With Lionel Messi and Barcelona focussed on winning their final group game against Benfica tomorrow night Celtic must achieve a better result against Spartak Moscow than Benfica manage at the Camp Nou to progress to the latter stages of the Champions League.
Aiden McGeady has suffered a recurrence of a pennate muscle tendon injury and is doubtful. Georgian creative midfielder, Jano Ananidze, is also out injured, while coach Valery Karpin is under pressure to axe Argentine defenders Juan Insaurralde and Nicolas Pareja after both picked up red cards on Friday night against Zenit. The Russian media have also turned on Dutch midfielder Demy De Zeeuw, who was at least partially culpable for the Zenit defeat. Celtic could face a more cohesive Russian team tomorrow, although perhaps without some of their more talented players. Who this troubles most remains to be seen.
Reading (and writing) Celtic Quick News you learn of the thousands of actions Celtic fans take in order to assist others or alleviate pain and distress. In aggregate these actions can and do move mountains.
Yesterday it was announced that one of our family, Rod Stewart, is donating proceeds of his new single, Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas, to the Celtic Charity Fund and Teenage Cancer Trust to fight this horrible disease and assist those afflicted by it.
The single will be available for download from this Sunday, 9 December. It offers you and me the opportunity to raise awareness – and funds – on a level we would otherwise never be able to achieve. Charity is part of your job as a Celtic fan. On this occasion, on aggregate, we can have an enormous impact.
Still looking for tickets for tomorrow night?
You can email an auction bid for two Wee Oscar Write Bands, each comes with a free ticket to Celtic v Spartak Moscow. Send an email with your bid to weeoscar4life@gmail.com. Competition closes at 20:00 GMT tonight.
You can buy the CQN Annual at the Cathedral House Hotel before the game tomorrow night. The Hotel are organising a lift to the game too!
We’ll pick up on the SFA president once the more important matters are out of the way.
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Singing Dick, is it your sole purpose in coming on this site to play a double act with Kojo or perish the thought are ye the same person.
BMCW
Corkcelt
Still laughing about that wee faux pas, don’t want ye thinking am marching roon the living room!
Gene’s A Bhoys Game
You Are Entitled tae disagree,pal..
Howevahhh…
To Disagree.. does not Necessarily mean.. that Ah am Wrong and you are Right.
Right?
We shall nevah know.. as
Ah am Certain that Neil.. who is the Man Pickin’ the Team
Will
NOT PICK a Similar Selection as Mine.
There is No danger of that Happening!
Ah am jist Spoutin’ Aff.. which
Ah happen tae Enjoy..
Ah find it .. Kinda Fun.
Nice chattin’
Kojo
Still, Laughin’
KOJO
Your team.
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Forster
Lustig Matthews
Wilson Mulgrew
McGeough Brown Kayal Ambrose Samaras
Watt..
~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~
MATTHEWS is not yet an accomplished left-back.
MULGREW and WILSON have not gelled as a partnership.
The midfield are stranger to each other as a unit;in addition,McGEOUGH is short of fitness and of experience at this level. AMBROSE also an unknown quantity in Europe,except in defence.
For WATT,read McGEOUGH.
Your shout,mate.
Decent piece here about Spartak’s season so far – nearly as good as Zybyszek, in fact:)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/dec/04/spartak-moscow-self-destruction-celtic?
Ard Macha
Let me know when you are coming and see if we can have a wee gargle, feart to type “sesh” in case it happens again…..
!!Bada Bing!!
16:04 on
4 December, 2012
BMCUW-Ha,Cheers mate,just heading out for a couple of beers.HH
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It would be a cheap shot to suggest that they’re for dowsing yer candles,so I’ll leave that one for VOGUE PUNTER…
Enjoy yersel,bud.
I’ll raise my last can for the day in your honour.
Hic,cheers,congrats.
Kojo
We will never know if you are right or wrong because IMO Lenny won’t start with your suggestion but it doesn’t make your proposal wrong.
Haw Corkie…!
My Dear Friend,Kojo…..
Choses To Tell The TRUTH…..
Straight Fae The Hip…..
And For That….
He Is Assailed By All Manner Of ‘Plastic Paddies’,’ Plastic Whatevers’……….
And A Legion Of Brasso-Sniffing Barfly Coarnerboys……
Who Whould Sell Their Grannies’ One Guid E’en……
Right..? Right..!
And To Which Category Should I Assign Your Ain Good Self……?
Shining Paragon Of Excellence That Ye Clearly Are…..!!!!
Ain’t That The Gospel…..Virginia..?
Kojo,
“Ye canny rely oan past Performances.. regarding the Predictability of FUTURE
PERFORMANCE..”
Why tnen, would you drop Hooper and Commons using their past performances as a guide for their future performances?
JJ
Oh dear, and I thought it was Celtic supporters who were ment to be paranoid.
By the p*sh stained alco
…………………………………………………………………………………
Tuesday, 4 December 2012
LAWWELL TAKES CONTROL OF RECORD AND SUNDAY MAIL
PETER LAWWELL is set to effectively become the new editor-in-chief of the Daily Record and Sunday Mail.
That is the stunning, sinister and bombshell news I can bring you today – a sad sorry day in the history of two one mighty campaigning newspapers, but newspapers which have now fallen to such a low they are willing and even eager to surrender their independence by getting into bed with Celtic.
Meaning the names Rangers supporters have been calling the two newspapers – the Daily Rhebel and the Sunday Liam – will be a truer reflection of the market the two sad sorry and now totally discredited publications will cater for.
It is all part of a grubby commercial deal which will see the Daily Record and Sunday Mail sign up to take money from Celtic to do all of Celtic’s printing.
Which will effectively silence the voice of a free press in Central Quay as far as football matters, as well as many political and cultural issues, are concerned.
Making it is a sad sorry and sinister day, not merely for the two newspapers, but for Scottish journalism and for freedom and democratic debate in Scotland, which is becoming an increasingly dark, dangerous and undemocratic nation.
And the man at the Daily Record and Sunday Mail who will now be forced to do just whatever Peter Lawwell tells him to do, yet who will masquerade under the title of editor-in-chief, while the real power lies with Peter Lawwell, is the cowardly Alan Rennie.
Any editor, indeed any man, worth his salt would have told any management which tried to impose such restrictions on his journalistic freedom, where to stick their job and walked away.
Just as Jim Traynor told us all, in his last column for the paper whose coffin he has publicly driven a nail into, he did, in the wake of him discovering just what was going on behind his back.
Dark deeds and a commercial tie in for profit between Peter Lawwell and Celtic and the Daily Record and the Sunday Mail, which the powerbrokers inside Ibrox first got wind of last week.
No doubt Alan Rennie will protest that his decision to downplay the Anthony Stokes-IRA story last week – a story which any honest, decent and honourable journalist would tell you should have been the splash – was not influenced by any commercial tie up with Celtic.
Well, he would, wouldn’t he? But how many people will believe him?
How long talks have been going on between Celtic and the Daily Record and Sunday Mail is not known, but it is reasonable to believe they have been taking place behind locked doors for some time and I believe the final contracts, which have yet to be signed, will be inked any day now.
However, it is reasonable now for reasonable people to wonder at some of the events which have already cast a cloud over the judgement of Alan Rennie in recent months and to question his impartiality, to ponder on whether some of his actions were based on sound news values and on journalistic integrity, or driven by a desire inside the Daily Record and Sunday Mail to get their hands on Celtic’s money.
For instance, ten months ago Traynor’s exclusive about the row over ticket payments for an Old Firm game, led to Rennie getting set to print a grovelling apology to Peter Lawwell after Lawwell complained it was untrue, only for Rennie to become distraught when the emails which proved to story to be 100 per cent correct, true and accurate, were produced.
Then there was the disgraceful banning by Celtic of Hugh Keevins when he had the temerity to question Peter Lawell, which Alan Rennie allowed to happen in an act which looked, at the time, like one of cowardice, but which now assumes a darker and much more sinister hue.
It is likely that people will now start to wonder just how many stories which would have shown Peter Lawwell and Celtic in a bad light have been hushed up by the Daily Record and Sunday Mail in recent weeks and months.
Scots are entitled to ask such questions and to voice such legitmate concerns regarding the Daily Record and Sunday Mail, two once mighty independently minded newspapers which have now sold their journalistic birthright for a mess of Celtic’s pottage.
I have always refrained from going down the road which sees Rangers supporters brand these two now totally disgraced and disgraceful newspapers, as the Daily Rhebel and the Sunday Liam. After all, I spent eight happy years with the Sunday Mail when it was a fine strong and independent newspaper selling close to a million copies each week. But that is how I will now refer to them in the future. For that is what they have shamefully become.
This is the day freedom of the press took a lurch towards the grave, in a nation staggering blindly towards a dark and sinister place where Peter Lawwell is omnipresent and omnipotent.
Not content with having control of Celtic, a tight grip on the Scottish Football Association and having the Scottish Premier League in his iron fist, Peter Lawwell is now about to assume control of the editorial decisions of the two papers which will now become the Daily Rhebel and the Sunday Liam in the eyes of every sceptic, and any hack who is not a sceptic is no hack at all.
At this point, all decent, honest and independent journalists should pause for a minute’s silence.
There are others inside the Daily Rhebel and Sunday Liam, who can adopt another pose. They can indulge themselves in a minute’s applause. After all that, as the Parkhead tannoy announcer informed us, is the Celtic way.
And from now on the Celtic way will be the Daily Rhebel and the Sunday Liam’s way too.
If I may coin a phrase beloved of a former First Minister. This is Scotland’s shame
My dear,dear,dear,friend.. The Singing Detective..
Hiya,pally.??
Great tae See Ye are oan Board..
Ah am gled tae see that ye dae see at least some Merit..in the Team Selection
which Ah hiv Chosen..
Like Ah said…
We canny all think like You and I , obviously dae,dae.
And Ah am sae glad..
fur it gies. Guys such as You and Me..
A
Big, Big Advantage ..in Life’s struggle…
Vive la Difference!
After awe..
Forty Million Frenchmen.. can’t be Wrong!
Nice chattin,palomine..
Kojo
Yer pal.. who thinks ye ur jist whit the doctor. Ordered.
Still Laughin’
SSN live to Celtic Park next
Line of the day from KICKINTHENAKAS:
” Meeting a few bhoys tomorrow for a wee sash before going to the game.”
Amazing how one, little letter can be so hilariously funny!!
Ah,ffs.
KOJO,when he talks football,I can deal wi. We can disagree,but at least there are those grey areas to disagree through.
The only way I can converse wi his mini-me is not for this blog.
Back when the sensible,moonhowler,shift kicks in.
TET
strange how two sets of supporters can read newspapers (i use the term loosely) and conclude they favour the other.
However evidentially we know the truth
Makes me wonder what the hell the Rhebel & Liam are printing for Celtic?
So Barca will field a weakened side against Benfica?
But they should still have players like Puyol, Piquè, Sergio Busquets, Villa, Adriano, Tello… and Messi who is on the verge of breaking Gerd Muller’s record.
Barca do not like losing at home – and very rarely do. Ocassionally they draw – and if they do draw tomorrow night Celtic need to win.
The atmosphere at CP will be electric and will surely lift the players, rather than put undue pressure on them.
Still expect Barca to win ‘tho.
… and Celtic!
HH!!
Gene’s a Bhoys name
Aye, it makes you wonder, I’ve always known they are thick, but dearie me…..
TET
It is beyond parody.
TET – brilliant! PL’s not even bothering to hide his “unseen fenian hand” anymore.
It’s right out there in the open.
“Sunday Liam” — hehehe –
THE EXILED TIM 16:17 on 4 December, 2012
It is painful to see someone make such an arse of themselves in public. It was funny for a wee while but I think the Legless Loon should be sectioned.
Jungle Jim
Good Point Pal..
Good, Good Point,ye hiv raised..
Ah see that Ah must Explain. Masel.. A wee bit Mair ,than Ah did..
Ah should Hiv added..
the Woid.
“Recent” or.. Mebbe. “Current”
Before the Word .. Performance..of the Player under consideration.
when One aspires tae form His or Her Opinion
as to whether the Subject under discussion ..is worthy of a Position in the Team
fur .. today.
How’s that, pal..??
Bettah?
Noo ye know.
Kojo
Still, Laughin
There. That’s bettah..
“Y
What a quandary…
From sevcomedia
Just a wee heads up for the spineless amongst you, who are willing to forgive and forget, and ignore the wishes of what would appear to be the majority, there may very well be a picket line for you to cross if you go to Tannadump.
Scabs beware. This will be the first acid test of the Rangers support, and if it comes to blows, then so be it.
We are not going to have our club attacked. Funding the enemy makes you the enemy.
That is all.
the ‘weakened’ Barca tomorrow night could still conceivably put out
Valdes
Alves Puyol Pique Montoya
Busquets Song Thiago
Sanchez Messi Villa
still not too shabby, would expect that team to beat Benfica
BMCUWP….
Soooo…..
Glad Tae See That Ye Noticed Ah ‘Name-Checked’ Ye….
In Ma Previous …..Post…
As Ma Guid Pal,Rancho Francho Wid Say..
Back In The Dae…..
HOOK….LINE…AN’ SINKER……!!!!
May Ye ALWAYS Hiv A Zantac……
Whenever Ye Need One……
Ma Guid Frien’ In Celtic……
(ThumbsUp?)
Snake
The real sad thing is they actually believe it.
izzy
16:30 on 4 December, 2012
has their collective brain cell not yet realised that cup tie gate receipts are split and by boycotting they are harming their own cash strapped zombie club?
TRT,
looks like traynor’s first article
79caps
15:25 on
4 December, 2012
We desperately need more creativity in the centre of midfield.
I think Lubo must have been the last really creative player we put in the centre.
Kayal33
Good point
Unfortunately I doubt that any of our players would get in that team
I like free trade ..some poor sod works for a bowl of rice a week and his efforts are bought for a penny in the pound then shipped out without tariff barriers..cos its free trade yno..then sold to the highest bidder…uncle eddy heath….your my hero.
T
The Exiled Tim,
thanks for posting that:)))
Hysterical stuff. Just laugh out loud funny.
A while ago on CQN someone (apols but maybe DBBIA?) posted this:
“Peter Lawwell on FF – evil Machiavellian genius
Peter Lawwell on CQN – useless big haddie
Can both be true?”
It seems they can.
the exiled tim
16:17 on 4 December, 2012
His doppelgänger is almost as loopy:
http://swivel-eyeddavieleggat.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/mark-thompson-new-york-times-opus-dei.html?m=0
But not quite…
TET even
Of all the loonball ideas the Clive Dunns have come up with, the boycotting of Tannadice has to be the daddy of them all.
Maybe in a corner of their wee minds they fear an absolute hiding?
Kayal33 16:32
When it comes to cutting your (blue)nose to spite your face, the sevcovians are, to coin a phrase, simply the best! :))
Extract from article in the i newspaper
Messi in praise of Celtic supporters
Barcelona’s Leo Messi has said Celtic, who defeated his side last month, deserve to progress in the Champions League. “We have not always been supportive of the way they play football,” he said. “However, their fans deserve the knockout stages of the Champions League.”