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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derbyshirebhoy
I am 53 years of age so your certain age theory fails, and I can assure you I aint deluded either, you see the invasion of the pitch as harmful to the image of the club, fair play, that’s your take, but leave the name calling out eh?.the poster that started the debate and again he is entitled to his opinion, no problem with that either, but to compare it and make it more serious than 10 years of hun cheating, biting and scratching their way to money and trophies, is in my opinion ridiculous..
One day at training, Elbows McCulloch says to Sally, “go on then, let’s hear your great impression.”
Sally is a bit bemused, “what impression is that then?”
Elbows adds, “the lads said you do a great dog impression.”
“WTF” says Sally.
Elbows continues, “Yeah, the lads said, did you hear about the coach going woof?!”.
so several buses in a bus terminal were burnt, one of those buses was owned by servco and therefore the fire was started to burn the sevco bus, because that’s the only reasonable reason.
I would strongly argue that it could not have been celtic supporters because we were all in west London rioting yesterday, were we not??????????
case closed!
the burning of the bus and our part in it’s downfall.
W.A.T.P…
“WE ARE THE PETROL”
Big Fat Derek Johnston shouting in the background on Snyde..
” 140 miles of unbroken history! “
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Rangers New Team Song..
I Will walk 140 Miles.. by The Pretenders..
Summa
stephbhoy
you want to get your facts straight !!! lol..
they did not own any bus…it was provided for their use.
:))))))))))))))
one for wee fra…..
Glasgow rangers had a bus ee I ee I oo..and on that bus there was a boom..ee I ee I oo…
No need to take a bus to find the culprit!
http://i.imgur.com/poDUlA4.jpg from CF (subsequently removed by Media House solicitwats)
…….Ah’ve been tellt that the pairts o’ the old bus huv been boat and wull be helt in a sort o ‘ mechanical incubator – the charred hood ornament will be ceremonially toasted (!) each year as part o’ the Loving Cup panto routine…………
Cheers!
Salsburgh CSI:
Initial investigations reveal that a very poor coach is the culprit: he left his steak bakes on in the bus oven…doh!
thenextonewillbeadoubledeckerCSC
Look guys, you’ve got this all wrong.
It was the bus company that burned not the actual bus. The bus still exists and will be passed to a new company, which will operate it as the same bus with dignity and an unbroken service record.
twists n turns
09:42 on 21 July, 2013
140 miles of history gone………
Knicked that and put it with bus pic.
On CQN/facebook
SUN Scoop:
” It’s an inside job. ”
Sensation at Ibrox today when Walter Smith discovered to be the culprit behind the destruction of the Sevco bus.
A review of the minutes of the last board meeting confirmed that the board insisted that he fire the coach.
Smith was heard to say, “but I thought that’s what you wanted me to do”.
I bet they are planning a bus remembrance day at Ibrox now…
abseilingdriversCSC
There were more arrests at Muirfield yesterday than at Griffin Park.
The game of golf is now tarnished forever.
Dark, dark days ahead for the sport :)
The bus chat is just pure magic
If they get a new bus, the same make and model and colours can they use the old registration plates?
Will it be the same bus????
hen1rik
10:37 on 21 July, 2013
Twitter.
So McGills bus company robbed of £100k
A week later Rangers new super bus firebombed.
Hmmmmmm
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Spot on. This attack was by professional arsonists. It is blatantly an inside insurance job or the work of rival gangsters.
Conveniently, Easdale is in a nice position to provide a fancy new bus.
The inference that jealous “Rangers haters” were responsible would be utterly laughable were it not for the potential trouble McCoist is again trying to provoke. He is a sad little man who feels so inadequate in his abilities as a football manager that he has to appeal to right wing extremists by inciting violence and proclaiming “we are the people”. What a shambles of a club this Sevco mob are where their pre season chat is dominated by buses and small time gangster feuds.
Those laughing off the high jinx of fans bringing down the goalposts yesterday should stop and think how we’d feel if thousands of English fans invaded the pitch at Parkhead with smoke bombs and started swinging from the cross bar after a friendly. I wouldn’t be impressed. It was hardly the Manchester riots but it not the sort of behaviour that saw us praised after Seville either. Not acceptable.
Sally, given your obvious outrage at the torching of your precious bus, would you care to comment on the throwing of petrol bombs at the police in NI ?
ScotPatsFan 10:42 on 21 July, 2013
Hugh Bonkle fae Dallas 10:50 on 21 July, 2013
The demographics must have changed considerably if there are more Celtic fans in Salsburgh than Zombies.
Between Harthill and Salsburgh just about filled a minibus (Parks of Hamilton, not Bruce’s) for pupils to our school.
They included fans of Airdrie and Motherwell among their number. Changed days indeed.
ten men won the league
Why do we have to measure how acceptable/unacceptable behaviour is by the number of arrests made? As I recall there weren’t that many arrests of the Huns per head in Manchester.
If Sevco supporters had invaded the pitch and brought the goalposts down many would be on their high horse here.
It’s ok to criticise Celtic supporters when they step out of line. In fact, it one of the traits that makes us a great support rather than engaging in whataboutery.
It is worth remembering that Sevco didn’t own the bus.
Googy…………
The number plate and the legend it………bears……. will be held in an incubator till the new bus is unveiled when the ‘old’ plate will be transmogrified onto the ‘new’ bus……
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Who is Going to be Post 1690..?
Summa
Super Swally demands to know the names of the perps who burnt his steakbakes and inadvertently the hun bus.
The Honest Cover Up
Brought the goalposts down?
I think you’ll find that’s factually incorrect. But don’t let that get in the way of you + others indulging in a good old bit of Celtic bashing.
the honest cover-up
First I heard that we brought the goals down.
I also remember at Kilwinning Rangers v Irvine Meadow,the IM keeper swinging on the bar and collapsing it.
Cue much laughter,not a government inquiry.
The Honest Cover-up 11:18 on 21 July, 2013
Did they bring the goalposts down?
steinreignedsupreme
Indeed. Rather than blaming “Rangers-haters” they should be looking for Bruce’s coach haters. I believe there is one quite prominent one who recently joined Sevco’s board.
Bloomin’ hot in Northern Netherlands today. My Celtic skin wasn’t designed to do sun. Factor 50 liberally applied, need to get out no AC in the apartment and the thermometer is reading 29c in the kitchen. Anywho seems to be a mixed response from the Brentford fans regarding our wee visit yesterday – full spectrum of comments ” fantastic day out, Celtic fans are mad” right through to ” drunken yobs on the street from 9am not fun – waste of time more like an away game”
HH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq48hl9-4d8&feature=player_embedded
Swally auditioning for the lead part in the new Norman Wisdom film.
Ban The Sun until they apologise …unreservedly and publicly
So the Sun has taken down the pics of the Celtic fans between the story of the great Sevco Bus Fire, an absolute scandalous piece of reporting that could not have made it more clear to any person reading that Celtic fans were some how responsible, I’m sure court action would have been forthcoming had it not been removed,if an article was designed to inflame the situation this was it (no pun intended)
derbyshirebhoy 10:24 on 21 July, 2013
“One incident such as this is one incident too many if you want to encourage others to invite you to enter their playground”
I think you are in danger of taking things out of context.
From Magic Bus to Tragic Bus .
Thank God and Greyhound CSC ——-Way down south