Celtic will almost certainly face HJK Helsinki in the third qualifying round of the Champions League. The Fins are 7-0 after the first leg of their second qualifying round against KR Reykjavik.
HJK were the first team to beat Martin O’Neill’s Celtic as they overcame a first leg deficit in the 2000 Uefa Cup to force the tie into extra time. Chris Sutton scored late to prevent the tie going to penalty kicks. HJK are also top of their domestic league after 17 games, so will be a well-oiled machine by the time the arrive at Celtic Park on 31 July or 1 August.
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Night all Pure time. Night wee Oscar hope you have good sleep 2 nite. Sweet dreams wee man.
djtreak. The Orcs are dead, what we need to concern ourselves about now is improving our results in Europe and having a laugh and enjoy the predicament that the Govan Reds are in. I mean that is going to be some game against Brechin (lol)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV-R0TG_9eU
blantyretim 21:32
I know her, brillaint to get a job in Dubai, a brilliant place to live, Id walk there for a job the now.
EN
Patrick27, 21:23
Exactly my tale too (though I’m in London).
Just me and my girl – my wife, and boy who doesn’t like football, will be elsewhere. I’ll be in my 1978 top with an excited girl in her brand new Hoops top.
EN
Defo mate …
EN
see you at her night out, I willmake sure the bhoys look after her, well I will get my old man to do that.. o))
ElDiegoBhoy at 21:31
You bring smile on my face :-)
It’s like reading live updates on RadioVaticana website from friendly Nevco Fc vs. Vatican SJ
voguepunter on 20 July, 2012 at 21:00 said:
Re- huns 500 season tickets sold, there is no
way at moment to buy SB’s couple of huns in work
have been over to the big hoose , and been told
unbelievably to to keep their money in pockets
till further notice ,no banks will work with direct debits etc.
*********************
Vogue, which begs the question, Is Mr Green a fit & proper person to run this potential football club – Vmhan hopes so, just for the craic :¬)
HH
Obviously they are going to say their history is unbroken, we will forever label them SEVCO or NEWCO. That is the nature of rivalry. If they are stripped of 6 SPL Titles and they are awarded to us, plus the strong liklihood that we will pick up another 4 or 5 before they become competitive again, then we have all the bragging rights. This is of course always assuming that SEVCO don’t go bust as well.
ASonOfDan on 20 July, 2012 at 21:14
Cheers. that’ll be the honeymoon period over then lol
Never mind. You cant please all of the people all of the time.
EN
PF knows where to go for a good night out…
ubfortunately for him he also knows how to get to Blantyre….
Game is on premier sports tomorrow
Patrick 27,
Thanks – looked up schedule and it is on Premier ….although I would rather be there , was in Amsterdam when Chicken George scored in 82
corkcelt on 20 July, 2012 at 21:18
And apologies for using the term jailed, it was the worst possible comment I could make.
Clashcitybhoy on 20 July, 2012 at 21:15:
Premier Sports are doing a deal, £40 for the season, covers Ajax, Celtic T.V. including all Saturday home games not broadcast on Sky and ESPN on a Monday night. £40 by going to http://www.premiersports.tv and quoting promo code ‘CELTIC’. They say it is a saving of £85. Includes access to other sports NHL to NASCAR. I received an e-mail from them, if you want it send me your e-mail addy to lennybhoycfc@gmail.com
Patrick27 on 20 July, 2012 at 21:23:
Are you in Belgium on holiday or permanently? Do you want me to stop sending texts?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
PF
meeting the oldbhoy tomorrow in town..
he said not to tell you coz you are a plissplot p__)
BT
I’ll burst you ya bam
BT
That’s because he’s slowing up
You’ve always been a lightweight :-))
The defhunct klub are gone.
It’s their poor deluded fans on the broken and weed-strewn terraces who will hang on for grim death to their long-gone memories.
We will remind them that they cheated and stole their titles with the collusion of the good ole boys in the fooooball authorities and the media.
They know the truth and it hurts them………….their arrogant empty bombast is just that.
Let them have their pantomime.
Ranjurs are gone and their jeerleaders will fall silent on the terraces of Brechin, Elgin, Annan etc, etc, etc
We can wait, the hun fallout will be memorable for all the wrong reasons.
HHH.
Lennybhoy…Supporting Neil Lennon and CFC until I die on 20 July, 2012 at 21:20 said:
You are of course correct and it’s this accepting of sanctions from oldco that sevco need to convince the knuckle draggers that it’s still the old bigot boys and all for a transfer embargo that comes into effect when the transfer window closes .
At the end of the day I am growing tired of pointing out how corrupt the Scottish game is ,the only people that forced the cheats to face any sanction was the honest football fans and what we get in return is sh*t on .
IMO the game in this country will never be worth a toss as long as any entity that is linked to the most corrupt team in history is in it .
They will be proven to be corrupt to the core and the SPL/SFA know it and have known for quite some time but they have aided and abetted them to escape justice for as they say (the good of Scottish football ) I am sorry but I struggle to see what’s good for Scottish football in this whole disgraceful sham .
HH
new article posted.
Paul67 et al
One thing the Olympic friendly proved, do not let fashion designers anywhere near a football strip, total disaster. Brazil look like they will have some good players stepping up in a couple of years. Bit more like the old Brazilian style. Lucas looks a real prospect for the full team.
Ah don’t worry petec, I didn’t take offence, I love all ye guys and I treasure my trips to Glasgow , from the pints in The Barras to the fish in & chips in my favourite chip van outside the ground, to the ground beneath my feet moving on those European nights. We are all the one clan and though we might have little tiffs now we are all on The One Road together.
Clashbhoy. Indeed what a nite in Amsterdam
On another note
Helsinki are a better team than anything we will play in the SPL
Neil has now officially said no money to buy that crucial center half
Criminal from PL
Estadio Nacional on 20 July, 2012 at 21:30 said:
blantyretim 21:26
If he is moving to Qatar give me a shout…
Ahaah!! It’s not just me in Qatar then :)
I don’t really know the gist of your post as I must have missed an earlier thread, but it looks like you know someone who is moving to Qatar soon, and if anyone’s moving to here just now it may be worth noting that the country has no alcohol for the next month now that Ramadan has been called. All hotel licenses are suspended, and THE ‘only off license’ in the country (aka QDC) is now closed for a month!
Is there a protocol for exchanging details here? I’d happily assist with any newcomers as I’ve been here 3 years already. There’s no doubt it’s a bit of a culture shock, but I’d be interested in meeting up with some fellow tims here anyway, AND I stocked up before QDC closed ;)
Hail Hail,
KevinBhoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r13I8jaABKY&feature=relmfu
Pinocchio ;-)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YIdySWSmAs0&feature=relmfu
Love this lhad…
SydneyTim
A centre half…. AND… a striker
For Europe at least.
Those who have studied psychology will know the technical term for it but IMO those who feel that Celtic are inferior are simply projecting aspects of their own psyche. Good night all.
JJ
When was the last time Campbell Ogilvie, as President of the Scottish Football Association, said anything in public? Just as well it’s been a quiet few months in Scottish football! Whose purpose does he serve?
It’s been an hour and a half since anyone said anything…
Come on guys – think of the lurkers!!
A monumental classic case of Cognitive Dissonance from The Heid:
If Rangers players win all four leagues it will be like a new signing.
By Mark Hateley on Jul 16, 12 08:25 AM in rangers
DUST yourself down with triggers broom. Draw up a little battle plan just like Napoleon used to do with his dinky soldiers, because everyone knows old Bonaparte had little baby hands and fingers. That’s what you do when you’ve been knocked from pillar to post and back again, when everyone kicks down every fence your enstranged wife tells you to put up, and it’s what The Rangers FC will do now. They will start life in the Scottish Third Division this season – with a massive point to prove. And there is much to look forward, none more so than a trip to Sunny Stranraer or in Alistair’s case for the Pies up in Elgin.
They will also have a target in mind – to become the first club in history to win all four leagues on the trot and get back to where they belong. Imagine that. I hope I’m not being biased when I say that I think that would be a greater achievement than Celtic winning the European Cup in 67. But I do think it would be a step too far saying four in a row would be a similar feat to the famous nine in a row I was part of alongside Rangers boss Alistair McCoist- after all that was MY team. But, then again, you have to believe me, if Alistair’s side can win the Third, Second and First Divisions followed by the SPL, it will feel just as good as Walter Smith’s remarkable achievement in the 90s- in fact it would go down on Alistair’s CV as a greater achievement than Pep Guardiola’s clean sweep of a few years ago. And who knows: maybe Kyle Hutton will be the new Messi?
As players back then, well before Alistair’s unsavoury and much maligned addiction to pastries, we set ourselves goals to aim for all the time. Yes we rarely met those targets, particularly when it came to Europe, but to be honest, with that side, our target was to win every game in every competition we played in. And that’s why, with such unrealistic expectations, with diddy’s like Scott Nisbet and Alex Cleland, we took our regular European pumping’s so badly. It didn’t help that semi-illiterate gluttons like Traynor and snivelling brown nosers like Chic Young were constantly bumming us up as world-beaters no matter how crap we were. But that’s another story for another time.
But through all the constant embarrassment of our European pain, the ritualized humiliation and being shown up for what we really were we still had domestic success- and at the end of the day as all true blues know getting one over the tims is all that matters anyway. That was the secret of our success. Pure unadulterated hatred of the enemy. Walter used to say to Bomber and Terry Hurlock through the bars of their cages: “Hate them until your last breath has left your bodies.” But even when Walter had lost his way in Europe and got mixed up in front of the tactics board we would soon forget about the latest disaster in Europe. We simply didn’t care what had gone on before, it was all about what was ahead of us. We were too stupid to know any different. It’s the sign of a real poor education. But, as we closed in on the nine, perhaps two or three years before we achieved the feat, it was definitely in our heads as something we were desperate to go for. And it was a bonus in those days before Celtic started questioning evry decision that we had so many good referees, really good guys who were so sympathetic to our cause. The nearer you get to your object point the harder you work, unless your on benefits or an EBT. And of course there is no doubt it helped that Celtic were on their knees at the time with a gang of clowns and chancers in the boardroom. As well as the fact Walter practically had a blank cheque with all the Bank of Scotland money Sir David kept giving him. But all that’s besides the point. This season’s Rangers squad, whoever they may be, and that is a very big “maybe”, will need that kind of focus. Yes they won’t have the unlimited resources from a corrupt bank like Walter did, unfortunately, or EBT’s or even the non-payment of PAYE tax to prop up a team you can’t afford- but maybe, just maybe, those at the club might find some other way to gain an unfair advantage. Lets hope so. Its The Rangers way. In our eyes back in the 90s it was all about identifying an achievable target. And what a feeling it was when we pulled it off, even if it wasn’t on a level playing field. But at the end of the day its really just all about winning AND it doesn’t matter HOW you do it. Walter used to say winning is everything. It was better to cheat and win than to be an honest loser. And I have always thought he was right, no matter what all these mealy-mouthed do-gooders who go on about a mythological “sporting integrity” say about it. They are just a bunch of jealous losers.
It will be the same for the Rangers boys, who are preparing for at least one season in Scotland’s bottom tier. Everyone will hate them because they are the People. But do they care? No. Maybe. How do I know? And of course, it’s the lower leagues we’re talking about. But if they could win four titles on the spin and take the club back to the summit of Scottish football it would be an incredibly big feet, maybe even of abominable snowman proportions- but lets not get too far ahead of ourselves. It hasn’t happened Yeti.
The whole club will also have been completely restructured. Because there practically nothing left anyway.They’ll want to do it ASAP and that means rapidly going through the leagues. And by the time they reach the top, which we know is inevitable, other clubs in Scotland will hopefully be in turmoil, and maybe even Aberdeen and Dundee Hibernian will be bust. Alistair will want to build a side now that will be ready for the SPL in three years. But that’s if there is an SPL, and for the purposes of gloating and reinforcing our superiority complex lets hope it goes to the wall. The way things are going, with clubs set to go into administration due to the cash crisis, Rangers could be in the top flight in two years. And who knows maybe we, alongside them, will be the only two team left, then we can slug it out until the end of days, like Jesus and the Devil on the pitch at Megiddo?
But right now all this John the Baptist doom and gloom is not Alistair’s concern. His job is to rebuild the squad and that means having an experienced spine, although not to experienced, as in geriatric, as it might end up with osteoporosis, really frail and end up breaking. And nobody wants a broken spine. So Alistair must protect the experienced spine with a group of very hungry talented, promising, maybe even vicious young players around them. And they will be hungry because the catering facilities at Ibrox/Murray Park have all been sold off. But nevertheless I’m sure, just like Churchill with a cigar in his mouth, Alistair with a pasty in his, he’ll keep his troops nourished and strong with fresh supplies from Greggs. He’ll want a keeper, centre-half, central midfielder and a striker he can rely on. In fact he’ll need a whole new team. How he does that with a Transfer Embargo hanging over him is anybody guess and for somebody more clever than me. Lets just hope he doesn’t ask me. That’s where he’ll need a bit of wisdom. He will immediately ask for Walter the wizard’s advice. But that will be a waste of time. Walter wouldn’t know what to do if he didn’t have a cheque book to rely on. But there is one thing I do know Lee McCulloch is an ideal captain for him as he has been there and done it. And many of us would rather not have been there when he done it. But still he must build the team around Big Jig. He has nothing to prove but it’s great that, at this stage in his career, he has a brand new challenge. In fact he’ll be glad that Rangers went into liquidation just so he could have this challenging experience in the Third Division. Its a chance for him to roll up his sleeves and show off his elbows as he goes into the trenches. That is something I know he will relish. He will be like a new signing. Guys in the lower leagues will be keen to prove themselves against Rangers in every game but that’s where pros like Lee will come in extremely handy. He will be like a new signing- did I already say that?
This is a chance for the young players to find their feet in the game. They will be bullied by other teams in the tough lower leagues but Big Jig will teach them how to bully back. It’s what he does best. In fact it the only thing he can do. But that is where he will come into his own. And they will learn about football, The Rangers way, from the bottom and ensure they’re ready when they reach the top, ready to stamp, snarl, moan, cheat, lie and dive with the very best of them with Big Jig as their mentor. So that by that time Celtic will be swept away like so much fluff on The Rangers coat tails. They could be legneds through this turmoil. They will be remembered by supporters as the players who took the club back to where belongs, back to crushing all pretenders beneath their triumphant jackboots.
Everyone has to pull together at Ibrox, even if it is in different directions, from Charles Green all the way down, all the way back up again, like doing the hokey cokey. Now that he knows what league they’re in, Green must reveal his plans and his vision because the supporters have still to be convinced.Even though many will never trust him with that NAME. And there is a school of thought that says he should change it by deed poll. I think he should do the honourable thing, particularly if he ever wants those loyal fans to truly , truly, trust him. Maybe even could change it to Blue or Orange?.
The fans are ready for this long journey to nowhere. Even though they don’t know where its going or when they’ll get there or even how or why they want to go in the first place. But they are like lost orphans dumped on the side of the road. Any wheels will do when your lost and desperate enough. Jeez, right now, The Rangers followers will hitch hike with Hannibal Lector. That’s how bad it is. But, somehow, people like myself keep repeating, incredibly, that the club could emerge from this carnage in a few years far better off. And if you repeat something enough it might just come true. That is the power of magical thinking. And that is something the Rangers faithful do really well. Its been said we could be debt-free, cash-rich through season tickets and in a better physical condition than most of the SPL clubs, in fact we might even be better off than Celtic and maybe even make Real Madrid look like a diddy club. In four years’ time, I don’t think the SPL will exist anyway. In fact, if our prayers come true, God willing, it could be disbanded within a year if half of its clubs go to the wall, then we can go at it hammer and tongs with a real gloatathon and really rub their noses in it. That would just be brilliant.
The whole of Scottish football needs a total revamp, like the English FA embarked on in 1993 when the Premiership was formed. They got rid of all the old guard at Lancaster Gate and brought in young, upwardly-thinking, really greedy and ambitious professionals. They looked at the game from a different angle and look at English football now, they can’t even get by the quarter finals of a major championships. That’s what we need to aspire to in this country. Maybe if they play Italy soon enough Pirlo can have more passes than the whole Scotland team put together. That is my idea of progress. That’s what is needed in Scotland, and as quickly as possible. We have two bodies with completely different agendas and outlooks, like conjoined twins with schizophrenia, with one that is a Dorothy and the other straight, with one that wants to travel and see the world and another that wants to stay at home and bake cakes – and that is a situation that sin’t good for anybody. It’s ridiculous and if it doesn’t change soon, to get everyone pulling in the same direction, instead of a conjoined twin tearing itself apart, under the same big blue umbrella, or something like a Royal blue awning, or a Union Jack Gazebo, like it used to be in the good old days, the game is screwed for good, but if it does then it will be like a new signing.
As told to his resident psychiatrist.