Much of our Champions League history was on show last night, apart from the fragility which has accompanied Celtic so often on the road. The game was immeasurably more difficult than any challenge we face in domestic football. The opening minutes were so stressful, otherwise composed players were spooked, but winning is all about how you react when you are spooked. Do you crumble and concede an early goal?
With less than three minutes on the clock, and Spartak about to take their third corner kick, how many of us thought back to early goals lost in the opening minutes of recent European adventures?
Not for this team, who reacted to being spooked by scoring a genuinely top class goal.
It wasn’t until Spartak went down to 10 men that we made them look like Motherwell (the similarity in possession, passing, composure last night and on Saturday are remarkable) but, Spartak going down to 10 men was not the deciding factor in the outcome of the game. Kris Commons should have won a penalty when Celtic were 0-1 up and Gary Hooper was clean through on the goalkeeper at the incident which led to the red card.
Once level, with 20 minutes remaining, the stage was Celtic’s, but a more illustrious (i.e. expensive and feted) Celtic team had the same stage against a weaker opponent in Anderlecht in 2003 but ended up losing the game. Last night Hooper, Izaguirre, Samaras, Forrest and Brown went about their business in a steady and unspectacular fashion, exuding the confidence you need to win at this level.
No result is achieved in this competition without an enormous performance; just ask those who lost in Belgium nine years ago, including the proudest man in Europe last night.
Bring on the Salt ‘n’ Sauce Rangers.
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Michael:
I said mess, there is a subtle difference between Dermot’s ‘affairs’ and Rangers ‘mess’, wouldn’t you agree.
I do understand where you are coming from but I think the important words are “own doing and own making”. They are where they are because of what they have done.
I know they are in a mess. You know they are in a mess. Everyone knows they are in a mess. They are there because of their “own doing and own making”.
Sanna / GG
Yes RIP Ken Miller. Sad. Only knew him to say hello to, but was aware he was a significant (& intelligent) designer / contributor to the club website.
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Green Oak Tree
06:04 on
3 October, 2012
PJBhoynyc
I am very familiar with ST.
He is a real Tim, as I know you you know too….
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Wee question….Have you ever actually met him….
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First around 1971 when we were wee acorns, last around 1995, Buchanan St and Argyle. Two green clad smiling saplings.
ST is indeed a Tim.
Ask The Scribe Estadio…
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With such a bright bright light on the horizon, particularly a stormy horizon, it is a shame that disagreements over DD should crop up. Its a small matter.
For the record.
DD? Way ahead of the curve imo….
I Love DD. The Best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e2aRfqp1sY
and your point is Michael?
Maggie,
did you perchance win any prizes at the fund raiser?
missed the morning update before graft -hopefully just a glitch
Summa of Sammi/Dannygal
Yes. Celtic FC do have lifts that are accessible from the corporate entrances. If you are unable to climb stairs you are able to use these lifts. Celtic will provide you with a letter of authorisation to use them on request. Contact the club and request access to the lifts.
MWD
Good morning friends from a dry and beautifully clear skied but chilly looking East Kilbride.
Hoping for another home tie in this afternoon’s draw. Would be happy with just about anyone.
Jobo
Jobo
The balls are in the oven and fridge freezer as it stands.
How much money on an away tie to the Sevconians of the South Side?
MWD
Off work with a Painful Arc !!! ah well I’ll have to think about things – DD, the match, lenne
loved googybhoy’s post yesterday
googybhoy ♥ Celtic
12:06 on 3 October, 2012
What a wonderful night last night. Watching game in Manchester bar with mate Shuggy.
Only the two of us cheering the Bhoys on. Shuggy has a dislike of certain players and Big Sammi is one of them.
Every time he criticises him Sammi comes up with the goods. Next time I watch with him I am betting on Sammi to score. Ledley too if he is playing.
Any way we are two big smiling taxi drivers here in Manchester today.
Looks like FF has got his England call up
Delighted for the lad. Fully deserved
tmwtl
brilliant
So Dermot disagrees with the feelings of the majority of Celtic fans?
Quel surprise;he’s stuck with us,we’re stuck with him,and the mutual distrust and contempt is palpable.
I THINK I’LL START BOYCOTTING HIS OTHER PROJECTS AND BUSINESSES,THAT’LL TEACH HIM TO APPRECIATE US MORE!
Can’t wait to see his face when he finds out I won’t be going to his Sandy Lanes complex this year.
If more of us decide also not to go,we can give him a bloody nose…….
DD knows only too well that if he says one word even hinting at negativity towards Sevco the MSM will have it plastered all over the front page, blown out of all proportion and as we all know, it makes not a jot of difference anyway.
I believe he is just giving the MSM a sample of their own spin.
Does it alter the fate of Sevco? Nope.
Will it save them from the retribution that awaits them? Nope.
Does it mean DD and other Celtic directors were conspiring with them, to keep them in the SPL? No it doesn’t!
I have absolutely no doubt at all that DD and the other Celtic directors are secretly doing what they can to ensure Sevco get what’s coming to them.
They cannot be seen to be acting against them in public.
That would only result in further animosity with potentially drastic consequences.
No. Let them go quietly. Their demise is certain.
Mea Culpa
Well said
Now could everyone else stop the hysteria
Thanks
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Is Sandy Lanes not a virtual greyhound track as shown in some fine establishments such as William Hills and Ladbrokes??
BMCUWP
I stopped going after his false promises in 2007.
I also signed myself out of his nursing home.
I never fly from London City Airport. Even now! That he has sold up.
And I never go to Celtic Park when he is there. Haven’t missed a game in years either. ;-)))
MWD
HOOPY-DO
I boycott them on principle anyway.
Hard enough to get a real winner without trying to get imaginary ones!
Although I have noticed that the virtual horse-racing resurrects some of the all-time great horses.
Brings back some warm memories,that.
MWD
Brilliant,mate-especially the last one!
Ema culpa, I think the point is that he didn’t need to make any comment about them.
Mea Culpa
07:41 on
4 October, 2012
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Totally agree. A quick look at RM this morning shows a thread of 3 pages on DD’s comments. (Common concensus is that he is a “smug taig b…..d”) Had DD said what we all feel all hell would have broken loose and CFC would have deflected the story away from the main feature.
Morning,
AIDEN McGeady was angry and frustrated
by Spartak Moscow’s 3-2 defeat by Celtic.
The midfielder could only look on from the
bench as his old club celebrated their first
ever away win in the Champions League
after being substituted in the 76th minute
with the scores level at 2-2.
Spartak defender Juan Insaurralde’s red card
for a professional foul on Gary Hooper
proved to be the turning point with Celtic
coming from 2-1 down to snatch the points
thanks to an own goal and a last minute
header from Georgios Samaras after a
double from Emmanuel Emenike cancelled
out Hooper’s 12th minute opener.
Insaurralde’s red card sent Spartak coach
Unai Emery into defensive mode with
McGeady far from happy at being
substituted after playing in an ineffective
central role.
“This is the way the manager wants me to
play,” McGeady told Russian tv immediately
after the final whistle. “That’s it. He wants
me to play in the center. ‘Inside, inside.’
Morning from the Clapham omnibus.
Just had to say that Jobo’s weather report is good for here as well!
AuguryCSC
TOOTING TIM
I’m gonna pop in to The Cock Tavern on Saturday,around lunchtime,on my way up the road.
Just for old times sake-though I preferred The Sun Inn,tbh-as I hear it is under threat.
Lend my weight to the campaign to save it-and a few signatures to any petition,haha!
Any idea what it’s all about?
Morning CQN.
I thought Dermot was just being diplomatic in that interview, and remember CQN that diplomacy is being able to tell someone to feck off in such a way that they look forward to the journey.
:-)
Jobo have you ever thought of getting one of these to help with your weather forecasts?
http://cl.jroo.me/z3/8/s/O/d/a.aaa-Stooo-Oon.jpg
HH
awaytoworkcsc
Morning all. Bright here in North Ayrshire but a wee while ago it was the ole red sky at morning scenario.
As I feared, Radio Scotland is running its sports bulletins with our major shareholder’s inappropriate remarks about thon deid team.
reilly1926
07:55 on 4 October, 2012
Mea Culpa
07:41 on
4 October, 2012
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Absolutely …..I said that last night …….. Seems to have had the desired effect on RM …!!!!
TMWTL,
BBC has squad announcement at midday.
Did you utilise an unseen Fenian Hand/Ear combo there?
:))
Mea culpa,
Imo, Mr Desmond should simply have made no comment whatsoever on thems.
BMCUW,
not sure…gotta run…post later !
HH
THE EXILED TIM ——-
Hope you went for Porto ! .
A relatively bad night for me ——–
Zenit ——– ——– Milan’s best performance in weeks.
PSG ——— Ancelotti went for the draw . Porto much the better team. Fitba media here reporting serious violence between extreme right / extreme left PSG Ultras in the centre of Porto. ” Many injured —— 2 seriously injured.”
Malaga -stopped the night being a disaster .
Elderly Inter supporting man raging at a Milan victory and his 5 game accumulator falling at the first hurdle. One more attempt at convincing him that bunging 20 euros on a quintuple could win you big bucks but was much more likely to be free money for the bookie .
No more betting for me until Scotland play again .
Sunny high -high 20s -way down south
BMCUW,
Ah, a late start. Think I read on a website there was a licence renewal prob or similar?
Have never watched a game there…spoilt for choice I guess…
Shame it’s not sunday for the game you’ll be there…
67heaven … i am neil lennon..!!.. ibrox belongs to the creditors
22:39 on
3 October, 2012
You’re welcome. Sorry for the tardy reply, early night.
I agree with what you have said about DDs interview, platitudes regarding the Huns mean nothing at all. If he was to controversial at all we would hear nothing else for days.
It would certainly have been used to distract from the achievements of the team on Tuesday.
SoT
‘No more betting for me until Scotland play again’
Liked that line
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FAO DannyGal..
Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. Champions. C’mon Wee Oscar.
06:32 on
4 October, 2012
Summa of Sammi/Dannygal
Yes. Celtic FC do have lifts that are accessible from the corporate entrances. If you are unable to climb stairs you are able to use these lifts. Celtic will provide you with a letter of authorisation to use them on request. Contact the club and request access to the lifts.
MWD
Cheers Moonbeams..
Summa
Green up before the beaks today at Hampden
Wonder if CO will pop his head in at the meeting to ‘chat’ with his new best friend?
There we go.
Daily Record headline:
Dermot Desmond wants Rangers back in the SPL.
See what you’ve done now Dermot?
The Record’s Spin is of course nonsense BUT you gave them the opportunity. That is why a lot of people are angry.
If you give the MSM an inch they’ll take a light-year and I know you were trying to be polite Dermot but you left yourself open to this by doing so whereas I don’t think Peter Lawwell would have been quite as courteous or generous. He’d have dealt in hard fact and said it is not of our making, it was theirs and Celtic have a stand alone policy and as you can see we’re doing brilliantly with it at the moment. That would have been better.
He should have played up the European aspect, talked about the vast incomes available there which outstrip games against another Glasgow team and said we wish them well in their new surroundings (out of politeness).
Now Sevco fans will latch onto this as Mainstream media talking points and say that “even your Owner (which he isn’t, he’s just majority shareholder) says we’re the same club” bla bla bla.
It may only have been a bit of courtesy but it has backfired spectacularly and I understand why a lot of people are annoyed.
Dannygall , drop me a line to sannabhoy @ gmail.com
HH
Philbhoy , can you do the same please ?
Sanna