Midtjylland play their second league game of the season away to AaB Aalborg tomorrow evening, hoping to win their first points. Aab finished seventh last term, so it is a game Midtjylland will feel they have to win to get their domestic campaign on track.
Celtic are free of competitive pressures this weekend, facing West Ham at home tomorrow, where we can give players still working on their fitness an hour, then rest them for the trip to Denmark.
There is plenty of confidence ahead of the second leg against Midtjylland after a solid performance on Tuesday night but the name Aalborg will cause many of us to flinch. The then Danish champions travelled to Celtic Park in the 2008 Champions League group stage. It is fair to say they could be the weakest team we faced at that level, but indecisive finishing, for some of the game against 10 men, and a missed Barry Robson penalty, meant the game finished 0-0.
Celtic bossed the return leg at Aab’s tiny stadium and Robson atoned for his penalty miss by giving the visitors a second half lead.
Here’s the thing about football. You can think you are safe, then a deflected shot flies in from nowhere and a deflected cross hits a defender and allows a semi-professional outfit to beat Celtic to the Uefa Cup spot.
I hope we use every moment of our preparatory time tomorrow wisely. Nothing can be taken for granted.
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MM
Re: terracing roofs (rooves)
Floodlights were installed circa 1960 (and ‘opened’ with a friendly at CP v Sparta Rotterdam 14/5/1960)
I can’t lay my hands of proof meantime but vague childhood memory is that full roof on RE by late 60s – thinking post-Lisbon celebration footage here.
Celtic End remained half roof as long as I can remember, can’t say I recall it being fully roofed/rooved in Centenary season
Happy to stand corrected.
Nothing to do with roofs, but floodlights, I was astonished to find out that the first floodlights installed in Scotland were at Stenhousemuir……not at Celtic Park to guide in the German bombers as is the widely held belief.
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 23RD JULY 2021 6:28 PM
Many Celtic supporters don’t suffer from myopia. They have a long term view of things. It is quite normal to be deliriously happy that your team has just won the cup but to be unhappy because Neil Lennon was appointed manager after we seen what Brendan Rodgers had to offer and knowing that Leicester had paid Celtic enough compensation for us to appoint a proper Head Coach.
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That is full-blown 20/20 hindsight. Either that or sophistry concocted to suit your argument.
At that particular moment in time, Brendan Rodgers was – rightly or wrongly – considered deeply suspect by many Celtic supporters. His only achievement that season was the League Cup. At the time of his abrupt departure it was by no means certain that Celtic would clinch the League.
Yes, Neil Lennon’s appointment was not universally greeted with unalloyed joy. That said, at the time, fair minded fans believed that Neil had done enough to deserve the job.
vSQUIRE DANAHER on 23RD JULY 2021 7:29 PM
MM
Re: terracing roofs (rooves)
Floodlights were installed circa 1960 (and ‘opened’ with a friendly at CP v Sparta Rotterdam 14/5/1960)
Was it not against WOLVES.
If according to KA, JK was a great coach could he no teach him to heeder a baw…..
No biggy Kris is away and he tried his best for us fair play for a midfielder turned centre back who couldnae header a baw…
HH
D :)
From Brendan Rodgers one of the best coaches in Europe to a guy who had been sacked by Bolton and Hibs
You decide.!!!
The first match in which the floodlights were used was in a friendly v Wolves on 10 December 1959. To mark the occasion the Hoops had actually hoped to organise a glamour friendly with bigger fish. They had first tried to bring Real Madrid to Celtic Park for the game and though they offered the Spaniards a £5000 guarantee, Real Madrid required double this figure. The second choice was the French side and European Cup runners up Stade de Rheims, who also were unavailable. Wolverhampton Wanderers as English Champions were the third choice.
Who needs TONTO ???????????????????/
FAVOURITE UNCLE on 23RD JULY 2021 7:54 PM
I beg everyone’s pardon
You are absolutely Kaaarect
Wolves 12/10/1959
Dunno where I got that from.
Scans of programme covers available at the excellent Celtic programmes online site
http://celticprogrammes.co.uk/friendlies_pre2000.html
http://celticprogrammes.co.uk/celtic_1959_1960/wolves/wolves5960h.png
The lone ranger ? 😁😜
FRITZSONG on 23RD JULY 2021 7:47 PM
You’re wrong. Loads of fans didn’t want Neil appointed. He took an 8 point lead and increased it to 9 points with about 9 games left. He did well and there’s no doubt about it. I was also delighted that we won the Cup. What he should have been given was a hefty bonus and the gratitude of everyone associated with the Club. He was the perfect Short Term appointment but we had seen how Rodgers had transformed the team and wanted more of the same. Yes we were angry (very) at Rodgers leaving but that didn’t mean that we dismissed what he had done with the players and the success he had achieved. We wanted more of the same and wanted someone appointed who would work with the players instead of shout at the players.
Fritzong
You said of Brendan Rodgers,” His only achievement that season was the League Cup.”
He left in February and only the League Cup had been decided. We were at the top of the League and on the next round of the Scottish Cup. He had also won two Trebles.
There’s no 20/20 hindsight coming from me. Neil Lennon was never the full time appointment to carry on the progress made by Brendan Rodgers.
That League Cup that he ONLY won was his seventh trophy out of a possible seven.
@ CELTIC40ME on 23RD JULY 2021 6:32 PM
You’ve been back and forth with Chairbhoy re the role of Exec v Non-exec. I’m asking you to explain how they are treated differently under the law and what they are respectively “tasked with under company law”?
Sorry to see you go big Kris Ajer….woulda loved to have seen you playing as a holding middy…guid luck and thank you for my some of my best 1st 9-in-a-row memories. Welcome to Celtic Carl Starsfeld, the best team in the world….noo that’s a hill am prepared to die on ;-))
Is Starfelt a taintless sequel to Bawsfelt ;-))
H.H.
`SQUIRE DANAHER on 23RD JULY 2021 7:29 PM
MM
Re: terracing roofs (rooves)
Floodlights were installed circa 1960 (and ‘opened’ with a friendly at CP v Sparta Rotterdam 14/5/1960)`
I was at that game. I think there were eight rows of about six lights on each pylon. The place, naturally, was in darkness then, after a dramatic pause, the two bottom rows of each pylon were illuminated. We, of course, didn`t know that only the bottom two rows had been switched on but thought they were pretty good anyway and better than the normal row of lights along the stand used at most floodlit grounds. After a moment,the next next two rows came on and there was a murmur of appreciation soon followed by a colective gasp of delight as rows five and six were turned on.Finally, rows seven and eight blazed down upon the park and we were witnessing a brightness never before seen in Glasgow in October !
If memory serves , we lost 2-0 to a Wolves captained by England`s most capped player, Billy Wright. I also seem to remember that Bobby Collins was pretty good that night.
PS Some of the numbers above might not be accurate —it was a long time ago ! — but the general recollection is fair.
Are u sure yer upstairs Romanian neighbour wasn’t playing that nite Hot Smoked….;-))
H.H.
Ps….I think Abada looks like a biggerr Sean Maloney ;-))
H.H.
TheLurkinTim on 23rd July 2021 8:33 pm
I Loved Big Kristoffer – He was core de la Hard – wan ye want in the trenches with you.
Stephen has a chance. Early Days
Ange is Core and a lot more IMHO,
Give it a rest Pedro – Yer 50 next year.
David Rust – Banging mix/a>
HOT SMOKED on 23RD JULY 2021 8:35 PM
`SQUIRE DANAHER on 23RD JULY 2021 7:29 PM
Floodlights were installed circa 1960 (and ‘opened’ with a friendly at CP v Sparta Rotterdam 14/5/1960)
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This game against Sparta Rotterdam – was it not also the first time Celtic wore numbers on their shorts?
Pete…SW can only improve…not so sure we, as supporters, will give him time (that’s south-west to MadM)….;-))
H.H.
Creep has been busy today.
The Crowd wurnae all that enamoured…… Once again my link has went Pete Tong.
Just Progression will make me, personally, happy – I’m Excited.
Creep has been busy today.
Squire, exactly how old are you ya auld sweary word?
Kris Ajer in the trenches? Was that a hairdresser in the west end?
Take a deep breath.
timmy7_noted on 23rd July 2021 8:51 pm
Creep has been busy today.
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Please say who you are talking about. It is indeed so Simple to do.
Creep knows.
Pete…calm doon….It’s me MadMitch…;-))
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H.H.
timmy7_noted on 23rd July 2021 8:56 pm
Kris Ajer in the trenches? Was that a hairdresser in the west end?
Take a deep breath.
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He never hid and was always playing Different positions. I can accept that he has went but, IMO, he is a Big Loss.
TOSB @ 6.08
Hope you’re well.
Indeed, the Hampden showers and all The Original Dissenters, of which you were one.
There might have been unrest about the Cluj team selection, and the exit, but there was no chance of changing the manager that soon, there was no call for his head other than from supporters that didn’t want him in the first place. If Celtic sacked a manager every time we lost in Europe to a ‘lesser’ team our history would look very different. NL recovered the board remained steadfast, he became the first Celtic manager to win a European group, and after defeat at Ibrokes, we went on to win the league in a canter where there was professionalism a plenty to get us there.
In the lock down summer there were no non renewals even with no crowds expected, and zero posts on CQN saying that NL should be replaced before we attempted the tenth title? If there were, I must have missed them. Most Celtic supporters by this time had accepted that NL having completed one, and outright streaked the next, throw in a great final win at Hampden to boot, and he was in a strong position having held it together and welded BR success’s, as hoped by his boss’s.
The transfer window went reasonably well, or so we thought Ajeti, Barkas, and Duffy were not cheap squad fillers, Turnbull was, and is a good signing, we even got a third attempt at replacing Kieran Tierney with Diego Laxalt. Nobody predicted Shane Duffy could be unselectable long before the end of his expensive loan spell, of course we could have signed, more which Celtic era couldn’t ?
We kept the wantaways nobody knew not a rumble, in previous years VVD and Gary Hooper went after the qualifiers, in the corresponding fixture Cluj became Ferencvaros, and the board still came out and backed NL. Wonder who would have bourne the brunt of Eddy off to pastures new when ticketless season ticket money was winging its way out of our bank accounts?. His signings were piss poor and so were about two thousand other things that happened on the road, to the inevitable next chapter.
The so called, by the internet ‘showers appointment’ might not have been everybody’s favourite but pragmatists could easily see why they did it, and as mentioned earlier Liam Brady, Lou Macari, Owen Coyle ( nearly ) Roy Keane ( possibly nearly twice ) Tony Mowbray, Ronny Deila and The Eddie Howe fiasco, illustrate why this board baulk at change, and did again after losing St Brendan.
Celtic is not about Peter Lawwell or Neil Lennon, custodians come and go just like players.
HH
Petec
Great business as far as I’m concerned, IMHO he is saft can’t head,can’t tackle and greets to the ref like a big Jessie. His attributes are physical size and pace, he’ll be found out down south.
As I said my opinion.
Has it ever occured to me to be more than one personality online…of course it has…but that goes agsinst who I am ;-))
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H.H.
If anyone bids over 20 million for eduard it should be accepted and we should move on. Quality players who has a lot of groth left in him. Can see him move up another gear or two over the coming years.
He is easily the best player in Scotland and has more potential than any other players in Scotland too.
If sold ww need to go get another forward.
HH
Ww?
It’s all about credibility, or perceived credibility, I recall the first time that JHB posted, I would have probably been the first or second to respond to another poster that there was something just not quite right about him-her-it, a bot is possible, amazing what they can do these days, for sure I was in the first handful, now the credibility part, sometimes he says things that are 100% credible, there is no argument about it, but there is always the sly digs and the rest that just doesn’t add up.
I have been on here for many years and even Ernie Lynch surprised me the other day, hard I know, but he did, he actually said that the BBC were, I paraphrase ” the bastions of truth”, eff me, I nearly had a kitten when I read that, he has always intrigued me, had he said the “masters of propaganda” it would have been accurate, Paul even offered to arrange for him an audience with Pedro which he declined, now I wonder why, the only one that I recall that has been made the offer, aye the interweb sure is a mysterious place at times.
Kris is a big loss but he was no centre back.
Played with his heart on his sleeve and I love that but….
D :)
Sevco’s idea that the wee Colombian is worth more than eddie is crazy, he is a couple of years old, is very one dimensional and is well behind eddie in terms of technique. He has less scope for further improvement too.
They don’t seem to understand that guys still playing in Scotland at 25 and 26 are viewed in a different light to guys in their teens and early twenties.
HH
I see that GCC arecallowing huns more bums on seats for 2 friendly this weekend…that’s right 2 games this weekend, does someone need cash? Mmmmm
Anyway its Glasgow City Council who are calling the shots not wee Nicola and her corrupt cohorts.
D :)