I don’t subscribe to the ‘Nothing to lose’ lobby, who seem to think underdogs can play free from the burden of having to win. Let me remind you where this Celtic team have come from…..
Celtic came through two qualifying rounds to reach the Champions League group stage, as bottom seed. The collected 10 points in six incredibly tight games to finish above Benfica and Spartak Moscow to reach the knock out stage, losing only twice.
The margin between success (first or second place) and failure (bottom) was incredibly tight. We are now 10 games into our European campaign and in the knock out stage for the first time in five years. For Celtic, these opportunities are few and far between.
The team with nothing to lose is Juventus. They are Italian champions and will be so again this year. Their major competitors, Inter and Milan, occupy fourth and fifth place in the league respectively. Napoli are the only team within 9 points of the top and they only won the league when Diego was strutting his stuff.
Juventus will be in the Champions League group stage next season and will be seeded to qualify for the knock out stage. It could easily be the quarter finals before they face another tier-one side. In other words, if Juve lost this tie, there will soon be another chance.
No one in the Celtic team knows if they will have another opportunity to reach deep inside the Champions League.
Nothing to lose? For Forster, Matthews, Hooper, Lustig, Samaras, Commons, Wanyama and Mulgew, this is the greatest chance of their professional lives. Win it and they become celebrated across Europe. They before more valuable professionals, likely to earn bigger contracts in the future. They have everything to lose.
On Friday 1 March the Lisbon Lions will be at the Kerrydale Suite providing commentary and answering questions on their magnificent European Cup final win in 1967. This has never happened in 46 years since that game, to say it is a unique opportunity fails to tell the whole story.
The event is part of our 125 4 125 campaign – central to reinvigorating the charitable spirit which is part of the club we love. It will be a family occasions, tickets are available at £10 for adults and £5 for children. The night has been organised by several fans working in conjunction with the people at Celtic Charity, so please do your best to support this great occasion. Individual tickets or tables are available, details here.
I’ll see you there.
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Mrs S of T has just returned from Siracusa . She saw this graffito on a wall near the Duomo .
” Berlusconi for Pope !”
Oldtim
I had that tingling feeling today… But realised it was the sciatica :(
Anyone think theres more kaffliks training at murray park than lennoxtown today.
Saw a funny on ladbrokes that rafa will ve installed as interim pope.
‘We have been made out to be massive underdogs, but I don’t see it that way myself’
Neil Lennon via wee Laura
Sheriff Fatman
get my email from Paul and I will see if i can help
The city population explodes that weekend so I would start
looking at getting something booked just now
not sure where you are flying into but if you are coming
from Prague the Student Agency buses are cheap and run
nearly every hour, the train is also not too expensive
cheers
Brnobhoy
Mickbhoy1888
You still here son? Dismissed.
THE MOONBHOYS
You are,of course,correct.
We came into this competition,and barring winning it,we will leave with nothing.
The team have clearly exceeded expectations-I,for one would happily have settled for 3rd place,and called it progress.
However,we are now in a different place. Earlier was The Champions League,group stages.
Now it is serious,it is The European Cup-I’ve nicked that from someone else,and I apologise for not remembering who!
PAUL67 is right,this is a chance in a lifetime for our players. Aye,we might do it again,but it is not expected.
It is very much expected for the Juve players.
I doubt the stands will be full of fans giving the players a hard time should we not do as well as hoped,because we have already done better than expected.
Though I canny say the same for the auld eejit in 111 who has the seats next to us and thinks Samaras’ first name is FFS…..
Balhambhoy
Re Uefa website
Even better if you have 2 means to access the Internet as earlier unbeknown to me I gained access to the application page and while I was working on another page the session timed out and I was back at square one
Better to have the page in your sight at all times rather than suffer the frustration of being timed out
The prophecies of Saint Malachy are rather interesting…..
On Friday 1 March the Lisbon Lions will be at the Kerrydale Suite providing commentary and answering questions on their magnificent European Cup final win in 1967. This has never happened in 46 years since that game, to say it is a unique opportunity fails to tell the whole story.
Sorry..
Jinky wont be there..
Summa
MICKYBHOY1888
You seem to be in a bit of a mood today.
What’s up? Been barred fae the ludge?
European Refereeing decisions that cost us plenty
Ryan Giggs penalty for Man Utd
Eduardo penalty for Arsenal
Bobo Balde handball vs lyon
I’m sure there are many many more
A wee Q. What if the next Pope is called Miller, Budweiser,Tennant, Foster, or even an old fav hun name BELL?
Thatll be the corp money gone!!
theoriginalsadiesbhoy
15:03 on 11 February, 2013
And what’s next faither ahm ah gonny get the old chestnut of a threat of being sent to the proddy school
Noo ahm one step away from addressing you with the three letter put down ya jambo ye
bournesouprecipe
14:58 on
11 February, 2013
“oose” – what a great word. It rolls off the tongue but you don’t see it written down (typed, printed out, displayed .. whatever) too often. In fact it’s right up there with “sclaff” in my book.
BMCUW
Och away ye go ya big comedian ye
The ole Juventus penalty awarded in Turin, for which even Amoruso now says it wasn’t.
Shocking CSC
boab1888/allyhuntersgloves,
when you tried to register for the ballot on UEFA.com, how long did it take for an email confirming your registration?
I input my details, clicked “finish” or whatever it was, but as yet not heard anything.
Been around 10 mins or so……
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Oldtim
been months and months old pal. Enjoy your day and evening tomorrow. Unlikely our defence will prove good enough to keep a clean sheet in the away tie, and I suspect we will concede 1 tomorrow, so over 2 games we will need to score probably 3 times to make it through. Is that possible? Well 2 tomorrow is not impossible, and we have got into a nice habit of scoring away, so never say never. I will take a 2-1 tomorrow and hope for a 1-1 in Italy. Anyhow, that’s my opinion only and I hope Lenny’s bhoys rout them 3-0 and 1-2.! Beating Juve 5-1 would be a decent 2 days work don’t ya think:-)
How are you keeping anyway? Behaving yourself? (daft question of the day candidate)
I’m Neil
The dammned ref in Seville?? And the rolly polly Porto team.?
MickBhoy1888
Oh no! Not the old 3 letter put down! Is there no beginning to your ingenuity?
Summa of Sammi
Indeed not.
But neither will Bobby or Ronnie.
HH!!
Token tim
As soon as i has registered email was in my inbox
greenmaestro
‘SeeInTheBells’ – await midnight on New Years eve
“It’s the only show in town when Celtic are in Europe here. For me to bring these nights back is very special.” Neil Lennon
Gordon_J 14:40
I thought I gave similar opinion as yours.
Have not seen offensive posts.
Better for me to disappear with my usual preaching before somebody wishes me an Catholic mission on the island where the majority is cannibals.
BMCUW @ 15 04.
” It is very much expected of Juve players ”
I overheard 2 guys at the cheese counter in a Scicli supermarket earlier .
Guy A —– Lippi thinks there are 5 teams in the Champions League who are better than Juve .
Guy B —— Only 5 ?
Bsr
As an iti tim .. Im sure even amoruso would have to admit that or face a spell in purgatory… Or worse ( ibrokes like his namesake )
Gil Scott Herron and Celtic just mentioned on Brain of Britain.
Token tim
Return e-mail should be instantaneous check you junk mail or there’s the possibility you have mistyped your e-mail address
boab1888,
cheers!
Think i’ll go through the process again…..
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
A Message from Thailand
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TallyBhoy..
Yea.. I know..
But Lisbon Lions were Jinky too Me..
Just Personal .. That’s All..
No Disrespect to Bobby or Ronnie..
001
When the UEFA cup final was at Hampden I was asked by a colleague of mine to apply for tickets for the game as he is a Spurs fan. I got offred tickets but knocked them back as Spurs had been knocked out.
I hope that stands me in good stead if Celtic make the final.
LB
Imagine you were a footballer who was considered comfortably the best in your position of all the teams in Scotland. Consider also that you were, in fact, so good that a Club was willing to pay you between £500,000 and £1,500,000 per year to play for them. Consider ,finally , that not only were you that good but so was everyone else in your team. Would you not be right to fear no one? Would you not be right to believe that your team could beat any team you faced?
Such is the reality for the team who will run out in front of 60,000 people tomorrow evening. Nearly every one of those 60,000 souls will be supporting your team, our team. If the crowd can believe as our manager does and as our players do, then another wonderful, magnificent night is assured at the home of The Glasgow Celtic.
JJ
theoriginalsadiesbhoy
15:15 on 11 February, 2013
My ingenuity was gained by all those years of eating Findus Fish fingers on a Friday there again it might have been from that well known fish substitute they were probably using
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS @ 15.04
Fair comment, just a bit concerned that we all go off on a huge downer should the result go against us, when in actual fact regardless we should be proud of our achievement in qualifying from the CL group stages. A fantastic effort not to be downgraded just because we come up short against one of the games heavyweights, not that I think we will, at least I’m quite confident about the home leg.
mickbhoy1888
15:12 on
11 February, 2013
BMCUW
Och away ye go ya big comedian ye
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Jings,and to think Frankie Boyle is retiring next year.
We have the winner of the ultimate put-down right here in our midst,move over Frankie,there’s a new kid on the block.
Be grateful you got out in time,mate……..
Don’t know if its relevant but if you apply for Wembley tickets using Uefas sponsor MasterCard as a method of payment it allegedly doubles your chances of being successful in the ballot