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
Is OldTim going to The Dam?
TT
TT
No barca again. Booked for a week…some man…
BT
Get your vote in for the KOSC, for next Saturdays gathering.
Original venue to watch game no longer available
Hail Hail
If I read one more “what saints are going to do to Celtic” type headline I’ll scream.
Hope there’s a lot of MSM ,er,” journalists” crying into their beer tonight
Cowie
I’m due to work so no thanks..8)
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUo8UgZCUAAJHEw.jpg
cowiebhoy in support of fearless oscar & family:
Alive and well my good Bhoy. Had Laptop problems but back on now.
Hope your well.
Thanks Jobo for the nod.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
CultsBhoy loves being 1st forever & ever
08:48 on 21 September, 2013
‘Big Fraser…it might give them the strength to come out…’
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I won’t comment on the rainbow laces guff.
What I would like to know though, any maybe one of the many football experts on here could enlighten me, but how do you reconcile a keeper commanding his box with zonal marking?
It seems to me like a recipe for chaos.
And maybe FF stays on his line because that’s what he’s told to do.
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Right..That is it..I Have Had Enough..
Gary Hooper scored 4 Goals for Celtic in the Champions League in 3 Seasons..l think ONE or TWO in the Group Stages proper..
We got 6 Million for Him..
He was that Good in Europe we Never even Progressed in the Europa Cup with him..Think he scored ONE..
So SIX MILLION Doesn’t buy You a Guarantee of said Player battering them in..In the Champions League..
He is Getting more Prolific with Every game he Sits on the Bench at Norwich..;-)
Summa
BMCUWP
There will be thousands of empty seats at Killie next week.
Why don’t you all go to the match and support the team , then meet up after the match?
It is an early kick off and will allow a boozy day out after the match.
First stop back from Killie , could still be the KOSC in Blantyre.
TT
Ernie Lynch
Fraser made a few top drawer saves midweek. If he ‘came out’ more he’d be the real deal but he seems rooted to his line so if he’s being trained to do that the training is wrong
Ernie Lynch 19.19
You mean your want big Fraser to wear rainbow laces and come out(:-)
TT
Morning All. Any day Celtic have a game getting out of bed is easier. I really hope that Biton,Rogic, Derk & Pukki start today. Lets see what they are made of. All 4 is being a bit greedy I suppose so I’ll settle for Biton, Derk & Pukki, sorry Tom.
Ernie Lynch 19.19
On a serious note .
You have made a valid point.
I think it is highly likely Fraser is following orders.
TT
How much is Michael Johnston charging away fans next week?
I will vote with my feet and listen to it on Celtic TV or the radio
blantyretim is praying for the knox family
09:06 on 21 September, 2013
Cowie
I’m due to work so no thanks..8)
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PMSL,mate….
On a bus into London,tube to Euston to get a train to Glasgow.
Counting will be done over my first few pints in The Doric Arch,result around noon
That should give you time to organise a change of shift!!!!
T T
We’re having a self imposed ban on following Stadia;
Kilmarnock – due to Michael Abstain Johnston
St Mirren – due to Zombie connection
Motherwell – due to sectarian bile from “family” club
LENNYBHOY
Been looking for you on here too!
I don’t have your e-mail addy,so couldn’t ask you out for a small libation next week.
Just as well,as I cocked it all up anyway!!!
So,fancy a beer or forty five next Saturday?
Bmcuw.
I blame you for me thinking it was Sunday…
TINYTIM
I see your point-in fact,my two sisters will be at the game.
Not for me,though. I only have one full Saturday in Scotland.
Plan was always a sesh after a home game,sesh instead of an away game.
I wish you would join us,I still have to grovel in person for my outrageous faux pas a few months back!
Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,
Celtic, Celtic on to victory,
They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,
We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the scottish football
league.
They come from bonnie Scotland, they come from county Cork,
They come from dear old Donegal and even from New York,
From every street in Glasgow they proudly make their way,
To a place called dear old paradise and this is what they say.
Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,
Celtic, Celtic on to victory,
They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,
We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the scottish football
league.
There’s Fallon, Young and Gemmell who proudly wear the green,
There’s Clark, McNeill and Kennedy the best there;s ever been,
Jim Johnstone, Murdoch, Chalmers, John Divers and John Hughes,
And sixty thousand Celtic fans who proudly shout the news.
Celtic, Celtic thats the team for me,
Celtic, Celtic on to victory,
They’re the finest team in Scotland, I’m sure you will agree,
We’ll never give up till we’ve won the cup and the scottish football
league.
BLANTYRE TIM
Blame Peter Lawwell. I did,when I found out the original venue was shut!
Good luck to The Aussie Tim-fest, sounds like a blast….
………..and set on the Gold Coast too……!!!
..countdown to “The Rumble in Tuwumba”………….
;)
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers forza oscar and mackenzie
09:42 on 21 September, 2013
TINYTIM
I see your point-in fact,my two sisters will be at the game.
Not for me,though. I only have one full Saturday in Scotland.
Plan was always a sesh after a home game,sesh instead of an away game.
I wish you would join us,I still have to grovel in person for my outrageous faux pas a few months back!
…………………………………
Would that have been the tiny tit one??
GCT,
Thanks for the heads up on a good name change :)))
PL to minimum wage catering staff this morning:
“Conspiracy theories do not exist in the dojo, do they?”
“No, Sensai !!!”
“5 Way Agreements do not exist in this dojo, do they?”
“No, Sensai !! “
Talking of kosc.
Has Phil a book due out soon?
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers forza oscar and mackenzie 09:38:
I sure be there drop me an email and will get your moby number Lennybhoycfc@gmail.com
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
DESERTBHOY
It was,mate. Excruciating when I read it.
Looking foward to Nir Biton making his home debut
Best
After Wednesday night I have no nails left to bite…
Still not too late to get along to @CelticGraves event being held this morning at Cathcart Cemetery (11.30am) in honour of Willie Maley.
@celticwiki
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers forza oscar and mackenzie
Was attempting to link a pic to ornithologist, but not tech savvy.
Glendalystonsils @ 9.05
Who`s been saying what?
JJ
DESERTBHOY
Don’t,mate. Not often I feel really shabby,that was a rare occasion that even I couldnae brass out.
In the spirit of the report yesterday that there is a rise in domestic abuse by “old firm” fans after old firm games here are some more generalised statements.
“Old firm” supporters have a tendancy to riot and attempt to murder policemen during European finals when large TV screens break down.
“Old firm” teams for years had a policy of not signing any Catholics.
“Old firm” teams do not pay their bills and stiff their creditors.
It is a pity the data could not be segmented in anyway to make it more meaningful.
Weather forecast for Celtic Park : Cloudy; little or no rain.15 Celsius light wind
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS forza Oscar and Mackenzie 10:00:
Got your mail, will be replying from my non-CQN addy.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Desertbhoy
Those pics are best left to bar and dbbia.