When watching Real Mardrid, Barcelona or Bayern Munich it is easy to be discouraged at the gap between where we are and the quarter finals of the Champions League, but despite the many hundreds of millions spent on both Paris St Germain and Chelsea, the standard of passing and decision making throughout their game last night was abysmal. Despite their win, PSG were the worst offenders last night, even the Great One was poor.
There is now a real prospect that no English side will make it to the semi-final stage of either European tournament for the first time since 2003, when Liverpool were last to drop out, at the quarter finals stage of the Uefa Cup…….. You’re welcome.
What struck me most watching last night’s game was Sky TV’s Gary Neville pondering how long PSG’s star players would languish in such a poor league. This is the French league we’re talking about here, not the Scottish Premiership, it’s Paris, not the ‘New East End’!
It’s easy to mock Neville but he asks an interesting question, will players always migrate to a higher-profile league? If so, there are more clubs than just Celtic in need of structural change.
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BMCUW ….. Ya bassa, poisoned ma nag for the national!
Good morning CQN from a wet Clydebank
Off on holiday with the family
Will miss the game on Saturday
So come on you Bhoys in Green
Glasgow’s Green and White
God bless wee Oscar and his family
Keep the Faith
Hail Hail
macjay –
Tony? Tony who?
G.C.T.6.08
Selective memory loss ?
After a few wee Glesga tinctures,that`s not surprising.
Cheers.
‘gg
02:22 on 4 April, 2014
This will bring a tear to the eye of all the oul yins on here. Like me.
Mojo will be keeping a close eye on this prospect.
This boy reminds me of Jinky in his early days.
Watch Paul McMullan tear the Sevco U 20 defence to shreds as he teases and torments the full back, drawing a yellow then a red card.
If this doesn’t make you smile happily you are on the wrong blog
http://vimeo.com/90885300
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Not so much a wee Jimmy. More a James Forrest without the flailing arms. Certainly has pace and directness. As with EVERY winger, needs to deliver a better cross when getting to the bye line. In his defence, and if used to say the same about Agathe, running that fast and crossing a ball is a difficult skill. Most fans will never know how difficult.
GG
Excellent clip
Shows the difference between CFC and Sevco in stark contrast
CFC …real football ….Sevco …chugging bully boys
SuperSutton
06:41 on
4 April, 2014
One trick.Byline and cross.
Can he cut inside from 20 metres out and cross with his left?
Can he carry the ball with his left?
As I saw it ,a decent defender would stand well off him and steer him to the corner flag.
In truth,that`s only once I`ve seen the guy and he looks promising.
Super Sutton
I don’t think that most of us fans know how difficult most of professional football is
Mountblow Tim
Have a great holiday. Hope your going somewhere with lots of beer? :-)
HH
CRC
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday from a couldn’t-be-wetter-or-greyer East Kilbride. A wee bit milder though.
alwaysendonapositiveCSC
Morning Celts and happy Friday to all you CQN’ers and Celtic lurkers
Dr Whatfor, I got Double 7 in the sweep, its got nice green and yellow hoops and the number seven is a lucky one for me, Jinky, Henke, Kenny D, it’s a thumbs up for me.
HH
SuperSutton
06:41 on
4 April, 2014
Seen McMullan a few times, instantly liked him! balance, skill running with ball, good technique, pace and an eye for a goal, whats not to like, wingers is an outdated position not used by the vast majority of the top teams so i wont pigeon hole him that way, quality young player with huge potential wish him all the best
Jobo
Tilly the wee westie for is danger of drowning instead of walking just there….
UnderwaterInDunblaneCSC
HH jamesgang
Good morning CQNers,
Well done Bayern in withholding accreditation from the Sun and Mirror journo’s for their paper’s odious, unfunny headlines.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/bayern-munich-ban-the-sun-and-the-daily-mirror-from-next-weeks-secondleg-against-manchester-united-because-of-disrespectful-bastian-schweinsteiger-headlines-9236062.html
Perhaps there’s a lesson for Celtic to learn on how to deal swiftly and with a no-nonsense approach to tabloids that abuse their position.
Morning all. Another awful day weather-wise hereabouts. I heard young Judith waxing lyrical about how things were to improve over the weekend for the east coast. No change as far as I can gather about us on the other side of the country. It is way beyond a joke now, this downpour. It has lasted for months, it feels.
Any bon mots from Ally to brighten the day?
cowiebhoy supporting the celtic to 3 in a row
Are you talking about St Comgall’s in antrim ? School is named after a saint and there are a few by the same name about here – only catholic primary in antrim I think
murdochbhoy,
While I sympathise with you as regards the treatment of those rags, I can’t see the comparison. The sun and mirror have no readership in Germany, I’m sure. Besides that, you can be sure the “newspapers” in question will file reports from “the front line”. They’ll twist the ban to serve their own purposes. That will go down well with the readership of the sun, particularly, I imagine.
Murdochbhoy
If only we would
P67,
“………….will players always migrate to a higher-profile league? If so, there are more clubs than just Celtic in need of structural change.”
Yes…..
…..and…..
Yes!
HH
murdochbhoy
08:24 on
4 April, 2014
Good morning CQNers,
Well done Bayern in withholding accreditation from the Sun and Mirror journo’s for their paper’s odious, unfunny headlines.
Respect to Bayern for giving tabloids a lesson in respect, a lead for Celtic to follow starting with ending commercial relationships with MSM who show Celtic and its supporters no respect……………………………………..
Houl yer wheest
Thanks for that, never heard of St Comgalls, and couldn’t find any info through a google search
Gearoid1998
I was heading to Ballymena, passing through Antrim
So Cliftonville Celt
Yes that’s the school I passed.
Thanks for response ( now need to do further search on St Comgalls)
Hail Hail
murdochbhoy
08:24 on
4 April, 2014
Good morning CQNers,
Well done Bayern in withholding accreditation from the Sun and Mirror journo’s for their paper’s odious, unfunny headlines.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/international/bayern-munich-ban-the-sun-and-the-daily-mirror-from-next-weeks-secondleg-against-manchester-united-because-of-disrespectful-bastian-schweinsteiger-headlines-9236062.html
Perhaps there’s a lesson for Celtic to learn on how to deal swiftly and with a no-nonsense approach to tabloids that abuse their position.
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Hmm,
Have to say it’s not the worst headline I’ve ever read in a paper
A play on words, and the guys name in particular, hardly a major issue
Parkheadcumsalford
Why is there no comparison ?
Geography is irrelevant …it’s all about protecting your players
Otherwise we just let them ride roughshod over us
Parkheadcumsalford
Even though there’s no readership in Germany for UK papers, by banning the tabloids it is protecting Bayern’s image and reinforcing their image as a product brand.
Brand is important
expat_celt
08:41 on
4 April, 2014
Parkheadcumsalford
Even though there’s no readership in Germany for UK papers, by banning the tabloids it is protecting Bayern’s image and reinforcing their image as a product brand.
Brand is important
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Are you the German Peter Lawell?
Bayern complained in an statement released on Thursday that the Daily Mirror and The Sun “‘reported’ in disrespectful, discriminatory and personally abusive manner” on Schweinsteiger. It attached pictures of a Sun story headlined “You Schwein!” and a Mirror story headlined “You Dirty Schwein.” As a result of the puns on the German word for pig,
Why would anyone be upset by being called a pig next to your picture in a newspaper ffs what are they Germans like EH! nae sense of humour, who won the war………….
Lionroar67
:-)
hoopy-do
08:43 on
4 April, 2014
expat_celt
08:41 on
4 April, 2014
Parkheadcumsalford
Even though there’s no readership in Germany for UK papers, by banning the tabloids it is protecting Bayern’s image and reinforcing their image as a product brand.
Brand is important
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Are you the German Peter Lawell?
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Or should I say Peter GesetzBrunnen
EvenICanUseGoogleTranslatorCSC
LIONROARS67
Yer on form these days,bud!
I wonder how those papers would have reported this fella behaving the same way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Kuntz
Hopefully Bayern can keep the Commando comic book theme going and have ‘ Gott in Himmel! Die Englander’ on the cover of their programme?
Or would the sons of Empire not find the humour?
HH
Ah St Comgall, feast day 10th May, day after daughter no1 birthday, so glad I now looked that up
Is in the St Patricks Missionary ( Kiltegan Fathers) Diary as well
Nice start to the day, even in the rain, and wee Hugo will not go oot :-)
Hail Hail
Hoppy foo
Think you spelt Pieter wrong there :-)
I’m sure Die Sonne or Der TagesRekord have both done worse headlines than that before
F.A.B. Virgil
08:56 on
4 April, 2014
Hoppy foo
Think you spelt Pieter wrong there :-)
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I looked it up, it said Peter was already a German word, just pronounced differently over there
F.A.B. Virgil
08:52 on
4 April, 2014
Hopefully Bayern can keep the Commando comic book theme going and have ‘ Gott in Himmel! Die Englander’ on the cover of their programme?
Or would the sons of Empire not find the humour?
HH
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Hah, CQN is an eduction, i now know what ‘Gott in Himmel’ means
Now, if Google translator could only translate manager speak into normal worker speak I might have half an idea what my boss wants me to do
Parkheadcumsalford
Absolutely. The ban will have minimal impact and I can’t disagree the sun will use the opportunity to link their ban to a xenophobic story about nasty Europeans abusing their power.
Nonetheless, it pleased me to read the story and that probably says more about me, but there you go.
hoopy-do
No, I’m not Peter nor would I want Celtic to take that path and I doubt it would be possible in Scotland.
I was in Munich recently and seeing the Bayern brand all over the place and in the airport – it struck me how much BM has gone from a very rich club to a ‘brand’
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………Praying for our WEE HERO!
08:51 on
4 April, 2014
LIONROARS67
Yer on form these days,bud!
I wonder how those papers would have reported this fella behaving the same way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Kuntz
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ha ha ha,
i would have paid money to have been the headline writer if he had been involved