If Celtic overcome Linfield, they will return to the north of Ireland or head to Norway in the next round.
Dundalk drew 1-1 with Rosenborg in the first leg in Ireland this week, so the Norwegians have a slender advantage, but the tie is by no means beyond the Irish. A return to Ireland in the next round would be a great reward for the many Celtic fans from that area who travel over to Scotland to see their team, but will be unable to attend tonight’s qualifier in Belfast.
Dundalk had a spectacular season in Europe last term, overcoming Champions League perennials BATE Borisov, before Legia Warsaw eliminated them from the premier tournament, opening up the opportunity for what proved to be a special season in the Europa League group stage.
Last season Rosenborg were eliminated from the Champions League third qualifying round by APOEL Nicosia.
From a travel perspective either destination is a good one for Celtic, although Brendan Rodgers would prefer to have the second tie at home.
Of course, fans of Linfield and Dundalk will be salivating at the prospect of an All-Ireland Champions League encounter.
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Hunter
BHOYJOEBELFAST
Latchford,Hunter,Williams,Conaghan.
Williams
Fallon hunter. Connaghan. Latchford.
Bhoyjoebelfast
A quick stab. Evan Williams, Dennis Connaghan, Ally Hunter, Peter Latchford.
Damien Quinn CSC
Ally hunter Dennis connaghan pedro latchford and I’ll guess the original holy goalie
Apricale I reckon you’re corrrrecttt
Lol, a thought they already had one :)) have fun with this one guys.
PLANS have been lodged for a new entertainment venue at Ibrox.
Documents have been submitted with Glasgow City Council’s licensing board for a premises licence in former offices at Copland House, Edmiston Drive.
It would host wedding receptions, conferences, club meetings, live music and films, according to the licensing application.
The venue would be open from 11am to midnight every day of the week.
People have until August 3 to register any objections or representations on the plans with the council.
The applicant, listed as Copper Dog Ibrox Limited, wants to alter the existing office to create the facility.
Only copmplaint about that draw is the 2nd leg away.
Other than that was delighted to see the possibilities of Astana v Legia / Copenhagen v Malmo/ Hapoel v Ludogreas / Slavia Prague v BATE / Partizan v Olympiakos
Perfect for us, these useful teams cancelling one another out, and us hopefully facing the battle-weary victors.
Virtually a hand-picked tie.
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Tonight – Fearless and fearsome, Celtic – put these demented imperialist stormtroopers to sleep early. Leave the gurning hate-monkeys aimlessly gibbering the lamentable bile of their sub-human species with a blistering demolition of Healy’s Hun-wannabees.
Have a Smash the Sash Bash!
Football to look forward to at last.
having watched the pre-season games I think we are shaping up nicely.
I expect a few gaols and (unless Craig Gordon has anothe brain fart) don’t expect to concede any. A double figure aggregate score is on the cards if we click and it would br fantatsic to really put anothe set of mini-huns firmly on their place.
Gordon
Lustig Sviatchenko Simunovic Tierney
Brown Armstrong
Rogic
Forrest Dembele Sinclair
Mini’s 0 Celtic 5
Stay safe if you are in belfast for the game.
KTF
Let them eat cake
TONYDONNELLY
They don’t need an entertainment licence.
They shouldnae have a footballing licence either,but by ‘eck,they’ve been entertaining us for years!
BMCW
That’s exactly what I was thinking, but no floating pitch, or casino this time I noted.
Did someone earlier say they got a deal for Premier Sports on Virgin Media? £4?
bournesouprecipe on 14th July 2017 12:46 pm
Let them eat cake
… she said
Just like marie Antoinette
A built in remedy
For Kruschev and Kennedy….
KTF
FarrokhBulsara CSC
Apricale@ bobby m.
CORRECT!!!
Wonder if the peelers had a little word with Brendan and co.re scoring goals.Hope cotton wool was firmly wedged in both hearing organs.
Gene
Thats very true
VFR, have the parking restrictions come into force yet? If they have do you know if they stretch as far as where I park the acgrmobile on match days.
See you next Wed.
HH
ACGR
No parking restrictions this season – I contacted JP at Celtic and he confirmed that.
What I don’t know is if the whole idea of introducing such nonsensical garbage is still up for discussion somewhere down the line.
happywalkingcfc
Very excited about the Caulker rumours. The upside is absolutely massive.
Good lunchternoon, friends.
3 and a half hours and no more (scheduled) sleeps ;-)
Fall on Connaghan Simpson Williams
Parking restrictions on match days.
If you live in the area around Celtic Park it is far from a nonsensical idea por cierto.
Is that the Copper Dog from Manchester?
Anybody been checking out the publicity tour for Mayweather v McGregor?
Absolutely hilarious.
They are giving each other some verbals.
McGregor taking trash-talk to another level.
Showbiz:)
HH
Cliftonville Celt
Hurling game tonight? St Pauls or St Galls?
HH
http://www.independent.ie/sport/gaelic-games/hurling/the-comments-were-ignorant-at-best-donal-og-cusack-on-why-he-was-disgusted-by-martin-oneills-queers-remark-35931135.html
Conor McGregor’s reaction to Mayweather grabbing a Tricolour from the crowd.
Couldnt post it, its too sweary….but really funny.
Its like ITV Wrestling in the 1970’s.
That fight should be good entertainment:)
HH
THEGREENMAN
My mate and I were talking about it earlier. He reckons Mayweather will toy wi McGregor for six rounds,destroy him in the seventh,and ko him in the eighth.
I reckon that is giving a puncher too much chance. I’d back Mayweather against McGregor in a back alley,btw,but never give the puncher a chance.
Fourth for me.
Right here’s my first attempt of the season at second guessing our Manager.
Gordon.
Mikel– Eric—– Jozo the hun launcher–@ KT.
Broonie n the Quiff
Jonny bhoy Hayes, Tom R. Stinky.
The Griffalo.
So get your dosh on either Jamsie or Moussa to score first:-).
H.H And be safe if you are going.
Oops should be sinky.
F’n phone
:-)
Remembering The Shameful Scenes When Linfield Played Dundalk In European Cup
Remembering The Shameful Scenes When Linfield Played Dundalk In European Cup
It’s 37 years since Oriel Park was smashed up by Linfield fans. So long ago that George Hamilton was still in the employ of BBC Northern Ireland. Not yet firmly clasped to the bosom of football followers down south.
More than any other IFA affiliated club, Linfield is synonymous with working class loyalism, while Dundalk was, among other things, something of a safe haven for northern nationalists who fled Belfast in the early 70s.
The Troubles were in an especially deadly phase. The first leg took place two days after the Warrenpoint ambush, when 18 British soldiers were killed by two roadside bombs.
The first game was fixed for Oriel Park. The two managers, Jim McLoughlin (Dundalk) and Roy Coyle (Linfield) protested that politics had no bearing on the encounter.
The Linfield supporters invaded Dundalk in great numbers.
In the hour or so before the match, the away supporters amused themselves by holding an impromptu tricolour burning festival. When the two captains strode into the centre-circle to perform the toss they were pelted with stones. A phalanx of charging Linfield supporters burst through a barrier and attacked the home fans.
One away fan clambered up on top the stand, shimmied up the flagpole, and tore down the tricolour, ripping it in half. An irate Dundalk supporter chased after him, followed by a policeman. Luckily, no one toppled off the Stand.
Thirty Linfield supporters were arrested. A similar number of fans and policemen were injured.
The match was drawn 1-1. Unsurprisingly, UEFA heaped most of the blame on Linfield supporters. As a punishment, they lost home advantage for the second leg.
The Dutch town of Haarlem was chosen as the venue for Linfield’s ‘home’ tie. FC Haarlem has a Welsh manager, Barry Hughes who had contacts in Ireland.
The match was played in Haarlem in front of a paltry crowd. Linfield were required to pay Dundalk’s expenses in making the trip.
Dundalk won 2-0 through two goals from former Irish international Cathal Muckian. George Hamilton interviewed the two managers side by side in the airport after the game.
Setanta Sports produced a sensational documentary of the tie a couple of years ago.
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Linfield paid a heavy price for Oriel Park riots
September 2 2009 2:36 PM
The bill for the clean-up after Linfield fans went on the rampage in Dundalk following their European Cup match at Oriel Park was starting to emerge in the first week of September, 1979.
So too were the stories of residents “night of terror’ in the Pearse Park area as Linfield fans clashed with a gang of local youths on the green outside the terraced homes.
Malicious damage claims for over £10,000 were lodged by residents, and Dundalk FC submitted a claim for £5,000 for damage caused within Oriel Park.
However, it was the sheer terror that residents, many elderly, experienced on the night that left a legacy that endured for quite some time. “People think that we are exaggerating the extent of the violence” said one Pearse Park resident who added “but it had to be seen to be believed. There were sixty buses parked in the Harp Lager park opposite our houses and when many of the fans arrived they were already drunk”.
He added “they were dancing on the roofs of the buses and the windows were already broken in most of the buses. They verbally abused residents and exposed themselves to local residents and used the most vulgar of language”.
Towards the end of the game about 25 local youths attacked the buses and a few petrol bombs were thrown at the buses in an attempt to burn them.
When the Linfield fans were escorted back to their buses and saw what was happening they attacked the local youths and there were running battles on the green in front of the Pearse Park homes, leaving residents terrified. UEFA, the European football body, clearly held Linfield responsible for the havoc that their fans created during the European Cup tie with Dundalk at Oriel Park on August, 29th, 1979.
A member of the Control and Disciplinary Committee was quoted afterwards as saying “we had to teach Linfield a lesson”.
And UEFA came down hard. Linfield were ordered to play the return leg with Dundalk at a neutral venue, outside of the British Isles (which thankfully for Dundalk ruled out Ibrox Park which would have been Linfield’s preference). The Belfast club had also to pay for the damages to Oriel Park caused by their fans, and they were ordered to pay Dundalk’s additional costs of the away match.
Dundalk, on the other hand, got off lightly with a 3,000 Swiss Franc (£870) fine.
BMCUWP
At first glance, id agree, Floyd is a master of the ring.
But…i do think McGregor has a chance, he really is a hard bhoy. If he jumps right on top of Floyd from the off, it might get interesting.
Both are showmen, and funny with it.
The Press Conferences have been hilarious.
McGregor says to Floyd, ‘You Dress like a 10yr old’:)
Floyd mimics McGregor doing a Tap-Out:)
HH
Can we get somebody to fly one a they wee aeroplane drone thingies into windsor park tonight with a Tri color on just to see the Hun monkey’s going mental in there enclosures
Panda Hands
Loch mor Dal gCais – I’m praying it is called off
We just need to get in,get a result (win to nil),and get out.This tie’s a nuisance,nothing more,because of the noise and hoopla surrounding it so the sooner it’s dealt with the better.
UEFA should’ve moved it to a neutral ground but we know better than to rely on those in power for guidance.
Pump them Celtic.
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McGregor v Mayweather-won’t it be great when we evolve into a species that doesn’t see two men being violent against each other as entertainment.
Taraungabhoy
Jim,you are in the city centre without anyway of contacting you.The game is at 5pm,not 7.45 ya trumpet.
If you manage to read this in time,DO NOT come back out to Barrhead,cos T is dropping me and Kev off at the Whistling at 4.30
See you there (hopefully)
HH
C