Assuming Celtic hold onto their three goal lead over Cliftonville they will almost certainly face Elfsborg in the third qualifying round of the Champions League. The script is written for Elfsborg striker and current Celtic employee, Mo Bangura, to score his first goal at Celtic Park, while it is another tie for Henrik Larsson to politically wish both of his former clubs the best of luck.
Elfsborg are five points off the pace after 16 games in the Swedish league. Happy with the draw.
It’s the Columba Club, Blantyre, tonight for Paul McConville, Phil Mac Giolla Bhain and myself for what is sure to be another thoroughly enjoyable Question and Answer. Proceedings get underway at 19:30, tickets available at the door.
See you there.
At the turn of the century then St Johnstone chairman, Geoff Brown, told the world his club would rather suffer relegation than indulge in the financial craziness which was then going on in Scottish football. Relegation soon followed, creating its own financial problems for St Johnstone, while others, most notably for Saints, Dundee, paid over 100% of turnover in player wages.
What do you do when your direct competitors are acting like lunatics, when remaining competitive requires you to behave likewise? I remember feeling frustrated for Brown and St Johnstone fans. They did the right thing but suffered as a consequence.
Yesterday’s win, away to Ronsenborg, who are 16 games into their league programme and top of the table, was among the most impressive by a Scottish club in Europe in the last 25 years. This is a well-run club. In the last six years they have lost Owen Coyle, Derek McInnes and Steve Lomas, all cherry-picked by better-funded, but not better-organised English clubs, but their progress continues. Coyle was taken before he reached the Premier League, McInnes won promotion and Lomas reached Europe. Tommy Wright has now made an impact in Europe within six weeks of being appointed.
Still a lot of work to do next week, Rosenborg will arrive in Perth capable of winning the game, but the scene is set for a special night’s football.
The Celtic Charity Five-a-side tournament takes place on Saturday, 12 October (an international weekend) at Lennoxtown (where the scouts are based, this could be your big chance!!). If you can get a seven player squad together and think you can raise £40-per-head for charity, get your application in now. Ages 18 and over, winners get to take a halftime bow at a subsequent home game. To sign up email janemaguire@celticfc.co.uk.
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PF
I was at celtic park in may of this year… the club let off pyrotechnics … party tunes pumping… even did a countdown to welcome the banned manager onto the field of play.
This was followed by players families and friends walking around the field… waving scarves and flags with some even flaunting foreign national flags of honduras kenya and greece amongst others.
The club clearly need to get their own house in order before dealing with the fan who was arrested at griffin park yesterday.
canamalar1 08:49 on 21 July, 2013
“Seemingly it was being reported during the game as early as 11:30 on hun sites, hope that J Titor has no switched sides”
They obviously got the brains trust to come up with this one…
From the people who brought you the ‘same club’ tale.
….PFayr:
Got to be honest here mate, I really don’t see how flares and smoke bombs enhance the game, or the atmosphere, but they don’t offend me. As for pitch invasions at friendlies, although totally innocuous, I think they are a wee bit juvenile. I don’t think they are intimidating or disrespectful to the host, neither do I think they lend themselves to the argument that the ban on the sale of alcohol, or the drinking of, at Scottish games, should be reviewed if not just outright rescinded.
I know it was just a few guys, in high spirits, just having a laff, but as we both know, there are so many who will twist it into the second coming of Genghis Khan and his horde.
BMCUW,
I don’t need to be convinced, I know exactly what is happening, Charlotte is making it harder for them to continue :o)
There was also a great piece in the Scotsman this morning, posted earlier, slowly the wheels are turning and many wont be happy.
tbj,
:o)
Bloody double standards eh
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS 08:45 on 21 July, 2013
Did you make the last train?
Took me ages to get back. Celtic fans everywhere in west London, several sets of roadworks and I just passed Lords as the ole Barmy Army was teaming out.
Still, a very good day out.
67
The unseen fenian hand of Peter has curtailled the freedom of the scottish press once again.
BTW bhoys n ghirls
I was in the superstore yesterday ( coach load of American college students buying the hoops)
Saw a pair of white headphones with the club crest on each phone @ £15.
Bought them.more as a wind up for sevconian zombies … but really impressed by sound quality given the price. Ive got a set that I paid £150 for and I prefer my celtic phones already
CANAMALAR
In light of yesterday’s tragic news about the new supergalacticomegabus….
Sevco demands a retraction of your sectarian comment about wheels turning slowly.
I was at a game and a balloon just missed my head by a couple of inches, could have had my eye out, bloody thugs with balloons should have their tickets taken off them and banned for life.
Stein
Im guessing the celtic hooligans were responsible for the roadworks.
And when will the media address the issues with the raucous English cricket fans… lager swilling loudmouths who dress up as allsorts and create a threatening party atmosphere
STEINREIGNEDSUPREME
I did,bud.
Saving my Iceland/Aldi get out clause till next time.
Defo got full value from my zone card as I hopped from bus to bus.
Guardian Angels were working overtime wi the A-Z,mind….
PJBhoynyc:
So much for the ban eh?
The wheels on the bus go up in flames
Up in flames
Up in flames
The wheels on the bus go up in flames all day long
A stor
Sorry me ole china… them bad men acting juvenile at the match … im as bad with my juvenile comments today and hang my head in shame for the schoolboy errors ;)
Morning all. Still glorious down here.
I take it all is peace and goodwill to all people on CQN today…That will be the day.
Canamalar
Your balloon comment reminded me of the heady days of my childhood … pre health and safety.. when the rag and bone man would give me a balloon tied to a bamboo cane in fair exchange for my dads suit and 4 shirts
PCS
What if it is peace and goodwill to all people. …!!!!!
Dya wanna make something off it like ;)
Steinreignedsupreme
08:40 on
21 July, 2013
Where did the Lee Rigby fable come from?
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Kev Moran @Sarcybarman 8h
Nobody else notice the guy accusing #Celtic fans of the singing actually tweeted this an hour BEFORE the game? 13:54
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tbj,
Very shrewd deal, I take it you now work as a high flying trader in the banking sector :o)
The Boy Jinky 09:07 on 21 July, 2013
“Im guessing the celtic hooligans were responsible for the roadworks.”
I hope the Legless Loon isn’t lurking this morning – you’ll give him an idea for another frothing rant.
“And when will the media address the issues with the raucous English cricket fans… lager swilling loudmouths who dress up as allsorts and create a threatening party atmosphere”
To be honest – I considered flooring the accelerator when I realised about 100 Barmy Army foot soldiers were crossing the ole Zebra … but I couldn’t stand the thought of reading about ‘Celtic fan goes on killer spree in London’…
masty is neil lennon 09:18 on 21 July, 2013
Kev Moran @Sarcybarman 8h
Nobody else notice the guy accusing #Celtic fans of the singing actually tweeted this an hour BEFORE the game? 13:54
………….
That would explain everything. Did Mongo Graham pick it up and run with it?
Canamalar
Im Craig whyte
Stein
I was in manchester a few years back.. ashes at old Trafford same weekend. Was on tram with the barmy army…remember two fellas dressed as george bush masks… tram was singing ” 2 george bushes .. only 2 George bushes”
I was petrified that the US might launch a missile at the tram
PJBhoynyc:
Meant to add (headless) “Chickens rushing home to roost, colliding with deserting rats….”
Will the truth ever out? Well it certainly begs the question – is there but one honest clown in that circus of charlatans?
What beggars belief the most is the apparent collective apathy of those most ridiculed and defrauded.
Apparently the Scottish Sun’s online report of the Great Loyal Bus Disaster features pictures of Celtic fans from yesterday.
Inference is clear.
Sailing pretty close to the wind I’d say, especially if any of the individuals pictured felt that they were being accused of arson on the basis of their picture appearing in the body of the story.
Quotes from Fat Sal in the Mail also infer that the Bus of the Future was deliberately targeted.
Dangerous to be jumping to conclusions and airing them publicly I’d have thought.
Thanks for the best wishes for the auld yin, bhoys, the mhan with rather eclectic tastes in music. At the moment he is mostly into Tex_Mex and Cajun. Loves the accordian.
He’s had an interesting life, arriving in Scotland as a rather bewildered 12 year old in 1936 from a small village in Northern Italy. Spent the next 26 years in Greenock and the Port! It certainly toughened him up.
When Italy entered(!) the war in 1940 he was arrested – like every other Italian national in the UK – and sent to an internment camp on the Isle of Man, which turned out to be a converted HOLIDAY camp! He had a great time he said. His job, in the morning, was to light the stove in the officers mess – for which he received 7/6d a week – 37 1/2p!
One of the more colourful characters he met was a fellow Italian from London, who sported an Al Capone type scar on his cheek and who would receive, every week, a parcel full of goodies from his ‘friends and associates’ in the big smoke. That’s when ‘Alec’ started smoking – and gambling! He was released after a few months when the authorities realised he was not a threat to national security.
Towards the end of the war he and his cousin ‘ran’ the Cappielow Cafe, and he says it was like the Wild West most nights, the worst offenders being Norwegian merchant seamen, apparently. Descendants of the Vikings!
Was always a terrible gambler – terrible as in compulsive, but quite lucky and never reckless. Member of the (often) all-night card schools in the Greenock Italian club. He taught my daughter to play poker when she was 5! After dinner the two of them would sit down, and spend the next couple of hours trying to outwit each other.
We moved to Troon in 1962 – a bit like ‘leaving the graveyard and entering paradise’ kind of moment! He found a card school there as well – in a local pub owned by a pal of his. Another good friend was the local bookie. He used to tell my late mother that he was going to play dominoes – and she believed him. Would bribe me so as not to spill the beans!
He retired in 1990 and returned to Italy, but would go back to Scotland every year to visit relatives and friends. His health isn’t great at the moment and he hasn’t been back for three years. Most of his old pals in Scotland have passed on as well.
Off oot to pick up his birthday cake – he should’nt really because he has diabetes, but as he says: “Feck it, I could be deid tomorrow!” Bubbly in the fridge!
Apolgies for rambling on a bit.
Happy birthday faither and HH!!
So Brentford was turned into war zone yesterday,cars being overturned and burnt out, shops looted and police being attacked by baying hordes.
Well people were warned what would happen if we sold paddy mccourt;)
The Boy Jinky:
I never said they were bad, I said in my eyes, at a pre-season friendly, their going onto the pitch was juvenile.
Were their many grey foxes on the field after the game?
TALLYBHOY
Amazing fella,and magic wee tale.
Instead of a cake,why not get him a copy of “Let it Bleed”
Turn it up to eleven and stare at the sleeve,job done!
I watched the match report on SSN… Heart sank when Bhoys pictured on cross bar , flares etc. it was never going to be reported favourably…
When the hun are in retreat in 2011 with EUFA ready to rip them apart, it appears they tried to transfer their sins to another.
Leaping forward only a couple of years, and again the hun, albeit new-born huns, are being put under severe pressure. Damning revelations are roping in a lot of names.
Now no holds barred deflection was the name of the game in 2011, would the new-born huns have the audacity to repeat it? Naw they’d never put five stars back on their shirts would they?
Steinreignedsupreme
That would explain everything. Did Mongo Graham pick it up and run with it?
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that looks exactly what happened mate yes!
A STOR MO CHROI
The fella who planted the flag in the centre-circle is in no danger of punishment from the milk monitors.
hate posting a link to this rag but the coverage of the big bus fire is nothing short of scandalous…
http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/5026049/m-Rangers-bus-torched-by-yobs.html
A stor
A fb friend posted a pic of two grey foxes in hoops on the park . Laughing and joking with a policeman
Saw a clip last night of zaluska about to take a bye kick… celtic fan without shirt runs on a hoofs the ball up the park.
some of the retorts by our guy’s are classical….
…..Paul Hamill @paulhamill88 5m
Read a story saying #Celtic fans set off the water sprinklers yesterday at #Brentford haha did they go in the night before n set the timer?
Got it on good authority the bus was indeed torched, turns out it was another cost saving exercise as newco couldn’t afford the bus fare and needed a cover story to mask why they wouldn’t be using it next season
140 miles of history gone………
ItaliaBhoy 09:26 on 21 July, 2013
“Apparently the Scottish Sun’s online report of the Great Loyal Bus Disaster features pictures of Celtic fans from yesterday”
Loads of Celtic fans in Salsburgh right enough – you could almost fill a phonebox with them.