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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Bed for me early meeting with my moody boss, wish he was German but at the same time thankful he is not Brazilian
Petec
I’ve not seen the goals either I couldn’t get a linky thing to work :-)
SOAL
No they’re large dogs.
Preacepta- ha nice one !! Hh
HT
Should i
naw
Love
Eddie
Magic. Hampden in the sun song came into ma head at full time tonight.
I hope Teemu and Amido get a chance wi Ronny. Both are players.
BBC footage after defeat…starts with this intro.
“Brazil is a city in utter shock.”
I blame BIg Burd & Sesame Street
Y’on Maicon bloke looked like a synthesis of Clarence Seedorf and Alan Hutton.
Sadly for Brazil only his face looked like Seedorf. The rest was pure Mutton!
Night Timdom
HH jamesgang
Boy George with a quickie single: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLQb78o29xE
Pukki hat trick!! The Bhoy did good!!!
Gary67
Great link, thanks. Laughed at the auf wiedersehens from about 5 guys at the sending off (Special Glasgow Celtic)
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Slept in and Missed the Match..
Wow..
Has Sammi signed for Germany..;-)
Summa
SOAL
I’ve a feeling you might regret it if ye do! X
Rwe
I blame kafflik schools :)
Highlight package from today’s win over LASK.
http://jawoi.tv/game/2853
HH
My German Colleague has just floated to his hotel.
HT
What sort of feeling?
A German Wax (Urban Dictionary):
An extremely painful way to completely remove a football team (Brazilians) from a World Cup Semi-final, rather than shaving, which leave razor bumps.
:-)
H&K G36 :
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LJh4Fgswy3k
Marvellous.
In work today 1 wrong wan and 3 good bhoys having lunch. Talk was about the bigot fest on Saturday. Ma good mate James said to wrong wan. “Dunky was in Kirkcaldy on Saturday having a fun day wi like minded Tims, raising money for charity. You were at Glesga Green battling wi your ain and terrorising seagulls.” Priceless laughter followed.
Went to pick up my son from the station, he was on his way back from Denmark. Chaos here due to Germans celebrating. Polizei closed off the station road. Eventually found my son half way up the road home. Still going mental outside, it would appear that the whole town has taken to the streets.
I personally think it would have been bad for Brazil, as a country, to have won the World Cup. It would have allowed the Brazilian Government the chance to paper over a lot of cracks. I won’t be surprised if the Olympics don’t go ahead in Brazil in 2 years time.
Saw today’s Game in Re-Run…
My take..
Pukki?
Yes,he has settled.. Good Game.
Although,let me mitigate the tendancy tae go over board.. in dishin oot the Flattery…tae Pukki… because of his Hat -Trick ..Performance.
By throwing a Basin Full o’ Water oan oor Jubilation.
by.. Informing….awe n sundry…
That…
The Opposition wiz. Poor.
Weak as a Run Doon Exide.
Linz, wur / Ur.. Third Raters.
A bunch o’ Sunday afternoon Kick Aboots.
Still, we won.. n .. they Didnae.
Ah thought.. McGeough,hid a Good Game.. but..again.. that Remark, Comes with the warning..
The opposition wuz.. yep.. Ye Remembered!
Poor.
So who hid a Bad game fur us?
Hmmmmmmmmm..
Canny think of Anybuddy.
Although…
Ah don’t know who wiz responsible fur that strange.. Second Goal ..that Linz Scored.
It happened so quickly.. Ah wiz Taken by surprise.
So who blew it , fur us , wi that yin… Ah jist Canny Tell Ye..
But.. it wiz a real doozy o’ a Blunder..whoevah wiz responsible.
Ah enjoyed the Goals.. Five Goals .. Ain’t tae be sneezed at.
Nice.
Well.. we goat a good Run oot ,which we need badly.. so
Everything, seems tae be Goin Well ,fur Ronny n the Bhoys..
We are oan track..
Noo.. fur a tough yin .. Dukla..
They should force us tae Stetch oor Galluses a wee bit Mair ..than Linz managed tae dae..
Lookin’ Forward tae it.
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
JTT, thanks for the highlights package from tonight’s game.
One question. Who’s the wee fat dude scoring the goals?
:-)
TBJ says Wee Oscar Knox is in heaven with the angels
This Brazilian performance and the score line given it’s a home game … Makes celtics performance and score in Barcelona look semi respectable.
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Naw, the only thing that made Celtic look respectable that night were the three idiots wi the BMCUWP Hootenanny fleg on the halfway line funning it up wi the Barca bhoys.
Brazil were utter crap, and sideshow bob would struggle to get a game for the red lichties.
ACGR
Gerd Muller?
How you doing bro?
Saturday was perfect.
A happy little ditty for Brazil: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ECUtkv2qV8
delaneys dunky,
That was football as it should be played, 7-1 going on 10, 11 or 12
AR
Kojo
Where’s this Rerun that you watched the Bonny Bhoys tonight?
Never heard of it, and I got an A in Higher Geography! ;)))
God, the Aussies on TV are getting ripped into the Scottish Commonwealth Games ‘outfits’, wonder why!
AR
DD, I’m doing fine bruv. It’s taken me until today to recover and clear my desk workwise. The whole weekend was great, golf, company, pool company. Nothing not to like.
I’ve got old JJ out on the mans course at Carnoustie this Friday, so either I better play well or give him some of that Jamaican joob joob of yours in his pre match tea:-)
Great to see you on Saturday, I had a brilliant time.
HH
DD, do you have a contact for TT? I’ve got another £20 that was raised for the TET bands after the wee man sneaked off with his trophy.
If you do get me at acgr@hotmail.co.uk
AR
Had a Muller 2-1 scorecast. Close, bu 5 goals out. Look forward to sharing a pint wi you in Clydebank very soon. :)
greeninbingley
21:04 on 8 July, 2014
eddieinkirkmichael
21:01 on
8 July, 2014
Penthouse and favela, and Heaven 17 nearly said.
VG
ACGR
Sorry I don’t!
Rastaman Vibration :)
GNGB
Brazil World Cup highlights. (Oh, and I think I spotted Robben in there as well …)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNIOMpgVsXY
Really looking forward to Celtic in the coming season. Having seen the links posted by various posters I’m not putting too much stock in the lack of structured defence as our first line defence were not present.
Great to see Pukki on the score sheet with a hat trick. I’ve no doubt we’re currently good enough to take the Icelandic team but who are our potential opponents in the next qualifier?
DD, no worries, I know a man that will.
BobM, help me out here…………………………………………………..pleez.
Goodnight Celtic Men and Wummin
Mon the Argies, get it right up the Dutchies and geez a chance of winning ra spondoolies.
Kojo
00.29
Good to talk Celtic tonight and any night.
Football etiquette might suggest how petty it is to compare 7-1s across different generations. Except I’m a Celt, so what the hell do I care?
Was Neil Mochan’s finish way, way better than Andre Schurrle’s? Yes indeed it was!
antipodean red 00:54 on 9 July, 2014
God, the Aussies on TV are getting ripped into the Scottish Commonwealth Games ‘outfits’, wonder why!
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We rightly try to expunge the caricature of the tartan shortbread kilted non underwear wearing halfwits in our normal business and day to day lives. We find it insulting and demeaning. Yet when we want to present ourselves to the world we put on the same dog and pony show that we disparage at any other time.
A country with no viable modern meaningful identity.
We are defined by the very thing we detest and celebrate. I have in-laws who never wear a kilt – unless there is a wedding in England and then they don a kilt and drink to a state of stupour. Everyone else just laughs at them and they don’t get it.
We live up to and celebrate all the negative stereotypes.