The last minute goal fell Celtic’s way at the weekend but Wednesday’s opponents, Ajax, were on the receiving end of the sucker punch, losing to a last minute goal at home to Vitesse, just a week after a goalless draw at home to joint bottom Waalwijk. The Dutch champion’s only win in their last five games was at home to lower league opposition six days ago.
So what does this mean for Celtic? It means Ajax have found various ways not to approach the Celtic game. The last thing teams need ahead of a crucial game is an easy or flattering result, far better to show up your mistakes.
If Celtic take the lead, we might find Ajax confidence sinks rapidly, but they will approach the game full of focus, dangerous and with a point to prove.
It’s Christmas time…….
The Celtic FC Foundation (new name for Celtic Charity) Christmas Appeal has been launched. The 125 Anniversary activities have considerably reenergised the Celtic Movement in getting back to where is all started – looking after those in need.
The Christmas Appeal aims to provide 150 local families who would otherwise go without, a Christmas meal, with gifts for younger kids.
The Celtic support will be helping people through Glasgow East Women’s Aid, Spirit Aid, the Glasgow Simon Community, Loaves and Fishes, The Wayside Club, Glasgow City Mission and Lodging House Mission.
Details of how to help online, and in person, are available here.
Offensive Behaviour Act
Scottish Parliament Justice Committee convenor, Christine Grahame, has agreed to discuss an Early Review of the Act on the agenda for tomorrow’s Justice Committee meeting. Three members of the Committee are already committed to a Review, details on how to contact others on the committee – it has to be today, they meet tomorrow – are available here, on the Trust website.
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Off to the Dam soon. Canny wait! Be on the KLM flight this afternoon. Hope to catch up with some CQN’rs. Will be wearing one of Pat’s golf hats to keep the cauld away fae my bare nonce!
A big HH to all
A quick repost from last night,looking for a ticket for Ross County on Sat. Have two need three will swop my two plus cash for three together-got a child with us- or just a single ticket.Thanks,Hail Hail Hebcelt
FAVOURITE UNCLE
Not sure where they leave from,but they all drink in the Arms.
Billy Bhoy 05,
I discovered recently that my mother’s grandparents lived in Reid Street. That would be about the time Celtic were created. Is Reid Street still there?
andy corr .get iin touch with them see if they want breaky on the way to hull if thats how they are going.i’m in YORK.
Vic Davidson and his big brother Neil both went to Sacred Heart primary and they stayed just off Dalmarnock Road. Neil was a smashing player
Missed to Favourite Uncle
Parkhead:
Still there yet…I went back for a look quite recently and most of that area of Bridgeton is away such as Pentland Place, Norman Street, Pirn Street Etc, but Reid street is a wee conduit road. Modern version of school still there.
CowieBhoy, CRC, the pigeon isn’t coming back.
Pie tonight.
For everyone lucky enough to be traveling over to Amsterdam, stay safe.
And bring back three points. Please.
Ps: Sacred Heart secondary was in Pirn Street as was commonly known as Pirnie.
Wonder what story the media will come up with today / tomorrow to deflect attention from our wonderful progress !!
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/your-mp-claim-energy-bills-2671685
In the light of Parliament’s apparent impotence in the face of the rapacity of the power companies, following the above link makes interesting reading.
TBB @ 0819,
Thanks very much for that link.
As you know I used to post regularly on here, but have, over the past year or so, been reduced to mere lurking at best, not even clicking on my CQN “bookmark” to read Paul’s article at worst.
However, its when I read posts such as SFTB’s via that link, that it reminds me why i used to so thoroughly enjoy being a part of CQN.
I thought we had seen the worst of the in-fighting back in 2008/09 seasons between the so-called Happyclappers and Mineshafter’s, however over the last 18 months or so, some of the vitriol spat at and by, some of the poster’s on here has seen me more than a tad disillusioned, not just with CQN , but the support and even the game itself.
SFTB and others please continue to post your thoughts. It makes this dear green ole place a much more welcome site for those like me!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Guy from ticket agency just phoned me, he will deliver tickets to my hotel tonight! Whoopee doo! Just hope they are in the stand on the opposite side from the nut jobs.
The Battered Bunnet
08:19
I agree. I always like reading what SFTB has to say. Always. He was greatly missed during his sabbatical.
Having had something of a sabbatical myself now, I view our quandary in simpler terms than I used to. This goes for a lot of other things too.
On this question, if you unmuddy the waters, you are left with the following. If it survives, one day pretty soon we will have to play Sevco. This would be a lot easier for a lot us to thole (to repeat SFTB’s excellent choice of word) if the pretence that Sevco is Rangers were to end.
A new club has been able to convince many thousands of followers of Rangers to follow it instead. It got an unjustified leg-up into the league structure and is progressing through the leagues. If it stays solvent enough, it will soon have won promotion to the top league in Scotland and Celtic will have to play it.
A rival with a large stadium and large support, in the same city, is likely to add competitiveness and a bit of an edge. These have been missing since Rangers went into liquidation. Some people who like a bit of an edge are looking forward to this. Some high-ups who believe this new competitiveness and new edge will generate more money are also looking forward to it.
These are realities that SFTB points to. They are undeniably part of the mood of the moment.
A look at the league tables tells you the new edge is on the way. Some Celtic fans are looking forward to it. An awful lot more Celtic fans would accept this new reality if the new club and its apologists would stop the pretence that it was Rangers and that Rangers had not died.
It actually comes down to the boring old new club-same club debate.
And in that context, things might go more easily for the Celtic board if it stated clearly that it will play whichever promoted club earns the right to play at Celtic Park or to entertain Celtic at its own ground, but that Celtic will not go along with the pretence that Rangers somehow survived liquidation.
The cheating, the corruption and the mess Rangers got itself into resulting in its liquidation cannot be air-brushed away.
Twisty – think the selection is still running! :-(
You were up early, did you watch the race? Heard Fabre’s horse had to be put down….what a kick in the nuts after travelling all that way!
T4
The Token Tim
09:27 on
5 November, 2013
I think part of it comes from posters that are not just new here, but new to the idea of forums and message boards, that seem to take everything very personally.
This site is like a nursery compared to some of the places I used to frequent at the start of the millenium.
67 heaven…
I said that yesterday, there will be a cluster f#%¥ coming out either today or tomorrow about thems! it’s happened every CL week this season, and it was the same last season, Jack Irvine at his best, of course we are all daft and don’t see this coming, aye right.
Celtic _First
Re the final paragraph of your post. Sadly I think the attempts to airbrush everything that stunk about the demise of Rangers and the creation of the new club are in full swing. Those of us who allude to the truth will soon be looked on as cranks.
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
Gentlemen – from earlier. Thanks very much. Mind settled a bit now.
Work till lunch – then game on!!
tonydonnelly67
09:39 on
5 November, 2013
You missed it, it was yesterday. Malcolm Murray’s cringeworthy interview with Alan Brazil on Talksport.
It was all there, casual racism, sevco can be bigger than Man Utd, investors are queuing up to invest billions if he and his fellow saviours are voted onto board and misinformation on average crowds for last season (didn’t mention this season strangely!!).
jimbo67
09:44
We already are cranks, or bampots.
I wouldn’t have it any other way. The alternative is that Sky, Neil Doncaster, the old spivs at Ibrox, the new spivs at Ibrox and the mainstream media can just treat us as people who cannot read or think.
tomtheleedstim
07:43 on
5 November, 2013
Then a few hours ago I managed to book a room there via lastminute.com (been up all feckin night!!)
I have confirmation from lastminute but don’t want to turn today to be told there’s no room at the inn.
Any reason to think my booking is on wobbly ground?
Thanks in advance.
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No, your booking should be ok but you may have to kick up a bit of a sh*t.
I booked Central Hot for the Ajax game, check in time was 1500, wife turned up at that time only to be told there were people in the room and to come back MUCH later. She obviously kicked up the proverbial and got a room.
Didn’t matter to me as I was on my pubcrawl by then and only needed the room after midnight.
Good luck and bring back 3pts.
HH
Kayal33
Yes I saw that yesterday, but that was him just letting them down softly to set them for what’s to come next, put the pot on it any time between now and Thursday, it’s a stick on.
FAVOURITE UNCLE
Sorry for the delay,they are leaving from Newcastle but thanks for the kind offer.
andy corr
09:57 on
5 November, 2013
FAVOURITE UNCLE
Sorry for the delay,they are leaving from Newcastle but thanks for the kind offer.
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used to be a sailing direct from Rosyth to Ams.. did it a few times.
Celtic_First
I’ll be happy to stay a crank don’t worry! I won’t forget.
Jimbo67 supporting Oscar Knox
weeminger @ 0939,
that is a fair point.
and to be fair I used to post on many other sites back in the late 90’s early 2000’s myself that were, as you say, slightly more graphic or voluble shall we say, than here.
Have to admit that back then I wasnt quite so “placid” myself. It wasnt the first time that I got banned from huns/hertz or murderwell sites for giving them laldy!
Even the old JungleBhoys site had its fair share of mentalism and I used to partake in that more than occassionally.
And I suppose that reflects suitably on SFTB and just a few minutes ago Celtic_First’s posts. There is without doubt a degree of apathy creeping in – I know myself that when we lost to Morton a few weeks ago in the League Cup, I hardly even raised an eyebrow.
I am by nature a rather competitive beast, and enjoy my football much more when there is serious competition. And much as it pains me to say it, domestically, we have no competition without “Them”. Thats why losing that cup game didnt bother me in the slightest. I know we will win the league before a ball is kicked at the start of the season, so do we all, and that undoubtedly includes the Players, Manager and Board.
So, when my level of interest is bordering on apathetic, I cannot blame the players or manager for when we have the odd falter in our league games, due to their alleged below par level of performance.
That is why I find it all the more amazing, that we are doing well in the Champions League. To be able to raise their game so much is a testament to the players IMO. But it also reflects exactly how I feel – as anyone who has the dubious pleasure of my lets say energetic company at these games will testify to – as I come to life on those nights too.
Some might call into question the players’ professionalism for that attitude and perhaps they have a point. But I for one, do not, as I know how I feel and if that is my attitude, i can hardly blame the players for the odd poor performance now can I?
Hmmm realise that I am rambling a tad now…….I’ll call a halt now as I don’t think im doing a good job of putting my thoughts into words just now. Mind is elsewhere. Which probaly sums up my attitude to the SPFL rather nicely!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Celtic v Ajax – 1982
Just in to say….
I wonder if there are any Chinese football managers on PL’s list that he has compiled in case Neil is ‘prized’ away ?
Only asking – CSC
HH
Token Tim – Hang around!
Celtic_First – Looking forward to reading about your adventure (inwards and outwards) when you get the time. On the Sevco thing, it is clear from our season ticket numbers and a miscellany of anecdotes that around 10% of our support subscribe to the ‘Old Firm’ paradigm, and truly miss it.
They are greatly outweighed by those who are quite outraged at the manner in which the Game in Scotland has been bent over the years, and this is in part expressed in the work Canamalar and others have undertaken with regard to the AGM for example.
It would be a catastrophe if the net effect of these opposite reactions was a diminution of our club, and I consider that to be a considerable risk.
To my mind, the only way that the assorted views can be reconciled is by regrounding the game itself, which means transparency in its Administration. Until and unless the supporters of the Game believe that the Game in Scotland is being played on a level field, there will be continuing challenges to the wellbeing of our club and all other in Scotland.
To keep the faith, we have to believe in the dream.
TBB
Is this new Chinese midfielder going to be able to keep Zheng Zhi out of our team?
Celtic scouting Asian market…
Bring back Zheng Zhi!!
Kevjungle
In a league of his own, with the negativity on Peter Lawell, then again I may be wrong, he could be just having a laugh? That’ll be a first ;)
KevJungle… ye forgot to add “aff oot”!
TTT
……..good to see you contributing chum.
All fair points made.
HH
lol!!!
FORMER Rangers chairman Malcolm Murray today claimed the Ibrox club has “gigantic” potential – if the bitter boardroom power struggle can be settled. And he suggested the warring factions were stopping the club from rivalling Manchester United on the global football stage. He said: “Rangers are gigantic. One of the reasons I was asked to become chairman by the institutions was that I was Manchester United’s biggest shareholder. When I bought a quarter of Man United it was almost exactly the same size as Rangers are now. And it has turned out to be a giant global brand.”
The Battered Bunnet
10:09
Yes, entirely correct and it goes beyond Celtic, but Celtic have to take a leadership role, whether the board wants to or not.
Transparency, integrity, honesty, sport. And may the best team win.
But the big lie, that Rangers have survived, is repeated every day. If we are to have your level playing field, the big lie must die.