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Form vagaries of Malmo for Celtic

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Celtic will play Malmo in the Champions League play-off round, the third time since 2012 they will face champions from Sweden. The main concern for Ronny Deila is the manner in which Malmo disposed of Salzburg 3-0 on Wednesday night, but there is context to put that into. In the previous round the Swedes only managed a 0-0 at home to Lithuanians Zalgiris Vilnius, before winning 0-1 away.

Those three goals against Salzburg, which arrived inside 45 minutes, will be the subject of a lot of research over the next few days.

In 2013 Celtic struggled to blow away the cobwebs against Elfsborg, recording a 1-0 home win and a 0-0 draw away. A year earlier they beat Helsingborgs 2-0 home and away.

The most encouraging aspect for Ronny will be Malmo’s domestic form. They are current 6th in the Allsvenskan after 18 games and will struggle to qualify for Europe next season. A home game against league leaders Gothenburg on Sunday will be Celtic’s most important reconnaissance exercise.

Oh, and put out the flags, Malmo play on grass!!

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  1. Nye Bevans' rebel soldier on

    Ah well!!!

     

    I’m been sent tae bed.

     

    Goodnight Timland.

     

     

    Kevj….your in my prayers.

  3. setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on

    Did we bid for Bobby Zamora?

     

     

     

    “BOBBY ZAMORA is back at Brighton after turning down Champions League football and the chance of a league title in favour of a return to the club where he made his name.

     

     

    The former Tottenham, West Ham, Fulham and – briefly – England striker was freed by QPR at the end of last season. On Monday he signed a one-year contract with the Seagulls, for whom he scored 83 goals between 2000 and 2003 and won back-to-back League Two and League One titles under Micky Adams and Peter Taylor.

     

     

    “I had an offer from a Champions League team and a team that win their league pretty much every year, but this was the only place I really wanted to be,” he said.

     

     

    Last month Brighton fans voted Zamora the club’s best-ever centre-forward, but, now 34, he reminds them that times have changed since he terrorised defences at Withdean Stadium. ” (Express)

  5. What is the Stars on

    Almore

     

    Partial independence was they best that could be expected in the circumstances

  7. eddieinkirkmichael on

    ….PFayr supports WeeOscar on 7th August 2015 10:03 pm – Eddieinkirkmichael

     

     

    Thomson pen was shocking …not deliberate IMO

     

     

    He may be a confirmed St Mirren man ..he’s also a raving Hun

     

     

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    To call him a hun means you’re saying he’s a bigot. Any way you can confirm this? Or you just putting that out there?

  8. GRAFFITIONTHEWALL on

    WHAT IS THE STARS on 7TH AUGUST 2015 10:03 PM

     

    Graffiti on the wall

     

     

     

    I watched the race.

     

     

     

    King of paradise

     

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    A had a wee look at it ….:)

     

     

    Looked even better when the favourite got withdrawn …; )

  9. BGX on

    …Victim Complex is Rife …If you dont Know when youve won, How can you ever Rule..It Really is That simple…This is Our Country, Glasgow is Green and White..Thats Reality…Fk the Msm..We are the ONLY club in this Country worth Anything…Thats REALITY…NOTHING ELSE MATTERS…NOTHING…

  10. papajoe55 on

    Almore

     

    Enjoyed that link to Christy thought he looked like a young Hamish Imlach with the hair and beard, what a fantastic ballad singer he is the passion he puts into his songs is just fantastic , was listening to the pogues earlier and heard bottle of smoke for the first time still smiling Shane is a genius H H

  12. Shuggiebhoy67 on

    Gordybhoy,I got married in Celtic Tartan ,kilt etc. Hired in Glasgow,so must be widely available i would think

     

    HH

  14. Delaneys Dunky on

    Eddie

     

     

    Just off the phone to my young cousin Nicola from Houston Renfrewshire. She is the black and white sheep of the Delaney family,a Saint Mirren fan like her pal from school Stephen Thompson. He is distraught tonight. He is never a hun.

  15. Almore on

    WITS: in retrospect, I think you are right. It is a real pity (but no surprise) that the Northern state developed into a bastion of loyalist bigotry while in the South, Northern Nationalists were ignored and mainstream politicians developed a political system which feathered its own nest.

  18. the glorious balance sheet on

    The question was asked in here tonight – would we sell out a home game v St Mirren?

     

     

    Well I don`t know the answer to that (and of course we have 10,000 more tickets to sell than the Orcs do) but I`ll tell you this:- one thing we definitely wouldn`t do is sit on our hands, keep or hands in our pockets and see no evil and do feck all while our club slides into oblivion and liquidation, leaving a trail of debt and misery – over £100 million worth – in its wake.

     

     

    When we were on our knees, the midweek after the Raith Rovers Coca-Cola Cup defeat, the Celtic share issue went live. Our club was in a bad place, 6 years without a trophy, but the fans put their faith and money in the club, many of them going into debt to do so, and the share issue was massively oversubscribed.

     

     

    It was a share issue only made possible because of the hard work put in by the likes of Celts for Change to make the case for change in the way our club was run.

     

     

    Contrast this with the Huns. What you get there is a misplaced sense of entitlement, they want trophies and glory but they want others – sugar daddies and the taxpayer – to pay for it. Minty went to them with share issues on numerous occasions, they kept their hands in their pockets and he had to pay for it all by chucking the huge Rangers debt into the humongous Murray Group debt that was eventually written off by the banks and picked up by the taxpayer.

     

     

    So if 50,000 huns turn up tonight, so what? Where were they when it mattered? When the annual accounts were coming out posting multi-million pound debts each year were they questioning how the club was run, agitating for change, or putting their own money in? No, they were sitting with their hands in their pocket while singing about being up to their knees in fenian blood.

     

     

    Doesn`t matter how many of them turn up for 2nd tier games the bottom line is this – when it really mattered, they didn`t turn up. They were incapable or raising the balls or the money to save their club. Tugging the forelock and wallowing in outdated sectarian bile is all they do.

     

     

    We put in hundreds of thousands of pounds of our own money to pay for the debt our club had ran up and finance our rebuilt stadium. They didn`t pay a thin dime of their debt and are ok with sitting in an asbestos ridden midden as long as they can sing about famines and stuff.

     

     

    But they did make some “Show Liquidation the Red Card” banners and organised a stupid wee march to an empty Hampden Park. And they get a full house for a game v St Mirren. Big wow-wee.

  19. MoonbeamsWD on

    For a blog that is full of posters who say they think Rangers died there is a fair bit of interest in the Zombie nation who appeared from their ashes.

     

     

    Didn’t even know they were playing until I came on here. In fact the championship and it’s clubs don’t even cause a passing interest, Morton apart.

     

     

    It’s no wonder they think they are the same club when you consider the time given to their games by Tims as if they were the same entity.

     

     

    Forget about them. Their DEID.

     

     

    MWD said AYE

  21. blantyretim is praying for the Knox family on

    Not into the proms but watching tonight as they are doing a Sinatra special

     

     

    DD

     

    My eyes are melting never mind the ice ;-)

  23. GRAFFITIONTHEWALL on

    WHINHALLKEV on 7TH AUGUST 2015 9:54 PM

     

    graffitionthewall;

     

     

     

     

     

    I’m claiming Moss Side Avenue as my home turf!!

     

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    That’s a good Avenue , Close tae ma Chapel And School ….. HH

  24. What is the Stars on

    Almore

     

    To feather ones nest is a trait we all possess. Old retired revolutionaries are no different. Same thing happens today. I met an old friend of mine in the city centre the other day. He has been through the mill for the wearing of the green, including over a decade in one of her Majesty’s institutions, his health suffered greatly. But what saddened me most about the encounter was his sense of total disillusionment with today’s situation,

  26. sipsini on

    BGX…

     

     

    Do you honestly think when the huns eventually come up in there new guise, they will not be favoured.

     

     

    What makes you think it will not happen?

     

     

    What’s changed, the head of the sfa, our delegate for UEFA/FIFA.

     

     

    Tonight was a taste of what might come…

  30. eddieinkirkmichael on

    Delaneys Dunky

     

     

    I know he’s not. I’ve met him and a nicer, honest guy you couldn’t meet.

     

    Can’t wait for the proof from our resident lawyer to dispel this though.

  31. Delaneys Dunky on

    BT

     

     

    Enjoy the present pal. I can assure you that you will have amnesia tomorrow.

     

    Well I did with that and the blaw. ;))

  34. BIG-CUP-WINNERS on

    The Glorious Balance Sheet

     

     

    Great post and pretty much nails it for any comparison.

     

     

    HAIL HAIL

  35. MoonbeamsWD on

    How many Sevco players does it take to change a lightbulb?

     

     

    Answer: Ask CQN bloggers as they watch them changing the bulbs.

     

     

    MWD said AYE

  36. Delaneys Dunky on

    Eddìe

     

     

    I have been in his parents home in Houston for a celebration. Knew him fae 15. He was always a Saint Mirren fan, but never a liker of them. His close family members are still all buddies. Nice family.

  37. Cowiebhoy on

    GORDYBHOY64

     

     

    I got a pair of tartan trews made for me last year through Kiltpin in Falkirk

     

    Own choice of tartan and design, brilliant service

     

    With the added bonus, a lady who works in shop gave me signed Neil Lennon book ( her brother was Lenny’s security)

     

    Nice :-)

     

     

    Hail Hail

  38. ....PFayr supports WeeOscar on

    Eddieinkirkmichael

     

     

    Your definition of a Hun is different from mine …I didn’t say he was a bigot …I don’t equate the term Hun with being a bigot …you may do

     

     

    I saw a sneering Hun playing fir Rangers for many years ..I have also watched him playing against CFC fir other teams and heard him commentate on CFC games

     

     

    He is a Hun IMO ….no idea whether he’s a bigot

  40. Chairbhoy on

    THE GLORIOUS BALANCE SHEET @ 10:19,

     

     

    Stupendous post. No comment necessary!

     

     

    GRAFFITIONTHEWALL

     

     

    You a St Andrews Bhoy?

     

     

    Hail Hail

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