,
for 5 years on a saturday I carried a short wave radio to pick up the Celtic score on BBC Radio world service. It has left me with the nickname "radar" to this day. Who says the germans dont have a sense of humour ? With a heavy heart I reluctantly threw it out the other day. How many drunken bevvy sessions that we radio induced was too numerous to mention.
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Paul - Would it be easier if I just said what a great article it was? The blog claimed - quite wrongly - that a 'compliant' media swept the Hemdani story under the carpet until after the Red Star game. Was it wrong of me to point out that a variety of media outlets - including the BBC and the biggest paper in the country - actually reported the story on the 14th, three days before you claim to have 'dug it out'? Or is toeing the party line a pre-requesite for making a contribution on what is normally an excellent blog?
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Estadio - Il Miglior Fabbrio
You have the baton sir, and you've just tapped lectern. The fine tuning is over. Let's commence.
Mille Grazie
U.
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Leon Foucault also invented,or at least improved,the Gyroscope;Naka has one in each of his boots.
So if him and Aiden Scissorfeet get going then the Meat are headed for the mincer.
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Good afternoon all.
Due to a blunder on my part I find myself on holiday and unable to watch the game this evening. I will be receiving updates by text.
Despite being a few thousand miles away my heart has started beating faster and my stomach is churning.
To those going tonight - sing it loud and proud.
MON THE HOOPS
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Why is the clock in the office running so slow?
Why can't I be in Failte having a pre-match nerve soother and throat tuner?
Why can't it all be over and us having won 4-0
Wibble
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itz,
sorry if I brought on the boke, I have still to reach a level of maturity that would ensure that I dont joke anymore.
If you had seen him on Rankers TV you would have done a "Glasgow Airport" on the studio, minus John Smeaton. He'd give you a right good kick in the" John Daws" if you know what I mean.
Away to grow up a bit! enjoy the game, not too much that would be irresponsible.
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Estadio,
Brilliant exposition of the world as it should be--both globally and in Ed Drive!
To take the Uncertainty Principle a step further. We cannot measure anything accurately because the act of measurement disturbs the object. We shall not be able to accurately assess the score tonight because when we realise that we have scored, we shall have scored another, etc etc. Poor Spartak-- a victim of Heisenberg, who did not know he supported Celtic!
Rebus
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BigSwee,
you refer to Wibble, does that in any way derive from the expression "Wibbly wobbly" or the "Wibbles"- a feeling of dread and anxiety brought on by excessive drinking?
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Gang of 4
Love Like Anthrax
Woke up this morning-desperation a.m.
The things I'm sayin-won't say them again
Only yesterday I said to myself
The things I'm doin aren't good for my health
and I feel like a beatle on its back...
"Lager please......"
Nervous Anticipation CSC
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Have been having trouble logging in for the past week.
Saturday was the best football I have seen us playing for many a year. Team 3 is definitely taking shape.
Here's hoping we (the support) give the players the encouragement and support they will need tonight.
EdwardU, you must be a happy man today. Good luck to you. Sorry but I can't say more. I would be a hypocrite otherwise.
As one of those who was sceptical when we signed Kenny Miller, I really do hope we keep him. He looks a different player this season. Maturity and confidence and playing with better players?!?
We shall not be moved.
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Bhoys - If any of you have the time, listen to the link on Len Brennan's post at 13.44.
baz67wellupfortonight.com
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Did anyone see Maloney's double for Villa last night - two belters!!
I doubt Villa would let him go. Their fans seem to love him and are annoyed that MON doesn't play him.
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Looking forward to the match today. Expecting a comfortable victory, especially if we get an early goal. A couple of our players will not have played in the atmosphere they will encounter tonight, hopefully they can handle it.
Congrats to them for getting through. Would have rathered they didn't, purely from a financial pov, but credit where credit's due.
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how do you put the wee photo thing on the post a comment thing
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:o) Killerheels
More to the wibble involving pants on head and 2 pencils up my nose at being stuck in the office with gloating Rangers mates giving me the look! You know the one. Good luck tonight....no seriously.....
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Pablo:
mate I apologise.
Can I phone you tommorow night.
Tomorrow has come before yesterday has gone. If that makes any sense.
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theres a huge storm just happening here in France and at the end of the storm theres a golden sky.....................................Walk on, Walk on with hope in your heart and you'll never walk alone.
C'mon the Hoops!
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Gallanz
Thanks for the reply, Are you saying bid Ronnie did start for the first team at rfc.Would have been nice for him if he did, as you say a thouroughly nice bloke.
My one memory of Ronnie was in the Teachers V Pupils 5 a side game played in the main hall one lunch time. I displayed wonderful acrobatic skill to get on the end of a volley which i could not have hit cleaner only to see Ronnie saving it with his face which caused his head to be pushed against the bar. This resulted in a bloody nose for Ronnie and absolute pelters for me from his adoring 4th and 5th year female fans. (Good Times)
Wouldn't argue about the fact that Andy became a great player, you quite rightly caught my drift about schoolboy football and how the players that we all thought were brilliant never really make it.
Nice to hear that both Walker brothers are still playing, I have not ran into either since having left school.
Wee Taol Eh,
And I think the other PE teacher was Mr White would that be right.
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smashin milk bottle
Spoke to the man today. He's a character.
Can you believe two 'wet' Glaswegians on the other side of the world can't arrange a beer.
I'm meeting the plonker for breakfast next Monday. 0600am.
I'll phone you when I get back.
Don't let the nerves get to you!!!!
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Kittoch :- I'm almost 100% sure he didn't, I have a list of every Rangers first team player up to this season and he doesn't appear on it.
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EdwardUrsus @ 12:57:
Hi Edward I laughed out loud when I clicked on your link! :-)
If more people on either side of the 'divide' had your tolerance, good nature and good humour, then I think there wouldn't be a 'divide' to speak of!
P.S. May I add my congrats for your great result last night! I think we will meet someone else in the Final though! :-) [Sadly, as a Nation I don't think we are collectively ready to meet in the final... :-( ]
Talking of which I have had to laugh over the last few days at the 'Ditch the Old Firm Tag' debate. I did a search this morning on the previous thread for 'Celtic' and 'Rangers'. At the time I did the search my count was 'Celtic' 99 times and 'Rangers' an incredible 40 times. i.e. For every 10 times we mentioned Celtic we just had to mention Rangers 40 times. (I think a lot of these were of the "Oh No! Rangers have gone through, what if we don't?" variety) Seems like there is still a lot of mileage in the 'Old Firm' tag yet...
Without underestimating Spartak Moscow, I think if the Team AND Fans play to their strengths tonight then we wil emerge victorious! I am looking forward to an exciting and sensational match tonight and I epect both Nakamura and Donatti to score.
Yours in Celtic,
Jim.
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Kittoch
Mr white
was he the big fat guy ?
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Sorry, should have been 4 not 40 times...
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Nothing like a big Euro night under the lights at CP, cant see anything other than us going through although it wont be a push over.
The Russians will never have experienced anything like this atmosphere before and I dont think any team relishes our place on nights like these.We the supprt can make the difference.
3. 1. Celtic Naka, McDonald Donati.
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NeilR
I went back and I thank you for your considerations.
Trust me OUR club did the right thing. I am one of the unfortunates but��.
Our club looked after the majority, not the, up side down minority, over this issue.
I am selfishly disappointed but I cannot empathizes this enough� it had nothing to do with CH67. Nothing at all.
I was led down the wrong track.
These words may lend some context to the issue and with this I�m dropping it.
Disrespectful, derogatory, demeaning of our club and its status, demeaning of you and me, as supporters of our club, crass, joke. Cheap.
Come on mate, yer havvin a laff. Aren�t you?
These, are but a few of the words, that spring to my mind when I think of a third party.
Our club made a business decision for the good of the many at the expense of a few.
The supporters in Scotland are the ones who will benefit the most but if what was alluded to, comes to fruition, these benefits will in time, hopefully not a long time, be enjoyed, in part, by our mates in North America, Australia, Canada, South Africa, etc. etc.
To my mind our club did the right thing. I, (aw-naw) would have done the same and taken the flak.
It was business, hard business, in the interest of its supporters not its customers.
NeilR:
I will be in London in less than two weeks time. I will gladly meet you for a beer. Just got to sort a few things out first.
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EdU-You need to get out more ;~)
On your list,do you have a guy called Alan Boyd,mid to late 70s?
He was in my year at Uni,and on Rangers books at the same time.I'm curious to see if he ever played for the first XI.
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Ted the Bear
Well done for last night, I was one of the few that wanted you through, if only to give you the same gruelling schedule that we will have to endure after tonights win. It will make for a better league if they are both playing CL football.
I didn't think Ronnie had played a full game, Shame.
Kittoch.
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Aw-naw:
I was being sincere.
If it is all right with you I’d rather have a couple of beers in our city center.
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Awe_Naw .... 13.33
Now this 'process' thingy you have been going through ..
I presume and please correct me, that like myself you have been round long enough to have lived with various 'owners' of the PLC or its predecesors.. The Whites/Kellys, Fergus, and now Dermot and US.
At what point in this continum that is Celtic (but with different ultimate owners) did you feel most a. A Supporter and b. A Customer?
You state that you arent simple (which everyone knows ) So why will you not accept that the distinction between Fan and Customer neednt be exclusive....
I am both !
CB
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Whitedoghunch
No. Mr White (I'm sure that was his name) was a thin bloke about 5,8". He took over the running of the school team from The Art Principlal just as I was leaving.
The things we talk about to pass the time, my watch has stopped again.
C'Mon the Hoops.
KittochWhosTryingToRememberTheArtTeachersNameNow.
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Hold the line!
Stay with me!
If you find yourself alone,
riding in the green fields with the sun on your face,
do not be troubled,
for you are in Elysium and you're already dead!
Brothers, what we do in life...
echoes in eternity.
At my signal, unleash hell.
/Bishop General Maximus Meridius..B
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Paul,
I am not in the slightest bit surprised at Brahim Hemdani wanting out at rangers. His team-mates ganged up on a talented coach who wanted nothing more than to make footballers better players. The ring leader at that time is still the captain and Brahim probably is worth a starting slot - but he is not one of Walters buys and therefore will not be a first pick. Although when rangers need to play football and keep posession Brahim is first name on the team sheet. I wont be sad to see him leave - I think he brings a composure to the rangers defence. They will be worse off without him.
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aw_naw : I used to listen to the Beeb World Service on a SW radio when I was out in S. Korea and China during the late 80's and early 90's. It was a Godsend.
Late on a Saturday night, there's me half-cut trying to get a decent signal by draping the extendable antennae over the curtain rail. Eventually I would manage to hear the wonderful sound of Paddy Feeney presenting the Saturday sports show. If I was really lucky, the English game would be boring or totally one-sided so they would switch to a Scottish game.
One particular time this happened was the "Glasgow Derby" at CP when we went 3-1 up before h/t. This was us attempting to exact revenge for the Ian andrews game, I think. I believe the game ended with that scoreline and we let them off the hook yet again.
I might be getting my games mixed up, but that could also have been the game when the Jungle was belting out "Let it be", which had been re-released for some reason.
Although, I was very, very, very drunk at the time.
TTTTjumpersforgoalpostsmarvellousCSC
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Although I’m not at this very moment in an excited state, although I’m expecting to dribble my soup and forget to pull up my zip sometime soon, (it tends to get that way when I’m focused on what lies ahead), what has struck me though is how I feel about this game compared say to the Milan game.
My nerves were on another level waiting on last seasons CL games and I started twitching 4 days before kick off. Today is different. We’re better than last season and it’s not Milan.
If for some unforeseen reason we shouldn’t make it through tonight, - is that a song - I found myself thinking well, that’s us got 3-in-a-row in the bag, and the uefa cup with the opportunity to collect coefficient points. Times have changed when I’m feeling that.
We’re on a different level.
C’mon the Hoops
HH
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Kittoch
Hugh McGrady? He used to work weekends on the main stand turnstiles at Celtic Park and would let my da lift me and my brother over!
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Paul67 - Sorry for the language violation above but I think it would lose it's power without it.
Please feel free to delete if you think necessary!
/Bishop B
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Estadio. A delight to read as ever.....I will take your advice and think those thoughts. Great Karma...
4-0 to the Good Ghuys....
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