When Juventus scored in the opening minutes in the away leg of their last 16 Champions League tie last night it felt familiar. It’s just three years since you and I saw them in person do the same thing at the same stage of the competition.
It took Bayern Munich 70 minutes to rebound but we’ve not really recovered from a lapses in a tie which could otherwise have been far closer than the five goal margin it turned into. Getting back onto the same field with the likes of Juventus after Christmas (or even after August) is now the big challenge. It will take some doing.
I liked Karl-Heinz Rummenigge as a player but as a Usurper of Meritocracy he’s falling well down my list. He celebrated both teams after last night’s game before asking how long Uefa would countenance teams like Juventus exiting the competition at this stage? Not only would he like clubs like his get guaranteed entrance to the competition, he feels that elimination in March should is too harsh a consequence for losing.
I’m sure Rummenigge was being deliberately absurd last night. He’s trying to provoke alarm before playing his hand.
John Clark, on Scottish Football Monitor, attended SFA chief executive Stewart Regan’s presentation at Edinburgh University yesterday on values and integrity in football. Mr Clark questioned Mr Regan on whether Rangers failure to pay overdue social taxes in 2011 broke Uefa competition eligibility rules. Clark informs us Regan said he would do “Nothing” if incontrovertible evidence was available that social taxes were unpaid and that debt collectors had been employed.
We have a criminal lack of oversight in Scotland, not just in football. This attitude would not be possible in London.
The spirit of Jack Warner, Sepp Blatter and so many others is alive and well at Hampden. This is what we’re up against, and remember people, Blame the Victim is the hottest game in town, it doesn’t matter if you don’t know the background, anyone can play.
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Would love to the FTSFA treated like this
Criminal proceedings have been opened against former Fifa secretary general Jerome Valcke, Swiss investigators say.
Valcke was put on leave last September after football’s governing body said it had “been made aware of a series of allegations” involving him.
The 55-year-old Frenchman was later banned from football for 12 years.
The Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland (OAG) said it is now investigating Valcke for “various acts of criminal mismanagement”.
It added the criminal investigation related to the “matters investigated by the Fifa Ethics Committee” which led to Valcke’s ban last month.
He has not been arrested but was questioned by investigators who carried out searches on Thursday.
Valcke was sacked by Fifa after it investigated allegations of misconduct relating to sales of World Cup tickets.
His lawyer said his client had done “absolutely nothing wrong”.
But the inquiry heard as well as his involvement in the World Cup tickets sales, from which he allegedly sought to privately benefit, he also attempted to sell TV and media rights to a third party in a cut-price deal.
The inquiry also heard Valcke routinely used a private plane for personal use “and caused considerable financial damage to Fifa”.
BT
I’m totally Sickened by the plc ….. as you are aware I spend a fair amount following the club and have done all my life . I fear those days are drawing to a sad conclusion and if resolution 12 is time barred due to the boards evasion my financial support will cease . In fact given that my season ticket for this year was paid in 2015 in probably will not spend any more on celtic.
Maybe I should watch all future games in the park ville.
adsarehuns hunareads gohomeyaads
My friends in Celtic
Ronny Delia is not too nice at the Press Conferences. He is dignified.
Hail, Hail.
Ps : what I would really have liked to see would have been PL interrupting and saying ” gather round Ladies and Gents, I am going to tell you a few home truths about Scottish Football.
BRTH I hope you are well.
Thanks for the update.
But look mate let’s cut to the chase.
Celtic are refusing to take this issue forward when they should and refusing to say why.
It’s pathetic. It’s game over.
So it’s time to face facts.
Thousands of us are starting to do so.
Our choice is to fight the board or walk away.
No more waiting. No more being nice.
Celtic are stalling and you and I know why.
They have betrayed us.
Do you agree?
BLANTYRETIM
You’ll be missed,bud. But we’ll bill you your rounds,don’t want you to feel left out!
And one last thing.
Paul67. I’m sorry but we don’t care right now about rumminige or anything else. We care about the near death of Celtic.
Wanna talk about it?
WC…cheers for that, I didn’t reckon it was me typing too quickly:(
Anybody going to the Glencairn on Saturday night?
*&^ wi ya whistle
^&* wi ya whistle
you’re just a ^&* wi ya whistle
Mon the champions
tbj
As much as we don’t like the board I don’t want you in the PV with your record.
Sips
My youn
I see Tony is still struggling at the night school
Young cousin told me it was tomorrow night but he knows how to duke me☘
Wee request for the napsters,please.
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/techniques-to-deliver-titles/comment-page-11/#comment-2796448
Have a look at my recent post on above page.
Spurs down 4-0 to Dortmond in the Europa league.
Their defence is getting ripped apart, although they have a great defensive record in the EPL.
In Pochettino they have a young foreign manager.
Can we expect to see the great and the good of English / Welsh football interviewing his successor.
How Ronny maintains his dignity is amazing
HH.
Liverpool been sitting back too much. Defence isn’t their strong point.
Go and get a goal and kill the game.
BT
I’ve not bought a record in years ;)
Lord of the Lies consummate accountant extraordinaire has calculated the financial risk and decided that the 45% green hun repugnant numpties will be enough to maintain the Old Firm gravy train skimming off said numpty pockets into their own pension plans until retirement.
Celtic will complete the build up of his and other ilk family wealth on the auspices of one of the most blatant examples of hypocricy it has been my misfortune to witness. Long live the OLD FIRM….and lazy journalism.
Paul67 et al
Interesting watching Brendan O’Carroll’s ‘My Family at War’ on BBC2 last night to realise that though a century has passed since the Easter Rising, just how close it still is. The fact that O’Carroll, not a young man by any means, but not old either, is connected directly to 1916 through three of his uncles actually participating. That is one just generation away for him, and no doubt for many others with a similar background. Of course Brendan’s Dad was not directly involved, only five years old at the time, but the link could not have been clearer. Fine piece of work, think it might have been shown in Ireland already, and which hopefully will lead to more historical coverage nearer the actual centenary next month.
I do understand peoples frustration & anger but people forecasting the end of Celtic and making these dramatic statements are pure drama queens. Celtic will not die, even if top class fans like Jinky, BT & BRTH walk away, Celtic will survive.
Deep down these lads won’t walk away totally either they may not renew their season books, there may be a reduction in the passion they feel but they won’t really walk away.
Celtic is an incurable condition.
BT…
Definitely Saturday, unless my daughter is doing the same :)
Equaliser for Liverpool right on half time. Can’t see Man Utd scoring another 3 in the 2nd half. Indeed, Liverpool much more likely to score again if Man Utd chase the goals.
No Celtic will not die IMHO. However, the huns will be back with a vengeance aided and abetted by the SFA, Scottish Football clubs, the MSM, the judiciary and Celtic Football club. For money.
You think 140 years of:
spitting, hacking, leg breaking, thuggery, cheating, mibbery, intimidation, murder, tax evasion and all the cancerous filth that goes with them was bad. You aint see nothing yet!
Rocket man asked a question re Brian Quinn
Was he in his UEFA role when deadco received their sfa clearance?
Is that what PLC are trying to hide
Been a great day in Ireland today celebrating the Welsh fella!
Looking forward to the killie game and the rugby(bunch of pals coming to Dublin)
Hopefully everyone who pledges to ditch their ST on here does so and allows a supporter to take their seat. I also hope that ditching the ST also includes stopping posting on here.
Hail hail
What a good goal that was! Mancs up agin it :-)
CONEYBHOY
I’ll bite,
St Patrick was Scottish so you have us to thank for us being Irish. I think.☘☘even though we are Scottish
De Gea at fault surely for the Liverpool goal…
The SFA are supposed to check will the tax authorities here on two dates the latter being 30th June of the season about to start to grant a license, UEFA seem to do very little other than accept the local association has done so and grants the license.
blantyretim
And yet now Wales are claiming Patrick spoke Welsh! Surely Dumbarton would be Dunbarton if that was the case?
Celtic Mac
I speak English.
Celtic Mac
Surprisingly excellent programme. I like the story of Mount St as I work near there and have checked out the monument after a few beers in the Schoolhouse.
Brendan is a great person from many stories I have been told over the years
great interview by Ronny, didn’t once rise to their bait.
btw did anyone see Griff on BBC Scotland tonight? Had a right dig at Mackay, Moyes et al, slating them for their lack of respect and hinted most of dressing room were also pissed off. I am coming round to all this Have a cheap shot at Ronny stuff as it seems to be having exactly the opposite effect to the one intended by the MSM.
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on 17th March 2016 8:57 pm
CONEYBHOY
I’ll bite,
St Patrick was Scottish so you have us to thank for us being Irish. I think.☘☘even though we are Scottish
*correct, his only connection with Cymru is that after his return to Britanniae from Rome he then left for Ireland from there. Unfortunately, the west brits were hostile tae his return so he made his way tae the black north.
okcsc
blantyretim
True, but your’e not from the Rock!
Corkcelt. Like I said earlier for every game against the Hun you will either experience a sense of hollow victory or a sense of despair and pointlessness.
It’s just wrestling.
It’s fixed.
And it’s not a sport.
And Celtic and why Celtic were born and existed has gone.
And if we let it pass. We are equally as culpable.
And if I a, a drama queen then check you ya bitch……….
Kidding of course Corkcelt (about the bitch bit not about the rest).
Celtic Mac
No but I’ll meet the old rock tomorrow
He is a treasure to cqn and your family
BRTH
Thank you for your postings regarding Res12, as you know l am one of the many people who gave my shareholding details to this cause, and l for one would not object to my name being given to that despicable Regan and his Cohorts