Celtic Park was packed with an expectant crowd 11 years ago when Celtic took a two goal lead into the second leg of a Champions League play-off round. Many of us felt it was to be a sort of Coming of Age. After our long hard slog throughout the 90s we were champions and ruthlessly swept aside Ajax in the first leg.
After the full time whistle arms were aloft in celebration but only after an incredibly tense 90 minutes which saw the visitors win the game and fail to convert some decent chances.
Four years after our last entry into the Champions League this new Celtic side have a Coming of Age opportunity tonight. Last season they showed their mettle to overcome a daunting deficit early in the season to win as comfortable champions, with or without penalties applied to opponents for employing more footballers than they could afford.
While the players may reach a new stage in their development tonight is as much about the supporters who have been part of the struggle in recent seasons. This is your reward for all those hard times when your club paid their bills but had victory snatched away from them by others who were playing to different rules.
Bring your singing voice tonight.
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The Bhoys need the fans behind the all the time to-night. Moans and groans only help the opponents.
The o.o. ft. grand vizier chickin’likkin’ master of the kkk poledancin’ in the club from Twin Peaks to the strains of ‘Stayin’ Alive’……..now that’s what I call pay per view.
If Carlsberg did bigotry…
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philvis
I have my doubts. I think you sold them for hauf a crown an’ an apple! :-)
O Kojo, Kojo! wherefore art thou Kojo?
B B
Sent Tommy an email this morning for details. Ill be there no probs.
voguepunter
I’ve had mash of course, but never asked the tic to mash anyone before lol
mon the hoops!
excitement building now
Is there any updates on injuries yet?
Time to get some shut eye before the 3:30 alarm.
I’m sure our Swedish opponents (can’t spell Hell-sing-burg) will gain every respect from our players. However, they’ve NEVER experienced a European night at Celtic Park.
Those of you who will be there… I have a request.
Sing with my voice.
I am kicking every ball, feeling every sinew of hope, happiness, excitement & apprehension.
I am your bhrother – 9000km away.
My neighbours might have interrupted dreams!
Snooze button set to 1min.
HAIL HAIL
Here’s a review that Jabba didnae write:
“THE R*****S failed to put a credible challenge to Berwick, let alone being up to beat Peterhead.
THEY swaggered into Shielfield Park on Saturday feeling for all the world like title contenders.
If they had any sense of decency or shame they would have left by the back door. Shuffling out with blankets over their heads.
The R*****S players may well bounce back quickly from this horrendous and embarrassing capitulation but the black mark it leaves against their names will take a long while to disappear. When they wanted to be taken seriously they ended up being laughed out of town.
In fact, the very fact they crashed so spectacularly merely underlines why neither they, not anyone else for that matter, can be considered capable of making a genuine fist of challenging Peterhead for the big one this season.
Painfully, this was the day Ally McCoist’s players were exposed as frauds. It didn’t take long did it?”
Next stop…..a blistering encounter at Forres.
Fogeddabowdid!
Ha ha ha ho ho ho pmsl!
Schandenfreude by the bucketload.
Stupid stupid hun bams….g.i.r.f.u.yez.
I see Graham Spiers tweeting about Duffield on Snyde last night. There is something of a story there for any budding jounos ambitious enough to go look.
FIFA’s Rules of Registration of Players require that when a player is represented by an Agency during contract negotiations, an authorised person from that Agency must countersign the contract subsequently lodged with the relevant Football Association (and in Scotland, with the SPL/SFL as appropriate).
Gordon Smith operated his own Agency, Gordon Smith Sports Management Ltd, from 2000, before merging into Raymond Sparkes agency in 2002, at which point he became a Director of Sparkes’ Pro Star Ltd agency.
Smith left Pro Star in 2004, and subsequently incorporated GSF Player Management Ltd in 2006, resigning 2 days before he joined the SFA as CEO and Director in 2007.
Of course as Director and CEO of the SFA, he was responsible for implementing the SFA’s purpose and leading its executive functions, including of course the player registration framework.
Should it transpire that a player represented by Smith or one of Smith’s companies was ineligibly registered by Rangers with the SFA, it would be something of a ‘story’.
Of course, old Duffield himself can state with confidence that he knew nothing, had no part to play in any ineligible registrations, and if he had a job description at the SFA, he never received it in writing and was not responsible for anything whatsoever as far as he can recall.
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Is Kayal injured?
Thanks for that info Jessica.
Jessica.
Philvis
Thanks for putting me right. I thought it was next to Inverness.
The neighbours have been advised to disregard any shouts, singing and other assorted noises coming from my house between 2045 hrs and 2245 hrs(approx) this evening!
It will be me!
Just me – well maybe my ‘oul dad who’s 88 will join in!
Can’t wait!
HH!!
Mon the Hoooooooooooops!!!!!!
TBB
Well said. Duffield is as conflicted as Campbell Ogilvie, but more stupid as he can’t resist the lure of a television camera or a radio mic.
The truth will set these guys free.
The lies will tie them up in knots.
Kayal and Ledley both injured for tonight.
Hoping that Victor and James F are straight swaps.
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
Yes :-(
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
A bit of a silly name, looks like an anagram?
welcome to the site, just mind yer p’s & q’s.
PC67
On these nights the fans have a very important job to do. We don’t go as spectators we go to help the team win by singing and cheering them on as much as we can. We have a job to do so lets make sure we pull our weight and help our very young side to victory.
Is Big George’s hair dry yet?
BGFC
from today’s Daily Record – ON THIS DAY ….. 2002
.. Celtic lost 2-0 (to Basel in the CL qualifier), crashing out of the champions league
Makes you wonder if they are hoping for similar tonight?
I think Charlie Mulgrew will play in midfield tonight, with Samaras, Wanyama, Broon and (kind of) Commons.
Hoops will start up front on his own.
miki67
Sorry to hear that mate. I had an extremely good and long afternoon in Pokesdown (spelling!?) railway station one day a number of years ago. Nice bunch of folk.
Good luck for tonight.
HH
C_F
He’s better at centre half imo.
Keep it tight Feed Forest 3-0 Hail Hail
Celtic_First – Thanks a million will check that out HH
Hope Sammi has not shorn his locks and trimmed his magnificent beard!
Enough to strike terror into the heart of any Swede!
HH!!
pedrocaravanachio67
I cute rangers fool???
pedrocaravanachio67
14:38 on 29 August, 2012
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
A bit of a silly name, looks like an anagram?
Pedro, figure it out and I’ll buy ye a donut, nae cheating mind;-)
HH bruv
Drat………….
No room in Morira marina, will heve to sneak in later
Still not sourced a bar showing the Hoops.
BigjoecontemplatingPlanB
C_F
I think Rogne is a doubt so it’s unlikely that Charlie will be moved into midfield.
Any news on Commons?
Rumour yesterday on SSN was that he, Big George and Broonie \o/ were all “…injury doubts…”.
BGFC
TBB
That’s as maybe, but with Ledley and Kayal both out we need a body in there. There is cover at the back. Charlie will help cover Emilio. Broon and Wanyama can both help cover Matthews (where the danger was coming from last week in Sweden) to give Commons a wee bit more freedom to try and hurt them. Sami will hurt them too but will have to help Charlie and Emilio defensively more than Commons will have to help on the right.
Do you know what pleases me greatly…….. Over the past 4 years, the ‘word’ went out that oldco needed to win the leagues, or they would go out of business…..CL etc money was vital to their survival……..the MIB / MSM etc ‘got the message’…..but
THEY STILL WENT OUT OF BUSINESS……!!!!!!!!
Now they’re trying to get them back to the SPL as soon as possible, but newco aren’t ‘playing ball’, as reflected in the results so far ………..Doooooooo Doooooooo……….. (hearty LOL)
Could be a lot worse bhoys, instead of chewin yer nails to the knuckles worrying whether our team will be dining at the top table this year, or worrying cause we only have about 5 top notch euro standard midfielders instead of 7, we could be going mental trying to insist that we are still the same team even though we aren’t (I just love the mental conundrum of keep yer history and your debt, or ditch them both) or we could be contemplating going to auchtermuchty or that island with the anthrax on it to play the local pub team like them.
Murray has still to be outed, de-sirred and jailed (For me the only thing that could top that is if he turned out to be bible john too)
Souness will be outed too
And we still have EBTageddon to come
And Charlie’s “chocolate factory” (which is his mouth doing its best impression of a rapidly vacating colon) is keeping us all entertained until the main events listed above…
Life is sweet, we are in good shape and are only 90 mins from glory…
If you can’t enjoy this then you’ll probably moan about heaven FFS!!!!
Smile
The Battered Bunnet/ Celtic First.
Gordon Smith. ?