Lazio were Celtic’s first Italian opponents when the clubs drew 0-0 in Rome in 1950 before a Celtic Park rematch a few months later when Celtic won 4-0. The next four occasions Celtic met Italian teams would all be played on neutral ground, starting with a draw against Bologna on a 1966 preseason tour of the United States, before a notable win against Inter in Lisbon at the end of that season.
Celtic then met Milan four times in 10 months starting in May 1968. It was back to the US for a 1-1 draw, before a rematch a month later in Toronto when goals from Bobby Lennox and Charlie Gallacher won the game. The teams then drew 0-0 in the San Siro before Milan won the return 0-1 at Celtic Park, the first time in eight games against Italian opposition Celtic emerged with a defeat.
Italian champions Fiorentina lost at Celtic Park in 1969 before winning the return game while a year later Celtic drew twice against Bari on a North American tour. Inter and Celtic then met in the 1972 European Cup semi-final, both games finishing goalless, before a nine year wait until the next game against Italian opponents and the first against Juventus. Celtic won at home and lost in Turin.
Three games in four days in July 1993 saw a win over US Carisolo and defeats against Atalanta and Napoli. Four years later Parma and Roma visited Celtic Park, with the home team achieving a draw and win. 2001 saw Celtic’s first Champions League group games and two memorable games against Juventus, losing controversially in Turin before recording a 4-3 win in Glasgow.
Parma lost at Celtic Park in 2002 with Roma beating Celtic in Toronto in 2004. Celtic then embarked on a familiarity drive with Milan, drawing twice at home and losing the corresponding away fixtures in 2004 and 2007. A home win over Parma in summer 2007 briefly interrupted Celtic’s run of Italian fixtures against Milan but the teams met another twice in 2007, Celtic winning at home and losing away.
Celtic lost to Inter in Dublin in 2011 before drawing home and away to Udinese in the same year. Kris Commons scored Celtic’s goal in their most recent match against Italian opponents in a Celtic Park draw last July.
36 games in 63 years, 11 wins, 11 defeats and 14 draws. The team in green and white won the most important one!
Early notice, the CQN Charity Golf Day will take place on Friday, 14 June. More details to follow.
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Re the new zombie revelations.
I’m gonnae take a guess that our agent Craigy White has provided evidence of the link and money owed between him and our other agent Mr Greene, it’s a debt that is due and shall be paid in blood.
Nice one agents Green and Whyte.
V
Just a wild guess mind, I have no inside knowledge
:¬)
V
morning from a snowy luton. has jobo slept in ?
sanna
Sevco have changed their training to the afternoon the next two days to accommodate Juve.
They embarrass themselves at every turn…
Not a chance mate. There all sold out and i dont think anyone would have an extra ticket. Me my sister and my dad were going to go but my sister had to give her ticket to my dad so it is just me and him that are going to the game. Sorry about your friend but its on stv and if he dosnt get a ticket you can give him the channel. Here’s a tip when you are watching football on stv turn down the sound and just watch it because the commentators on that are rank rotten! Anyway dont take it all from me and just keep trying
WEE BGFC
Just come across this.
Six of the best for Under-17s
By: Mark Henderson on 08 Feb, 2013 10:34
CELTIC Under-17s enjoyed an emphatic 6-1 victory over Partick Thistle last night in the group stage of the Glasgow Cup at Lennoxtown.
Gareth McDonagh bagged a brace for the young Hoops, while Luke Donnelly, Paul McMullan, Connor McManus and Glenn Eadie were also on target.
The resounding win keeps the youths on course for a place in the final of the competition which will take place later this year.
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Gareth McDonagh is the young Irish bhoy who won RTE’s ‘Football’s Next Star’.
HH!!
Mea Culpa
Are you originally from Greenock?
Juve seem to be totally focusing on the word ‘battle’, every quote from their camp has it.
What are they going to do when we run rings round them with our football?
Just to clarify…..
I have no insight into OG Rafferty’s story. My comments on Craig Whyte’s use of a tape recorder , is based on information provided to me by a senior legal figure . His comment was that advising clients of legal strategy would have to take into account the possibility/probability that Whyte has taped other conversations.
That knowledge appears to be inducing some nervousness amongst individuals who have been prominent in the Rangers scenario. I have no knowledge over whether Whyte is preparing another release or not. However it’s noticeable the tabloids have calmed down considerably in their rhetoric towards him, possibly for the very good reason that he could hand them the exclusive to end all exclusives.
My take is that the previous release on Duff and Phelps was not necessarily aimed at them only. It could have been a very public warning to anyone else who Whyte thought may be considering crossing him. Including his bookends in Rangers ownership
ASonOfDan
08:12 on
11 February, 2013
I see it as very hospital that one of Scotlands wee diddy teams offer training facilities to the Italian giants to train before they play Scotlands premier club in the last 16 of the C/L, its good to know your place
No doubt Sally and his coaching staff will hold a ‘master class’ on tactics at Minty Park for the Juventus party!
Pies and cakes from Greggs will be served at the interval – fish suppers and deep-fried pizzas at the end.
Stop sniggering at the back there signor Conte!
HH!!
So we might have two torpedoes heading towards SS Sevco.
This week will be magic!
Competitive Record v Italian Clubs
25/05/1967 ECF Lisbon Inter Milan W 2-1 Gemmell (63), Chalmers (85) HT 0-1 55,000 – Celtic’s first European Cup Final and first win
19/02/1969 ECQF1 A AC Milan d 0-0 72,402
12/03/1969 ECQF2 H AC Milan L 0-1 75,000 HT 0-1
04/03/1970 ECQF1 H Fiorentina W 3-0 Auld (30), OG (49), Wallace (89) 80,000 – Wallace’s goal was his 100th for Celtic
18/03/1970 ECQF2 A Fiorentina L 0-1 50,000 HT 0-1
05/04/1972 ECSF1 A Inter Milan d 0-0 80,000
19/04/1972 ECSF2 H Inter Milan d 0-0 75,000 – Celtic lost 4-5 on penalty kicks much to the breaking of my nine-year-old heart
16/09/1981 EC1/1 H Juventus W 1-0 MacLeod (65) 60,017
30/09/1981 EC1/2 A Juventus L 0-2 69,000 HT 0-2
18/09/2001 CL A Juventus L 2-3 Petrov (67), Larsson (85 pen) 43,017 HT 0-1
31/10/2001 CL H Juventus W 4-3 Valgaeren (24), Sutton 2 (45, 64), Larsson (57 pen) 57,717 HT 2-1
29/09/2004 CL A AC Milan L 1-3 Varga (74) 52,648 HT 0-1
07/12/2004 CL H AC Milan d 0-0 59,228
20/02/2007 CL H AC Milan d 0-0 58,785
07/03/2007 CL A AC Milan L 0-1 AET 65,000
03/10/2007 CL H AC Milan W 2-1 McManus (62), McDonald (90) 58,643 HT 0-0
04/12/2007 CL A AC Milan L 0-1 38,409 HT 0-0
29/09/2011 EL H Udinese D 1-1 Ki (3 pen) 37,000 HT 1-0
15/12/2011 EL A Udinese D 1-1 Hooper (29) 15,000 HT 1-1
P 19 W 5 D 7 L 7 F 17 A 19
Just read back and discovered that my wee Bhoy posted half an hour ago to someone who was looking for a ticket – age 10, the wee man is obsessed – it’s great ;-)
Good advice too, on turning down the STV commentary!
BGFC
Tallybhoy
08:24 on 11 February, 2013
No doubt Sally and his coaching staff will hold a ‘master class’ on tactics at Minty Park for the Juventus party!
Pies and cakes from Greggs will be served at the interval – fish suppers and deep-fried pizzas at the end.
Stop sniggering at the back there signor Conte!
HH!!
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Here now let’s not be stereotypical here.
They’ll try and cater for their guests with typical Italian fare, so deep fried pizza and Findus Lasagne will be on the menu naaaaaay doubt.
Buon appetito!
hurryupografferty.csc
HH
/Bishop B
Snowfall getting heavier and starting to lie.
I did not come out here for weather like this!
If I had known I would have stayed in Scotland!
HH!!
http://www.uefa.com/printoutfiles/competitions/ucl/2013/E/E_2009585_pk.pdf
Not the one year anniversary piece I was expecting to see from Graeme Waddell. Has he grown a pair?
“THERE is now no such thing as a fan of another club. You are an enemy of Rangers.
You are incapable of simply supporting your team. If you follow anyone EXCEPT Rangers, you are rabid.
If you offer an opinion on Rangers? It cannot be honestly held. It cannot be neutral. It must be driven by an agenda. You are orchestrating, plotting, conniving.
And if you are still standing when they inevitably retake their place as masters of all they survey? You’ll be first up against the wall. Bank on it.
It was a year ago this week they went into administration. A year since the single biggest story in the history of Scottish sport broke and has yet to stop giving.
Yet for some, the hands on the clock haven’t moved an inch.
It’s still everyone else’s fault they are where they are. The architecture of their demise was never drawn by their own hand.
Here’s the thing, though.
Back in the summer, I thought it was exactly that kind of rhetoric that had their fans flocking through the gates in sheer defiance. I was wrong. Hands up.
Sure, maybe there was an element of it, with the claiming of world records and peeing-up-a-wall attendance comparisons with their former rivals across the city.
But the bottom line is the vast majority of their fans are simply there to support their team.
They’re there because it’s 3pm on a Saturday and it’s all they’ve ever wanted to do. If it wasn’t about that, the crowds would have plummeted long before now. That’s something I underestimated.
Their club should pay more heed to it, though.
They’re there for the game. Not to be combatants in a war that doesn’t exist.
It’s paranoia that would embarrass the twitchiest of coke addicts, the kind of deluded accusatory guff they used to wet themselves at when Celtic at their worst were peddling it.
But it’s only a smokescreen.
Get the fans to rail against the injustices perceived against them and it’ll give them their cause. Anything to quell any kind of questions being raised about the way the club are being run.
Because the bottom line is the club are being supported admirably – and managed abysmally. A long way beneath the dignity they claim to treasure.
We keep hearing they’re financially secure – so they bloody should be, shedding the debt they did with little more than a backwards glance then coining it in from a support piling in an eight-figure sum in season tickets.
So maybe the club’s hierarchy should direct their energy into giving them something worthy of their emotional and financial investment.
That’s why the vast majority of them are showing up.
They turn up to see their team playing opponents. Not enemies. And they’re being sold short.
Never was that more exposed than last weekend against Dundee United, a capitulation as embarrassing as it was predictable.
And one for which their excuses just don’t hold water.
Inexperienced? Five full internationals and four under-21 internationals in their starting line-up.
Young? The average age of their 11 was 26, compared to Dundee United’s 25.
The gulf between the two? Rangers wage budget is more than four, nearly five times that of United’s.
The transfer embargo limiting them? See excuse No.1.
In the league, they dropped more points by the end of December than Gretna did in the entire season they won the Third Division on a supposedly outrageous spending spree – that was less than a TENTH of what
Rangers are spending to get there.
There’s absolutely no excuse that they’re still running at a loss, even in the short-term.
But the more they act like the North Korea of the football world, the less scrutiny they’ll suffer from their own support.
Which is, after all, one of the things that brought about their downfall in the first place.
It’s hard to believe it’s been a year, though, right?
It feels about 10 have passed since that day when Duff and Duffer sat and squirmed their way through that first announcement in the media room at Ibrox.
In the interim, Charles Green has gone from the devil incarnate to messiah, creaming a lovely earner for himself from their share issue along the way.
It remains to be seen whether he’s in it for the long haul or not.
What’s clear, however, is that the support are – and while they may buy tickets forever, they surely can’t
keep buying the snake oil.”
Good morning friends from a dry and very bright and pleasant looking East Kilbride.
Happy Juve-eve to one and all.
Little quiz question for European week.
Celtic have played teams from many many countries in our European adventures. However there are only 2 countries who we have played, where we have never won a game against a team from that country ?
No googling
long lie jobo ?
barcabhoy, holland?
It’s colder than a Siberian assassin’s foot that he’s accidentally left outside the duvet… all night.
denmark?
sanna
Ajax 2-1 in Amsterdam Nicholas and McCluskey
Did the Juventus party arrive in Glasgow yesterday?
Staying at the Radisson in Argyle Street I believe – quite handy for the Celtic store where they can pick up souveniers to take back to family and friends.
No doubt some of the local zombies will be fraternising with the visiting fans, eager to show them some of their favourite haunts.
The mind boggles!
HH!!
Sannabhoy,
Don’t you remember the agathe inspired performance at the Amsterdam arena? 3-1 to the hoops! More than 10 years ago now!
(not that I have the answer mind!)
Not holland not Denmark
Switzerland?
barcabhoy
Greece?
bsr, proof that
1 I didnt google
2 I’m going senile
East Germany?
TALLYBHOY 0844
A wee bit of snow,ffs!
Do you have horizontal bliddy trees in Italy?
No?
Well,you know where to find some…..
Slovakia
I know we played FC Basle and they knocked us out of CL qualifying round. Have we played any other Swiss teams?
Greece is one of the two
TALLYBHOY
BTW,I trust your wee family meal went well-any vino left?
In Italy,that is.
eniabhoy,
An interesting article ie interesting in that it is much less sychophantic than the normal MSN tripe but this bit:
“their fans flocking through the gates in sheer defiance. I was wrong.”
made me think.
I can`t decide if the author is wrong and that they do just love their team or whether the MSM`s reporting of all things Sevco has kept them in a heightened state of anger. which has led to continued support. Any views?
JJ