I’m not going to tell you it’s right to post tickets by Special Delivery, or pass on a £7 charge, because I know many would, if given the choice, opt to take their chance on regular mail, with a lower (or zero) charge. The value of Special Delivery only really kicks in when your tickets have yet to arrive but all your pals have theirs. Which isn’t going to happen to all of us.
What I will draw to your attention is the gleeful rush to print an inaccurate story that the club gave fans no option to collect tickets in person, thereby forcing them to pay a Special Delivery charge, running in one of the country’s newspapers of Record yesterday.
There are probably upwards of 100 decisions made by Celtic each week. While clearly the club get most right, they absolutely get some wrong and others remain open to debate. If you are going to have a pop, at least pick on something they’ve actually done, not something you are fantasising about.
Or seriously upgrade your fantasies. Having to write, “Earlier we wrongly reported there was no option to collect from Celtic Park but you can in fact pick up from the club ticket office” is just demeaning.
Jupp Heynckes (72) looks like getting the job of preparing Bayern Munich for the Celtic doubleheader. There’s little Heynckes doesn’t know about the game, but despite his successes, he’s always struck me as an unlucky manager.
He was the man who ended Real Madrid’s wilderness decades when in 1998 he won their first Champions League since 1966, but was sacked days later. He exacted revenge over Real when at Bayern in the 2012 Champions League semi-final, but blew the final in the Allianze on penalties to Chelsea.
That defeat did for him, although Bayern took most of the following season before announcing he would be replaced by Pep Guardiola in the summer of 2013. Heynckes duly destroyed Guardiola’s Barcelona on the way to winning another Champions League, before the door hit him on his bum on the way out. Despite his glories, a vulnerability surrounds him. This is a Champions League winner you can look in the eye and sack, apparently.
I hope that vulnerability remains for a few weeks yet.
NEW CQN PODCAST FROM CELTIC PARK ON SATURDAY
Kevin Graham is back with a new CQN Podcast from Saturday. He talks to supporters on the bus on the way to Parkhead, interviews John Paul Taylor outside the ground and captures the atmosphere and action inside the ground before getting some more supporters’ views on the bus home after an eventful afternoon at Celtic Park.
Apologies for a few sweary words in this podcast near the end.
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Kenny and Paul.
Sublime and ridiculous.
Iki- happened at Newcastle too….
BHOYJOEBELFAST
I’m confused / intrigued .
Which European tie (s) did Simon Lynch play ???
Arrived in Glasgow this morning from Gatwick
A few kilted jocks on the flight, and about six Slovakians
Father and sons stuf
I would go for McNamara
HH
Sky reporting an explosion in Bonkle Rd Wishaw
TURKEYBHOY on 5TH OCTOBER 2017 1:11 PM
Someone put me right.Did I not read that Robben got injured the same game as Ribbery,and had to go off?.am I imagining this,or did some useless hack report this in error.Sorry,not error,usual incompetence.
The last time I watched Bayern,against Wolfsburg,Alaba was not playing.I rate him as one of the best full backs in the world.Watched him play for the Swiss in midfield,and he was the best player on the park.A fantastic player,who sadly for us,attacks down the left.Not our strongest position.I hope BR is a bit more defensive minded and plays 4 in the midfield,with maybe Scotty and Griff up front.Bayern still world class.Or they can be.
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Alaba is Austrian.
The game you are referring to when Ribbery was injured, I think was at Hertha (2-2 draw, IIRC). Robbed had been subbed and then Ribery on the run tried to control a ball while stretching slightly but accidentally stood on it and sustained a horrible injury. Two Bayern medics then supported/half dragged him all the way round the pitch. If ever a player needed a stretcher it was Ribery. I think Bayern conceded a two goal lead in the game. They looked good to start with but were very disjointed at the end.
I would say we have an outside chance of a draw against them at CP.
Robbed=Robben
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https://stv.tv/news/entertainment/1399171-trainspotting-leads-in-the-bafta-scotland-nominations/
Lisbon Lions docu up for a BAFTA
It is a slow news day so here is a bit of nostalgia.
I am reading,”50th Anniversary of Lisbon” by Paul Cuddihy and thoroughly enjoying it. One surprising item that I discovered in the book is that Celtic had its own brand of cigarettes which sold for 4/7d for twenty! They were around from 1960 when the world was a vastly different place from now. Now the club is more ambitious in its ventures to boost non-football revenue by embarking on a hotel development! Let’s hope that this has a greater positive impact than the cigs venture.
Like most of you I have a variety of memorabilia ranging from shirts through mugs to a Cds and DVDs of momentous events in the life of the club. But there is one item that I would have loved to have acquired and that is the Inflatable Jinky Doll! I do not know what he thought of it but he would certainly have been aware of it since it appeared at many matches in the late sixties and early seventies. I mean it appeared in the crowd, not the park!
However, my most prized possession of a Celtic nature is the present that my oldest son gave me for my 70th birthday. We were out for lunch in a pub and he handed me this large square box wrapped in birthday paper. It seemed that the life of the pub stopped as I tore open the present to reveal a football signed by the whole team. What a prize! It was a hard struggle keeping back the tears. Lots of guys came over to see it and congratulate me on it….amazing that there were so many Celtic fans in a small rural pub in Canada! What a truly positive institution our club is and what a great time to be a supporter.
Rebus
Bada
A report is on the BBC Scotland website, an explosing at a commercial premise in or near the old Convent/Pastoral Centre
2 people injured sadly
https://mobile.twitter.com/stevosideways/status/847742734542659584?s=08
Funny…
Dessybhoy- sounds bad
Bada
yes it does.
erzi fishal cellik fags
http://image.wikifoundry.com/image/1/b4kqVj7YpCMCPEl6ULzw9Q16884/GW555H301
SS- no cheap jokes about the huns needing 10 Players….:))
I believe it’ll be COYBIP tonight. Doors to manual…
Hamsik to spoil the party…
So Phil & johnjames running with comments that EBT recipient s had tax demands from hmrc this morning.
LG 16s to score a header….Skybet
SOT@2.48
august 2000 UEFA cup game v Jeunesse esch.
If that wee hun horror , Weiss, is playing for Slovakia tonight , my desire for a Scotland win will be even bigger.
My wait at the ticket office for a semi final ticket was just over an hour today , managing to get a seat quite far back in the Celtic End.
TOMMIE20
29C in October! Ffs,what would it be like in flamin’ June?!
I’m with you on that,anything above 20C is tropical,and frankly unScottish. We’re just not designed for it,bud.
Btw,you should have seen the states of me in Lisbon. Totally wabbit. Natch,I blamed the heat(!)
Enjoy your break,mate. Sorry I can’t give you any advice,but it’s really down to you and your daughter. Last resort,claim asylum in Spain-they’ll kick you out!!!
Not a big fan of Scotland matches but
England match on STV live, Scotland on Sky??
When I first started to go on the supporters bus to games in mid 60,s ,a song was sung with the words ,they come from Crieff and Kilmalcolm they come from Derry and Tyrone to see the Celtic win their game to see the Glasgow Celtic. I don’t know if this was just a local song as I am from the Crieff area or was adapted by local bhoys, interested if anyone of my generation remembers this song. As it’s quiet on here I thought it a good time to ask the question. HH
FAVOURITEUNCLE
I hope you had a good time,whatever the reason was,in Kilwinning. Three weeks or so,I’ll be there anaw. Canny wait.
If you’d gone another three stops on the train,you could have had a pint wi my own FAVOURITEUNCLE,in The Lauriston in Ardrossan.
HH
Rebus67
Your are one lucky man
Are you a hibbee
;))
HH
Paul67et al
Trying hard to remember Scotland’s last key result at Hampden. Think it might have been around twenty years ago against Latvia at er Celtic Park. Slovakia are a very good team indeed and any Celtic player picked to play will find himself in a test football wise. The risk of injuries apart these two games are well worth playing, and winning. Pity about Scott and Stuart being injured, hopefully not too serious, but Darren Fletcher still plays at a good level, and young McGregor or McGinn might be a good shout. Narrow win for us and England to beat Slovenia, on, as Eurochamp pointed out on STV!
Lewandowski gets a hat-trick for Poland against Armenia…..
Was kind of hoping he might pick up a niggling injury which would unfortunately keep him on the sidelines for 2 or 3 weeks. Nothing serious, obviously. ;-)
They come from Crieff and Kilmacolm
They come from Derry and Tyrone
To see the Celtic win their tie
To see the green flag flying high
Totally against my principles, but I’m hoping for an England win tonight, for obvious reasons, and another one at the weekend, ‘cos I picked them in LMS9 :-)))
PAPAJOE55 & WEEBOBBYCOLLINS…
I well remember that Celtic song, sung by Calum Kennedy no less. It was called “The Celtic Chorus” if I recall correctly.
4 celts playing tonight Gordon, Tierney ,Forrest & Griffiths
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS & GORDON
Thanks for the reply ,great memories of my youth going on the bus as an 11 year old with some great characters most no longer with us.HH
anybody remember keneth mckellar/the alexander brothers andy marshall.
Larry Marshall, Jimmy Nairn and Alistair Sim.
The fabulous ONE O’CLOCK GANG!