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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Johnny Clash,
if I joined your protest, would it still be okay to watch the SC cup final on tv? I am very happy to boycott the Antiques Roadshow if that helps.
Jungle Jim @13:57 suggests ” … Maybe it is because the media outlets make so much more of our midemeanours that we tend a little towards denial.”
It’s a worthy feature of our support. Some thuggish elements try to hide behind it.
One tactic is to let them know they’re on their against the justice system and that decent fans will co-operate with efforts to stamp on them.
They are a small minority.
I wouldn’t pass judgement on last night without eye witness accounts.
I’m glad I wasn’t held accountable for my behaviour at Celtic matches when I was young.
Cadizzy,
While we’re watchin’ the ole SFA Cup Final up here on Shortbread I understand that you and your landed gentry neighbours will be getting re-runs of John Craven’s Countryfile.
as for flares and fireworks – just youtube some of the argentinian league games – amazing spectacles – put to right the real wriongs in the game – the pyrotechnics add to the atmosphere – I’ll wager that those against it are all of a certain agegroup and frequent cqn ;-)
Glad to see so many discerning posters offering their backing to Joe Ledley.
I would have him in my team every time.
Johny Clash
ah but you’re assuming I only have council telly. MurdochVision is compulsory for those who are truly landed.
I wonder if the SC final will be deemed important enough by Davie Provan for him to kick the wee boy (Walker or McCann) aff Ian Crocker’s gantry.
Davie is up and coming at Sky and gets to comment on Sunderland games.
‘Neil Lennon on four-man shortlist unveiled for PFA Manager of the Year’
*this is unlikely to end well for NFL*
The winnin’ picture in this year’s Countryfile Calendar is of one of our handsome Shangri La badgers, strollin’ down the road lookin’ for an ole hedgehog to kick the arse out of.
JC
..actually, I can get Shortbread as well so I’ll be spoilt for choice… Davie Dodds, Rob McLean, Pat Nevin………..Steven Craigan, David Tanner, Neil McCann….
Bada
Some great deals at the moment from hotel connexions for Glasgow, give them a ring or hav a look at their website. HH
bournesouprecipe
14:56 on
30 April, 2013
‘Neil Lennon on four-man shortlist unveiled for PFA Manager of the Year’
*this is unlikely to end well for NFL*
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Neil could be on the list with the managers of the 3 relegated teams in Scotland and would get a 3 match ban for showing off :))
You’d need to kick the arse out of a hedgehog. You’d never be able to hing one of them even if it wasn’t too good for hingin’
Johnny Clash @ 14 42 .
They might just resurrect this —-
To the choon of — This Old Man .
” Old Firm twins , Old Firm wins ..
Loadsa money , Old Firm twins “
Doc
Thanks for lunch.
Re my post earlier I wasn’t suggesting the support should boycot, I was suggesting the Club should.
Anyway Mini Doc is taking your ticket :-)
Cadizzy,
As far as the Murdoch/Cameron cabal is concerned Provan is okay for those peasants in the North East. I suspect that the Home Counties streaming of the Campbell Ogilvie Final on Sky will have our very own Philvis and Gideon Osborne sitting either side of the demigod that is Ian Crocker.
Oh Dear
Audio Link CSC
Dontbrattbakkinanger 14:57 on 30 April, 2013
The winnin’ picture in this year’s Countryfile Calendar is of one of our handsome Shangri La badgers, strollin’ down the road lookin’ for an ole hedgehog to kick the arse out of………..
That ole Billy McKinlay still kicking aboot?????
TBM
I’d have Joe Ledley in my team too…………just a tad embarrassing having to ask “Is Joe playn
the day?”at paradise every other week…….and that’s in 70th minute :0(
I see that Southampton are looking to swoop for Hooper, Forster AND Wanyama. Yikes!
In other news East Stirlingshire are targeting Iniesta, Messi and Fleck.
DBBIA
The ol Manatees ain’t gonna be too happy that the Badgers are moving in on their racket.
Che, my misread.
The club would never do it.
I get why many are looking for the club to do something, and for that to be seen, but, as I said at lunch, behind the scenes arm twisting is the way to get things done effectively.
Public confrontations won’t do it for us, too much spinning against us.
Your welcome, and yes she almost certainly will.
Must have been a lovely lunch you two had o))
The Answer tae Hooignism is..
Draconian Punishment…(as it wid be Defined.. By the Usual Coterie of Pantywaists.)
If Ah wur King..
Ah wid.. Sentence,the Offending Rascals and Vagabonding Marauders, who so
Viciously.. and withoot Compunction.. Wrecked, And Damaged so Miny Seats
at the Confronto…in Firhill…. of last eve..
tae
Public EMBARRASSMENT..
by..
Exhibiting them…Bound and Fettered… in a Rack of Public Stocks.. which, wid be set up in George Square..
and ..
With A Vociferous Contingent of Ripe Tomato, Sellers..in Attendance..
Entreating and Cajoin’ .. the Assembled Crowd of Curiosity Seekers.
“Roll up.. Roll up.. Get yer .. Ripe and Juicy.. Tomato Missiles Here… Tuppence(?) a Dozen!”
If this Suggested Punishment , wiz Implemented..
Ah kin Assure everyone ,withoot fear of the following claim , being Unsubstantiated..
That.. There wid be…
No..further.. “Incidence of .. Such Incidents, that hiv a Nasty habit
of Occurring at .. Celtic and G.A. Confrontos.
Kojo
Still…Laughin
BT, soup and a sandwich, as I was paying it was the cheap option.
TBB- they’re chill with it.
Somethin’ along the lines of ‘my enemy’s enemy is my friend’.
Ole hedgehogs seeking a mutual protection pact with the Eagle Owl, which could up the ole ante[agane].
No one is in a hurry to kick the arse out of the ole Bubo Bubo.
‘In June 2007, an Eagle Owl nicknamed ‘Bubi’ landed in the crowded Helsinki Olympic Stadium during the European Football Championship qualification match between Finland and Belgium. The match was interrupted for six minutes. After tiring of the match, following Jonathan Johansson’s opening goal for Finland, the bird left the scene.’
Wise ole bird, the owl. Not hangin’ round to watch one of Walter’s galacto-diddies.
I’ve had 14 bookings this season – 8 of which were my fault, but 7 of which were disputable.’
Paul Gascoigne
DBBIA
Need to send yon badgers up to that island to chase the hedgehogs off it.
B/Tim- what’s St Patrick doing these days?
Rotten tomatos and stocks……neo-mediaevalism, in keeping with the times we live in and the mental government we suffer under.
I get fed up with my fellow humans. Never have understood this need for gleeful cruelty.
Nowadays we have reality t.v. which depicts no kind of reality I’m familiar with.
It’s akin to the Victorians’ delight in touring asylums , at a price, to gawp and point at the poor unfortunates; Bedlam being one of those terrifying (for the inmates) madhouses.
Now, the whole world is one big Bedlam.
Well, they do say a cynic is just a disillusioned romantic. And overly high expectations don’t help either.
Now I’m blethering.
Nap (doctor’s orders) required. Great excuse for this lazy git.
; > )
BallOfConfusion CSC
Rest miki…..
i see pinstriped masons have employed a Qc to oversee their inquirey into sevco invedtigation
Afternoon all. Just been on the phone to the TO. Chap there tells me that there is only a small section between the North and East Stand still available. Are they just trying to get rid of these or has everyone who got a ticket through the ballot already booked? A wee bit of a worry…..
Kojo 15:22 on 30 April, 2013………….
Whit, ye widnae cut their hauns aff????????
TBM
From twitter.
UEFA definition of a club “a legal entity fully responsible for a football team”
http://t.co/o6ElgpFbjo
RFC = dead club
UEFA says- “A licence applicant may only be a football club, i.e. a legal entity fully responsible for a football team”
I see the hedgehog haters are out in force again.
You will never know true love until you have . . . . . . . . . oh wait, I may have went too far there . . . . .
Ulryc
Curly
No greater love hath a man than the love of his faithful and true hedgehog…
Ulcyr
Sheep will get jealous