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Georgios, “I’ll have two goals in the first half”.
No matter what Celtic’s objectives for tonight are, to keep things decent, or to overcome an enormous deficit, priority no. 1 will be to protect Fraser Forster’s goal as much as possible. Juventus scored three goals at Celtic Park while making sure Celtic players were denied daylight in front of goal.
We also have to keep 11 men on the park. Manchester United went out of Europe last night in part because they went down to 10 men, but also because Sir Alex Ferguson didn’t produce an effective way to protect his lead with 1 men until it was too late. If anyone is red carded, let’s make sure he is wearing black and white. Indiscipline from the home team offers our only opportunity of making a contest of the tie.
Charlie Mulgew is lacking match fitness and would be an enormous risk, no matter how key to our European game-plan he is. Georgios Samaras is the player European scouts all go home talking about after watching Celtic. He is the archetypal European player and could extend his already-record-breaking scoring run away from home in Europe tonight. Don’t bet against him.
Our full backs will be key. Emilio Izaguirre played his best game for Celtic in the first leg but has been far less convincing since. It is time for the Honduran to demonstrate his full potential on the big stage. Adam Matthews has impressed since arriving at the club and I fully expect he will mature before your eyes tonight.
One or two Celtic players have declined new contracts in the hope of attracting some of the silly money available elsewhere. Producing at the Juventus Stadium might convince some they are worth the trouble. This is no reference to Photogenic Georgio, b.t.w., he’s here for keeps!
The Twists & Turns Celtic Supporters Club is holding a charity night at the Supporters’ Association Club on London Road, this Friday, 8 March, at 7.30pm. There will be Question and Answer session with me, John Fallon, Dixie Deans, Archie MacPherson, compared by Phil Agnew. Afterwards you can enjoy music from Foggy Dew.
Tickets are £10 and you can get them from Phil by calling 07811 178764, or email me your numer and I’ll pass it on (celticquicknews@gmail.com). Profits are going to the Tommy Burns charity.
I’ve been to a few nights with John, Dixie, Archie and Phil and they are always fantastic Celtic occasions, so get yourself a ticket. See you there.
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not getting another doing tonight will do for me. we will get 3/4 chancs to score tonight and we need to take every one . realistically last 16 is our ceiling at the moment .
Getting young LB baptised soon and he will be attending RC primary and secondary schools.
I have no worries he won’t have a wide varied amount of friends from all faiths like his old man.
The artcile that was put up earlier was a disgrace. Everyone loses friends when going to any secondary school. People move on. The writer failed to mention the friends he lost going to different secondary schools from his own class at primary. We all change when attending secondary schools. I didn’t have all the same friends from one year to the next but I had constant friends from childhood, primary and secondary who are still friends to this day. To put it into religious categories is a joke. I would argue that with his writing style he has few friends and it may be a result of the way he looks at the world rather than what school they attended or what relegion they were.
LB
PeterScarff
I would take last 16 of CL every season. At least its not the glass ceiling
of scottish football.
theweegreenman
14:02 on 6 March, 2013
Who’s the ref for tonight?
Best to contact Juve for this info, not only do they know his name, they have identified his weaknesses by watching several dvd complilations, or maybe they didn’t bother this time and are over confident……
A good performance and respectable scoreline will do. Need a solid midfield tonight, Ledley, Wanyama and Kayal to start, maybe Mulgrew also if fit to provide extra cover for Izzy. Injuries haven’t helped with Mulgrew, Lustig and Brown. Either Commons or Foster not both (if any).No crazy defending please.
” No crazy defending please.”
You are new to this Celtic supporting malarkey eh ziggy? ;)
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Geordie Munro
14:22 on 6 March, 2013
Parkheadcumsalford,
“Is an argument only ever raised in Scotland.”
And thankfully not all of Scotland.’
Generally only those parts where there are denominational schools which in the main are those parts that benefited from the immigration of Irish Catholics.
Paul67 et al
Lots of talk here on Ian Jack’s article in the Guardian, lots of talk about religion when we should be concentrating on tonight’s football. It aint over. Harkening back to my childhood days….
It aint over till the Plymouth Brethren Sings!
thetimrieper
14:34 on
6 March, 2013
Absolutely ………and this season has an added bonus ……no bhuns (ever)
Row z
There are hundreds of articles about the seperation of students into Eton and private schools, especially with the present government being Eton/ Oxbridge. There have been lots of articles about single faith schooling, even more with privately funded academy schooling.
I went to a catholic primary school and then a Catholic secondary, one of my mates went to another school (Catholic) and I lost touch with him. Not religious reasons just life.
That piece by Grant in the Herlad………………
…………….horribly hurtin’……
………………..thought for a moment it was ghost-written by the brown brogue rogue – Darryl.
Celtic Mac,
i would argue it was over on the day we drew juventus and mr platini said juve were as good as through.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
It will be a cold day in hell before you see the huns in the last 16 of the CL.
YORKBHOY
Ian Jack specifically stated that it was due to his Catholic childhood friends going to a different school that he lost touch with them.
I dunno why you are defending him on this,though I respect your opinion,but it does seem to go against the gist of your earlier post.
Anyway,enough from me on this. Bigger fish to fry later.
Celtic’s Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden against Dundee United will take place on Sunday, April 14. Kick-off time to be confirmed.
Anyone think the Real Madrid keeper should have walked? Surely a two handed punch with no connection with the ball is a) a penalty and b) dangerous.
On tonights game what we playing 3 at the back with 2 wingbacks, a failure recently,
4 at the back
4 at the back with Big Vic/Kayal protecting.
Ambrose at the back or in midfield?
Will it be Wilson/Rogne, Wilson/Mulgrew, Wilson/Ambrose, Wilson/Wanyama?
Dunfermline need to pay £134,000 to HMRC. Leishman will meet supporters groups tonight.
Just do a ‘rangers’ and forget the debt.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS aks “NTASSOOLLA
Are you another Old Mungovian?
This place is blinkin’ full of them……..”
Which are you BMCUW;
An old Mundonian or
A drunken old Mungonian
Is there a difference? Or a distinction?
ASONOFDAN
Pity ,that-if it had been held a week later,when I was back home,I would have been able to boycott it in person,sort of.
How can I boycott it if I’m not there?
Confused.com
The only result that matters to me tonight is that the 3000 intrepid Tims in Turin return safe & sound to their homes.
Everything else is an irrelevance.
I hope they & the squad enjoy the whole experience.
thetimrieper
14:49 on
6 March, 2013
Hahahahahahaha……hell hath no fury like a bhun scorned…..
Talking of childhood friends.
I attended a school reunion in 2004, I was 55 then.
I remember entering the function suite at the hotel that was hosting it and looking around, I immediately thought “who are all these old people?”
I wonder what they thought I looked like?
NTASSOOLLA
My reply is not for the blog-though it is ruthlessly honest.
I mailed it to you.
You rather adroitly avoided answering my question,but it was a typically throwaway one anyway.
How’s the house-sale going?
Any Celtic player with real ambition should put all old prejudices aside and knock on Charles Green’s door.. He’s taking them to Champions League final…
Auldheid
I notice the hotlines etc are getting even worse and more pro rangers by the day. Anti NL vitriol is being facilitated again.
This maybe because the tims are not participating for a variety of reasons, or alternatively because their views are not being printed, who knows, But the outcome is the same, the sevconians view (or snidey comments) are being published in the MSM to the general public who may not be as “au fait” with the realities as us timternet bampots are.
Boycotts of phone ins and hotlines are often discussed, but another approach is to appoint competent bampot representatives to put the case across in a better manner.
Recently the DR made a 2 page spread where they asked fans in the street from all 12 SPL clubs what they thought of the LNS result, I wonder what would be the chances of randomly stopping a fan in the street who actually knew and understood the complex situation and was therefore competent to have a VALID opinion. Maybe we should be looking at rectifying this by actively nominating some clever fholks to put our views out there into the Mainstream and educate fans from other clubs too about what is going on.
For example the MSM push to fast track sevco into the SPL has already started and one of the MSM claims is that the other 11 teams cannot afford to exist without sevco. I wonder in reality how much it has cost teams this season to be without sevco, and how much they stand to gain if sevco return.
For example I don’t see how 38,000 season ticket holders paying half price to get into ibrox would have helped hearts, Dunfermline or killies revenue by even the proverbial one thin dime.
Its not like Celtic and Sevco fans have been packing them into away games either nowadays, probably about 3,000 to 4,000 travelling fans twice a season at £20 a head, which is about £160,000 a year, Less what the Dundee travelling support brought. I doubt if any team would be much more than £100,000 a year better off. (And of course that teams that replace oldco in Europe made a few quid extra too.)
A side of me says starve the hotlines and phone ins of publicity but another side
Afternoon bhoys from a damp, but thankfully hun free mountain valley.
If I am being honest, finding it hard to get enthusiastic about the game tonight, never felt this way before.
I hate these people for what they have done to the game, and if there was anything worse than hate, I would that as well.
ASonOfDan,
i know i jokingly said the same thing yesterday about dunfermline doing and old co stunt,
but being real it would not work because the reality is its not allowed except?
Another article from Mr Jack where he talks in riddles.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/mar/08/northernireland
LB
When I think of Celtic Supporters, I think of people who are great company.I think of people who enjoy victory but can accept defeat.I think of generous people. I think of people who care for others. I think of Seville.
Then I watched that girl on Raspberry`s 13.46 post and realised that we have our own Huns. That they are so few in number simply highlights their truly atrocious behaviour.
JJ
No wonder pandas find it so difficult to breed.
The female is only up for it two days a year-no wonder she has black eyes-and now that the window of opportunity has arrived at Edinburgh Zoo,they’re showing it on the telly!
Total passion-killer for them.
Nice to see Celtic get the Sunday game at Hampden
Nice bumpy pitch as usual
Jungle Jim
It’s abvout self policing and we do that well. It will always occassionally boil over. we are talking about football fans after all. Middlesboro in the early 90’s was the worst I saw. Pitch battle at half time but it was coming. The Middlesboro fans ran off when the whole end emptied tho.
LB
BMCUWP
They need dogging pandas.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Pandaring to the publics obsession with sex.
VOGUEPUNTER,
THETIMRIEPER
Lads,geezabrek,I don’t want to miss this……..
……ach, dampt buzzers bust, just when it’s needed………
I wish people wouldn`t talk in such narrow terms about the pandas. Things aren`t just black and white, you know.