Celtic have received some clarity concerning their first Champions League qualifying round opponents after this week’s first leg results in qualifying round two. The five matches that could provide an opponent for Celtic all produced hot favourites to progress.
Sheriff Tiraspol, who won away in Armenia, are 22 games into their league campaign and top the Moldovan table. HJK Helsinki, who won 7-0 on Tuesday night’s Champions League qualifier, are joint top in Finland after 17 games.
All other expected opponents won 3-0 at home in the first leg. Neftchi Baku are top of the Azerbaijan league after 16 games. Molde are two points off the pace in Norway after 15 games. AEL Limassol are Celtic’s only potential opponents who have yet to start their campaign.
If Celtic are to progress to the group stage they will have to overcome stiffer opposition than any of these teams in the final qualifying round, so we should look forward to a stiff test.
Loved the We are Celtic Supporters video from Celtic TV (below). Great quotes from Jimmy McGrory, Tommy Burns, Billy McNeill, Paul McStay, Jock Stein and the original “<insert name> is more than a football club” from Sir Robert Kelly, a few decades before it was picked up in Catelonia.
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O.G.Rafferty on 19 July, 2012 at 23:47 said:
hen1rik, 23:17
Legalled and ready to go… about the long-overdue Tax Tribunal
When mate , when ?????
Morning
Sad sad news about the poor little Reyna boy,
Football rivalry means nothing really does it.
It’s a general piece … but there is something of real interest behind it which may appear at another time…
Sad news about Claudio Reynas son RIP
Tally bhoy , welcome aboard, are u from Winchburgh by any chance ?
Hail Hail
O.G.Rafferty on 19 July, 2012 at 23:49
MSM carrying this story or breaking elsewhere.
What Do We Want..?
OUR TITLES BACK !
When Do We Want Them..?
N-O-O-O-O-O-O-W-W-W-W !!
@alextomo: No revelations – just writing on the unaccountable secrecy surrounding the “just after Easter” BTC
@alextomo: Sorry – I am a few hours ahead of UK time
@alextomo: No revelations – just writing on the unaccountable secrecy surrounding the “just after Easter” BTC
BurghbHoy
No living beings come from Winchborough. The land thet time forgot. Only kiddin. Quite a nice wee place.
Weefra HH
Cant imagine what the Reyna family are going through
13 years old ffs this life can be so cruel
Not religious but my heart goes out to them dont know how u cope with something like that
O.G Rafferty is always a man in the know, we salute you my friend.
Sheik Yerbouti on 19 July, 2012 at 23:31 said:
hen1rik on 19 July, 2012 at 23:20 said:
WEVE HAD TO FIGHT FOR IT AWE
SOMETHING THEY WILL NEVER KNOW
IM HAPPY WITH THAT MAKES OUR TITLES IN THIS TIME
WELL
INCREDIBLE
12 IN A ROW SOUNDS GOOD
BUT
CHEAPENS
OUR LEAGUE
GROWIN UP IN THE 80S
1983 I CRIED WHEN RALPH MILNE CHIPPED PACKY
AT PARADISE
WE WERE
IN ONE OF THE BEST LEAGUES IN EUROPE
GOOD TIMES
EVEN IF WE DONT WIN
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12 IAR never to be done in our time again.
Go get them titles for the mighty I’ll gladly take them off the cheats.
FourGreenFields on 19 July, 2012 at 23:49
According to Der Hunnes speak, it’s in the next 48hrs.
Just wait for it. It’s coming.
The Establishment persuaded one of the judges to take a nice long holiday. long enough to get the der hunnes fremd back into football and then, and only then, administrating the coup de grace on the old co.
Shimmies
How do you cope,I dont know (thankfully) but I would imagine that it must be with great difficulty
So they’ve been in a meeting for 2 days trying to get their SFA license ….. How long does it take to tell them they’re no gettin it………..
FourGreenFields, 23:54
There’s a much more interesting element that isn’t touched on in his piece at all. For another day
Im uncomfortable with the mention of rangers and stripping, Ive boaked twice, but
The swines should be made to get every ‘captain’ who lifted the trophy to go to a gala day at Celtic Park where theres no game on, just presentation day, (Peter can charge for entrance if he thinks its suitable) and one by one the captains of the discraced ex club hand over the cups they wrongly won to the proper owners.
They may get laughed at, we might have been annoyed at the outcome of those many tarnished titles, so fair is fair, get them out and get these cheats humiliated.
Estradio
Good luck on that one. Night night.
Weefra HH
Passion….
Estadio Nacional on 20 July, 2012 at 00:10 said:
Im uncomfortable with the mention of rangers and stripping, Ive boaked twice, but
The swines should be made to get every ‘captain’ who lifted the trophy to go to a gala day at Celtic Park where theres no game on, just presentation day, (Peter can charge for entrance if he thinks its suitable) and one by one the captains of the discraced ex club hand over the cups they wrongly won to the proper owners.
They may get laughed at, we might have been annoyed at the outcome of those many tarnished titles, so fair is fair, get them out and get these cheats humiliated.
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Well said that man.
Edjucatin’ Ms. Maggie McGill #2..
Mitt Romney + Sarah Palin
= World Salvation……..
Right ? Right !
The Marxist Heart Of Darkness
OG Rafferty says:
Sorry matey is Alex going to put up a blog telling us why the taxcase is taking so long or does he know the verdict.
O.G.Rafferty on 20 July, 2012 at 00:09
Political/Masonic interference. It was always a given. We live in a Protestant country for a Protestant people after all.
They couldnt stop HMRC from getting their teeth into the cheating hun but they sure could do something about the timing of the bite.
Stewart Regan’s threat of ‘social unrest” was passed down. It didn’t originate from him.
OG Rafferty says:
It’s ok matey forget that last post I’ve just read AT tweets and he’s just saying he’ll reveal the secrecy of it all in his blog.
Yes to bling. Give us all our trophys.
Think back to the great effort of 2003. Remember the stick our Chris took for suggesting the title was a fix.
The “Calciopoli” scandal
Is the name given to the events, which saw Juventus one of the five clubs linked to a Serie A match fixing scandal the result of which saw the club relegated to Serie B The club was also stripped of the two titles won under Capello in 2005 and 2006.
I wonder what this scandal will be know as?
Goodnight all.
hen1rik, 00:19
Simply asking why it is taking so long
Irish work mate who supports Celtic asked me for an update on the whole madness of Scottish football as he had been out the picture, during lunch I explained it to him in the company of a Geordie and two Columbians.
The Geordie who new the story throughwee bits of bbc website gash and stuff but wasnt interested and the Columbian football fans couldnt believe the bare facts they heard about the cheating and corruption. Im convinced they think Im making all this up about the ex club that used to darken our door step, Ive since proven to them the case on the ex club’s major crimes. But wow, everybody who asks/laughs at them enjoy the story you tell them about their demise.
I like Estadio Nacional’s idea.
We could have Amoruso, Gough and Ferguson taking up this role week about, based on an old TV series.
There was a US Western series back in the mid 60s called Branded.
The opening credits showed Chuck Connors as Jason McCord being cashiered and drummed out of the US cCavalry because of an accusation of cowardice. His epaulets are torn off (not as painful as it sounds), his buttons are pulled off and his saber broken.
McCord then has to wander through the Old West to frontier towns like Brechin and Elgin in order to rehabilitate his reputation.
The similarities break down when we find out that the charges against McCord were falsely levelled. However, I fully expect to see a Leggate column based on my analogy coming soon.
“The Trouble with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money ” M.T. 1982 .
Will we see her like again….?
Brings a lump to the ole throat..so it does…
(Thumbsup?)
The Real Legacy Of The Magnificent Maggie Thatcher
OG Rafferty says:
Sorry to be a pain matey but do you think it’s normal for it to take this long or do you think it should’ve been out now ?
Dear God.
I sometimes find it very hard to understand ur thinking re wee Oscar and young Renya. But this a bad bad world we are in just now.
Good night All.
OG Rafferty says:
Did Alex not already ask them why it took so long ?
Celtic bhoy
On the Juventus website they still include those titles in their honours
Very sad to hear about Claudio Reyna’s son dying of Cancer.
May their sorrows be short lived.
R.I.P. Jack.
TT
Estadio Nacional on 20 July, 2012
Thinking about your post it is very difficult to try and explain this fiasco to anyone … l find myself thinking as l try to do so “Is that right. Did l make that up” as it seems so utterly incredible. Them you think “Yes it is right. The really are that corrupt.