Juventus’ closest journalist gave their fans a preview of what The Old Lady can expect next week. Apparently, Juve were lucky drawing Celtic, who are not the same as the team who beat them 4-3 11 seasons ago (but didn’t qualify for the knock out stage).
The outcome of the second leg is a formality, but Celtic Park has them spooked:
“Juventus got a benign [Champions League] draw, even lucky.
“The Bhoys are not the same team who beat Juventus 4-3 a few years ago. They have a few gems, like [Tony] Watt, but bet everything on physical and dead-ball football. Celtic Park is absolutely extraordinary, it goes beyond what you can write, read or tell. What you see on television is not even the smallest part of what you endure in the flesh, 60,000 people do not offend you but make you know you are in the enemy camp.
“The Park is one of the most influential and dangerous stages in the world. It has everything to challenge you, to induce the classic ‘bad day’, to give you stomach cramps and the need to get out as soon as possible. The fact Celtic beat Barcelona there was not random.
“Common sense suggests Celtic cannot beat Barcelona but football said different. They did with merit, playing beyond their means and with a little luck. This is what Juventus will need to be wary of.
“Antonio Conte will hammer into his players not to underestimate their opponents, but for once it is not the team, it’s the stadium the need to worry about.
“Forget folklore images of children wearing green and white scarves, or of fans coming out of Scottish pubs and going to the game by finishing a beer and ordering another. Don’t let the chorus of ‘You’ll never walk alone’ charm you if you have not heard it with your own ears. To watch from your HD TV is one thing, be there for 90 minutes, start to finish, ever if you’re winning, is different.
“Celtic are different than usual teams. Juventus fans, if they behave the way they should and live this adventure the right way, will have a great experience. The Juventus Stadium can be a bit like Celtic Park. We Italians miss their culture, their history, their being able to accept any defeat and celebrate every possible outcome, accepting any opponent. Their team will be sacred of Juventus but their stadium and fans will not say the same thing.”
We’ll play our part on Tuesday but I am sure Neil Lennon and his players will be pleased to hear they are considered something of a sideshow. The victory over Barcelona was a magnificent but it was achieved as a result of a tactical master-plan, nothing less. It’s the men in green and white hoops Juve need to watch.
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Tony Cascarrino
Round 5 of 5: Hoops am I?
One guess only, if you are first to get the right answer you will get 5 bonus pts
Clue 1: Born in 1962, I signed for Celtic in 1991
Clue 2: I never played for the country of my birth
Clue 3: In the game where I first scored for Celtic, I was also sent off 7pts
Tommy Coyne
BobbyMurdochs etc
You’re absolutely right. I’d still be a Celtic supporter.
Tommy Coyne.
sent off for a 2nd booking for hand ball if I remember right?
Round 5 of 5: Hoops am I?
One guess only, if you are first to get the right answer you will get 5 bonus pts
Clue 1: Born in 1962, I signed for Celtic in 1991
Clue 2: I never played for the country of my birth
Clue 3: In the game where I first scored for Celtic, I was also sent off
Clue 4: I also played for Millwall 3pts
Adam Ant’s “Cool Zombie” just on Vic Galoway.
Round 5 of 5: Hoops am I?
One guess only, if you are first to get the right answer you will get 5 bonus pts
Clue 1: Born in 1962, I signed for Celtic in 1991
Clue 2: I never played for the country of my birth
Clue 3: In the game where I first scored for Celtic, I was also sent off
Clue 4: I also played for Millwall
Clue 5: I scored more international goals, than I made competitive starts for the Hoops 1pt
Answer: Tony Cascarino
Damn, was at that game, against Hertz, he nearly missed open goal, scuffed it!
I’m going to look like a clown when the Final results of the Quiz come in and its all my brother in laws fault. He bloody well phoned me after the 2nd round to try & talk the Mrs & myself to join them for a weeks holiday in Torremolinos. I’ve lost out on the quiz and the holiday is still up in the air, anyhow thats my excuse and I’m sticking to it. P.S. Re the Watt/O Grady fight there was nothing accidental about The Glasgow Kiss that Watt laid on him.
and the final scores, and it was v close……………
42 The Spirit of Arthur Lee
40 Factus 8
39 Kayal33
39 setting free the bears
29 jobo baldie
25 pedrocaravanachio67
20 Burghbhoy
18 joe_joe_john_bobby_teddy
17 channelislandcelt
17 praecepta
16 Doc is Neil Lennon
16 Lostinbonnybridge is Neil Lennon. Get well Stan Petrov
13 Celtic_First
13 notafanofSoAL
10 estorilbhoy
10 prestonpans bhoys
10 Stringer Bell
9 corkcelt
Well done to The Spirit of Arthur Lee for nicking it in the end
Thanks for taking part, Bhoys. Enjoy the rest of your night.
HH
CRC
Coco, sorry corkcelt,
Don’t be too sure, think I’m holding up the pack :))
crc
How about that most appearances question?
McNeill or McNair?
Thanks CRC , magic as usual,well done SOAL. Maybe i won’t go on mastermind then!
Cheers CRC, good mhan, well done SOAL ( or googlebhoy as he is more commonly known ) )::
Great quiz again CRC, thanks, congratulations to SOAL, well done.
Another great quiz CRC and thanks for all your hard work. Scores on the left is a great improvement!
SOAL – congratulations of a fine win
Kayal33 – we had so many answers in common tonight but you were much faster on the draw..
13½ hours till kick off…
cheers CRC
And well done soal you came up the rail on the last furlong like a thoroughbred.
Winners enclosure for you….findus factory for the rest of us.
pedrocaravan
& SOAL
“And well done soal you came up the rail on the last furlong like a thoroughbred.”
Aye one week you’re a Derby winner; the next you’re a Findus pancake filling :-)
McNair was most league appearances, but McNeil was most appearances.
Most Appearances
1 McNeil
2 McStay
3 Aitken
4 McGrain
5 Bonner
6 McNair
Top quiz!
Cheers CRC and well done SOAL!
CRC
Once again many thanks
NAFOS
Roon Ye
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy @ 22:17
It’s great when a reason for reminiscing comes up. Tempus fugit.
We all have different memories but I wish we had someone like Jim Watt to support on a Saturday night. Those were the days.
Thanks for the quiz CRC. great stuff as usual !
Well done SOAL ,I was torn between Mogga and Cascarino ,plumped for the wrong one :(
HH.
OK – Mastermind next Friday. I’m first up to say I will get more points than anyone on here when the bhoy answers questions on “The history of Celtic F.C”. I will be competing in my own house against my own sons, but I promise to be honest with my answers – your mission if you choose to accept it, is to say that you know your history better than me.
I should publicise my credentials so that all-comers know who they are taking on:
St. Bonaventure’s Primary 1964-1970
St. Mungo’s Academy 1971-76
Glasgow University 1976-1979.
If anyone beats me I will write a cheque made payable to HamiltonTim.
Lennybhoy-mail back
SFTB
You are odds on next week then
DJBEE
22:05 on
8 February, 2013
I remember when watching the huns play Juve I was staying a 2 min walk from the shitbowl, they were 4 1 down from the first leg and I had a pound on at 40-1 for Juve to win 4 nil. Think it was time up and Juve had played with them for ages after going 3 nil up then a boy crashed one in from about thirty eight yards. I went mental and my sister who was watching it with me thought I had lost the plot til I explained to her I just one forty quid, she near wet herself laughing, forty quid was not bad for a mid week kickabout.
I think that is a World record aggregate score for a Scottish team In the CL.
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There were a few good paydays when the old team from Govan played in Europe,
for some reason the odds were always very generous (if you backed their opponents ;-)
free money -paid many a Euro trip and season ticket
I have a vague memory of a trip to Germinal Ekeren in October 1991. We all ended up in Amsterdam the following night in the certain knowledge the currants would get pumped out the EC by Sparta Prague (2-2 away goals) and the generous odds were paying for the trip….watched game in an Amsterdam bar as huns, including their big money Russian signings, got lobbed out and local Dutch boys laughing as we tallied up our winnings, and celebrated in style.
There was a similar cash windfall en route to our game in Paris v PSG -when the currants obliged with another defeat -cannot remember the team that did the needful?
there is a new mob trying to imitate rankers – and last Saturday v DU was another fine payday ;-)
Happy days
Is channelislandcelt ok?
The quiz might be over, but please indulge me with one or two questions.
Q1. Who – or what – are Macron.
Answer in 5.
CRC good fun once again – thanks.
Posted Cas and it bounced back – changed my mind and went with Coyne.
That’s what I get for looking at others answers!
H!H!
Come May.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EfK-WX2pa8c
SOAL
See previous page @22:31 :)
HH
Ta crc
Well done SOAL
channelislandcelt
I have printed it off
Have a good weekend mate
LOVE
stringer bell
They manfactuer spotswear ;been mentioned in new zombie kit deal :)
HH