If you were a professional football player, you would love to be in the Celtic dressing room tomorrow evening. You would have the perfect opportunity to challenge yourself; put in a big, meaningful performance. Record a bit of history and create a uniquely memorable victory.
There are some players who are fraught with anxiety on such occasions, but there are others who NEED these games, need an edge, to reach their peak. If we have a team full of the latter, Legia are in for a torrid night.
I’m doing my best to ignore the naked opportunism in our media this week. There is no point complaining about it, lose heavily and you become vulnerable to those who live to revel in a Celtic defeat. Don’t lose and you don’t give them (friends and foes alike) a chance.
We’ve been here before. Artmedia, Braga, Utrecht, Sion (despite the reprieve) and Karagandy all exposed an aching heart. European football is unforgiving, try to transition and you’ll find someone ready to exploit, but that doesn’t mean you are wrong to transition.
We might talk about this transition more later in the month but we have a game to win first. Can’t wait.
Check out the fantastic work by the cyclists who are taking part in the Paradise to Cardenden Cycle 2014 on 6 September. You can join them – all you need is a bike. Get involved, you’ll be delighted you did, I promise. Read about it here.
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The weather in Edinburgh is absolutely dreadful.
This may be an advantage for those travelling by road this evening because yesterday was by far the busiest of the festival so far going by the roads. It took me almost an hour to get home on the bus.
I hope Celtic can do the business tonight and I am looking forward to the match. I will save any predictions until I see how we line up.
On a side note I watched Hibs last night and Alan Stubbs has done a great job with that side over a short period of time. Played the home team off the park for large portions of the game and played passing football. I wish Stubbs all the best at Easter road. I did tell my Hibs mate at work that a red card, penalty or both should be expected tonight as he left early to head off to the match. Mrs LB was happy with the improvement.
Anyone looking for parking advice this evening let me know and I will post up something before lunch.
Come on Celtic give us a spark tonight. This tie needs to still be alive at half time.
LB
macjay
most workers now work 20+hours or more per week in unpaid overtime,
the employers now have total control, the unions are only good if you are being bullied by your employer, they offer nothing, power has transferred back to the bosses with the austerity issue giving them the power to tell staff they could loose their job at any time…
blantyretim is praying for the Knox family
08:22 on 6 August, 2014
macjay
most workers now work 20+hours or more per week in unpaid overtime,
the employers now have total control, the unions are only good if you are being bullied by your employer, they offer nothing, power has transferred back to the bosses with the austerity issue giving them the power to tell staff they could loose their job at any time…
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One word killed the unions: Mortgage.
c ya
Two things…
£8m!!!!!!!! Terrible if true. Celtic should have set a £12m, take it or leave it figure. If we are to continue this buy in, sell on policy and make it work, then it is essential not to be a soft touch…which is how we’re being viewed. Terrible.
Weather to be much better in Auld Reekie later!
an tearmann,
Had a great weekend on Barra, Hoops everywhere but the Vatersay Boys were playing at a dance at Northbay on the top of the island, could have got there but wouldn’t have fancied my chances of getting back, particularly as it wish chucking it down and blowing a hooligan on Saturday night. Would love to do the entire trek through the Western Isles some time.
Off oot shortly to get a couple of tickets for the game tonight.
AR
dd,
I’m out with my sister on Friday but expecting to be in Chandlers on Friday night at some point.
AR
HAMILTON TIM
Alan Brazil is far from thick,he came second in a competition-to Clark Carlisle,IIRC-to find the most intelligent former footballer.
Howzat for damned by faint praise?
Chris Torey
The right to buy is being abolished in Scotland..
CHRIS TOREY
Worsened by the right to buy yer council house.
Few could have afforded it otherwise.
Either way,BLANTYRE TIM is 100% correct. They are the masters now,and don’t we know it!
Interesting to note the John Beaton was the referee last night when Hibs had a player sent-off for what commentators thought looked like a yellow card offence. I may be wrong here but was he not also the ref when the Albion Rovers goalie got bundled into the net during the Scottish Cup tie at the Death Star in another world first last season?
If so then I can see a trend developing at the country’s newest club.
AR
ANTIPODEAN RED
Put yer money on a red every time they play.
I think they have 36 games scheduled in the league.
They’re sponsored by 32 RED
Coincidence? I don’t think so!!!
Spare ticket for tonight,babysitter issues here,free to a good home ,EK area pick up.
AR- yep, i asked if it was same MIB as AR game and guess what……..
Lads.
Re.Unions.
Unions are absolutely essential.
No two ways about it.
Balance is what is required.
IMHO in the `70s,the tyranny of the bosses was replaced by the tyranny of the Unions.
Blantyretim 8.22…….…That`s also an unhealthy and undesirable situation.
Alan Brazil WAS a Tim
Now he sits with Grey and Mcleish polishing the sevco turds
Chris Torey
08:29 on
6 August, 2014
Agreed.
Mortgages created capitalists. And fealty to banks.
MACJAY
It’s human nature to give someone a kicking when the boot is on the other foot.
Sadly a lot of the time the working man is on the receiving end,no matter who is winning.
There’s not much room for agreement between implacable enemies.
Parkheadcumsalford
08:06 on 6 August, 2014
Morning all. Overcast down here.
Hope we are not downcast through in Edinburgh the night.
Can we have a good day here on CQN? Too many, too often are using this forum to kick what we hold dear. Makes me sick.
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Aint nobody giving what ‘we’ all hold dear, any harder a kicking than – DD and the masons on the Celtic ‘bored’. imho
Sevco will be assisted all the way through the Championship and watch for them catching us in the Premiership within a year or two.
I have no doubt this will happen. How many times have we been told they are about to die again…yet it never happens.
Celtic don’t seem to be concerned and it would appear we are becoming weaker not stronger. I just don’t get it.
jamesgang
08:08 on 6 August, 2014
ENJOY …. with your better half ….!!!!!!!!
syd negakev
09:00 on 6 August, 2014
Your heed’s ful o’ wee broken boatles ……..as mixed up as your moniker, but you are amusing !!
First things first
C’mon the Hoops. i have awoken a tad opTIMistic this morning. Miracles can happen yae know.
Secondly, who let the loony in to post his rant at top of page. Seriously, Independence is in the best interest of Gloabalists. How does that statement marry? As for the rest of that post. just wow! It’s not a concentration camp for Catholics, it’s Leverndale for you my bhoy!
MWD says AYE
MWD says AYE
67Heaven
Why don’t you think it will happen?
And yes, my head is full of stuff….’sweetie mice’ my da just to say.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon ….The angels are with Wee Oscar in Heaven.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
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Maybe the next time that yer on reading yer pal, Phil Mac’s stuff….on my behalf, will you ask him – “Why he, hastily released a book ‘Downfall’ about the huns downfall?”
Did he release the book cos, deep down….he knew it wisny the downfall?
I’ll say it again….the ‘only’ way that the huns will be subject to a downfall, will be when someone comes along and, flattens Ibrox!
But, tricky thing is…who’s got the courage to do that?
I know that you place gtreat store in the BDO side of things but, my spider-senses tell me that, if they(BDO) were going to take the huns out….they’d have done it by now. imho
I asked Paul 67 once on here – “Who’ll win? Celtic, or the masons?”
Paul 67 said -“The good guys will win.”
I wish the good guys would hurry the f#ck up!
Hopefully yer monicker will be realised :)
Hail Hail, ya Hahahahahappy-Clapping eejit:)
i used to moan when english based radio stations hardly ever spoke about scottish football
however i gladly make an exception for talksport
from brazil to quinn to durham to gough, they clearly have no idea what is happening in the game up here, either on or off the park, and so i cringe at their ignorance whenever they try to dip their elbows in the subject
so talksport, just stick to englandur football
kevjungle is a celtic fan…not a supporter.
09:16 on 6 August, 2014
Darn the hair that we care now ….!!
Syd Negakev
`Sweetie mice` I like that.
Because of the way it always has been in Scotland, I share your worries re Sevco being backed, ie receiving `favours`, all the way to the top.
My hope that they`ll never be a force is based on their either going out of business or taking so long to challenge us that they will have lost so many from their fan base that they, at best, will be fighting for second place. I also see a glimmer of hope that if this new EPL U/21 initiative takes off, then exit from Scotland moves a step closer ….or should that be further? 0:-)
JJ
syd negakev
09:10 on 6 August, 2014
Because ……. I see deed peepul….the spivs (patient vultures) will have their day
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon ….The angels are with Wee Oscar in Heaven.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
09:20 on 6 August, 2014
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Hopefully, there’s lots more smoke to come oot that lumb of yours – ya eejit:)
HH
jungle jim
09:21 on 6 August, 2014
Correct ….!!!!
I can’t believe the (relatively) paltry sums for which Celtic allow their star players to go to the EPL.
Ross McCormack from Championship for £11 MILLION?? Jack Rodwell (who has hardly kicked a ball forever) for £10 million??
We let Ki go too cheap, Hooper too. Forster for £8m? EIGHT?! England World Cup squad member. Young. Champions League player- Champions League performer- a winner. Genuinely, £18m is closer to the mark.
The EPL clubs are awash with cash. They are getting more than ever from the Sky pot. Even the relegated clubs will receive payments far far in excess of the total SPFL and SFL prize fund. Anyone who could run a school tuck shop should return a profit at any EPL club. They literally have more money than sense.
If we have a policy of buying cheap and selling ‘high’ (sic), then at least sell for realistic prices. We know that RD won’t get total sale fees so let’s sell at levels which will provide real options for the first team squad, the most important piece in the PLC jigsaw.
67Heaven
Surely the spivs will have an even bigger payday when Sevco get back into the land of the living in the top division?
No sixth sense required. :-)
Dexter
09:24 on 6 August, 2014
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What difference does it make – how much the players are sold for?
It all just….disappears, anyway!
Dexter
You can only get for players what people are willing to pay.
Hooper wanted to leave. Ki wanted to leave. Ki wasn’t even a first team regular. I thought Celtic got an excellent deal there.
LB
kevjungle is a celtic fan…not a supporter.
09:27 on 6 August, 2014
Dexter
09:24 on 6 August, 2014
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What difference does it make – how much the players are sold for?
It all just….disappears, anyway!
Lol at that one Kev. To true. I remember last year the wow factor of 12.5m and then in a puff of smoke it’s gone and magically appeared on AGM day
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
08:46 on 6 August, 2014
CHRIS TOREY
Worsened by the right to buy yer council house.
Few could have afforded it otherwise.
Either way,BLANTYRE TIM is 100% correct. They are the masters now,and don’t we know it!
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The council house sell off cemented it. I was up North in the early 80’s and if “strike action” was even mentioned you could smell the “roses” in the meeting.
Mortgage a debt until death indeed.
Still its good to know who owns you. By now people should have realised neither Tory nor Labour will be of any help. They are owned too.
c ya
syd negakev
09:27 on 6 August, 2014
That’s EXACTLY what their strategy is …. get the SB money for next season , then fly out of the Cuckoo’s nest ……. But they are struggling to finance towards that ‘goal’…….. and who ur you callin’ an eejit, ya wee hunclapper …. Hahahahahahaha
Big Stubbs says it like it is.
From The Herald
http://www.heraldscotland.com/mobile/sport/football/harsh-handling-red-card-deciding-factor-insists-stubbs.24970964
“The sending-off changed the game,” said Stubbs. “We were in the ascendancy at the time and I felt we were going to go on and win the game. I thought it was harsh. More often than not, I think a yellow would be sufficient, but the referee sees it differently.”
Stubbs refused to go into further detail on Beaton’s decision, making a somewhat cryptic comment to the time he spent as a central defender at Celtic.
“I am not going to get into that one,” he said. “I had five years of it.”
Ally McCoist, the Rangers manager, showed little sympathy for Handling. “It was a poor tackle,” said McCoist. “Whether a sending-off or not, the referee was nearer than us.”
HH