Last night is going to hurt. Brendan will hurt, as will the players. As far as our European objectives for this season are concerned – remain involved beyond Christmas – it is close to meaningless, but it will not feel that way.
The players need to make that hurt work for them. Two weeks today, they face Anderlecht. The unpleasant taste of defeat should remain on the taste buds when we take the field in Brussels. This is our opportunity to cleanse the palate. Bottle the hurt, don’t let it escape, let the mood remain sombre.
Use it as a embryo of growth. Be sharper, fitter, more alert and clinical. Take the positives from last night, and there were some, and build on them.
Competitive football is ruthless. Players who reach the Champions League have all filtered through hundreds of iterations of selection and rejection. Last night will have brought the spectre of rejection closer to home than any of them experienced during the Invincible Experience.
If they perform as they can, they will win in Brussels. Do that, and they will justifiably feel better about their place in the great football food chain.
Spare a thought today for others who delighted in our demise last night. The morning after is when they will have realised that defeat just means we redouble our efforts to improve.
Pitch Invader
Oh, and the pitch invader: sue him for whatever fine Uefa impose. It was a mindless attempted assault. The reputational damage to Celtic fans from this type of action is incalculable, which the club must show concern for. The consequences are never appropriately served on the offender. Let them act with apparent impunity (a ban is irrelevant to some) and you let them cause real damage the reputation of Celtic fans.
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Delaneys
Sorry to have missed your good self,The Angel,One Malloy and the others
TT
I have Anderlecht on par with an Ajax type opponent. This tie in Brussels will be difficult for us. We need to vastly improve on last nights showing.
OldTim
Thank you kindly. Would love to take you up on that offer. Magic :)
I went to the doctor he said ‘ i think you might be colour blind…’, i said ‘that’s came right out of the purple…’…
DELANEYS DUNKY.
‘t
I was hoping to see you in the BV after the game, Ronnie isn’t going so gave me his ticket, what time do you want to go into Celtic Park,I’ll be in the Blane Valley an hour before you want to get to Celtic Park, I’ll get a train to suit you time.
Isn’t it amazing that the same posters appear after a defeat, glad we don’t suffer many, there are a few triers on here today.
On way back to hotel last night after watching game here in Zante the good lady and i stopped in wee bar for a coffee , hun comes over and says what was score ? Reply was your team’s deid mhate beat it !! URBAN FOXES CSC
Someone (I forget whom) mentioned earlier, being able to recite the Coronation Cup Team.
My father, born 1915, also used to recite a famous Celtic team, though I am unable to remember it. My brother thinks it may have been the 1930/31 team, with the likes of Thomson, McGrory. McStay etc.
Is anyone able to shed any light?
BURGHBHOY on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2017 5:55 PM
You know something Bhoys.
I used to love fitba.
I would watch any game at any time.
Played it for years.
Not now.
Now I just love Celtic .
I only watch Celtic.
Don’t watch any other games.
The Champions League is grotesque.
Monster teams funded by nation states, swallowing up the top players.
Where’s the skill and aptitude in that?
Corrupt governing bodies from SFA to FIFA.
Really turns me off.
I hate that this has jaundiced my view of what really was the beautiful game.
Celtic play the beautiful game
Celtic supporters are beautiful
The rest can go to hell
HH
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There`s a part of me that agrees entirely with what you say .
And then there`s the part that says we should share that beauty.
Europe is going to need it .
WATCHTHEMOTORS on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2017 10:28 PM
Quinn Somers and Hamilton.
Loney and Hay ?
Earlier perhaps ? `20s ?
Garbled childhood memories from the dinner table .
WATCHTHEMOTORS on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2017 10:28 PM
Yes. An earlier team.
Celtic Wiki under ” David Hamilton
“He was part of a successful forward line which won six consecutive Scottish League titles between 1905 and 1910 and confirmed Celtic as a national force – their manager Willie Maley commented “The Bennett, McMenemy, Quinn, Somers and Hamilton forward line was a treat to watch in their sinuous movement and deadly attacks”.
Thank you for that Macjay. Wish I had paid more attention too.
I am sure I will recognise, if I hear it.
WATHCHTHEMOTORS at 10:28….
I think the team may have been :-
John Thomson, Cook and McGonagle, Wilson, McStay and Geatons, R Thomson, A Thomson, McGrory, Scarff and Napier.
The team that won the 1931 Scottish Cup v Motherwell.
OldTim
Will be in Blane Valley about 1pm.
My son will be with me. He will use my ticket.
Thank you D.
HH
WATCHTHEMOTORS…
My dad (born in 1918) used to recite that team and a few others too.
I think you might be onto something with that one Gordon.
Thank you for that.
WATCHTHEMOTORS on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2017 10:40 PM
Definitely the `30s.
A search in Celtic wiki will probably turn up what you are looking for.
:-)
For me , it was
Beattie,
Donnelly and Fallon……
Still remember.
I think we’ve found it. Many thanks for your help.
I shall need to memorise it now.
PR67
I hope it was your lovely lady that telt the hun to bolt. :)
Caught up with my French friend this evening and got his impressions on his first ever visit to Celtic Park…
Unsurprisingly, he had never experienced anything like it in his football life. “I can still feel it today, it’s still sounding in my head. It was beautiful”…He told me he and his PSG mates sang along with YNWA and at the end of the game they began chanting Celtic-Celtic…Of course, he was too much of a diplomat to discuss the game itself in detail, he knew I was still hurting. His only comment was that it was a good game and PSG played quite well (what an understatement!)…If only we had a team that was as spectacular as the atmosphere…one day maybe? Anyway, we have another fan going back to Paris raving about Celtic Park…
Watchthemotors Gordon
I worked with an old guy years ago who also rhymed off that team. He had Geatons Lyons and Paterson as 4 5 and 6.
Good article Pablo.
Re Embramike’s earlier post, the litany of charges and fines from UEFA – helpfully provided by the dead Scotsman walking – is instructive.
Of the 15 offences, one involves the players and one other relates to ‘illicit chanting’ possibly carried out by scores, maybe hundreds of fans.
All other charges relate to offences carried out by either a single person or a handful of people – entering the pitch, pyrotechnics or banners.
“Get to the point man”
In 2003, the conduct of 80,000 ensured that Celtic fans enjoyed the best reputation in the football world.
In the intervening years, the conduct of perhaps FIFTY people has virtually destroyed that legacy.
Hail hail
WBC
I noticed the PSG fans joining in with YNWA.
Were PSG fans singing Flower of Scotland? Sure I heard that tune sung in French. Auld Alliance???
Thank you Marrakesh Express. I think your comment sort of nails it.
They didn’t ask for much, these stoical men who loved their team and their football.
DD…we are so used now to European nights at CP, so, it’s good to see it through the eyes of those experiencing it for the first time. He was so genuinely enthusiastic describing how he and his mates reacted to it all…loads of video and photos…
Ok big J
the League winners Champions Cup, to run in parallel with the current Champions league and UEFA Cup.
Champions league set up changes next year, whereby the top 4 Countries will have 4 entrants, (England, Germany, Italy & Spain) plus previous season winners of both Champions League and UEFA cup, France and Portugal then get at least 2 each
6 places currently up for grabs through current qualification process.
Scrap this, make the 4 Semi finalists from new competition automatic qualifiers for next season.
I have counted 38 countries outwith the above named 6, these countries all have League winners.
For 1st season only, some of the smaller ranked countries need to play off to get this number down to 32 ( although Champions league may try to claim another 2 automatic countries for thier competition?)
Any once we have the 32 League winners we run along lines of current format.
For 2nd season of running obviously 4 teams drop out as now in Champions league, so much closer to the 32 automatic participants
List of countries I have and taken from current this season qualifiers (population in brackets)
Austria (8.5m), Albania (3), Azerbaijan (?), Bosnia (3), Belgium (11) , Bulgaria (7), Belarus (9), Cyprus (1), Czech Rep (11), Croatia (4), Denmark (6), Estonia (1.5), Finland (5), Greece (11), Georgia (4), Hungary (10), Holland (17), Israel (8), Ireland (5), Iceland (1), Kosovo (2), Kazakhstan (18), Luxembourg (?), Lithuania(3), Macedonia (2), Malta (0.5), Norway (5), North Ire (2), Poland (38), Romania (20), Russia (144), Sweden (10), Switzerland (8.5), Slovakia (5), Serbia (9), Turkey (79), Ukraine (44), Wales (3)
A fair TV audience from those numbers
League Winners Cup on a Tues, Champions League a Wed, or alternative weeks, UEFA Cup a Thurs
There’s an alternative to the current set up, and offers greater opportunity to all League winners to compete against one another
Thoughts ??
Why does the person in charge of the music keep YNWA running for far too long?
It is much more passionate when they cut the music off when the fans are in full voice.
Why has this changed? Makes us sound like the lesser Liverpool version IMO.
YNWA.
Delaneys,
in hob nobbing with the big shots on saturday,
i remember you used to be a man of principle;-)),
if you fell in the Clyde youd come out with a salmon
Anyone notice the deliberate mistake in 11.08 post ??
Celtic – Scotland (5) – Hooooops :-)
(And Azerbaijan population is 10m)
GORDYBHOY64 on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2017 11:13 PM
Delaneys,
in hob nobbing with the big shots on saturday,
i remember you used to be a man of principle;-)),
if you fell in the Clyde youd come out with a salmon
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Class traitor , Gordy ?
:-)
For the first time in many years I left 5 mins before the end last night. I didn’t want to be there to witness scum like Neymar celebrating their financially doped slaughter. I understand he didn’t let me down in the classless stakes.
In 95 I was one of several thousand who stayed behind to applaud the same team who had murdered us 3-0 fair and square. What a contrast!
After 3 hours sleep a taxi picked me up at 4am for a flight to the Algarve. A few hours ago I walked past a poster advertising a bullfight. I’ve never been to one and always swore that I never would. However, can’t get over the feeling that I actually witnessed one in the east end of Glasgow last night. That was horrible to watch.
UEFA have completely fallen asleep at the wheel here. Proud football countries like Holland, Belgium even Italy are being completely marginalised now. It’s sickening.
How long are fans like us going to pay to be, like the bull, a prop to make the matadors of PSG, Barca and Madrid look invincible?
I’ll look forward to opening a bottle of bubbly the night Neymar exits the CL. Couldn’t care less who wins the thing already.
My dad loved this team
Shaw McNair Dodds Young Loaney & Hay Bennett Mcmenemy Quinn Somers & Hamiltion
BHOYJOEBELFAST on 13TH SEPTEMBER 2017 8:23 PM
Big packy: Roddie McKenzie( was from the north of ireland) was in goals for Airdrie
*He may have been born in the black north but he was brought up in Dumbarton roon the corner fae future Celtic goalie Evan Williams, he also played in the same Airdrie team with another near neighbour and cousin of Evan.
He lives in Oz now not too far away fae big Frank and is pally with wee Wispy. He is also the nephew of the Firhill Express.
Macjay1,
aye just wait til the next time he mentions socialist Clydebank,
Gordy
You do alright wi the hospitality noo and again. Faifley and Dalmuir residents deserve a treat noo and again. :))
The team that my da could recite like a litany was Kenneway, Hogg and Morrison; Geatons, Lyons and Paterson; Delaney McDonald Crum, Divers and Murphy.
As you can see he taught me that tae as well as Beattie, Donnelly and Fallon; Fernie, Evans and Peacock; Tully, Collins, McPhail, Wilson and Mochan.