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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Yorkboy
Indeed it is the risk you take but the second half was exactly the time to tell the players to run at them for the reason you give.
Maybe they were instructed to do so by savvy guys in the technical area?
I watched Eff”s debut in a League Cup game at Parkhead and thought we’d signed the next Beckenbaur. He was calm, he had pace, he was strong and most importantly he passed the ball to other players in green and white hoops.
Since then he’s lost his way quite a bit and in most games I find myself sitting on the edge of my seat waiting for his next calamity.
On Wednesday night form returned and I saw the player I’d witnessed on his debut.
For several years we’ve struggled to find a consistent central defence pairing. This has been for two main reasons, injury and poor form.
Clearly his confidence is returning and he must be flying after his performance against Shaktar. My preference would be to give him and Virgil, who reminds me of a fat PVH, a run in the team together. Give them the opportunity to build a partnership over a period of half a dozen matches and pray that it works.
A stor a moi
I rest my case M’lurd. :)
Auldheid,
You were scolding malorbhoy and trying to make out that after everything Lenny went through, the board would never exploit him in such a way, you then use the CST resolution about communication for one half of your argument yet ignored their other resolution which identifies the board as exactly the exploitive beast your claim to malorbhoy they could not be, know nat.
http://sport.stv.tv/football/237839-scottish-premiership-clubs-to-share-15m-uefa-champions-league-windfall/?
We look forward to expressions of heartfelt thanks and encouragement from the other Prem clubs….
O.G.Rafferty
Sad news indeed, a legend of where I hail from.
Duke
Neil Lennons run and celebration is what the club is all about. As a fan I loved it. It showed togetherness and the willingness to share in the joy.
Forrest had taken a wee bit abuse and he is one of Lenny’s Lions. Neil has brought him through and when that ball hit the net it was like his son scoring. I admire Neil for sticking with him and I admire Forrest for not only scoring the winner but also never hiding. He done a few things that never came off but not much. Watching the game again showed what he contributed he had a fine match. being a winger for Celtic is one of the hardest jobs in football. The wee fella is learning his trade and hopefully he is there for many years to come. He is in his early 20’s and has bags of european experience already as do a few of our other younger players. Neil Lennon has done a huge job in European football. He must have surpassed Uncle Walter in game wins in Europe already. Would be interested in those stats.
LB
Is there some issue regarding the SFA “slamming” the window shut early??
Will that prevent signings by us over the weekend or Monday?
OldTim67
I thought the Corinthian was a hang oot for players of Sevco :-)
606AlfieConn@606AlfieConn1m
£84 to see Barcelona, AC Milan & Ajax
For another £12 I could go and see Arsenal once!
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Efe will be more effective when we have a defensive midfielder to cover him when he makes these runs
He’s been a bit iffy of late … Thought he was back to his best on Wednesday
Really pleased for him .., looks like a guy happy at his work … Even when he plays poorly its not for the want of trying
Seamus Heaney RIP
HT
Pre liquidation days
Cannae afford it noo
Marti, 11:21
A true giant of words and ideas and a light for us all in the 70s and 80s.
I met him in the mid 80s – I worked on a book he was involved in just after I left college – and I loved the fact that he was very much a man of his place and his people.
He was a gig guy and he had enormous hands and fingers, like a bunch of bananas, but also this incredible aura and ease that come from being a master of his domain.
A truly impressive man
So good old Chris McLaughlin of the BBC has not long ago tweeted that Sandy Easdale is taking Charles Green’s shares in RFC.
Now as far as I can tell that’s information that could materially affect the share price of RFC and therefore should have gone to the market before the public (or at the same time as often happens). Naughty.
Pfayr
Their grandchildren will be drinking in the Gallowgate ;-)
Auldheid:
What do you mean “You rest your case?”. ( :-) )
I’m only commenting on what I have been told in confidence without breaking a confidence. I’m not using any words that Celtic have publicly broadcast against them.
So to your mind it is all right for Celtic to conduct negotiations that would tear the support apart as long as Celtic don’t tell the support about said negotiations?
I don’t find anything to smile about or to be smug about in that?
You never answered my question though…
How can you continue to beat the drum of transparency regards the SFA and not beat the same drum regards Celtic?
Dexter
11:29 on
30 August, 2013
I think Stephen Thomson at D Utd already has congratulated us and pointed out how good it is for the other teams.
Seamus Heaney RIP.
One of my father’s prized possessions was a copy of door into the dark. Even had another copy of it with him in the Kesh.
“Requiem for the Croppies”,
The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley…
No kitchens on the run, no striking camp…
We moved quick and sudden in our own country.
The priest lay behind ditches with the tramp.
A people hardly marching… on the hike…
We found new tactics happening each day:
We’d cut through reins and rider with the pike
And stampede cattle into infantry,
Then retreat through hedges where cavalry must be thrown.
Until… on Vinegar Hill… the final conclave.
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.
The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
They buried us without shroud or coffin
And in August… the barley grew up out of our grave.
The pockets of our greatcoats full of barley…
No kitchens on the run, no striking camp…
We moved quick and sudden in our own country.
The priest lay behind ditches with the tramp.
A people hardly marching… on the hike…
We found new tactics happening each day:
We’d cut through reins and rider with the pike
And stampede cattle into infantry,
Then retreat through hedges where cavalry must be thrown.
Until… on Vinegar Hill… the final conclave.
Terraced thousands died, shaking scythes at cannon.
The hillside blushed, soaked in our broken wave.
They buried us without shroud or coffin
And in August… the barley grew up out of our grave.
Sorry all seems i pasted twice, anyway it’s worth a second read anytime.
RIP Seamus Heaney.
Futrher Auldheid:
Do you honestly believe that Celtic PLC should not be held accountable for their public statements?
o.g. rafferty
A giant of poetry. He had that most Irish of gifts; the ability to use language like a paintbrush. Great poetry can move men to tears and he often did that with me. His work, however, will live on.
Now it’s high watermark
And floodtide in the heart
And time to go…
What’s left to say?
Suspect too much sweet talk
But never close your mind.
From the Cure at Troy.
Seamus Heaney RIP
blantyretim is praying for the knox family
10:33 on 30 August, 2013
Depends how Celtic are going to service their new travel service with tickets
Oglach, 11:36
It is
Farewell Seamus.
Anything Can Happen
Anything can happen. You know how Jupiter
Will mostly wait for clouds to gather head
Before he hurls the lightning? Well just now
He galloped his thunder cart and his horses
Across a clear blue sky. It shook the earth
and the clogged underearth, the River Styx,
the winding streams, the Atlantic shore itself.
Anything can happen, the tallest towers
Be overturned, those in high places daunted,
Those overlooked regarded. Stropped-beak Fortune
Swoops, making the air gasp, tearing the crest off one,
Setting it down bleeding on the next.
Ground gives. The heaven’s weight
Lifts up off Atlas like a kettle lid.
Capstones shift. Nothing resettles right.
Telluric ash and fire-spores boil away.
-Seamus Heaney
from District and Circle, Faber and Faber Ltd., 2006
Logical
M1888.
Are investers lounge st holders still guaranteed first option?
Just began to read back and was delighted at all the positive comments about our group. Last night I was a wee bit apprehensive about the draw. Then it dawned on me we are back where we belong amongst the greats of European football. We have been there before in the 60s and 70s. Now we are to take on teams we used to meet and defeat in those days.
The name of Celtic resonated round Europe once more last evening as Big Billy arrived on the stage with the Big Cup. What a presence! What a wonderful man! Had the privilege of speaking to him last Saturday before and after the game and was just delighted to be in his presence.
Lastly, I agree wholeheartedly with the blogger who spoke about Lustig. He game over to our section of the ground at the end of the game on Wednesday night and he was total caught up in the joy of that moment. Here for everyone to see was a young lad truly becoming one of the Bhoys. I do hope he will continue to develop into a great Celtic player and remain with us for many years.
Oh dear! Meant totally
Biton signs on a four year deal.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dIzJgbNANzk&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DdIzJgbNANzk
Poetry, like music, is written to be listened to.
Hamiltontim.
Next time we meet up we’ll go and have a wee drink in the Corinthian club. I went into there about 01.00 am,Celtic players seem to be a bit nocturnal, I was surprised to see them out and about at that time of night.
As far as it being a sevco place, I wouldn’t know, never enters my head ‘is this a sevco place’,The only place you must feel safe is when you go to mass on Sunday, these thoughts won’t enter your head.
Auldheid
My concern with our players running at the opposition is the lack of protection they get…how many bookings would Shaktar have got with a Scottish ref? I worry about the long term fitness of Jamesie with the clattering he gets.
Canalamar
Never thought of that.
So one thing being so (and I do not know if it is having not thought about it) means another is so as well.
Surely not? Life is too multi faceted, and human beings reflect life, for that to be so?
If you are asking should Celtic pay a living wage then of course. I would prefer the money came out of player’s pockets rather than mine ( on affordability grounds) but then I’d be unhappy at a player not being signed I suppose. Difficult when you think about it but yes I’m all for a living wage.
What is Celtic’s response?
Oldtim
Nakas also said the same on Wednesday re corinthion. .
Good news for Celtic.
Kevin Boateng having a medical, and on the verge of signing for Schalke.
Played well against PSV on Wednesday and scored two goals.
Spoke to a Milan fan this morning who gave the Milan board pelters!
Kaka’ possibly on his way back. Same Milan fan said – “Ffs, he’s past it!”
HH!!
Logical Optimist
District and Circle is a great work, having moved from the area Heaney was born to London I got a comfort from getting my copy from my dad and sharing it with Londoners.
Night of reading ahead.