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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sechs we want sieben
Game on!
Got 6-2 and 7-1 on In-play.
Fred off Wilma on
Lionsroars67, Sevco sign whole German squad!
Fred is very popular
Rio is gonna be like Ardoyne shops on the 12th night after this showing
Wee nephew went to bed in tears after Germany scored their 4th
What’s it all about Freddie…
MM
You too sweet cheeks x
Scolari brings it all on himself.
Martin Keown just said that the Germans might declare….what is it with these english commentators always making jibes about the war?!
T4
It’s epidemic now Rodney.
Fred off Brazil in Barney Rubble.
At least this Brazil team will go down in history
Crazy thing is the German’s have got to the final and carried Ozil the whole tournament, what’s the odds Ozil has a MOM final??
voguepunter
22:23 on 8 July, 201
Ah thought he wis left back,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,in the dressing room
G64
do I stay in scotland which was catholic long before it was protestant or stay in scotland because it is now protestant, I ask myself that on a daily basis, honest…8)
rwe.. spot on mate..
Off to see the Pukki hat trick!!
We want 7.
googybhoy ♥ celtic
googy ,ole BT was telling me how you looked after him when he was going his hols..
…yir a good mhan.
I’ll get your number off him if I ever fly oot of mancs…HH :o)
FRED aff OOT,
Apologies for associating FRED with KevJ.
I don’t agree with anyone blaming a player.
The Coach has to take the blame for continually playing him.
RonnyD.CsC
TSOAL
U a Ricky Gervais fan? :-p
Blantyretim
Point taken my friend
Sixkrieg
BT
decisions decisions,dont let the bad men chase you away
Colombia were cheated!
Germany redefining the meaning of ‘getting a brazilian’
Neuer thinking “you vill not pass, you vill not pass”….
yes, stereotyping.. typed it twice..
Brazil win as a team but blame fred when they lose
Should Brazil be allowed in the World Cup?
— Adrian Dunbar
“Are you you Sevco in disguise”
German Accent
tommytwiststommyturns
22:27 on 8 July, 2014
Martin Keown just said that the
Germans might declare….what is it
with these english commentators
always making jibes about the war?!
T4
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? Comprehension Fail..?
Germany Are Leading By A CRICKET SCORe….
So Martin Suggested That They Should ‘Declare’ (Their Innings)
EatMairFishCSC
Petec.. agreed.. the brazilians have had many failures and fred is only one.. luiz playing like a hardman at 6-0 down.. walloper.
Tom
spoke to cunny this morning.
Looky looky looky here comes Pukki
That ref looks as if he has left the clothes hanger in his shirt
I actually feel a bit sorry for Fred
Luiz is an embarrassment
Riots already started in Brazilian cities.