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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Coorslad, is that confirmed about Rodgers at final tonight or a rumour? Why would he go when he could get his scout to do it? I know a couple of scouts there tonight as I saw their texts requesting tickets
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Iki & JC2
Why are we not all over this like a rash ?
Hail Hail
Ciao——
Cold night [10 degrees ] -way down south .
Napoli – Juve 7 45 UK time -big game for both teams . Could be worth watching .
Watched India 0 —- Zambia 5 in a bar full of Bangladeshis —– man -they hate India .
India aren’t good enough to be called bad . Dreadful , Clueless —-Absolutely .
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo says:
29 November, 2011 at 19:27
Think the big problem for any caller – is getting past the researcher to make the point.
Radio stations are all to quick to quote: sub judice as the get out clause.
The presenter has a 7 second delay/ mute button – and they are quick to use it.
Mathews at RB, Forrest at RM – the best partnership down that side I’ve seen under Lennon. 6 games played, 6 wins.
Loovens/Majstorovic at CB – 16 games together, 1 defeat, 15 wins.
They may not appear to be the best defensively, but the reason they work so well is that Dan organises, while Loovens’ finesse in the pass – look how many telling interceptions of his end up at the feet of a Celtic player – allows Celtic to play flowing football from the back.
Ledley/Samaras at LB/LM. I posted before the game that they had never played as a partnership before. We only have the evidence of that one game, but they looked better than any other partnership I have seen down the left. I also agree with Kojo **heresy alert** – Ledley looks better than Izzy
Kayal/Wanyama at CM – they had a bad start at Kilmarnock, where Kayal looked well off his game, but now they would be my favoured partnership in an area with tough competition.
Hooper/Stokes – 89 points out of a possible 96 in starts together. Incredible.
Could this be the core of the team that sees out the rest of the season?
Just picking up the weans from dancing and heard oor Terry on Clyde. Kayal and Victor the best central midfield at Parkhead in 30 years???
Terry my good man, stay aff the glue :)
Seven Fishes Four Steaks says:
29 November, 2011 at 19:37
Coorslad, is that confirmed about Rodgers at final tonight or a rumour? Why would he go when he could get his scout to do it? I know a couple of scouts there tonight as I saw their texts requesting tickets
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Was reported on BBc NI sport live from the Oval..
Paul67
This was the game I could not wait for when we were reinstated.
After game on Saturday we were all buzzing looking forward to tomorrow.
Get Intae Them!!
HH
New piece of training kit?
Just seen Nasri warming up (his hammies?) with what looks like a big elastic band round his thighs – stretching it out side-to-side.
Not seen that before!
Looks like nae pies ramora Goldstar
It gets better
rangerstaxcase Rangers Tax-Case
Dear Mr. Whyte, Please return our calls. We are trying to finish our audit! Regards, Grant Thornton RFC execs appear to be hard to reach
Hamburg up 2-1
Awe_Naw :19:27
The same reason that they have refused to report that they have been accused of cheating the other teams in the league, and the Exchequer to the tune of circa £30m pounds previously.
The crux is that they have an audience, which doesn’t want to pay to read/hear about stuff like this.
Doesn’t mean that because it is not in the record/sun, or talked about on clyde etc. makes it go away (hence the ‘current’ tax case). Makes the big surprise coming their way even more enjoyable IMO.
That wisnae the night when Tiger Tim made reference to the huns getting beat over the tannoy system at CP?
AWE NAW @19 27 —-
Indeed ! —-
My addled old bonce remembers Peter Lilley making a lot of noise about failing Companies failing to make National Insurance Contributions . My memory says that he proposed to introduce legislation to deal with Company Directors who intentionally avoided paying NIC s whilst deliberately running a business into insolvency.[ me thinks that might be The Thousandaire’s masterplan] Think he was proposing legislation which would allow HMG to seize the personal assets of such Directors .
Memory thinks Mid 90s -don’t know if the legislation was enacted .
You are right -it should be a big story !
Snyde managed to sign off ignoring Huns 2-1 down. 7 mins left, mon Hamburg make may day.
ElDiego
Naw
Thought Celts played quite well in the Vicente Calderon and might have got a result against Athletico with a bit of luck. We have just the one loss in our four European matches which should give the team confidence going into Wednesday night’s game. Come on the HOOPS.
P67
Great stuff again. I had goal celebration related discomfort myself recently but mine was technological rather than physical. Excessive jumping about at the Rennes game resulted in a phone shattering tragedy on the concrete of Paradise.
Jackie Mac – if yer about, mail bouncing back from your email addy. Any other PS3 Modern Warfare players let me know if you want to join the CQN clan. Current membership. 1.
Eurochamps67
From what I’ve seen several hun challenges have bordered on criminal.
Huns tonight have been brutal in every sense of the word. Ref has been very patient, almost Charlie Richmond-like in his leniency.
Jobo, Fopp in Union St (Glasgow) sells the 1st series for £11, otherwise Amazon, or if you just want to suss it out before you buy then Blockbuster hires it for £5 for 5 nights. Absolutely brilliant!
hamiltontim
Brief and to the point:o)
Jobo Balde —–
Breaking Bad ?
Seriously good television .
As is —
Sons of Anarchy
German huns 2
HMRC huns 1.Full Time.
ElDiego
Lol sorry buddy I didn’t intend to be so abrupt I was chastising my youngest as I was posting and you took the brunt :)
ht who cannae bare to watch another film on channel ‘xmas24’
hamiltontim
No worries amigo. That’s the thing once you’ve met a CQNer, relationships are generally friendly and positive.
Have you ever met the myth that is The Token Tim?
Heard good things about him.
Any fighting at the huns game…….
fans?
Players?
or staff?
:)
Napoli 0 – Juve 0 after 20 mins .
Eventful game –
Napoli were awarded a penalty — Hamsik took it , Hamsik scored but the Ref ordered it to be taken again because 2 Napoli players had entered the box. Hamsil took the re take and hit the bar.
Game getting heated .
Had a good chat with Roccobhoy there! Cheers mate!! C’mon the hoops!
SMB
Roccobhoy’s not been on for a while. Everything well?
EDB
I had a beer with him last Wednesday before the match..
He has an article on pages 16/17 of the latest magazine..
You really couldn’t make this stuff up.
rangerstaxcase says:
29/11/2011 at 8:04 pm
Regarding the tweet, information reaches me that GT are trying, and struggling, to contact any of the 3 directors.
The inference is that there are audit / annual report questions that need addressed.
Is this significant? They do have form for disappearing for long periods and being unreachable. Other “interested parties” have compelled of the same issue. Just busy, incompetent, or in hiding? That- we can all speculate upon.
Cheers b.t.
You on strike tomorrow?
EDB
no longer in the civil service or local government..
so not me.. won’t be contacting any of the departments that I would expect to be on strike though..
Ec67 nae pies 4 you tomorrow
Thought they were poor tonight théir signings are not up to much
Did you organise strike due to thé early ko
ET
I beleive the “dark-haired” big-wig is hangin’ out down in Rio with some ‘members’ of parliament.
I’m sure GT could get a hold of him via the parly…………..
;)
EDB
BT working/striking how do you tell the difference