A cursory look at our fellow pot 4 Champions League teams shows the extent of the challenge. Six of the eight teams lost: Steaua Bucharest (3-0), Austrian Vienna (0-1), Celtic (2-0), Real Sociedad (0-2), Plzen (0-3), Anderlecht (2-0).
Copenhagen got one of the better results of the night, a 1-1 draw at home to Italian champions, Juventus, while Napoli, who split Juve and Milan in the Italian league last season, but are still a pot 4 team, recorded the only bottom tier win, a 2-1 victory over last season’s finalists, Borussia Dortmund.
Napoli are in a different category than the rest but Celtic are in with a decent chance of out-performing others from pot 4.
Sociedad’s home reversal to Shakhter Donetsk, who are going through a rebuilding process was a shock, but Valencia’s 0-3 Europa League defeat to Swansea indicates a worrying scenario for Spanish football below the uber-indebted Barca and Real Madrid. As a general rule, anything which undermines one of the economically powerful football nations should be welcomed by those disenfranchised by the size of their TV market (that’s us).
Shakhtar Karagandy put in a credible performance before going down 2-1 in Greece, a far better showing than Elfsborg’s 4-0 collapse in Salzburg. Best of luck to the Kazaks.
I’ve been going to the football long enough to remember black players being booed whenever they touched the ball. The phenomenon seemed to arrive here in the late 70s and faded around a decade later, although such is human nature I don’t think complacency is appropriate. Homophobia is a different matter.
‘Out’ gay footballers are so rare I don’t know what the reaction would be at a match but the crowd-bullying phenomenon which can exist in the game makes any minority vulnerable. The first step is to explain to the hard-of-thinking what they are doing, and the error of their ways.
Can rainbow coloured laces change the world? Stonewall have distributed rainbow coloured laces to every player in the UK, asking them to wear them this weekend. We’ll not see the WAGs acronym become WAGSABAH overnight but it feels like an appropriate, colourful, first step.
Keep reaching for that rainbow, Celtic.
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BT
If its Sept wknd you can surely get a pass out from mrs bt :)
4 out of our next 5 games at home with the missing one being BMCUWPs day oot.
Ooooft!!
Tbj.
I am going but was due to work next Saturday. Need to ask for it off now..
I wonder if the British Royal Society have any sort of Agenda?
The Royal Society of Edinburgh?
Their premises have an inexplicable twin towers that look so out of place to a normal architect, not an adept howevaah.
The mindset of these Theosophists, is all about Destruction. I dinnae mind the Masons so much now, well I do, but these Theos are within our midst, they ALWAYS have been and Always Will be.
My God, of the Bible, for those who are not sure, :) will expose all the lying cheating toerags when he decides, if he decides. It is Gods story after all. I don’t expect an explanation, I don’t want an explanation, I’m just Glad to be a part of Gods amazing story. My life is a story in itself.
I notice the Greenspan Creative Destruction youtubes have been removed apart from one, so I’m certainly not going to link to that.
HH to God, Family, Celtic and all the Honest guys in this World who are struggling but Keep the Faith Religiously.
vp ko’d by fearless oscar knox
18:58 on 20 September, 2013,
-:)))) That fair cheered me up!
bt
Santa will be at CP before malorbhoy buys a round:o)
How is oldtim? He wisnae feeling too good at the Stan Petrov game.
Jobo,
Are you goin’ to the day oot old fella?
I have never understood the Genesis thing.
They’re murder.
TT
CT
Hope the Sex change op went well
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ro7rw-iHsV0&feature=player_detailpage
Daft Punk go all na hÉireann –
petec –
’twill be a last minute decision but hope to be there. I’ve saved well over £8.55 already and there’s still a week to go.
TinyTim
Your Tea is out also
SOAL,
Just call me Hayley eh, then again -:)
EDB 21.07
Great to read that.
TT
CT
Hope you are on the good meds..
You home yet?..
Edb
Indeed. Spoke to him today. Seemed in good form..
BT, still in, hopefully home on Monday.
ZimmersCSC
CT
Take it easy. Speak to you next week hopefully..
SOAL
Keep on Keeping on(:-)
TT
EDB – Glad to hear you are back to work hopefully see you soon!
CT – Leave those poor Nurses alone, you don’t get bed baths every time you get a pain killer!
Edb, you know Malorbhoy is very generous of spirit, he just hides it well.
Glad to hear your doing well, hope to see yo tomorrow.
Bma
Jobo Baldie,
Great stuff, your betting nous is sensational, IMO.. probably because you keep the stakes mega low.
Genesis are a grand old band to play for and let no one tell you different.
There are , of course, like our cash strapped former rivals from the Soo’ side, several incarnations.
The line would be that the later versions bought the assets and history of the earlier ones.
Me, I know what I like. This is from the Apollo in 1976 and was the best line up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTa-wMTElHQ
minx1888,
Are you gonna make next week, Fine Girl ye are?
BT, I’ll see you then.
minx1888, What a letdown that wis, had to do it masel as usual :-)))
Let’s get funky, with the Vinyl Junkie.
Dance Dance Dance
Paranoid about everything and anything apart from Yes Hu A !!!
House to myself so time, in fact the umpteenth time, to delight in The Rutles “All You Need Is Cash”.
Have a nice evening and be nice, now…
Minx
Cowiebhoy was looking for a photographer for a wedding next year.
Told him our pals daughter could give him a price.
Genisis
bad enough with peter gabriel frontin them. Thereafter absolute keech
EDB
If you are still on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5dwksSbD34
Mr H Chapin = Taxi
petec – Can’t make it next week, I know the singalong won’t be the same without me … it will be a good one :-)
CT – I am sure you will work your charm :-)
BT – he has been in touch will get details to him! How are you? How is the leg?
Faith Factory?
The sonics from 1:50 to 2:10 are straight out of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, New Age Sonic division, i.e. it is sensational.
Minx
Getting there pal.
Taxi from central to office every morning..
minx1888,
That is a shame, we will try and enjoy ourselves despite you not being there this Time.
It will be tough but I think we can Do It.
Green Brigade
Petec
What a track! DB The Rock’s finest. Enjoyed that thanks :)
Eclecticism is the very fellow on Friday Night is Music Night.
Genesis or Harry Chapin?
Catholic, with a small ‘c’ taste ( inclusive and open to all) is the Dee Jay Gig on a Vendredi.
Check out Charlie Watts in his home Town Strip in this from Milan in 1970.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AN5qpPiTHI
Blindlemonchilton
Has the bro finished his wee walk?
RWE
My memory ain’t what it used to be ,I first noticed this when I went up the jiggin in Glasgow and kept forgetting I was merried . LOL
Do you see JI as a future CB or midfielder for the bhoys .
I thought seeing more of the young bhoys getting their chance as a plus point (among all others ) of our oldest rivals death .
Our trouble is CL aspirations and it is no slight on us believing these are the circles we should be mixing in but whilst we are condemned to the Scottish corruption league we have to make the most of what we have .Not to do so would hurt us as a club .
IMO many people slate the board for what is unfolding at the moment but I believe we are stuck here and the board know it ,let’s face it DD and any suits with a Celtic investment would know it would be worth at least 10 fold if they could find anyway of getting us out of the Scottish game .
The mob over the water have had over 100 yrs to dig their trenches and it will take a lot to root them oot .
Until European football adapts ,we are stuck with the tribute act and IMO the board at Celtic will use them as much as possible as a selling point .
The trouble with this is that a lot of supporters will see this as playing to the old firm tag ,so they are in a lose ,lose situation IMO
I thought the death of Ragers would have given us the chance to blood and encourage the bhoys coming through to find their feet and get us off our seats but alas CL expectations put paid to that and I don’t mean that as a criticism of our support but more a criticism of football in general .
One thing I will say is that how does it look when we shut the top tier of the LL stand a season after that mob died ,who do we think that helps ,our board distance us from them or the MSM case to fast track the tribute act into the sfpl .
The financial climate has played it’s part but I have heard comments like I don’t go now because we have no challenge ,I cannot post my thoughts on that mindset .
Petec
Surpassed yourself with SBTD. You know my faves are Waterfall and Tightrope. Please. :)