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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Jeg er Neil Lennon-Greeninbingley – That phrase makes my blood run cold.
We Thatcherite Celts are unimpressed by your sang-froid. (thumbsup)
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby – To be fair I always use that argument for Tony Blair and Iraq.
Yup, but the Iraq was different to the Falklands:
1) We were right to send the forced to the Falklands
and
2) We won the Falklands war. (thumbsup)
Steinreignedsupreme – Nonsense.
The fascist military junta of Argentina was spoiling for a fight, and they got one.
Even Michael Foot would have had to stand up to them. (thumbsup)
RobertTressell – Do they hold meetings in the Police Box on Buchanan Street?
It’s a lot bigger on the inside. (thumbsup)
The Honest Cover-up
Declan is too busy running Sevco to post…
The Honest Cover-up – Declan was great.
Come back Declan. (thumbsup)
67Heaven – I would have awarded them KING FUD status ……ll
Who died and made you the fudmaker? (thumbsup)
TALLYBHOY
Aye,dragged kicking and screaming to the dark wastelands of Ardrossan at the age of eight.
This meant that when I returned twentyfive years later,there were a few creedentials,haha,to be established.
When asked where I was brought up,I would reply “Parkhead Avenue,only place for a good Tim”
Effed wi their few brain cells summat shocking,that one…..
RobertTressell
13:55 on
15 August, 2012
Huzza !
Auld Neil Lennon heid at 12:15
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Cher Mr Vert
Sur votre velo, vous ‘un!
Merci de nous payer nos £252,212 – vous pouvez gardez la bicyclette!
Notre ami Mr Platini regarde la situation avec interet.
Gare à vous!
translated
Gies wur bike, or wur callin ra fleeto
Philvis
Aye but the Americans never dragged Maggie tae the Malvinas by the hair o’ the heid!
*cawin
BMCUW
Nice to hear from you again!
Hope you have had/are having a pleasant summer.
Bloody roasting out here! Had ten days of being dragged kicking and screaming to a beach somewhere by Mrs and Ms Tally! Mind you, once there the sights to behold made up for it somewhat!
HH!!
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby – Not fair to blame the Yanks for T. Blair’s stories about 45 minute WMD attacks on Cyprus.
Blair had a whale of a time during the 1999 attack on Yugloslavia, another country that never did anything to threaten us, and was hungry to be a “war leader” once again. (thumbsup)
kdc
13:54 on 15 August, 2012
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.
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Yep. We hear a lot about the lack of good young talent coming through. the gene pool hasn’t changed but the culture of athleticism in other countries has been a big part of Scotland and indeed England laggin behind when it comes to producing good pro footballers. We still have the talent but I don’t think we have got professional enough about it in comparison to other countries.
THindimebhoy- St Joes, as in down in Shangri La, bro Walfrid’s grave?
philvisreturns
14:04 on 15 August, 2012
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby – Not fair to blame the Yanks for T. Blair’s stories about 45 minute WMD attacks on Cyprus.
Blair had a whale of a time during the 1999 attack on Yugloslavia, another country that never did anything to threaten us, and was hungry to be a “war leader” once again. (thumbsup)
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Philvis – Blair was every bit as bad as thatcher and in terms of the human suffering caused he was probably worse. He never deviated from Thatcherism.
Labour has not been a party of ‘labour’ since it created the NHS, the welfare state and nationalised the UK’s industries.
Using Blair as a defence against criticism of thatcher is like
Philvis my friend,you should know as the leading Tory light on cqn that life is fair!
Blame is one of them ;)
Life isnt fair,even.
kdc
Your other 2 tickets might be on the home ticket scheme?
HH
TALLYBHOY
Knew you would be enjoying the company of your family.
I have that to look forward to in about eight weeks.
Any tips on how to escape their gimlet eye to have some fun? None have worked so far…….
philvisreturns 13:56 on 15 August, 2012:
“Nonsense.
“The fascist military junta of Argentina was spoiling for a fight”
By nature fascist military juntas are usually spoiling for a fight.
But the war could easily have been avoided, as it was by oprevious Governments – and with the resources available there was always going to be one winner, which Argentina were well aware of.
The conflict was an expensive waste of time for a piece of land which is occupied by foreign invaders anyway.
I’m hoping that we qualify for the Champions League group stages for more than the obvious reasons.
Do you know that if we end up in the Europa League, 5 (FIVE) home games will have to moved to a Sunday.
Not much fun for people like me who travel long distances to Celtic Park. God knows what it will do to home attendances.
I see that Fabrice Muamba has announced his retirement from professional football. Very sad but very sensible. I wish him the very best for the future (as I’m sure we all do).
By the way Philvis – do you approve of governments executing citizens without trial? Mrs T implemented a policy of doing so in the north east of Ireland and elswhere like gibraltar.
Could that be considered a little on the Fascist side? I think so………..
ALDERSYDE AVENUE
Only answer is to qualify,or else bring back wee jum farry.
He would insist we play on Saturdays.
re: durrant and mega-hyped orc crocks… can someone answer this?
there was once an orc called michael mols. he, from memory, was at the cesspit for about 4 years. he spent about 3 and a half years on the treatment table. so, how come… EVERY orc i’ve ever spoken to seems to think he was the european maradona?
when the hell were they seeing him play. talk about absence makes the heart grow fonder.
i’m not meaning to be funny, and don’t wish anybody injury, but what is it in an orc’s brain that has them believe the less someone plays the better they are?
i’ll be controversial. i think henrik’s worst season was the one he missed most of with a broken leg. had he been playing for the currant’s at the time, that would be the season they “would have” won the european cup.
i may be old fashioned, but i generally rate players on how good they are ON the pitch.
wow a whole michael mols post without mentioning his wife.
d’oh!!!
JOCK TAMSON
Eh,what about his wife?
Brendan Simms wrote a very good book called ‘Unfinest Hour’ about the events leading up to NATO’s involvement in the Balkans.
Tony Blair was completely wrong about Iraq but he was right about Serbia.
Bhoys
Re: Helsinborg tickets in block 103 to 107. They are being sold on a first come first served basis to ST holders, until Friday.
I managed to get my own ticket and the 2 next to me, relocating my kids who normally sit elsewhere in 107.
HH
CRC
philvisreturns … 13:59 on….15 August, 2012
I’ll have you know I introduced the status of FUD to CQN ……. LOL
RobertTressell – Philvis – Blair was every bit as bad as thatcher and in terms of the human suffering caused he was probably worse. He never deviated from Thatcherism.
At the end of Mrs Thatcher’s time in office, people were richer and freer than they had been on average at the start of it.
At the end of Blair’s time in office, people were more indebted and more burdened by government regulations and a plethora of new laws than they had been on average at the start of it.
Labour has not been a party of ‘labour’ since it created the NHS, the welfare state and nationalised the UK’s industries.
I agree.
The Labour party doesn’t represent “Labour”. In fact, it despises the white working classes who make up the bulk of the labour force in this country.
The Labour party today represents well-off Guardian-reading metropolitan liberals, feather-bedded public sector employees, the welfare-enslaved underclass, immigrants (the exciting, bearded ones, not the hardworking Eastern Europeans they are so quick to spit on), and a pottage of different radical fruitcakes, from dungaree-clad feminists to dungaree-clad eco-nutters.
Using Blair as a defence against criticism of thatcher is like
Yes?
(thumbsup)
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby – Life isn’t fair, but people can choose to be fair. That’s what’s so liberating and empowering about the message of self-reliance and hope preached by Mrs Thatcher, rather than the message of helplessness, victimhood and dependency spread by socialists. (thumbsup)
Steinreignedsupreme – Yup. We’re all great generals and statesmen in hindsight.
The conflict was an expensive waste of time for a piece of land which is occupied by foreign invaders anyway.
Nope. It’s occupied by the same type of people it has always been, since the British first colonised those previously uninhabited islands, long before Argentina was ever a thing. (thumbsup)
jock tamson
14:15 on 15 August, 2012
re: durrant and mega-hyped orc crocks
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Terrible name for a band but the writers of Doctor WHo could use that………
Steinreignedsupreme
I was once told the war for the Malvinas was more to do with the minerals off shore rather than the land itself..?
Just been catching up on Charlie’s latest rant re. no-one likes us we don’t care bs. I can’t help but think Charlie is not here for a long time, he’s here for a good time. Pander to the bigoted masses. They’ll eat out of your hands, then wipe their eye while they are not looking. Newclub are on a hiding to nothing. Charlie, I think you might be a genius.
My Dear Wonkyradar @ 13:05…
I must congratulate you on your most appropriate moniker….
Did I see some mention the other day that you were about to start on a ‘creative writing’ course ?
Well you certainly made a good start with this last submission…
Of course,the whole basis of your wee poisonous narrative is to seek to associate the Republicans(and the’Right’ in general) with White Supremacism and the Klu Klu Klan….
Of course,I’m sure that you are well aware that the Klu Klux Klan…from its inception was almost completely associated with the Democrat Movement..most particularly in the South.
In fact,from the very beginning,the primary target of the KKK was Republican Party members and officials…both Black and White….but you can pull the wool over the eyes of your pals….who would not want to know the ‘inconvenient truth anyway’.
Much like a clone of Oor Ernie…who is forever bringing up Police Chief ‘Bull Connor,and Alabama Governor Wallace,in such a way that the unenlightened would assume they are “RedNeck” Republican White Supremacists….In truth,they both gained office on the Democrat ticket..Google them.
Of course,it is not well understood in the UK that right up until the mid-60s…the South was the exclusive domain of the White Supremacist ‘Dixiecrats’….that is Democrat Senators and Congressman.
Yes…Democrat…Goddit ?
These Dixiecrats were resposible for opposing the repeal of JIM CROW laws,and for opposing Civil Rights Legislation.
It was only with the overwhelming support of the Republican Party(founded by Abe Lincoln to emancipate the slaves),that Lyndon Johnson was able to push through the Civil Rights legislation in the teeth of strong opposition from his own Democrat Party…
It was only in Reagan’s era that the Republicans began to attract the Evangelical vote.
You may have noticed back in June 2012
former Grand Wizard of the KKK,David Dukes of the Louisiana Legislature gave his support to the Democrat Candidate,former Black Panther Charles Barron in the contest for a NYC Congressional Seat,with Republican Assemblyman Jeffreys…(The latter won)
Of course,all this info is available merely by checking wiki KKK,and googling KKK attacks on Republicans and Blacks…
But some folk are not interested in learning the truth….
As has often been said,never in history has an individual had so much access to information….and at the same time,so little capacity for using it…
Must say,I’m a little disappointed that Philvis didn’t pick you up on this….
However,as he spends his afternoons on here wading through a morasse of unwashed leftie ignorance….I suppose it eventually takes a toll on his muscular awesomeness…
(Thumbsup)
Philvis
Your always good for a witty reply pal,I’ll let you get on with the more serious debates ;)
I met a genuine Falkland Islander the other week, he was just a few weeks old when the invasion took place.
The accent is like South African, only not as strong.
Margaret Thatcher had her faults but the military junta in Argentina was an obnoxious and cruel regime; they should never have been awarded the WC in 78 on human rights grounds, but that’s another story.
BMCUW
It is no mean feat evading the ‘all-seeing eye’!
In fact, I would say it is nigh impossible!
Better mhen than myself have tried – and failed!
Personally I find it easier to do when I come over to Scotland, because Mrs Tally works (self-employed) and she, occasionally, allows me to ‘meet the bhoys’ for a pint or ten!
Good luck!
Are you going back up the road or going abroad?
HH!!
I always thought Durrant’s ears were a kind of sex aid for the cardigan.
Gave him something to hang onto, if you catch my drift.