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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bobby
who is it that you think might be the whipping boys
barca
Milan
or ajax
gulp!
MARGARET McGILL
May I be the first to offer you a fond welcome back!
Been awfy quiet in yer absence.
Thoughts on the draw?
TAMRABAM
Milan and Ajax have seen better teams in their time.
As have we,of course.
We could have had stronger teams to face than those two.
Hail Hail Neil Lennon.
An unbearable pressure he has put up with, continuously, over the Time of his Managerial stint as Celtic Manager.
I thought Karagandy really went for it once Celtic went 2 up.
If Peter Lawwell has gambled well, we will be able to get to the last 16 and possibly the last 8 – Dinnae dae that again, you burdened a Man that disnae deserve it.
I hope Neil’s hide is like a Rhino and it disnae wear thin. PL, as P67 alluded to, please furnish the team with the highest quality possible now that we are in the Champions League proper and we can get the X Men.
Thanks for all the comments of support. Mum is delighted coming through surgery Wednesday, we just need to wait until next week to find out the results. If she is getting Radioed, she will be getting all the superfruits I digest, to rebuild her immune system.
Mum hugged me and asked me to say, “Thank You”, to all the people I had praying for her.
I Believe pablothanque
Had a wonderful night with my wee Brother as he flew in from Switzerland, a lot of tears, well I cry at anything. :)
Apricot Seeds of Love
BMCUWP
Celtic have had their backbone removed over the summer which is a shame because this is the most glamorous European Cup ( CL) draw one could ever have asked for. To compete at this level is the vision I and many Celtic supporters dream of. I hope we put on an admirable show. I think this season will be a decider for our beloved Lenny. Post Lenny worries me.
PETEC
I’m delighted at the positive news about your Mum.
Sounds like Wednesday might have been a good day all round!
Keep the good news coming,bud!
MAGS
Aye,but Lenny has backbone for all of us,haha!
As PETEC alluded to,this summer’s shambles had best not happen again. Lessons must be learned.
Chief amongst it is that we must learn to sell our players at the right time.
Then we can maybe look at keeping some of them….
…..and thank god we got Morton…hopefully Andie Ritchie doesnt play for them any more or Celtic can forget about that cup an awe
MAGS
Andy scored one of the best goals I’ve ever seen against us.
From halfway,on the touchline. Lobbed LATCHFORD.
Ref chalked it off!!!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS forza Oscar and Mackenzie
05:25 on 30 August, 2013
ah i remember now..isnt that the game when MIBS were introduced to compasses
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS forza Oscar and Mackenzie
05:18 on 30 August, 2013
PETEC
I’m delighted at the positive news about your Mum.
Sounds like Wednesday might have been a good day all round!
Keep the good news coming,bud!
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It was the most intense day ever, I actually enjoyed the drama of the Celtic game and asked Aidan if he’d like to watch extra time, he said no. Once Mum was out of Theatre, we could go to the game and enjoy the game. I’ll let you know the intricasies of the event at the end of Sept.
MAGS
They already knew about compasses.
And triangles,and set squares,the lot.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS forza Oscar and Mackenzie
05:34 on 30 August, 2013
I know but you know how it is ….they always lose their bear rings
Brilliant draw, pitty we have to send one former winner home and the other one into the euro league :)
Bring them on!
As Clint Dempsey has proved maybe Celtic should try an harvest MSL as the pro religion lobby points to the US where religion is already widespread and has reduced the need for imports of foreign nobodies.
After several years in lurkdom, I thought it was time to come out and express an opinion following the momentous events on Wednesday night.
I got up with my 18-year old son at 0245 and settled in for what was to be another glorious night in Paradise and neither of us were let down. By the end of the game, both of us were up jumping about and hugging each other, my son having only ever been to four games at Celtic Park but now very much aware of what Celtic means and what it can do to a man…or a woman!
Yesterday, I was like a 51 year old kid in a candy shop, I was wandering around all day thinking of the night before and the high that it can bring, even when you are thousands of miles away. I watched the 125 year DVD again, put my Celtic cap on before going out for my walk…….what am I like?
I suppose I was a bit nervous due to the whole transfer window issue and although this might not be the best Celtic team I’ve seen, the boys inside those shirts showed exactly what Celtic are all about. No-one epitomised this better than James Forrest. A tackle that could easily have broken his ankle moments before, he found himself 60 yards further up field and he did not let us down. Maybe we should show him some faith as we did with Georgios Samaras. With a bit of encouragement he may become the player that many of us thought he was capable of being and by the way, I was shouting for him to be replaced after 40 minutes.
So now it is onwards and upwards to the top table in Europe and plenty more early morning kick-offs for me and the Bhoy, the burning question now is……..am I a Hun?
Judge for yourself!
antipodean red
05:53 on 30 August, 2013
You support St. Johnstone dont you? Me and you and Tommy Wright and the 2 day UEFA foreclosure on transfers..damn blighters SFA
Morning champions. .. in the group of champions
Welcome antipodean red
You been out in the sun … why are you red.
Its great to be a tim .. loved acgr post about the zadok ring tone … winding up zombies since 2012 ;)
Wont ask the standard ” are you a hun ” question…….. do you post on zombie media or follow follow ……. :))))))))
Glowing Rabbits possible?
Neph! .. .
Lions and Tigers
Ligers.ScS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovUGFmF0MF4
later doods
Welcome back Margaret and welcome Antipodean Red.
Morning bhoys and ghirls
Anyone who hasnt read the scandal of paddy powers comments about billy mcneil…. Please read back to last night… then decide if that’s your choice of bookmakers
BMCUW
Probably the best non-goal I ever saw scored at Celtic Park, remember in those days it wasn’t that hard to lob Peter Latchford!
Margaret
My soft spot was always for the Greenock Morton
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday from a dry, calm but cloudy East Kilbride.
TBJ – didn’t get online at all yesterday evening. Is there a link to the comments you’re referring to as I do have an open Paddy Power account (at the moment…)
Jobo
As a longtine lurker of this wonderful witty blog, building up the courage to engage with you all for the fear of being cut down to size I have refrained from posting my thoughts and opinions all things Celtic, though after Wednesdays heroics and the draw yesterday I cannot help but share my story.
As the name states im a londoner “thecockanee” was labelled upon me from a hotel manager in Stuttgart during one of my most memorable European trips anyhoo born to a mother and father both hailing from Glasgow and with family with a deep rooted love for the bhoys from as early as I can remember that love of Celtic was instilled in me unconditionally.
Here’s my story I want to share, I lost my mum some17 years ago a fantastic lady who had rhe heart of a lion and died at a very early age to say she held our family together, well is an understatement. My dad and I struggled to see eye to eye for about 2 year after my mum passed simply because I was a young fucking arsehole with my head up my arse. Once said head was pulled out of said arse and I started my own family, my dad and I started building our relationship bit by bit and central to that was our equally passionate love for all things Celtic.
From this point on my dad and I enjoyed a fantastic relationship more rhan a dad he was my best pal my drinking buddy and most importantly my companion on many a memorable Celtic adventures we shared highs and lows laughter, tears and emotions that cannot be xplained to anyone outside the celtic family.
My da has been an expat living the life in Thailand for the last8 or so years but though all them miles away, the celtic was never far from his heart and we had weekly conversations on the comings and goings on. When I say he revelled in the huns downfall you would of heard him chearing from his old drumchapel home.
Now my da sadly passed away back in May and I was lucky enough to be with him for his final week and as he lay there in a deep sleep before slipping away he had the pleasure of hearing YNWA and four leaf clover (his favourite tune) one last time before meeting up with my ma and many other grandold tims of old.
Since then I have felt an enormous emptiness with his passing, I was down at Brentford but it wasnt the same I was at Cliftonville and it was well just shite, then Inverness and fecking hell I had just about given up I felt let down this love of mine was deserting me how the fck was that.
On Wednesday I prayed for some intervention I couldn’t bare another lacklustre performance it was time for the Celtic to show me why my da and I shared all those treasured memories. … bhoy did they deliver the goosebumps hairstanding up euphoria and the satisfaction of that feeling that my da and I shared on so many many nights. I know my da was with me on Wed and gave me the strength to carry on the lifelong love affair wirh glasgows green and white
Bring on the Champions League fear no-one and enjoy the ride.
Hail Hail ang god bless you Tiger Franky
thecockanee –
welcome to the ‘wonderful witty blog’. Just mind your p’s and q’s (and F’s!) and you’ll do fine ;-)
thecockanee –
Fantastic post and smashing story.
Hail Hail
JB – I’ll do my best
TM – cheers
Hail hail
thecockanee @ 07:11
Hi thecockanee!
Welcome to CQN! :-)
Great post to open your CQN Account with; keep them coming. I won’t ask the traditional CQN welcome greeting of “Are you a Hun?”, because you are clearly not.
May you experience many more experiences like Wednesday where you just know that your Dad is smiling with you.
Yours in Celtic,
TB&F (in north Hampshire.)
No doubt the PP bosses will be acting this morning. An apology to CP and maybe Alzheimers Scotland will be forthcoming. But the damage has been done by one idiot.
I wonder if this has made news in England. If it was a cheap slur on Man U or Liverpool icons Fergie and Kenny, it would be headlines.
Talksport on the other hand is a strange mix of sensationalist gutter press (Durham) and knowledgeable informed and witty show hosts (Danny Kelly).
Durham is no DJ or DL. This guy is educated enough to know better. He winds up fans every day, especially Arsenal and to a lesser extent us, but him and Saggers have gone too far this time.
Thecockanee
Welcome to Cqn mate.
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Morning all.
Glamour draw for us and another three fantastic nights to look forward to at CP.
Still raging at the Paddy Power tweet ridiculing big Billy.
thecockanee – welcome!
HH!!
I read the other day Billy McNeill saying that he felt it an honour to be asked to help in the draw for the group stages of the Champions League. He also said that he felt sad that Jock Stein and all his Lisbon Lions team-mates couldn’t be there with him to share the honour.
In making the draw Billy wasn’t just representing Jock Stein and the Lisbon Lions, he was representing Celtic Football Club and the global diaspora of devout Supporters who lives most often mirror the caring ethos of the club.
In representing our Club, he was by extension, also representing the Clann an Gorta Mor without whose suffering our club would never have come into existence. Those unfortunates are our very raison d’être. The poverty of the Clann an Gorta Mor was never our embarrassment, their heart breaking and daily struggle is instead both our pride and our hearts immortal treasures. The fabric of our club is interwoven with their suffering and the sacrifices of the oh so many who, whilst only half a baby step above poverty themselves, struggled to alleviate the struggle of those less fortunate and they did it because it made them feel good too. Billy was also representing the twinning of the Scottish and Irish peoples. He was, to a degree, a public ambassador for both nations.
I watched the draw. Big Billy looked every inch the dapper elderly Scottish gentleman. He did have a wee bit of trouble unscrewing the balls but he wasn’t the only one. His performance wasn’t polished, evidenced when he forgot to hold up the cards, but Billy is a footballer, not a TV presenter. Before he accepted the invitation,Billy knew what was expected of him and he alone is fully aware of the limitations that the deal of life’s cards subjects him too. No bother for our Billy; Billy never backed down from anything in his life. Billy faced up to the best and the worst that Scottish football, English football, and continental football, ever threw at him. From Milan to Montevideo he stood his ground. He took a few knocks and a few verbals along the way but he handled both with class and nonchalance, and he never got angry, he just got even. I can’t ever remember seeing Billy getting fazed. (Gerry McNee might be able to tell a different story though). A few unthinking and tasteless words wouldn’t merit a blink of an eye from Billy.
Billy conducted himself throughout the draw with the dignity becoming of him. The applause he received when leaving the stage was warm and generous but above all else… sincere. Billy is not a schooled ambassador but his style and diplomacy impresses. His demure words do leave a lasting impression. His life casts a large shadow; a shadow that for eternity will be indelibly entwined with the shadow of the late Jock Stein.
By having you over to make the draw Billy, you weren’t honouring them or the occasion; in part they were honouring you, what you represent and the ethos you devoted your life to, but in your humility you are too blind to see the esteem in which you, your team mates, Jock Stein and your club and the Supporters, are held.
My accolade to you Billy… If way back when, the Clann an Gorta Mor could have picked an Ambassador, they’d have picked you mate.
Morning.
The MSM never cease to amaze. If you are not running out of money why would you need a drastic budget cut? Scottish journalists too stupid to question that?
Asked if the club was running out of money, he said: “Categorically no.” He also ruled out a share issue, but said talks were continuing over budget cuts. These included discussions with high earners at the club. He said: “Alistair [McCoist, the club manager] has said he is going to talk about his pay package. We have had discussions on this and these are ongoing. He is very open-minded and positive about change, about addressing that. I have done the same.”
Morning! Nike Friday anyone?
Morning All ,
Good Morning,
Is anyone off to the Dam flights are workingbout pretty expensive unless you stay longer than 2-3 days
Anyone any info on ferrys ?
Thanks in advance
Having a party in the Champions League
thecockanee
*A very warm Celtic welcome.*
Jo are visiting your bro for the Ajax tie maybe ?
Hail hail