Going by the looks of the photographs coming out of Romania today Ronny Deila and his players will be going a culture shock; the Stadionul Marin Anastasovici isn’t the Camp Nou, our more familiar European haunt.
The industrial surroundings should set a tone for the players, though, and industrial performance is required tonight, where the attributes of effort, attention to detail and strength of character are required.
Astra surprised many of us at Celtic Park last month. After their capitulation to Dinamo Zagreb they were supposed to be the whipping boys of the group, but they can play and extended Celtic more than any domestic challenger would be able to.
A victory would be an enormous boost to our season, and to the development of Ronny’s first Celtic squad. Question is, are we ready yet?
Ignorance of causality
Sometime between when the link between tobacco and cancer was suggested, and when it was proven, cigarette manufacturers mocked the research by pointing to a study which linked dental hygiene with cancer.
A perfectly valid piece of research found that – in their sample – the group who brushed their teeth daily had less cancers. In any research you would expect random links, which is why the medical industry requires many studies before concluding on a linkage or treatment.
Yesterday Community Safety Minister, Roseanna Cunningham, told the Scottish Parliament that recent years has seen decreases in religious hatred crimes at football, which she attributes to the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act., which she informed us we spend £3m per year enforcing. That’s a lot of police overtime to pluck fans out of their beds at 4am.
I respectfully disagree. Ms Cunningham is blind to causality. Top flight football in Scotland these past few years is a completely different place than it was previously. The change had nothing to do with her government’s “horribly drafted” [Sherriff Richard Davidson] legislation.
She knows this, of course, but the landscape has changed over the last year. The Scottish Government received an independent report on the Act in December last year but refused to debate it in Parliament or at committee. This is unsurprising as the issue could have been toxic at a sensitive time.
Jim Murphy yesterday pledged to scrap the Act “right away”, adding “Sectarianism is a deep rooted and hate filled long-term problem in Scotland. It was allowed to fester and grow over many decades. Shamefully it was celebrated by a minority and silently tolerated by far too many”.
No other political party supported the Act, so it will not survive a change of government, but going by the polls that day could be a long way off. That £3m per year is lubricating a lot of wheels, but the real cost is the politically motivated criminalisation of the non-intolerant innocent in order to “equalise” them with the absolutely intolerant.
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Twitter……………Accuracy ??
Police in Romania have just announced the game Will go ahead!
Lefty
never thought of that lol
tomtheleedstim
16:46 on 6 November, 2014
Not looking too good.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1xcNnhIEAAiWyg.jpg:large
No chance
ACGR
Over the past week, my CQN page suddenly goes blank ( there is a parallel there!). I tried just hitting a few keys. Still made more sense than some of my posts. Incidentally, it has happened again on this page. Game still on ?
JJ
M1K3Y89 on KDS is part of Celtic’s official party – says ref puts it at 70/30 to be off.
Pea souper sammi is mist on nights like this.
Bada,
Coupla belters there :))
mark hateley says Celtic game being off tonight feels like a new signing
Bada Bing – didn’t it used to be that the ref had to see both goalmouths when stood on the centre circle or suchlike?
fog odds sake, enough of the puns
Game on?
Aye or naw?!
Huvnae the foggiest!
HH!!
What is the rules with fog these days?
Is it still the ol’ view both goals from halfway??
!!bada bing!!
misthorn leghorn! brilliant!
Haze l irvine doin the commentary
JJ, I thought you were posting from Bletchley Park:_)
When/if we find out that the game is off, shall we meet back here to discuss what the Romanians have ever done for us?
Roman-ia In The Gloamin
tomtheleedstim-pretty sure that’s the rule, though UEFA hate putting games off, and might get the MIBs behind the goal to do a bit……
Haze L Irvine? No Haar again!
Cameras pics will always make it appear worse.
Picks up all the fog between lens and pitch.
Personally I hope the game goes ahead whatever the visibility.
Play misty for me.
Play masty for me
Nuttin on sky except the team lines
The only Party which has ever given us a fair shake in this country, imo, is the Labour Party.
Parkheadcumsalford,said
Give me one example of The Labour Party helping the Irish/Catholic populace.
Just one.
Latest pics – looks ok(ish) on this one
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1xeXWWIAAA3-XH.jpg:large
Masty-bet yer chokin’ …….
Wonder who’ll get the blame if the game is off ………
Lawwell or Deila ?
Bada
arabs sanny
CQN and Kano’s John Paul lands on Billy No’Well’s Desert Island Tims:
http://www.spreaker.com/user/billynowell/desert-island-tims-john-paul-gilmartin
Mcgregor in Team from Sky but no comment re Fog.
Scepovic and Wakasu in.
Haha
Some great puns on here tonight.
Liked yours Davidopoulos.
I take a dim view of some of these posts suggesting that game is off.
Hmmmmm – then again…
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B1xfkWNIcAAPVm-.jpg:large
From @celticfc
Aberdeen game on Sunday might be in doubt
Lets hope it’s Johnny Nash “I Can See Clearly Now” Chapeau on and heading for the door!!
Politicians do what they do best: lie, cheat and fill their pockets with tax payers money. They mostly protect their masters purse, the bastions of the corporate world, however. Somebody somewhere is making a nice bung of public money. That is essentially what this diabolical legislation is about- profit. Follow the money and you’ll get to the bottom of why it endures. Do we have any worth Scottish investigative journalists worthy of bringing this to light. Naw, cos journalists are at the same racket as the politicians.
A plea for match updates later Bhoys! I’ll be in the middle of a busy day. Thanks in advance.
BT Sport pictures anyone?
If the game goes ahead anyone got the team? Hail Hail Hebcelt