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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!!Bada Bing!!
Have ‘They’ got home games that day? if so theres your answer.
canamalar – come on, surely you have a view on what could turn out to be the single biggest doplomatic mistake in diplomatic history
That’s unfair, I thought Sweden were worthy winners of the Eurosong contest. (thumbsup)
For f’s sake, you’d be confused for thinking that Celtic were playing tonight reading this blog.
Philvis – quick question if you don’t mind. Did you grow up in Scotstoun by any chance?
I seem to recall a guy called Phil who went to St Al’s, who I’m sure would share a lot of your views…
Spearman
STV mate.
Philvisreturns who do we owe these billions to? por cierto
Tim Tanium
I remember the Naka free kick like it was yesterday.
However, I felt The Holy Goalie’s penalty save near the end actually sealed our victory.
No lookin’ for a row or anything and I hope nobdy minds if me an Tim are talkin’ ‘TIC.
I’ve got a gummy bear stuck to the window of my classroom it’s become a kind of mascot.
MWD HT
I can do an alternate algorithm for my automatic CQN poster between good and bad posts and every 10th post being one to steer the conversation to a positive message increasing in intensity until the start of the game.
Maybe give the plc ideas …. Simulate the games….. Save a fortune. Player choice dependent on ticket price …..
HH
PHILVISRETURNS 1413
I remember the post to which you allude,and mistakenly thought I was referring to.
Sadly,only because of your additional post explaining the misunderstanding.
I find that strange from someone with such an education as your own,legally trained,and used to forensic analysis,that you could not be bothered to check which of your posts I was replying to.
After all,I made it easy for you by time-checking it.
Still,perhaps you are too used to answering on the hoof-not so much a lack of malice aforethought as a lack of thought aforethought.
kdc 14:03 on 21 August, 2012
The thought did cross my mind. But we lose most of the ones I don’t go to as well, so I can’t take responsibility…
I decided not to bother with any of this season’s preliminary games just in case.
up_over_goal – Your nnaive approach to national debt – cut back spending – will only make things worse. You’re a Thatcherite, so I’m guessing you approve of her grocer’s shop approach, likening governments to households. Households living beyond their means have no choice but to cut back. But when governments reduce spending, growth slows, unemployment goes up, income – tax revenues – go down, the whole shebang.
Your sophisticated approach – just keep spending, albeit with the added conceit that you can elect individuals or devise a system that is capable of consistently picking winners and avoiding both negative unintended consequences and enormous waste – doesn’t work. We’re in this mess because we spent too much in the first place.
In the long run, there is no alternative to living within one’s means. That applies to individuals, households, and countries. (thumbsup)
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie:
I really wanted to ignore you like I did in the past, as I have no interest in your inane ramblings and the witless barking of your insipid platitudes- I think I may have infelicitously read a couple of your wretched posts one time…needless to say I felt like an entomologist observing a beetle circumnavigate a pile of dung. Nevertheless people like yourself serve as a superficial case study: riven through with deep complexes, who know very little of themselves or others; always attempting to obfuscate any cognition into their ‘true’ identity, but due to lack of self-awareness, actually frustrate and sabotage the intention of such processes and end up disclosing more than they conceal- that in itself is a peculiar paradox. A paradox that may go to indirectly enlightening those who wish to analyse the dynamics behind your psychological posturing.
Your mask is not as fastened as tight as you might imagine; it may only take the feeblest of contact for it to fall off altogether- if you keep chewing the bait it will happen. The only reason it hasn’t happened is that you claim to be a Tim. Such liberty would be seldom offered. I have exercise too much latitude already and in my goodwill I have afforded you the amity to make the politic decision. I have endured the displeasure of reading back on a few of your turgid posts to give me a ‘taste’ of you mindset and have made a few preliminary notes that will go towards a concise synoptic of your identity; considering I’ve only known you five minutes it will be an abridged blueprint, but will certainly be a precise summation.
As I said before I would have ignored you but you are a bully who uses psychology to try and cow and demean others- I’ve met your type many, many times in the past and they have all ended up skewered on my lance and spit-roasted over Truths open fire. I eat a bully every day for a light meal, normally with a windbag served for brunch, as I like to exercise the jaw muscles on the tough meat of a bully’s rind. I can understand you decision to riposte. A retort was inevitable. You didn’t want to seen to back down, I acknowledge that it is machismo, male ego. I was once like that myself when I was twelve or so. But I grew out of it when I became a man. As a matter of fact your retort was pathetically amusing in a puerile kind of way- like the sort of thing you would expect a fourteen girl with the cramps to say out of infantile spite. But then I guess we all have a different sense of humour. Humour requires a certain depth and incongruous experience, which you patently have never undergone. I also expected a reply due to that stolid defiance and myopic obstinacy, which no doubt has often delivered you to the precipitous edge of dooms wide crater. Your constant harping on about your imagined superiority is a facile technique ossified to reflex, like a one trick pony with dementia, hoping in its senility that it will garner the same result every time it toils out the aforementioned fraud.
As I say you have the following options: 1) Apologize for making the affair personal- rather than debating things in a mature adult manner;
2) Keep goading me, then you will inevitably suffer.
3) Ignore me, as I would you.
The choice is yours.
Watch me! Watch me! I got it! Watch me!
I got it! Yeeaah!
I got somethin’ that makes me wanna shouta!
I got somethin’ that tells me what its all about
Huh! I got soul an I’m super bad
I got soul, huh, and I’m super bad, huh!
Now I got a move that tells me what to do
Sometimes I tease
Now I gotta move that tells me what to do
Sometimes I feel so nice I wanna try
Myself with you, huh! uh!
I got soul and I’m super bad, huh!
I’m a lover, I love to do my thing ha
An a, an I don’t need no one eles
Sometimes I feel so nice, good Lord!
I jump back, I wanna kiss myself!
I’ve got soul, huh, and I’m super bad, HEY!
I said I’m super bad
I got the somethin’ that makes me wanna shout
I got that thing, tell me what it’s all about
I got soul, ha, and I’m super bad, heh!
Got the move that tells me what to do
Sometimes I feel so nice, I said
I wanna tie myself to a fuse, huh, I
I, I, I got soul, heh, and I’m super bad
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
“so much a lack of malice aforethought as a lack of thought aforethought. ”
Are you related to Chic Murray lol por cierto…..
McBhoy
Probably more to do with the fact that the game will most likely be on Sky. Without “Rangers”, Sky would only agree a new deal if they could show more Celtic home games so I’d imagine there might be a few more changes before end of the season.
Mort
Spearman – ITV1 throughout the UK.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
14:05 on
21 August, 2012
right on queue,……
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Canamalar Does Queuing…..?
Surely,As A Fully Paid-Up Member Of The Swivel-Eyed Leftie Elite….One Just Pushes Aside The ‘Little People’…Waiting Be Granted Their Special,Intimate Moment
, With Saint Julian Of Assange…. ?
CuesAreNotOnlyForSnookerCSC.
Unleash The Wild Beasts From Dark Lands Of Wonk……
(Thumbsup?)
Hamiltontim @ 14:22… thanks bud … being in Engerland I didn’t think to look there.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Changing from tory toff to socialist and givig it all away.
You got a problem with that ?:O)
!!badabing!!
St.johnstone away on Espn and hearts home on sky
Bringback3pmkickaffscsc
Paul67 et al
And another thing! There seems to be a worrying trend developing on here where posters (though strangely philvisreturns was not one of them) are claiming they would have been at this game or another but “was on a Mediterranean cruise”. Hoping this is just a temporary aberration!
My gummy bear doesn’t smoke skunk but he is of the belief that Gordon Brown was a good Chancellor but rotten PM.
Oh and he agrees with me that Celtic will get a draw tonight.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS – Forgive me for not parsing your precious pearls of pansophy like it was Finnegans Wake. (thumbsup)
POR CIERTO
Aye-I hope that’s blood!
voguepunter
14:26 on 21 August, 2012
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Changing from tory toff to socialist and givig it all away.
You got a problem with that ?:O)
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Only wi yer spelling-the word after tory should be knob…..
JinkyvJohnGreig-saysitall – Philvis – quick question if you don’t mind. Did you grow up in Scotstoun by any chance?
I don’t think I’ve ever been to Scotstoun. It’s one of those mythical places out west, like Yoker, right? (thumbsup)
Celtic Mac
The whole cruise thing started with Vogue Punter and the bonuses he earned for introducing Pimms to Rutherglen.
philvis
Also, if you want to pass out blame for the recession, there are plenty of candidates. Mortgage companies with their amazingly daft mortgages, banks who bought them, repackaged them and sold them to gullible investors, the Ratings Agencies who approved these lunatic ventures, in turn encouraging pension funds, looking for a safe place to put money their workers had saved up all their lives, buying them.
Meanwhile, Greenspan stood back and let it all happen, while the Tories over here
were arguing that Brown hadn’t done enough to deregulate the banking system!
I realise right-wingers like you don’t like this blaming of the market; in your heart, you just know the true cause must be the government. However, it wasn’t the government that was putting people in homes then tossing them out (after taking their entire life savings). Or were there lots of government officials queuing up to say that lenders should lend beyond people’s ability to pay?
Off topic I’ve been looking for the footage that was played at Parkhead around the time that Jinky died.
I think it was to the theme tune of superb show Band of Brothers.
I don’t think there was a dry eye in the house that day but it was an excellent montage. If anyone has this can you please post it.
Anyway it was while searching for it came across this one which in it’s own right is very good but nothing compared to the one they played that day.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTW_LKJCmiY&playnext=1&list=PL84E2087DA7C4E2F1&feature=results_main
HH
/Bishop B
PHILVISRETURNS 1427
Ah,now you’re just being silly-insulting,even.
Stick to the patronising,Phil. We should all have such a talent.
Celtic Mac
I was on a school cruise, the Dunera in April, 1964.
Celtic had beaten MTK Budapest (I think) 3-0 at CP the week before we left.
On the night of the second leg one of the crew told us Celtic had lost 4-0 in the second leg.
We thought he was a hun and taking the micky.
Alas…….
And before ye all jump in the cost of the cruise was £29-10s.
CQN can be a dark place at times.
Gummy bear says that the only darker place he’s seen was when he fell down a large hole in the road when the workmen didn’t leave out a warning sign.
as Jessie J says…Its all about the money money money………
Theres nothing wrong with The board adopting a warchest mentallity as long as we win the titles and get some euro awaydays along the way. The long game is a better league and a bigger challenge
M
philvis….,
is there a problem with sharing you view, I’m interested to know, as I’m sure there are many interested to know your view.
We visited Vigo, Tangiers and finally Lisbon before heading back to Greenock.
Ahhhh, Lisbon….
Mort.
that seems a plausible explanation, this hun free life takes some getting used to. or are ‘they’ just ‘lurking’ as ive come to realise, is a cqn buzzword.
Dammit, ive broke my promise to myself not to mention ‘them’!
McBhoy-Sevco are away on the Saturday,as Mort says moved to Sunday to suit Sky,and more to come unfortunately.
1. Stewart Francis
“You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks.”
2. Tim Vine
“Last night me and my girlfriend watched three DVDs back to back. Luckily I was the one facing the telly.”
3. Will Marsh
“I was raised as an only child, which really annoyed my sister.”
4. Rob Beckett
“You know you’re working class when your TV is bigger than your book case.”
5. Chris Turner
“I’m good friends with 25 letters of the alphabet… I don’t know why.”
6. Tim Vine
“I took part in the sun tanning Olympics – I just got Bronze.”
7. George Ryegold
“Pornography is often frowned upon, but that’s only because I’m concentrating.”
8. Stewart Francis
“I saw a documentary on how ships are kept together. Riveting.”
9. Lou Sanders
“I waited an hour for my starter so I complained: ‘It’s not rocket salad’.”
10. Nish Kumar
“My mum’s so pessimistic, that if there was an Olympics for pessimism… she wouldn’t fancy her chances.”
SRS, where are you tonight??
I need to decide if it’s worth me tachnig the game..:-)