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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Furthest I got was Gummy Bear Island.
voguepunter
Don’t tell me, you were there to meet Elvis!
voguepunter
Mater & Pater had to save up for a good while to make it happen, always grateful for the sacrifice. Synchronicity at work in fact. Taken on a tour of the Estádio Nacional in Lisbon would you believe? My grandad, uncle and cousin followed me there two years later.
HH
I once spent a holiday on a 35 ft.yacht cruising around The Greek Islands.Really. Courtesy of some anarchic well-to-do friends who,strangely,liked me. It was a nightmare.
Retsina by the kilo….seasickness made worse by trying to cure it. Sun & heat like the anvil of hell. Girlfiend gone mental. Glass on the decking, blood on the tracks. Mosquitos that sounded like messerschmidts, ripped into me like tiny vampires and were immune to repellent.
It’s a wonder I remember any of it..
Then the trip back home on The Magic Bus. Ye gods. Hard as nails Huns who left us few non-Germans to take care of one of theirs who fell into his first ever diabetic coma,and had his pockets emptied by the ‘tour guide’ on the bus. His compatriots just shrugged and returned to their copies of whatever….I imagined Mein Kampf.
Anyway….it’s only recently that I discovered an ancient cast-iron remedy for sea-sickness : ginger. Wish I’d known that as I heaved up and down on The Aegean back in the day. My idea of a ‘cure’ in those days was Vodka and Dramamine. And lots of it. Lethal.
Two weeks steamboats,sunburned,bloody and bitten ragged. Took me a long time to recover.
Holidays,eh?
Off now for a two hour meeting but on the upside the gymnastics course which was meant to follow it has been cancelled.
C’mon the famous Glasgow Celtic.
Larrybhoy
Has McGeough recovered from his broken jaw? I’d have thought this game would be too early for him.
Mort
Alexandra park in the fur coats days was rare!
Like the penguins at Embra Zoo too.
Suppose I got about a bit. Been to Largs as well!
Girvan for me.
Not long now til kick off, hopefully celts are prepared from the whistle. Hate losing goals in first couple mins.
We need all the bhoys on top of there game..commons looks bit fitter this year and now with few games under his belt his performance could be the key for us to get away goal.
Im sure the fans out there will Put in usual great performance.
Over and over we shall follow you
mort
15:09 on
21 August, 2012
Larrybhoy
Has McGeough recovered from his broken jaw? I’d have thought this game would be too early for him.
Mort
Think he only got operation before weekend and was expected to be out for 4weeks so I’m 99% sure he’s out.
I’m supposed to be doing this, that and the next thing today…..but all I can do is lie here in my laziness waiting like a kid on sugar for tonight, and wondering what practical crap my missus is dreaming up on her travels to interfere with my word class idleness. The great thing about not being a capitalist is that you can be content. Speculate to accumulate? Nah.
Play the piano and talk to my muse. And if you throw me a coin I feel lucky.
………cannae believe it…….just read back every topic from Hi to Lo brow covered…..including my own personal fave…..mono-brow.
Cap doffed to the politicos, the winos and the musos…….
SOT and Stein take the comedy golds (imo)
………feeling nervous about tonight…….. want a victory………but can’t see us scoring without them replying…so expect a draw.
If any CQN’rs are attending devotions in The Parlour this afternoon……..you won’t be able to miss me……….I’ll be the handsome chap wearing the Hoops…..
………….just the Hoops.
EyesLikeDugsBawz CSC
HH.
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Mort – yes of course; can’t believe I forgot about that one ! Age and prescription drugs can do that :-) Paddy it is then.
Can’t see us going with three at the back tonight – I’m expecting a more usual line up with Izaguirre and Matthews at full back and Rogne alongside Mulgrew.
Might well be one up front and I prefer Samaras in this role to Hooper. Hopefully Brown is fit to join Ledley and Kayal in midfield. Commons will start, probably as a link player in a 4-4-1-1. Not sure who is all fit to start – does this game come too early for James Forrest?
larrybhoy
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You are right. Tonight is massive. Hopefully we’ll do well enough that the return leg will be one of thse massive celebratory European nights at Celtic Park. Pure magic.
Green t-shirt on already. Scarf on the couch. Counting dwn the minutes?
HH!
starry plough
15:00 on
21 August, 2012
voguepunter
Embra Zoo!!
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I forgot about that one ,remember kicking a pygmy hippo on erse ,solid wee bugger.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
I think you credit Dallas with far to much power than he actually possesses if you think his grip extends beyond these shores, he is not that important, believe me.
got to go out now, ty for all comments today, Hail Hail. lets hope we’re no whingin the morra!
It’s Miller’s time…
A taste of what Sevco Franchise fans can expect at half-time in Annie’s tonight … an old favourite from Divine Dingwall.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aTuAv8f9KPs
Has anybody honestly ever seen anyone slipping on a banana skin in real life?
Canny wait to hear the Ramsden Cup theme tune tonight
Celtic Mac
15:05 on
21 August, 2012
voguepunter
Don’t tell me, you were there to meet Elvis!
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Just missed him by 15 years .
does Sevco get us co-efficient points tonight if they go through to the next round ?
do they drop into the next round of the junior cup if they get knocked out ?
on a positive note, no more European fines for sectarian singing.
TBB
Did you see my reply to you last night regarding the accommodation in Italy ?
HH
Things I didn’t know; An occassional series…
When women talk they ‘flutter’ at the rate of 200 times per second.
ohits
No, sorry, missed it. What time? I’ll look back.
BBJ just about to come on Talspurt to discuss tonights match.
HH
/Bishop B
RFCIASTBIL owed us £40 000.
Have we received it yet or are we waiting like Dundee Utd?
On leaving a friends house after Spartak Moscow Game
My mate put on his radio and this blasted out
My SHERONA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEKWR7WfsJo&feature=fvwrel
Every time I hear this tune I think of the joy of celtic,a special victory, windows down, roaring oot the windae :)))) and being with friends.
HAIL HAIL Enjoy tonight
steinreignedsupreme15:20 on21 August, 2012:
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Reminded me of Sean Bean in ‘Accused’……wierd,off-putting but fascinating.
So wrong it’s right.
Now all I can see is Dark Mingbat foin’ a Divine tribute act for the rff……..i.e. the Dingbat drinking fund.
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie:
I conjecture a certain antagonism to my most magniloquent sesquipedalianism, a presentiment makes me conversant with your opposition to my polysyllabic holophrastic verbalism. You are like a Parastratiosphecomyia stratiosphecomyioides incarcerated in a glass bottle. Well this year I am vacationing in the Hyperbolicsyllabicsesquedalymistic Welsh town of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwlllla. Whatever you might hypothesis about my own idiosyncrasies you can you tell my fingerprints are all this post even if your not a connoisseur in Dermatoglyphics- it is characteristic of the sustained perpetuity of my linguistic repertoire- still i could have written in Scriptio continuawhichwouldexaggeratethephantasmogoriumoferuditeprotractednessothatcounterrevolutionarieslikeyourselfareunabletocomprehendsuchcomputations…the medication has not quite worn off, neither the deinstitutionalization…but a Helsingborg 1 Celtic 2…would heal the ancientwound, the primordialmarkoftheswamp…
After 10 weeks I am down to the last 2 from 2000 entrants in the Paddy Power last man standing competition for £2k. Problem is, I am really toiling for a team this week having exhausted the usual suspects thro weeks 1-10. The only “big” team I have left is Liverpool and I ain’t touching them! So……wish me luck that whichever “minnow” I opt for this week pulls for me and that the other guy draws a blank:-).
One saving grace may be that if we both fail this week, we split the £2k. I would settle for that.
Oh it’s much nicer on here today and nary a mention of swarfega…
From The British Empire to Great Britain to The UKplc………
…..now become The ConDemNation.
The Spartak game was amazing, what a night, what an atmosphere.
twists n turns
twists,good luck mate.
Good luck Celtic.
miki67 15:33 on 21 August, 2012
I’m thinking of designing brogue-heels. I reckon there is a market in Glasgow and certain areas in the North of Ireland, where they love a drag-queen.
Divine and Legless are both carrying weight – they’d probably keep me in business until things pick up economy-wise.