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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Praecepta
Will 7-1 make you a millionaire?!?
BT. Sheer quality. For years.
HH jamesgang
Overall, pretty comprehensive that!
Wouldn’t fancy being a German fan on the streets of Rio tonight, but the home fans have got nothing to complain about.
A 7-pointer in the predictor for me! A bit too late though.
No penalty then…o(
Aw, ref. . . Jist when Brasil wur finding’ their stride!
Ozil is a bit poop really
How much was paid for him?
Brazil players praying they get home alive
7 – 1 – nice scoreline ..
Brazilians and sevco have something in common ….
Game ended too soon for Brazil.
A prodigious performance from the Germans. Nearly as good as the original and best Hampden in the sun game.
Sideshow thanks God that his transfer went through before the World Cup
33/1 – only had a ‘squid’ on it. :-(
Seriously, maybe they’ll refocus on the Favelas and all the rest.
Curse of the commentator again.
Wish I had put dosh on my 7-1 HT prediction.
12/1 as well.
Time to put a lottery ticket on.
Damn my Asian contact promised 7.0 :-(
Jeezo! It’ll be fun in the favelas tonight.
Mourinho next Brazil manager???
Any chance Brazil can turn this round in the second leg
Deutschland Triumph…
In Their ‘Dennis-The-Menace’ Hooped Strip..
You don’t see many black faces in that Brazilian crowd. Can’t afford the tickets I suppose.
Riot time, could get messy tonight
Brazil have stumbled to the semi final …by dint of good fortune, generous refereeing and moderate opposition
Not in the least surprised they’ve been turned over ….Germany were over priced at 9/5
Worst Brazilian team I’ve ever seen
Tele off.
Hansen and Shearer really are the most annoying analysists ever, Rio dinnae hang about with those 2 chumps.
hrvatski jim
22:47 on 8 July, 2014
Hahahahahahaha
Big phil has both hands on coffee cup now!
the_huddle
Messi?
Luiz..people’s hero apparently
Most overrated footballer ever …£50m ….Jesus wept
Silva dodged a bullet.
werewolvesoflondonC.S.C
The Brazilian players are distraught. A wee check of their bank statements might fix that.
Like Brasil’s Silva’s hooped top
Brazilian football needs a strong rangers……………………….
Shearer. Arse.
Jose Mourhino will be doing cartwheels having sold Luiz to PSG for £50M!
Oh well, Brazil have the glamour of the 3rd place play off to look forward to.
Pf
he still had a sneeky peak at the big screen when greetin on captains shoulder..
overpayed over rated basketball players….
7-1 to The Hoops.
One thing for sure is SchweinsT will be playing in the Final. The Germans used their Squad tremendously well, Brasil obviously over used Fred and The Incredible in their first game.
Seriously think that fool Shearer is right. Struggling to see how these Brazilian players will ever recover from this result