Celtic join Barcelona, Milan and Ajax in the Champions League’s only group of former champions.
We beat Barcelona and Milan the last time we played each of them, and eliminated Ajax from the same competition last time we met 12 years ago. This is an incredibly difficult group, but it is the job we wanted this time yesterday.
Now we must get ready for the task ahead. Prepare properly and fear no one.
There will be a ticket scramble, among those who didn’t renew their season tickets………..
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thomthethim
I agree in the main, – however having been granted the task, the concern apart from the ignorance of paddypower’s employee, was that the attempted apology referred to “not being aware” of the personal circumstances.
This clearly was clumsy at best, or downright stupid at worst, because it suggests that had the employee known of Billy’s condition he wouldn’t have said what he did, but were it not for the condition or circumstances, it was still o.k. to have said what he said, and thereby mocking Billy, just as plain elderly person, in difficulty?
The fault rests with paddypower, for allowing an idiot to represent them.
Still not sure whether is Cesar or Caesar, either way he’s a Celtic Ambassador, that may be a target on FF, but that shouldn’t extend to nefarious representatives of multi million pound companies, with a platform to think up tasteless on the spot asides, without censure.
TET
Sent my Daughter email – screen grabbed the pages. Will do the 9th/ 10th depending on price going up from £70 flights .v. an extra night in hotel – same as you check out day after game.
Will contact the Spanish in the morning re: hotels – any ideas of numbers (more than you and me)?
Watch out for the skin deep.
Bobby Lennox
Happy Birthday
Can some kindly dayshifeter repost my Zadok the Priest Ringtone offer.
Get it here for free and rub it right up the huns you know. It really pinches their nipples when your phone rings.
They don’t like it up em.
acgr@hotmail.co.uk
Hail Hail Celtic, We’re on the road again
praecepta, I’ll be looking for a room in Barca for the night of the game if you can help.
Fanx
Re,Billy Mc Neil.I thought the UEFA guy beside him did a great job.Very sympathetic,and kept going on about the balls being too tight.Helped the big man through.
Re Paddy Power..Disgusting.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
Have emailed TET. Reasonably sure I’ve found cheap flights to get there Monday – asked my Daughter to compare Monday v Tuesday (cost difference v extra night in hotel).
Soon as she confirms (later today) – I will ask my Spanish contacts for somewhere accessible to Nou Camp/ City. 4-6 singles?
Assume others will hook-up over the next few days?
praecepta, sound.
Want a ring tone bruv?………………………:-)
acgr@hotmail.co.uk
Hail Hail and goodnight Celtic men and wummin
The Singing Detective –
Thanks for the compliment.
:-)
ACGR
Sounds good – email you morning!
H!H!
Great night of Celts – Charlie in the Studio..
Big Billy with those pesky wee baws
Even in the CL broadcast we were the significant fitba brand tonight
Barca, Milano, Ajax ,
All the chat tonight was wur team…
For the love of God, would people stop clogging up the blog with . . .
“You have mail”
Jeezo, it’s like placing a letter in a post box then phoning the addresse and telling him, “I’ve just sent you a letter.”
:-)
Ghuys – i don;t know if anyone is interested/has already reported this, but the daily torygraph, a loathsome thatcherite rag, which is read UK-wide included this comment in their coverage of the draw:
17.11 That concludes the Pot 1 teams. Billy McNeill is despatched off the stage in disgrace, with barely a ripple of applause greeting him as he finds his seat at the back of the auditorium, very possibly in one of the Restricted View areas. You had one job, Billy. One job.
they would not get a penny of my money anyway, but i think people need to be aware.
Billy McNeil
The Greatest of the great!
There are Mineshafters.
There are Happyclappers.
There are Moonhowlers
And over the past coupla weeks of lurking I have been in danger of falling into the Downhillers camp.
Perilously close to agreeing with all them folks that were worried this sainted blog is going downhill.
The past 24 hours have brought me back to my senses.
CQN is totally and utterly the best Celtic internet thing in the known universe and beyond.
God bless CQN.
God bless Cesar.
God bless you Celts.
God bless all.
Night and thank you Mr Paul67.
Tom McLaughlin. You have mail.
Naw, you don’t but if you wanted a hun riling ring tone for your trombonaphone you would have had ya miserable…………………….:-)
You know you want it Tom, get it quick while stocks last. Make that special hun in your life livid with rage every time some random caller dials your number.
Hail Hail
Dubaibhoy 00.16 30th Aug
I don’t know where you get the idea about Billy McNeill’s “lack of formal education”.
He attended Our Lady High, Motherwell, one of only 3 catholic high schools in Lanarkshire at the time.
He joined Celtic after leaving school at the end of his 5th year during which he captained the 1st XI as they won the Scottish Secondary Shield. I’m pretty sure he passed a few highers.
He was always a polite and able speaker and a great ambassador for our club.
The image of him lifting aloft the big cup is forever etched in my memory.
I’m sure the PP organisation will be aghast at their employee’s crass comments.
Hail Caesar!
PIGALLE
You forgot the Middlegrounders.
Middlegrounders are far more reasonable than the rest,as they are not bound by shackles to the board,nor do we detest them.
We simply give them praise when merited,and a damn good kicking when they deserve one!
A Ceiler Gonof Rust –
Tell me more.
GERRYBHOY57
The employee in question must be fairly senior-he is allowed access to the company TWITTER account.
My company wouldn’t be stupid enough to let me near that!
Having said that,to err is human,to forgive divine.
So I am unable to forgive it….
LuxCelt
Thanks for this info.
I have copied & pasted the complete section where they denigrate Billy McNeill.
” 17.11 That concludes the Pot 1 teams. Billy McNeill is despatched off the stage in disgrace, with barely a ripple of applause greeting him as he finds his seat at the back of the auditorium, very possibly in one of the Restricted View areas. You had one job, Billy. One job.
17.09 Benfica and Porto out of the hat, which leaves Manchester United in Pot A. Gianni now having to remind Billy McNeill to hold the slip of paper up for the cameras. This is getting quite hard to watch.
17.08 Barcelona in Group H. Try to derive some significance from that. You will fail. I’ve tried, and I do tenuous for a living.
E-mailTony Hood: “If the Pot system is based on success over the last five years can you explain why Arsenal, who have not won a Pot of any description for at least 7 years, are still allowed in Pot 1. They are indeed Potless!”
Consistency, Tony. It’s the new trophies.
17.07 Gianni has now completely taken over ball-opening duties from Billy. Billy is being a reduced to a reading-out-bits-of-paper role. Real Madrid and Bayern Munich go into Groups B and D respectively.
17.06 Chelsea in Group E. That means both of the Manchester teams will be in Groups A-D. The four English teams are split into separate halves of the draw for optimum TV moolah.
17.05 Billy McNeill, bless him, is having a little trouble getting these little balls open. Gianni has to give him a hand.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/competitions/champions-league/10272146/Champions-League-draw-live.html
Today, someone tried to suggest that ITV were not being anti Celtic last week, it was just a general ignorance of things north of Cumbria.
Half right. It is just ignorance of the highest order.
Publicly lay into someone who is the guest of honour in front of millions and is 73 years of age.
The sniggering at the frailty & lack of dexterity of a man whose boots they are not fit to lace.
Sums up the millenium generation in its broadest sense, but then again maybe I’m just getting old too.
Chariman Ian Bankier, Ex Chairman Brian Quinn, time you stepped up and said something.
HH
A CEILER GONOF RUST
I expect I’ll have it downloaded on to the iphone in time for my trip home.
Canny wait to play it in the orange club in Kilwinning.
Of course,not sure anyone in there will recognise it.
Education is part of my missionary work there…..
Just get us to Lisbon. :-)
A Ceiler Gonof Rust –
Just read back and realise what you are referring to.
Fortunately, where I live, I don’t know any huns, so it would just be wasted on my phone.
I’ll stick to my 30 seconds of the intro to The Who’s Baba O’Riley.
Hail Hail
TOM McLAUGHLIN
Good idea!
But I wouldn’t like to nick yer original idea,so….
I’ll do “Who’s better,who’s better,who’s best?”
Oscar Knox is my Hero – RWE –
Disgraceful, cruel and heartless beyond belief.
The kind of person who writes that sort of bile is the type of cretin who shouts at some poor unfortunate threatening to jump from a tall building, that he/she should “just jump and give us all a laugh!” . . . just as I witnessed in Edinburgh a few years ago.
Kris Commons: This beats beating Barca….
….“I thought beating Barcelona was one of the highlights of my career. Certainly winning the double last year was one also. But this eclipses everything. To come from two goals down and to win it in the 90th minute was one of the greatest moments of my life. Going into the break with the goal was a massive twist of fate for us. It changed the complexion of the team talk. We thought, ’we are half way there.’ But as regards important goals, I think James will get all the plaudits for getting that goal in the last minute.”
Come to think of it, I wonder how much it cost that asswipe to get his teeth fixed.
BMCUW
How do u download to the iPhone?
Kikinthenakas
Tom McL
Hard to understand any of this behaviour even in a private conversation but to pit it out into the public domain knowingly…as part of your job!!
Social media does empower the inadequate.
Hope you’re doing good.
Night Timland
Nice one Tom.
HH
KIKINTHENAKAS
Sorry,was posting from work earlier. As soon as I find out,I’ll let you know!
Presumably load it to laptop on new folder and bring back to phone.
I’ll get onto it on Sunday. Got a few days practice for the dayoooot on 28/9 first…..
I gather you all had a fine time on Wednesday? Lucky sods.
One very jealous fella in Swindon here,I can tell you!!
C’mon you BHOYS in GREEN
the difficulty with a group like this is that we could win all three home games ( a mammoth task) and still not qualify
anyway, any signings or do we not need them since we wont win the CL anyway
TAMRABAM
I expect two wins and two draws to do us.
Unless one of the teams ends up as a whipping boy with only a point or two,I’ll be very happy with that!
just seen charlottes letters
showing the huns trying to sign Daniel cousins 3 days after going into administration
I would like to think that on FF happy clappers don’t exist for obvious reasons since they must have the worst board ever, (except for the current sevco board)
and the thing is, on FF they are full of happy clappers and have no mineshafters
amazing isn’t it?
ach well, who are they playing in the must win ramsdens cup?
inverness clachnacudden or someone like that?
As a through and through Tim I’ll take third in this Group.
I like to hold on my baby
She likes to hold on me too
Like something for nothing
That she can hold onto
Where we been lately?
Khazakstan by matey
To call on Georgious Samaras
Or we can find someone new