Helsingborgs IF are sixth after 17 games in the Swedish Allsvenskan, seven points off Elfsborg and Malmo, who ended Scotland’s interest in the Champions League last season. Our opponents clearly play it tight on the road, they have lost only eight goals away from home, considerably fewer than anyone else in the league (Malmo: 19), although their home goals for and against are not unusually low (scored 14 to Malmo’s 16 at home, conceded nine to Malmo’s one).
Helsingborgs have lost only three league games, fewer than anyone else. Four draws from nine home games appears to have cost them most ground in the title race.
Celtic can expect to face a tight defence who are well versed at shutting teams out in the second leg in Glasgow where they will need the creative talents of Kris Commons with perhaps Paddy McCourt p[laying a role. A big European-night atmosphere at Celtic Park will be invaluable.
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Saturday 11th August 2012.
The day two famous European clubs, between them contesting 19 European finals, face each other across 115yds of prime Philly turf.
And also the day a fishing town in North-East Scotland welcomes a 90 minute crash course in (a warped view of) Irish history when two clubs, between them contesting numerous Highland League and Northern Qualiyfing Cup finals, face each other across 115 yds of Peterhead turf.
Happy days.
The MSM is like a galleon ship…with Jabba its head whip…Chico the tub thumper keeping time…and the rest rowing along to the cry of Rangers! Rangers!
Paul67 et al
Just heard former Rangers debenture holder Roddy Forsyth previewing the match up in Peterhead. According to him there are sixty media reps attending including the New York Times, and Le Soir. Witnessing that should be a new experience for all of them, and not one I would wish to replicate anytime soon. All things considered I’d rather be in Philadelphia.
GiggsyBhoy 12:27
Sounds like some top roll action there.
Back next Friday night for just over two weeks, cant wait. Defo get pints.
EN
Wee hun sidekick in office away to Peterheid.
Says to him yesterday’you can drink on the bus
up to 2hrs before and 1hr after game ,part 2 section 23 ciminal law consolidation act 1995.
He text me this morn ‘driver getting done’for
letting bevvy on board.
Feel terrible now,it’s not that ,the last thing he said
to me yesterday’this better not be a timmy conspiracy:O)
So, is there no explanation?
Pat Fenlon has taken a swipe at
Rangers for splashing out in the
transfer market only days after the Ibrox club walked away from a mountain of debt after going into liquidation. Although it is a “newco” Rangers which is now operating in the Third Division,
manager Ally McCoist has wasted no time in spending big to attract a string of recognised SPL stars including former Hearts players Ian Black and Kevin Kyle, Kilmarnock’s Dean Shiels and Francisco Sandaza of St Johnstone. Rangers are reputed to be offering wages of up to £7000 a week, far more than Hibs can afford, a situation which Fenlon admitted has “driven me nuts” as he continues his bid to strengthen his Easter Road squad. Fenlon made ex-Hearts defender Alan
Maybury his seventh summer signing but was known to be interested in tempting both Shiels and Sandaza to Edinburgh only to lose out.
Revealing other targets have gone elsewhere in search of more money, Fenlon said: “I’m still working away and
we are talking to a couple of targets at the moment but it is difficult. Every supporter I meet asks when are we signing a forward. We are trying but
obviously clubs are still paying a lot more money than we are which is amazing. “It’s frustrating, it drives me nuts, drives me mad when you see what has happened and clubs can just go and spend a fortune again. It doesn’t make sense.”
Sally sounding like a spiv used car salesman…’great day, marvellous, special, thrilled’,..but we know your telling porkies again son, and your wee heart is breaking, you wee troublemaker you.
Btw McCann looking worried as he pleads his case about EBT’s and stripped titles. Do any of them get it? The De Boers and Klos’s wouldnt have been there to win them ‘fair and square’ if they didnt bump they taxman.
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vp
The drink on board was the drivers responsibility.
Still, if the driver is a hun I’m sure the court will take a lenient view.
Celtic Mac on 11 August, 2012 at 12:33 said:
Best thing that could happen is they are exposed to a wider media group, what will the New Yorkers and the French et al make of the decision of whatever theyre called to transfer not only their share from oldco to newco but also demand they transfer their bigotry as well.
Hows the weather in Philly Lhads?
I wrote this a few weeks ago for a laugh. I thought I’d repost it on the momentous occasion of the biggest event in Scottish football ever. Ally, on Shortbread, has decalred that he’s thrilled to be in Peterhead.
A Hun’s Guide to Clubs and Venues in Division 3
ANNAN – a neat little Border town from where you can look across the River Eden to England where Mr Charles wants to take the mighty gers. Only 15 miles from Dumfries where a bigger team than the huns, Queen of the South, plays. Its most famous product is ‘Coffee Annan’ named after the former Sec. Gen. Of the UN, and it may need his expertise on peace-keeping forces when the hun meltdown finally goes ballistic.
BERWICK RANGERS – a historic walled town on the banks of the Tweed. It was fought over for centuries. Its greatest victory was in fighting off a savage horde from the north and crushing them in 1967. Berwick is actually in England, which is as far as the huns will go in Europe for many a long day.
CLYDE – A former Glasgow club, a short hop along the M80, once in the top division, but now languishing in Div 3 (remind you of any others?). At least Clyde’s drop was slow and did not happen in one fell swoop. Known as the Bully-Wee. Rangers known as the bullies-who-tried-to-dominate-Scottish-football-but-look-where-it-got-them.
EAST STIRLING – Plays somewhere ‘out there,’ but nobody claims to have actually seen them play. Main achievement is winning the ‘Stirlingshire Cup’ in 2000 (the what?). Maybe the huns could apply to play in it and actually win something next season.
ELGIN – The longest journey the huns will make next season. I hope they remember that some of their first teams players will get half fare on the bus. The team is actually called Elgin City, a bit of a boast for a town of 8,500 people, but it means the huns won’t be embarrassed* by chanting ‘we are the peepil.’ About 40 miles from Inverness, where they might have been playing if they had not been very naughty boys.
(* Huns and embarrassed in the same sentence? You’re joking – ed)
MONTROSE – A small town in Angus, wherever that is. Its main achievement is winning the Div2 championship in 1984/85. Maybe the huns can do that in 2019/20. But the huns needn’t despair – they play in royal blue strips, so they’ll feel at home.
PETERHEAD – A big town near Aberdeen (OK, I won’t rub it in by saying they could have played there). Famous as the UK’s biggest fishing port, so they’ll be used to the smell. Eventually, they might go after the game to visit some of their former colleagues who will be residing in a big hoose there.
QUEENS PARK – A short distance from Ibrox, so they can walk there and save Mr. Charles the bus fare. A team which upholds the Corinthian ethos, which is more than can be said for some. Unfortunately, the Green Brigade will not be able to sing ‘No Huns at Hampden’ after they get papped out of the Scottish Cup, hopefully in a preliminary round for the diddiest of the diddy teams. However, Campbell Ogilvie might be caught afterwards trying to Tippex out the winning team’s date in their registration form.
STIRLING ALBION – Stirling, once the capital of Scotland, has a big castle whose walls are ideal for jumping off when they are so far behind in March that they can’t win the league. Another club which was once in the top league. See mighty – see fallen.
STRANRAER – a bit of a dump in SW Scotland, but enhanced by the fact that the huns will be able to see the hallowed shores of Northern Ireland on a clear day. A few miles from the Cairnryan ferry terminal, so the Ulsterish hun hordes will be able to get back to their flag-bedecked houses that bit earlier than usual.
The sharp-sighted among us will notice that ten teams are listed above. However, one of them will move up to Div2, while a team from Div2 will move up to Div1 and a team from Div1 will move up to the SPL.
To finish with a competition for huns:
1. Does any hun know why all that moving up is happening?
2. You need to get to know the territory, so can you name the team moving up from Div3 that you are going to replace?
The first correct answer opened on July12 will receive a season ticket. The next correct answer will receive 2 season tickets.
If the Sevco minded media are taking solace and encouragment from the attendance of foreign press, then how much more pathetically deluded can they become?
The presence of the “Worlds Press” is testament to the embarrassing and humiliating circumstances that they find themselves in.
Add the “silly season” and the fact that football elsewhere is in close season Limbo.
Cannot listen to that wee current bun David Tanner – it’s just pouring right out of him!
Charlie Mann on Shortbread was embarrassing interviewing McCoist. He basically said how ridiculous it was for the SFA to charge a Scotland hero, a man who scored at Euro ’96, with bringing the game into disrepute.
I think even Richard Gordon was embarrassed with it.
Why do they have the silly stars on their warm-up taps but not their playing kit?
Are they or aren’t they?
Is there no answer?
Celtic_First on 11 August, 2012 at 12:46 said:
Its old kit, apparently the new ones will be delivered same day as wee jimmy bell gets the new towels
voguepunter 12:36:
Quality…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
voguepunter on 11 August, 2012 at 12:36 said:
Those hours are police guidelines as to how in normal circumstances they will apply the law, they are not the law. The law says no drink. And the huns are not normal.
Just switched off but not before we heard the intro of bile, with big jock and jumpin on fenian heads getting belted out. I tell you, Scotlands shame are not for rehabilitation and three years in the cooler will make them more worse, if thats possible. There’s no hope.
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Turns out they have got the silly wee stars on their kit.
They can clearly just do whatever they want.
Maybe the Scottish football authorities can release another press statement to clear it all up for us.
test
new article posted.
ernie lynch on 11 August, 2012 at 12:51 said:
I thought the huns were above the law :O)
There have been more throw-ins in the first six minutes of this pulsating SFL Div 3 opener than in the whole of Euro 2012.
FACT.
bbc scot claiming mike ashley 10% deal done. Rangers will become feeder club for Newcastle Unt…… with mutual benefits.
Celtic_First on 11 August, 2012 at 12:09 said:
Can anyone clarify the -10 points thing?
Their team were deducted 10 points in February when their club went into administration.
Is it true that administrators Duff and Phelps are still in situ and that the administration process has not been brought to a conclusion? If so, if this were the same club, would it not have to start the new league campaign on minus-10 points?
The official SFL website has them preparing to kick off on zero points. Does this constitute incontrovertible proof that the SFL and the SFA have included a new club in division three (for their own reasons) and that this is not the same club as the one that received the standard ten-point deduction in February?
If it is not the same club, why is it being presented with the same name?
Can anyone explain?
Merci.
Hi pal; hope that you and yours are all in fine fettle………..
Cannot offer an explanation but can understand your bewilderment if I am reading you right. Sure beats me wrt the the three monkeys media routine. Especially the further deduction of ten points for remaining in administration at the start of a new season. You may remember that my predicted outcome was for them to continue to limp along in administration waiting for a Blue Knight to rescue them from ignominy and bankruptcy (wrong again; no surprise there). So was also keen to see what would be the ramifications of this course of action, as to all intents and purposes the club that was, are! Apparently there are no sanctions, fines, actions, etc., looks like it never really happened eh!
Seeing as you referred earlier to Laurie Lee’s Cider With Rosie (if I remember correctly) and the acceptance of statements misinterpreted.
Something akin to such; the plot of Tom Sharpe’s The Throwback pretty much covers what is panning out over Ibrox way. Farcical, I know but makes for an even better read second time around when the parallels are made………
God Bless.
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
just opened a link to the peterhead game and was surprised to see the Sky are advertising on it via pop up
“The probable line-up for Real Madrid (4-2-3-1) will include: Casillas; Arbeloa, Pepe, Ramos, Coentrao; Alonso, Lass; Jese, Ozil, Ronaldo; Higuain while Celtic will feature (4-3-3): Forster; Matthews, Rogne, Mulgrew, Izaguirre; Brown, Wanyama, Ledley; Commons, Hooper, Samaras.”
just thought it was strange as the streaming is suppposed to be frowned upon by sky
New article posted afew minutes ago!
How do you get to new article, damn ipads