The juices are flowing ahead of tonight’s crucial third round Champions League qualifier against HJK Helsinki at Celtic Park. Not only is it the first competitive game Celtic have had something to play for since winning the league at Rugby Park almost four months ago, it will be one of our most important games of the season.
The Finnish champions are midseason and have already negotiated an earlier qualifying round. After recent August disappointments against Sion, Braga (how little we knew about them at the time) and Utrecht, Neil Lennon will know only too well the pitfalls of summer football.
It will be a long and tiring 90 minutes for the players but a special Celtic Park atmosphere should see them through.
Best wishes to Morten Rasmussen, who joined FC Midtylland yesterday, or to tell the fuller story, was removed from the Celtic payroll with around £250k in compensation heading our way. Morten arrived in January 2010, shortly before Robbie Keane and a host of other loan signing pitched up at Celtic and squeezed his chances of first team football.
Tony Mowbray was replaced by Neil Lennon two months later and Morten was clearly not in the new manager’s plans. It all looked promising for him when he came on as a substitute, scored a goal and turned the game against Hamilton Accies in his first week at the club, but it was pretty much downhill from there.
Lesson here: for several years we signed too many players.
Enjoy the game!
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Good evening folks, just popped in to say that’s me away to the game. Support the Bhoys tonight from first till last. A 2-goal victory, I’d bight your hand off!
Hope to join in the CQN celebrations after the game.
Jobo
on the london overground to yucatan. unfortunately this train goes to stratford so is chock fu of lympics spectators. reminds me of a 62 to baillieston post game but without the songs.
3-0 tonigh t. PLEASE
sanna
What happened to Ki? He’s got a huge gauze pad strapped to his right cheek.
Estorilbhoy LOL enjoy the game.
Hx2
The ole Gazebo is a sell out…….. Twitter
Congratulations to Johann Murdoch.
In today’s other big match he won the CQN Matchplay Golf Tournament.
In defeating your correspondent by 2 holes, JM becomes the inaugural winner.
This challenging tournament attacted a huge number of entries (8!) and competitors battled through countless rounds over the season ( QF, SF and Final). The competition is distinguished by featuring more bandits than a Sergio Leone Western.
Sadly, it has been studiously ignored by the MBM, mainstream blogging media. Some of whom are too busy making movies with girls half their age
to report on their own tournaments :-)
Well done Johann
We
Modern Central European Time is rubbish: it’s 19:30 and so should be almost time for footy. :-(
Any news on the starting line up for tonight?
Almost time for me to crack open the first pre macth beer! :D
hi guys, looking for a friendly bar to watch the game in Aberdeen?
Anyone on that lives up here?
Thanks in advance,
PMJS
Announced on Twitter game is a sell out!
Tick tock.
Stuck in office so unless I can circumnavigate new IT fascists work it’s CQN on the old iPhone for me.
Not that’s a bad thing bhoys.
Enjoy the game all.
HH!
Sanna
Jubilee Line then?
Uncle Benjy on 1 August, 2012 at 17:58 said:
Hi all,
Can anyone suggest a channel showing the game in US?
Cheers
Benjy, no channels will be showing the game in the US. Best suggestion, though probably a bit late for you, is to find a local CSC and head over there. Otherwise, open an account with Celtic TV and watch it online. If you are US based (or not in UK or Ireland) you will be able to watch the game live.
Last option is to find a link on some of the dubious sites. Search using Google.
Hope that helps
Hail Hail
Hi Bhoys
Heard FirstRowSports is banned, does anyone know any others that I can see the game? Wish I was there though, looks Celtic Park looks and sounds great on night like these.
Sanna
Sure you on right train, its Stokey you are heading for!
Big Mike on 1 August, 2012 at 18:33 said:
We’re not supposed to mention those sites :)
There is a link on there for the game but not broadcasting yet.
Hail Hail
Celtic Football Club @celticfc
#CELTIC: Forster; Matthews, Wanyama, Mulgrew, Izaguirre; Forrest, Brown, Ledley, Samaras; Commons; Hooper (LB)
Sorry about that Dublinbhoy! Nudge, nudge!
Thats a strong looking team
Commons is fit and starts :-)
Good strong team, happy days.
Evening bhoys. Not posted for a while just been doing my usual daily lurking. Looking forward to tonight. Hopefully no dramas, just get the job done.
All the comments seem to be about half hour behind until you sign in. is this something new or is my computer playing up?
HH
Watching John Kennedy on Celtic TV and he certainly comes across well.
I would love to see him do well on the coaching side as he deserves it given the Ill fortune he has had.
Come on you bhoys in green!
Big Mike on 1 August, 2012 at 18:38 said:
Not one for rules myself :)
Enjoy the game however you manage to see it!
Hail Hail
obofanti1888
Good team, fair bit of experience of playing together. Must be a fair bench too?
brth, celtic mac,
thanks for your concern. I’m here. yucatan, stoke newington rd.
tooting tim, first ones on me
some toons on the jukebox. getting into it.
sanna
Great to see Celtic back in action tonight in what is a very crucial cup tie ,one we have to win to see us back were we belong,playing in Europe’s top competition
Plan of action tonight attack straight from the whistle dont give the Helsinki a chance to settle into the game, pressure and harass them over the park and let them make mistakes, get an early goal and go and finish the tie here at Celtic park and make the return leg In Finland a formality
Optimistic csc
Thats a decent team to put out tonight and with a full crowd ……… team GB (thats all of you at the game) will be worth a goal of a start……..
2-0
HH
Can’t make it tonight due to work commitments down South, gutted.
However, I fancy a strong performance from The Bhoys to prove the doubters wrong.
All who are lucky enough to be in attendance please make yourselves heard and give the team your full backing!
Hail hail and have a great night!
Looks like Myth the Cheat is having a pint wit Jabba in the Cafe Royal in Edinburgh. Sad, because this is my favourite pub.
3-1 to the good guys?
HT
Subs: Zaluska, Stokes, McCourt, Kayal, Lustig, Rogne, F. Twardzik
Big Nan on 1 August, 2012 at 18:41 said:
He gave a cracking interview last year about coaching kids and wanting to give them that bit of freedom on the pitch and not restricting them by enforcing formations such as 442.
Really was very insightful.
We should be sending this young lad all over Europe for the next 2-3 years because he seems to be more than articulate enough.
Did someone say sell out for tonight – surely not!?
Nothing will please me more
Strong starting 11 – wonder if Lenny will be sending them out 442 with Samaras up front.
Noting will displease me more.
No more Sammi up front – left and only left wing for him.
miki 67
All the Bournemouth Shamrock Bhoys go to the Kinson Electric Club,I dont live in your neck of the woods anymore but still keep in touch with a lot of the Bhoys.If you get my E-mail address from Paul 67 I could give you some contact No’s
HH
Vmhan
what gigs did you play in thr Bournemouth Shamrock as I must’ve been there
HH
Gaun the Hoops
Eyes Wide Open on 1 August, 2012 at 18:58 said:
Big Nan on 1 August, 2012 at 18:41 said:
He gave a cracking interview last year about coaching kids and wanting to give them that bit of freedom on the pitch and not restricting them by enforcing formations such as 442.
Really was very insightful.
We should be sending this young lad all over Europe for the next 2-3 years because he seems to be more than articulate enough.
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Seems to be the real deal.
Strong looking team on paper. Let’s hope a less stressful pre-season will have the Bhoys better prepared and hungrier and sharper than at the start of recent seasons.
Trying out Celtic TV Premium for the first time and I have to say it looks superb.
I’m sticking my neck out . . .
4-0 to the Hoops.
Hail Hail
Evening bhoys, seriously hot, but hun free as ever.
This is where the jelousy comes to the fore, all yous who can go to the game, lucky bhoys, give it laldy tonight bhoys, I will be screaming from the cave.
Strong looking team, hopefully Kris plays the link role tonight like the star he is.
HH
sannabhoy on 1 August, 2012 at 18:22 said:
on the london overground to yucatan. unfortunately this train goes to stratford so is chock fu of lympics spectators. reminds me of a 62 to baillieston post game but without the songs.
3-0 tonigh t. PLEASE
sanna
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62 to Baillieston?? You mean the Fenian bus!! Hymns and all, sung to all the punters :)))
OurgodreignsCSC