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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Are Brazil still in the Petrofac Cup?
praecepta well done a few pints worth! , Luiz so over rated.
Embramike
No, they haven’t.
Sevco have never lost 7-1, although Rangers (1872-2012) did to some team in a cup final!
Brazil came into the game with the superior attitude.
Just like any empire when they start to believe they are invincible and are a class above others.
They will still rebuild decades before Scottish football recognizes its own faults.
Preacepta
im free for an hour tomorrow. No time Thursday off Friday, oh and your buying…8))
HT
cheers had the last of my bookie pot on it so not a bad wee return
Was that Niven in goal for Brazil? Niveninho maybe?
I hope that the numbness felt by the locals after that the result will put a halt to any possible rioting.
I’d been expecting it to all kick off when the home team went out, but nobody could have predicted that result.
T4
Oh Hampden in the sun!
If I was manager of the Brazilians …..
1) tell all the players to get a haircut except maicon
2) get rid of luiz and the goalie
3) get big fraz and VVD to take Brazilian citizenship
4) bring your best players back to Brazil
5) get the best young manager in spfl2 to assist me with Kenny and durranty in my backroom team
7.1
Welcome to the club, Germany!
The BBC site `has learned` that Brown will be out for three months. Anyone any idea how they `learned` this?
JJ
Brazil have had the rub of the green throughout this tournament so, in some respects, this result has been coming. It is still a shock though!
HH
Sally claims his team are JUST like Brazil
Eamon Dunphy off on one
God i love rte
Luis is a phoney!
beatbhoy
apologies – correct – just don’t use the R word anymore
Ray winstone.. plenty of red faces tho’
JJ
Pretty sure Ronny D said as much earlier today.
Troubled Morrissey @troubledmozza 13m
Seven knows I’m miserable now.
Mibbes they are the “Yella Cowdenbeath” after all!!
HH
End London rule. YES
praecepta
22:54 on 8 July, 2014
Jose Mourhino will be doing cartwheels having sold Luiz to PSG for £50M!
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I’d be delighted if he was at Celtic.
Terrible players (Brazil level, whatever that is) around about him, paralysed by fear and a ridiculous Coach, that I think has lost the plot, he must have after watching Fred move so little for so many games, the annoying thing was he started moving when they were 4 goals down.
Very suspicious, I am hoping Brazil just have a really crap pool of players to choose from, I find that difficult to believe.
Hrvatski Jim look forward to your wise words tomorrow.Bet your German pal is well chuffed,amazing display. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Bhoylo83 i was over for 2 weeks and rte panel are best in the business would have loved to have seen Eamo this evening!
Please please please don’t let it be a Germany v Netherland final.
lionroars67
22:53 on
8 July, 2014
Brazilian football needs a strong rangers……………………….
bahahahahaha, priceless
Ole Copacabana beach has turned into Gullane overnight,
BT text you in the morning?
Whatever suits you – nothing planned.
Blew my Brazil v Argentina Final bet but its been a good WC for me – will need to come up with something clever for tomorrow night!
lionroars67
22:53 on 8 July, 2014
Brazilian football needs a strong rangers……………………….
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha…..POSTOF THE MONTH…..BRILLIANT….!!!!!!!!
In yorkhill tomorrow so 12 till 1 , park bar ,islay in or next week if that suits…
bed time bhoys
Nothing new under the Sun.
HamiltonTim
Both of my kids are champion debaters ….have been for many years…without the aid of any political party I may add
I’m sure you’re happy for me …I’m quite chuffed tbh
Relevance …none …nice story I thought I’d share with you
And….absolutely nothing to do with sectarian bigoted comment
TBJ says Wee Oscar Knox is in heaven with the angels: “Can anyone remember seeing a Brazilian humping like this on tv ..”
DVD, but then this is a family channel …
HT
Thank you. `night all.
JJ
Irvine Welsh on Twitter.
@WelshIrvine: I’ve always said that watching Hibs was like watching Brazil. And they laughed at me. Well who’s laughing now, ya bams?
HH
Pfayr
Thank you for sharing :-)
Waiting for Dunphy to come out with ” jackets for goalposts”.
Giles talking about when he was a lad, 25 years ago,they played on the streets .
John would have been about 50.
Ol’ blethers.-
Any truth that germany did that for beckenbauer as a GIRUY to FIFA ? Good to see the germans destroying FIFAs blatant attempts to make sure of a brazilian world cup win.