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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I thought doobrawvka had too braw a game ….
Griff was awfy awfy braw…
What a result….Tommy Burns was looking oot for his wee ginger pal the night…
Big braw smiley things…
Braw.
VFR800
As much as I would have liked to see Calmac and McGinn on I disagree with you that Bannan and Morrison didn’t play well. I think they did. I just don’t see James McArthur as an International player. Maybe I’m wrong about him but Ivthought the team stuck to their task and deserved their win inbox he end. Griff was very unlucky not to score tonight.
A good result for all concerned.
Not seen any football tonight.
Howeva: Alba-tapadh libh
England destroy Slovenia with stunning toe poke deep into injury time.
COYBIG
WE WILL WIN ON SUNDAY.AND WE WILL BEAT BAYERN. I FEEL IT IN MY BONES KTF.
Strachan is a wee fearty coach who got lucky today.
He still has his blinkers on for second rate English based players.
Strange subs when a win was vital.
Martin to give a physical edge i get but JF was our most creative and any one of the midfield three could have been hooked.
Not bringing on a goalscorer like CMcG when a win was vital shows his scaredy cat approach.
If he had picked the better players at start of the campaign we would have been in a better position.
His love of second rate English based players cost us.
TSOB, we’ll agree to disagree. Those 2 are rank. I don’t even think they’d get into the Sevco team.
Calmac and McArthur (in the absence of Broony and Stretch) would be my preferred pairing. McGregor is versatile enough to attack when needed but can also play a holding role. McArthur is (again, IMHO) far superior to Morrison or Bannon.
But if we all agreed it’s be a boring blog!
KTF
Can’t wait to get back to real football though. COYBIG!
FAN-A-TIC on 5TH OCTOBER 2017 9:58 PM
Goos summary!
KTF
*Good* not goos!
KTF
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY on 5TH OCTOBER 2017 9:59 PM
I concur!
KTF
VFR800
I’m hearing you pal :-)) Apparently we made an attempt to get Morrison in January.
BLANTYRETIM.
I’ll be in the blane valley around 3.00 pm – 4.00 pm tomorrow.
Twist n turns from 9.14 this morning . Sorry for my late reply.
Henry Henry drop the ball definitely tempted fate with his comment to your son.
Someone with his penchant for not keeping the ball out of the goal, should have known better.
Good win for Scotland tonight but from a Celtic point of view , I don’t want Scotland to get to next year’s world cup due to the champions league carve up starting next season with us having 4 qualifying rounds to play.
Griff motm. Well done Scotland. Skrtel was Slovak motm. Our match winner.
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY. I THINK MORRISON IS OF THE BLUE PERSAUSION.
Thought WGS was pigheaded in his selection. Calmac would have provided some creativity. The midfield 3 offered very little.
Scotland won. So job done. Hope we win on Sunday. Quite possibly we will fall at the last hurdle.
Can’t say enough about the team’s efforts. They gave their all.
Their goalie must be the man of the match.
Hope the manager picks a better 11 on Sunday.
At HT if you were told Phillps Bannon and Morrison would finish the game you would have been taken away…
Delaneys,
The crossbar wiz their man o the match….followed by their keeper ;-))
FAN-A-TIC
Scotland won tonight, where did Strachan cost them?
HH
CRC
Big Packy
I couldn’t tell you which persuasion he comes from. No longer care about such things either. He was heavily linked with us and would have come to Celtic, I’m sure. As far as I can see we have a number of players in our first team who were considered to be of the BLUE PERSUASION. They give everything for Celtic and I love them all.
Tonight persistence beat resistance.
BP
How many Celtic heroes past and present, were born into the blue persuasion?
Morrisson, regardless of his persuasion will never sign for Celtic. One reason only, he isnae good enough.
THEORIGINALSADIESBHOY .NO PROBLEM KIND SIR KTF.
That week Gordon…
He is a stubborn wee so and so…
Often to his and his teams detriment…
But just often enough to his and his team’s advantage.
Winning is the thing first of all.
HH
Delaney’s
Totally agree. He’s not good enough to play for Celtic.
DELANEYS DUNKY . SPOT ON.
TLT
Had I been watching the game pished oot ma nut, I may have agreed with you. ;-))
Wee Gordon…. obviously lol
CELTICROLLERCOASTER
Read my post i said he got lucky tonight not that he cost them.
He cost us in the earlier games picking his favored English based players.
They got humped in Slovakia and at Wembley.
The resurgence came with the introduction of Griff and Armstrong who many fans had been calling out for.
TOSB
Don’t think he is good enough for Scotland.
Watching a delayed england/slovenia game and the home squad are belting out gstq prior to kick off. Earlier on I was surfing between hunden and saxe-coburg-gotha park and a few of the Scots wurnae singing the national dirge while over in the black north a few of the home side weren’t respecting the english national anthem including the manager and assistant coach. laughatme and bette davis were fair belting it out though.
BTW love that Slovenia kit.
Are Slovenia out of it? Can they still qualify
BP
As a wean in the 70s, my first two heroes were Danny and Kenny. Danny was never a Rangers supporter, but Kenny was. Neither shared my religion, but neither did the Big Man who signed them.
Baca!Bing!
Only if Malta pull off a shock result against Slovakia.
DD,
WGS mentioned it as a close second after their keeper….I just didnae agree with his judgement;-))
Sorry Bada, not Baca.
BBC Scotland sticking the boot into Tierney. Don’t know who it was but he had a couple of goes unchallenged and compared him unfavourably to Robertson. Time for Kieran to get out of there,; he’s being set up as the scapegoat.