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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The Fat PLG’s warning “We may struggle to get out of the Championship” looking rather astute.
Half way there. From earlier…..
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Jobo Baldie at 09:30 on 10 August, 2014
Today I will be mostly supporting…..
> Feyenoord (on live at 11.30am – 10/11)
> Hearts (on dead at 1.30pm – 7/2)
> Aberdeen (not on at all at 3.00pm – 11/10); and
> Wolves (to devour the Canaries at 4.00pm – 13/10).
Oh and later I’ll be hoping that Rory wins another Major (tee off at 7.55pm Celtic
Park Time).
cardsonthetableCSC
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Think I’ll celebrate with a wee half hour run in the rain. In my green shorts and vest of course. Wonder when their buses return… ;-)
Stuart Gillespie @SMTID 1m
Watch out for McCoist blaming this defeat on Charles Green’s re-appearance – a la Forfar last year. Media will swallow it too.
Memo to Legia.
UEFA ain’t Russian. Rules are rules. You can’t just make up new ones.
Celtic, defend yourself against these clowns.
The Legia owner sounds as if he went to the same school as Chic Green.
No sympathy for them at all now.
Now Celtic, go and qualify and rub their noses in it.
Had Celtic been in a position to do the ” honourable thing”, they would have placed themselves in a worse position than Legia.
Legia broke the rules, Celtic would have undermined the rules.
That would have been considered a greater crime by UEFA.
LW must be close to a disrepute charge, with their attack on Celtic.
FF taking it well
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Joke of a management team.
We deserve better.
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Boooo F*ck off Ally. Take those two idiots with you.
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utterly utterly utterly dreadful
abysmal
the crowd couldn’t even be bothered booing at the end
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Get the f&£$£ out of Rangers mccoist
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Never mind tomorrow escort him out the ground now
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Go Ally, just go man your breaking my heart
I am in favour of Celtic accepting the offer of a play off match,if UEFA were to allow it.
It is the right thing to do.
TT
Pole dancing you gotta love it!
Huns and mini Huns are just not in the same league as Celtic :)
For what it’s worth
toffeetim ;-)
Always thought Wilson was a good young CB. Mistake leaving for Liverpool too young.
Clever movement for the goal.
V glad he’s with Hun lites rather than full fat version.
HH jamesgang
syd negakev
15:26 on 10 August, 2014
Only in Scotland could a totally innocent Celtic be made to look like the bad guys following a mistake made by a foreign team.
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Might need to nick that for Twitter… ;-)
Someone said on here the other day that the team finishing fourth in the greatest league in the world go into a play-off. I don`t believe that is the case. Hearts go up and Hibs play-off against second bottom of the top division. So, will it still be TGLITW next season with Hamilton,Ross County and Sevco as the big names? 0:-)
JJ
Macjay your behaviour is very unedifying!
Daft Huns.
thomthethim for oscar ok
15:28 on 10 August, 2014
Now THAT is a serious understatement ….!!!!!!!
macjay1
:-)
Love!
HH jamesgang
Who is blaming Celtic for the Legia error?
JJ
Sydney Negakev
Only in Scotland would a club have to work behind the scenes to see if they were cheated by misapplication of the rules.
Only in Scotland are a club wary of speaking out for fear of backlash on employees.
If I were in charge I would be making an issue of this issue using evidence of deliberate cheating and covering up to tell the world those days have gone.
Celtic are doing exactly the right thing here by making no comment. This is a matter for EUFA to deal with.Legia will bevome frustrated and dig a bigger hole for themselves. SMSM will be made to look more stupid than they already are.
We cannot afford to get dragged into a public slanging match.
Huns doon,but not oot.
Hang on.
Spoke too soon.
Captain Beefheart
Celtic are correct in ignoring Legia’s rantings.
A slanging match involving us is not what we need at this time.
Let’s concentrate on getting some new faces in and and getting the team ready to face the challenges that lie ahead.
TinyTim
15:32 on 10 August, 2014
UEFA won’t allow it.
Tinytim,
Don’t watch UEFA competitions if you don’t like their rules.
Bourne,
Difference is that Legia huns are unlikely to send bombs or bullets to our employees.
I like this better than S T B!! But theyll no play it!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7-mBJjP3-E
ldfirmfacts @Oldfirmfacts1 4m
Rangers fans are appealing today’s result, convinced that Ally McCoist has been incorrectly registered as a manager.
Tiny Tim
I really don’t want any of whatever you’ve been drinking!
Tiny Tim
So break the rules by playing somone who is banned,they get caught, a sanction is automatic in being 3-0 to the opposition, what has this to do with Celtic or how this should be dealt with.
Some of you guys have a Russian mentality. ‘What are rules?’
Want to show Ronny Deila how it should be done? Think your better than Stein? Do you have the luck of Celtic or the administration talents of Legia? Then here is the invite code to the CQN Championship Fantasy Football League, we are now approaching 100 teams entered.
296638-123206
You have 6 days left to register your team & join the league.
http://fantasy.premierleague.com/
As an added incentive I’ve decided to offer some prizes for the top 3 come the end of the season. The winners will each receive items of their choosing from the Official Celtic Webstore to the tune of
1st £100
2nd £75
3rd £50
Or alternatively, winners can choose to donate any winnings to a Celtic charity of their choice.
Also if by some miracle I end up in the top 3, the winnings will be passed onto the next placed team.
HH
auldheid
15:35 on 10 August, 2014
“If I were in charge I would be making an issue of this issue using evidence of deliberate cheating and covering up to tell the world those days have gone.”
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Correct!
How is res 12 coming along?
Don’t sack McCoist, Fat Sally McCoist………
philbhoy @ 15.35
This
Maybe this wan???
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJA8b3esxfE
Now I know there’s only one game played … but the mighty new club from Ibrox currently sits 8th in the bestest wee league table in the world ever, ahead of only Dumbarton and Alloa on goal difference.
I guess we could call that joint bottom really.
NegAnon2
15:33 on
10 August, 2014
Macjay your behaviour is very unedifying!
Daft Huns.
==================================================================Behaviour. WOW.
He`s got me by the short and curlies there.
Towel thrown in.
Game,set and match to N.A.
Edinburgh Jury ya bass.
From midweek on this week has just got better and better….
Thursday-Uefa look into legia player
Friday – legia OOT, CL draw
Sunday- zombies beat at home
Good times HH
Of course Legia are suggesting a one-off replay as they know they’d stuff us again.
Let’s just go for a penalty shoot out and see how good they are at that. :-)
Sincerely hope that our suits are quick off the mark with a response to all this unwaranted Legia hostility …… it never was and never will be anything to do with Celtic and any well meant overtures should now give way to a hard hitting statement dissolving our club ofany notion of blame for Their schoolboy error ………. not a happy bhoy as things stand …. get the message out Celtic …..HH .
Actually quite impressed by the crowd at the TFOD2 — The Tribute Act game today.
And then I saw the rush for the exit.
Nerves atre angling over Govan way.
The question is — how big is the glory hunter element of their support?
Not looking too good after today.
CT however is still a media tart.
I bet he practices giving out yellow cards in the bathroom mirror..
He has the poshest — most metro sexual action around