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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Gordon J 10:46
I can guess what has happened. Helena has tried on the managerial “trackie” – asked “does my bum look big in this?” and got an answer she didn’t like…
Off oot tae watch ole Lizzie at the Crumlin Road jail.
Wonder if the sly ole fox will pull another one of her
Garden of Remembrance stunts?
Off oot ZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
KEV J
Aye,yer right. I must have imagined all those industrial tackles and downright assaults.
KevJungle
10:46 on 24 June, 2014
NatKnow
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Thanks for yer comments earlier – right back at ya :)
Hail Hail
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Enough of this Mutual Appreciation Society stuff Kev – people will start talking!
I assume you’re delighted with Peter Lawwell’s tenacity over this issue?
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
I think the game is just as physical down south. Players accept it is part and parcel of the game.
As for the authorities. The smaller clubs in the EPL face the same problem when playing the big teams.
The secret footballer is an interesting read. Especially around drugs. Drug taking happens. It is swept under the carpet by the club and the FA. The player will be out for a period of time agreed by the club and the FA. The official line will be a virus. Privately the club will fine the player and he must eneter some kind of rehab. I suspect this is why some players sort of disapear for a while for no apparent reason. We all suspect players at various times of this and there are of course the rumours about it. Only Mutu has been hung out to dry so to speak in the football world but in the game the players know when it happens.
LB
Feck the World Cup….I want to see Celtic
HH
ernie lynch
10:52 on 24 June, 2014
NatKnow
10:39 on 24 June, 2014
‘Was he in the habit of doing it? Well he has done it more than once,’
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Which games?
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I don’t follow Hearts so I’ve no idea but I remember discussing with guys I work with when CG was a Hearts player.
Even if he only did it once, why is it such an issue for you? You think he’s a Celtic-hater?
The Green Man
10:52 on 24 June, 2014
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Hey, yer doing the right thing by the ‘wee tribe’ my mhan
and, I’ve started a better job just recently so, I might get
yer ghoodself and the ‘wee tribe’ some of yon pies n bovrils.
Take care n Hail Hail – Off oot this time.
NatKnow
10:54 on 24 June, 20
I assume you’re delighted with Peter Lawwell’s tenacity over this issue?
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Yeah, I’ve got big portrait of him above the fireplace – to keep the weans away:)
Off oot, bye.
NatKnow
10:57 on 24 June, 2014
In my experience keepers come up for corners in the dying seconds of a game only when it’s vital for their team to score ie there’s something at stake.
What was at stake for Hearts in that game?
What was at stake for us?
Tim Malone Will Tell,
Or she pulled on the tracksuit and said, ‘The red doesn’t suit my completion. Do you have anything in a pastel colour?’
#sidthesexistcsc
KevJungle
11:01 on 24 June, 2014
NatKnow
10:54 on 24 June, 20
I assume you’re delighted with Peter Lawwell’s tenacity over this issue?
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Yeah, I’ve got big portrait of him above the fireplace – to keep the weans away:)
Off oot, bye.
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Come on now, Kev! A standing area is the big issue you go on about as one of the main reasons for declining attendances – including yourself not attending. I thought you’d be delighted this was being addressed by the Celtic board. But it seems you can’t bring yourself to acknowledge their work on this?
KEV J
Congrats on the new job.
ernie lynch
11:02 on 24 June, 2014
NatKnow
10:57 on 24 June, 2014
In my experience keepers come up for corners in the dying seconds of a game only when it’s vital for their team to score ie there’s something at stake.
What was at stake for Hearts in that game?
What was at stake for us?
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At stake for Heart – money/points/pride?
At stake for us – money/points/pride?
You didn’t answer my questions.
After the earlier games yesterday there was an interview with Neil Lennon on 5live, it was his last game at WC for the station .
Again he stated that he left Celtic after four great years for a new challenge , although he couldn’t give the interviewer an exclusive about a new job. Also said how fantastic the fans and the club were , and that it was his first time in South America and he had really enjoyed the experience .
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New surface at Murrayfield ready for Celtic and soccer.
GORDON J
I was reading a thread from a Crystal Palace fans forum yesterday.
It was about Viz,so it’s not just us who go off on tangents!
This one was a cracker…
Kevin T
27-12-2008, 08:05 PM
I still buy a copy once every two or three years. The letters page is still excellent.
I know this is about the strips, but my favourite top tip of all time was
“Save money on expensive boil in the bag cod in parsley sauce, by simply scraping the breadcrumbs off a fish finger and popping it in a used condom.”
Final point on the Craig Gordon corner kick.
Yeah, he did come up for a corner and, you
know what else?
When all of you, apparently switched-on Tims
were spitting yer dummies about a corner kick
…..what were the ‘bored’ doing?
Well, they did what they excell at…skating past
yet, another transfer window whilst all the ‘suckers’
were boohooing aboot a corner kick!!!
Ye couldny make it up.
Green & white clown suits yeez should be wearing.
Now, were do I find yon Rushdie bloke?
Byeeeeeee.
Craig Gordon went up for the corner at (Tynecastle) for one reason, to try and stop Celtic from winning the league. Hearts would not have won it, Rangers would.
NatKnow
11:07 on 24 June, 2014
What was at stake for us was a league title.
You are free to imagine what Gordon’s motivation was, and so am I.
21-5-79
10:12 on
24 June, 2014
turkeybhoy
10:03 on 24 June, 2014
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Why would you be ‘gloating?’, the guy is a cheat, and is playing in the worst Brasil team ever, will be glad to see them out.
Ha Ha Ha,must be terrible to live a wee world like that.Get over yourself.The boy is an absolute joy to watch.Some of the things he does would make Messi blink.
When he pulls on that Brazil strip he comes alive.Carrying this team on his shoulders.
I wouldn’t be worrying about Craig Gordon….He will prove within a few games, that he is not worthy of wearing a Celtic strip….and will be gone pronto.
So…there you go, mistake waiting to happen….we move on.
HH
I think Craig Gordon came up for that corner because he would rather rangers had won the league than Celtic.
I might even go as far as to say he was a rangers supporter.
When has being a rangers supporter ever stopped Celtic wanting to sign them?
CG played for another team against Celtic , we have no control over what he or any other player does when playing against Celtic – nor should we.
Next we will be asking teams not to score against us incase it hurts our feelings .
Unless players /teams are cheating to beat Celtic ( wonder who that could be ) then I don’t see the problem .
ernie lynch
11:12 on
24 June, 2014
NatKnow
11:07 on 24 June, 2014
What was at stake for us was a league title.
You are free to imagine what Gordon’s motivation was, and so am I.
Bonuses,not being beaten,ordered up by his manager.Any amount of reasons.
How dare anyone try and score against Celtic.Did he not know we were going for the league?.A ridiculous argument.What about all the “Celtic minded”players who have rattled goals in against us with nothing at stake for their team?.
Give it a rest.Very infantile .
Fgf,
Exactly.
Hartley scored in said game. It seems it’s worse to try and score than actually score.
KEV J
Try White Hart Lane.
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Ernie why why why? Hail Hail Hebcelt
I worked with a few guys years ago who went to school with Craig Gordon. A very quiet fella who was focused on his studies and football. Was not in a bad crowd and was very well brought up. I think his folks are fairly comfortable money wise. He lived in Balerno which is pretty affluent. Just to the west of Edinburgh and pretty much a Jambo stronghold fotball wise. The punters of Balerno and Currie are more likely to be at Murrayfield for the rugby than they are at the football though.
Craig Gordon is a Jambo. No doubt about it. Always was always will be. In truth nobody knows why he went up for that corner. Maybe the manager told him to. Maybe he just fancied it as it was the end of the season and he was on his way out of Hearts. As a die hard Jambo it would have been some story for him to score in his final home match. What is clear and I know this from speaking to guys who knew him is that it mattered little to him who won the league. He only cared about Hearts.
In my honest opinion I never rated him that highly. He was a good goalkeeper and was a very good shot stopper but was not worth £9m and never will be.
Is he fully fit? Does he have to be?
I remember watching a wee fat goalie struggle to walk with bandags round his knees defy belief with some of the saves he pulled off against Celtic.
If Craig Gordon is 70-100% fit then he is worth a deal on a pay as you play deal as back up to Forster.
Craig Gordon like most footballer will do as he is told at the clb they are at. Whether you like him or not he will be fully comitted to Celtic. It’s about money nothing else. I did not want Steven Pressley in the Hoops but the big man behaved like the pro he was. Done the business and gave his all every match. He was not the greatest player in the world but on and off the pitch he done what was asked by the club. Craig Gordon if signed will do the same.
If the guy is signed he will be a Celtic player and I will gve him full backing.
LB
BWCUWP Viz haha. I have to tell my crystal palace mate every day to stay away from our players, apparently eyeing up Izzy.
I think I have worked out how to get myself and some of the family kids to Dresden from Prague but if anyone know of any bus from that direction still keen toknow.
The Comfortable Collective
11:18 on
24 June, 2014
I think Craig Gordon came up for that corner because he would rather rangers had won the league than Celtic.
I might even go as far as to say he was a rangers supporter.
When has being a rangers supporter ever stopped Celtic wanting to sign them?
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Well, to be fair, you only hear about the ones we do sign, naturally.
The ones we don’t sign, we’re hardly going to put a statement out saying ‘we didn’t make a move for player X, because he’s p1sh. And he’s a hun.’
;)
HH
Taurangabhoy
11:32 on 24 June, 2014
I have to tell my crystal palace mate every day to stay away from our players, apparently eyeing up Izzy.
They can have him for £3-4m. SIgn Andrew Robertson for half of that.
ernie lynch
11:12 on 24 June, 2014
NatKnow
11:07 on 24 June, 2014
What was at stake for us was a league title.
You are free to imagine what Gordon’s motivation was, and so am I.
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I know that. I’m asking you why YOU think he came up for a corner kick.
Do you think he’s a Celtic-hater who wanted Celtic to lose more than he wanted Hearts to win?
Do you think he’s a Rangers supporter who wanted Rangers to win more than he
wanted Celtic to win?
Even if one of the above were true, why is it an issue for you?
Should we only sign Celtic supporters?
For some reason you are unable to commit to a written answer. Is that because you are unsure of your argument?
I’m not trying to catch you out – it’s an open discussion.
TAURANGABHOY
I think your best bet may be info from Snake Plissken.
He’s our agent over there!
I was speaking online the other day to someone-based in Angola-who bumped into a Hoops-wearer in NZ.
Turned out it was you,ffs!
Hope you and the extended family are enjoying being together and sampling some of the local delights.
Particularly Budvar,finest kind.
The Green Man
10:30 on 24 June, 2014
Tom McLaughlin
Not been on for a few weeks…was wondering how your return has been, hope its been a positive one .
Strangely enough, I happen to be one of the McLaughlin clan myself.
Do you have any roots in Donegal by any chance?
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The Green Man, I am also one of the McLaughlin clan and have roots in Moville, Donegal.
One of my favourite places to visit and try and get over every year if possible.
Cheers
RP
Let’s put this to bed.
Craig Gordon is a die hard Jambo!
Always has been.
LB
Tom McG
Thanks for confirming that the Gordon incident had happened at Tynecastle.
I don’t remember him doing it on any other occasion and believe that he did it for one reason only, to stop Celtic winning the title.
It was a long time ago I’m not sure that it should prevent him from signing for us now.
However, the fact that he’s not played for two years and hasn’t been offered a contract at any of the clubs that he’s been with recently, should.
Hamiltontim
11:43 on
24 June, 2014
However, the fact that he’s not played for two years and hasn’t been offered a contract at any of the clubs that he’s been with recently, should.
I am more concerned if his knees and elbow would be able to cope if he runs from one box to the other and back again if ever the need would arise in a Celtic match