Sweeten the medicine, Celtic

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There is an unusually sombre tempo head of tomorrow’s Champions League last 16 tie, a consequences of the 0-3 reversal at home three weeks ago and the general sentiment around Scottish football this week, but this match is an excellent test for both manager and playing squad.

We are a Champions League team again with aspirations to achieve at this level next season.  Having finally overcome the hoodoo of never having won away from home in the competition, we must use occasions like tomorrow to continue our growth in the competition.

We defended our 18-yard line in the Camp Nou and almost got away with a point.  The plan was wrong in Lisbon, where a talented Benfica controlled midfield and recorded a narrow win, but the win against Spartak in Moscow was deserved.

Celtic might not be able to qualify for the quarter finals but they can win the match tomorrow; this is an achievable objective which would sweeten the inevitable medicine.
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  1. Margaret McGill on

    BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS

     

     

    04:28 on 6 March, 2013

     

     

    Paddy Power and Sky Bet

     

     

    They would only accept an accumulator if Obama was assassinated! However at a 1000-1 come on ? what is this? the lottery?

  2.  

     

    “Making the rich poorer does not make the poor richer, but it does make the state stronger—and it does increase the power of officials and politicians, power more menacing, more permanent and less useful than market power within the rule of law. Inequality of income can only be eliminated at the cost of freedom. The pursuit of income equality will turn this country into a totalitarian slum.”

     

    (Keith Joseph 1983) Thatcher’s ‘brain’……..like Karl Gove was ‘Bush’s Brain’.

     

     

    SDT: you scummy ratmuncher. You deserve to die screaming for writing such filthy fascist garbage.

     

    ” Sir Keith ” musta just loved you when he came round to visit yer scabby auld progenitors. Did you sit on his knee and grin obsequiosly into his eyes as he poured poisonous tripe into your shell-likes? That is possible with the Jabbaesque face you posssess ( in fact you are more than likely the fat prestitute Jabba, on the troll. Smells like a jabba, sounds lke a jabba..)

     

    That man was one of the most evil to stalk this country.

     

    You deserve a bullet.

     

    Get tae **** fuck off this site.

     

    I’m making it a mission to get rid of you, you sickening pig of an excuse for a human.

     

    I despise you unto the grave.

     

    Scum.

  3. Being a ‘new kid on the block’, as I’ve been decribed does not make me as stupid as some of the old duffers on the street corners with their skittery breeks and their nicked dog-ends form the gutter.

     

    You make me chortle ya arrogant bams.

     

    >>>>>>

     

    acgr is a relatively ‘new kid on the block’, but he has already earned respect. Mine anyway.

     

    btw, I’m no bein’ a sycophant here.

     

    : > )

  4. philbhoy – it’s just the beginning! :14:15 on 5 March, 2013

     

    >>>>>

     

    many thanks.

     

    HH!

  5. 04:55 on 6 March, 2013

     

    “Margaret:

     

    You are awful…”

     

    >>>>>>

     

    end of…..say no more.

     

    : > )

  6. miki67

     

     

    04:54 on 6 March, 2013

     

     

    Do not go gently into that good night..

     

    Rage sir. Rage against what ain’t Right ..

     

     

    Thoughts with you.

     

    Read your thoughts … And those of TET…

     

    KTF

     

    Respect.

  7. 100/1 the win for us : worth a mug-punter’s nugget any hour of the day.

     

    Gonna give it a go. Might even cover it with a bob or two on the draw.

     

    Juve will NOT win. They will go all out for the defend defend defend game.

     

    They THINK they’ve got it in the bag…..the ‘cul de sac’!

     

    >>>>

     

    s.o.t……yer a bright fella.

     

    HH!

  8. Margaret McGill on

    Did you know that Vladimir Romanov has written a couple of kid’s books.

     

    Yes. It’s true.

     

    But not on purpose.

  9. vmhan :05:17 on 6 March, 2013Morning Celts que pasa?

     

    >>>>>>

     

    Nish…..on yer bicycle, or running, or whatever it is you do at this ungodly hr.

     

    Apart from spending yonks on the CQN addiction blog.

     

    HH!

     

    P.S.

     

    Have a square sausage for me!

     

    : > )

  10. I had a post unceremoniosly deleted early on ( I think? I cannae find it) beacause I dared tip call out Philvis as ‘ a green hun’. At least I think that’s why it was deleted…….i may have said an awaful lot worse.

     

    I blam the meds.

     

    THAT exkyooss is wearing thin, no?

  11. God a wish ah koold sepelllll on thses fruggin iPads……kmee pads orvwhatever they”re kalled.

  12. I was toying with the idea of placing a bet on Celtic going through tonight, until I read back and noticed KevJ predicting the miracle.

     

     

    Ach well, it was only a passing thought.

     

     

    I bet 1-1 instead.

  13. Margaret McGill on

    Tom McLaughlin

     

     

    05:45 on 6 March, 2013

     

     

    Fox’s bar Broadway 1998/99? I would have missed it. Didn’t we try and meet a few years ago at the same place? Too many variables. Anyway I’ll go for 2-2.

  14. Truth be told: a loss would be sad after such a magnificent campaign.

     

    To play with the top 16 (honestly) in the toughest competition in the world s a bone-shaker.

     

    We are from a tiny country, but there WE are. Top table. Big Cojones.

     

    Proud as a stag, me, right now.

  15. Miki67

     

    Not been doing a lot o exercise tbh but I’m an early riser………

     

     

    Rise in the morning with the Fenian band…….

  16. tom mclaughlin

     

     

    05:45 on 6 March, 2013

     

    ………….

     

    I’m hoping for a score draw and to walk away with our heads held high.

     

     

    Same as yourself 1-1 will do the job.

     

     

     

    V

  17. The 18th consecutive dry and calm start to a day in East Kilbride. Miracles DO happen! Enjoy a memorable day!

  18. MATCH FIXING

     

    MATCH FIXING

     

    MATCH FIXING

     

    MIBBERY

     

    SCUM RUNNING OUR GAME.

     

    So, what are we gonna do about it?

     

    GhostBustersAreNotReal CSC

  19. I’m a Fenian, A Tim, A Celt, A Socialist…..not necessarily in that order, but simultaneously.

     

    And. I support The Ra, for good and historical reasons.

     

    They treated my family like Gold.

     

    HH!

  20. One day, with God’s graces, ” Wee Oscar will become BIG Oscar ”

     

    OSCAR = MY INSPIRATION.

     

    May the stars of the firmament shine your light unto eternity.

  21. Margaret –

     

     

    Aye, you posted a message on CQN just minutes after I logged out and we missed each other. It was the Parlour though and I was there on holiday.

  22. After reading that post I’m too scared to read back and find out what caused it.

     

     

    Better off not knowing

     

     

    P