It will be off to Latvia to face Riga or, assuming they do not unexpectedly lose at home in the second round to Tre Fiori from San Marino. Riga lost their first round Champions League match away to Maccabi Tel-Aviv and went out at the same stage a year ago to Dundalk on penalties, before losing their Europa League play-off tie 3-2 on aggregate to Copenhagen, who went on to eliminate Celtic by a greater margin.
It is a tie we will win if we get everything right and will lose if there is anything remotely half-arsed going on. Riga are 17 games into their domestic season; be prepared, Celtic.
Watching the goals this morning from the 0-2 win at Ibrox a year ago today brought a reminder of where we were the morning of that game. Facing the perennial Summer Cup Champions [no, it’s not wartime] at their own place, having been turfed out of the Champions League by Cluj, we faced the longest odds for a league win in seven years.
That setup what may be become a fourth consecutive treble. Cluj hurt the bank balance but European credentials were restored with wins over Lazio and Rennes. We could do with a big game, a bit win, now.
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That would be the John Wayne toilet rolls……….took no shit.
Tontine Tim…earlier you mentioned the Dundee riots. Once again , if my memory is being honest with me, it had to do with the previous game in Jim Spence’s beloved city, where a Celtic supporter died in police custody. The story going round was he was rolled up in a carpet to avoid visible bruises and severely beaten…
ERNIE LYNCH on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2020 9:58 PM
FRANKTERRY on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2020 9:22 PM
Have you considered that the people you mention (possibly excepting Johnson) might actually want Scotland to leave the UK?
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You’ve not addressed any of the points I raised. If you have evidence to suggest that scotland will be better off as part of a post brexit uk and its ensuing race to the bottom then I’d love you to share it.
I suspect we have similar views about the NHS, worker’s rights etc etc. I voted for Corbyn in 2017 and dared to dream… but the world has changed. It is so depressing that a genuine extremist (Johnson) was, with the right wing media, able to paint Corbyn as the extremist – a guy who’d pretty much been on the right side of history his entire life and just wanted to protect the NHS and make people’s lives a little bit better (as well as doing a bit of gardening).
Brexit has changed everything. I feel no solidarity for the people who voted for it. Those bastards have hurt my kids and I can’t forgive them for it. There’s an essential breakdown of trust – if over 50% of people in the uk (and mostly England) can vote for something so utterly stupid then there’s no limit to what they’ll do next – as we’re seeing now with Johnson/Cummings (the Tory’s still ahead in the polls as we speak – and that’s before the press have even bothered to go after Starmer).
And if you voted for brexit and don’t like being called stupid or racist, well I’m afraid you are. It would have taken 5 minutes to actually look into who and what you were voting for and you decided to stand with the DUP and the neo nazis. Now I may call you stupid but I won’t actually do anything to harm you – the people you voted for hate you and are going to make you bleed.
TBFU…👍🏻
FrankT
I like it, I will look for a pic, I think they are on another computer
HH
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Celtic Mac
No, emergency care only, they changed the law in 2012, my Mrs had a heart attack a few years back and was in ICU for a few days, when she left there and was getting moved to a ward an bloke with a clipboard was at her before she even got into her room and asked who was going to be paying from now on, they are as strict as and have been since they changed the law.
Thankfully we get ours paid for us, trust me it helps.
As for legally resident, you are only legal if you have all the relevant paper work, you are either a proper resident or you are not, it’s that simple now, and this was before brexit.
HH
Thebhoyfromuncle, yes we lost twice to the Arabs that season and Duntocher Bhoy Denis Gillespie scored in both games. In the first our unbeaten record went after we were 2 up. The second was the Wednesday after the cup final and my da tried tae condole me by saying the players had been celebrating the cup win while the Arabs were resting. Still had tae go tae hades tae win it, which we did on a magical day when 007 was still a Tim.
THE EXILED TIM on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2020 10:48 PM
Cheers, don’t worry about it if it’s a hassle. Hope your wife has made a full recovery.
TT…2-2 HH in the stand as well as SC?
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If you have Spotify
A free google speaker
That’s me off to ‘ma cot.
Always like to go off to off in a good mood,
https://youtu.be/OmFtPE2_9V4
HH
Wiz the scoatish mulkman waitin’ fur the cheating black knight to arrive?
FRANKTERRY on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2020 10:47 PM
How is this whole Scotland as a member of the EU idea supposed to work?
Does the fiscal deficit mean the EU will impose restrictions on public expenditure as a condition of entry?
Who’s that going to hit hardest? I reckon it will be the poorest.
Will there be border controls at Gretna and Dover?
Will there be tariffs on exports and imports to/from England?
And regarding voting for Corbyn, do you have a view of why the SNP supported the Tories in calling an early General Election?
ERNIE LYNCH on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2020 11:08 PM
FRANKTERRY on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2020 10:47 PM
How is this whole Scotland as a member of the EU idea supposed to work?
Does the fiscal deficit mean the EU will impose restrictions on public expenditure as a condition of entry?
I don’t know, there’s a good chance they would. However, how much economic hardship is going to result from brexit? Long term, more.
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Who’s that going to hit hardest? I reckon it will be the poorest.
The poor are always hit the hardest. However, in a post brexit britain the poor would be worse off.
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Will there be border controls at Gretna and Dover?
I don’t know.
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Will there be tariffs on exports and imports to/from England?
I don’t know.
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And regarding voting for Corbyn, do you have a view of why the SNP supported the Tories in calling an early General Election?
Yeah, I thought it was shit. You seem to have me confused for a big SNP fan – I’m not. Although I did vote for them in the last election just to get Jo Swinson out.
The crux of the question for me is this: would I prefer an indy Scotland with a working democracy and being a member of the EU (accepting that there will be short to mid term economic hardship) or do I want to be part of the uk with a Putin style ‘democracy’ and short/mid/long/eternal economic hardship for anyone not with their snout in the trough?
Out of those two options which one you you choose?
Keich
FRANKTERRY on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2020 11:24 PM
I’d rather a Labour government at Westminster.
Like it or not, Scotland’s biggest trading partner is England.
The idea that a separate Scotland would not be affected or influenced by what was going on in England is delusional.
You’re falling for the same nonsense that the Brexiteers fell for. A simple solution to a series of complex problems, a mindset of grievance and resentment underpinned by populist nationalism.
ERNIE LYNCH:
“How is this whole Scotland as a member of the EU idea supposed to work?”
Easy. The island of Ireland will show us how it’s done. Whatever regulatory framework they come up with over there will work just fine here. The desire of both countries to affect a good and sensible agreement will negate any real difficulties. It’s not in either Scotland or England’s interests to screw the other over … so realpolitik will apply. And you know, Scottish independence changes England’s political dynamic … it would be the biggest boon to the left that this island has seen in eons … and it might even change the terms on which the debate over Brexit is being had.
Don’t underestimate that. Scottish independence will be delivered, if it is, on a pro-EU platform and England may well come to the conclusion that we’ve made a good choice, especially if a hard Brexit is doing the damage it looks likely to do.
This is where the left in England needs more imagination; we could give them their lodestar. We can show them how it’s done.
For sure, the issue of the £ and all that bollocks is put to bed; we’d join the Euro and those questions are now answered. It’s one of the fundamentla questions for the last referendum and we no longer need to fear it at all. With most transactions done through credit cards and internet banking rather than wish cold hard cash there needn’t be any changing of the money or anything for most people.
“Does the fiscal deficit mean the EU will impose restrictions on public expenditure as a condition of entry?”
Of course they will, but you assume the current restrictions will be in place by then and I don’t assume any such thing. European politicians know they have to change or the EU project is not going to survive the ructions that are to come. Personally if you think EU restrictions on public spending are going to be more severe than what Westminster voluntarily restricts it to you’re crazy anyway.
And the public sphere is going out of this with heroic standing and that changes the ground rules here and across the continent. Stimulus packages in every country are going to be needed for the economies to properly bounce back and Big Government creates jobs and stirs economic growth like nothing else. The debate over a Universal Basic Income is now raging … everything’s going to change including the EU rules on public spending … watch and see if I’m not on the money.
And I repeat – again – if you think public spending as a percentage of GDP regulations imposed by Europe are going to be less severe than the post-covid choices this government makes … I have a bridge to sell you.
“Who’s that going to hit hardest? I reckon it will be the poorest.”
And I ask again, if you think that this government – this Tory government of the far-right – is going to kind to poor people and the less well off … I’ll take my chances with Brussells.
“Will there be border controls at Gretna and Dover?”
Nope. Asked and answered. Dover, yes. Gretna no. Watch the island of Ireland, voters in England will not stand for a hard customs border on this island if our government isn’t imposing one on that island. It would be politically suicidal … and so a deal will be reached.
“Will there be tariffs on exports and imports to/from England?”
It’s the same question in a different form and will have the same answer. There are creative solutions to this which Westminster refuses to consider in dealing with Brussels. Refuses to consider. But Ireland, once again, will provide the template and the answer.
“And regarding voting for Corbyn, do you have a view of why the SNP supported the Tories in calling an early General Election?”
I thought it sucked. But the SNP’s political gamble was easy to understand and it paid off in silver dollars. I disagreed with it, but it achieved its objective. But the SNP didn’t get the General Election off the launchpad. Had Corbyn’s Labour Party not voted to grant Boris his early vote we’d never have had one. So instead of that ancient argument that the SNP enables Tory governments, look at Corbyn and his party’s colossal miscalculation … and that’s the charitable way to put it considering every opinion poll told them they were heading for an epochal scudding and they jumped, like lemmings, anyway.
I will be rattling around the old folks home still trying to work out who in their ranks thought that was a good idea.
JAMES FORREST on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2020 11:51 PM
There’s no lie you wouldn’t tell if you thought it would further the cause of Scottish independence.
And you wouldn’t care if we’d be worse off, or if the poorest were worse off.
For you, that would be a price worth paying.
That’s about the size of it, isn’t it?
Is that all you’ve got FFS?
I answered each of your questions and you came back with ad hominem?
Absolutely pathetic my man.
The main thing we’d add if we get Duffy and McCarthy is a dod of wide and gallus:
What Broony had when he joined us as a raw, borderline ned. Both will need to beware red-card refs tho!
Too few signings since have been gallus or wide boys; silky w heaps of ‘potential’ but not truly ‘gemme’.
OK we sell Olli, Tom, Ajer (all nice lhads and very under-rated skill wise). The money is welcome during COVID.
Puzzled by claims Greg T has no pace. Ryan Christie says Greg was uncatchable in the pre-season 5k challenge. Mibby it’s a coaching/shape thing where checking back and retaining the ball is preferred to crossing with no target CF there. Remember, even at his best, Eddy scores precious few with the napper. HH
QUADROPHENIAN on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 12:01 AM
Puzzled by claims Greg T has no pace. Ryan Christie says Greg was uncatchable in the pre-season 5k challenge.
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Aye but, fitba is also won in the quickest 5 yards, as well as the ensuing 5k!
HH jg
ERNIE LYNCH on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2020 11:50 PM
FRANKTERRY on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2020 11:24 PM
I’d rather a Labour government at Westminster.
You’re not answering the question I asked. I was honest when I answered yours, you should have shown me the same courtesy.
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Like it or not, Scotland’s biggest trading partner is England.
The idea that a separate Scotland would not be affected or influenced by what was going on in England is delusional.
Where the hell did I say that? Of course we;’d be affected by what’s going on in England.
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You’re falling for the same nonsense that the Brexiteers fell for. A simple solution to a series of complex problems, a mindset of grievance and resentment underpinned by populist nationalism.
…. Okay, you’re not really answering me at all are you? You’ve obviously got a set of responses that you give to SNP supporters and are just churning them out whether they are relevant or not. To be honest I feel a bit of a tit for wasting my time thinking that we were having a conversation in good faith when we obviously weren’t.
I won’t make that mistake again.
BelmontBrian,
I need to go to bed so will catch up with the rest of those links tomorrow. I can’t wait…
James Traynor is a repulsive character. To think I’m listening to that and rooting for Chick Young 😒
Thanks for posting them
JAMESGANG – true that ‘explosive’ pace is maybe the missing ingredient. Still think he’s on the improve and will do a very decent job for us. HH
JAMES FORREST on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 12:00 AM
Ha! I wish I’d had you at school so you could have sat my exams for me :-)
Love your blog (not that I agree with everything, obviously) keep up the good work!
*obviously:-)*
QUADROPHENIAN on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 12:16 AM
JAMESGANG – true that ‘explosive’ pace is maybe the missing ingredient. Still think he’s on the improve and will do a very decent job for us. HH
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A v tidy first touch. And has looked decent in the last 2 games. I wouldn’t have had him at the top of my list, but he’s a trier in the Hoops, so I hope it comes good for him. And us.
HH jg
FRITZSONG on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2020 8:38 PM
AN TEARMANN on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2020 7:44 PM
== Thanks for reply,a combination of work and wonky power eating phone means
late reply==
I must have missed out on the Scottish patriotic genes so I could never be a card carrier for the SNP.
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== me too.what is this” Scottish patriotic gene”? is it a relation of the ” socialist family gene lol,? the “new” mutations in that poor.
nope never been a member of any party.
you?
But, An, (lol yes Fritzy)
yoau seem reasonable and open-minded, like myself,
That man’s a celt :-)
so I’m sure that you will acknowledge that the current £15 billion GERS deficit spells disaster.
==I certainly will not:-).as prob by the time this settles it will be greater.==
Even the SNP’s own Growth Commission as much as warned of a decade of austerity come independence.
==fritzsong is that a Labour interpretation of what they think the growth commission are saying ie a quote etc.its just my distrust of politicians.
Poverty already blights this country. It twists and warps the lives of one in four school children.
= not Fettes tho!talkin of warping values ideals etc ==
Independence will be celebrated for one day. Then there will be a God-awful reckoning. And that isn’t worth all the kilts and saltires you can shake a
we shall see fritzsong.
do you fear for Labour at mo?
hh
JAMESGANG on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 12:22 AM
QUADROPHENIAN on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 12:16 AM
JAMESGANG – true that ‘explosive’ pace is maybe the missing ingredient. Still think he’s on the improve and will do a very decent job for us. HH
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A v tidy first touch. And has looked decent in the last 2 games. I wouldn’t have had him at the top of my list, but he’s a trier in the Hoops, so I hope it comes good for him. And us.
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Fully concur with both comments above on Greg Taylor.
HH
Vatican Media Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=9&v=MC-wB2gLpzM
Ave Ave
So over 1m Scots or 38% who voted in the Brexit referendum are racists.
A wide ranging sweeping assumption.
Absolute garbage.and a slur that cannot go without redress.
Anyway, Celtic sales of the home kit have exceeded Adidas expectations. It is already in the top 5 sellers worldwide.
Amazing display of faith by the worldwide Celtic family. And helps dispel the myth we are not a big club.
We are a massive worldwide brand and institution. Our aspiration should reflect this.
HH to all.
Hello again all you young rebels.
Fascinating reading back with Jamesy Forrest and Ernie Lynch
Dueling about politics.
Got to say Ernie, think Jamesy handed you yir erse 8-))
THE EXILED TIM
I’ll second Frank Terry’s request to post your Celtic pool pics
again and if poss, the cave ones.
Think I was still offshore fighting the waves many years ago when
I first seen them and said to myself ” when I’m finished with this
shit that’s for me ”
Lo and behold I’ve ended up in the land down under, no Celtic
pool but beautiful pristine beaches and a great Celtic club.
It’s strange where life takes you.
Hope it’s possible for you to let numerous new posters see what
a good Tim can achieve.
Know you’ve had a hard time lately with your wife’s illness, hope
things have improved on that front.
KTF.
H.H. Mick
GREENPINATA
Yes, an amazing show of faith, and I think if we get the
players mentioned then the board have responded…at last.
Still waiting on my order of about 600 dollars worth
being delivered, Hopefully it will arrive just as this feckin
lockdown ends.
Can’t wait to strut my stuff lol.
H.H. Mick
Melbourne Mick
I just had an image of you strutting your stuff along one of those ` beautiful pristine beaches ` and it brought a smile . That will soon disappear, though, as I am off to play golf on a rather blustery day :-)
Good if true to see the boy Ferguson from Aberdeen being linked with celtic , can’t see it happening though the lad is too steeped in them to come to us . He will probably land at them . But if true at least celtic recognise the type we need for midfield when broonie goes . We’re not going to get a midfield battler out of Christie , McGregor , or ntcham . Our captain has been backing up these three for years , and the guys before them too . I had high hopes soro was the type we needed , but maybe a bit on the small side too , but don’t know if we will see the boy get to play anyway , could be another shved another waste of resources without getting a try , time will tell . HH
GREENPINATA on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 6:12 AM
I normally wouldn’t reply to you but I’ll make this one exception. First off, you’ve intentionally misquoted me, I called the people that voted for brexit stupid and/or racist. They definitely fall into one of those camps as will be shown conclusively on 1st Jan.
You (supposedly) didn’t vote in the Brexit referendum as you thought you were too stupid to understand it – that’s essentially what you posted wasn’t it? It was a while ago so i can’t remember your exact words but that was the gist of it.
I hate to break it you but Brexit wasn’t that complicated. And if you didn’t understand Brexit then what gives you the confidence to post about the motivations of the people who voted for it? Or indeed anything political – which you do, usually with views that could come straight out of Tory spin HQ.
So on one hand you plead stupidity but on the other you have posted Ayn Rand quotes which would suggest that you’re not actually stupid, just an amoral snake (WATP, eh?) And an Ayn Rand fan (one of Dominic Cummings fav authors incidentally) would have voted for Brexit so that would make you out to be liar…
But let’s take you on your word. You were too stupid to understand Brexit and so didn’t vote in the most important political decision in decades but regularly post in defence of Brexit. Yeah, that makes perfect sense.
Anyway, that’s me done posting about politics, I don’t want to bore the blog and I won’t reply to you so don’t waste your time replying to me.
JAMES FORREST on 1ST SEPTEMBER 2020 11:51 PM
‘Had Corbyn’s Labour Party not voted to grant Boris his early vote we’d never have had one. So instead of that ancient argument that the SNP enables Tory governments, look at Corbyn and his party’s colossal miscalculation … and that’s the charitable way to put it considering every opinion poll told them they were heading for an epochal scudding and they jumped, like lemmings, anyway.’
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Go back and check the timeline.
Once the Lib Dems and the SNP declared their support for the Tories in calling an early election the Tories had the numbers to win the vote.
Why did the SNP support the Tories?
I’d suggest there were two reasons
1. they feared a Corbyn victory, as a sizeable chunk of their support would have been satisfied with a leftish Labour government and would take back their support for independence.
2. they wanted the election out of the way before Salmond’s trial.
Then again, it’s not the first time the SNP have supported the Tories at Westminster, for their own beneft and to the detriment of the Scottish people. If you were a bit brighter you might see that as a warning.
Frankterry,
Firstly , don’t flatter yourself . I wasn’t in the slightest bit interested in your inane ramblings.
Secondly , I may be stupid in comparison to your champagne, suburbian, intellectual self, but calling me an ” Amoral snake ” is pathetic and lowers the tone of the blog.
Thirdly, it’s very noticeable that you ignore the positive football and Celtic aspect of my post.
Not surprising as you have declared little or no interest in football. ( No wonder you were taken to task for the strangest post on a CELTIC site. )
I may be stupid but at least I know that this is fundamentally a Celtic site for Celtic supporters.
FRANKTERRY on 2ND SEPTEMBER 2020 12:10 AM
‘To be honest I feel a bit of a tit’
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And not without reason.