Celtic are Britain’s only former winner in this afternoon’s Champions League group stage draw, joining four English clubs, attempting to secure the trophy for the first time. Both Spanish former winners, Barcelona and Real Madrid, are there, as are Portuguese winners, Benfica and Porto.
Like Britain, only one of Italy’s former champions – Juventus – are in this season’s tournament. Past champions from Germany, Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund made it, while Netherlands’ Eindhoven complete the line-up of nine former European champions in this season’s group stage.
Best of luck to all former champions.
Enjoy the draw, and remember, game dates can be changed, so be careful if you’re booking flights.
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Gordon J
The greatest, most brilliant, most exciting, most watched, most amazing league in the world wouldn’t allow UEFA to put one of their teams in pot 4!! :-)
macjay1 for Neil Lennon on 25th August 2016 12:45 pm
VFR800A8 on 25TH AUGUST 2016 12:33 PM
You were right.
An overreaction on my part.
This country has been wonderful for myself and my bitzer family.
A Mecca ( :-) ) for people throughout the world.
Can`t abide it being misrepresented or insulted.
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Macjay, it’s all banter; never an intention to misrepresent or insult.
I’m far more direct than that :>) see my response to Mats Nilloc @ 10:06: http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/transformational-day-but-poor-performance/comment-page-21/#comments
KTF
Draw done
PSG
Athletico
Brugge
Celtic
That would do!
Need to go up ti the shops for a connection for my I phone to my PC , had one but my bro borrows it three weeks ago when he was here, big bassas fecked of back ti Canada wi it, am tellin ma Ma.
JIMBOB71 on 25TH AUGUST 2016 12:53 PM
Gordon J
The greatest, most brilliant, most exciting, most watched, most amazing league in the world wouldn’t allow UEFA to put one of their teams in pot 4!! :-)
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Is that last year’s Scottish Championship?
Leicester
Napoli
Club Brugge
Celtic
I’m thinking teams we can beat at home ! (Or is that every team ?)
Thanks for the replies about James MacCarthy..
My draw
Juventus
Arsenal
Borrusia…..
Hmmm
Much as I am beginning to love big Kolo, hope his wish to play against his brother in the Champions league doesn’t come true till one Saturday next may.
Alternatively he can maybe talk his brother into playing with him up here in the Champions league.
Champions league,Champions league, Champions league a just love typing that , think I will go and see if I can find a ring-tone with that fur ma phone. :-)
Maybe one of the teams ahead of us will get banned and we will move up a pot.
Apparently “Rangers” got “banned”, according to STV…….
tonydonnelly67 on 25th August 2016 12:59 pm
Need to go up ti the shops for a connection for my I phone to my PC , had one but my bro borrows it three weeks ago when he was here, big bassas fecked of back ti Canada wi it, am tellin ma Ma.
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I assume you have wireless? If so it can be connected and synced that way; or is that beyond your ken?
If so, a trip to the shops may be quicker and less painful ……………
KTF
App draw done :
Leicester City
FC Porto
Borussia Mönchengladb.
Celtic
Not sure if I’d fancy that or not.
On another note – the Milan clubs are conspicuous by their absence this year. Indeed only 2 Italian clubs in the group stage. I don’t pay much attention at all to the Italian league, but did neither Milan club finish in the top 4 last season? Must be the first time for a while.
Probably you have all seen this before , but who cares.
The eye opener ………………..
Post game training , wind down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJ8ezP4pJSY
Good Afternoon.
Looking forward to the draw. Don’t care who Celtic get!
Here is a new blog. Wherein Mark Warburton explains how to qualify for the Champions League…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2016/08/25/the-secret-of-champions-league-qualification/
And here is last night’s. Celebrating Celtic’s European success!
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2016/08/24/champions-glee/
THE JONATRON
Inter finished 4th, Europa League place. Milan finished 7th, didn’t qualify for Europe
VFR800A8 on 25TH AUGUST 2016 12:55 PM
Macjay, it’s all banter; never an intention to misrepresent or insult.
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I know.
Not you , mate .
The original poster.
:-)
Life sho gittin` diif`cult.
Bring on the Hearts and Hibs and Rangers
Bring on Spaniards by the score
Barcelona ,Real Madrid we will make a gallant bid.
Couldn`t give a monkeys who we draw.
Guaranteed bickies to be banked.
Giving us financial leverage for next season .
Eyes on the prize.
Tony,
Will the cable you use to charge your iPhone not do?
HH
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Transformational day but poor performance 898
BY PAUL67 ON 24TH AUGUST 2016 CQN BLOG & COMMENTS
That was the latest instalment in a long running series of Behind the Couch Celtic away performances in Europe, with the wonderful exception that after Hapoel Be’er Shiva had us on the rack in the opening period of the second half, Celtic put five at the back and closed the game out without any stressful incidents in the final 15 minutes.
There are a few moments worthy of comment:
Hapoel’s penalty came as a consequence of Celtic pressing high up the field for the first time in the game. The home team dropped deep as they were temporarily reduced to 10 men, but when Celtic pressed high to take advantage of an opponent receiving treatment, they easily passed through us, switched the ball left and gave Saidy Janko his first difficult moment of the night.
More on Saidy in a moment, but we cannot allow teams to pass through us so easily. We should never have been caught so high up field. Our alertness, interceptions and tackling were not good enough. Craig Gordon’s block at the penalty was priceless (or at a price of circa £26m, if you’re being picky).
There’s a reason teams who mark zonally at corner kicks don’t mark the penalty spot. It’s because headers from the penalty spot need to be exceptional in order to beat the keeper. Sahar’s goal wasn’t an exceptional header. It bounced before passing Craig Gordon three feet inside the post. It should never have been a goal, and although Craig’s mistake for the second was more evident, the first was as worrying a goal to concede.
We’re fond of talking about “schoolboy errors” in football but Saidy’s lack of awareness of his direct opponent and goalkeeper at the second goal was a classic error from the 9-year-old’s game. I’ll be generous and say he’s not ready for a game at this level. Craig Gordon doesn’t have a let off for this one, either. While his fullback made a mistake, an alert keeper would have prevented the goal and knocked Saidy into next week. Awareness concerns exist for him too.
Whether it’s Craig’s self-confidence, or that the defence don’t have confidence in him, goalkeeping mistakes came perilously close to seeing us drop out of the Champions League last night.
Not that Craig shoulders all responsibility for what was a weak performance. The middle of the park was experimental and looked it. On the back of one of his best games for Celtic a week ago, Scott Brown’s passing, control and influence was miles off the pace.
Scott, Callum McGregor and Nir Bitton were swamped in midfield. Too few Celtic players were showing for the ball, which was thrown forward aimlessly whenever a Hapoel player closed us down. If central midfield is right, your defensive and goalkeeping frailties are less evident, but we were exposed too often at the back last night. There was a period in the second half when watching on TV made it impossible to know where we were going wrong. After a Hapoel chance, we would see a replay, and before it cut back to live pictures, Celtic had lost possession and were again under pressure. This happened repeatedly. Central midfield was the major problem with the performance, if not the result.
Don’t let any of this dampen your spirits. We’re into the Champions League group stage, a fact which will see us break through the £80m turnover mark for the first time. By comparison, turnover was £51m for 2014-15, the most recent season accounts are available for.
Despite the increase in expenditure this season, we’ll pay our bills without increasing borrowing or selling players. We’re on the circuit again, which means we’ll find it easier to attract talent going forward, it means we’ll find it easier to attract commercial deals and pretty much every KPI at the club will become that bit more attainable.
Last night was a transformational day in the life of your football club. We’re back, enjoy it!
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TIMALOY29 on 25TH AUGUST 2016 11:17 AM
Bruce Banner turns into a big green monster when he’s angry
Does the Green Man turn into a big flesh coloured monster when he’s mad?
TIMBHOY3 on 25TH AUGUST 2016 11:17 AM
Almore can’t see the Museum being built near the Superstore more likely place I think.is were they used to park the Buses,anyway there is plenty of land around Celtic Park.i hope the museum and other things get built should have been done long ago,but this month’s running theclub drag there heels they want your hard earned cash and that’s it. A piano a Bovril good enough for us.
I mean a Pie
EMERALDBEE\O/ STILL PROUD TO BE AN INTERNET BAMPOT on 25TH AUGUST 2016 11:17 AM
TAURANGABHOY on 25TH AUGUST 2016 9:52 AM
Emeraldbee For all I know Mats might be a troll or might be like us Celtic in his heart his own way. If you don’t like his beat scroll on.
That’s my view entirely – scroll past, don’t feed!
SAOR ULADH on 25TH AUGUST 2016 10:16 AM
There are posters on here that have an agenda and that agenda has nothing to do with furthering the cause of Celtic FC.
Exactly, so ………………….. don’t take the bait, scroll on by and don’t feed the troll(s).
AWE_NAW_NO_ANNONI_OAN_ANAW_NOO on 25TH AUGUST 2016 11:18 AM
A MAN’S third pint explained in a friendly but firm voice that he would be staying out for the rest of the evening, it has emerged.
Tom Logan believed he was enjoying one or two quick post-work drinks before heading home for dinner. However the tone of the evening changed when a third pint appeared in front of him.
The third pint said: “Well my friend, it’s Wednesday night and here we are.
“Looks like you won’t be heading home before closing time, and I’d kiss goodbye to thoughts of making that lasagne – we’re looking at a doner or maybe a ‘chicken pieces times two plus chips’ meal deal.
“I believe you’ve met my friends fourth pint, and fifth pint. They’ll be along shortly.
“I think sixth pint might even put in an appearance. Remember him? He’s the one who makes the ceiling move back and forth like a menacing ocean, while you lie in bed consumed by regret.
“Anyway, better drink me up, or I’ll go flat.”
It added: “Tomorrow is going to be awful, just awful.”
TURKEYBHOY on 25TH AUGUST 2016 11:22 AM
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 25TH AUGUST 2016 10:16 AM
“My enemy’s enemy is my friend. ”
Never a good starting point for any discussion or action but quite common on here this morning.
My enemies enemy is my friend”Used to like that saying,then discovered that “My enemy”was his own worst enemy.Now I have to invite the prick to Barbeques !!!!!.
PATMCGRATHTAKESAPENALTY on 25TH AUGUST 2016 11:27 AM
Coolmore, I have a loose involvement with Catholic charities working out there and serving all in the community. The persecution sadly comes from intransigent groups, both Israeli and Palestinian but having written that, I have to add that you do not have to walk far to find signs of hope as in the village with a roughly 50 – 50 division Muslim/Christian where one group caters for the mourners when a member of the other community dies and vice-versa.
I don’t post often and I’m sure I am going to be told off for not keeping to football and so i am going to add that I have a gut feeling that we are going to do surprisingly well in the Champions League.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 25TH AUGUST 2016 11:29 AM
RAY WINSTONE’S BIG DISEMBODIED HEID on 25TH AUGUST 2016 11:01 AM
Dipped in here for a quick look.
Jeezo it’s like an episode of the glums!
Apparently the blog is now inhabited by huns trolls and racists according to the pleasantries being flung around.
Just remember racism is like cricket………………………. Invented in England but perfected in Australia.
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Apologies for the blatant re-cycling but I got left behind this morning.
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Couple of recent comments have caught my eye …
GB — Glee club in the manner of High School Musical.
The whole ultra vibe is look at me nonsense that needs to move on.
Home game against HBS — they were not intimidated by the GB waving a few tea towels.
They were when the whole of the JS stand started chanting — something / anything.
The ultra vibe as put forward by the GB is elitist — uber fan exceptionalism.
Also talk about doing up the CP surroundings.
Lots of talk but very little action.
We are falling behind and losing revenue because of it.
Need to upgrade what we have and add a whole range of new facillities.
Starting with a full sized indoor pitch — see Robb Indoor Arenas for what can be done.
Plus we need a training stadium for the U20’s / Dev squad.
My thoughts are that imagination and desire are bigger stumbling blocks now than money.
Finally I would give funds to the school to add facilities to their running track.
Good neighbours — that is who we need to be.
Put some money back into the East End.
Apologies to all concerned.
Tried to copy and paste a few words and seemed to have picked up half an old blog.
Consequently lying low for a couple of hours.
Spurs the first british team to win a european trophy . Not the BIG cup of course. The Cupwinners Cup in 1963 v Athletico Madrid.
Any truth in the rumour that today’s draw is to be made from a ‘magic hat’ and that UEFA are considering letting a 33rd club into the groups?Apparently it’s called the Albert Pike wildcard,sponsored by Warburtons.
Pardon my ignorance but when does the transfer window close?
Talk of Ludogorets having 10 Brazilians. Are any of them this guy?
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soccers-ultimate-con-man-was-a-superstar-who-couldnt-play-the-game
HH
I want to avoid Barcelona and Juventus from Pot 1 other than that no preferences would be good for the support to see different clubs come to Celtic Park.
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 25TH AUGUST 2016 1:09 PM
It is my friend, it is!
KTF
Snake
End of August
SNAKE PLISSKEN on 25TH AUGUST 2016 1:24 PM
Midnight 31st August. Next Wednesday
SNAKE PLISSKEN on 25TH AUGUST 2016 1:24 PM
Pardon my ignorance but when does the transfer window close?
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Whenever it’s caul ootside. ;))
Next thursday I believe mhate.
MADMITCH on 25TH AUGUST 2016 1:19 PM
Apologies to all concerned.
Tried to copy and paste a few words and seemed to have picked up half an old blog.
Consequently lying low for a couple of hours.
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You don’t get off that easily. What was the intended point?
KTF
MUNRO on 25TH AUGUST 2016 1:17 PM
Tony,
Will the cable you use to charge your iPhone not do?
HH
If only you posted thay quicker, I just saw it there, yer right it would have done the job, Ach it was only a nicker oot the £ shop, so now a got two :)) am only two mins fi the shops so no problemo .
My draw was…
Benfica
Man City
Borussia monche.
Celtic…
Thank god I won’t be doing the real one.
MADMITCH on 25TH AUGUST 2016 1:19 PM
Apologies to all concerned.
Tried to copy and paste a few words and seemed to have picked up half an old blog.
Consequently lying low for a couple of hours.
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Been there , mate.
Done that , mate.
Suggestion.
Lie low ?
Stuff that.
Back on quick smart.
With aggression.
:-)
Hi,
Is it true that Sevco will benefit from our qualification to the UCL? Really pissed off if this correct , make them pay their football debts.
HH
Paul67
Very poor form, and annoying for us Grey Brigade members posting away blindly on the old thread.
Macjay,
Enjoy the moment:))
Madmitch,
Your post at 1.17pm is the most sense you’ve made on here:))
Don’t worry about it.
HH
MADMITCH on 25TH AUGUST 2016 1:19 PM
Too late to lie low.
Lee Wallace has shopped you.
What date the Barca game?
And Rostov will no pushover having watched their convincing demolition of our old “friends” Ajax.