Formidable task for final preseason test

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I am sure we will see a full strength Celtic team against Inter Milan tomorrow but that doesn’t mean Celtic will be able to overturn their summer form against what will be the best squad of players they have met since facing the same team in the Dublin Cup almost exactly a year ago.  Inter will be formidable opponents.

The experimentation of recent weeks will be set aside as Neil Lennon prepares for next week’s enormously important Champions League qualifying game against HJK Helsinki.  In particular, we are likely to see a more familiar looking back four and midfield.  What happens up front remains to be seen.  Celtic have struggled to get into scoring form preseason; the manager will be keen to resolve this, if possible.

Most of all we need a 90 minutes free of elbows in the face and other injuries as the real stuff is only five days away.

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  1. ………….next up we have the Baltic Fleet……………..front-runners in the ‘Boxin’ , jiggery-pokery an’ the duckin’ n ‘ divin’…………..

  2. •-:¦:-•** -:¦:- sparkleghirl :¦:-.•**• -:¦:-• on

    Celtic_First on 27 July, 2012 at 22:44 said:

     

     

    Oh, I don’t know, I think it’s unfair to blame PSOE entirely for the mess we’re in. In reality most of the damage had probably been done in the race to meet conditions to join the €uro and the absurd property/construction bubble that was created as a result.

  3. Right we’re now already at Cote d’Ivore followed by Croatia…and now Cuba…then Cyprus and the Czexh Republic…

     

     

    Time for Jobo to call it a day… Take care all and pleas provide some decemt music for my morning scroll back.

     

     

    Jobo

  4. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    Burghbhoy on 27 July, 2012 at 22:44 said:

     

     

    The only problem I have with the union jack these days is with those knuckle-draggers who use it to promote their abject hatred and bigotry….

  5. •-:¦:-•** -:¦:- sparkleghirl :¦:-.•**• -:¦:-• on

    Celtic_First on 27 July, 2012 at 22:44 said:

     

     

     

    But I accept your point that they never expected to win.

     

     

    For those few daysbetween the attacks and the elections (my last year in the UK) the rest of the world was reporting international, islamic terrorism. Meanwhile the still in govt PP kept trying to insist that ETA was in some way involved. There were massive demonstrations over the weekend demanding answers from the govt (as a rule this is not allowed in Spain pre-election – the final 24 hours is supposed to be free of campaigning and demonstrating/protesting in order to allow for ‘reflection’ – but in this case there was little anyone could do to prevent it)

     

     

    Sometimes I wonder whether the election outcome had been different had the PP not stuck so rigidly to its ETA argument, had it accepted that it had become a victim of international terrorism, probably as a consequence of Aznar’s support of Bush/Blair.

  6. Sparkleghirl

     

     

    It brings back a lot of memories.

     

     

    I was living in England by the time of the Madrid train bombings, but it was a strange time. My closest friend in Madrid was working in a branch of the Banco Pastor in the Calle Atocha. I knew that. And I knew that the bombs had hit the station at the morning rush hour. And I knew that the station was less than 100 metres away.

     

     

    And all the phone lines were down.

     

     

    I got through to his house at about seven pm. One of his daughters answered and she said, as though she’d had to say it 100 times already: “Don’t worry. We’re all fine.”

     

     

    Then her father came on the phone and I couldn’t speak. I couldn’t articulate how worried I had been the whole day. I hadn’t admitted to myself that I had feared, imagined, almost accepted that the worst was inevitable on a day such as this. London people must have felt the same way in July 2005.

     

     

    My friend just said to me: “Why aren’t you saying anything, man? What’s the matter with you? We’re all fine. There’s nothing wrong with us.”

     

     

    And I was just bubbling like a bairn, but in relief, because I was terrified and hadn’t admitted it to myself.

  7. Just sickened. To paraphrase Levein, It’s all about what Sevco need. Really need the other non-shyster clubs to force a shake out of the SFA and SPL or they have no viable sellable game. Shit I’ve spent 40 years spending nearly every day thinking about Celtic and now I’m considering whether I can stomach watching anything operated by this shower of ****wits.

  8. …..an next up we huv the Langholm Street Massive…..proficient in ‘wilding’, goin- mental an’ steamin………………

  9. And coming on shortly we have the Govan Team, with participants in Tax Evasion, Swindling, Cheating and Double Contracts advice

  10. Tonight’s sneaky announcement made under the cover of the Olympic opening ceremony, amounts to an admittance that the rule book is not worth the paper it is written on.

     

    This represents a judgement on the hoof. An accommodation to an ex-institution which believes the rules only apply to everyone else.

     

    Celtic, Peter, Eric, we need not follow the two year resignation notice.

     

    The rules are unenforceable.

     

    Punishments are flagrantly ignored.

     

    I’m a Celtic supporter. GET ME OUT OF HERE.

  11. SOAL

     

     

    Different kind of sports pursued there

     

     

    Bevvying,darts,pool,armed and unarmed combat

  12. ………..an’ errs ra Fleet……………..Unbowed in the Flyin’ Tumbler, Fencin’ an’ archery events…………………..

  13. lefthandpillaroldjungle on

    lmao…did i just see an old jerry give the nazi salute as the germans went past ???

  14. From orcland

     

    Chris Graham‏@ChrisGraham76

     

     

    If I read that statement correctly we have accepted all sanctions and the SPL, title stripping, kangaroo court will go ahead?

     

    Feeling better already :)))

  15. Fat Sallys statement is a rallying cry to the unwashed, its blatant no one likes us we dont care, he is preparing them for their history to be formally taken from them whilst trying to make himself out to be the great defender of the cause,

     

     

    To quote NFL this isnt the end this is just the beginning…of the end