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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Must not lose goal tonight particularly in the first 10 mins.
There you go, some on here can bitch and moan at the team as if they are there…
SEASON Tickets are valid for Celtic’s UEFA Champions League third qualifying round tie tonight against HJK Helsinki and tickets are on sale up until the 7.45pm kick-off from the Ticket Office. And there are other ways to support the team if you can’t make it along to Paradise.
Celtic TV subscribers outside of the UK and Ireland will get the match live as well as the return leg, while subscribers within will get live audio and as-live video later.
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Premier Sports on Sky channel 428 will cover both legs of the tie against HJK Helsinki for those within the UK and Ireland. The decision was taken to televise the match to allow supporters who can’t make it to Paradise to be able to see the team in what is a hugely important match. Coverage from Celtic Park begins at 7:30pm on this evening featuring the thoughts of Tom Boyd and Tosh McKinlay.
On August 8, Celtic travel to the Sonera Stadium looking to progress to the play-off round. Live TV coverage of that match begins at 5.55pm, Celtic Park Time.
On top of this great live action, Premier Sports show every Celtic SPL weekend game including all home matches not shown on Sky or EPSN on a Monday as part of a three-hour Celtic TV block. The coverage also features all the weekly news and interviews from the club.
Fans can sign up for this coverage at http://www.premiersports.tv or by calling 0871 663 9000.
Kilbowie Kelt – Paddy Power have just announced that they will no longer lay odds about who will be FIRST to appear on the CQN podium.
Michael Phelps dreams of being Philvis. (thumbsup)
anche gli angeli – We must Finnish them. (thumbsup)
Hey Folks,
Does anyone know if Celtic TV is mac friendly yet?
Been wanting to subscribe for a few years as living in Barcelona but I have a mac.
Thanks in advance.
Chris
I am not privy to the inner sanctum of the board’s business plans…obviously….but I know this much : do not sell Big Vic W…..if we progress in Europe,he will prove invaluable and the returns would far outweigh his sale value.
A season or two down the line,when a move for him is irresistible and he has matured further,then okay. But for now,please retain him.
anche gli angeli on 1 August, 2012 at 12:31 said:
Must not lose goal tonight particularly in the first 10 mins
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…Or the remaining 80, plus stoppage time;)
That said I think we’ll win 4-1.
HH
kilbowie K…..,
articles are posted on twitter a few seconds before they are posted here, get a twitter account and follow Paul67 if you want to compete with philvis its a dawdell.
Is the Online Ticket Sale option off line?
Tried to access it all morning and getting nowhere…
canamalar – Twitter is for sissies.
Real men can see the new article posted in the raw code of The Matrix. (thumbsup)
Just looking for a bit of clarity , Hun claiming only company will be liquidated not club .
Sure I read on here that once incorporated they became one , can anyone confirm .
code raw on a matress
FourGreenFields – I hear Craig Whyte might not be a billionaire after all.
Also there seems to be some doubt over when the £700m super-duper-stadium-casino is going to be built. (thumbsup)
mick67. I know where you are coming from but if Victor wants away I say sell him for as much as possible we only want players who are 100% commited to Celtic.I have just returned from holiday did we sell Ki if so for how much? H.H.
canamalar – You seem like the type of man who owns a white transit van with a mattress in the back for comfort. (thumbsup)
EN
stay here and in a suite, excellent value,location,service and always in conde naste top 50 hotels- book early.
http://www.hotelbanysorientals.com/en/
Although reaching the Scottish Cup final had helped Hibs seal a significant number of season tickets – sales at that point said to be around 7000 – Petrie estimated 2000 supporters from last season had failed to renew, while he believed the disappointments of the past two years had resulted in some 3000 “lapsed” season ticket holders. As part of the club’s drive to persuade those who hadn’t committed, a group of volunteer fans embarked on a three-day effort to contact as many of the non-renewing season ticket holders as possible under the “Let’s Work Together” banner, the initiative also helping gather feedback from supporters.
Although no specific numbers were disclosed, in thanking those supporters who had bought a season ticket, Hibs
included the “hundreds who have renewed” since Petrie’s appeal.
Petrie said: “We are grateful to all supporters who, in these difficult times, have committed to help the manager in this vital pre- and early-season period as he seeks to build a new and improved squad for the season ahead.
Hearts have also announced today that they have sold out their ticket allocation for the first Edinburgh Derby at Easter Road on 12th of August.
GIRUY Green!
bubblegum ,
from the last thread . I’d like to tell you how scary Kingoh is , but i can’t – i’m too scared to !
Sanna
Fin75
Think it’s working just very slow as a result of high demand.
FGF,
the club is responsible for corruption and is being liquidated, the club is being liquidated, thats why its real estate assets were sold off.
philvisreturns on 1 August, 2012 at 12:40 said:
I know mate , they all talk crap but I just wanted a link regarding ” incorporated ” club/company for future reference .
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Kano 1000 on 1 August, 2012 at 12:25 said:
I agree with all of that. However we can’t be complacent about our income because the Rangers games was the last one where there was a potential doubt about getting a seat if you weren’t a season ticket holder. That’s now gone.
For a variety of reasons, I’m missing 3 of our 1st 4 league games. If I hadn’t recently got a salary increase, I’d definitely have considered cancelling my book and going on a match by match basis. Would I lose my compulsion to go without my book. Who knows? I suspect it’s a possibility.
Can’t wait for tonight though (and the mad dash along to the bus station for the last No 10 after the final whistle).
Olympic gold in one of the ole sittin’ down sports, again:)
All the very best to Michael Jamieson and the bould bhoys for later on today.
I would settle for a repeat of the 1970 score against Finnish giants Kokkokola
hamiltontim on 1 August, 2012 at 12:42
Cheers….wish I had bought the tickets yesterday!!
Paul67 et al
Will admit to looking forward to tonight’s match with some trepidation, (or should that be intrepidation) but really that is what football is, or should be, all about. Not knowing what is going to happen. What we hope is going to happen is for the Bhoys to get their and our season off to a good start, before we raise the League Flag, and the roof on Saturday. Cannot make it to Glasgow this evening, but can I say, with some mitigation, that I was there the last time we played the Finnish champions! Be there on Saturday though! Hail Hail!
Ki off to QPR…..I think. For £6m…..maybe.
If so,then surely we can keep VW? And from what I’ve witnessed pre-season he sure looks like he enjoys playing for us.
HH !
Sannabhoy
so where abouts will you be starting from to make you 90 mins from The Yucatan?
Paul
for once, i disagree with you there…
“for several years we signed too many players.”
for me, it is not the NUMBER of players but rather the QUALITY
if they are good enough, we should try to sign them
we can make our BEST money via player sales
enjoy the match
guessin with Commons, 2-0
without, maybe 1-0
we can do it !
philvis…,
so I see though your code and now you want serviced, sorry pal I cant help. maybe you can use that thumb of yours though :o)
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on 1 August, 2012 at 12:35 said:
kilbowie K…..,
articles are posted on twitter a few seconds before they are posted here, get a twitter account and follow Paul67 if you want to compete with philvis its a dawdell.
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There you go.
Another illusion shattered.
Here was me in awe of Philvis’ psychic powers, only to discover that he is using ‘sharp practice’.
Is nothing sacred ?
still cant believe that any time a player is linked from us to any EPL side Ki and now big Vic it is always “£7million rated midfielder” and the rest lads – it must really stick in the throat with these Scottish hacks
also logged on to the Spl bit of the BBC website – and olco/newco/sevco are still on that page – should they not be on the SFL bit?
as for tonight, i can see this being 3 or 4 nil and quite easy, nice wee warm up for the big European game in the next round
Ghuys,
Game on premier sports channel tonight (sky).
Anyone subscribed? Can you make a one off payment for the game or do you need to subscribe for the full 12 months?
Hail! Hail!
looks like sunshine n showers for Friday
50-50 chance
http://www.zoover.co.uk/scotland/scotland/aberdour/weather
TootingTim , Kenton
A cry of ‘Sack The Board’ goes up on CQN at Peter Lawwell’s inability to sign him…
Arsenal captain Robin van Persie has agreed to join Juventus, according to Italian agent Fabio Parisi.
The FIFA agent is based in Milan and represents former-QPR defender Taye Taiwo, and according to Eurosport, Parisi has revealed the Arsenal captain has signed for the Italian champions.
canamalar – so I see though your code and now you want serviced, sorry pal I cant help. maybe you can use that thumb of yours though :o)
Kenneth Williams CSC (thumbsup)
Kilbowie Kelt – If you believe I’m the kind of man who would use Twitter then I have taught you nothing.
I don’t even use FaceTube. (thumbsup)