When Celtic make their trip to the ‘neat little town they call Belfast’ (I’ve been off radar recently, assume it’s still described thus) they will have no reason to believe they are ready for a game of football which could determine the success or failure of the coming season. Instead the players will share a degree of anxiousness.
Cliftonville rank about as low as is possible to get in European competition but they will be better than the Arbroath team which left Glasgow with a draw last season against a Celtic team who were motoring at the time.
We have some concerning history against the Irish. Celtic’s first ever Champions League qualifier was against St Patrick’s Athletic in 1998. The visitors left Celtic Park with a 0-0 draw before Celtic won 0-2 in Ireland. In the 1979-80 European Cup Dundalk gave us a fright. Celtic won the first leg 3-2, at home, but had to endure a nervous second half in Dundalk as the home side searched, in vain as it turned out, for the goal which would allow them to win the tie on away goals.
Anything less than 100% on Wednesday will see Celtic walk a tightrope………
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craigwhitesoptometrist
12:18
Don’t be daft. They don’t need no stinking statements. They just leaked the right quote to the right media poodle, gave him some Winalot and the job was a good one.
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I Hope the Clifftonville DJ does Not play D;Ream..’Things can only get Better’ after tonight’s Game..
I Know the Lead guy is from Derry..You never Know..;-)
Summa of BritPoPCultureCSC
Celtic are complicit, along with every other Scottish club, in the corruption emanating from Hampden.
The unopposed re election of CO underlined this.
I don’t envy their position, as has been mentioned, if we spoke out unilaterally, the combined forces of the Establishment would crash down on our head.
That does not, in itself justify the apparent inaction.
However, more complicit than the club is the support.
Last year, supporters of many clubs put the foot down and stopped the hun from being placed into the SPL , SFL1.
This year the same tactic should have been applied, in light of the various decisions coming from the SFA.
STs should have been resisted. Instead, Celtic seduced their fans by cutting the cost. Bribed?
Cup Final tickets were urgently sought.
All this did was to validate the SFA and to suffer the humiliation of CO handing ot the gongs.
A golden chance to highlight the problem to a wider audience was lost because, as usual , the fix of watching Celtic was greater than striking a blow for honesty and integrity.
There are many of us who couldn’t attend the CF, for many reasons, but that doesn’t minimise or affection or attachment to the club.
Those who were in a position to expose the SFA, but didn’t, due to selfish reasons, are equally or even more complicit in ensuring thst the status quo remains in the game.
The only weapon, to enforce change, that the support of every club have, is their money and as long as that is being handed over, nothing can or will change.
Boycott the SFA.
blantyre tim,
You mentioned a get-together tomorrow with the likes of Old Tim; I can’t make it, I’m afraid. I promised to take my Dad to visit his brother-in-law. Weather permitting, Celtic’s performance tonight will be scruntinised by a trio of old codgers with a total of 236 years of watching the Celtic between them.
thomthethim
12:35 on
17 July, 2013
Well argued points.
The hip pocket nerve.
Seldom fails to work.
Action required.
Boycott the S.F.A.
“All this did was to validate the SFA and to suffer the humiliation of CO handing ot the gongs.”
That humiliation really stuck in the craw.
cheers BT!
Is there a new article on its way, we are dangerously close to one thousand six hundred and ninety comments, the last ttime sevco won anything that is…….