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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Great play 2-3
Pukki
Pukki hat-trick.
Pukki hat trick. Good play by McGregor.
Interesting that Matthews has been ‘relegated’ to the young guns select. All the talk from Ronny has been about developing the youth. Maybe the start of mind-games from the manager. Could spur the youngster on who may be missing his best pal Joe Ledley.
Henderson having a great game.
Always wanting the ball, great passing, good dig about him and constantly talking to his team mates.
A star in the making.
Looks like pukkis power is in his fat ass!!
Go on that bhoy
3-2 Celtic.Good leading up there and Pukki nets again.
THRREEEE For PUKIIII :)
Hard to believe
Hattrick for pukki
all the best son
When the young Celts up the pace, it looks so easy.
Pukki hat trick
3-2
I always knew Pukki was a player! Another egg on the face for Mark Guidi. ‘Baldi and Pukki not celtic class’ etc etc
Tom McL
Languid defending shoorly. :o)
Better in this half Celtic subs have worked even big Amido playing well
Clunks,
Henderson is everywhere.Fantastic engine.
Very harsh from the ref
REF is a nutter
Strange red card
Henderson off!!
Dope of a Ref
Great to see my bhoy pukks get his hat trick hopefully the start of a good season ahead for him
Down to 10 Henderson off
Joke of a referee. A second yellow for Henderson. For what? His first was for a nothing foul. The second for dissent?
He was playing absolutely brilliantly.
Didn’t see it.
Is the ref hogging the limelight with that decision.
Ref must like Cartman from South Park?
Respect ma Auufffooorriittyyyyyyyyyy
Austrian referees are always a disaster for Celtic.
Tricoloured Ribbon
He is in the shower now
LOL
What happened? Henderson? Sent off for protesting a throw-in???
Missed that! Was it a 2nd yellow? He was booked in the first half.
Very harsh for dissent
Dissent apparently.
I wish to disagree.
Dissenters CSC
Unusual to get a red card in a friendly (can’t view it so relying on you ghuys)
Do reds give a suspension in friendlies??
soal,
hahahaha.I just saw him trudging off, thought he was getting subbed.
Uh-oh!
clunks
Only if your a Celtic player :-)
Ref runs like an SPL official.
Scapingthebarrelnow CSC
One match suspension in the SPHell. Happened to Mulgrew last year.
Fulham bid £18 mil for Pukki…..