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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Seven Fishes
Or any other charity,my personal choice is Marie Curie.
But you are welcome to choose any.
roy croppie
Aye, I always knew he wood :)
Hail Hail
Teuchter ár lá.
gold for Wiggans
dont play Vic tonight and thank manure and arse for their patronage :o)
masterplansrusCSC
VP
A sporran????
Would that go with the ’80’s Tubbs jacket? :-)
Did you see Wiggans Ovation at the Olympics?
poppickerscsc
Tir, I don’t want ticket but whoever does should make contribution a a charity.
SffS
Tir, I hope whoever gets it is a good Celtic fan who couldn’t afford it otherwise and lets their conscience decide about charitable donations
Enjoy the game
HailHail
GS
Tie na nog,
Free to good home but whoever takes them should make a donation to the Oscar Knox appeal ;-)
SffS
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Was thinking of that yesterday when I got gifted use of a season book for saturdays game yesterday.
Used money to buy tickets for tonight :))) But in the weeks there is not two games I thought if there was a Just giving page where if i am gifted the use of a season book I could make a donation to(by text) which could build up over the season ,then be used to help Say purchace a TKF parent and child ticket (thus helping club).
Or be donated where ever CQNers wanted
From someone who cant manage a ST and is grateful for use of one,
Just thinking out loud.
IS IT TIME YET, IS IT TIME YET…….. 3 nil tonight or 3-1 with our usual gift:)))
HAIL HAIL
HT
Imagine all that + sideburns ,bada bing has no sense of style,not
his fault though only thing in burton’s that would was a tie.
We are the Mods…
KidsareAlrightCSC
Time to join Glasgow’s Green & White
Enjoy your night everyone and stay safe.
Hail! Hail!
Would ‘fit ‘ was a tie……..erse’o’ itagain
sannabhoy on 1 August, 2012 at 12:42 said:
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
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dont worry he’s a jolly Green giant.
HH
Frankel, Wiggo and now the ‘Tic for the treble.
Gerrys son
You are right.
‘ there but for the grace of God’ CSC
Just to take the dog for a walk then it’s Celtic park time.Well done Bradley Wiggins.”C’mon the Hoops!!”
Richie 14:02,
Just noticed your looking for a good boozer to watch tonight’s game in Aberdeen.
If you’re on the West side of the city (Westhill area) try the Key West at the back of the Westhill shopping mall. Good crowd. Good boozer. Celtic lads usually congregate at the end of the bar nearest the mall entrance.
Green Lantern
and Michael Jamieson for a precedented quadruple…
well done wiggins.
medal table looking more healthy now…
Great post on the new blog
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The urban myths of AFC Fiorentina, Napoli, Leeds United and the not so glamourous Darlington1883 and Airdrie United.
In the search for some precedent of a new company retaining parts of the corporate history of a liquidated company some desperate commentators have tried the ‘whatabout’ approach. Well what about the clubs listed above.
First, there is a need to state without any equivocation that when Rangers FC Ltd (name change RFC2012 30.7.2012) are finally liquidated then their corporate history stops at that point. There is no such thing as a football club called Rangers being a separate entity from Rangers FC Ltd. Rangers FC Ltd is not a ‘holding company’. When Rangers Football Club became a Ltd Company it was on the basis that it incorporated the football club. That is they were now one body, that’s exactly what incorporate means. Just because the club existed before the company doesn’t mean that it can exist beyond the company. At the point of incorporation the club transformed itself from a members organisation to a limited company.
Now to the Italians. Company law in Italy is not identical to the UKs however both ACFiorentina and Napoli CF endured insolvency events that equate with administration. In Fiorentina’s case a newco company called ACF Fiorentina was created in 2002 after the club founded in 1926, AC Fiorentina, went into administration. The newco suffered the same consequences as Rangers newco in that they were admitted to the lowest tier in Italian Football. However the original company did not liquidate. Through the process of judicial administration it still existed but was no longer a member of the Italian FA. The new company at a later date bought back the original company shorn of most of its debt through the administration process. This buy back entitled it the corporate assets, including titles and the famous purple club colours. This was exactly the route that the Miller consortium planned for Rangers FC Ltd. Miller planned to start the newco, keep the old company alive through a prolonged administration then at some point when the debts were manageable through a CVA buy back the company, merge with the newco and therefore take ownership of the old corporate history and remaining assets. (Duff and Phelps cannot parcel up the corporate history of Rangers and sell off the good bits which is what some of deluded imagine is what happened.).
Napoli’s case is more straightforward. It was an administration without liquidation. They suffered the usual consequences of an insolvency event and were not able to retain a UEFA licence. If Rangers FC had got a CVA their history would have mirrored Napoli’s travails and redemption.
Leeds United is well documented. The CVA was rejected by the main creditor (HMRC) and liquidation seemed inevitable. However the administrator sold the club and HMRC eventually withdrew the challenge to the CVA. Leeds United AFC, established 1919, was never liquidated although it did incur further penalties from the FA for failure to follow correct procedures during an insolvency.
A more instructive English example is Darlington FC. Darlington FC like Rangers FC had the CVA rejected. The club dissolved in 2012. The FA made clear that the successor club cannot be regarded as a continuation of the old. The newco, Darlington1883, now competes four leagues before the Conference in Northern League Division One (in the same ground and in the same colours). This decision by the FA withstood an appeal, in particular the FA’s insistence on a recognisable name change. If only the Scottish FA….oh never mind.
As for Airdrie United ( I note that the current United chairman wishes his club to be known as simply Airdrie although they remained registered as a company and a club as Airdrie United…..ignoring the past doesn’t make it disappear!). The story has been recounted so many times but Airdrieonians were liquidated and Airdrie United is the new name of Clydebank, that’s how they acquired the SFA membership. Airdrie United do not have the corporate history of Airdrieonians, they are entirely distinct entities.
But what’s the point of all this. This is Scotland, the country with the most informed, forensic and fearless media. I’m sure I’m repeating what’s already appeared in the papers and heard in the sports programmes, surely?
WDH, Mountblow Tim, Rioskorrie re Aberdeen boozer for the game…..
cheers bhoys !!!
Tooting Tim. Agreed. Is he swimming tonight?
I think its about time to get ready to boost from work + get ready for some champions league action at paradise.
CQN badge and all.
HH and good luck bhoys.
Afternoon Bhoys and Ghirls getting ready to head off to see the Hoops hopefully have a comfortable win to take back to Finland. Great to have the serious football back.
To Miki67 if you cannot find a pub to watch the game mate try first row sports to stream it I have always found it pretty good as streams go.
Anyway I am off C’mon you bhoys in green.
HH
GL
At 7pm, on’t big screens at El Paradiso according to CQN…:)
A wee favourite,…Runrig — The Greatest Flame
“This is our place, in our time, and nothing is ever going to break us..”
Well done Wiggins,
I see when he finished they un taped the headphones from his ears. I don’t know if it’s a radio so he can keep up to date with other peoples times and other info……but i would like to think he had The small faces on his i pod. Winning gold to ogdens nut gone flake.
That would be class!!
Green Lantern (((((0)))))ASonOfDan on 1 August, 2012 at 12:20 said:
A nice touch from Celtic.
CELTIC fan Michael Jamieson is going for gold tonight in the 200m breaststroke final at the Olympics, and Celtic fans coming to the Euro game at Paradise against HJK Helsinki will be able to watch the race on the big screens inside the stadium.
The swimming final starts at 7.30pm and Michael, along with his Team GB colleague, Andrew Willis, will be looking to finish among the medals.
And Neil Lennon, has sent his best wishes to Michael and Andrew ahead of the big event.
The Celtic manager said: “It is a great achievement for Michael to reach tonight’s final. I know he is a big Celtic supporter and on behalf of everyone at the Club, we wish him all the very best of luck for tonight.
“Hopefully we can welcome him back to Celtic Park as an Olympic medal winner in the near future.
“Michael and his team-mate, Andrew Willis, have given their all to get this far and, of course, we wish both of them well.”
So if you’re coming to tonight’s game (KO: 7.45pm), get along early to see the swimming final and cheer fellow Celt, Michael Jamieson on in his quest for Olympic gold
Celtic and Fenerbache double gets even money on t’ high st. I’ll have that .
‘Mon the Hoops!!
GS
Are you all seated comfortable,
too square on your botty ?
Then I’ll begin…
Now of course, like all real life stories,
this also begins, once upon a ti-to.
And Happiness Stan, whose life evolved
near a femerald coloured dreamy most,
had his pure existance and his being
in the deep joy and the multi colour of the rainbold.
Oh yes. His home was a victoriana sharowbold,
and this is the fourwheelful of sst sst out the backgrove.
Now as Eaved and his deep approachey,
his eye on the moon, all time some time
deep joy of a full moon scintilating dangly
in the heavenly bode, but now only half.
Oh blow your cool man, he dood this deep thoughcus.
What is the folly of this half disappearing of the moony most.
And as the light did a scintilading change through timely most,
stopped still, and he did a deep thoughcus.
What ! Absloutely smashing flaked he was.
So gathering all behind in the hintermost, he ploddy ploddy forward
into the deep fundemold of the complicading forry to sort this one out matey.
Where at Man he thoucus, where at Man…… oh dear.
Now after a little lapse of time,
Stan became deep hungry in his tumbload.
Oh, after all he struggly tricky out several milode,
and anyone would suffer under this.
So suddenly he dood a deep thoucus,
out with his lunchy bag,
just about to do a little nibbload of his mincy meaty, when…….
StanleyUnwinCSC
Well done the Thai Tims and get it right up you Daily Record!
traditionalist88
Where’s that article from ? Would like to pas it on.
Hailhail
Anyone heard if commons and stoked are fit? Commons in particular would be a big miss…..
Anyway, canny wait to get back to the dear old paradise for a real game!!!!!!
Hail Hail to all and lets bring back the thunder tonight, we are the 1
2th mhan and Bhoys .
TootingTim on 1 August, 2012 at 16:38 said:
Sorely Misty In The Footy Worldlode….Tribbly To Sir Stanley (Unwin)
good peopley..far and wide…
in the roundy ball write and rhymey world..
and series in the thoughts now..
for better time… never was than now.
to menshy-menshy the name Sir Stanley.?
and not Matthews in the Stoke shirt of course
all brycreemed down the wingy lode..
but Unwin..jokey..jokey..all nonsey funny but make no sensey
but who carelodes..if tickly throcus and giggly
all chortly in the tummy fold….
but not digressy dangerlode..
and listeny well
all arm-chair teletubs and future athlodes
in the Peopley Game ahead and new…
all teenfold daffy becksters in the man u’s
or arsenolds in the viairers…
for long long ago..
back in the ninebold sixties
all time warpy warpy..and hippy daisy-cull in the lovey lovey..
a joyfold and star-studdy footbally kidney
with dream makey in the eyeboles
met Sr Stanley at a public meety night …
long time..long time..even before Totteny endy
the twenty sevvy game unbeatyfold..
and there…in that pricely momo of questie answery
and still barely a young manifold in the ordinance surf-spray
he asked Sir Stanley…….
“Do you think Tottenham will wn the cup this year?”
Answerforth Sir Stanley..and this be true..for i found it today..
“Well, erm, actually this is a very good question and topicold.
I would say that if the forward line have a symmetrical teamworkers and that they can from the first passit of the ball…
take in mind the measured beat of a one, two, throo or fido…
so that the ball can falollop out to the wingers
and a very fine trittly how in a run and drop-kick
and carry one and shooting in the goal
If they can get by without an offsiger
which is known on the ref
and don’t throw the bottload
because he’s only doing his best.
But, er,
it’ll be hard on their halfbackers
because I don’t think they’ll get a chance to do a falolloper shooty
on account of the front line with their deep joy of
shall we say, an express in their enthusiasm
to the first who to clop falollop in the goalmouth.
Oh yes. Anyway it’s a very good question, sir
; it’s not much about music
excepting that half-time in the band falolloped huffalo-dowd
Good early evening Celts, foreign MIB tonight so it’ll be a nice change for the players to play in an honest and fair competition…..
A full house looming for Celtic park (more to come), a very noisy, jubilant support, we’re champions and the European stage beckons.
Happy days and nights ahead.
HH
cant wait any longer Im away tae get a chippy dinner at Glasgow cross
New Season New Hope SAME FAMILY MON THE HOOPS
Scarf- Check
1888 replica top -Check
Ticket -Check
New CQN badge -Check
OOOOOOPs No2 Daughter -Check :)))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhkdy0AOpaM&feature=fvwrel
See yous later HAIL HAIL
That’s me off then, to see the BHOYS IN GREEN, and the GB ……. Win lose or draw, it’s a wonderful experience, and the demise of the bhun makes it all the more enjoyable……..!!!!!