“Thank you, Celtic.”
“Thank you, Celtic.”
“Thank you, Celtic.”
“Thank you, Celtic.”
“*!*! you, Celtic.”
“Thank you, Celtic.”
“Thank you, Celtic.”
“Thank you, Celtic.”
“Thank you, Celtic.”
“Thank you, Celtic.”
“Thank you, Celtic.”
That’s the response from Scottish Premiership clubs on notification they will each receive £365k solidarity payment from Uefa for Celtic reaching the Champions League group stage. At the bottom end of the league, that will pay the wages of six members of the squad for a year. To one and all: You’re welcome.
Further up the table, it could make the difference between being underwater and not needing to seek borrowing. Be in no doubt, this is a great day to go to work at all top flight Scottish clubs. Directors across the country, who keep their clubs afloat with personal loans, would have been on their feet cheering as Scott Sinclair’s opener hit the net – all of them.
I loved the interactive billboard campaign which launched within minutes of full time: “This is how it feels to be in the Champions League”. As a club, we are hitting all the bases right now; opening avenues for the whole of Glasgow, and Scotland, to enjoy and participate in our success. This is how it feels to grow the Celtic family.
As for the weak-minded among you: there was never any danger last night. Without profligacy in front of goal, we would have been ahead at the break. Scott Brown learned that two mistakes in quick succession is likely to lead to a goal, while Mikael Lustig satisfied his long-held curiosity as to what would happen if he was the last defender, and instead of closing down an opponent rushing towards goal, he backed off. It would have been a great learning experience for some of the young players involved.
Rijeka couldn’t lay a glove on Olympiakos last night, while Sevilla only just clung onto their advantage over Istanbul Basaksehir, who were a goal away from qualifying for the group stage, and elevating Celtic to pot 3. Our hopes now lie with Hoffenheim overturning a 1-2 deficit at Liverpool. Pot 4 beckons. Still, I’m not complaining.
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Monaco, Porto & Basel would do me in the CRC rollercoaster:-)
Who do I fancy our chances of taking something from the 2 matches:
Pot 1 – Benfica, Monaco, Spartak Moscow and Shaktar Donetsk
Pot 2 – Sevilla, Dortmund, Porto
Pot 3 – Basel, Anderlecht, Olympiakos, Besiktas, maybe Spurs given their Euro performances last season.
Who will we get?
Real Madrid, PSG and Napoli
Saint Stivs,
on page 1 of this article
Saint Stivs,
sorry page 2 at 13.25
Watching highlights.
Loving the sporting Lisbon hoops.
Sporting and Us – the two sets of Hoops are the only teams to ever bag 5 goals in a playoff tie.
TriviatoirritateaHunCSC
Big heid bouncer at the Hard Rock cafe in Lisbon is a Benfica boy – told me his grandad went to our final in 67 and partied with hoops fans afterwards.
Be a rare night in there if we drew Sporting and pumped them. Free cocktails all round!
dessybhoy on 23rd August 2017 7:52 pm
Just read that account of the meeting with Doncaster and McKenzie, these two are covering their arses big time, are squirming at times when a question is led that might throw their stories out and you can sense that all is not right and proper with this, they know it, the people at the meeting know it, many fans know it clubs are likely to know but WHO is going to do something about this and hold people to account and get rid of those who should not be in football?
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Four points to make on the Doncaster/McKenzie minutes.
1. The owner operator rule was introduced in 2005 and not to confer immortality to the abstract “club” that was somehow owned and operated. That is a construction that Doncaster applied, possibly because of his experience in England, but it was introduced in 2005 to allow Romanov (or other “owners” )to be sanctioned and cover clubs that were not constituted like the majority as in Brechin City who could have entered the SPL under proposals for a second Premier Divison at the time.
Brechin City is an unincorporated body. It has no legal personality to own shares or anything else.
The new regulations therefore would have allowed the shares to be registered by a club committee member. Under the original articles the holder of the SPL share could only be the club itself.
So before 2005 there was only Rangers as is the case after 2005 since nothing changed but the rules.
2. Rangers were never charged by the Judicial Panel or LNS of dishonesty using SFA Article 5.1 a and SPL Article 3.1 later adopted into SFA Articles in 2013 requiring a club to act in utmost good faith. Art 5.1a required a club to act with loyalty, integrity and sportsmanship in accordance with the rules of fair play.
The JP only looked at Rangers behaviour under CW since 6th May and LNS at whether side letters should have been registered or not, not why they weren’t nor did they look at paying players by dishonest means, one of the reasons the registration rules required all payments to be registered.
3. The claim made that the Judicial Panel charged CW with non payment of taxes is only partially true. For some strange reason, perhaps allied to 2, he was never charged with non payment of the wee tax liability and yet neither were Rangers who accepted the liability before Takeover. How that liability was accepted and a UEFA licence issued is part of what Res12 is trying to establish (and yes its still very much a live issue) but again it is symptomatic of a failure to charge Rangers of breaching good faith since 1999 when the first of the ebts that caused the liability were used.
4. The claim that MIH failed to provide Duff and Phelps with documentation the SPL lawyer Rod McKenzie sought is questionable given that DE&P in March 2012 put a claim before court to recover the £2.8 M that they considered CW had held back using the detail about the wtc contained in HMRC documents.
The problem the SPL/SPFL/SFA have is that nothing that comes from Ibrox from 2012 back to 1999 can be trusted yet they are acting as if its all been one big honest mistake whilst evidence to the contrary exists.
Serious questions need to be asked of the individuals involved like Andrew Dickson, that ND says he was surprised to hear was on the 2011 Licensing Committee. There are others and if an enquiry gets underway watch for the blame game spilling the beans.
Dallas Dallas…..Charlie was happy to contribute to the documentary and gladly took the time out to do so. He respected Sean a lot and I think that came through on the film. Irrespective of what he might say and do, I think he told an honest story of what Sean’s contribution meant to him. Sean loved Pollok Golf Club and was proud to be a member – he proposed Charlie as a member and that meant a lot.
Big Sean F, my dislike of Charlie Nicholas’ attitude toward us probably stems from a club legend (in the true sense of the word) refusal to criticise Celtic even after his appalling treatment by Desmond White , whereas Charlie continually criticises us for whatever reason having made a fraction of the contribution to our hIstory as Sean made
The last straw for me with him was the night we beat Milan 2 1. Our support was singing the Fields of Athenry . Jim White who thought his mic was off , said no the tattie song again to which Nicholas replied , aye and they’re all eating chips .
As aside about Pollok golf club, Willie Waddle was the man who , lets just say broke tradition, sorting out Sean’s membership there.
Totally
Bonobo : Cirrus….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WF34N4gJAKE
Happy Hooooopy Champions League Group Stage Draw Day!!!
Or as the huns call it-Thursday(!)
Don’t care who we get,personally. I just want us to acquit ourselves well.
And scare the living daylights out of them!!!
Bobby, don’t know if we will scare the living daylights out of them, but scoring another two goals when 4-1 down will send a message out! Looking forward to the draw. Hope we avoid a ‘group of death’.
Cheers.
JIMTHETIM53
Happy to take the money and put more daylight between us and the huns,mate.
Even happier when we do the unexpected and give the mighty a bloody nose.
Aye,Europe knows who we are,alright. Few would prefer us from Pot 3,never mind Pot 4.
Group of Death? No matter who we get,it’s a Group of Death.
For one of them!
No way are we anyone’s whipping Bhoys!!!
My hopes for this season before the start of the season.
Win the SPL. ( Who cares about the SFA baubles ? Naebdy South of the Clyde .)
Progress beyond the group stages of the C.L.
Brendan`s schooling suggests that we may well achieve all of the above.
Good morning CQN from a dry and bright East Devon.
Onwards and upwards, bring it on. YNWA
Morning all!
When it comes to the draw later my own expectations in advance are that I won’t be expecting us to be trying to finish first or second in our group. So whilst the attention might be on who our glamour ties will be against, its out Pot 3 opponents who might ultimately be the most significant. Take 4 or 6 points from those 2 games and there’s every chance of some sort of European football after Christmas.
Pot 3 teams – Napoli, Tottenham, FC Basel, Olympiakos, Anderlecht, Liverpool, Roma, Besiktas
UEFA Distribution ?
Apologises if this has already been covered, as I havent read back yet ?
As with our SPL clubs, every club in top leagues across Europe will be getting around £365,000 which is “Conditional”, as it MUST be spent on youth development, as far as I am aware ?
IF that is true and clubs MUST be seen to using any monies received in this way, and for nothing else, how do UEFA monitor this to ENSURE that this “Condition” is correctly and HONESTLY applied by each club ?
Does EVERY club who receive such payment have to FILE paperwork ( accounts) to UEFA within a certain period of time, and IF any club FAILS to have the money properly accounted and attributed to their own youth schemes either DELIBERATELY or accidently ( perhaps failing to meet any time scale to provide account of the money being used ), do UEFA have the remit to demand that any money is then refunded to UEFA ?
I find it difficult for any organisation far less UEFA to conduct proper diligence on the spending of this money by every club that has profited, IF there is such a “Condition” attached to any payouts to every club ?
I am of course deeply concerned that the Huns will use their payout for other means ( new windaes etc ?), rather than any youth scheme ?
Does anyone know how or IF UEFA monitor how this money is spent ?
HH
I would rather get Roma than Napoli but I’d feel a lot safer going to a game in Napoli than I would in Roma.
Manchester City agree deal to buy Spanish club Girona https://www.theguardian.com/football/2017/aug/23/manchester-city-buy-girona-spanish-club?CMP=share_btn_tw … #mcfc
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Surely the squad is now going to be so big they will let us have wee Paddy.
Good morning CQN
Looking forward to tonight’s exciting draw for the C/L group stages
We have seen some fantastic TIFO’S on our European nights lets hope we have some this Autumn/winter, of course we will have to walk the tightrope of faux offended MSM/Police Scotland brigade (yawn) how tiresome and pathetic are these people
When confronted with clear offensive sectarian imagery by the OO quell surprise no action taken
https://www.commonspace.scot/articles/11565/police-scotland-take-no-action-disturbing-orange-order-hitler-and-child-abuse-images
Investigation over pictures taken in Orange Lodge hall in Airdrie finds “no offence” was committed
POLICE SCOTLAND has closed the investigation relating to pictures taken during Orange Order Halloween parties that mocked Holocaust victims and depicted child sex abuse.
The snaps, taken at an Orange Lodge hall in Airdrie in 2010 and 2013, were exposed by the Sunday Herald in July of this year after they emerged on social media.
They showed one man dressed as Adolf Hitler standing next to a woman dressed as his wife Eva Braun, whilst two young children stood in front of them dressed as Holocaust victims.
“Whilst it is clear that the posts could be regarded as inappropriate and distasteful, no offences have been established at this time.” Police Scotland
When CommonSpace contacted police to see if any arrests had been made in relation to the incidents, a police Scotland spokesperson said: “This matter has been investigated by Police Scotland and whilst it is clear that the posts could be regarded as inappropriate and distasteful, no offences have been established at this time.
“Police Scotland has not received any complaints in relation to the content of the article.
“Police Scotland takes all reports of hate incidents seriously and will investigate such reports appropriately and proportionately.”
Costumes worn by people attending the parties included a man dressed as the Pope with a noose around his neck, and another picture showed two men simulating a sex act on a teddy that had a Celtic strip on while one of the men was dressed as a priest.
Speaking to the Sunday Herald in July, a spokesman for the Catholic Church in Scotland said: “The violent imagery depicted in these photographs reflects an extremely disturbing and hateful attitude towards Catholics and other faith minorities.
“Last month, Scottish Government figures showed religiously aggravated crime at a four-year high. Worryingly, 57 per cent of all religious hate crime targeted Catholics or Catholicism.
“Given recent reports, Catholics may quite rightly wish to seek reassurances from their public representatives and Police Scotland that their rights and freedoms to live without fear or prejudice will be protected.”
“If that’s Police Scotland’s decision, we’re happy with Police Scotland’s decision.” Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland
Grand Orange Lodge of Scotland spokesman, Robert McLean said: “To be honest the news is old news, the pictures are seven years old.
“If that’s Police Scotland’s decision, we’re happy with Police Scotland’s decision. We’ve done our own thing here internally, but we’ve no further comment to make on the matter.”
Aye but wear a ‘Free Palestine’ t-shirt outside the ground and you’ll have Follow Follow Focus down on you like a SWAT team.
HH jamesgang
https://draw.inker.fun/#/cl/gs
A bit of pre draw fun
I got Spartak Moscow, Sevilla, Besiktas
Old head
Sorry predictive text altered your blog name,thanks for your reply,Doncaster and mckenzie seem very confident that a judicial review will be time barred,you can be sure they have checked this out I read that a judicial review was only one possibility in a number of ways to get transparency and improved governance please this cannot be allowed to fade away.
It’s Pot Luck Day today!
By far the weakest Pot 1 team are the Russians. Would we want the better chance of 3 points from the “strong” team in the group to be balanced against the risk of violence being visited on our travelling fans.
I would prefer
Benfica
Dortmund or Sevilla
Olympiakos, Anderlecht or Besiktas
or, alternatively
CSKA Moscow or Shaktar Donetsk
Porto
any of hte above Pot 3 or Basel
The worst for potential violence would be
Chelsea or Moscow
N/A for Pot 2 teams
Roma, Besiktas or Olympiakos
It’s gonna be tough whichever way
“…COULD be regarded as inappropriate and distasteful…”
Could they? Aye ? You sure about that ?
Scumbags. What chance do their own weans have ?
HH
BGFC
Not in the least surprised at the actions of the police,remember on the same day a body of a missing man was found in his own home after being missing for one month an assistant chief constable was on television talking about a banner at Celtic games,now what is important from a policing view in this country draw your own conclusions.
If only the MSM had journos of this standard
Grenfell proved it: the British media are part of a disconnected elite
Jon Snow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gyLs6HtalU
https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/aug/23/grenfell-british-media-divide
Police Scotland investigating the Orange Order, well blow me down with a feather that nothing was found…
Mon The Draw..
Give us Basel:))
LIONROARS67 on 24TH AUGUST 2017 9:14 AM
Jon Snow. Good stuff.
The media are the message……………….circa `69 .
And in recent years the media have been wrong about so much.
The message in 2017 is………….. Don`t trust the media.
Trust your instincts.
The Russian teams don’t travel well,I would take one of them….
Hi everyone – welcome to Champions League draw day, or if you’re a Sevco fan – Thursday.
I believe our over-arching concern should be to gain a good co-efficient this season, as next year our 2012-13 season figures drop out. To that end, I’m afraid our best chance of gaining this is to come third in the group, guaranteeing Europa League football beyond Christmas against weaker teams. My ideal draw would be:
Real Madrid – for the glamour;
Borussia Dortmund – for the fan experience;
Basel – to allow us a decent chance of coming third.
hail hail.
Dont take no lectures from Jon Snow when he fronts the Channel 4 news programme which is the most extreme
” fake news” outlet. It takes some doing the be worse than the BBC and the UK printed media.
I am not knowledgeable about these things but I gather that Celtic’s share price is going up very strongly at the moment. Does anyone know why?
ASTANA star Junior Kabananga is convinced they will make it third time lucky if they play Celtic again after insisting the Scottish champions were on the ropes in Kazakhstan.
The Parkhead side qualified for the Champions League group stage, but were given a fright after their hosts built a 4-1 at one stage in their quest to overturn a 5-0 first leg deficit.
Kabananga, their Congo international striker, said the scoreline was not proper reflection on the tie and says he is desperate to face Celtic yet again to exact revenge.
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See Pedro was right – when you lose – you still win
Scullybhoy-I’m guessing that was from a hurting hun from The Laptop Loyal?
Morning All From A Fresh Summers Day in The Chilterns.
I’m hoping we get an easier group than last Season. Maybe a nice new City for a mid-week visit.
BAMBOO @ 9:37 AM,
You will have an example won’t you?
Hail Hail
South of Tunis
Really, Napoli before Roma. Whilst i love both places, i felt on the few times ive been in Naples that it has a sinister undertone, perhaps that was fuelled by the scooter riding hawker that followed me all around town in a threatening manner.