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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Jamesie off. Strachan’ got yo be joking. Scotland’s best player for me. Rubbish decision.
forrest bannan surely
Martin for Forrest. WGS her having a laugh.
Don’t deserve to win after that sub. Bannon and Morrison are torture.
KTF
Strachan taking off Jamesy is typically stubborn. It’s crying out for a link midfielder. Now he’s bringing McArthur on. Grim.
Cal Mac would win this game, directly moving the ball up to the Slovakia box and linking with the strikers..
get McGregor on
I loved wee Strachan when he managed us, his football knowledge is exceptional. However, he’s a belligerent wee bam at times and his failure to see how slow, pedestrian and unimaginative on the ball his midfield 3 are in comparison to CM could well cost Scotland here.
Scotland need to refresh things. McGinn and Calmac on please.
Good effort the bar keeps it out..
Its clear and apparent the palpable difference both Brown and Armstrong have made in recent games.
This is plodding stuff without them.
MIT, paenitet nihil potestis facere. Qui enim in Sevvies vincere vere quam est redemptio ;-))
H.H.
Vlad the Imposter coming on.
Unlucky wee man.
The Slovak goalie is immense..unlucky Griff
Scotland need a win and Strachan brings on McArthur?????
Anya ffs.
McArthur????
Why??
FFS KT coming off but no McGregor!
KTF
International breaks are murder…..international breaks watching Scotland are worse ;-))
I just can’t get how CMcG is still on the bench when he is exactly what’s needed out there.
Fantastic by Griff!
KTF
1-0 brilliant play Griff. Own goal Skrtal
No euphoria….just a big sigh of relief….well played Griff ;-))
What a manager :-)
The Griff made that
And Grif gets Scotland off the hook.
Loved wee Griff kick at Rat Boy before the goal.
Good goal,well done grif,dispite strachen
Strachens set up,I would hate to watch that kind of fitba now
Well that was a tough watch! A win needed so hopefully a wee bit more expansive on Sunday!
KTF
Was in the process of writing a post ripping into WGS for his second half team set up & substitution selections….whit do I know ;-))
No doubt we’ll win on Sunday….and have our usual glorious failure in the playoffs….still think WGS is too conservative…..no doubt thinking about his position with the FTSFA influencing his decisions
We’ll draw on Sunday and lose out on 2nd to Slovakia on head to head results.
well done scotland
Well done Scotland. Well done Gordon Strachan. I didn’t think there was a failure on the pitch but I think that the team could have been refreshed by a Calmac and McGinn double sub after 60 min. Still, Scotland got there in the end. Well done everyone involved.
Well done England! ;)
Again!
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 5TH OCTOBER 2017 9:45 PM
I need to disagree; Bannon and Morrison were pish and shouldn’t be in ahead of McArthur to McGregor.
If he plays them on Sunday we don’t deserve to win!
KTF
Strachan proved right with his subs, although I would have had Callum on at half time, for the reasons mentioned by others.
I think tonight showed that Kieran needs a rest.
If Scotland get to Russia, it will prove to be the ultimate club v country dilemma.
Under UEFA’s ridiculous qualification rules, how would we be able to properly prepare?