Ten years ago this morning we were celebrating what appeared to be the importance of a Momo Sylla goal two minutes from time to give Celtic a 3-1 first leg lead against FC Basel in the Champions League play-off round.
The previous season Celtic defeated a formidable sounding Ajax team at the same stage so when they were drawn against the Swiss team confidence was high. Two weeks later our record of poor results away from home in Europe’s top competition was further cemented as Basel gained an away goal advantage.
That failure worked out well for Martin O’Neill’s team who dropped to the Uefa Cup and progressed all the way to the Seville final but Neil Lennon will be aware that Helsingborgs carry no less a reputational threat to Celtic than Basel did a decade ago. Basel were not a better team than Celtic but a slow start to both games, and a missed penalty, cost us entry to the Champions League. We will need to be better prepared next week.
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Saint Stivs
12:59 on 15 August, 2012
Billy Stark was a very underrated player. Never got a sniff of a Scotland cap, despite being the highest scoring midfielder in the country for years.
miki67.
Well in mate, glad you didnt flounce.
Keep posting, alway’s like reading yours.
hail hail.
A good source for Celtic minded pubs showing games,
http://www.celticbars.com/venuesabroad.html
http://www.facebook.com/celtic.bars
A SonofDan
Oor FrankieBhoy is a helluva man…
The bread roll is very important in the contribution it makes to the overall meal as is the quality of the square sausage.
Rolls from the local baker, Oliphants and square slice from Andersons the local butcher.
Now if you substituted the above for ingredients purchased from ,say Tesco, it would give me the boak.
I do now know what I am having for my tea tonight.
Would someone care to recommend a decent wine?
‘and timbhoy is one of the best supporting fans on here,’
but your timbhoy2?
CONFUSEDCSC
ulysses mcghee
13:31 on 15 August, 2012
I must guilty(ly) admit to finding the Durrant good news/bad news jokes very funny at the time – we’re going to pin your ears back – a personal fave
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Iain Durrant’s lugs were the closest Walter Mythy got to the European Cup.
My” brief”(I love that old word) for the game V Helsigborgs IF has just arrived.The CL motif at the top has seven stars circling one star. 7-1……looks lovely.
JJ
asonofdan …. 13:19 on 15 August, 2012
Simples …..The SPL should get green to tell them they’ve all been paid………
Another legacy of bhun cheating……… Hope traynor is lurking…..
Blog keeps closing down randomly, been happening since the changeover yesterday- fine on the mobile so assume its a browser problem with the desktop. (Only)One other website does the same thing,so assume its a feature of these sites my browser can’t cope with… anyone having the same problem?
HH
dirtymac » fast forward to the G.O.D 13:19 on 15 August, 2012
Nothing personal against the Hun – I don’t like to see any player pick up a bad injury – but there is no doubt his ability was exaggerated as a result of that episode.
His injury was no worse than Henrik Larsson’s – compare and contrast.
67
I must be pal,I can never understand how doon here all the other cultures can get their chow but we cannae get a decent slice a square,aw aye but they sell alsorts of sausage from all over the continent but you try,you jis’ try n get square to butcher standard n you’ve no chance!
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon 13:22
You have summed it up perfectly.
Larry bhoy and Starry -I’ve passed the recommendations on to Cadizzy,who sends his thanks.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
I blame bigotry and ‘The Agenda’
Have we signed Ramos yet?
Jeg er Neil Lennon-Greeninbingley
12:36 on 15 August, 2012
philvisreturns
12:13 on
15 August, 2012
“Thatcherite Celts….”
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Do they hold meetings in the Police Box on Buchanan Street? I just can’t imagine Tories in a phone box – that would be too ghastly for them……….
Ah yes referring to oneself in the 3rd person. A touch of the ole Tommy Sheridans there.
just been in to get my helsingborgs ticket… couple of things…
sales toddling along fairly briskly. had to wait in a queue for roughly 15 minutes, not bad, moving quite quickly. presumably sales are pretty decent if that’s an indicator.
next, for all the lower north stand guys that got warned about getting moved… i’m in 105 and i got my seat no problem. the lassie didn’t seem to think it should be an issue, although she looked a wee bit bewildered when i asked if many folk were getting moved. maybe it only applies in the group stages (despite the fact my letter said it could apply v helsingborgs).
oh, finally, brigton smells even worse than normal today for some reason. i spent a lot of my life on a farm and i’d compare it to the smell from a pig’s byre. any chance the UN might send over a hercules to do a humanitarian airdrop of deodorant and toothpaste?
one last thing, i think somebody mentioned being charged a booking fee at the ticket office? mines was just £20, no booking or handling fees.
A SonofDan
Was his name Wai Yo Hai Ding
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby 13:37 on 15 August, 2012
Sausagegate.’Sa conspiracy so it is, and discimination!
I eat more than my fair share of aquare, usually a sat morning post boys footie. But, IMO, it’s most overrated. Full of crap and salt to hide the taste, leaves you with a mouth like an arab sanni and feeling let down.
*square
KDC
WASH YOUR MOUTH OUT!
If you see what I mean……
Durrant was a good player and I would suggest, injury aside that his fondness for kebabs, beer and fighting contributed more to his lack of development than an injury which is commonplace in football.
Terrible tackle, terrible consequences – perhaps Beram Kayal could tell us how much effort is required in coming back from such an injury – Lee McCullouch caused his!
Helsinborg tickets. bit of advice from ST holders please.
Tried getting my ticket for the game on line, I have three season books, mine and two for my lads. When I go to the game the only seat available for me to reserve is one of my boys which as a result come up with a £10(under 13) category with it. I can’t see any other seats and can’t see a way to add other season book seats to my account. Any ideas? anyone else had the same problem?
kdc
I know where your comin’ from considering up the road has high levels o’ ticker trouble n obesity but just one with sauce de broon in a well fire’t,I would even have one cold but burnt with yon wee mattin’ o fat glazed on it,the ugly duckling left on the grill that nobody wanted.
kdc ….. 13:44 on 15 August, 2012
LOL ……. What are you frying them in ?
Sawsages
I’ll be in euro disney the night we play Helsingborgs at home. Anyone know a pub close by that’ll be showing the game?
Wow, have I missed something with this Timbhoy2 character?
Surely he’s not for real?
Sounds kind of like an unfunny Declan, in which case I see no point of a parody. Speaking of Declan, not seen a post from him in a while. Was always good for a chuckle…
Che 12:19 on 15 August, 2012
Didnt know modelling was part of the curriculum at St Joes, there you are learn something every day.
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Well in those days the brothers knew some of us might be better with a career in modelling we had the looks but not the brains…!
Green’s speech to the Fighting Fund.
Dingwall: “War’s over, man. Regan dropped the big one.”
Charlie: Over? Did you say “over”? Nothing is over until we decide it is! Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
Dingwall: Germans?
Jardine: Forget it, he’s rolling
Charlie:And it ain’t over now. ‘Cause when the goin’ gets tough… (thinks hard) the tough get goin’! Who’s with me? Let’s go! (runs off alone and returns)
Charlie: What the flip happened to the rangers I used to know? Where’s the spirit? Where’s the guts, huh? “Ooh, we’re afraid to go with you Charlie, we might get in trouble.” Well just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I’m not gonna take this. Regan, he’s a dead man! Doncaster, dead! Niedermeyer…
Jardine: Dead! Charlies right. Psychotic, but absolutely right. We gotta take these b******s. Now we could do it with conventional weapons that could take years and cost millions of lives. No, I think we have to go all out. I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody’s part.
Charlie: We’re just the guys to do it.
Jardine: Let’s do it.
Charlie: “LET’S DO IT!”
Che
Ahem, Jim Fleeting was in my class at school! Or maybe I was in his class?!
A fine school it was too, in a fine town!
Just ask BMCUW, even ‘though he did not attend it!
HH!!
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning!
13:32 on 15 August, 2012
The bread roll is very important in the contribution it makes to the overall meal as is the quality of the square sausage.
Rolls from the local baker, Oliphants and square slice from Andersons the local butcher.
Now if you substituted the above for ingredients purchased from ,say Tesco, it would give me the boak.
I do now know what I am having for my tea tonight.
Would someone care to recommend a decent wine?
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CQN – where else would you get a request for a decent wine to go with a roll on sausage?
Absolute quality.
If I may chip in, I know nought of wine, except that I used to drink far too much of it and now wouldn’t thank you for the smell of the stuff. The only beverage suitable for a roll on square is a good strong cup of tea.
End of.
RobertTressell
13:49 on
15 August, 2012
Between your points there and him getting carried off ‘seated’ with his leg dangling about as someone pointed out earlier it makes you weep about how unprofessional our biggest professional sport was for so long, and still is in many places.
Do Killie still train in a public park?
I always fry my square slice in a little olive oil.
And no chips means it’s quite a healthy meal.
Tamlaghtduff Bhoy
13:51 on 15 August, 2012
I’ll be in euro disney the night we play Helsingborgs at home. Anyone know a pub close by that’ll be showing the game?
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All the pubs round there will be showing Rmasdens Cup games. They only do mickey mouse football……….
couldn’t resist!!
Robert Tressell
I wouldn’t normally drink wine with a roll on sausage, but it will be my evening meal!
So needs must.