Despite their mid-season status, KR Reykjavik should offer little genuine challenge to Celtic’s squad of Champions League experienced professionals. Still, the nerves tingle a little seeing a new management team lead the squad out of Glasgow Airport this morning.
Hopefully we have six qualifying games ahead. Where we sit right now, chances of qualification are high, but far from assured. There is a lot of work ahead.
It will be fantastic to see Martin O’Neill back at Celtic Park to lead Ireland against Scotland in the nations’ Euro 2016 qualifier. Seeing the traditional away side of the stadium covered in green, while Scotland fans occupy the bulk of the stadium, will provide an interesting photo opportunity. Apart from the ‘doe a dear’ lot, it’s likely to be a wall-to wall Celtic fan event. Good to see Roy Keane back too. In the away dug-out.
Hosting Scotland-England a few days later will cement the stadium’s position as a major event venue after a year of unique opportunities.
One of Adidas’ World Cup sponsor properties was to name and present Player and Goalkeeper of the Tournament. What could go wrong? Dragging the Adidas-sponsored and clearly embarrassed Lionel Messi up the stairs to receive his award looked contrived. Despite reaching the final and, at last, building a World Cup goals tally worthy of comment (5 across 3 tournaments), Leo wasn’t even Argentina’s best player.
These awards are subjective, so there are no right or wrong decisions, but this one brought Adidas derision.
Delighted for Germany. The demographics are moving against European football but the continental game has never been as strong.
Many thanks to everyone who bid on the auction or bought a raffle ticket for the signed canvasses last week. The raffle raised £604 and was won by CQN legend, Kolnbhoy. Funds from both canvasses are going to Glasgow the Caring City and The Cookie Jar Foundation.
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http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=onuVWh-MRpo
very humbling
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 29s
RD: “Reykjavik are hardworking and a well-organised team. They have played together for a good while. The team is the strength.” (MH)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 9s
RD: “We are taking one step at a time.” (MH)
RD: “It’s important players know their strengths so they can do even better to exploit them. ” (MH)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 23s
RD: “You have to get the players in the right positions so they can get the best out of themselves and they have to work together.” (M
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 36s
RD: “It’s not all about a way of playing, it’s also about what kind of players you have.” (MH)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 2m
RD on who will captain the side in Scott Brown’s absence: “Charlie will be the captain, a natural leader.” (MH)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 3m
RD: “He has been playing matches in the World Cup and has played well. He’s fit and I have no problem in playing him.” (MH)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 4m
RD on Efe Ambrose playing in the game: “I’m more confident with him than some of the players who have been on vacation.” (MH)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 5m
RD: “If we are the best we can be, then we have a very good chance.” (MH)Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 5m
KC: “However, we won’t change too much too quickly. We were successful last year but he wants to put his own stamp on the team.” (MD)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 5m
RD: “We haven’t lost yet but we can improve a lot. We know we are going to get better and our goal is beat Reykjavik.” (MH
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 6m
Because Season Ticket holders have a guaranteed right to buy UEFA Champions League Tickets. Don’t miss out. http://www.celticfc.net/because (NM)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 7m
RD: “We have the goal to get into the group stages of the #UCL and we will fight for that.” (MH)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 7m
KC: “The manager wants us to play a lot more football from the back and play more attractive football.” (MD)
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Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 7m
RD: “You have to be judged on performances. You never know who you can meet in the European Cup.” (MH)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 8m
Kris Commons:”Things haven’t changed for me too much from last year, position wise.” (MD)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 8m
RD: “Celtic want to win trophies and I want to win trophies – the most important thing is the team is doing well.” (MH)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 9m
RD: “There is more pressure at bigger clubs but you also have much better players so you have a big opportunity to achieve things.” (MH)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 9m
RD: “If we can get them to play together and feel good, we can win matches.” (MH)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 10m
RD: “That’s an important thing. I need to try and get my team to perform as well as possible. I know I have good footballers here.” (MH)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 13m
Ronny Deila: “I have been in football for many years and everything is about winning but I need to think how we can win.” (MH)
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 14m
Ronny Deila and Kris Commons address the media ahead of tomorrow’s #UCL clash against KR Reykjavik. (MH)
That’s me off the drink. Never again.
HH
jamesgang. I assume we are not following our interest up or we would have heard by now but who knows ? H.H.
Jamesgang
I will buy ANY good tim a beer.
Big Nan
19:50
I’m sure you are aware that the for safety at sports stadia is set out in the Guide to Safety at Sports Grounds, otherwise known as the Green Guide.
http://www.safetyatsportsgrounds.org.uk/sites/default/files/publications/green-guide.pdf
I have had some dealings with both GCC and Celtic FC on the issue of safe standing areas and to be honest I am astounded by the recent press release where Celtic stated it was GCC who had concerns re the safety of standing areas.
If you go through the guide you will see it planly states that it is up to the owner/operator of a stadia to confirm that any area that is to become a standing area is safe.
Further if you press GCC on this issue they will simply say it is up to the relevant stadia owner/operator to give assurances through risk assesments and other indicators that any proposed changes to a venue are safe.
GCC would not withhold a safety cert for a stadia because they wanted more information re the safety of a conversion from all seated to standing. There is no legislation that prevents any club in Scotland from operating a safe standing area.
Either Celtic changed their mind on a standing area or they failed to provide evidense that the type of seating to be installed in the affected areas was up to British quality control standards, If that is the case it is a very unproffesional behaviour from our club.
jamesgang
Only Tims allowed :-)
I was right about the Germans. I am always right on CQN. I have never been wrong in 9 years. When are you guys going to start noticing ? :-)
HH
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo. Sorry fella but your wrong I had noticed. H.H. :- )
JFH
I cant remember anything ;-) really
HH
Joe
Suspect you may be right. But prob a difficult time to assess the lad given the ore season matches and the small matter of tomorrow.
Hope Ronny and Jonny had a holiday before this gig cos it’s been full on since day 1 and I suspect it won’t slow down for a while!
HT and Masty – sounds like a wise and just beer buying policy to me.
KaChingCSC
HH jamesgang
Beersareus c.s.c
Home from London.
Brill.
To be met by a wee curry and mrs jamesgang.
Hot n beautiful X 2
What more could a Tim ask for?
Laters – KTF
HH jamesgang
jamesgang
You do realise you’ll fall asleep after curry?
uselessmhenC.S.C
SQUAD of 25 players for the C/L Qualifiers
Qualifying phase Tournament phase
Goalkeepers
No. Name P G
1 Fraser Forster – –
24 Łukasz Załuska – –
26 Craig Gordon – –
Defenders
No. Name P G
2 Adam Matthews – –
3 Emilio Izaguirre – –
4 Efe Ambrose – –
5 Virgil van Dijk – –
21 Charlie Mulgrew – –
23 Mikael Lustig – –
34 Eoghan O’Connell – –
Midfielders
No. Name P G
6 Nir Biton – –
15 Kris Commons – –
25 Stefan Johansen – –
33 Beram Kayal – –
42 Callum McGregor – –
46 Dylan McGeouch – –
53 Liam Henderson – –
56 Filip Twardzik – –
Forwards
No. Name P G
10 Anthony Stokes – –
11 Derk Boerrigter – –
17 Amido Baldé – –
20 Teemu Pukki – –
28 Leigh Griffiths – –
32 Tony Watt – –
49 James Forrest – –
Coach: Ronny Deila (NOR)
: Player list B
VP
So tired I may fall asleep in the curry!!!
HH jamesgang
VP
Hope you got going today..
masty is neil lennon and both of us are supporting wee oscar
19:52 on 14 July, 2014
Big nan
not all artex contains asbestos,
“……………………………………”
Who said it did?
Players on B list for C/L qualifiers
Darnell Fisher
Stuart Findlay
Joe Chalmers
Marcus Fraser
John Herron
Jackson Irvine
Bahrudin Atajic
Paul George
Calum Waters
BT
All good mhate,back on road tomorrow…hopefully no breakdown or punctures.HH
SPL on relaxation of rules to allow safe standing, notice the surprise of the Police when asked for their views on this issue. – “If the SPL would like to discuss the issue with us then perhaps we would be able to understand what the specific proposals are.” –
Just when did we allow the Police such power over our game? It would appear you could provide all the evidence you want to support safe standing but if the Police don’t want it then you aren’t going to get it.————————————————————————
“Whenever we talk to supporters about what they’d like to see, safe standing comes up as one of the things they’d like to see,” he told BBC Scotland.
“Whilst there’s a number of hurdles that clubs would need to overcome to re-introduce standing at their grounds, our rules are one of those hurdles.
“So, that’s now out the way and that paves for clubs to come forward with pilot schemes if they have the support of their local police force and local safety committee to come forward and put forward pilot schemes that the SPL board can look at.”
“The perception from some that we’re going to see the re-introduction of open terraces as was the case before is wide of the mark”
Neil Doncaster SPL chief executive
A Strathclyde Police spokeswoman expressed surprise at the announcement, saying: “We have not had any detailed discussions with the SPL around the safe-standing areas.
“If the SPL would like to discuss the issue with us then perhaps we would be able to understand what the specific proposals are.”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/16248937
eddieinkirkmichael
20:49 on
14 July, 2014
Did you watch the Rapid Vienna match Eddie ?
Austrian police seem to police football matches completely differently, free from agenda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_940_q4s_U
Atmosphere Austrian policing
Has there been any discussion on transport ( capacity) back to Glasgow after next week’s match?
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jamesgang
09:01 on 14 July, 2014
History stuff so scroll past please if it
bores you… And accept my apols!
Geek alert on CQN!
Sorry to say that the more I’ve
studied imperial history the more I
look at the 20th century in a new
light that does GB/UK and often scots
in a poor light.
The nazi atrocities of ww2 and those
by Stalin before and during stand out
in scale by numbers and are easier to
touch in time and place.
But look back through centuries of
the British empire in India (check out
cannonading as a punishment) to the
Americas, Africa and Ireland and I can
only conclude that the British were
the original and often the best in
terms of imperial caste system
brutality.
And I say that as someone who has a
great deal of time for the English of
today and who recognises and
appreciates all that ww2 was about
and the debt I owe. And someone
who has no illusions as to the extent
that it was my Scottish ancestors who
carried out so much of the dirty work.
And with that, the train pulls into
London 65 mind late.
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Hello.! What Do We Have Here..?
[Obviously A Self-Hating Guardi*n Reader…!? Ed ]
There Was Never A More Benign Or Benevolent Empire…..
Than That Of The English-Speaking Peoples….
The Finest And Most Gifted Of Human Beans….
To Have Walked On God’s Green Earth..
Take India….We Rescued The Native Hindu Population….
From Centuries Of Slavery And Slaughter…..
Under The Wicked Rule Of Their Cruel Muslim. Invaders….
Which Saw 80 Million Of Their Kindred..
PERISH….!
You Talk Of Imperial Caste System…
Nowhere Was There A More Rigid Caste System….
Than In India…..
Execution By Cannonade…?
This Was Specific Punishment Handed Out….
To Those Who Committed Atrocities To British Woman And Children…..
Held In ‘The Black Hole Of Calcutta’
In The Tippu Sultan Revolt…..
CHOPPED Into Little Pieces..They Were!
The Rail Infrastructure Alone Has Saved Millions Of lives….
And Only ONE Country Stopped Worldwide Slavery….
At Great Cost Of Blood And Treasure..
(More Treasure Than We Ever ‘Earned’ Through Slavery )
And Of Course….
By Making Protectorates Of The Countries Of Central Africa…
Like Uganda And Kenya……
We Put An End To Centuries Long Arab Slavery….
That Had Ravaged Those Unfortunate People……
So Speak For Yourself …JamsieBoy..
Ain’t That The Truth….Virginia !
Up The HOOPS !!
lionroars67
20:52 on
I did mate, it appeared as if the Police were aware that the game and the event it’self is meant to be an enjoyable expierence. It’ll never catch on here mate.
Trying to pick team for tomorrow, I picked Liam Henderson
But
With young Liam having been sent off in a friendly, does this mean he misses first competitive game ? That is tomorrow
Hail Hail
eddieinkirkmichael
20:59 on
14 July, 2014
lionroars67
20:52 on
I did mate, it appeared as if the Police were aware that the game and the event it’self is meant to be an enjoyable expierence. It’ll never catch on here mate.
If only someone in a senior position at Celtic could discuss the Austrian match with Police Scotland asking for their views……………………
eddieinkirkmichael
Might be better if Celtic actually produced a design of a safe standing area before talking the idea up. To the best of my knowledge they haven’t. Take the old enclosure in front of what was then the main (South) stand, redesign/rebuild to enable both safe seating and safe standing. With a low rake, solid bench style seating, could be marble or stone, sufficient and removable handrails when used for standing, (but not the Dortmund over-engineering) and there you have it. There is “safe standing” in football grounds all over Scotland, the only question is whether it can be adapted for games with different rules and regs, ie UEFA. If there is a will there is a way. Celtic lack the first part.
Celtic Football Club @celticfc · 6m
Watch: A round up of Celtic’s pre-season trip to Austria https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1fz9TyHuzc … (NM)
Anyone out in town last night watching WC final and unfortunate enough to bump into Hun Casuals/ICF. Apparently, older crowd about 20 handed, given it FTP etc during game up Sauchiehall Street – Nice.
if the GB had been out and about, it would have been front page this morning…..
Mr Detective
Never take the guardian
No self loathing or loathing of other people’s or nations. Rather an awareness of the past and resolve for the future.
Cannonading. I think you’ll find you’re factually incorrect and it’s use was far more widespread, and more indiscriminate than that.
Yours views on Britain’s role in slavery and the benevolence of empire are …. well perhaps ‘idiosynchtatic’ would the kindest assessment I could offer. Wildly one-eyed would be another more candid one.
I’d struggle to debate with you Sir cos of the absolute, unshakeable faith you display in your versions of events despite the obvious evidence and alternative interpretations that would gain recognition from more open minded CQNers.
And I’m in the middle of a date with a beautiful woman and a beautiful curry.
As for mr james ‘speaking for himself’. Always have. Always will. Think for myself too.
That’s why I’m a Tim.
HH jamesgang
Cowiebhoy, I think Chaz Mulgrew missed a qualifier a couple of seasons back under similar circumstances. Cant remember what dates or games as my memory is shot.
Im sure one of our match historians will remember.
TSD would defend Jimmy Saville because of the charity work he carried out.
jamesgang
for all its worth my advice would be to get on with what seems an excellent evening and let singing detective/kojo argue with himself
HH
twentyfirstofmaynineteenseventynine
I’m going to mhate. That was my first and only reply!
I’ve seen the drill with others.
;-)
HH jamesgang
ACGR
Thanks, not sure if he is suspended for 1st domestic game or 1st competitive game ?
Now, have you recovered from a weekend with Sipsini :-) we can blame him, as he’s on his hols
Oh
And what aboot Lionsroar67 we debate this morning, instantly though of you ( I was in same boat, and seriously considered not renewing 2 tickets, due to our boards lack of support for its fans)
Hail Hail