I love Paris, the food, the sights, the people, the atmosphere of the place. So it came as a surprise when I watched Messi and Neymar booed by their own PSG fans after their elimination from the Champions League. The greatest of all time and a talented show pony, both the toast of the city recently, as persona non grata. How can it be?
The short version of events is that PSG were eliminated because neither did enough running around against Real Madrid to prevent their elimination. This is a bit unfair. A shark is a shark. If you swim with one, you should know how it will behave.
When it comes to energy, Messi, for all his exalted status, is more Charlie Nicholas than Frank McGarvey. His Brazilian protégée, Neymar, was always going to behave like his master. Maybe Messi’s game would be hampered, if he put in the hard miles, I doubt he ever found out.
I also doubt Leo has seen the best of Paris: the Tower, Montmartre, Sacre Coeur. No matter how long he stays, he will remain an unknown recluse, inevitably leaving behind fans who wonder what they were initially thinking. Still, booing your own after a defeat? It’s not a good look. A PSG decline, without the prize they really want, seems inevitable.
It hurt when Bodo/Glimt taught us a lesson home and away last month. Having already eliminated AZ Alkmaar from one European competition this season, we would feel hopeful of doing so again, if we faced them in the Conference League, instead of Bogo/Glimt.
There are compensations, primarily our hunt for the league title. Instead of journeys to Netherlands, all the focus at Lennoxtown this week is on facing Ross County at Celtic Park on Saturday. It has been a while since we were this confident.
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Clinko
I read they lost £100m last year
Just shows you ,you give it out ,but when the tables are turned they can’t cope with some home truths ,I have over the years been called out etc etc ,but I’ve kept posting on here we’re fans like it or not.
I love Paris in the Springtime….You missed une chance there Paul. (Unlike Cole Porter, or versions by Frank, Doris or Ella et al) Of course the reaction of the PSG was almost certainly to the defeat by Real Madrid in the CL for which Pochettino is to blame in the main. At 2-0 on agg or even 2-1 he has got to take Neymar off, his bench is packed with top class players but no he leaves him on, I think, for the full ninety minutes. Just recovered from injury n’oublie pas. Or was it word from above? Or was the image of Neymar being substituted in the Bernebau too much to bear? For Neymar. Either way it cost PSG the game, strengthen the midfield, leave Mbappe and Messi up front and as they say in France, Bob’s your Uncle!
SacreBleuCSC
Its difficult to like PSG. They are so much of what is wrong in the elite, modern game
GO TELL THE SPARTIM on 17TH MARCH 2022 3:42 PM
Personally i too think Diego Maradona was the best ever but then even he thought Tomas Felipe Carlovich was better than him (ive only read anecdotal pieces on him, seems like Diego may have been right).
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I watched a documentary or read an article about Carlovich was very good, there are some YouTube clips of him playing. From Croatian stock I think.
I’d have to disagree with Diego, who I think was the greatest.
Has Scotlands Shame embarrassed themselves yet ?
ADI_DASSLER NOT FOR 2ND BEST on 17TH MARCH 2022 5:12 PM
Many,many times over both existences :-)
The huns will take a rowing boat to Australia for that money
https://streamable.com/yipbuw
Adi- vermin in Belgrade
Hope the huns get humped oot……none of this extra games tosh…
How sweet would it be to go out being 3-0 up.
I’m having a wee chuckle at the respective comments on the news that the Sydney Cup may be in doubt..
Celtic fans: The “Old Firm” friendly is in doubt.
Huns: The Old Firm “friendly” is in doubt.
Semantics eh?
Hope the huns endure a long, bruising, morale-sapping, hammy-pingin’ humpin’ with internationa medial focus on thur supporters awful Kulchur……… and that the ref books them all twice.
Workers Party of Britain – Dover & Deal (@WPB_Dover) Tweeted:
800 P&O workers made redundant with immediate effect.
RMT union talking about sit ins. https://twitter.com/WPB_Dover/status/1504448328062447616?s=20&t=esJyNVXbnjAqEA7UwmkZKw
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Where’s the – so called – Labour Party that takes workers union fees then snubs the workers at every issue??
Labour Party is now led by an establishment puppet, Sir Keir Starmer, who claims that, “its not only women who have a cervix” what is this, Babylon?? Eden?? SKS tried 48 times to overturn the democratic vote of the British people, who voted for Brexit, 17.4 million voters, who want out of the unelected, always at war, EU bankers cabal, damn that, but mainly, but not all, of the Brexit voters came from the poor, left behind areas, of the north of England, and other places, 1 million Scots voted for Brexit, a no-deal Brexit means an automatic, United Ireland, as no-deal = the Good Friday Peace Agreement would become null and void, and I might be wrong about this, but I think a no-deal Brexit means there would be no need for a border poll, and Ireland would automatically be reunited. To make this work, the united Ireland fallout, and for “real” Brexit to work, a straight talking, straight to the point, leader, no matter how many eggs have to be broken to get to that point, this would be a – must have quality – for a “real” leader who’ll always tell the people as it is, not fluffy bull words that sound nice, Jeremy Corbyn was thought to be the leader who’d get us as citizens, to that point, Brexit with either, no-deal, or a deal that suits the workers, ( NOT ) the bankers!!
But the British imperialist establishment and its subsidiaries, ie apartheid regimes from the desert, laid siege to Jeremy Corbyn, a lover of the, poor, homeless, sick, oppressed, the Irish, the in work poverty victims, he, and Mrs Corbyn, travelled on the train with Celtic supporters to one of our away European qualifiers, I can’t remember the name of the team, but the countries PM went over to greet, what he called, “These amazing Celtic supporters….” he was standing in front of the travelling Celtic fans after the game, holding up a scarf singing, YNWA, etc, etc, he’s a great lover of Celtic, so I assume that, Mr & Mrs Corbyn are good friends with this PM, is it Albania?? Rudi Vata was in the periphery as well if i recall properly??
Anyway, the good, pure at heart, untainted integrity, absolute, one off as a human being, Jeremy Corbyn, was tested by the evil British swamp of, liars, thieves, deceivers, mass murderers, etc, etc, their deceitful cruelty in the end, helped by a rigged GE in, 2019, put paid to Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the Labour Party, which is now controlled by a dangerous, monster, SKS, who since April 2020, has expelled, permanently, tens of thousands of Jewish people, all because they all agreed that, Jeremy Corbyn is ( NOT ) antisemitic, only an evil liar would say such a naked untruth, these Jewish people, good hearted people who saw a kindred spirit, in Jeremy Corbyn, who joined the membership of the, Labour Party, because they were given hope by a one off, decent human being, whom all of these Jewish people had stood by for the 5 years of the Jeremy Corbyn era, supporting this man, who was hated, detested even, the Parachute regiment had a life size poster of Jeremy Corbyn, which the Para’s used for target practice. ITV news continually played the video of the Para’s firing squad lined up for a few minutes, firing their magazines at a mysterious, out of sight target, only for the ITV camera to slowly turn to reveal their target, a shot to bits life size photo of Jeremy Corbyn. Has this depravity ever been witnessed before?? And to rub salt into the wounds of Jeremy Corbyn, most Celtic supporters voted against this man?? And now look at the state of the place!!
Its like this….
If but for, 2,000 votes ( check #LabourLeaks ) this amazing human being would’ve been PM in 2017.
Just think about that!!
Jeremy Corbyn would’ve derailed the CONvid lies as he wouldn’t have signed off on any UN, WEF, WHO, etc, bull.
Jeremy Corbyn was our last hope for decency. Or was he??
In 2017, and 2019, the choice was – Barbarity or Socialism – unthinking, me me me, types of Celtic supporters, mugged themselves, and everybody else, by voting for the latter.
Next time, these same, unthinking, incapable, of getting over themselves, Celtic supporters, will have a chance for redemption, only they can prove whether they have the balls to flip the coin over, from Barbarism, to Socialism, and that means voting for the man with the biggest political show on earth, George Galloway, and MOATS TV, 1.2 million viewers is an unmatched audience, from a leader of a common sense socialism, working class ethics driven, political replacement for the Labour Party, which has been colonised by the very same apartheid lobby groups from the desert, that has colonised USA politics, no mater which side wins, the same guffery will follow, now its the same in UK, and in Scotland were SNP are kidding the asses off of a lot of Scots in their, pretendy independy, palaver, what a piss take. Celtic supporters have to screw the nut.
Do you want free internet, free education, free travel, millions of council houses being built, free health treatment at the point of need, maybe starting a new socialist health service like Jeremy Corbyn proposed and was jeered by the establishment swamp, as the NHS is virtually 100% been colonised by big pharma, pretty soon it could be your child falling off of their bike and you’d need to take out a mortgage size loan to pay for the treatment, just think about that.
Do you want to see billionaires and millionaires banned from controlling football clubs??
Do you want a govt, led by a political party who’ll tell the always at war, NATO, to eff off as we don’t want any part of it, but what we will do is show savvy and link arms with these big, powerful countries whom, NATO, warmongers against, but these mighty powers don’t go all around the world aggressing against other countries, but if they did, then we’d know all about it, but that’s not the ideology of these countries, no matter what ‘ALL’ western media are paid to lie to you about.
Just think things through carefully, we have all at one point realised, you know what, its I who is seeing this the wrong way, would real rebels allow themselves to be swayed by the dodgy media??
Would real rebels have fallen for the sleekit, PLC, OLDFIRM, SAME PRICE, £49 TICKET TRAP IN 2016??
Think CSC 👍
Oopsadaidsy
1-0 red star
I didn’t read St Stivs post that he was quitting, just that he was having an early night, think you’ve all jumped the gun there in assuming he’s quitting. He must be loving all these posters saying how much they miss him :-)
I dont know big Jimmy but by all accounts he’s a fine bloke, its a bit unfair though blaming Paul67 for banning him – and not the multi posters. P67 only has the 2 rules, no swearing, no personal abuse, Big Jimmy broke those 2 rules quite a lot,
I’m sure if he was to contact Paul and promise to adhere to the 2 blog rules he would let back on – surely?
….and you had better not start insulting me or I might quit as well…. :-)
BADA BING!! on 17TH MARCH 2022 5:17 PM
https://streamable.com/yipbuw
Adi- vermin in Belgrade
The irony of shouting f***ing shitebags from the safety of your hotel room. Hard to tell in that video who the undead were so didn’t know who I was rooting for.
Bit of a shocker in Belgrade.
First goal isn’t a sevco penalty.
Buon Compleanno Giovanni Trapatonni !
He played against Celtic for A.C. Milan in the first leg of the quarter final of the European Cup in 1969 in the snow in Milan, which ended 0 -0.
The same video that bad bing shared with some genius editing.
https://twitter.com/TamsellicsonIII/status/1504515622461673483?t=R3HER63RG1jh07DWW0N8hQ&s=19
Stephen Craigan blames Carl Starfelt for the Red Star goal….
HH
i must admit up until the huns game at the start of February
I wasnt very impressed by Starfelt but since then his performances
have been excellent and went up a notch
Definitely a good player for us now and I am happy to be proved wrong
ROCK TREE BHOY @ 6:12
“P67 only has the 2 rules, no swearing, no personal abuse”
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You’re correct and that must always be the case. No one should ever be excluded for their honest opinion expressed in a proper manner. No one needs to get banned. Healthy disagreement is the lifeblood of this blog – I commend it!
As we see today and on virtually every other day, Celtic/Football are not exclusive topics, nor, should they be.
CQN is a vibrant forum, quite able to handle a variety of matters – some posters, when it suits them, take ‘the huff’ about certain subjects being aired – I look on this diversity as a great strength and a marker to the intelligence of the contributors. There should be excellent chemistry on the site.
CHEMISTRY:
How different elements combine, or, react, with each other….(respectfully)!
AZ Alkmaar 2-1 up on Bodo, 3-3 on aggregate.
McGregor keeping Red Star at bay.
Red Star miss sitter.
Barca 2-1 up in Turkey.
Leicester 3-1 up on aggregate.
Huns look comfortable. Red Star really need another soon to ramp up the pressure.
1-1 hun
Huns score. Too easy for them. Serbian heads go down.
Gotta luv that..
The ….simple sword o’ truth……….All opinions MUST be heard!
Ah mean….how could ye argue against such earnest passive aggression?
This Dear Green Place has an established ethos and thems that despise it and hate our genial host take sly wee hits at him an’ Celtica with digs an’ jibes while hiding in plain sight wrapped in the disguise of unblinking reasonableness.
Aye.
JHB
Covering your own back.
As usual.
Fud.
The luck these huns are carrying in Europe, they could win this thing unbelievable😕
Pretty sure that’s Ciftci up front for Red Star…
Ivanic must be one of the worsests footballer s I’ve ever seen 😵
Can anyone explain logically to me how the Huns can score 4 goals ( so far ) against the Serbian champions, and we can only score 1 ( and lose 5 ) to some wee team from Lapland?
Answers on a postcard.
Red Star miss another sitter.
Huns carry a lot of luck no doubt but in Kent they have a real danger man on the break.hes goin past their defenders with ease.