Congratulations to Celtic, who last night became the first Scottish team to win a European tie since, Celtic, last season. While I am sure we would all have preferred to face Dundalk in the next Champions League qualifying round, a trip to Norway to face Rosenborg will be welcome by the club.
Rosenborg are not the same force we faced 16 years ago, and even that team was a shadow of the team who tested Real Madrid a few seasons earlier. The Norwegians succumbed to the inevitable forces of economic plunder, as clubs from richer leagues picked off their talent at increasingly earlier ages.
We should have more than enough in the tank for this one.
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JIMBO67
I didn’t agree with the “paramilitary” banner,nor with the old song book being dusted off.
But..
Do unto others,etc…
THERESA MAY ?
” We learn that she is coming here for a 5 day walking holiday in the Alps . We hope she comes equipped with a map , a compass and a plan re where she wants to go and what she wants to see..If not we might get 5 days of her walking round in circles shouting Hiking means Hiking “.
La Repubblica -21 07 2017
Of the charges over the Linfield games 1 is for fans banner
Other 4 are for the players and staff( kit man)
Every 1 of these could be defended or at least questioned
Is there an opportunity to do so or as the timreaper said yesterday we are unable to question the decisions?
SoT,
Hahaha! Excellent!
SOUTHOFTUNIS
Ouch!
Currently listening to Studio One Rockers, in Aghios Nikolaos. And maybe some Sinkane to follow.
My friends in Celtic,
Yesterday a post mentioned EUFA never charge “big” clubs. ( Apologies, can’t remember from whom ). Off the top of my head from last year I remember Man Utd, Liverpool and Dortmund being charged. I’m sure there will be others.
I see the Celtic boards statement, it is extremely unequivocal in its condemnation. Will appropriate action take place prior to July 28th.
I enjoy the atmosphere the GB bring to Parkhead, but I fear they have forced our club into an impossible position.
I am glad we are offski on holiday today, because I feel saddened that we have given our enemies a lifeline and the oxygen of publicity. The dinosaurs are laughing, a few of us have rolled back the years to their level.
I hated this horrendous tie from the minute it was drawn. A potential banana skin off the park, and am sorry to say , some of us saw it but still slipped.
I sincerely hope Celtic do not totally overreact or else the only winners will be the Huns on both sides of the water.
HH to all. Bon voyage.
BLANTYRETIM
I expect we can defend every charge if we want to. But we just take it every time.
BMCUWP
Not for a moment am I wishing retribution on these GB guys -or worse launching into a KevJ done a la Kojo pseudo-folksy monologue – just wishing these guys were a bit more savvy (KevJ is in fact right about them in a lot of ways and so was Auldheid in a post last night).
I disagree though with a sentiment that we somehow need to ‘respond’ to anything Linfield fans or Marchers [whose drums wake me up every other Saturday it seems] do. They should be beneath our contempt instead we sank to their level.
Jimbo67
I think the Linfield game brought out the worst in a lot of us, I know it did me, I was beeline’ the whole time we were involved with them. You get older and you think you’ve grown but that stuff is buried deep.
I’ve been away half my life so it took me by surprised the depth of my anger and the words out of my mouth.
I spent my angry teens and twenties at Celtic Park supporting the Hoops, I made mistakes there too and to deny our youth that chance seems still a bit off to me. The Green Brigade have brought a passion and a colour to the games that was missing for a while at Paradise and yes they have made mistakes and they may well continue to make mistakes but they’re Celtic fanatics through and through over and over.
They deserve at least the chance to grow up on the hallowed stairs and steps of Paradise.
The idea that me an middle aged fart is going to deny them that is ridiculous in the extreme, as if I or we would have listened much in those glorious 80’s:))
Celtic as One or Celtic as None in the face of those who would gladly do us down.
Bring on The Rosenbergers:))
DHARMA BAM
Blackbeard-Strictly Dubwise shaking the foundations here:))
Enjoy!
SOUTH OF TUNIS
on21ST JULY 2017 9:47 AM
THERESA MAY ? ” We learn that she is coming here for a 5 day walking holiday in the Alps .
We hope she comes equipped with a map , a compass and a plan re where she wants to go and what she wants to see..If not we might get 5 days of her walking round in circles shouting Hiking means Hiking“.
La Repubblica
-21 07 2017
Brilliant. :-)
HH
UEFA do sanction the big clubs.
http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=2112350.html
Is May taking her very own elephant Boris with her on her trip through the alps
To be fair to Theresa, walking in the mountains helps with her decision-making processes. In Snowdonia at Easter she decided to go for a snap election.
Morning all
Still pretty hacked off about Wednesday. It was not the banners which offended me it was the spell just after the second goal when some old hits were belted out with such venom. I mentioned the look on my Lisburn born friend yesterday but in some ways more telling still was the reaction of a couple of Celtic supporting workmates who bith said to me ‘too much rebs last night’ (adjective omitted in one of their cases). This was Linfield we were playing – we know what they are and should know that the best way we can show how pathetically insignificant they are is to ignore them. They are as a character in The Long Good Friday said of and to Harold Shand ‘you are the sh*t on their shoes’.
I don’t know where this is leading with UEFA….
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No charges relate to singing, so that ones heading nowhere with Uefa.
Have you never been in a Celtic bar, I mean you can’t be that shocked about a couple of rebel tunes, we’ve been singing them and they’ve been part of the songbook as long as any of us can remember!
Whatever you think about them musically or relevance to a football match, there is no sectarian element to them.
HH
Above…. to jimbo67 on 21st July 2017 9:23 am
Starry Plough at 10am
I think to borrow an SFAism it’s time for me ” to move on”
Jimbo67
Turkeybhoy,
Do you live near the earthquake area. ? Hope all is well with you and yours.
HH.
I can see it’s going to be Carthage now with these Theresa May jokes.
I noticed that about uefa ordering a couple of sections of the Real ground to be closed, they are quite hot on racism it seems as long as it disny involve huns, they can do as they please.
Just ask Scott Sinclair
Or any Irish-Catholic involved with Celtic, but that’s a different kinda racism so it disny count with uefa.
JIMBO67
Or as they say here . weiter mit den Mitre:))
Art of War on 21st July 2017 12:38 am
Does anyone on here actually know someone in GB?
I do.
He is very much a political chap and Celtic is NOT his 1st team.
I’ll let that sink in.
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Oh well then, they must all be the same as this guy!
Shocking that anyone at Celtic Park should have any outside interests! And an absolute disgrace that someone may have the audacity to maybe also follow a club from their own part of the world, be it Ireland or England or further afield, in addition to the famous Glasgow Celtic.
It took a while but consider it now sunk in.
Hold the front page.
Grenpinata
Only caught your reply last last night. Don’t want you to think I’ve fallen out of love with you…..-)
Tomatoes still a fruit…fishal.
Have a safe holiday
HH
TRADITIONALIST88 on 21ST JULY 2017 10:10 AM
That is exactly where the songs should remain. Not at Paradise.
Many of us enjoy a right sing song after games in likeminded pubs. Nobody is forced to go. If it offends you, simple; go to a different boozer.
A football ground which encapsulates all political views, all religions ( and none ) all sections of society in a modern multicultural country is not the place.
Some may then quote history and our founders, however that’s not always relevant in 2017, after all , to those of you who own a Volkswagen vehicle, I very much doubt you endorse its history.
HH and defo aff oot.
GEAROID1998 on 21ST JULY 2017 10:15
Cheers. : )))))))))
Morning Celts
What are Celtic supporters being blamed for today? There’s usually something.
Look, there’s a crisp poke blowin doon the street:)
HH
BT- the charge and fine for 5 bookings is standard practice for UEFA, but if the Club had any balls they would have tried to get the ridculous booking for LG rescinded, taking it down to 4 yellows maybe.HH
Greenpinata on 21st July 2017 10:23 am
That is your opinion, maybe you should tell the Club to stop playing the Fields of Athenry and Let the People Sing.
The question from Jim was, where this is going with UEFA. The answer is nowhere on this one. There is no charge relating to songs.
Why are some Celtic fans happy to act like the MSM at times? Essentially doing their work for them.
One charge is in relation to a banner held by one guy.
The other charges are the clubs fault.
HH
Season tickets sold out
HH
new article posted.
THETIMREAPER on 21ST JULY 2017 10:04 AM
UEFA do sanction the big clubs.
http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/news/newsid=2112350.html
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In which case it’s time to got the big boys onside against the bullies.
UEFA are making it up as they go along. Remember our first charge,illicit chanting?
What a crock of…
Their rules are opaque,but clear enough to them rather than those they find to have erred.
Their responsibility is to the game,not to pursue an illogical and unworkable agenda in an increasingly politicised world.
Clubs should ONLY be charged when they have broken the law. Not some petty wee rule book dreamt up by highly-paid jobsworths at highly-recompensed jollies.
Much has been made of the UEFA Disciplinary Committee and how Celtic (and the perceived wee teams) always seem to be on the receiving end of their findings. Have a scroll through the attached link – think you’ll find a fair number of Last 16 CL participants feature pretty regularly.
http://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/disciplinary/index.html
Fines typically feature; letting off fireworks, throwing objects and waving banners deemed to be inappropriate.
Take the time to scroll down the highlighted dates (approx 27 down to Monday 19th December 2016) and read their response to the Estelades Catalan Independence Display at 2 Barcelona games – spells out in great detail why UEFA are anti-political banners and displays.
BEATBHOY on 21ST JULY 2017 10:12 AM
I can see it’s going to be Carthage now with these Theresa May jokes.
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IMO,best recentish comment on that subject was that anyone who thought violence never solved anything had never heard of Carthage.
Heinemann springs to mind,but I think that’s wrong.
I’d never heard of the place till I found an old book at a jumble sale,I was about 14 or summat. Fascinating story.
Laying it waste with salt must have been an expensive undertaking for Rome bearing in mind the cost of that most basic commodity back then.
Btw,-“I need more elephants.”
“Why? What have you done to the first lot?”
Classic logistics conversation!!!
BMCUW @ 9:57 AM & BLANTYRETIM,
“I expect we can defend every charge if we want to. But we just take it every time.
Interesting…
What would you suggest our defence should be?
Just~Curious
Hail Hail
to Celtic fans called the greem brigade
It dont cut it
An opportunity was lost.
On wed we played an extreme form of entitlement, financed and supported by the same “youth club””youth advisors” who helped fund and support birth funding for a club “accepted into” our league structure in 2012.
We missed a chance to highlight
1…and ridicule that entitlement..how its been overseen from Green to a “glib and shameless liar” and convicted criminal Dave king.
2….The governing body of national game.The SFA
Governance by cheats, for cheats during Sir David of Cheats complete tenure…not even the proven cheating outlined and outlawed by the recent supreme court decision which handily cuts thro any fixed lns type enquiry.
3.UEFA
What a target? Corrupt host of governing cesspits like the SFA.a quote from Mr Traverso maybe.
Aye you could have throwin a wee banner in headed by strip the titles, askin question and ridiculing all 3,
you didnt
Your section will be shut first and that will be a pity.
HH
To Celtic fans called the green brigade
HH
TURKEYBHOY on 21ST JULY 2017 9:14 AM
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 21ST JULY 2017 9:07 AM
I see that humans may have arrived in Australia thousands of years earlier than previously thought.
Just as well it was not on Macjay’s watch
VERY good.Smiley.
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Why don`t you two go away and pull yourselves together.