We’ve been here several times before. Our first venture into the Champions League play-off round was in 1998 against (then) Croatia Zagreb. Zagreb were clearly the better team but while a 1-0 win in the home leg gave us hope we were outclassed in the return game.
The unforgettable tie against Ajax was next. Celtic’s best away performance in this tournament saw us beat the Dutch champions 1-3 in Amsterdam. Ajax were clearly caught cold and performed infinitely better at Celtic Park, winning 0-1, but Celtic shut up shop to deny them any real chance of progression.
Basel were unknown and un-fancied in 2002 but their movement in central midfield was too much for Celtic, although curiously they only managed to perform for 45 minutes in each game. An away goal defeat blocked our route to the top competition. MTK Budapest were professionally swept aside in 2003.
Who can forget Spartak Moscow? Just as they had done against Ajax, Celtic did the hard work away in the first leg, returning with a 1-1 draw, but incredible dramas unfolded at Celtic Park. Roman Pavluchenko levelled Scott McDonald’s opener but the Russian missed a first half penalty. The game went to extra time and with minutes left a defender punched Scott Brown’s shot off the line. Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink missed with the resulting spot kick setting up a memorable penalty competition.
Vennegoor of Hesselink and Pavluchenko both scored this time as brave efforts from Gary Caldwell, Derek Riordan and Maciej Zurawski, who almost certainly knew he would never kick another ball for Celtic, and a save by Artur Boruc, sent us through. Naka proved that 12 yards is too close a dead ball distance for him.
A favourite Celtic Park memory? You bet.
The adrenaline is pumping already. Bring it on.
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Miki67
Interesting though that the happy clappers to a man accuse the mine shafters to a man of being laptop loyal readers. Considering what just happened to the hun and how it happened it is a tad ironic. I mean how wrong loud stupid and irrelavent to an argument can you be ? Vying for Sevco fan territory.
I blame a need for a rigid beleif system.
HH
miki67
11:34 on 21 August, 2012
What’s it going to take for Scotland to rid itself of the growing cancer in its midst. Wilful police ignorance. A complant judiciary. A rigged jury system. ‘Attempted’ bombs,minimised. Bullets in the post. Moronic eejits wandering around waving guns. Familes forced to flee their homes. Attacks in the street. Violent utterings all over every form of media. The puffing up of violent orangeism and its ‘sporting’ wing. A wholly biased msm. Sound familiar? All dismissed as paranoid folly. Yet that is where Scotland is today and football is being used as the medium to perpetrate this ugliness. The SFA and that cretin Ogilvie are a major part of this,are as the likes of Longmuir and the other luj members.
And people are fearful of these cretins. That is how they prosper. They count on fear. It is their manna,their fuel.
“All it takes for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke- attributed to him even though he was otherwise a numpty.)
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More power to your elbow,bud.
Superb summation.
Canamalar .
Real thing Fascists are way too big on that Dirigisme thing to allow anything as namby- pamby pinko liberal as a laissez faire capitalist free market—
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers12:52 on 21 August, 2012:
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Makes George Galloway sound…..like…a…pussycat….
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: > )
………………………..Forster
…Matthews….Rogne…….Mulgrew…..Izzy
……………Brown……Kayal…….Ledley
Commons………………………………………..Samaras
…………………………Hooper
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
A couple of pints and you’re Wolfie Smiff.
Anyone else sick and tired of reading arguments about policitcs, the economy, etc on here?
This is supposed to be a football blog. About Celtic.
I suggest those who want to debate other stuff set up InterminableRepetitiveArgumentsAboutPolicitcsAndTheEconomyQuickNews and give the rest of us peace!
Gallagher – can’t argue with your team selection or formation.
Hail hail
Gretnabhoy
12:18 on
21 August, 2012
I was on a cruise in the Cariribean when we played Ajax andvI was desperate to find out the result! Details came from a Old Rangers fan on board who did not seem to happy but I was jumping for joy, just couldn’t believe it.
I was on a Mediterranean Cruise for the return leg at Celtic Park.This happened to be a Football themed Cruise hosted by Tony Gubba with Ex Players Terry Butcher,Jim Pearson(Ex St. Johnstone and Everton) and Martin Chivers.
I mangaged to find out the result via BBC World Service on the TV In our Cabin-though the Presenter nearly gave me a heart attack by saying there was a shock result at Celtic Park before giving the score-I thought we must have been knocked out as we held such a good lead but she obviously meant the seeded team were knocked out!
I bumped into Butcher and Pearson(also a former Rangers fan though a nice guy despite this)and took great delight in telling them that not only Celtic were through but rangers were out(can’t remember who beat them!)
Also made sure both my Bhoys had the hoops on for the football session the next day!
policitics=politics
PHILVISRETURNS 1230
Your last line was unbecoming.
Don’t repeat that sort of comment,please,as a personal favour.
Thanks.
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie –
What do we really know about this guy canamalar anyway?
1) He’s never denied being a fascist
2) His name is an anagram for “Ma Anal Car”.
3) He keeps a picture of Julian Assange in a heart-shaped pink diary with a lock on it
Coincidence? I think not. (thumbsup)
Can someone confirm if there is a world-wide recession on?
Just, it appears to have went totally over the head of some on here…
iPaddy McCourt
13:31 on
21 August, 2012
policitics=politics
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That’s a shame iPaddy,you were doing well, there.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS – Why, do babies disgust you? (thumbsup)
Ipaddy Mcourt
Is that a yes ?
HH
AsonofDan
Not those buying children season tickets that live in the real world. Or is that you bashing PL again.
HH
philvis…,
“It doesn’t matter if they paid their dues, or spent all their lives living off the State. The taxes they contributed during their working lives has long been spent by government. We still have to pay scarily rising pension costs, year on year, out of current taxation. This year £127.2 billion. By 2015, £149.5 billion.
so can the same be applied to insurance companies then, rip up the contract it doesnt matter, as long as the insurance companies spend it.
All their lives living off the state, like the queen and her armies
I’ve asked you twice already, about your view on the Assange extradition and threat of an assault on a fereign embassy by the british govt.
Twice you did the honourable thing and ran away, today I’m told I’ve got homosexual feelings for him and want to marry him, me and assange sitting up a tree kissing.
your no very good, your no very good, your no very, your no very, your no very good.
Starry Plough
Well done you are a credit to yourself your family and us.
KEEP IT UP :))))
Ps you have made my day already MON THE HOOPS
miki67
Also the best years of my life
A NEW LIFE FOR AN OLD ONE :)))
ENJOY TONIGHT Bhoys & Ghirls MONNNNNNNN THE HOOOOOOOPS
Till later HAIL HAIL
philvisreturns
Returning the deficit to zero will not be just a question of waiting for a recovery, because the UK had run a deficit even when our economy enjoyed close to full employment and governments gorged on tax receipts from bubble profits.
Therefore, it’s a case of massive tax increases or huge cuts in expenditure. The problem is that this is a global downturn, so any cuts in spending or increase in tax (particularly VAT) will push the economy into a double dip recession.
Despite all those, we have the financial markets (whose shortsightedness had created the crisis) bleating on about cutbacks. It is doomed to failure.
Hope we get a fair Ref tonight, that one in the Helsinki 2nd leg was up there with the worst I have ever witnessed.
On a lighter note was working on a network rail job today checking the lighting around the railway arches, when I stumbled upon Sharkeys, seen a few dodgy characters hanging around?????
HH
awe_naw_no_annoni_oan_anaw_noo13:29 on21 August, 2012:
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I’ve never had an issue with you….until yesterday I had respect for you,if not always in agreement with you. After yesterday you come on here and want to use my justified anger at batant injustice as your springboard for today?
Don’t bother.
Yesterday I was concerned for you. So atypical. As a fellow Tom I was actually concerned for your wellbeing.
So,for you to try to lunmp me in with the worst of ‘the thems’ truly hurts.
And as for ‘rigid belief systems’ ? I’m as flexible as the next dirigible.
Your friend in Celtic,no matter what.
HH!
Aw Naw, No Aw Naw No Annoni Oan Anaw Noo Oan Anaw Naw
Laters..
Philvis…..
W-H-O-O-O-O-S-H…..!!!!
Can REAL Men Get ‘Hot Flushes’….?
Canamalar Does…..
NelsonsRescueRemedyCSC.
(ThumbsUp?)
philvisreturns
13:29 on
21 August, 2012
‘ernie lynch – So are BAE systems a drain on the economy or one of its drivers?
Rent-seeking scoundrels, like all these firms with their lips clamped on the public nipple. (thumbsup)’
And what about those businesses that supply BAE systems?
The west is bankrupt and cannot pay its debts, they’re keeping the show on the road by printing money and illegally fixing the Libor rate. We’ve been on this journey since Nixon got rid of the gold standard in the early 70s and brought in fractional reserve banking, game’s a bogey, that’s what i think.
HH
Philvis
For once I have to agree with you. Tax-avoiding Chancellor Osbourne has no failed economic policies……….. because he has no actual economic policies.
He has (been given by the tax avoiding Prime Minister Cameron) a fiscal mantra that you insist on repeating:
We (the UK) have spent too much
We must spend less as a government
We must all take some pain
We are all in this together
However, getting up in the morning and repeating this mantra ad nauseum does not equate to an economic policy.
Glad to see that a self proclaming anarchist is so supportive of the Conservative and Unionist Party.
The condemanarcs.
Mon the Celts!
HH
leftclicktic:
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Was lost to myself, but kept my eye on the light.
HH!
I dont care who scores tonight. As long as its not Bedoya.
Miki67
I disagree with your assertion. So I will refrain from speculating on your actual aggreviance.
Yours together in tic
HH
A Sober(ing) thought…
Without doubt, The Swedes are a decent side, just as the Finns before them, but we should be way too good for them over two legs, especially if our best players live up to the hype, I expect a draw or a scoring loss tonight, then watch the opposition fall apart at parkhead
Bizarrely we may actually be better served by losing the tie though. This Celtic team is not the best of recent years, our keeper is good, not great, our defence is sufficient for the SPL but I would fear for it if the euro-heavies came to call, the midfield is the strongest part of our team with quality in depth, even if we lose Ki to the EPL, but again I wonder how it would hold up to Barca, Real, Bayern, United or City. Up front we struggle ( especially if we dont actually play a striker !) My view is that Mr Stokes isnt quite of the standard we should be looking for, Hoops can be brilliant, but also brilliantly anonymous at times, Sammi is now a winger, Bangura is a figment of someones imagination, Tony Watt looks the Biz but his mammy wont let him out after dark or at least till he’s finished his homework
Whilst I expect us to get past the Swedes, I think it will be a big ask to get third in any decent CL group for the reasons above, so it may be that the only way we can be in Europe after Santa’s been to call, is to lose this tie
We have also been served a clear notice of intent by the club viz-a-viz signings with the managers comments about debt repayment rather than speculative acquisition. The league is ours for the next 4 years at least, whether we spend a penny on new talent or not, There is a clear agenda to be debt free with a warchest in place by the time the enemy return to the field and bring some genuine competition to the domestic scene.
I have the feeling that the club and the manager are playing the long game, europe is a money spinning sideshow, nothing more
Ming
Philvisreturns…..there mst be a few beltin’ anagrams in that name…..but I cannae be bothered!
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Re Cruise story above-Butcher was an all right guy and though still pro Rangers didn’t seem to have any animosity towards Celtic and didn’t appear to be bigotted but clearly wasn’t liking the fact that Celtic transformed by MON were clearly in for a period of superiority
Incidentally he left the Cruise at Gibraltar to commentate for 5 Live on England’s game at Munich against the Germans (yeah the 5-1 game)apparently he hadn’t missed an England game for years(soon changed when he became Scotland’s Assistant Manager)
McBhoy
Not even an OG :)
HH
gallagher
Now that thoughts just cheered me up, nice one!
ipaddy mccourt
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Nope.
Football diesn’t operate in a bubble.
Unless of course,you’re rfc.
And that bubble…….
McBhoy
SilverliningCSC
HH
exiled Bhoy
If its just down to WAR CHEST then whether we hit humped or not CL is defo most lucrative place to be.
But I’m with you.
C’mon Helsinborg. Gee CQN a right good moaning sessshhhh.
MWD
MWD
You’re encouragible.
In any case, even if its only a draw i’ll still stay away from CQN until dust settles.
Mort