Our unofficial Celtic v Atletico Madrid match programme is now available. We preview tomorrow’s match as well as the other game in our group between Rennes and Udinese, as well as a look back 37 years to that infamous game against Atletico in the European Cup semi-final.
European nights have always been special in my Celtic supporting time. When I was a boy they would fill Celtic Park whereas it was predominantly empty on domestic duty. The modern era brought great Uefa Cup and Champions league moments but for a while, even at the peak of our Champions League prowess, the stadium lost something to corporate interests. I remember watching fans walk out of the stadium with 10 minutes on the clock when we were drawing 0-0 with Milan!
Tomorrow night will be more like the great days I remember, when every soul inside the ground was plugged into the nervous anticipation that pumps through all our veins.
Atletico Madrid occupies a similar place in our history to Rapid Vienna. If you were around during the 70s and 80s, when these two clubs eliminated Celtic on their way to European finals, by violence and dishonesty respectively, games against these clubs will have an added dimension. Two years ago we finished above a decent Rapid team in the Europa League group stage who had already dumped Martin O’Neill’s Aston Villa. When Scott McDonald’s goal went in I raised my arms and inadvertently punched the safety ladder at the back of the North Stand, the cut knuckles and bruising lasted weeks. It was a stupid incident but captures the, 40-odd-thousand-people-one-heartbeat, phenomenon that we get to experience too seldom in our lives.
I’m going to look out the hoops tonight, been ages since I’ve worn them. Bring on Atletico, Falcao ‘n’ all.
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canamalar
a concrete one….
greenjedi says:
30 November, 2011 at 10:41
Imagined the outrage if they’d said “We were going to effectively tax public sector workers 3% but as we’ve said we’re all in this together we’re going to put income tax is going up by 1.5% across the board”. That would have gone down well.
weeminger says:
30 November, 2011 at 10:46
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March starts in High St at 12.30
HH to all fellow CQNs on strike today.
Got a text last night that made the point that far more people got a day off for the “celebration” of the royal wedding. No one focussed on the cost to the economy then.
Also why is it mainly those that want a smaller state complain that thay will be disrupted because public transport isn’t on, schools are shut and nobody to babysit their kids.
Could be worse Alex Mugabe Salmon migt one day have control of the economy.
Boys any of you seen Phils new article.
TROTSKY BASSAS, get with real world.
Had to laugh , last night on tv public sector botanist being interviewed,pure
raging ,so he wis.
Gordon64
Where is the march going and when does it end mate?
HT
oldtim was asking if you are going to be in town this afternoon?
weeminger says:
30 November, 2011 at 10:46
greenjedi says:
30 November, 2011 at 10:41
Imagined the outrage if they’d said “We were going to effectively tax public sector workers 3% but as we’ve said we’re all in this together we’re going to put income tax is going up by 1.5% across the board”. That would have gone down well.
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And your point is?
A simple two ways to cut the defecit
1. Don’t go spending billions on places like Libya to install a Taliban Government.
2. All banks that got emergency funding must pay 100% tax on all profits until their debt is paid back including interest and charges at the rates they screw us all for!
Does anybody know of any Celtic friendly bars in Weymouth area showing the game tonight?
Cheers in advance
Summer of 65
Morning comrades/brothers/sisters/CQNers or anyone being fleeced by robbing bassa bankers who stole/lost all our pension funds now we are being asked to pay for it, for longer, to get less.
Anyone heading into the march?
March – Lunch – Pint – Paradise
Now theres a plan.
EC67
thoughtmadayswalkingthestreetswerepastmeCSC
hamiltontim says:
30 November, 2011 at 10:56
Ends in the first pub passed.
Phils new article.
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/illegal-army/#more-1784
G64- Solidarity brother,good luck to you all.
greenjedi says:
30 November, 2011 at 10:59
My point is we’re clearly not in all this together, as they keep telling us, since they’re imposing sanctions that only affect the public sector. Demographically speaking very few Tory voters will be affect too, whereas a tax across the board obviously would.
BT
I’m going to go to rally and I need to pick up tickets for Perth at parkhead. Where will he be?
he arrives in Queen St at 12.25…
he is versatile and can be anywhere you want him to be…
he will need to drop his gear into his hotel though…
Voguepunter
Many a good revolution began in the boozer :)
The Battered Bunnet @ 10.30
Favourite Mark Twain quote;
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
tooheys new says 30 November, 2011 at 10:50
Correct,the whole country can have a day off to “celebrate” a royal wedding but 2 million public sector go on strike “which will cost £500 million” sounds like a lesson in economics from C Whyte.
Don’t forget next years extra day because old lizzie is older or something…
!!Bada Bing!! says:
30 November, 2011 at 11:08
As I see it 2 million on strike saves the Treasury £57M in wages. Apart from anything else he’s taken the estimated £6Bn in lost productivity and taken a percentage based on the number striking. However I don’t think the public sector generally generates wealth via productivity. So the costs would be far less than £500M.
Public Sector Employees as % of Total Employees 2010
weeminger says:
30 November, 2011 at 11:03
greenjedi says:
30 November, 2011 at 10:59
My point is we’re clearly not in all this together, as they keep telling us, since they’re imposing sanctions that only affect the public sector. Demographically speaking very few Tory voters will be affect too, whereas a tax across the board obviously would.
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Thats better, I can understand your point now! ;-)
Agreed
Greenjedi, I’ve been saying similar on here for a few weeks…..
We GIVE rankers say 10000 tickets and they sell them to the Huns, rankers keep the money and then go bust, that will happen, if we’re daft enough.
Sell the hun tickets through an agency although I’d prefer to sell them direct at double the price (smiley), or we could have a Hun free day wooohoo!
V
Afternoon bhoys, warm, the sun is shining and it’s hun free.
Just logged on to see Phil saying that PMFA might be illicit, and a porn company have set up a website to discredit RTC.
On the day that rfc have books to lodge, which won’t be lodged.
On a day when the Spanish come to town.
Interesting times we live in.
South of Tunis.
Exact same working practices here mi amigo, I think it’s called tradition :>))
!!Bada Bing!! says:
30 November, 2011 at 11:08
I would just like to put it on record ,I refused to take day off for RW.
Any others?????????????
hen1rik says:
30 November, 2011 at 10:50
Suspect the Club’s solution will be to keep Paddy in the stands and hope….
Voguepunter
My establishment was officially closed but I went in.
The Government tells us we are all living longer and that means the average male Glaswegian might just reach the age of 72. So that’s a whole 6 or 7 years of drawing the state pension. Why are people complaining? :-)
C’mon the hoops tonight.
Heads banging after Cliftonvilles win last night. Ended up back in the social with a few 100 others and the team until the wee hours, suffering for it now but couldn’t care less.
We totally battered Glentoran last night, and in truth had we taken our chances it could’ve been 6/7-1. We sold our entire ticket allocation of 2500 which is amazing for the final of County Antrim Shield, which to be fair is the least desirable trophy to win. But i’d rather win it than not.
Anyway, here’s a wee link to the final on the Cliftonville website.
Vogue
What royal wedding?
LoL, i find it totally crazy you can get done for singing it to yer own..
Moonbeams WD. \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. C’mon the hoops. says:
Happy St Andrews Day. To celebrate SNP leads Alex Salmond has empowered Christine Grahame to lead a 24 hour cull of all Irish Carholics.
FFS dont tell them who Andrew’s brother was…. their heads would explode!
Greenjedi – the players are asked questions – they havee to reply. What’s Kayal going to say – the Huns ae better than us? They’re better than us at the moment? Or does he show a wee bit of belief? Just because the rags spin it, doesn’t make it so – look at how eaxctly the same quote was used to write many different headlines.
eg. “Celtic are back” and “Kayal stokes flames by insisting Celtic are best “
Paul67 et al
Supporting the public sector workers on Saint Andrews Day, and supporting Celtic as always!
Just checked definition of fenian.
1. One of a legendary group of heroic Irish warriors of the second and third centuries a.d.
2. A member of a secret revolutionary organization in the United States and Ireland in the mid-19th century, dedicated to the overthrow of British rule in Ireland.
What is wrong with this word..
The green and white satire
“. History bears them out. Other references exist from this period (the 14th century) to saltires on fields other than blue – the Douglas Standard carried at Otterburn in 1388 included a saltire on a sage green background – sometimes reflected in certain flags seen at a particular football ground in Scotland!”