Shakhter seem convinced they will eliminate Celtic tomorrow. Their friendly journalist explained why to Kazak readers today:
“Despite winning comfortably enough in the capital last Tuesday, Celtic remain confident of overturning the deficit in Albion (sic). Getting to the group stage is not a forbidden dream for Shakhter, it is their right as a result of recent domestic success.
“Shakhter have the mining spirit of resilience, respect and strict discipline. Glasgow also has a long mining tradition but Margaret Thatcher closed the mines in the 1980s (!). Since then, Glasgow people lost their previous spirit once and for all.
“Neil Lennon was unprepared and the Celtic defenders unable to do the job in Astana. Just like BATE Borisov, they think they will overcome the result in the second leg. Just like BATE they are still unprepared for Shakhter.
“Albion’s (sic) best managers are from Glasgow, Busby, Ferguson, Stein, Shankley, Dalglish, Moyes, but the current Celtic leadership chose a man from Ireland, Neil Lennon, who is permanently under fire from fans of the “Celts”.
“Celtic have an epidemic of injuries. Stokes, Commons, Forrest, Boerrigter, Kayal and Samaras.
“The referee is from Norway. Scandinavians appreciate a tough fight. The game is a very sensitive, contact, martial arts sport. Svein Moen will understand.
“Before the game in Astana Neil Lennon said Shakhter play a very British style. Why wasn’t he able to find an antidote to this? Maybe he got Shakhter completely wrong.
“Karagandy’s three central defenders are impenetrable. They close down space and do not interfere with each other.
“The “Catholics” refuse to acknowledge that Shakhter did not miss a ball against them in the first leg. They think that because they can from 0-2 down against Inverness they can do the same against Shakhter. This is unacceptable. It will seem more absurd if the Miners open their account in Glasgow.
“In defeating BATE, Shakhter have already eliminated a higher seed than Celtic.”
Leave nothing in the dressing room, Celtic.
Charlotte Fakes
When I started Celtic Quick News in 2004 I had neither contacts nor inside information. I started writing about the accounts, which was hugely consequential but, at the time, largely ignored public information. Soon after the blog gained some momentum this changed. People would come to me with information and views which were used to direct articles.
It only took a matter of weeks to go from zero contacts to having a network of people feeding into the blog.
I have no idea how Charlotte Fakes acquired some of her early information but, with doubts over the matter, it is understandable that the media was hesitant at touching it under the shadow of Leveson.
The Charlotte Fakes story has moved on, recent revelations have nothing whatsoever to do with Mr Whyte’s mailbox. We are now in the territory of cast iron whistle-blower information. She has her own network of people feeding legally acquired information, which the whistle-blower believes is in the public interest to reveal.
Some people in the game have had their snouts in the trough for so many decades a reservoir of resentment has built up against them among those who were once collaborators but are now cast aside. You are reading the fruits of this on Charlotte Fakes.
The only question is, while the rest of the world has a new-found appreciation of the value of whistle-blowers, are ‘all the president’s men’ still prepared to look the other way in Scotland?
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FF v Bill McMurdo
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C1st
Ask mighty tim?
Phil doesn’t like being questioned either.
Celtic_First
16:17 on 27 August, 2013
It sounds as if I’m pre-judging the outcome of Phil’s questions for Celtic. That would be wrong of me. I would hope the club have been doing right by us. But we still need to know.
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No your not (imho) just saying what i have been feeling for a while now, They may have their reasons for the silence but I pray they are the right reasons .
I will back us as in nearly everything happy clapper some would say or New middle of the road as BMCUWP says:)) but collusion with the SFA & sevco would be a step to far for me.
Not with celtic but with those responsible
thomthethim
And if it wasn’t for pink and orange boots?
If Arthur (not a biased bone in his body) was commentating from his own wee Gazebo above the Jungleites?
praecepta was right, goal was onside should have been six
Tae hell wae the Champions league game- more importantly I have moved aff the foot of the CQN fantasy football league- and I’m now in the lofty position of- second bottom
BT,
I agree that we should all be totally focussed on tomorrows game,management,team and support,i wish the blog could rally round over the next 24hrs to show support for the team and celebrate when we get through,and if we don’t then there will be bedlam and deservedly so
BT
Lenny is breaking his own rules talking about signing targets in public
I hope he’s trying to force the boards hand
Our performance in the transfer market this summer has been lamentable
Unless you believe the pants that VVD , Mouyokolo and Balde are direct replacements for those who left
If they are ..,no really team building is it
All the people who seem to think that Shaktar Karagandy are super organised and well drilled seem to forget they were 3 nil down in Albania (2 of them penalties) in 30 minutes in the last round but a goal before half time steadied their nerves.
They are not a good team and we should thrash the living daylights out of them but our own organisation is the issue and the tactics we play with. Neil got it drastically wrong away from home but I think he’ll have learned his lessons from that.
The likes of McMurdo calling anyone a bigot………..
Mini bt will now be attending the match nwxt week with Mrs.
Don’t think I could out up with the screaming when yon 1d bhoy appears. .
“most Catholics had ricquets”- is that a spelling error that should read rackets- meaning most tims were playing tennis?
El Madrigal @15:36
Hi El Madrigal. There is another factor regarding long-distance travel which is to SK’s advantage and that is that they are travelling WEST for this game. The Kazak’s will have a shorter flight and then just have to stay up a few hours longer before getting a good normal sleep, whereas travelling east tends to screw up your body clock (at least it does for me). You are right of course that the return flight is an irrelevance to SK. Hopefully the long travel will have an adverse affect on SK, but I wouldn’t bet on it. Travel aside and all other things being equal I trust that we have enough in our locker to get the win differential that we need. I think for this to happen though the team, the manager and the crowd will all need to be at their very best for us to come through this with the win differential that we need.
Yours in Celtic,
TB&F.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS forza Oscar and Mackenzie
16:21 on 27 August, 2013
‘We went to war in 39 because of the German invasion of Poland.’
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That was certainly the pretext. I’m not sure it was the overriding reason.
‘Yet blithely ignored it,and everything that happened there for the next five years.’
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The initial reports of the massacre came from Goebbels Ministry in Nazi Germany, at a time when we were relying on the USSR to defeat Hitler. I’m not sure how else it could have been handled.
Dexter 15.23
Neil Lennon said.
“The squad is decimated,particularly in he forward areas.”
Not helped by he fact that Neil himself spent £3million plus wages on the habitually injured Boeritger.
Not to mention Myolokou’s (spl)track record.
Sorry ,but Peter Lawell is not solely to blame for our lack of options in CL matches,so far this season.
Hopefully Derk will make a worthwhile contribution tomorrow night.
TT
BMCUW
It was only the Che reference that I was trying to figure out.
As for Katyn you are 100% correct
canny believe some of the stuff that gets posted on here, are there some that think the manager actually lied to us at the week-end?.if by saying what he said that he was hoping for a signing on Monday and that discussion with another were scheduled for Monday then he obviously believed that to be the case,i am as frustrated as the rest of the support and to a degree angry that the suits have dragged their heels on the pursuit of targets,but who can say truly they know why?.it’s ok saying we should have signed this guy and that guy, the only real target we have let slip(so far) is finbogason, it is on record that herenveen told us £5, and we talk, only for Pl to offer half,all the others have been paper talk, and rumour, I agree 100% that we knew a year ago hoops and big vic were off and as such we should have sought replacements long ago, but again none of us are privy to transfer dealing so it’s all conjecture,i am tearing my hair out with the silence, but I am will to keep my powder dry for another week…
SFTB
It would be interesting to know if the five-way agreement really exists, what it says and what part, if any, Celtic had in bringing it into being or allowing others to do so.
Much more concrete, as Auldheid has pointed out for months, is that the wee tax case, having crystallised and become, on the face of it, money owed to the tax authorities before March 31, 2011, should have meant no European football for the liquidated Rangers in season 2011-2012 (Malmo and Maribor, but a shot at millions). Celtic should have had that chance.
What have Celtic had to say about this? If the answer is nothing, so far, does it make a difference that Charlotte has published a letter from the now president of the SFA setting up some of the events that led to the wee tax case? If the guy at the top of the organisation that ‘mistakenly’ allowed Rangers the shot at glory instead of us is now, allegedly, shown to have been up to his eyes in bringing about the wee tax case, have we still nothing to say?
know what really really bores me to tears,
this media fascination with Pandas.
all over the happy couple, will you bloody leave them alone, they aint even interesting animals
Monaghan 1990
do you think we’ll ever hear ?- ‘look it was a historical blip, not our finest day, we need to say it was wrong and move on!’
My auldman is down in Seamill this week with his Pal
Anyone know closest place that will show the game as last time we were there Hydro didnt have sky.
Tim Friendly
My dad is 77 but still likes zombie baiting and I dont want to have to go down there and bail him out as I will be at the game.
Afternoon Timland, hot and hun free in the mountain valley.
The Honest Mistake
I want to appologise for some of my posts to you the other day.
They were unwarrented, uncalled for, out of order, and just plain wrong.
HH
For any of the Irish Lhads wanting to catch a glimpse of Pukki playing tonight, Setanta Ireland are showing the 2nd leg of PAOK Salonika v Schalke at 7.40pm. It will be interesting to see if he gets a game as he was on the bench on Saturday in the defeat against Hannover. Schalke’s sponsor Gazprom have pumped millions into them over the last few years, yet, arguably, they are in a worse position than us tonight trying to get through against a team who have an away goal.
I watched the first leg last week and was very impressed by PAOK. Liam Lawrence plays for them. Their best player though was the former Chelsea and Fenerbahce player Stoch who scored a cracker last week. Looking forward to it as it will take me mind off tomorrow night.
Marti
leftclicktic oscar in our thoughts
16:29
Thanks. Obviously the timing of all this is terrible, but that’s not our fault.
The senior management team is the group in charge of making the big decisions while we all look after Celtic for generations to come. If that group of people has taken with good reason a series of actions that, on the face of it, could be interpreted as going along with the big Scottish football scandals of 2011, 2012 and 2013, we still need to know.
If that is the case, there will be an explanation. Can we have it, please?
Tiny Tim, You have nailed your colours to the mast re warning that buying Derk was a huge mistake. Lets see, I won’t be slow in reminding you if you are proved wrong. I believe he will be a great buy, feel free to have a go.if I’m proved wrong.
Saint Stivs, Lay off the Pandas, went to see them in Beijing Zoo, bought a little cuddly Panda toy for myself but lost the bloody thing.
TT
Two perma injureds
Two young inexperienced boys
Have replaced out best players
Great !!
Paul67 et al
I was working in a bar last week when Chic Murray came in and ordered a whisky
I said “Sorry Chic we don’t serve spirits”
Tomorrows match is a cup final for Celtic. It should be treated as such.
There are no tomorrow’s. This team no matter how good they are should be blootered from the first kick. Celtic should chase every ball. Celtic should not be patient. Celtic should go for the jugular in the first minute and not stop going for it until this team are 3 goals down. I’m happy to hear talk of game plans and patience, etc. BUT when this game kicks off tomorrow I would hope that was all a smoke screen.
I predict we will score in the first 20 mins from a corner. Their keeper is murder at defending them. Keep them in their half. There is no danger they can score from there. Celtic need to attack and keep it up their end of the pitch. I think the tie will be all square by 30 mins gone and we will have it won early in the 2nd half.
Please don’t play with patience Celtic we are not Barcelona go for the jugular in the first minute!
LB
I was speaking to a Dutch mate, Ajax supporter, when we signed the Derk fella, he told me we have a quality player on our hands.
From the short spell I saw him in the hoops, I believe him.
Quantum
You gave us a laugh on your own with that story.
You were right though…
“Walked into a bar the other day.”
“Got a headache, ”
“It was an iron bar.”
Variation on that delivered with Jack Benny deadpan.
BREAKING CELTIC TRANSFER NEWS;
None.
#stillbeingtakenforaride
Let us consider John ‘Bomber’ Brown. Currently cited by the SFA on 2 charges both disrepute type things I believe one for suggesting Rab Douglas was a liar and the other suggesting he might grab some folks by the throat. Not the nicest of comments, and not really befitting of a manager, but hardly the worst things in the world.
On the other hand let us consider another scenario, one where Peter Lawwell comes out onto the steps of Celtic Park and states categorically that the SFA and SPL are both corrupt and run by cheats. How many charges and made up severe punishments might that bring?
Weeminger
So because of their cheating conniving disingenuous approach we are frightened and say nothing
Craven
weeminger
None, cos it will never happen, but if it did happen, still none.
HH
jackie mac
16:36 on
27 August, 2013
Monaghan 1990
do you think we’ll ever hear ?- ‘look it was a historical blip, not our finest day, we need to say it was wrong and move on!’
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Not in this lifetime – the policy, which wasn’t one, which became unsuitable to modern football! They’d all love it reinstated along with their beloved Billy Boys but not one of them has the guts to day it.
Monaghan 1900
And to think that these people have a vote? It’s scary.
I think even I could sell sevco season books.
….PFayr supports WeeOscar
16:51 on
27 August, 2013
It was just a thought. If I was restricted to making an income in one market and I thought that potentially that market would be closed to me by making comment, I’d stay schtum as well.
I have utterly no evidence to support this but given the lack of punishments handed to Rangers/The Rangers for all their misdeeds, is it beyond the realms of possibility that the exact opposite would happen to us? What then UEFA, CAS?
JC2
I wouldn’t go unto any of the pubs in West Kilbride. not sure about Saltcoats but in Largs he would be fine in the George or McCabes both of whom will have the game on.
Tet. I wouldnae worry about it. I’d like to apologise to you too for me being a d&£k head to you.
The beauty of being a Tim is that you’re allowed to blow off steam from time to time without grudges.
One thing we can agree on is Here’s to a win tomorrow night.
Hail hail.