KR Reykjavík recorded a 0-2 win in the Icelandic Cup on Sunday and have one more league game, against bottom club Thor on Thursday, before facing Celtic on Champions League duty a week today.
Celtic have a game this evening against LSK Linz before facing a famous name from our past, Dukla Prague, on Friday. While the world will be coming through a World Cup climb down Celtic will be facing a committed team in the mid-Atlantic. There is no room for complacency.
Next week’s qualifier has all the potential to cause a fright. Ronny Deila will by now know all about Gordon Strachan’s competitive start at Celtic, which cast a shadow he never completely shook off, so it is absolutely critical the manager gets us playing the way he wants us tonight.
Ross McCormack’s route from Murray Park reject at 19 eight years ago to a player Fulham have just bid £11m for is worthy of consideration. It’s easy for us to point to how Rangers ruined young talented footballers but the stark truth is that for well over a decade Celtic had vastly better youth talent that Rangers but failed to graduate anything like as many as we should have.
McCormack had to go to Motherwell, a club well experienced at nurturing talent, to build his career, but he would have fared no better at Celtic. Having no space for youth is one of the many unhealthy consequences of having two massive clubs engaged in a football arms race. Our game was destined to destroy talent.
Fortunately, the man who loaned his name to Murray Park ensured that arms race would end in spectacular fashion, when he sold his club’s assets and liabilities to a liquidation specialist for £1. In a perverse sort of way, Scottish football should thank him.
Thank you to everyone who supported CQN’s efforts for Glasgow the Caring City and The Cookie Jar Foundation, especially the reader who paid an incredible £530 for the signed European Cup canvas. You are all a credit to our club.
Best wishes to Argentina tomorrow, I hope the overcome Netherlands for the memory of the first worldwide football hero they gave the game, Alfredo Di Stefano.
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4-0
4-0.
Hahahahaha
Easy peezy
Humiliation
Feeling sorry for Brazil but they have left the back door open and Germans are pouring through.
Lets hope things stay calm.
This is embarrassing now
Host nation humped
Girfuthem
my god-revolution coming brazils way
Why didnt i put money on this was on the cards Thiago Silva bein out
4 – 0 Germany !!!! After 25 minutes it’s all over for a poor Brazil team
Stop it now, ref!
Por favor!
They think it’s all over..3
…it is now. 4
copyright Ken Wolstenholme
4 -0 humiliation for Brazil never thought I would say only 25 mins played
Sad to watch………
Absolutely extraordinary scoreline.
Scolari’s gonna regret that Neymar caps, he allowed all his players to believe they were nothing without Neymar.
Those fans are distraught. A world cup semi and this happens.
Don’t take anything away from Germany here…
Jeezo can’t believe bets still alive have both teams to score
There will be riots in Brazil tonight….
Incredible collapse by a home nation at this level.
T4
Sad to watch feck all
cheating scum deserve everything they get.
Brasil will need Hugh Dallas to get anything now
What are the Norn Iron fans goin to sing now?
B-)
petec,
what price did you get for 3 first half goals,inspired gambling I must say
Got to feel for the fans
Brazil lucky to have nil.
Feckin ell!
67Heaven
Exactly. The germans are very good
HH
Brazilian riot police getting geared up and drinking lots of Red Bull.
Riots before the tournament and now this..
5-0
5 nil
stunning performance 5 nil
WTF
5-0
5-0
They’ll Be Dancin’ Oan The Streets Of Rio The Nicht….
[Don’t You Mean RIOTING,TSD..!Ed]
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Germans need to think now, no silly bookings