Roberto Mancini must have watched plenty of Celtic while planning for the teams Europa League meeting, but there was little to concern the Italian. So much so, he picked an attack-minded team for the Celtic Park leg, and arranged a four-day stay over in Italy before the team headed to St Petersburg.
For a side that looked to be in desperate need for time on the training field, spending more days at airports and in hotels does not look like wise planning. When heading to the dressing room on Thursday night, the last thing anyone in the Zenit party must have wanted was more time on the road, after their trips to Dubai and Turkey. This team needed to get home to find their game face.
It is clear that Zenit failed to show Celtic or Brendan Rodgers sufficient respect in thinking they could win the tie in Glasgow. They are a powerful side, so the outcome remains open, but the question Mancini will most struggle with, is ‘Where did that Celtic performance come from?’ He has no idea what to expect from Celtic in St Petersburg, nor do his players.
There’s been a bit of chat online about the risk, or otherwise, to Celtic fans in St Petersburg this week. Celtic’s Supporter Liaison Officer, John Paul Taylor, has been in touch with SLOs from Liverpool, Rosenburg and Benfica, each of whom faced Zenit recently. Their advice is:
“All Clubs recommend that fans use the buses which will depart from pick up point close to the Petrovsky stadium (see map attached) they stated that this is the safest way to get to the Stadium. Fans are asked to be at the pick up point at 18:30 and Police will lead the buses in a convoy at 19:00.
“Fans who travel with Celtic Travel should use their own buses and all other fans should use the municipal buses, there will be a few of us on hand to provide assistance if required. At Full Time, fans who are on the Celtic Charter must return to their own bus as these will head straight to the airport. I’ve asked that the municipal buses take fans back to the Petro Palace Hotel but it looks like they will only take fans back to the original pick up point, if this changes I’ll update it on my twitter @CelticFCSLO
“The other advice given was that fans should not wear colours if going into town at night, all three Clubs stressed this quite strongly and also advised fans to stay in larger groups, their advice was not to walk around town in small numbers.
“As far as we are aware, taxis are the best way to get around, the Metro is available however Liverpool fans encountered some issues when using the Metro again though this was when it was fans in small groups.”
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Quick change of subject,but mainly for the benefit of MIKEINTORONTO and others-that includes me!-who adore The Godfather I and II.
Heard this last night on the radio,and very good it was too.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00h3wlv
On a similar theme,I gather that Stanley Kubrick made the fake movie of the moon landings. Seems a strange move for someone who wasn’t too fond of his mother country,left it eight years earlier and never moved back.
How would Barca fare versus hertz … on the killie pitch…. with Beaton as ref.
Discuss, 800 words.
HH jamesgang
Philbhoy from last night.
Of course Harry Potter is real, sure he just opened a shop ( Clause 73 ) on Saturday.
HH.
So the SPFL face a post split problem if the top six stays the same as the Huns have already faced all of them twice at home pre split. They are guaranteed two home matches, meaning two clubs would have to go there for a third time this seasoni. Uneven playing field me thinks. Imagine that the Huns getting a helping hand from the powers that be?
Interesting to read posters views on 9/11 earlier. Someone asked if it was an inside job, then why?
Not sure anybody replied, I may have missed it. I have a few thoughts on this, feel free to scrol past if it doesn’t interest you.
One major factor but not the only one was/is obviously the money involved,a lot of money .
The people who were invested in the military industrial complex like Dick ( how appropriate, childish but I couldn’t resist ) Cheney, Bush senior whose son was president at the time made millions from the subsequent never ending war on terror on the back of 9/11. Through there ties to Haliburton, Lookheed Martin and the Carlyle group.
Here’s a snapshot of the increase in military spending at that time…
Contracts to the Pentagon’s top ten contractors jumped from $46 billion in 2001 to $80 billion in 2003, an increase of nearly 75%. Halliburton’s contracts jumped more than nine times their 2001 levels by 2003, from $400 million to $3.9 billion. Northrop Grumman’s contracts doubled, from $5.2 billion to $11.1 billion, over the same time frame; and the nation’s largest weapons contractor, Lockheed Martin, saw a 50% increase, from $14.7 billion to $21.9 billion.
http://www.worldpolicy.org/projects/arms/reports/TiesThatBind.html
Then there is more financial gain for companies given contracts to rebuild the infrastructure after our ‘altruistic’ attempts to bomb democracy into them fail. Billions of dollars worth of contracts were given to ‘ prefferred ‘ entities.
Vast majority of these companies just happened to have given financial ‘ donations ‘ to the Bush presidential campaign, how cosy can you get?
https://www.ft.com/content/7f435f04-8c05-11e2-b001-00144feabdc0
Confidently or not? One day before 9/11 Rumsfeld fronted the media to announce the pentagon couldn’t account for $2.3 Trillion dollars. The subsequent attacks hampered any potential investigation into the missing trillions. All focus was on the war on terror.Talk about a good day for burying bad news .
Just some of the financial implications on the back of that horrible day.
* Confidently- coincidentally of course
DBHOY
I always thought it strange that BP carried the can for the huge Gulf oil spill when to my mind,it was clearly the responsibility of the contractor,Halliburton.
I knew about their establishment ties,of course,but I was surprised at Obama taking that route.
DBHOY
I can’t say definitively how much collusion there was ref the actual attack.
But the ‘geopolitical collusion’ is on an epic scale as we continue to trade arms for oil with Saudi Arabia while turning a blind eye to their $Billions in support of terrorism and a human rights record that is ISIS-like in its barbarity.
HH jamesgang
Strange…If it were possible to sum up 9/11 in one word that just about covers it
!!Bada Bing!! on 21st February 2018 8:54 am
Given their home record compared to their away they’d probably want to play all 5 games away.
Hopefully Hibs pump them for a third time at Ibrox this season!
No doubt it’ll be Aberdeen and Hearts as they can beat them at home
Last post for BMCW, appols on dinner duties here…
JAMESGANG
Saudi Arabia has a dreadful record in various things,little doubt about that.
However,I think the steps that are being taken by their new Crown Prince-and effective ruler-should be supported.
Their actions in Yemen are still a major concern,though. That country is a train crash. It started off with a relatively minor rebellion,with SA being begged for help by the government,and now has three different occupying forces,a huge problem with cholera and famine,and civilians being killed daily.
The Middle East has always been a disaster zone. And over a century of The West poking its nose in has only made things worse. It didn’t start with Sykes-Picot,but it sure went downhill from there.
https://mic.com/articles/91071/how-the-british-screwed-up-the-middle-east-in-10-classic-cartoons
Still,my next post will be teaching my granny to sook eggs,rather than proffer a post on history to someone of your background(!)
Jamesgang
Totally agree mate.
HH
Word of The Day (can we be on Sankt Petersburg?)
Foudroyant. /fuːˈdrɔɪənt/
adjective
1. stunning, dazzling, or overwhelming
2. striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect
3. (of a disease) occurring suddenly and with great severity
Word Origin
C19: from French, from foudroyer to strike with lightning, from Old French foudre lightning, from Latin fulgur
KTF
Morning Folks.
The One Night in Lisbon dinner takes place on Friday 25th May 2018 at the Kerrydale Suite Celtic Park.
The tickets are £65 each to include the three course meal, a welcome drink, and all entertainment.
We will have a great line up of music, video presentations, some short speeches, charity raffles and auctions and a lot of communal singing, infectious smiling and many a laugh and a joke shared.
Hopefully we will be celebrating a fabulous double treble and Celtic are going to make sure that all available trophies are there on the night for photographs.
There will be a huge party atmosphere and we will raise a good sum for The 67 kitchens being operated by The Celtic Charity Foundation and Mary’s Meals plus some charities which are close to the hearts of some on here.
If you want to take up some of the remaining places then drop me an e-mail at jjoe88@hotmail.co.uk and let me know how many seats, the names of those coming and whether any of your party are vegetarian.
If you were at the Lisbin dinner last year you will know what to expect — except that this will be bigger and with a wider variety of entertainment.
What we look to recreate is the Spirit of ’67 — dress code smart but casual and definitely Green and White!!
Hail Hail
BRTH
DBHOY
The Haliburton and privatised warfare profits are huge but, I fear, there is a more convoluted explanation behind the “missing trillions”
Haliburton, the Bushes and Blairs are up to their necks in this but, if we are ever going to bring them to justice, we better not muddy the water with more fantastic claims
Rumsfeld’s trillions- an alternative explanation
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
Rumsfield probably agreed to a mere 5% not to mention it again.
Bring them to justice, Oh Dear SFTB, by the by, the only fantastic claims are the establishments version of events, to believe their version is head in the sand stuff, IMO of course.
HH
Bobbio
You always teach me stuff
As has VFR this morning – again!
The internal Saudi powerplay may just be only that. He’s no Vaclev Havel!
Yemen says everything about SA and Britain. Bombs not Bairns.
HH jamesgang
JAMESGANG
Ah,but we sent them OXFAM.
A wonderful charity in handcart territory-and which takes too much in administration fees.
JAMESGANG
And maybe the Crown Prince is just fed up with velvet(!)
Dugs to see to, laters.
;-)
What is to stop us having a third visit to poundland………oh the randomness of it all.
MELBOURNEMICK
If you are around the blog today, I have spoken to Mick Jardine in the last hour from his hospital bed and mentioned the huddle down under to him. Whilst talking about it he told me he knows Jim Reilly (president of Sydney CSC) well from back home in Coatbridge and Mick would really like to set himself the target of recovering in time to attend the Huddle Down Under.
If you are in contact with Jim Reilly will you let him know (in case he doesn’t realise it is Mick who had the accident), he is the North Shore hospital (I think)
navanbhoy
TT
“the only fantastic claims are the establishments version of events”
Did you read the link?
If you did, you will see that all sides are capable of fantastic claimsand that, in my opinion, it weakens the focus on the real crimes by adding spurious ones to the charge sheet. It is a fantastic claim to duggest that $2.3 trillion went missing becuase that is more money than the organisation ever saw over a decade. You would have to be able to swallow that they ran the Pentagon for 10 years, paid no-one, got supplies on the never-never and siphoned off, not just every dime they were given, but other monies from other (unamed) sources in order to arrive at the fantastic sum of £2.3 trillion.
Yes, there are crooks involved. Yes, there are murderers involved. And Yes, there are liars involved but, after reading that, if you did, how can you believe there was $2.3 trillion stolen? Such a some never existed, on that scale, to be stolen.
THEBHOYFROMUNCLE
Ib fairness,I can’t blame the SPFL this time.
I think they try to keep teams on a rotation-first game home v a certain opponent one year,away the next.
And they base the fixtures on the top six the previous year,with the promoted team inheriting 12th place.
No conspiracy here,unless there is help being supplied to the Ayrshire fanswithoutabusfare and Hibs.
Oh,Petrie’s team. That’s it,tinfoil time for me!!!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 21ST FEBRUARY 2018 10:18 AM
Nothing would surprise me in their attempt to derail us…….would Celtic actually complain ??
HH
I see that Rivaldo Coetzee has, unfortunately, suffered another injury breakdown and has yet to make an appearance for the club who bought him after we terminated our move.
Our doctors and our transfer team got it in the neck for the decision not to finalise the deal but, on this occasion, they are vindicated.
It does not look quite so clever that almost every other CB, bar Ajer, is currently injured or playing through injury though
THEBHOYFROMUNCLE
Ah,that’s a different question.
And my posting history on here says not a chance.And I’m fed up asking why.
Been a somewhat consistent complaint of mine.
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 21ST FEBRUARY 2018 10:26 AM
I see that Rivaldo Coetzee has, unfortunately, suffered another injury breakdown and has yet to make an appearance for the club who bought him after we terminated our move.
Our doctors and our transfer team got it in the neck for the decision not to finalise the deal but, on this occasion, they are vindicated.
It does not look quite so clever that almost every other CB, bar Ajer, is currently injured or playing through injury though
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Have we got it right with Marvin Compper though, and remember he is 32/33 years old.
HH.
GREENPINATA
Never let a questioning frame of mind defy confirmation bias.
Jury’s out for the moment
And that was precisely the point I was ,aking when I said their correct judgement, re Coetzee, “did not look quite so clever” when we look at Simunovic and, so far, Comperr. I would give Bitton a bye as he remained fit for a long time when we were not looking to play him regularly, and Jack hendry has not managed to injure himself during his first two games.
Always worth another read
http://johnjamessite.com pic.twitter.com/pTlAivZ2OL
Yorkbhoy 7.21
Aye, but have you seen attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion, or watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate?
Klingonsonthestardboardbowcsc :)
Hopefully guys , we have got it right. Time will tell.
HH.
“Mancini’s disrespect “.
There must be at least 2 versions of the man .
The Italian version was very respectful re Celtic and Brendan Rodgers. Celtic were as he expected but what he didn’t expect was a complete no show from his midfield /attack . He hopes they turn up on Thursday . That might give them a chance of progressing to the next round .
The Italian version is an employee of Zenit who are playthings for Gazprom . .The friendlies in the Gulf and Turkey were organized by Gazprom . The trip to Rome was organized by Gazprom…. Business .
THUNDERROAD
What you on,bud? Better not tell DELANEYSDUNKY if it works that well(!)