Should Lionel Messi’s illness, which kept him out of Saturday’s clash with Malaga, prevent him boarding a plane to Glasgow tomorrow, Brendan Rodgers will take some grain of comfort. The Argentine was the principle actor in the destruction of Celtic at the Camp Nou two months ago.
Since then Celtic have more than earned the Champions League credit which has come their way. Meritocratic draws against Manchester City and Borussia Monchengladbach have given the club two points more than some observers predicted for them when the group stage was drawn in August.
Without Messi, Barcelona remain a potent force, but arguably the greatest player to ever kick a ball changes the dimension of the challenge enormously. While it’s likely a few days rest would be enough for Messi to push himself, if necessary, manager Luis Enrique may be inclined not to take chances with his star asset ahead of a huge week for the Catalans.
After Celtic they are away to Real Sociedad, who are only four points behind in La Liga, while the following weekend they have the chance to close the four point gap at the top when Real Madrid visit.
So if you meet Luis around town this week, tell him he’d be better to rest Leo for the important La Liga clashes.
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GREENPINATA
Every Barca game I’ve been to,we get beat 1-0.
I’m not going on Wednesday,so there’s hope!
But you’re 100% correct. 32 teams in the CL and everyone else looking on in envy.
We are in with the big boys,they know we aren’t an 11/1 shot. And if we properly use the money generated,we most certainly won’t be that next year.
there ya are nas na ri
pre political correctness of course
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRQAa7eA9l4
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 21ST NOVEMBER 2016 1:30 PM
Semolina?
A much-maligned foodstuff.
Aye right Bobby,you are always the same.Semolina patter.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 21ST NOVEMBER 2016 1:25 PM
A cunning plan, no less.
Baldrick Emerald CSC
!! Bada!!
No worries, the police are hard on their heels.
TURKEYBHOY
Ah,marked my card there,nice one!
Seriously,school dinners were far from awful and a lot better than I was offered later on.
Don’t even start me on the cooking abilities of my exes,btw. Bin and out for a fish supper.
There’s a joke about that,re a woman’s ability in the kitchen,the bedroom,etc.
Trust me,it ain’t a joke when they get it wrong…
GREENPINATA. Re the disgusting fare at the St Mungo’s dinner school.
I lasted less than a week at the St Kentigern’s dinner school, and never went back. Boak inducing stuff.
Fortunately there were many chip shops and City Bakeries around in those days as well as wee local dairies which used to do rolls etc. This made me the fine figure of a man I am today.
A favourite lunchtime treat was half a Vienna loaf with the inside pulled out and stuffed with chips.
A roll and pie was also popular.
Needless to say my ma still thought I was going to the DS instead of spending the Four and Ninepence on carbohydrate based comestibles over the course of a week.
The custard and caramel cake at the Greg was magic……
Ray Winstone’s Big Disembodied Heid
I´m a former St. Kents lad.
What were those massive big sticky sweety buns called again ?
HH
Awe Naw. I know what you mean. Were they called pleats?
Pleats ????? Naw canny remember that … they were filled with cream … the record shop in Blackburn got most of my dinner money
HH
Is it a coincidence that us and Scotland play in pink in the same season ?
Is this why PL got the bums rush at the SFA
HH
Cream Cookies maybe. Pleats were huge sticky buns so called because they were err, pleated.No cream in them though.
Well at least we can say we financed Dario Franchitti all the way to the top
HH
AWE NAW
Don’t mention bums to me. Some eejit dropped a coin at the bar and gave us a full moon as he bent down to pick it up.
Tracky bees and a thong should be a criminal offence. It nearly-I said nearly-put me off my pint.
Fair play to the lad,I’ve had another three since to recover from the vapours…
Any extras had a different meaning back then……..
In fact I bet that Record shop went bust the month after I left
HH
Bobby,
he was wearing a thong … well I never … I misread your butchness mate … and all this time
HH
RAY WINSTONE’S BIG DISEMBODIED HEID on 21ST NOVEMBER 2016 1:51 PM
St Kentigern’s : Aye , a big mad run across the road that would give Usain Bolt a run for his money. Then into a dungeon at the flats.
No wonder the food was like a torture. The clue is in the dungeon bit.
HH.
Whitburn Spur used to fight Harthill Thongs btw
HH
naw it was the Harthill Cumbie . where were the thongs from ???? … must have been livi what with all those effeminate Glasgow overspill boys
HH
Good Afternoon!
Something new about someone who seems surprised by how social media works…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2016/11/21/do-not-press-that-button/
geordies on Judge Rinder – can’t be beaten !
!!BADA BING!! on 21ST NOVEMBER 2016 1:58 PM
The custard and caramel cake at the Greg was magic……
Food of the Gods.
The fruit dumpling and custard on a Friday was awfy braw,as one of our esteemed posters would say.I was a monitor,so got loads extra .
AWE_NAW_NO_ANNONI_OAN_ANAW_NOO on 21ST NOVEMBER 2016 2:14 PM
Whitburn Spur used to fight Harthill Thongs btw
HH
FFS,can imagine that.Was the “Leader aff”armed with a balloon on a stick.
I’VEHADTOCHANGEMYNAME on 21ST NOVEMBER 2016 2:21 PM
geordies on Judge Rinder – can’t be beaten !
Oooohhh Matron.
TURKEYBHOY & BADA BING.
In your early posts you both mentioned St Gregorys .
Was that the old St Gregorys near Greenfield , behind the Dalriada Hotel on the Edinburgh Rd ?
Cos that’s the school I went to, the old Gregg for 2 and a half years, then sent to the new Gregg in Cranhill for my last 6 months or so, before I left at 15 to start work.
I went to the old Gregg from Jan.68 to about the summer of 1970.
I left the new Greg in Jan 1971.
Sorry if my Gregg is different from you guys ?
HH
AWE NAW. 212
It was either a thong or nothing,he certainly left little to the imagination
BIGJIMMY
Greggs are the same the world over.
Worse than school dinners(!)
That’s one helluva long lunch hour on CQN!
Turkeybhoy
I don’t think these street gangs existed anywhere but on the graffitti walls . It was a social work initiative to help the Glasgow overspill boys adjust to their new country environment. It worked they nearly all ended up as docile rugby players
BMCUWP,
A thong or a nothong man your becoming Thai … should not have been gazing at it anyway – camera in hand ..no doubt
HH
AWE NAW
Trust me,pal. I was not gazing at it!
I for one want too see Barcelonas star asset take to the field on Wednesday night, if you want to gauge your progress and up your game, you want to be playing against the best available all the time.
Celtic can rake in millions from the Champions League group stages for the foreseeable future and invest it in the best players that that sort of money can buy but unless those players are being tested regularly on a domestic basis they are always going to struggle on the European stage. Celtic need a serious domestic challenge from 3 or 4 competitors before they are going to be seen regularly competing in the knockout stages after Christmas.
I appreciate that Leicester may not be facing the same calibre of opposition as Celtic in this seasons Champions league but having to fight and battle for every point last season certainly prepared them to be in a better European position than we are in at the moment.
ok is scrutinizing better ? Any Pics ;-)
HH
Weird thing,the oul’ CQN.
We all fall out hugely during international weeks due to lack of football and strange and contentious issues being raised,we all mourn the waste of a fortnight,and then the football comes back.
Hallelujah!!!!!
So we talk about tattie scones,school dinners and the first and last thick slices on a plain loaf.
And what to call it when you put cheese on it!
Btw,I used to get right P’D off that there was only one thick slice at the end of a loaf. The other one was the skinny wee cousin. Cheated I was,till I was old enough to buy my own.
That thin,it was a waste of time putting cheese on it,I might add…
AWE NAW
Bed for me,mate. Night shift tonight.
Today has taken me back a few years on here wi useless information and wind-ups. I won’t insult your intelligence by saying which camp you belong in.
I hope MAGS finds himself comfortable in that pub in Montevideo,home of Pedro Campbell CSC. I’ll be working. Highlights in the morning.
HH,guid Tim
See this “Dinner School” nonsense. It’s School Dinners!!!
Toastedcheese CSC :))
Awe Naw …
Read back and saw your brilliantly funny editing of JPT’s ‘answers’ to the governance questions …. …. like a Monty Python skit …
Q: ‘CQN readers’ have a few questions…”
A; ‘Go ahead … ask away’
Q: ‘okay … how about …?
A: ‘No … sorry, cant answer that one…
Q: ‘okay … what about ….?
A: ‘Sorry … that is off limits ….
Q: So, what are Celtic doing ?
A: Sorry, out of bounds… but, trust us, we have got it all covered.
…..
eh… what do you mean, you didn’t ‘awe naw’ that inteview?! Surely, Celtic wouldn’t have agreed to a Q&A only to have JPT say that he cant answer any questions?! That would just be extracting the urine…