What’s your hopes for tonight? Primarily I’m hoping to see Celtic play the kind of football we watched on Saturday, a fast, pass and move, game. I want to see Scott Sinclair and Tom Rogic take players on, for Leigh or Moussa to exploit space often denied to them in league games.
I’d also like to see four at the back. Defending in a formation we’re familiar with, even if it takes place 60 yards deeper than usual. This is where we got it wrong at Camp Nou. This Champions League group pits us against some of the greatest attacking footballers money can buy. It’s not a place for fundamental experimentation.
I suspect we’ll see the best Celtic goalkeeping performance of the season tonight. Craig Gordon will have lots to do, concentration will not have an opportunity to drop, decisions are likely to be more clear-cut that he’s been used to.
This is a big game for Kolo Toure. He’s a player who has little to prove to anyone, but that’s different when facing an English TV audience a few months after ending his 14 year term in the country. His performance tonight, and that of Celtic, will reflect on his decision to come to Celtic. Paul Lambert’s best game for Celtic came against Stuttgart in 2003. He also had a huge reputation in Germany, and an audience he wanted to convince he’d made the right move in coming to Celtic. Let’s hope for a similar outcome.
Enjoy the game.
Many thanks for the incredible support for my Great Scottish Run coming up on Sunday, to assist the work of the Foundation. The linked MyDonate account was at £1690 yesterday is right now is £10 off the £2k mark.
We have some special people among us.
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We have to compete and put ’em under pressure as Jack Charlton used preach no matter what the opposition. I will be more tjhan happy if we do that and keep tabs on that little …………….Aguero, easier said than done.
Evening All.
Hopefully we will get some points tonight.
Celtic Park on a European Night is a special place where the ghosts of our fathers come out into the stands and cheer the boys on to the most remarkable of results against all and any comers.
I have the feeling that tonight is one such night.
Speking of special thanks to all those who have supported the charity sleep out thus far.
I am only £300 off £2967
So, if anyone out there fancies doing a bit for charity why not take the Man City challenge and pledge £3/Celtic goal or £5/point won by the hoops?
Oh, and in the unlikely event that Man City get lucky and scrape a result then you can always chuck in a token fiver!!
Go on, help the homeless via the Celtic Charity Foundation and me!
https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/jamesmcginley2
Cheers
BRTH
Celtic v City under 19 on BT sport right now.
City wearing their new bigot Errol
Hi Bhoys
BADDA BING
There are 2 irish bars in ROME that show the football I can’t tell you the addresses but both within walking distance of the Trevi fountain. I liked Scholars best but the other is it’s sister pub The Abbey Theatre. ENJOY
KEEP THE FAITH
BADABING
Pubs in Rome , try The Scholars or Trinity College for game
Errol= STRIP
May e a sign that they will wear same strip at Celtic Park
CATMAN 350
“One for the watching”
Is that why my sister calls him a wee wanfer,or summat?
GEORDIE MUNRO
We are building and it takes time, As long as we give a good account of ourselves.
We are Celtic. That means a lot in itself.
In Brendan we trust.
Hail Hail!!!
KLV
Bada Bing
Also try Finnegans Irish Bar in Via Leonina
http://www.finneganpub.com/
Hope the best Man city player on the pitch is wee Paddy.
(Dont think he will start though).
Hope the Celtic fans raise the roof tonight (he he) and show the millionaires from Manchester how to support a team.
So is it Moussa or mighty mouse up front?
4 at the back or 5 ?
2 holding mids or??
Who knows ?not me I only know, there’s gonna be a show and the Glasgow Celtic will be there.
H.H
Moussa start with 20 to go we bring on Leigh and see what happens. Wee man is full of running and can create in space so that would be my choice, Big Moussa will hold the ball up and ragdoll people about in the back line hopefully freeing up space for Sinclair or a Rogic rocket.
KLV
Raymac: Timmys is a good bar in Torreblanca, next station down from Carvajal. Exit the station on the right, walk down the higher road about 200 yards and the pub is just above the tennis courts, beyond the Rovers Return. Kevin, the owner, is a season ticket holder.
TIME
Thanks bhoys, a pal is over there at the weekend
Goooooooooooooooooood evening friends from a rather showery and extremely blustery East Kilbride, 8.3 miles from The Park.
Incidentally, when double checking that distance I went onto Google Maps and searched for ‘Celtic Park’. When the map comes up the icon on the ground says “Celtic Park – Raucous home stadium of Celtic FC”
So couldn’t resist then searching for anoterh team in Glasgow and got “Ibrox Stadium – famous home of Rangers football club”
I much prefer raucous to famous. And I also genuinely prefer Park to Stadium.
What a load of useless baloney!
lol Jobo,
I was up in EK earlier I concur.
KLV
A football club’s reputation and status is built over a hundred years, not ten. Only three or four English clubs have the worldwide charisma of Celtic, and City for all their wealth would admit they don’t compare yet.
I wouldn’t trade places with them.
Celtic were the first team from these islands to win the European Cup[ and play in the final two years later. Man City cannot compare with that kind of pedigree .
I see they made the manks Q outside for hours today to pick up tickets for the game tonight, a shambles I believe, looks like the Louden won’t be shifting all them rolls and pies, unless the fat gardener appears, they sure thot that one through then :-)
THEEXILEDTIM
That must be City’s fault. They are responsible for selling their allocation.
Shame for their fans;I wouldn’t like to waste good ‘bonding’ time queuing for tickets.
Silly me, click on the BBC Scotland fitba site to get all the news about the biggest game in the UK tonight and for many year.
However, these are the headlines:
Cup final cases against clubs dropped –> (surprised, me neither)
Wallace and Maloney return for Scotland –> (mega yawn)
Rangers boss faces ban over language –> (he will be let off, just because…)
Then there is this:
“Celtic build-up – Scottish football live ”
(I guess this is where they will mention the Man Sittee v Celts???)
Der dear oh dear, their pain is AUIBLE !!!
National broadcaster ??? – my bahookie !!!
AUDIBLE, obviously
We can all hear it
Bwaahahahahahaha
BobbyM
It is, nothing to do with us, trying to stop trouble via passing tickets on to others, they got rather wet it seems and the polis kept moving them, some who were at teh front of the Q were moved to the back.
HH
SIXTAESEVEN
Screw them,bud. Let them wallow in their own pettiness.
They think they’re being ever so smart. Like a 3yo covering her eyes while playing hide-and-seek so you canny see her.
Evening all. Watching the development team
Here in the white lion pub in hersonesis before I move on to shenanigans bar for the big yins game. Not doing to well at the moment 2 nill down half time. On a better note, they just showed the highlights of the Huns v sheep game(braw) HH
Move the front of the queue to the back?
Good thinking,Plod. How to cause trouble without even trying.
SIXTAESEVEN –
Twas exactly the same on BBC Radio Scotland’s main sports bulletin. All of the above followed by a mention that Celtic are playing Manchester City in the Champions League and a reminder that they lost their opening game 7-0 in Barcelona.
Paul67 et al
Not sure about predicting the form of a player never mind the team, but the fact is a match of this magnitude offers an opportunity to everybody wearing green and white. And on the pitch of course, albeit not Hampden style. Ten in a row top of the EPL City come to town, our players will not get much better a platform either as individuals and as a team. LIve at Celtic Park, on BT Sports, and live on Radio 5, (prog. build-up begins 18.30 Glasgow mean time), there is a huge audience out there. As always I will back Celtic to win, but knowing also that we may not get there. Then again we just might. Come on the mighty Celtic!
Are there not enough Celtic news stories on CQN? (Asking for a friend).
For the horsey folk
http://www.independent.ie/sport/horse-racing/revealed-where-the-top-equine-stars-gigginstown-has-taken-out-of-willie-mullins-yard-are-headed-35087213.html
After 55 mins the youngsters are 2-0 down to Man City …. but the bhoys are beginning to play better
BENDIGO
Does that mean we can look forward to some of Gigginstown’s finest running at Perth(!)
Delighted for Elliot and the others,Mullins has been running a virtual monopoly over there.
Man city under 19’s look like a powerful unit .. Some great passing from them.
Doors to automatic………
Celtic youths creating a few chances
Seems I missed the chance of a ticket earlier, such was my devotion to the new job!
never mind it will have to be the telly…..have a good night everyone.
Hail! Hail!
How good is it to be back at Celtic park after a month away :-)
COYBIG
The problem for Celtic is not just the gulf in money to MC but to the English leagues and the difficulty of Brendan trying to build a team that can treble their wages in the Championship…