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.
1254125 at The Great Scottish Run.
On Sunday 6 October there is a 10k and Half Marathon. If that is beyond you. There are family events taking place the day before. This is your club, remind the world of what really counts and get involved in 1254125.
The first thing you need to do is sign up for the Great Scottish Run, or here for one of the family events.
Once you’ve done that, you can register for the 1254125 campaign here.
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https://dub119.mail.live.com/default.aspx?id=64855#n=1650074481&fid=1&cid=13375de0-b0fe-9e12-72ff-cfb76566fc68&fv=1
Paul 67
Could you please delete that last post of mine?
good tune but I don’t understand a word of it
http://youtu.be/4L_DQKCDgeM
fergus slayed the blues
I am too long in the tooth not to understand all the crap we have had to endure, and will until we escape.
The suits have tried their damnest to escape, of that I have no doubt, and a euro league, a jazzed up version of the CL will be the compromise, a weekend version, cos the FFP will NOT work.
We will be part of it I also have no doubt, probably in a second tier, but it will bring riches we can only dream of.
It’s just taking far too long for me >}
HH
FSTB
It would be a head v heart dillema. Head says new team. Heart says destroy them cause of their followers.
Jude
Ha, I got a yellow card for that >}
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
How is that happening ?
THE EXILED TIM
:)))
Gordybhoy,
When my daughter went over to the UK, she arranged her insurance through Admiral.
Incidentally, I asked Paul for your e- mail address, but await a reply.
Going by your dates, we have a very small window, i.e. afternoon of the 24 th.
Messed up a cut and paste. Supposed to be Merle Haggard
leftclicktic
When posters click on it, they assume, wrongly that you can hack their e mail account.
He is trying to post something that is in his e mail addy,
HH
bognorbhoyle oscar in my thoughts
Thank you
This is seemingly the new vocalist and is on the set list for next week
mostly autumn wild eyed skies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBo6LE9PbLI
TET
Y C for what?
jude2005.
when I click that link my e mail page appears,hows that happening
Is the delete dept closed?
THE EXILED TIM
I’m remember now done the same last year :(( and thought everyone could see turns out I could only see my own.
thank you for the memory jog
setting free the bears,
That is an excellent comment because Babasonicos was facing some Demons, he definitely came back for a while and I am sure he will be delighted that his music selections are having an impact on peoples Lives, hopefully he reads this, I know he was depressed but he was still trying to help others through his chosen field, Music. Every Life is precious, we ALL have a role in this Great Play from the Big Guy up stairs.
Lisbona.csc
Pot 1 Shop windowing EPL fodder
Pot 2 Nice turnover
Pot 3 last 16 in Europe if yer lucky
Pot 4 Wonder what the huns are daein?
fstb,
Another consideration in blooding young boys in the first team, is, unfortunately, the unforgiving plonkers in the stands.
They neither understand football or the pressure of a kid trying to make an impression.
I remain convinced that a carefully constructed loan plan is the way forward for boys who look if they will make it.
Either that, or abolish the youth programme and cherry pick other clubs’ starlets.
thomthethim,
there are one or 2 others with my e mail,TET and BMCUW both have it,
they can pass it on if they have yours
It’s an education on here of a Friday.
I’m off to Befordshire.
Wnen I was a student we stayed up late and played Risk until this came on Richard Park’s Radio Clyde Midnight Surgery.
I know he was an Uber Hun but he knew a tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-XNXSCE-Ek
It is just a wee trivial thing, but it is Brilliant to see the olde FSTB and SFTB posting at around the same Time.
Nostalgia.csc
Guilt by Association
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RsY8l0Jg3lY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPsdRUHiCAE
SFTB,
My favourite story about the Behan brothers was of Brendan looking through a drawer in their mother’s house & finding a load of writings scribbled in a jotter. ‘What the Hell is this’, asks the Quare Fella’.
‘ It’s just some poetry I was working on’, says Dom .
‘ Poetry ?… POETRY ? … Away you Effin’ Eejit… Do you think geniuses come in litters ?’, says Brendan.
What a house that must have been.
Jude
For doing what you did.
You tried to post something that is in your e mail account, when we click on it, it directs us to our own account.
Nothing sinister, but someone e mailed Paul when I did it, they were so feckin paranoid, I got a YC for my computer ignorance.
………………………………..
As an aside, Paul is a very busy man, and I’m sure he really can’t be arsed sending posters e mail addy to all n sundrie…..
Why do posters not set up an alternative account that they can post on here, so posters can no bother Paul.
Just a suggestion.
HH
So no more domestic violence in Scotland then
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-24173811
TET,
sorry pal only asked
leftclick, I’m bringing a box just in case I get surrounded by yerself and the trio of rutherglen giants. My neck was sore for a week after the last hootenanny.
I’ll take your 4 -0 prediction for tomorrow, I might even stick a tenner on it.
This guy lived his songs- brilliant acting while singing
Les bonbons
TET
Thanks for that info but im half ay thru a very nice malt!! H H
All noted btw!! Will tend it in the morn! <:0)
Tet
Emdy can email me.
blantyretim@aol.co.uk
I’ll pass on details no probs
Did the kettle boil over down at the Gallowgate last Saturday?
My name isnae really blantyretim…honest..
BT, are you there next Saturday?
What about big T?
I’ve not heard back from him since my last email to him. It will be into October now before I can mark his card……….so to speak.
I’m nearly away but SFTB’s post of Jaques Brel made me think ‘Who does that guy remind me of?’
Voila.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VQ_3sBZEm0
Dessie, John give me a C chord please :))
Luke Kelly – Scorn Not His Simplicity
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTBC7ckTWpo
Star Club, Glasgow
1st October – Dick Gaughan
22nd October – Andy Irvine
Who at Celtic is responsible for having fixtures against Barca and Ajax coinciding with these gigs?
I blame PL.
WTF is the lead article all about, Paul ?
Spanish going through a bit of a lull; black players getting booed ? Don’t know what games you went to – never experienced that myself at any Celtic game . . . . .ever.
Gay players ? Exactly what is the problem ? Let’s all wear coloured laces. What about straight players ? What colour laces for that ? Or is that being homophobic ?
It’s all bollox.