News that the Maribor game later this month is on the season book has setup a dramatic climax to what will be remembered for decades as a remarkable month in our history. We didn’t ask for this situation. As we drifted away from Murrayfield, our thoughts were only of Celtic’s abject display, but nine days and two Uefa Disciplinary hearings later, we’re through to the Champions League play-off round next week.
For Legia Warsaw, the pill is unbearably bitter. So much so, they had to appeal to Uefa, and on to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, despite scant cause. CAS who will eventually be asked to determine if Uefa’s rules were interpreted correctly. Which they were. The consequences for Legia are so abrupt their reactions are understandable.
Football affects us in ways which are not always beneficial. There was nothing Legia fans could do to remove their distress this past week, but reading comments, by fans of another Scottish club on this subject, has given a glimpse into the human condition.
The emotional investment by some Scottish football fans in Legia’s forlorn cause has evidently resulted in untold misery. Celtic fell into the Clyde and came out holding a winning Euromillions ticket. It was unplanned for, random and undeserved, but it happened and, right now, Celtic are the luckiest team in the world.
At a time when their phoenix club is falling apart before their eyes, our unearned good fortune has caused volumes of hilarious, angry, ranting. Efforts to explain it as a consequence of immoral plots (as well as running the Celtic, the SFA, the SPFL, Glasgow City Council and The Commonwealth, Peter Lawwell also manipulates Uefa’s Disciplinary Body) demonstrate classic evidence of our old friend, Cognitive Dissonance.
We were blind lucky, accept that, or continue to give the rest of the world new and innovative ways to enjoy their football. It’s not worth the dissonance.
It’s been an interesting week in the media. Neil McCann’s excitable misinterpretation of the rules on Wednesday was a highlight, but the paper which brought you ‘news’ that Celtic wanted Dan Pertrescu to be manager, who declined as he was warned the club have problems by Neil Lennon, subsequently got a second story when they ran a properly sourced article denying ‘reports’ Neil spoke to Pertrescu.
I’m also loving reading those who in the media were spinning anti-Celtic nonsense that Neil left because he wasn’t happy with the player budget, now suggesting he could take over Crystal Palace, after Tony Pulis left because he wasn’t happy with the player budget.
Nonsense like this is never random, it has a purpose………..
On a related subject, I’m gutted for Palace, their fans, and for Pulis. The economics of the entire English league structure doesn’t work. Well-run clubs with good managers will be weeded out and relegated, as crazy debt-junkies inflate the bubble a little longer. Scottish football may be poor, but there are only two of our 42 clubs in any sort of financial danger.
Flag Day tomorrow, get along early, give Fergus a warm welcome back, and bring some change for The Kano Foundation bucket collection on the way in. Remember to join Fergus, Jim Craig and others from the Celtic Graves Society for the Jimmy Quinn event at Kilsyth Cemetery.
Thank you to everyone who gave so generously to Mary’s Meals by entering our competition for tickets in the comfy seats tomorrow. I’m proud of every one of you. My thanks also to Magners for helping out. The competition is now closed, winners will be informed by email shortly, so check your inbox!
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Aow
was in horse and barge today with dd, spoke about you in dispatches.
Had a cracker last week with partick jc +
useless comes to mind..
Joe Filippis Haircut
:-)))
Auldheid. You are not wrong there!!!
• Art of War
21:23 on 15 August, 2014
Old posters- what happened to Natssoolla( or last saloon)?
Like Ryecatcher, he usually got it tight on here….and rightly so.
Rye, you’ve been spouting your opinion on Fergus all week looking for someone to bite. What’s your agenda?
Noel90 and Super Celt…………………..
wereCQNlegends
31003/BT
Astonished at both of you backing that poster.
HT
I have conversed with ryecatcher on a few occasions, never had any problems with him..
I am sure my drunken rants have offended many on here also..
Doc
always an upside
Imagine burning cash you don’t have to pay for that dross …..
Elbows attacks the keeper!!
BT
He’s a troll.
Each to their own.
….PFAyr, you know me, I’m an eternal optimist, I can see Swally in post for a long hard season of failure.
There’s fans and there’s SUPPORTERS
Bye all
NegAnon2
21:11
Fergus, and others including the fans (through shares), protected our history, saved us from Cambuslangland, built a new stadium, invested in the team and stopped T in a R.
Yes I was gutted when TB was sacked and have no idea why he employed Jock Brown.
Fergus was single-minded but the situation demanded that style of leadership. No Charles Green rhetoric or false promises.
Wee Fergus delivered his plan. So no romanticism from me just hard facts.
But hey I respect your right to have a totally different view.
HT
ok mate, I ignore most of the trolls..
Evening all
Doc. I dont know you but I think your dreaming they will get all the help they need to get into the SPL next season you can put your mortgage on it. H.H.
Best thing about tonight’s game is the pitch, it looks great.
Green and white it is too.
Adi
ya flouncer
Bt
Sleekit / rye same M.O
Chancer !!
Masty
ya troll.. evening bro..
BT
I know pal as do I!!
So do you need tickets for Maribor ya cheeky bam? :-)
Bt
Been called a lot worse mo chara
St J manager on BBC Sport page;
“If there was contact [with Boerrigter] it was minimal and it didn’t make him go down
Curious.
Marspapa
u missed a great night Wednesday, naw it was a great night cos u wearnae there..
hail hail big guy
Philbhoy 20.53
Thannk you for your kind words and prayers. I started to watch Sevco and jinxed it. I have no idea how they won. Saving grace is Super Ally remains.
Evening Masty.
HT
howye?
I take if the rotten mob won?
If-it
BT- making me jealous mate! DD fair getting about, good on him.
Ah old Jurassic Partick JC+ – what did they feck up this time?
HT
Serious Q. If you and Minxy have a little bhoy, will it be called Ant or Dec? :-))))
HH
CRC
derbyshirebhoy. Unfortunately you will be saying I dont know how they won all season just as sure as you will say the MSM have it in for the tic. This is the final part of there triumphant return to the SPL and it is all hands to assist them.H.H.
HT
I’ll take 2 for me and mrs bt..if u have them
u could ask the minx to take mrs bt to aad and you go to game wi me..
HT
A wee bird tells me you would rather go see 2 geordie midgets than our beloved hoops.
Canny be right surely?
Masty
I’m grand. You paying a trip to a decent pub any time soon? :-)
CRC
Aye very good ya wee nugget :-)
TGBS
How can anyone’s opinion be wrong?
It might be different and seem at odds with how someone else see it, but how anyone chooses to interpret the same set of facts will rarely coincide.
Legia, Red Cards, Penalties, Simulation, GB, Standing instead of sitting, Govt statements, Celtic statements for that matter all matters that people have opinions on and rarely agree.
Westminster, HMRC, FOI, Scottish First Minister ..how an opinion on that lot could be wrong – after what we’ve endured, really beats me.
All of the stuff you quoted could easily be spun another way, but that is what an opinion is.
HH Off oot for dinner so have fun.
COYBIG
Crc.
Miracle
BigJoe- it’s funny who we remember.
Still miss the humour of a certain Tory poster who was also a podium chaser par-excellence. :-)