In a press conference today, Legia major shareholder, Dariusz Mioduski, has been scathing about Celtic, who benefited from Legia’s mistake last week. Perhaps his most important comment was, “The football family of Legia are all suffering now. Their dreams are shattered, it’s against football values”.
There can be no doubt that Legia are suffering and that their punishment was in no way proportional to their mistake. Some of this hurt is inevitably going to find its way to Celtic, who Legia apparently asked to withdraw from the tournament before the Disciplinary Committee sat. Celtic, Legia inform us, declined to respond. My understanding is that the rules do not allow for input from the losing team when a suspended player has been involved – as they do when an ineligible player is involved.
Former Juventus-great and current chief of the Polish FA Zibi Boniek had earlier said, “Everyone thoroughly looked into this matter, but Michel Platini and Giorgio Marchetti [from Uefa]said one thing, ‘Zibi, there is no backdoor. Nothing. Regulations do not provide for any other penalty. We are very sorry’.”
If there was a possibility Celtic could choose to forgo their place in favour of Legia, Celtic would be presented with a moral dilemma, but I don’t think the club’s actions would be any different. Their reluctance to ‘pick up the phone’ to Legia suggest as much.
One area where Mioduski’s information differs from Celtic’s is where he states “No-one at UEFA in Nyon was even considering a 3-0 forfeit Celtic win on the morning of the ruling.” I understand Celtic were told the exact opposite, that a forfeit was the only outcome possible, corroborating what Platini and Marchetti told Boniek.
Our very best wishes to Fraser Forster, who yesterday became a Southampton player. Southampton have an enormous rebuilding exercise ahead after selling the majority of their first team players this summer. They now have a good keeper, who I expect will be busy in the opening months of the season.
After my article yesterday on Fraser Forster’s dedication to his work, a CQN’er sent me this nugget:
“My brother used to go to the dancing with Jinky. He would go to Jinky’s to collect him and Jimmy would be all suited up, apart from wearing his sand shoes, as he would be practicing his dribbling while waiting to be picked up”.
There are no shortcuts to brilliance.
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Bhoylo83, 10seconds after kick off.
Funny as, this Championship might be quite entertaining after all.
New club, same old Huns.
SIPSINI
Your bet is looking good! Here’s hoping for another chance for the Diets!!
HH
End London rule. YES
Blow up ref!!!!!
Have Celtic ever been given 6mins injury time by an sfa referee?
Sweating on £150 here….blow the whistle!!
T4
borderlandbhoy
Nicely put.
Question for any deidco pals/work colleagues..
“In 2011, when Maribor knocked the deid club out of the Europa League in yon qualifier – if Maribor had fielded a suspended player, and Uefa had applied the rules to award a 3-0 victory in that tie to the liquidated club. This would have meant that deidco would have won the tie and gone through to the next round.
Are you telling me that deidco would have refused the winning of the tie on that basis?”
Scotland’s shame knows no bounds now, as there appears to be no support for Celtic’s position in this saga.
Celtic have done nothing wrong and are now as much the victims as Legia.
Unbeaten for the season betting slips ripped on day 1, swally must stay
I smell league reconstruuuuution!!!!!
T4, nice wee lift there, well done.
Burnley78
I’m not one to put too much on one performance but the big fella looks a good un.
Well done Hertz!
HH
WooooHooooo
Mclean sounding rather depressed…..
Boos. Lol.
Boo boo
Boo.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
The finest whine, so it is.
Bravo.
Hail Hail.
Yee Haw! Winning bet and miserable Sevconites….Result !!
T4
Only in Scotland could a totally innocent Celtic be made to look like the bad guys following a mistake made by a foreign team.
Boooo!
Sack the liquidator!
HH jamesgang
Huns booing Huns….magic,
HaHaGIRUY
HH
For all YOU ZOMBIE TROLLS !
GIRUY ;)
How………………………………..Unfotunate……………..
Stivs
Was discussing this during the week
If we reversed the fixture I think we would have had 4 aways out of our first 5 league games
On another note
BOO-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Crocker and Walker sick
been reading a few so called sports pages and still don’t understand why there is bad feeling being aimed at our club over CL re-instatement
Herewith the exchange.
For anyone bored enough to take an interest.
NegAnon2
14:44 on
10 August, 2014
My goodness Macjay you don’t even know you are being a hypocrit. Are you saying I am gay??? Dearie dearie me.
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Well,actually I wasn`t saying that ,but would that be a problem for you ,or are you homophobic?
Hypocrite? Specify.
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NegAnon2
15:00 on
10 August, 2014
Macjay you accused me of getting personal and than asked if a was more than just friends with a fellow poster. That seems pretty personal and therefore you are a hypocrit.
And a silly boy.
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Well now .
Wasn`t that edifying?
No?
Didn`t think so.
SFA Announce that Hearts had too many players on the field (11) and award match 3-0 to Sevco
Jamesgang
Pmsl ;) Nice one Hail Hail !
Funny old week………
Ok folks.
What does that result tell us?
Nothing really as there are another 30 odd to go.
But enjoyable.
I would imagine Celtic will remain silent on rule breaking by other clubs, we’ve did it before when it was down on a grand scale.
All in all, not too bad a week!
Doc – cheers mate. Think of all the bust bets on Sevco going through season unbeaten! :-)
Hertz to go up, Hibees in the play-off and a massive campaign for league reconstruction to follow!
T4
Will this affect the Soros investment?
Was he there?
The Cardigan is sick…giruy
Yee ha
HH
down = done
jamesgang
15:26 on
10 August, 2014
Boooo!
Sack the liquidator!
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Great line.:-)
Remember it for future use.
Away to look out my Incontinence Pants
Couldnt give a sh*@ about the zombies score…nah who am I kiddin…get it round yeez!!
Dundee Utd 1up.