A game against Union Berlin, from the second tier of German football, four days before our Champions League qualification campaign gets underway sounds like perfect preparation. Union will be better than any opposition we have or will play since defeat in Turin last month and they will be miles ahead of our Champions League second qualifying round opponents.
Having to play six instead of last season’s four games to qualify for the group stage has cost Celtic ‘lucrative’ preseason friendlies. I am sure those charged with the task of balancing the books at Celtic Park (we always pay our bills) will be less than entertained by this, and for many supporters, if feels important that we face Real Madrid or Inter Milan preseason, but the summer time is all about qualifying for the Champions League. There are five weeks between Celtic’s opening qualifying game and the first leg of the play-off round. This extra preparation time should ensure we are fitter and ready.
Legend has it that competitive football in July inevitably leads to a drop in form late in the season but legends are not always reliable. Last year Basel entered Champions League qualification at the same stage Celtic will next season, and next week they become the first Swiss team to play competitive European football in May ever. Apoel Nicosia entered at the same stage in 2011 and became Cyprus’ first qualifier for the Champions League quarter final last year.
The Champions League final of 2014 will be held in Lisbon, the first time the city has hosted Europe’s top game since………. you know when. There are 1730 miles between Berlin and Lisbon, or 10 months, if you prefer. Preparations are already underway.
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When you look at the trouble that goes on in Scottish football or involving Scottish teams there is a common factor in all of the more serious incidents. The huns and now their reincarnation Sevconians.
Dear Ernie.
Don’t you have something important to do, like study for your Int 2 Maths?
Love.
Ernesto- I would respectfully suggest that the primary responsibility of any genuine supporter is to conduct him/herself in a way that does credit to the Club; this is particularly true for the Celtic support whose behaviour is subjected to the most intense scrutiny by the massed ranks of hunguffrey.
Bada Bing – have you tried Laterooms?
The Battered Bunnet
13:39 on 30 April, 2013
What’s an Int 2 Maths?
Is it like a Z level?
Can you do an Int 2 in Logic?
Banda bing
Speak to WDH
TBB,
“However while the report says that payments to Havelenge, Leoz and the former Fifa executive Ricardo Teixeira qualified as bribes they were not crimes at the time. ”
Was it a certain Mr Bryson who was charged with overseeing this report………..??
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Thanks to the girls from KSC kitchen, just had a lovely lunch delivered… Yum yum
Montrose bus received a total of three tickets, if it continues like this we will be in the minority in the club per SC final o((
BT,
aye thats just what you need……
I can see you being a founder member of FBS 5!
:-)
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Off oot for a new mouse pad ..
My – — George Jones —– The Legend Lives Mouse Pad — will now be boxed and stored and when I’m dead and gone one of my weans can flog it on eBay . [ along with the wrapping from a packet of George Jones Country sausages ] [ Rib sticking good ! ]
the token tim :12:33 on 30 April, 2013
>>>>
Couldn’t agree more re. Joe Ledley. A real workhorse of a player who rarely gets the praise he deserves….even when he scores the occasional screamer of a goal an’ aw.
HH!
Dontbrattbakkinanger
13:40 on 30 April, 2013
That’s your perspective.
Others may have a different perspective.
Some of those who were there last night may have been a bunch of wee clowns who need their arses kicked but to declaim they are not supporters is just silly.
blantyretim
You’re well looked after Bhoy, will the KSC be showing the Dundee Utd game and will you be watching it there??
pogmathonyahun aka laird of the smiles
12:41 on 30 April, 2013
I thought those running machines came in at £1690
TTT
Staying off the drink so I shouldn’t, put on much weight
Ah semantics. One man’s ‘trouble’ is another man’s ‘joyful celebration’.
DBBIA
At the weekend, I finally got delivered the GP and the Rumour album from last year (“Three Chords Good”.
It’s no “Squeezing Out Sparks” but there are a few good (couple of very good) songs and others that get better with each listening.
Somebody claimed that ol’ GP had got his mojo back but it was actually a Rumour. Worth spotifying (or good ol’ fashioned buying)
Starry
Game will be shown, depending on my recovery I would hope to be there,
Give me a buzz when you get back to the shire.
Just logged on to official site, no tickets being offered to me for Final. Anybody know of criteria?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
blantyretim
13:49 on 30 April, 2013
TTT
Staying off the drink so I shouldn’t, put on much weight
If you eat normally, three squares and no snacking, chocolate etc. you will lose 5Kg, I did.
Hail Hail!
Lennybhoy, supposedly a points system, previous cup games, away games, I don’t have tickets yet either, but I could get them from the bus I go up on.
Cheers robinbhoy
Hows the jet lag? U2 TTT?
If only the sevcovians could read above the level of The DR or The Scottish Sun:
(“The process [of mass-media deception] has to be conscious, or it would not be carried out with sufficient precision, but it also has to be unconscious, or it would bring with it a feeling of falsity and hence of guilt…. To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just so long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies – all this is indispensably necessary.”: George Orwell in the book 1984 )
blantyretim
Will do…
TBB
Previous posts of yours suggest that you are capable of a far more measured response than the one you gave to ernie.
As far as I can see, ernie is correct. Some Celtic supporters ARE hooligans. Indeed, statistically, it is likely that some Celtic supporters are thieves, murderers and criminals of many other descriptions.
I believe that, in general, we are a pretty well-behaved support but we cannot ignore the fact that a bad element exists. Maybe it is because the media outlets make so much more of our midemeanours that we tend a little towards denial.
JJ
Doc
See my post earlier re Montrose bus, only three.
Cadizzy -just seen the sleeve.
The Rumour have gone for the CQN look style wise.
I’ll have a listen
SofTunis – are your George Jones sausages to go on your Supremes sliced bread?
Doc is Neil Lennon 13:54:
Oh well, have taken tickets for Cup games that’s for sure. Ho hum…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Logically, did you actually mean ‘one’? As in: “Can one do an Int 2 in Logic?”
as
“Can you do an Int 2 in Logic?” does not follow if the answer to the answer to the first part is negative, amongst other variables.
Miki67
If Ledley is..
In YOUR opinion..
“a Workhorse of a Player”
Ah am afraid.. That observation does your reputation as hivin’
The.. ” Cool, Clear-Eyes, of a Seeker of Wisdom and Truth!”
Nae Favours.
Noo, fur YOUR .. Elucidation and Edification…
Tony Watt,,
Is.. “a Workhorse of a Player.”
Get it?
Got it?
Good!
Kojo
Still , Laughin
Ernesto -are you suggesting they need their arses kicked to teach them how a real supporter behaves?
Lionel Messi has scored 146 goals in 126 matches for club and country since the start of last season.
BT, that doesn’t leave me optimistic:-((
If I don’t get a ticket I’ll watch it in good company.
Cadizzy
Ole GP is very much up to speed.
Ala Snakeoil Salesmen Of The World
BSR
Lionel Messi has scored 146 goals in 126 matches for club and country since the start of last season.
He wouldn’t get a game for Scotland if he played for us….
…. And was Scottish obviously
Chortles Verdi has done a Robert Wagner
OleTVShows CSC