Celtic face Icelandic champions Stjarnan in their opening Champions League qualifier, with the first leg just three weeks away. Stjarnan knocked Motherwell out of the Europa League last season, by all accounts the Scottish club should have given a much better account of themselves.
It will be vastly more concerning to Ronny Deila that they went on to eliminate Lech Poznan in the next round. Lech finished second in Poland, just two points behind our old pals Legia Warsaw, and the Polish season starts two weeks before Scotland’s, so there is nothing to be complacent about.
A three goal home defeat at the hands of Inter Milan ended Stjarnan’s European adventure, but by that stage the Icelandic fans must had expired their European budget for the season, the trip to the San Siro would have been a suitable place to bow out.
The other consequential information when we draw teams from near the Arctic Circle is that they are midseason and (from what I can make out) play on an artificial surface.
I’ve no idea what happened to Motherwell and Lech Poznan but there are no excuses for either team and there will be none for Celtic. Let’s get the job done.
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Parma demoted to the fourth tier.
But it’s the same club.
It’s the holding clumpany that went bust, dontcha’ know?!
:-)
HH!!
Day one,
Does the link thing work?
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The Irish Post @theirishpost · 2h2 hours ago
@celticfc legend Lubomir Moravcik turns 50 today! Check out his best bits http://www.irishpost.co.uk/sport/celtic-legend-lubomir-moravcik-turns-50 …
foghorn leghorn
12:56 on
22 June, 2015
bellshill tim
12:53 on 22 June, 2015
Hi boys, been lurking for over a year now and finally decided to take the plunge and post! I certainly won’t be as funny or as intelligent as some on here but it would be great to join in!
Ps, I’m far too good looking to be one!
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are you Sheena Easton?
*after she converted to the one true, holy, apostolic faith her mother allegedly asked her if she was now a Fenian.
accchhhhhhhhhh why not
Celtic Legend Lubomir Moravcik – A Gift From God
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52EPhY8xYuc
The Pantaloon Duck
12:49 on
22 June, 2015
Marti – credit for the first one goes to Neustadt-braw on the last page of the previous article :-)
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ssshhh the Carmylie loon will go and read back now and I will be off his braw dram list!
horticulture wis braw btw…
braw
CORRECTION
It looks as if Parma – if it can be resurrected(!) – will have to ‘return(?) to several tiers lower than the fourth.
HH!!
Clogher. Busy over weekend and had problems getting on line today. Just wanted to say I did send you my email address. Perhaps it landed in your junk mail box. Please let me know if you got it. If not I will try later to contact you, re.Thomas McCann.
bellshill tim
12:53 on 22 June, 2015
Hi boys, been lurking for over a year now and finally decided to take the plunge and post! I certainly won’t be as funny or as intelligent as some on here but it would be great to join in!
Ps, I’m far too good looking to be one!
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Do you have the initials IS and I don’t mean Islamic State?
The Bul – Iceland – 2.560 LIRA…………………………………. LOL
notahopeinhell CSC
Lubo day.
Thanks for the links.
What a man.
Dylan wrote a song called Isis. Wouldn’t be surprised if he were to be arrested on terrorism charges soon.
bellshill tim
12:53 on
22 June, 2015
Hi boys, been lurking for over a year now and finally decided to take the plunge and post! I certainly won’t be as funny or as intelligent as some on here but it would be great to join in!
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There’s people here from Airdrie – rest easy. ;-)
Might as well get a hat trick.
Hail hail all. Offski.
Great weekend.OT 67 and those present,thanks for the craic and the feed :-)
Marspapa special thanks for the lift,:-)
i hope to treat this game like the professional fitba club we are.respect them but go tae work Celtic.
Minx,hail hail to your Mam and Dad,50 years.congratulations and candle lit :-)
HH
Good Afternoon.
Very glad the draw has been made and we can start looking forward to the new season!
While the site has been down I have done another couple of pieces.
If anyone is interested, here they are.
One about the Amazing Disappearing Dave King…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/whatever-happened-to-the-unlikely-lad/
And one on the awful Scottish sports media…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2015/06/21/why-clump/
Enjoy the rest of the day!
Over on the dark side, the zombies are saying that Scot Allan has signed for Celtic. Anyone hear anything or is it pure sh*te.
TheClumpany
Take it as read your stuff is superb mi amigo.
Keep at them :-)
HH
A lawyer married a woman who had previously divorced 10 husbands. On their wedding night, she told her new husband, “Please be gentle, I’m still a virgin.” “What?” said the puzzled groom. “How can that be if you’ve been married 10 times?” “Well, Husband #1 was a sales representative. He kept telling me how great it was going to be. Husband #2 was in software services. He was never really sure how it was supposed to function, but he said he’d look into it and get back to me. Husband #3 was from field services. He said everything checked out diagnostically, but he just couldn’t get the system up. Husband #4 was in telemarketing. Even though he knew he had the order, he didn’t know when he would be able to deliver. Husband #5 was an engineer. He understood the basic process, but wanted three years to research, implement, and design a new state-of-the-art method. Husband #6 was from finance and administration. He thought he knew how, but he wasn’t sure whether it was his job or not. Husband #7 was in marketing. Although he had a nice product, he was never sure how to position it. Husband #8 was a psychologist. All he ever did was talk about it. Husband #9 was a gynecologist. All he did was look at it. Husband #10 was a stamp collector. All he ever did was… God! I miss him! But now that I’ve married you, I’m really excited!” “Good,” said the new husband, “but, why?” “You’re a lawyer. This time I know I’m going to get screwed!”
Is Tom Mac still posting?
HH
Will play offs be introduced to the Italian amateur leagues?
weet weet weet…………..
do you know the ACGR gas and oil employee version …..ending with the Roustabout?
hehehehehe
braw
The Phil stuff is too good, if aye brokes looses another club I suspect that will be the end of it.
I think ra peeple are too stupid and thrawn.
MA owns their identity and I don’t think they will never buy into anything he sets up in the future :)
These European qualifying round ties are a joke. Sending st Johnstone to Armenia at this stage of the competition is laughable but i don’t think either st Johnstone or the Armenian side will be laughing. Whatever of those 2 sides gets eliminated will end up making a big financial loss from their “European adventure” given the travel costs involved in traipsing from one edge of the continent to another to off the beaten track locations.
The draws should be regionalised at these early pre qualifying stages. it’s folly to send a team from the western edge of Europe to play a no-mark game 500 miles from Baghdad and vice versa.
To think that both those teams slogged their guts out over the course of a season to earn the right to play European football and for one of them it will only be a costly exercise that is over and done with before the 2nd last week in July is done.
I honestly think that the clubs from the smaller nations are being put in a situation where they are losing money from playing 1 or 2 European ties per season in the back of beyond. We are getting to the stage where the Europa league positions in the SPFL are a poisoned chalice.
As for our draw, it should be comfortable if KR Rejkavik last season were a reliable indicator of the quality of the Icelandic league.
3 weeks until we Kick off the CL qualifiers? Are the Bhoys back in training? Some of them have just finished international duty n’est pas?
Jeezo.
Anyway, there’s a job to do – get it done Celtic.
Weet Weet Weet – funniest bit of that was the stamp collector!!! You can’t beat a bit of Philately
TheClumpany
14:35 on
22 June, 2015
braw stuff………remember and get your Donate sign-age up and running ….braw stuff gets braw stuff….
braw
Tgbs,
Great point.
Completely agree
HH
BELLSHILLTIM
PAUL67’s boay. Plant and mibbe a hun anaw
Welcome to the site,old bean!
RT……Weet Weet Weet – funniest bit of that was the stamp collector!!! You can’t beat a bit of Philately
aye Pmg has been braw as usual lately
braw
corkcelt
14:38 on
22 June, 2015
Over on the dark side, the zombies are saying that Scot Allan has signed for Celtic. Anyone hear anything or is it pure sh*te.
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Ha! I was told by a hun at work that his signing on at sevco was a “done deal” 2 weeks ago!
Corkcelt
A Hibs fan in my work told me this morning that Scott Allan was signing for Celtic. It was the first I had heard of it.
Tallybhoy.
Parma
Radio news said reduced to amateur status and will be given a place in Serie D ..They are now a 6 th tier club…
Fa caldo
Auguri !
one of the rags ran the Allan story this morning,
I smell zombie pr ,
Janet Jackson – What Have You Done For Me Philately .?
Time to Stamp out bad puns –
Unhinged CSC – way down south
Off oot to the beach.
Check out their goal celebrations on you tube …magic…..don’t think they will be doing any against us though
South Of Tunis
15:03 on
22 June, 2015
Tallybhoy.
Parma
Radio news said reduced to amateur status and will be given a place in Serie D ..They are now a 6 th tier club…
Fa caldo
Auguri !
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The Italian FA certainly know aboot hanging and drying oot Hams…………
braw
Leftclick…,
Must admit I like the idea but the more I think about it the more it looks like you might be right, tee’d up for sevco beating Celtic to the swoop, will he jet in from Edinburgh ?
‘Stjarnan waiting in the sky’ playing on Radio 2 as we speak.
They’d like to come and beat us…