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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Brilliant.
jake the snake @celticservant
Wait til Antonio Conte asks the janny at Murray Park to turn up the heating in the showers. “Eh I’m no the janny. I’m Ally McCoist”.
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Sevcomedy fruit loop has penned an ‘article’ entitled “View From The Cross”
Starts off saying “the poor old bankers came in for a lot of flak.” The reason being that “There does seem to be a need for a scapegoat in the national psyche.”
Moves on to talk about Sevco being persecuted, then pulls at the heartstrings:
” If I sound hurt and bewildered, that’s because it’s exactly what I am. Here we are, 2013, and the club is obliged to look into providing its own media platforms due to the unrelentingly negative and, frankly, vindictive coverage we receive from existing TV, radio and newspapers. I cannot see what is wrong.”
There is then a good deal of fiction about how the poltergeist huns only sing one song with the word “Fenian” in it and stopped the “signing policy” in 1983. He ends with:
“The only conclusion is that their isn’t any sanity or fairness at play here, for if there were instead of being constantly vilified Rangers would be receiving awards from the equal opportunities commission for educating their fanbase out of all sight.
We’re on the cross all right, no matter how dismissive some are of what is labelled a persecution mania. And the view is none to pretty.”
BRTH at 15.04 – simply superb sir, a great start to the week-end.
GlassTwoThirdsFull, 16:38
We are spoilt for choice on this one, indeed. But these things have a way of sneaking out, don’t they? And In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth…
Unless…
unless…
Something wicked this way comes…
Murray Park?
Like it really worked out well for Blackburn.
Didn’t realize the giants of Italian football were so close to the bottom tier of Scottish football.
Rubentus, Fray Bentos.
Delighted they are giving that crumbling shambles of a training park to Juve.
This act just hardens the views of other clubs and their chairman that they are only in it for themselves.
Anyway, it is the closest Fat Sally and his squad will get to a CL team…
Oh goody weeping and gnashing of teeth, my favourite, some sackcloth and ashes would be great too…
mattgallscot
No thanks, I have friends in Topsham, too cold and too much snow for me. I drive 3 cars back and forth to Maine for some snowbirds, summer is great and the IPA’s at the brewpubs are fine but not in the winter time for me, probably as close to Scottish weather you will get in the USA.
Funny picture on F/B now, Neil on his phone saying “Hallo Peterhead do you want to train at Lennoxtown?”
RUBENTUS and SEVCO are a match made in Hell.
South Of Tunis
16:25 on 8 February, 2013
toscanabhoy
I don’t usually have ” feelings ” about Celtic games but for some unknown reason I find myself thinking that the decisive game will be the game at Celtic Park.
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A 1-0 win would be no better than a 0-0 IMO. That sounds stupid but it is all about mentality and Timing.
What an amazing occasion coming up, I’m uber jealous of the lucky guys and gals that will be able to watch the game, those people that have bought Season Tickets. ;))
K.K.
I remember vividly how the huns gloried when we were facing oblivion…no sympathy from them, they wanted us gone.
We were in a desperate way, i new the board had to go and dreamt if only i could win the lottery.
Ye we’ve been there and turned the corner in an honest way.
Thems…
Their attitude has came home to roost…this can’t be happening to us watp.
They lauded the corrupt murray as he goaded us in our demise £10 for £5…wonder how he managed that???
Next up Craig white…billionaire with a castle…we’ll sort you out now timmy.nope ally messed up his chance.
Lastly chuckles…there’s an old adage about ye can kid a fool once…well here we go again.
I do have good friends that support the deadybears but football isn’t a topic of conversation that they feel comfortable with anymore.hail hail
Sevco letting Juventus use Murray Park for training is like Jim Bowen telling the Sevco squad.”let’s have a look at what you could’ve won”
Last time I’m buyin’ any of thae horse d’eouvres fae Iceland
BRTH 15.04
Brilliant as usual
Was lucky enough to win the windfall.
toscanabhoy 16:52 on 8 February, 2013
Murray Park? Like it really worked out well for Blackburn.
Exactly what i was thinking. Hopefully the same outcome :-)
Bargabhoy
The 1982 ‘Juve stole the league from Fiorentina’ incident is still fresh in the minds of many fans old enough to remember – one being a cousin of mine who still bristles at the very mention of the name Juventus.
He despises them with a vengeance – ‘tho Juve fans would probably label him as a ‘rabid Fiorentina fan’. He is – and proud of it!
He once said to me – “We have never won the EC/CL but we were the first Italian club to reach a European Final – the EC in 1957, and the first Italian club to win a European trophy – the ECWC in 1961!” They beat the huns in that one!
Someone else who will be cheering us on on Tuesday!
HH!!
SSN……….. Peter Lawell asks Elgin if they want to use Lennoxtown
Some concern on FF re Juventus:
“Have they accepted the offer?
I only seen the comment that he had offered it to them.
i don’t know if our club should be associating ourselves with confirmed cheats like Juve – I guess this is exceptional circumstances tho “
Fray Bentos at Muuray Park, 100% horse meat.
Sevco anywhere, 100% bull shit.
Chuckles in Dubai. Did not realise we only had 20 odd Thousand season ticket holders…
“You only have to look at Celtic’s league attendance. The most successful team in Scotland today is Celtic, yet for a home league game they can’t get half of what we are getting. Something is not right and it needs fixing. But to do it in the middle of the season is wrong.”
Horse meat, cows’ udders, bulls’ knobs….it doesn’t matter what they put in sausages because they don’t half taste great….not that I partake often with the old cholesterol and all that.
South of Tunis,
I have the feeling that Juventus will leave Celtic Park reasonably happy with the result, certainly happier than Celtic.
Then, once you are sitting happily in the Tribuna with some well heeled Juve fans in Turin,the ball will hit the Juventus net and you will have a feeling similar to that which we all had when Big Bad John scored against Liverpool in 2003.
A couple of questions for you: have you been to the Juventus stadium before? Have you heard about Sevco training at Moonbeams Park?
Why does that horsethief from Yorkshire insist on mentioning us every time he opens his greasy pudding gob, I look forward to his fall and the faces of the empty eyed trolls he thinks are the wurld rekurd fans n’at..
Juventus training at minty park is the closest the tax dodging tramps will get to european football for a very long time.
Some of those zombies will be going apoplectic at the thought of “they bead rattlers” training at Murray Park! I wonder how much Chuckles intends to charge them ” with all profits going to charity” ken.
“We thought that as Juventus were also caught cheating , it was only fair offer them facilities”
Chortles Green
Just for your amusement bhoys, my ex mrs is an editor at the National Newspaper in Abu Dhabi, she sent me a link to his ramblings with her reporter while he was out there some absolute corkers in there http://www.thenational.ae/sport/football/charles-green-says-rangers-could-make-for-the-english-border
More words of wisdom from Chuckles…
“Moving to England is something we have
to explore,” he said. “But I am intelligent
enough to appreciate that it’s not
something we’ll ever get by asking
everyone who is in favour to raise their
right hand – it would be like turkeys voting
for Christmas.
“Why would Wigan and Southampton
want Rangers to come? We’d come in and
they would get relegated and lose a pile
of money. So the last thing anybody in
the Championship or Premier League
wants is Rangers or Celtic in their league.
“But, if the question is would Rangers
rather, next year, play in the league we
are in or go to the Conference, I would
go to the Conference in the drop of a
hat.”
Juve will come here to win and to try and progress further in the Champions League.
Let’s welcome them and if they are receptive, teach them a few things, likewise us.
Celtic have agreed to provide training facilities for East Stirling when they visit Glasgow next month.
If Juve do train at Murray Park I hope they ask Fat Sally for his views on how to play against us .They would probably dismiss them but if they don’t , it’s a definate win !
“Why would Wigan and Southampton want Rangers to come? We’d come in and they would get relegated and lose a pile of money.”
How to win friends and influence people.
Giving Juve use of their facilities is just Greengo playing to the hordes ….just as he has done from the start
Another cheap line from Yorkshire’s Del Boy
See….food is food….all kindsa cultures eat what you will…..
….what gets to me is the mystery chemicals and pink slime mixed with mechanically recovered flesh then fed to children and the poor and called nutrition.
Aye. Right.
Findus Lasagne obviously selling like hot cakes :-) :
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Not available till when?