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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philvis…
where are you
no word of wisdom on the Assange issue, no, come on MrCresote one more litttle miny word
TBB
I just replied I would be grateful for the info, you can get my contact details from Paul 67 or the auld oracle himself BT.
HH
Finnegan’s Wake? Gobbledygook or literature? Not even Joyce knew. But the fact that an Irishman could include Eskimo in an impenetrable book that people still debate furiously about speaks volumes about Celtic inventiveness.
We can beat the Swedes.
There is a logic to my thinking….even if I don’t understand it myself.
HH!
Jacob Steinberg
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 21 August 2012 14.58 BST
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Some supporters of Rangers complained to Falkirk about their stadium announcer’s ill-advised Announcement
This is an urgent appeal: if any readers are in possession of a spare sense of humour, please send it to Glasgow, because it appears numerous Rangers supporters have lost theirs. There is no time to waste. The situation is critical. It is a code red.
This refers, of course, to the news that Falkirk have been moved to apologise to Rangers and suspend their PA announcer after he had a mild dig at the Glasgow club’s current bedraggled state and called them “Sevco Franchise” when reading out the football scores over the Tannoy, Sevco being the name of a company used in the purchase of the business and assets of Rangers in the summer after the club was consigned to liquidation.
So far, so very harmless. Or so you would think. Instead, Rangers fans collectively channelled their inner Helen Lovejoy and found the time to make complaints to Falkirk, who promptly suspended the offender and then launched an investigation. Which begs the question: an investigation into what exactly? As far as can be made out, a bored employee did an ill-advised football joke about a football team. What are they looking into? His motives? Who he is really working for?
For once, The Man gets a free pass here, even if this is another blow for the Ban-tocracy Movement. In the current climate of working yourself up into a hot tizz over absolutely nothing, fans of certain clubs seem to be losing perspective at an alarming rate, to the extent where you cannot even make a classic liquidation-based gag without being hauled over the coals. There comes a point where it is not a football club, it is a cult. That is rarely a good look.
Though perhaps the debate is not whether football has broken its funny metatarsal, or whether it ever had one in the first place. This sort of thing has been going on for years, like the time Norwich City had to act all contrite because some eedjit flashed a message up on the scoreboard that read “Manchester United 1-0 Scum”, Ipswich Town uneasily playing the role of “Scum”.
The skill is to know your audience and pick your moment, which is what West Ham’s pitch announcer Jeremy Nicholas singularly failed to do after an FA Cup quarter-final against Tottenham Hotspur in 2001. It was the year that Fabien Barthez had tried his taxi trick on Paolo Di Canio and West Ham felt their name was on the cup. Instead they were beaten 3-2 by their neighbours, but there was one final indignity for West Ham’s supporters to endure as they filed out of the ground. “Good luck to Tottenham in the next round!” parped Nicholas, hopelessly misjudging the mood. Now that really was something to get annoyed about.
philvisreturns
14:25 on 21 August, 2012
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)
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Philvis – even the tories are no longer really trying to convince us all about this alleged ‘deficit’. Me and you have been arguing this back and forth for the best part of too many years!
We have a deficit in tax take. We have an owner class who are avoiding paying their taxes which is resulting in a heavier and heavier burden on working people.
The ‘deficit’ problem, the near bankruptcy of the UK and the actual bankruptcy of other countries has been caused directly by tax dodging over decades and the spectacular failure of the financial sector to ‘live within its means’, or to live up to its own ideals of free marketism – they were prepared to takes ‘risks’ but were not prepared to accept the consequences (as I have said before the parrallels between rangers and the wider financial sectors problems are uncanny) and rather than act as a ‘free’ entity they cried that governments all around the world should bail them out.
The Bank of England, as you know has pumped tens of billions in to the banking system in the UK with little or no regulation to ensure that the banks actually do anything productive with that money. They could have funded school building, rail building, green technology projects, infrastructure projects to ready the country for the future. Money would have went directly to your beloved private sector providers in the building industry with the resultant boost to the economy.
But no – they gave it instead to the very fools who caused the problem in the first place.
I wish you would go and educate yourself about all of this instead of lifting ideas from the Daily Mail.
Apologies Philv – I meant to thank you for giving me something to do take my mind off the long nature of this day. It’s fairly dragging in. Always the same before a big game for Celtic. I’ve been busy all day thinking it would help pass the time quicker. Then I look at the clock and it isn’t even 4 o’clock yet and I’m so far ahead of myself it’s unreal.
Cheers for the, eh, stimulation.
The Spirit of Arthur Lee
15:21 on
21 August, 2012
Canny wait to hear the Ramsden Cup theme tune tonight
I have visions of Chuckles Green in a Union Jack Jumpsuit running out to the center circle to the soundtrack of Allo! Allo! or Ever Decreasing Circles…egged on by Bomber ‘subtitles applicable’ Broon drinking his Eldorado on a trampoline like a demented silk-cut chainsmoking Capuchin monkey…big red baw face with bingo eyes rolling aboot as he claps Chuckles into a furious drunken rendition of GSTQ…with the lunatic hordes love-bombing him like Orange Moonies…
…whilst Celtic compete in the Big Cup for Proper Champions.
The Battered Bunnet
15:30 on 21 August, 2012
Things I didn’t know; An occassional series…
When women talk they ‘flutter’ at the rate of 200 times per second.
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Another thing you didn’t know
most men don’t notice because when they start we glaze over almost instantly they start……….
Still no announcement regarding Ki and his transfer , could it be that CFC have played a blinder with this one and the price is on the up?
Oh how the time is dragging!
Ernie Lynch, if you’re around, you might be interested in this: http://markcrispinmiller.com/2011/02/eight-big-problems-with-the-case-against-assange-must-read-by-naomi-wolf/ Supports your theory. Assange may be guilty, he may be not, and in no way would I ever condone non-consensual sex, but I think there’s an awful lot of doubt about this case, enough to make anyone suspicious of whether he could get a fair trial and wouldn’t be extradited to the US to join Bradley Manning.
Just watched the pen shootout again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xg34lUIysk
My takeaways from this
1. Boruc in his pomp. A huge presence, ultra-confident. The dictionary definition of gallus. Superb
2. Some great pens. JVOH, the bold Deeks and Majic’s were all excellent as was Calenbauer’s. That Naka couldn’t hit a cow’s backside with a banjo…
3. WGS – the sheer delight when we got through. Tell me he’s not a Sellick Man? Utter pash. That meant a lot to him
Half an hour to go ,first stop bookies,2nd stop coop ,pick up Peroni ,3rd stop ,swing by
TBB’s hoose n smash his windaes ,then …………………………….relax.
where’s the link creator gone n nat….know?
There’s a great photo may someone can dig out of the bhoys watching the pens and just starting to run to celebrate…
wonky radar – LOL
wonkyradar
15:56 on
21 August, 2012
The Spirit of Arthur Lee
15:21 on
21 August, 2012
Canny wait to hear the Ramsden Cup theme tune tonight
I have visions of Chuckles Green in a Union Jack Jumpsuit running out to the center circle to the soundtrack of Allo! Allo! or Ever Decreasing Circles…egged on by Bomber ‘subtitles applicable’ Broon drinking his Eldorado on a trampoline like a demented silk-cut chainsmoking Capuchin monkey…big red baw face with bingo eyes rolling aboot as he claps Chuckles into a furious drunken rendition of GSTQ…with the lunatic hordes love-bombing him like Orange Moonies…
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he is inside the wee rangers club today meeting with the ce today again with the 112,000th season ticket holder , a world record according to the Daily Record
http://www.comedy.co.uk/images/library/comedies/other/benidorm_mel_madge.jpg
The huns are animals,they’ve got a feckin cheek clipin’ on anybody,the Falkirk board want their baws rattled for suspending their MC,they should’ve made a public statement saying they don’t give a feck what those animals say whilst giving the guy a pay rise and then put dung laden straw down on the away end to make the animals feel at home everytime they visit.
Philvisreturns
£45.8 bn on defence – i’d settle for £3m on a CH
voguepunter
Pick up Peroni?!
Are you mad?!
Peroni will give you heartburn!
Cin cin!!
HH!!
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby
16:04 on
21 August, 2012
The huns are animals,they’ve got a feckin cheek clipin’ on anybody,the Falkirk board want their baws rattled for suspending their MC,they should’ve made a public statement saying they don’t give a feck what those animals say whilst giving the guy a pay rise and then put dung laden straw down on the away end to make the animals feel at home everytime they visit.
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we canny talk, poor tiger tim was treated terribly after a little laugh at huns expense
a real low point for us.
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby
16:04 on 21 August, 2012
The huns are animals,they’ve got a feckin cheek clipin’ on anybody,the Falkirk board want their baws rattled for suspending their MC,they should’ve made a public statement saying they don’t give a feck what those animals say whilst giving the guy a pay rise and then put dung laden straw down on the away end to make the animals feel at home everytime they visit.
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You’re going soft. No way should they be treating them to dung laden straw. Wash the place with Jeyes Fluid – its a well know Orc repellant………
If they can’t get Jeyes then any clean smelling substance would do. Totally freaks them. That’s why they spend half time in the toilets at celtic park so they can recreate the pig stye atmosphere and the smell of sewage they know and love. All the better if they are up to their ankles in it.
The Ramsdens Cup – ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
And they’ll be bragging about the attendance. You couldn’t mark their neck with a hadron collider…………
Tallybhoy
It’s the heartburn that gives me a buzz.
where’s the link creator gone n nat….know?….2nd time
Gene’s a Bhoys name
16:05 on 21 August, 2012
Philvisreturns
£45.8 bn on defence – i’d settle for £3m on a CH
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Quality!
VP
Bad news on item 3: I haven’t fixed them since last weekend.
TBB
Will forego till next week :O)
Gincher67
Just watched the shoot out again, absolute magic , add to that Nakas free kick, Donatis late goal ,Juventus 4-3, I canny wait for tonight, cmon the hoops.
HH
Not been on early doors for a week is Kitalba still posting strong (he just came into my thoughts).
Nearly there bhoys & Ghirls times dragging as usual in the lead up.
LET THE PEOPLE SING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&feature=related&v=zhkdy0AOpaM
Till later HAIL HAIL
Has anyone ever tried those electronic ciggy’s advertised at the bottom of the page?
I’m not a smoker myself, but if they are any good I am thinking of taking it up.
Also do they do a pipe version?
The Larsson Song by a Swede in Helsingborg…funny…
Grant Russell @STVGrant
This Swedish Celtic fan’s sing song is the top story on HD.se’s website right now: http://bit.ly/NY2SXq (warning: bad language) #CelticCL
Retweeted by Michael McGuire ★
Beware the pygmy hippo kickers..
Only the huns would mobilize after watching their club being killed off to complain about the pish gettin’ ripped out them.
“The club is separate from the company”
Ahahahahaha
Paul67……my fellow posters and friends on this fine blog are being denied……yes denied of the fruits of my searches on you tube as none of the bassas on here will direct me to the new location of the now famous link creator. May I therefor thank you in advance of pointing me in the direction of said link creator.
31003
You may not need link creator,try posting it.
31003,
the link creators still at the top of the page, can you no see it ?
So the Falkirk PA suspended for giving Sevco their proper name???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3Jh8Wkf5dE
vp….I did……and it didny
st stivs…..you pullin ma leg?