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Celtic will play KR Reykjavik in the Champions League second qualifying round with the first leg taking place on either 15or 16 July.  Celtic are provisionally at home for the first let – but don’t book your flights until arrangements have been confirmed.

KR beat Glentoran 3-0 on aggregate in last season’s Europa League qualifying campaign before losing 1-3 home and away to Standard Liege.  The Icelandic season continues throughout the summer, KR played a league game yesterday and have another three competitive games before meeting Celtic.  Nine games into the league campaign they are three points off the pace.

From what I can tell, it looks like they have a grass pitch at their 3300 capacity stadium, which removes the big complaint from last season’s qualifiers.

This is a good tie for Celtic, who will be physically stretched by a mid-season team, but we’ll be strong favourites.

We were last in competitive action in Iceland against Valur in 1975, when a 0-2 win out there preceded a 7-0 victory at Celtic Park.

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  1. Geordie Munro on

    Anybody got more info on the ‘Craig Gordon up for a corner’ incident?

     

     

    I honestly can’t place it. Cheers.

  2. !!Bada Bing!! on

    GM Was a league game at CP, injury

     

    time and we are a goal ahead,Hearts get a corner and CG comes up for it,alas to no avail :), whistle goes and we win.A bit of a debate last week who their manager was at the time,i thought Jefferies,another bhoy sure it was John Robertson.Not something you see in every SPL game……

  3. !!Bada Bing!!

     

     

    08:25 on 24 June, 2014

     

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    Was one of the last games I attended.

     

     

    Also, was there no one of the Hearts players having ding-dong

     

     

    with WGS throughout the game and, when we scored the winner

     

     

    WGS ran the length of the touchline at the Celtic end of the Main stand

     

     

    and rapped it roon the Hearts player?

     

     

    CG was up for the penalty, I remember it well from my vantage point

     

     

    in the JS lower section 139 – but, surely ‘that’ disny make him a hun?

     

     

    I would say that Celtic FC’s ‘biggest’ pillars of the hoose didny come

     

     

    from yon ‘pis#y’ Celtic-minded back grounds which are littered with blind-spots

     

     

    anyway – imho.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  4. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    DELANEYS DUNKY

     

     

    Bestaluck to yer wee Mammy,bud.

     

     

    Jooooost remind her there’s a trip planned to Cheltenham to see her kid sis,and she’ll be right as rain!

  5. I recall a brilliant performance from WGS in the Celtic dug out

     

     

    at ibrokes on the day that Scott MacDonald scored a cracking

     

     

    winner for us.

     

     

    WGS was like a riled yosemiti Sam, brilliant.

  6. Hamiltontim

     

     

    08:51 on 24 June, 2014

     

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    Celtic Park.

     

     

    I might be wrong(who me?) but I think that

     

     

    Stevie Frail was the Hearts manager at the time?

  7. A very simple concept for KJ to get his mind around:

     

     

    1. Any would-be saviour(s) of Sevco would need to funnel many, many millions into the club/company (whatever) with absolutely no prospect of a return on the ‘investment’.

     

    2. Football clubs, even successful ones don’t generally run at a profit.

     

    3. Mega rich people get rich by not spending money if they can possibly avoid it.

     

     

    Put these basic facts together and what do you think are the chances of a Sevco Saviour galloping over the horizon to a rapturous greeting at Mordor?

  8. Kev

     

     

    I have a recollection of him doing similar at Tynecastle as well unless thee ol memory is worse than I thought!!

  9. !!Bada Bing!!

     

    08:42 on

     

    24 June, 2014

     

    KJ -Might have been Skacel,WGS was berating?

     

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    could that be construed as “singing”?? (LG precedent defence??)

     

     

    DELANEYS DUNKY

     

     

    Prayers for yer mammy. If she survived the Bankie blitz, this’ll be a dawdle.

  10. thomthethim for Oscar OK on

    macjay1,

     

     

    Was it not Denis Connaghan who took the banana, or, for you, boomerang, goal kick.

  11. Taurangabhoy on

    Anyone know anyone in the Prague67 csc? Looks like it is just me and middle tauranga daughter who want to go to the Dresden game from Prague. ST put me onto the trains which could work but it would be better if I could tag along with local Celts. Any help appreciated. Hail Hail.

  12. Hamiltontim

     

     

    08:59 on 24 June, 2014

     

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    Naw, yer memory is fine.

     

     

    I’ve seen CG do that in a few games and

     

     

    not just against us. Boruc used to do it for us

     

     

    as well in a few games.

     

     

    But, some folk on here choose to use the fact

     

     

    that CG went up for a corner v’s us and start to

     

     

    question his integrity?

     

     

    What school did CG go to?

     

     

    That is along the same lines of some of the paranoid

     

     

    p#sh(even worse than mine!) that folk see around CG.

     

     

    Did CG go up for a corner v’s the huns? Who cares?

     

     

    If CG could stay fit, he’d be playing in the top six in the

     

     

    EPL. imho

     

     

    Ah think CG is worth taking a chance on.

     

     

    So, that means he’ll be no where near CP then.

  13. Morning Timland from a damp but warm hun free mountain valley.

     

     

    DD

     

     

    Best wishes to yer Ma.

     

     

    HH

     

    ………………………………………….

     

     

    Problem we have in scotland is not a team that can splash the cash, a few have tried and failed to match us, it’s you know who.

     

     

    They are worth a championship or two…………

     

     

    I can’t understand why the clubs allow it, is there an inbuilt inferiority complex ingrained into the scottish mindset ?

     

     

    TAL when we stand up to them.

     

     

    HH

     

     

    Aff oot

  14. lionroars from earlier

     

     

    “Ulster Unionist PCC complaint about Orange parades is without merit

     

     

    Anyone able to pass this on to GCC?”

     

     

     

    Aye, if only there was any possible relationship between the nature of the two complaints, we’d be quids in, eh?

     

     

    Never mind, I am sure there is something in the White Paper about curtailing OO parades- No?

     

     

    Well what about in the Offensive Behaviour Act- will we at least see us free from parades on days where football is played?- No?

     

     

    Well, surely, there is some SNP announcement about how they will treat this matter?…..

  15. joe millers shorts

     

     

    09:12 on 24 June, 2014

     

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    Get cut price terracing areas into the stadiums

     

     

    a Jungle into CP for an ‘enlarged’ Green Brigade

     

     

    or the ‘slow-burn’ will continue….

  16. KevJungle

     

    09:19 on

     

    24 June, 2014

     

    joe millers shorts

     

     

    09:12 on 24 June, 2014

     

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    Get cut price terracing areas into the stadiums

     

     

    a Jungle into CP for an ‘enlarged’ Green Brigade

     

     

    or the ‘slow-burn’ will continue….

     

     

     

    Yep.100% in agreement.The “Standing area”would help.

  17. Kev

     

     

    The difference between the Gordon incident and Boruc doing the same thing was that Gordon and his Hearts’ side had nothing to play for. I do think that’s quite significant.

  18. Delaneys Dunky on

    Thanks for all the kind words and prayers for my mammy. She had a comfortable night and showing improvement. Will convey all your wishes to her later. Thank you :)

  19. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on

    IMO,Gordon went up for that corner on instructions from his manager.

     

     

    There are various reasons why he should perhaps not be at Celtic Park,fitness being the main one,but a last-minute attempt to secure an equaliser for his team should not be held against him. If he can prove his fitness,then he’ll do.

     

     

    Mind you,if I’m honest,the main reason I didn’t want McDonald near Celtic was all to do with Black Sunday.

  20. My memory of the CG corner incident was that it was the last minutes of the game and vital championship points were at stake for us, where as for Hearts it was only pride. I those circumstances it was highly unusual for a keeper to do take the decision to come up for the corner. It did appear to be the act of someone was desperate to stop a Celtic win at all costs.

     

    How many other run-of-the-mill games did he do the same thing?

  21. BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS

     

     

     

    09:41 on 24 June, 2014

     

     

     

    IMO,Gordon went up for that corner on instructions from his manager.

     

     

    There are various reasons why he should perhaps not be at Celtic Park,fitness being the main one,but a last-minute attempt to secure an equaliser for his team should not be held against him. If he can prove his fitness,then he’ll do.

     

     

    Mind you,if I’m honest,the main reason I didn’t want McDonald near Celtic was all to do with Black Sunday.

     

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    Yip. The main issue with CG playing for us is the question over his physical condition. He went up for a corner against us, eh? Shock horror! An opposition player having the gaul to be competitive? How very dare he! :-))

  22. setting free the bears supports Res. 12 & Oscar Knox

     

    09:15 on

     

    24 June, 2014

     

     

    Glasgow plays host to more Protestant Loyal Orders and Irish Republican parades than Northern Ireland’s two biggest cities combined,

     

     

    Figures from Glasgow City Council and the Parades Commission of Northern Ireland show that during a period when there were 217 marches by the Orange Order, the Apprentice Boys and Royal Black Chapter on the streets of Belfast and Londonderry, in Glasgow there were 247.

     

     

    Who has control of these parades in Glasgow ?

     

     

    The OO has lodges all over the UK, does any mainstream political party have any proposals in any white papers to deal with the OO and parades.