With John Guidetti ineligible, Anthony Stokes is manager Ronny Deila’s first choice striker for Europa League action. Anthony arrived at Glasgow Airport this morning but was sent home ill. He was a certain starter, so whatever plans the manager made, a rethink is in order.
Stefan Scepovic made his goal-scoring breakthrough against Astra last month, and followed up with a goal next time out against Kilmarnock, but he was benched for Partick and Inverness Thistle. Despite being third on the roster he’s likely to be the solitary striker role tomorrow evening.
This is a big game in Stefan’s Celtic career. A European ground with an 8500 capacity presents a different pressure, and expectation, than Celtic Park. Can he rise to the challenge? Wakaso stepped forward in Salzburg and Callum McGregor did the same in Reykjavik, Warsaw and Maribor. Both benefited enormously as a result. I could make a case that Stefan needs this game; the script’s written……
Many thanks to everyone who bought the DVDs from CQNBookstore since yesterday, that’s’ the deal finished. Will try to pull another together at some point.
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Since I’ve only popped in during a coffee break,time for a hit and run post.
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2014/nov/05/how-to-make-the-perfect-grilled-cheese-sandwich
I’m retiring from the blog till after the match too,busy at work till it starts.
So you can all save your bile and revenge till then!
BMCUP,
morning meeting was postponed so not on until this afternoon!
Hence me wasting time on here talking to myself.
sorting out my inbox is way too boring to continue doing for more than 30 mins at a time….
although it is much overdue!
Hope ye well auld yin.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
THE TOKEN TIM
I’m smashing,bud. And thanks for asking.
Batteries refreshed after my trip home,and raring to go.
Well,until work rears its ugly head,then I just get p-d off again…
On which,offski. Enjoy Tokyo,ya mad jetsetter. Belfast is far enough for me!!
The Token Tim
01:37 on
6 November, 2014
Remember it all so well.
I`m afraid that Ally`s face ,which you refer to ,reminds me of my body language opinion of our current incumbent.
Celticlover,R.I.P., seriously suggested hiring a submarine to take us to Argentina.
I remember the discussion taking place after a few tinctures,which may put things into context.
Lateral thinking ya bass.
westies
01:14 on
6 November, 2014
That`s how I remember wee Bertie`s fall.
I thought he milked it.
Can`t remember if the Argie was sent off.
All these folk opting out of posting for the day, lightweights the lot of them.
Shamrock- outstanding article and blog in general. Congratulations, I’m a fan already.
Blantyretim:
Is London Dave okay? If you are able to, could you please pass on my best wishes to him and if he fancies a pint in London somewhere convenient for him, I’ll gladly go.
Morning
Seems that Phil Rudd, ACDCs drummer has been arrested in New Zealand and charged with attempting to procure murders of two people.
Jail ain’t a bad place to be?
HH
skyisalandfill
Check out where he lives……..a certain NZ poster will be intrigued.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-29928698
HH
Lymmbhoy
Aye, I thought it was familiar
HH
I see Craig Gordon is available for selection for tonight’s game. Zaluska did well at the weekend but happy if CG plays.
Also Broonie has come out in support of Tonev.
Gordon
Lustig Denayer Van Dyke Izzy
Mathews Brown Johannson Mulgrew
Scepovic Wakasso
1-0 to the good ghuys
HH
Murphy to scrap SNP football law.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/politics/top-stories/jim-murphy-i-ll-scrap-snp-football-legislation-1-3595819
So Scott Brown, captain of Scotland, risks the wrath of the SFA by coming out in defence of Aleksandar Tonev saying – he does not lie.
Borrowed from the Express:
Tonev was hit with a seven-game ban after an independent judicial panel found him guilty of making a racist comment to Aberdeen defender Shay Logan.
The Bulgarian international was convicted on the balance of probability with no other evidence available and Celtic have now launched an appeal to the SFA.
Brown revealed Tonev has spoken to his team-mates and they believe he did not abuse Logan.
The Hoops captain said: “We know he didn’t say it. All the lads in the dressing room believe him because he doesn’t come in and lie.”
Happy Birthday Celtic…….127 not out.
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Celtic's+Foundation
HH
Good morning friends from a rather disappointingly grey, drizzly and blowy East Kilbride.
No more sleeps. Tonight’s the night we all but qualify for the knock out stages.
The Shamrock
Is this the feller who didn’t wear boots but bandages around his feet?
Im sure I read that in the Celtic Misceallany.
Good Morning One and All
A big game today and one which will hopefully see us going on to the next round of the Europa League where – going by last night’s champion’s league results – some big teams await.
I will be on pulse fm Radio Barrhead live from 9pm tonight giving my reaction to the game and talking about various fitba topics via The Final Whistle Football Show
http://www.pulseonair.co.uk.
Can I remind everyone that cqnbookstore.com has lots of great Celtic Book and DVD offers and that we are hoping to be able to have more items for sale on a daily basis so keep checking it out.
A wee shout for the kids from Coatbridge who are attempting to raise funds to build a much needed assessment centre in Malawi – If you are a former St Ambrose pupil then support your Alma Mater:
https://www.justgiving.com/foundations/
Dixie Deans story to follow later today as promised last night.
I am way to review the wording of Winning Captain’s draft statement etc and see what other trouble he has lined up for me today.
Life is never dull…..
That is a great story about Mohammed Salim.
It is amazing to think that Celtic played an Indian born player before the played an Italian born one — Rolando Ugolini was the first.
Salim was always very grateful to Celtic and as can be seen from the story he held the club in his heart throughout.
Oh and as I pop out the door it would be remiss of me not to with a Big Happy Birthday to Celtic! Let’s party tonight.
The Token Tim
Pretty sure it was Johnny Rep that blasted a 30 yarder past Alan Rough (?) to extinguish brief Scottish hopes in 78.
Ironic as I think that 6 yards was his usual scoring range.
WC
I salute your efforts to mark our first meeting with the tribute act.
Long-copy ads can have impact and standout when put in the context of traditional advertising formats. A public appeal, a safety warning or a fact-based written “speech” designed to change misconceptions / perceptions.
Clearly in scoddland with regards to this fixture all of the above could apply.
I don’t believe an ad from Celtic supporters will achieve what we hope it will.
(How do you change the minds of the willfully biased?)
In my opinion some success might be achieved if Scottish Football supporters combined to voice collective opinion that one team out of the collective is being given special treatment. The Turnbull Hutton example. Gretna, Euro licence shenanigans and so on.
In my opinion – Our Auld Enemy is the SFA who have done SFA about this.
If this is seen as the reaction of the Green Half of The O@@ F@@@, as that is how the hacks could position this then it’ll be bracketed in the national mindset as yet another O@@ F@@@ issue.
ranjurs and ranjurs supporters have shafted scottish fitba, not just Celtic. If this ad is to have impact it would need to reflect the genuine interest of all those shafted by ranjurs and the complicity of the blazers.
To have sufficient bite the ad would need to connect with all its punches and I fear that the herlad editorial and ASA combination would require that a lot those punches were “pulled”………….a fate likely waiting our ad.
HH.
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winning captains
23:51 on
5 November, 2014
Shortened and edited version of a post from a few days ago for consideration by the blog re the Sunday Herald…
A STATEMENT FROM CELTIC SUPPORTERS
On 1st November 2014 former Rangers vice chairman Donald Findlay in an interview in a Scottish newspaper stated that the post liquidation Rangers are a ‘new entity’ which must establish ‘its own history and tradition’.
Findlay stated: ‘It is a different club. They may play at Ibrox and they may play sometimes in royal blue jerseys. But you cannot pass on that which is undefinable. And that is spirit and tradition and all the rest of it.
‘To me this is a new Rangers which has to establish its own history and tradition. But it’s not the Rangers I know. To me, genuinely, it is a new entity.’
You can buy assets,’ he conceded, ‘but you can’t buy history. You can’t buy tradition. History and tradition are in the heart and in the mind. You can’t buy that.’
In June 2012 Charles Green bought the assets of Rangers Football Club Ltd after the creditors voted down the CVA proposed by the administrators Duff & Phelps. These administrators were selected by Craig Whyte and appointed by the Court of Session on 14th February 2012 as Rangers slipped into administration.
Since 2012 a narrative around these facts has emerged where the word liquidation is never used. Instead we hear that the club “emerged from administration” and was “demoted” to the bottom tier of Scottish football at the beginning of the 2012/13 season.
The role of the SFA in all of this merits a mention. Supporters of other clubs including Celtic point to Campbell Ogilvie, “the heavily compromised” President of the SFA remaining in post despite being associated with and a beneficiary of the tax schemes that contributed to the Rangers’ demise. These supporters believe that everything possible was done by the SFA to assist the new Rangers club. Indeed it took an online rebellion by season ticket holders of other Scottish clubs to prevent the SFA from parachuting the new Rangers club into the second rather than the fourth tier of Scottish football.
Before the League Cup semi-final takes place, many Celtic supporters wish for the avoidance of doubt state that we totally agree with Donald Findlay, the ex- Rangers (1872) vice chairman when he describes Celtic’s semi-final opponents as a ‘new entity’ which must establish ‘its own history and tradition’.
These Celtic supporters firmly believe that there is no track record between Celtic and our semi-final opponents. We regard the semi final as the first meeting between Celtic and the club that currently play at Ibrox, having been established in 2012.
Further we regard the term Old Firm, the joint descriptive term for Celtic and the liquidated club, as having died with Rangers upon their liquidation.
Again for the avoidance of doubt these Celtic supporters wish to re-state, ahead of the semi-final, the facts regarding the new Rangers club starting life in the fourth tier. Rangers (1872) was never demoted, they were liquidated. On liquidation their place in the SPL was taken by Dundee FC who moved up a division, not through sporting criteria but as a direct consequence of the space created by the liquidation of Rangers (1872).
As every other club moved up one place to fill the gap caused by the liquidation of Rangers, the new club created by Charles Green was allowed to enter the fourth tier of Scottish football. So there was no demotion of Rangers. The old Rangers died and Charles Green’s new club started life in the Scottish league system at the bottom – with no history and no tradition.
Finally as Celtic supporters, faithful through and through, we wish to point out that we will be at Hampden to support our club and hope to achieve a victory in our first meeting against this lower league club thus moving to the Final with the hope that we can add another trophy to our club’s hugely impressive and unbroken history.
The first World Cup I can remember watching was Chile 1962 when Brazil beat Czechoslovakia 3-1 to lift the Jules Rimet trophy for the second time in succession.
It is a vague memory but I do recall watching with my father as Chile and Italy kicked the shit out of each other in a real “shame game” in which 5 players were sent off. At one point the referee walked off the pitch and threatened to abandon the game as riot police tried to separate the brawling players. Eventually he was persuaded to continue to avert a full-scale terracing riot.
The game was completed and after all the fighting I can’t even remember the result.
Tim Malone,
I believe that is exactly who it was!
Good shout that man.
Cheers
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Morning Timdom
Dreich in dunblane.
HH jamesgang
Good morning CQNers,
I hope Ronny has told Charlie Mulgrew his place in the team is in doubt unless he pulls his finger out.
I’m still not sure Ronny is up to the task but I hope he gets a win, and some breathing space tonight.
Tom McLaughlin
The Italian number 8 in the Italy v Chile Shame Game in the 1962 World Cup was a major instigator in much of the trouble in that game. He was actually Argentinian by birth and played for Racing Club v Celtic in 1967!
Morning all.
Very wet and windy down here at the moment.
Would settle now for a much quieter night in Rumania and us winning.
More on The Battle of Santiago as it became known.
Chile won 2-0 and only 2 Italians were sent off as English referee Ken Aston refused to send off any Chileans.
Amazingly for a World Cup, the game was broadcast in Britain 2 days after the event because the footage had to be flown home.
Highlights here.
skyisalandfill and lymmbhoy AC/DC rock, Phil is in some srious trouble. Anyone with connections to P bad news bhoys, have to say not lookin good. Looks like he is going down. His bar on the marina is his equivalent to our beer fridge. Owns some prime “green” space up the coast.
Tom McLaughlin
The 1962 World Cup was interesting for all sorts of reasons.
Josef Masopust was voted player of the tournament and was outstanding for Czechoslovakia. He is particularly remembered for his sportsmanship towards Pele.
Brazil retained the tournament with the magnificent Garrincha being their outstanding player on the right wing despite his deformed and unevenly sized legs.
However, their left winger, one Mario Zagallo, played a much understated part in the victory and effectively redefined the role of the winger to include defensive duties by tracking back and defending as well as attacking. Zagallo would later go on to manage Brazil and was seen as very tactically astute earning himself the nicknames of ” The Professor” or ” The Old Wolf” of Brazilian football.
They just can’t admit it can they….
From the BBC report on Turnbull Hutton:
….
Hutton led opposition against a proposal to place Rangers in the second tier of Scottish football after they suffered financial problems that eventually led the Glasgow club to the bottom tier….
That’s like saying saying Oscar Pistorius was put on trial after Reeva Steenkamp suffered breathing difficulties.
WC
Great Ad my friend.
Walter and Gough’s quote’s on wishing the”new club” good fortune on their climb up the ladder might take a few stings out of tails??
Well done
Good luck, and many thanks to Canamalar, Auldheid, BRTH and others, for their continued dogged work on Res 12. Slowly slowly catchy monkey was never a more apt phrase. Ignore the naysayers, Hail X 2
the glorious balance sheet –
Thanks for that. I had no idea.
How about a before and after presentation for the ad.
Two page spread statements from their peers prior to liquidation on one page
Then their counter statements post liquidation on the other page
Identify the cause for changing their minds, to stiff the hun support
Finish with Finlay’s statement and incorporation rules questioning why the SFA did not apply the rules.
WC
I’d echo bawsman’s thanks and admiration. And his suggestion about including quotations from those other 2 rogues.
I was thinking last night that it will be a challenge to get any MSM to publish it and/or report on its potential rejection.
And having read mea culpa at 8.35 maybe we need a mass (love that word in relation to Sevco!) campaign of spotting and challenging misinformation in the run up to the first game against them.
And/but we also need to be realistic that beyond the Celtic Fhamily few people know or care about the detail of this. We see it as a matter of principle. But we’ll be portrayed as nitpickers having a dig ‘at our oldest rivals’.
HH jamesgang
BRTH –
Thanks for the info. I was a wee bhoy then and can vaguely remember the final and Chile v Italy but not much else.
1966 was the first one I remember in full. Garrincha’s bendy free kicks are a lasting memory as are the “animals” of Argentina.
England were a class side then but I thought their 1970 team was even better.
I don’t see how the ASA or the herald could possibly object to previously published statements
Canamalar –
That would turn it into a news article/feature rather than an advert.
The paper would never sanction that idea in a million years.