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!
Remember our raffle. All proceeds go to the good causes; The Haven, Cancer Respite Centre, Blantyre, Oscar Knox Neuroblastoma Appeal, Martin Chambers Ecuador Trust and Aberdour Primary School Parents Association.
For the price of a £1 ticket you can win:
A celebrating Henrik Larsson painting.
A painting of Scott Brown in classic pose.
A Neil Lennon print.
Check them out and buy a ticket!
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Kingoh on 1 August, 2012 at 14:36 said:
bubblegum on 1 August, 2012 at 14:05 said:
I’ll be the tall, good looking, although folically challenged chap there.
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I’ll give you the ‘tall and folically challenged ‘ as for the other ,your missus
must have a way with words.
‘GG on 1 August, 2012 at 14:28 said:
Jabba is still singing to the tune of the SDM song sheet.
Someone should tell him the well is now dry.
Succulent lamb has been replaced with stovies.
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Ahmm ….if the honey poster on the RM site is correct, Messrs Jabba / Walter & Sir Dave were lunching together in one of Edinas finest establishments this very day……+ an. other who he couldnae place!!
Paddy T
Murray will still be telling Jabba what to write, even with his alphabetti spaghetti.
That’s it,giving Bar 67 a miss on Saturday, BundoranBhoy trying to sell
mair stuff.
Bada Bing
I never liked sideburns,even when I was in 2nd year and a dude fae Halfway was
sporting them or when the great Noddy Holder had a set,so there.
AwNawNoAnnonIOanAnnawNoo…..
Thanks very much for info. I’m sure I’ll find the game on in one of them. Whether I’ll be able to see it is more questionable.
Thanks again and Hail Hail to all Celts fully expecting a winning return to proper football tonight.
Motherwell reciprocate:
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All the very best to everyone at @celticfc in their Champions League clash with HJK tonight. Good luck… #supportingscottishteamsineurope
summa of sammi
Nice story.
For the record and maybe to give us a nice pick me up before the games tonight.
Artmedia Bratislava (or Artmedia Petrzalka as they were really which is a rough area in Bratislava) are in fact no more. They folded as that side they had were in fact built on similar foundations of wet clay like our former rivals as they are not a big club and could not keep up with the big boys like Slovan Bratislava, Spartak Trnava or MSK Zilina.
They are currently way down in the lower leagues just like another club who were operating with monopoly money.
Senica over here do the same now. I’m going to the Zilina/Senica game here on Saturday after seeing Celtic because kick off is at half five.
Come on the hoops tonight. Win and win by as many as possible. It won’t be easy next week in Finland.
Hail Hail
Richie on 1 August, 2012 at 14:02 said:
Anybody know the best pub in Aberdeen to watch the game?
Richie try the Regent Bridge Bar
30A Regent Quay Aberdeen, AB11 5AH
01224 581 140
Down beside the harbour a Celtic Bar
Hail Hail
HT
Glasgows Green and White
Here comes a Euro Night
roy croppie on 1 August, 2012 at 15:20
lol
Glasgows Green and White
Pause
Now the Celtic End
Glasgows Green and White
brasil 2 nz 0
HT
2nd half bout to start
wiggins
froome
1-2 in the cyclin so far
24mins of 54 gone
cyrenean on 1 August, 2012 at 15:24
Very welcome
Do as I do tell them your bringing about 20 and they shoud get the subscription sorted out pronto
HAil Hail
I can’t reveal my source but…we are wearing white socks tonight :)
VP
As the song says….2 out of 3 ain,t bad.
roy..,
is it because they’ll be lighter in the rain :o)
If Arsenal are serious about Wanyama I’d consider taking Emmanuel Frimpong in exchange, plus cash.
Saw him pre-season a couple of years ago in the Emirates cup and he really impressed, big strong central midfield enforcer not too dissimilar to Victor. Been unlucky with a couple of serious injuries, one of which ended his loan spell at Wolves last year, but still only 20.
Concessions? More ridiculous time slots I assume.
St Mirren chairman Stewart Gilmour last night welcomed the news that Sky bosses will not pull the plug on Scottish football … but warned that our game is not out of the woods yet.
The satellite broadcaster said yesterday that they have struck a deal with SPL boss Neil Doncaster to cover the top flight for the next five years.
They plan to screen 30 live games a season – as well as five Rangers fixtures a year from the lower leagues.
But Gilmour, above, has yet to see just how much of a hit his club will take as a result of concessions handed to Sky in a bid to persuade them to continue backing the SPL following the decision to exile the newco Ibrox club to the SFL.
The full breakdown of the figures will not be presented to the 12 top-flight clubs by Hampden bosses until Friday.
Gilmour told Express Sports: “I’m delighted that Sky will not be pulling the plug on Scottish football but we still don’t know all of the details and it sounds like there are some concessions to be made by the clubs.
“There is also the issue over whether ESPN and a few other sponsors will also back the SPL.
“I believe there is to be a meeting on Friday at which we’ll find out more but, until then, I can’t get too excited.”
canamalar
nice one:)
Hail hail
I have a spare ticket for tonight’s game.
Will be collecting CQN badges at Pools Office at Seven pm
Free to good home.
HH
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on 1 August, 2012 at 13:27 said:
According to poster on CM, Traynor still at the succulent lamb
spotted in an Edinburgh eaterie with Watty & Murray. Payment for that article?
Miki67
Go along to the Aberdeen game and make a couple of contacts – with the view to getting something organised.
There must be hundreds of Celtic folks in Bournemouth who would join in and help find a pub…Take some Email addresses.
All it takes is determination and I believe you are the man for the job.
Good luck with your new quest.
Hail Hail
Teuchter ár lá
Celtic v HJK Helsinki – 1st August
Referee: Miroslav Zelinka (Czech Republic)
Assistant referee 1: Ondrej Pelikan (Czech Republic)
Assistant referee 2: Emanuel Marek (Czech Republic)
4th official: Radek Matejek (Czech Republic)
I’m really needing to get to the Park!
Kingoh on 1 August, 2012 at 15:36 said:
Good mhan :O) you talk yourself up,but don’t expect us to believe it.
Great to be back for the new season and talking about the real stuff again. All the best to Neil Lennon, the background team and the players for the season ahead.
Celtic through and through
Tie na nog,
Free to good home but whoever takes them should make a donation to the Oscar Knox appeal ;-)
SffS
VP-The Mod i was referring to was the Gaelic wan,or is that G 64?
VP
Probably best you give it a miss mate, Hamilton Tim says yer tight ;-)
HH
Bundoran Bhoy – RAISING AWARENESS OF NEUROBLASTOMA (GOD BLESS WEE OSCAR) on 1 August, 2012 at 15:48 said:
VP
Probably best you give it a miss mate, Hamilton Tim says yer tight ;-)
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I’ll kill that wee bass,he’s gettin malkied wae the sporran.
Kingoh…no probs…see you there ;-)
bbg
roy croppie
Are you saying that all the match officials are republicans? :)
Teuchter ár lá.
Roy Croppie- Really hope so, don’t like the black socks at all.
Hope they get ditched for good.
VP
;-)
HH
Stay alert :))))
From RTC earlier.
I am sad to see it go but the fight goes on
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Barcabhoy says:
01/08/2012 at 11:08 am
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Dougiegate wouldn’t have happened without CQN, The Rangers would be looking forward to their first ever SPL game this weekend without RTC. Citizen journalism will ensure that the honest journalists amongst the mainstream media are not alone in trying to uphold the code of ethics employed by the society of professional Journalists
I will quote just a few guidelines.
Seek Truth and Report It
Journalists should be honest, fair & courageous in gathering, reporting and interpreting information.
Journalists should:
Test the accuracy of information from all sources and exercise care to avoid inadvertent error. Deliberate distortion is never permissible.
Identify sources whenever feasible. The public is entitled to as much information as possible on sources’ reliability.
Always question sources’ motives before promising anonymity. Clarify conditions attached to any promise made in exchange for information. Keep promises.
Examine their own cultural values and avoid imposing those values on others.
Distinguish between advocacy and news reporting. Analysis and commentary should be labeled and not misrepresent fact or context.
Distinguish news from advertising and shun hybrids that blur the lines between the two.
Recognize a special obligation to ensure that the public’s business is conducted in the open and that government records are open to inspection.
Now if Traynor , Jackson, King , Young and the rest of their gang held any regard for a code of ethics at all, RTC would have been redundant. We cant trust them to conduct their trade honestly or ethically. Thats why we all have some work to do yet.
The day that I see a journalist doggedly pursuing Souness about why he received multiple EBT loans and ditto for Walter Smith, is the day i will believe we have a mainstream media we can trust.
Until then, none of you are dismissed. Stand by your post, you are all expected to report for further duty.
Teuchter ár lá : confirmed Republicans but the 4th official has joined a splinter group :)
goldstar10: I’m with you on that.
Just left Babbity B’s
60 piece trad session in full swing :)
HH
Got my ticket and heading for El Paradiso shortly, looking for a professional quality performance from the bhoys tonight. I hope we are really up for this, overpower the Finns and basically guarantee passage in to the next round.
HH