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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The Telegraph Has Gone Down-Market With The Scottish Rags…..
When It Comes To Putting A Negative Spin On Celtic-Related Stories….
Here’s Me Thinking Georgios Laid The Ball Off Most Skillfully For Common’s Stunning Opener…
Like Watching The Brazilians In The 1970 World Cup…..
Not According To ‘Proddy Roddy’ Forsyth,In His Match Report….
“The opening period of normal time had come and gone and all the signs were that Shakhter would take their margin undamaged into the dressing room when Samaras found himself meandering across the edge of the box but when he lost possession on this occasion the ball broke to Commons, who thrashed a left-foot drive beyond Mokin to ignite the legendary Parkhead European atmosphere. ” Forsyth (Ludge 1690)
Then Ewing Graham Is ‘At It’ Again Yesterday….
Spinning Stories About Forster Being Unsettled…..
I’m Pretty Sure That With A Couple Of Years Left On His Contract…..
And A Mere Two Days Left In This Transfer Window….
Forster Will Have Been Told That He Is Going NOWHERE….
I Cannot Believe That He Would Consider A Move To Benfica, As A Good Career Move….
Perhaps,Like His Former Girlfriend Who Starred In “The Apprentice”….
He Is Not As Bright As He Thinks…..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/celtic/10274166/.html
The Celtic Management’s Embarrassing Naivety In Their Dealings With The MSM Continues To Grate……
Take A Cue From Gordon Strachan’s Tenure….
Treat Them Like The Idiots They Are…
And Give Them NOTHING…!
apricale..,
Agreed on Efe, I would like to see him practice long range shooting, 25-30 yards out, when he carries the ball out of defence the opposition get confused and open up like the Red Sea, by the time they’ve twigged his simply moving into the space offered he’s about 30 yards out by the time they start closing him down.
the long wait is over
10:48 on
30 August, 2013
Long may the self delusion continue however…
^
This
Top of the morning to you all from a grey, autumnal, Fife.
Not a bad group to be drawn in. 4 former champions together.
Good to see Big Billy being honoured by his peers and perhaps too much made of snide remarks from no-marks.
We could go on all day highlighting Billy’s contribution to the Celtic story but perhaps John Cairney covers it succinctly thus: “Billy McNeill, ‘Cesar’ was Celtic through and through and it showed. A gentleman player in every sense and born to be a leader of men, he earned that place by exemplary captaincy and a consistent header of winning goals in important games. He was the genuine pivot of the team.”
We can add a lot more to that, but can’t better it IMHO.
H.H.
3 match package £84 incredible value for these 3 games. Well done Celtic
Big Efe had a fine match on Wed, possibly his best in a hooped shirt, he has taken some time to recover from the calamity of the Juve game, was a bit ropey at Pittodrie and was not surprisingly dropped for the first game in Kazahkstan.
Hopefully he has redound his mojo. With Virgil, Efe, Mikael, Charlie and Steven we have good options at CB.
On Efe
Thought he had his best game by a long way on Wednesday, particularly late in the game on one of the few occasions when they were pressing when he read a dummy and cut a pass off which , had it found its target , would have left us very exposed.
Still scares me a bit though.
By the time they realised they’d wrtien by the time they had gone too sleep confused
What times it
A wee book review for you to look at.
http://republicfootball.net/saturday-afternoon-fever-republic-of-football-book-review/
Schalke in the process of buying Prince Boetang from Milan apparently— Milan have bought Juventus striker Matri.
So … Biton is coming. Pukki looks good. Finbogsson?
Any other irons in the fire before the ritual “slamming shut” of the window?
Malone Bhoy
Its a statement of fact.
It could mean what Lennom says, it can mean what you want it to mean.
Your response backs up what Paul says yesterday.
No matter what Celtic say some folk turn it to suit their own thinking rather than re think about the entire situation.
Did the Celtic Board deliberately put Lennon under intolerable pressure? A man whom they meet and work with on an every day basis.? A man who in the past has suffered from depression?
Would Lennon continue to work in such an environment?
Is that what you mean? Is Lennon telling lies?
Perhaps he was having a dig at the circumstances and lack of support he got after the defeat in the first game? There is lots of evidence of negativity there , but that is ignored to arrive at your conclusion.
Excuse my annoyance but I despair at times at the inherent mistrust expressed by some. It makes the job of trying to improve communications between the club and supporters all the more difficult if what is said by Celtic is used to have a go at them.
If you were more open with someone and instead of understanding after sharing a confidence all you got was blame and judgement, would you share?
The CST have a resolution about looking at ways of improving communications between club and support. It looks like a good idea but I can well understand if Celtic’s position is they do not trust the openess to be used in a positive fashion.
They have plenty of evidence to take that stance. More than you have to have arrived at your conclusions.
I’m not saying folk are not entitled to there opinions, of course they are but I am saying why is the default position the Board are at fault? It gives the illusion of a seperation that does not exist. Everything is interdependent. Everything.
Do they make mistakes? Of course, but on overall strategy they have done a good job of keeping Celtic going at a level that satisfies a demanding support.
They also have reasons for the position they take some of which they will feel are best kept to themselves because Celtic will be harmed if they do not.
That is their judgement call with more information to hand than the support have and of course they bear the consequences of their judgements.
I would love to see a chapter in say The Celtic View after a bit of time has elapsed that journals the attempts to sign players. Then with that info I can make up my mind if folk were doing their job or not, but that is highly unlikely given my overall point that anything said will be turned by some to fuel their own thinking rather than rethink.
That boy Messi looks no bad pity he’s no the type we’re looking at, too short, too old and no sell on value
Got an email last night about the bhoy Temmu Pikku from a mate who is a Schalke supporter.
On the plus side:
Pikku is a natural goal scorer (best deployed as an attacking midfielder) and is very popular with the Schalke fans.
He has pretty much suffered because more expensive players have come in and are ahead of Pikku for the starting places.
On the negative side:
He looks like the singer of soft-rock band Magnum.
Hereenveen just signed a striker.
Hmmm…!!
Stage is set for Derk Boerrigter to destroy De Boer and Ajax.
Morning Celts, as usual will miss two of the home games because of overseas work commitments, including the Barcelona game, again!
I am sure my tickets will get used however!
Hopefully see some new faces today.
Auldheid,
Considering the CST’s other resolution about the exploitation of Celtic staff I’m wondering if you are doing the same as you accuse other people of, or is it ok to exploit people on less than minimum wage as long as you don’t work with them day to day ?
Srs.
He will either melt in the celtic park atmosphere or be eating alive by sfpl animals..
I think Pukki is going to be our lik between midfield and stirker. (Andy Thom type) Bit of creation rather being used as an out to out striker.
Pukki and another striker i reckon we will go for.
OldTim67
Hope you enjoyed your day with the young Tims!
Heard Lenny being interviewed there and he’s not for making full scale changes tomorrow which is welcome news as we need to be homing in on a regular starting 11 and the bhoys who seen us through on Wednesday will still be brimming with confidence …… wouldn’t mind seeing Boerrigter on from the start though and I’ve a feeling Izzy will too if he gets his starting jersey back …..looking forward to it …….. on a side note , did anybody find out what big Dolph was so agitated about after Lenny’s touchline sprint on Wednesday ?
Morning All
Some great posts on Billy McNeill this morning. I was just looking back on them there. A Star Mo Croi in particular was excellent. If anything, the pathetic comments of both the PP guy , and worse still, that tosser in the Daily Telegraph, have made us all realise even more what a great man Billy McNeill is and what he means to all Celtic supporters.
Big Nan, appreciate that your view is that too much was made of it, but I have to say I was boiling mad at the time. Closed my Paddy Power account as well. I just think it typified to me a lot of what’s wrong with modern culture and the lack of respect in particular for older people. As I said last night, the guys who make these comments must think they live in the land of Tir Na Og and they will never get old. I wonder how they treat their own parents indeed.
Thats it for me on this subject you’ll be glad to hear .
Marti
Canalamar
Good point. I’d like to see more players have a pop from distance.
It can change the dynamic of a game by drawing out entrenched defenders.
Kenny Shiels made an interesting point last night on Clyde about how in a game such as Wed someone dribbling at a defense can cause problems.
We saw a fair bit of that in the second half, culminating in Stokes sensational weave past 3 defenders in the box for Forrest to score.
A licence to do a wee bit more of that and have a pop from distance would spice up the periods of crab football.
Deploying Lustig as a centre half should be our thinking from now on. New Mjallby in making !!
Means Adam Matthews will be deployed as well. A fit Matthews would always be in my team. Think they guy is awesome.
I think Efe was excellent on Wed, joint MOTM with Kris. My concern for him is that most weeks in the SPFL he will have time and space to take the ball into the opponents half. He won’t have that in European games so concentration is the key.
Seamus Heaney has died. A true giant of a man in so many ways.
I’m writing just after an encounter
With an English journalist in search of ‘views
On the Irish thing’. I’m back in winter
Quarters where bad news is no longer news,
Where media-men and stringers sniff and point,
Where zoom lenses, recorders and coiled leads
Litter the hotels. The times are out of joint
But I incline as much to rosary beads
As to the jottings and analyses
Of politicians and newspapermen
Who’ve scribbled down the long campaign from gas
And protest to gelignite and Sten,
Who proved upon their pulses ‘escalate’,
‘Backlash’ and ‘crack down’, ‘the provisional wing’,
‘Polarization’ and ‘long-standing hate’.
Yet I live here, I live here too, I sing,
Expertly civil-tongued with civil neighbours
On the high wires of first wireless reports,
Sucking the fake taste, the stony flavours
Of those sanctioned, old, elaborate retorts:
‘Oh, it’s disgraceful, surely, I agree.’
‘Where’s it going to end?’ ‘It’s getting worse.’
‘They’re murderers.’ ‘Internment, understandably …’
The ‘voice of sanity’ is getting hoarse.
III.
“Religion’s never mentioned here”, of course.
“You know them by their eyes,” and hold your tongue.
“One side’s as bad as the other,” never worse.
Christ, it’s near time that some small leak was sprung
In the great dykes the Dutchman made
To dam the dangerous tide that followed Seamus.
Yet for all this art and sedentary trade
I am incapable. The famous
Northern reticence, the tight gag of place
And times: yes, yes. Of the “wee six” I sing
Where to be saved you only must save face
And whatever you say, you say nothing.
Smoke-signals are loud-mouthed compared with us:
Manoeuvrings to find out name and school,
Subtle discrimination by addresses
With hardly an exception to the rule
That Norman, Ken and Sidney signalled Prod
And Seamus (call me Sean) was sure-fire Pape.
O land of password, handgrip, wink and nod,
Of open minds as open as a trap,
Where tongues lie coiled, as under flames lie wicks,
Where half of us, as in a wooden horse
Were cabin’d and confined like wily Greeks,
Besieged within the siege, whispering morse.
IV.
This morning from a dewy motorway
I saw the new camp for the internees:
A bomb had left a crater of fresh clay
In the roadside, and over in the trees
Machine-gun posts defined a real stockade.
There was that white mist you get on a low ground
And it was déjà-vu, some film made
Of Stalag 17, a bad dream with no sound.
Is there a life before death? That’s chalked up
In Ballymurphy. Competence with pain,
Coherent miseries, a bite and sup,
We hug our little destiny again.
EmeraldGreen
Aye he told Lenny he should be saving himself for the Petrov game. :)
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie
10:50 on
30 August, 2013
Glad to see that someone agrees with my own assessment of WGS’ dismissive trearment of media.
I think Pukki looks a wee bit like Harold Brattbakk.
Auldheid:
Conversely there is plenty of evidence of Celtic saying hee-haw about, let’s just call them… negotiations, that if were made known and admitted publicly, would cause the Celtic Support to go ballistic and fragment.
You are the one that beats the drum of transparency regards the SFA, why beat a different drum when it comes to all things Celtic?
Auldheid
Kenny Shiels made an interesting point last night on Clyde about how in a game such as Wed someone dribbling at a defense can cause problems.
The problem is that sometimes you lose possession and if you get abuse from the crowd you are going to stop doing it.
The second half on Wed I noticed that the Shaktar players were a bit more reticent to fly in with tackles after picking up yellows in the first half
Big Dolph was just reminding Lenny still few mins left and concentrate on game. Game not done yet and make a sub and put big Virgil on to sew up the long balls.
O.G. Rafferty
God Rest him. One of the biggest literary talents every to come out of Ireland. One of the meeting rooms in my workplace here in Dublin is named after him.
Marti
Hamiltontim.
As always I enjoyed myself,especially when I was in the Corinthian Club,surrounded by so many Celtic players,felt like I was back at Celtic Park..
oldtim
Hope you enjoyed your day with the young tims.
You trying to wind me up,ya wee shit bag.
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family 11:10 on 30 August, 2013
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I just hope he does have a PI for goal…
Canalamar
Eh?
I watched the Disney movie the Jungle Book once.
Came out and still gave bears a wide berth.
Auldheid:
Further, you’d like to see the history of our attempts to sign players chronicled in the Celtic View. For the love of God man how much spin could we handle. Nobody is going to tell the truth and nothing but the truth in the Celtic View. They never have.
Marti Sandino, Like you I was mad at the time and I agree with what you say regarding respect for the older citizens. I would say the latter though wouldn’t I as I am one.
But I think that we sometimes dignify the remarks of scum by treating them as if they were made by intelligent, responsible, adults. Scum is scum is scum.