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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Craigellachie
Watched with interest as mcmoist rabbited to the smsm about trying to sign kenny misser.
They only added the fact later in the story that misser has just signed a new contract with vancouver… but didn’t point that out to Alistair
TBJ Praying for Oscar Knox
21:20 on 29 August, 2013
Yes, I chuckled at that one.
The Group of Champions
Barcelona pinch CQN headline
Milan, Ajax and Celtic, all European champions, will face off against Barça in the group stage of the 2013/14 edition of the Champions League
Milan have won the competition seven times, Ajax have been champions four times and Celtic won the competition in 1967. The teams in Group H have won a total of 16 European Cup titles
The Champions League Group Stage draw took place this Thursday afternoon in Monaco. The draw dropped Barça in the middle of a group full of European champions. Group H is made up of FC Barcelona, AC Milan, Ajax and Celtic Glasgow, teams that have won a total of 16 continental crowns between them.
Milan, the collector of Champions League trophies
The group stage will bring us a classic European showdown. The team managed by Tata Martino will face off against AC Milan, a team that have won seven European Cup titles. The teams have featured against each other 17 times, with a record of 7 Barça victories, 5 draws and 5 Milan victories. We don’t have to go too far to find the most recent match between Catalans and Italians. On Match 12 of 2013 the Camp Nou witnessed a night that will be difficult to forget.
In the Round of 8 of the Champions League, Barça needed to fight back from a 2-0 deficit from the first leg of the tie against Milan. The Blaugrana fired for four unanswered goals against the Rossoneri in the second leg and thus clinched a spot in the quarter-finals of the competition.
But that wasn’t the only time Barça took on AC Milan in the continental competition. The first time was in the 1959/60 season, also in the Round of 8. On that occasion, Barça defeated Milan by 5 to 1 at the Camp Nou and sealed the deal at the San Siro two weeks later by 0 to 2. Barça’s track record against AC Milan isn’t all rosy, however. In the 1994 final in Athens, Milan thrashed Johan Cruyff’s FC Barcelona by 4 to 0 to claim the title.
Ajax, a new rival but not unknown
Alax and FC Barcelona have never faced off in an official competition. The Dutch team, however, are also a classic team in the European competition. The team managed by the former Barça player, Frank De Boer, have won the Champions League four times. The first time they won it was in 1971, and their most recent successful bid for the European crown was in 1995.
Also, we mustn’t forget that Bojan Krkic currently features for Ajax. It’s worth noting that last season Bojan featured against Barça at the Camp Nou while wearing the AC Milan strip.
Second consecutive year against Celtic
Barça’s third rival in the group stage is well known to Tata’s men. Last season the two teams were paired up in Group G together. The first game played between the sides ended with a 2-1 scoreline favourable to Barça, the second match, at Celtic Park, ended in the same result but for the Scottish team. Celtic were led to the the European Cup title in 1967 by Jock Stein. Three seasons later, the Scots finished second in the competition.
Ek bhoy
Ha penny inn shows all games.
They have fb page..or google them
Apologies for double post
What was the Paddy Power tweet?
Weegreen man.
Mocking Billy..
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
21:27 on
29 August, 2013
Weegreen man.
Mocking Billy..
What was said exactly?
BRTH
‘Better than forecast’ appears to have replaced the word: absolutely!
:-)
I noticed that Paddy Power didny tweet anything about Figo having the same problem as Billy.
I reckon that tweet will cost him.
coneybhoy
Us Irish Tims have had to put up with that kinda nonsense for years on Rte. in fairness to them the other night though, I thought their analysts were genuinely delighted for us getting the result.
Marti
Cheers BT
praecepta
21:29 on
29 August, 2013
BRTH
‘Better than forecast’ appears to have replaced the word: absolutely!
To be perfectly honest, and I must be honest with you, this is honestly hilarious!
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BS2imeHIYAA11di.jpg
Paddy Power comment
Shieldmure Celtic
Neil Lennon has every right to fire a broadside at his detractors be they fans or journalists.
The same fans had every right to express their feelings about a very poor coaching performance in the first leg.
As for the journalists who cares?.Liars and hurting Huns.
EK Bhoy
Try this bar
Mulligans Irish Bar & Restaurant. Address: C.C. Columbus, Avenida de Las Playas, Puerto del Carmen, Tías, 35510, Lanzarote Telephone: (0034) 928 51 16 89
I am off to the island start of next month.
Exiled_bhoy 21:31
In the name of God i sincerely hope that was some kind of mindless, twisted wind up
Charlotte is back on twitter
Lifting her skirt to reveal 44 pages of rifc accounts from december 2012
Exiled Bhoy
Obviously the smart arse who made the comment thought he was being a “wit’. I hope it costs his company a small fortune in future lost revenue. Would he have made the same comments if it was Alex Ferguson ? Just an utter lack of respect. It makes my blood boil.
Marti
Impostor twisted wind up. Still celebrating hic
Senga
Don’t think they realised billy is ill …. but it will do them some damage
Guess heads will roll
blantyretim is praying for the knox family
Thanks , I’ll give that a try.
HH
I’ve mulled over the CL fixtures and having taken all factors into account including quality of opposition, our need for a striker etc I’ve come to the conclusion that we may need to settle for second place.
Thinking of Mathews performance last night and wondering how we were lucky to find this talent.
I believe he really has the potential to be world class.
He probably will be next seasons big sale and unfortunately this situation will be he norm till the European football landscape changes.
Luckily it’s the one position we are well stocked with Lustig and young Fisher who looked very good preseason.
maestro
21:36 on 29 August, 2013
Probably catch you in the pub – is that one at the harbour end?
HH
Bt
Is that the wee pub.. upstairs in the centre near the harbour
Tbj praying for Oscar Knox
I’m trying very very hard not to lose it, i really I’m. Dispicable scum, may they rot in hell
tbj praying for oscar knox
Whether they knew or not of Billy”s condition I think was besides the point. He is obviously a frail elderly gent and a legend in European football. An utter lack of respect making that kind of comment. It really annoyed me. I hope the person who made it has a bit more respect for the older people in his own family. I will not set foot in any of their shops again and am closing my account.
Sorry about the rant on such a happy and proud day for Celts.
Marti
Tbj.
Yes. Vmhan has been in..(wasn’t there when I was on holiday)
They seem to have a good set up..
marti,
Who did the RTE panel consist of?
can somebody put a link to the goals or highlights
I’m assuming on follow follow tonight a lot of sevcovians are complaining that they have been drawn against Queen of the South in the ramsden cup AGAIN!
Same bloody draw as last season.
I believe in the practice draw they were also drawn against QotS.
Sevco were hoping to get a glamour tie against someone they haven’t played before. But alas, Stenhousemuir was not to be.
Meanwhile Celtic, who have never even qualified for the ramsden cup were, forced to take part in a draw for some silly competition full of johnny foreigner teams.
Have a good mind to open a Paddy Power account just for the satisfaction of closing it and telling them exactly the reasons why !
Absolute scum bags to poke fun at the greatest living Celt !
Furious…..email being composed at the minute
Hello this is WEE BGFC. As I am in primary 7 I am going to Kilbowie this year and sadly the Ajax away game is on when I am away but I am thinking of a plot to see it. Has anyone got any idea’s?
tricoloured ribbon
Liam Brady and Richie Saddlier. Surprised the latter was so happy for us as he was a self confessed supporter of the dead club in his youth, and him from Glasnevin! Think his da was from Glasgow and passed on the bad habit.
Marti
Fuming at the moron representing paddy power. How i feel about paddy power will depend on how they deal with this. Having a cheap laugh at an auld man is dispicable.
Burgh
Been suggested they make a sizeable donation to a charity of billys choice
How about paying mckenzies treatment paddy
Emailed Paddy Power with complaint, suggested they should make a donation to Alzeihmer’s Scotland. Await reply.