Fifa yesterday banned Benfica and Brazil central defender Luisão from all football activities until November for knocking a referee unconscious in a preseason game against Fortuna Dusseldorf in August.
Benfica didn’t expect Luisão to be available for tonight’s Champions League game against Celtic but the decision, coming a day before kick-off, will do nothing for morale. While they lost midfielders Javi Garcia and Axel Witsel to Manchester City and Zenit late in the transfer window, it shouldn’t be forgotten that Benfica spent well over £20m this summer. The new guys will no doubt eventually prove their worth, but right now they remain very much the new guys. Celtic have to make them feel a long way from home tonight.
During our last successful Champions League group stage in 2007 we concluded that it was more important not to make mistakes at this level than to try to score the perfect goal. If we get a solid performance from Scott Brown and Victor Wanyama in front of a defence which clears its lines and takes no chances, the stage will be set for James Forrest and Gary Hooper. I expect both to hurt Benfica.
It was interesting to hear our chief executive take questions on the subject of EBTs and the health of our club yesterday. More on this after the matter in hand has passed.
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AWE NAW @ 14 06
Memorably sang to Homer by MJ in a particularly fine episode of the Simpsons .
Surprised you ‘ve missed out on the possible delights of Mandy
Miki67
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I moved down to Dorchester in June.
Lovely part of the country but I can’t help but long for the bright (flood)lights of Celtic Park on days like this!!!
Philvis,
The Roman Empire imo actually ran its state more favourably towards its people (yes, “plebs” and slaves included, than either of today’s “bringers of democracy”.
It even exercised and promoted religious tolerance (celebration, even) as opposed to using religion as a divide and conquer mechanism.
It also used solid coinage as opposed to printing it’s own paper money and declaring itself rich.
Miki67 great stuff!
I hate missing home CL games, but will just have to content myself with watching the game in McCabe’s Bar in Lagos, West Algarve!
We’ll really miss Ledley and Sami tonight, Broon is always a worry in centre mid as well. Would seriously consider starting Charlie at left mid to help Izzy out.
Hugely important that our midfielders track their runs into our box…we’re not good at that.
Wouldn’t start JF tonight either, possibly bring him on halfway during 2nd half.
Hope you all have a great time in the stadium tonight.
HH
TTTT
Apologies if already posted but 19:35 for YNWA tonight deedicated to the 96
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
I am bemused you imagine a delicate spring flower like myself from Cambuslang would even be aware of such terminology……. Had a pint with young Bobby last Friday who actually is a wallflower AAAAAAAAAAAAAAhhhhhh but BT was there that is where I must
be picking up these nonsenses.
Philvis
I must admit to a little flippancy in that post ;¬)
Nevertheless, seems to me we need to get rid of the zero sum game that is ‘city trading’ and focus our efforts on doing stuff that is worthwhile, of which there are plenty to choose from.
Betting half the nation’s pension fund that the Euro will fail by Christmas, and the other half that it will see in the New Year, doesn’t do a great deal for very much at all, least of all us pension fund members.
We ought to get a little more creative, and a little less avaricious. Al in my view of course.
Gotta go. Wall Street’s inching up and I’m short. I’ve got some puts to punt pronto to some schmuck or another.
4 greenfields,hamiltontim,blantyretim,if any of you about my son is on his way north with bottle of whisky for wee OSCAR’S cause.i told him to hand it in to PHEONIX on night of quiz.he lives in city centre 10 mins walk.hail hail mon the hoops tonight.
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes – De nada (thumbsup)
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire – Personally I’d make civil servants fight each other in a Hunger Games style deadly game of cat and mouse. Winner gets a romantic vegan dinner with Ed Miliband. (thumbsup)
philvisreturns
Hunger games is just a teenage rip-off of Battle Royale.
Mort
I said yesterday Benfica had a soft centre. I would be tempted to play Lassad tonight, a physical CF will ragdoll this mob.
Our fullbacks will have to have the game of their lives as well.
TBH, I never thought we’d get through to the group stages, especially after Helsinki went 1-0 up at CP.
These matches are a bonus.
jude 2005.bottle of malt as promised on way for WEE OSCAR’S cause.hail hail.
miki67, that AFC forum was excellent.
As one poster points out: “Some of these Rangers fans’ protests sound like Turner Prize entries. ”
The Tesco idea is priceless in itself – proof of a dopeyness of intergalactic dimensions.
The Battered Bunnet – Nevertheless, seems to me we need to get rid of the zero sum game that is ‘city trading’
But it’s not a zero sum game. If it were, they wouldn’t have willing buyers and sellers continuing to come together to make peaceful exchanges.
and focus our efforts on doing stuff that is worthwhile, of which there are plenty to choose from.
Who gets to choose?
Betting half the nation’s pension fund that the Euro will fail by Christmas, and the other half that it will see in the New Year, doesn’t do a great deal for very much at all, least of all us pension fund members.
The alternative is we put all eggs in one basket and hope for the best. Who gets to decide which baskets? What makes them infallible?
We ought to get a little more creative, and a little less avaricious. Al in my view of course.
I think the problem with the financial markets is they’ve been far too creative in recent years.
As for avarice: greed is good. Greed is what made our parents and grandparents determined to pass on a better life to us than the ones they enjoyed.
Greed had lifted more people out of poverty than all the good intentions in history.
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own self-interest. In other words, their greed.
Furthermore, life is short, so enjoy it while you can. Who doesn’t want to enjoy the nice things in life? Good food, sunshine, pleasant company, quality booze, nice cars, comfortable surroundings, attractive redheaded women, and the like?
All based on greed for the fruits of the earth. Man’s divine discontent with his lot.
I plan on being as greedy as possible, and you should be too. Greed is humanity’s last best hope. (thumbsup)
Interesting media coverage of the disastrous sevco result last night, particularly the implications on their survival etc ……….. Brought a smile when I thought about just how it would have been reported if all this was happening across at PARADISE…..
Do sevco actually have a crest…????
Would be tempted to throw Ambrose in tonight if he’s in the right condition and frame of mind- defence is way too soft and struggles with any opponent with a bit of power or anyone that runs at them. Cardozo has both attributes so will present a huge problem if we don’t limit supply. He’s bound to see some of the ball though and thats when we need our defenders to be solid and not do anything stupid.
I’d let young Ambrose loose and tell him to have no fear, this is the level at which we operate young man, go out there and do the business and you’ll be a Celtic legend!
2-1 Celtic
3-0 Barcelona
Hail Hail
Mort – Hunger games is just a teenage rip-off of Battle Royale.
I know, but BR was just a rip of of Pat Sharp’s “Fun House”. (thumbsup)
ASonOfDan @ 14 30.
The Ref —– Nicola Rizzoli is not known for his toleration of physical footballers . .
Last time I saw his Serie A stats he was averaging close to 5 cards a game .
Equally – neither Rodrigo or Cardoso are shrinking violets –
Philvis
An echo of Gekko. Fine.
I have no issue with a guy who wants to bet his dough on strudel or cheesecake, but we have a leetil problem where those taking the punts have no meaningful relationship with those whose dough is being punted.
Nice work if you can get it I suppose, but it needs an awful lot of mugs.
philvisreturns
14:11 on
19 September, 2012
Fortunes Favour Mibbes – Maybe we could liquidate the UK, change its name, and buy the history of the Roman Empire from Italy.
Togas and wine for everybody. (thumbsup)
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Can we have chariots too?..and just what did the Romans do for us?…they arrived at Hadrians wall looked over and said “what a bigotted sad wee country!” or rather
“quid bigotted tristis literaliter, regionem”..(thumbs up}
The Ramsdens Cup Theme Tune…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2nA77k_YGg
I like RTC’s simple way of showing that taking away tainted titles is NOT a punishment.
To paraphrase his/her recent Tweet:
Stripping titles = confiscating stolen goods.
philvisreturns
Ah Fun House, the twins were the best part of that show.
Mort
Fortunes Favour Mibbes – The Roman Empire imo actually ran its state more favourably towards its people (yes, “plebs” and slaves included, than either of today’s “bringers of democracy”.
Really? Would you rather be a plebian in 60 BC, or an Average Joe in America today? REALLY?
It even exercised and promoted religious tolerance (celebration, even) as opposed to using religion as a divide and conquer mechanism.
Yes, apart from its treatment of the Jews. And the Christians.
It also used solid coinage as opposed to printing it’s own paper money and declaring itself rich.
You have a point.
However, coins aren’t wealth either. Not really. Not when you get down to it. You can’t eat coins or wear them or live in houses made of them. They also have limited entertainment value.
Wealth is goods and services.
Once the growth in the money supply exceeds growth in the supply of goods and services, it doesn’t matter if your currency is based on paper, silver, or VHS copies of Stephen J. Cannell television shows, you have inflation.
All a precious metals based currency does is act as a brake on the government’s inherent tendency over time to inflate the currency to worthlessness. The real problem is not the form of currency, it’s that the government controls it. (thumbsup)
Fun House ?
Easily the best Stooges LP [ IMO ]
celtic_first_celtic_last_celtic_overall14:18 on19 September, 2012
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I know EXACTLY what you mean.
btw, Dorchester is a great wee town.
HH!
philvisreturns
It also used solid coinage as opposed to printing it’s own paper money and declaring itself rich.
You have a point.
However, coins aren’t wealth either. Not really. Not when you get down to it. You can’t eat coins or wear them or live in houses made of them. They also have limited entertainment value.
Wealth is goods and services.
Once the growth in the money supply exceeds growth in the supply of goods and services, it doesn’t matter if your currency is based on paper, silver, or VHS copies of Stephen J. Cannell television shows, you have inflation.
All a precious metals based currency does is act as a brake on the government’s inherent tendency over time to inflate the currency to worthlessness. The real problem is not the form of currency, it’s that the government controls it
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You almost stumbled on some socialism there but came unstuck at the end. C- for attainment. F for effort and understanding.
Do governments control the currencies of the world? To some extent. But those who gamble and speculate on a corporate level -as their ‘job’ – do much to mess up the state of currency of all types.
DO you believe that growth can go on for ever so that the current monetary system of exchange for goods and servoces can continue?
Do you think tat there may come a time when people like yourself start to understand the real meaning of what you say abou the worthlessness of money and that we will need to addresss the problem of finite growth and change the way we trade and the system of capital that encourages unsustainable growth in markets and the use of resources?
You were almost right Philvis, just for all the wrong reasons
With Sammy missing and Benfica likely to attack down the flanks we need to be well organised and compact. Would like to see
Lustig Rogne Wilson Mathews
Brown Wanyama Mulgrew Izzy
Commons
Miku
miki67 14:52 on 19 September, 2012
I know EXACTLY what you mean.
btw, Dorchester is a great wee town.
HH!
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Don’t you go patronising me with your ‘wee town’ chat…I live in THE County Town :P
Not so much happening in the way of Celtic in the Champs League though. Too many country pubs without Sky Sports – or even TVs!
Not to worry though, it keeps me out of trouble on a school night!
HH!
Philvis said:
As for avarice: greed is good. Greed is what made our parents and grandparents determined to pass on a better life to us than the ones they enjoyed.
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What utter garbage. Love made our parents and grandparents do those things. Greed made some of that generation stoere up massive resources for themselves while the majority scraped by. Greed made the bosses fight every development in health and safety, free education,health and welfare.
Greed took away free third level education and student grants – our children will be far worse off if they want the kind of education that many of us enjoyed for free. Where were all the greedy parents and grandparents when the tories and New Labour started robbing their offspring of that right?
I want my children to be ‘better off’ than me. But that does not make me greedy. I makes me human. and the ‘better off’ I talk about is not monetary but in terms of living in a compassionate caring world where no one starves or dies or treatable diseases.
You have surpassed yourself with that one.
LOL …….. Evening Times
Loyal subjects hold Rangers to court after Queen of the South shock
By CHRIS JACK
IT may only be two years since Rangers fans ventured out midweek to see some of the most glamorous teams and biggest names in the game strut their stuff on the hallowed Ibrox turf but today they will seem like a lifetime away.
Ally McCoist saw his Rangers side crash out of the Ramsdens Cup
The likes of Real Madrid, Arsenal and PSG kicked off their Champions League campaigns, with Old Firm rivals Celtic set to do likewise against Benfica at Parkhead this evening.
At Ibrox last night, Ally McCoist’s side had their attentions focused somewhat further down the footballing spectrum as they attempted to book their place in the Ramsdens Cup semi-finals.
It was to prove a task beyond the Gers as Queen of the South clinched a dramatic 4-3 penalty shootout win to dump them from the competition in embarrassing fashion.
Defeat condemned McCoist’s side to their first major setback of the season and, in truth, they got little more than they deserved as Allan Johnston’s Doonhamers recorded one of the biggest wins in their history.
If anyone needed reminding of how far Rangers have fallen in recent months, the proof arrived last night. It was an abject performance from the Gers as they saw their dreams of a remark-able quadruple this season crumble in shocking fashion.
The days of competing in Europe’s premier competition may have gone, for now, for the Gers but the hunger for silverware must still be met by McCoist and his players, with the drop down the leagues no reason for them to lower their expectations.
While Rangers’ troubles on the road this season have been well versed, with struggles at Brechin, Peterhead, Berwick and Annan on league and cup duty thus far, their fortunes have been far better on familiar territory as they have hit the goal trail in front of a partisan crowd.
The level of opposition may have diminished but an expectant fanbase still demands success, and a level of skill, flair, ambition and drive, from those that are currently occupying the famous blue jerseys. Once again, they never got it.
There will be a degree of understanding at the position McCoist and his squad find themselves in from the Light Blue legions but performances must be maintained at certain standards, with few showings thus far coming up to scratch.
For much of this last eight clash they were once again lacklustre and disappointing, with the supposed gulf in class between the respective sides barely apparent as the Gers laboured against a Queens team who have shown a clinical touch in front of goal this season as they have shot to the top of the Second Division.
Were it not for two decent saves from Neil Alexander, as the Gers No.1 tipped long range efforts from Chris Mitchell and Danny Carmichael over the bar inside the opening 20 minutes, the smattering of dissenting voices at half-time would surely have grown into a larger majority of the 23,392 crowd inside Ibrox on a cold, crisp evening in Glasgow.
Just seconds after the restart, the groans were replaced by silence all around the stadium, apart from the corner where the large Doonhamers travelling support had congregated, as the visitors took a 48th-minute lead, Nicky Clark heading beyond Alexander after meeting a pinpoint Willie Gibson cross from the left flank.
The Rangers response was almost immediate. Just as in their fixtures against East Stirlingshire and Elgin at Ibrox earlier in the campaign, it took the concession of the first goal to spark them into life, with Barrie McKay’s equaliser, as he bundled home from a corner, the ideal riposte from McCoist’s side.
When Lee McCulloch put them ahead from the spot with 20 minutes to go, it seemed Queens had been condemned to a valiant defeat.
But, after Kevin Kyle saw red for McCoist’s men and then Gibson followed him down the tunnel for the visitors, the Palmerston side proved they were still up for the fight, Gavin Reilly netting with the last kick of the game.
The fact the Dumfries team’s goal hero was offside before he slid in to send the tie to extra- time undoubtedly added to Rangers’ despair.
The extra half-an-hour only served to infuriate the Ibrox crowd, with Rangers failing to break down the Queens rearguard and Alexander once again proving the hero, saving from sub Dan Orsi in the final minute.
It only delayed the moment of triumph for former Rangers star Johnston’s men. After Dean Shiels and Anestis Argyriou missed from the spot, Ryan McGuffie emerged as the man of the moment for the visitors as the Ibrox outfit were left to trudge from the field in disbelief and embarrassment.
Rangers will return to the scene of the crime on Sunday as Montrose visit on Third Division duty. It is the ideal time for those on the park to start repaying the loyalty of those who have watched on from the stands this season.
philvis..,
“As for avarice: greed is good. Greed is what made our parents and grandparents determined to pass on a better life to us than the ones they enjoyed.”
you’ll go to the bad fire for that.
The usual drivel spouted
all the improvements have been made by communisation, poor people unionising and demanding better treatment.
PC67, c’mon man. You’re boss. Shut up shop early and get yersel up tae Coias for dinner and beer.
I’ll keep your seat warm. Off in 30 mins for the drive south. Meeting ‘Tim for Change’ to hand over his golden ticket.
See you later bruv
Mon the hoops
HH :-)
Not sure how the Ramsden cup
works ?
Do the rangers now go into
the group stages of the
tenants sixes ??
Happy Celticing
philvisreturns @ 14:44
Did we not discuss the effectiveness of corn as a currency already??
Re a 60BC plebeian and/or Spartacus type fella – he worked to earn as much freedom as his wage could give him – not much different from today’s economic structure.
Re Rome’s treatment of Jews and Christians – communities were policed based purely on tax contribution and army recruitment – again, not unlike today, except that today, religion is used as a divide and conquer mechanism. Cicero’s Rome did not use cultural diversity to control its empire, and thanks largely to there being no Rupert Murdoch type character with multiple writing tablets, citizenship was gladly extended to the whole of the empire, specifically those who earned it – surely it encompasses everything you stand for???. However, I can also reveal that there were no Christians in 60BC.
TRUE right wing liberalism for all except those pesky benefit scroungers, and no Praetorian CCTV, or cookies imbedded in the tablets.
I gather you’re not actually a Tory, but a liberalist – ie, freedom for the individual to earn more than his neighbour, and freedom from being too concerned about the morality of this. The only tax payable was for central government and war funds. Again, not unlike today – just more honest about it.