I’ve only seen a Swedish team play live on two occasions, the national team, at Hampden, twice. The first was in 1977. Kenny Dalglish was still very much a Celtic hero at the time but back then I was captivated by Ronnie Glavin, who, for me, provided as much thrill as his more celebrated team mate. Ronnie was subbed early in the second half but it was Joe Craig who made the headlines after coming on as a late substitute to make his international debut.
I was far back in the Celtic end but memories of Dalglish crossing from the right wing and Joe stooping low to head into the net from close range – his first touch of the ball – remain vivid.
I’ve a few great Swedish football memories of TV coverage: Gothenburg in the 1986 European Cup semi-final against Barca. The Swedes were 3-0 after the first leg but wilted in Catalonia and lost out on penalties. The neutrals were disappointed. Gothenburg fared better the following season, edging Dundee United in the Uefa Cup final (I was disappointed again). Heady days for both. I recall cheering the same team on in a Champions League qualifier during our barren 90s, when European pleasure was taken second hand.
There are some who would tell you Swedish football is in dire straits. Gothenburg, once the regional superpower, are currently 11th in the league, but Sweden has a rare joy, a league title competed for by up to a dozen teams. The Allsvenskan has produced seven different champions in the last seven years, in fact, it is a bit like Scotland, without Celtic or former club Rangers (remember them?).
Clubs live within their means, have an absolute connection to their communities and thrive knowing that genuine talent will be rewarded with a league title. Aspirational Scottish clubs must dream of this status….
Looking forward to tomorrow night. The script is written for Tony Watt to ‘do a Joe Craig’.
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My clock’s broke too. Standing at the door now, ready for the off.
It’s an awful feeling, I just can’t concentrate on anything and listing to that CL music again ddn’t help.
BT
He was in Finbars on Sunday
You coming into the lounge tonight?
listing = listening. See wot a mean!
The Fox News weathergirl is putting a warm front on the Hurricane in the US…..
Despite suggestions to the contrary by BBC Weather, it’s looking like there will be no need to water the pitch ahead of tonight’s game.
CatsAndDogsCSC
The Battered Bunnet-Ernie will be on soon with Tide Times :}
Monaghan1900,
Yer peddling MSM lies, the club is the company, which is responsible for all irregularities pertaining to its staff.
Ahead of tonight`s tie the following quotation was accredited to the Helsenborg manager…
“To come here and play at one of the best grounds in Europe, and in front of the best fans in Europe must be a fantastic inspiration”
Åge Hareide
so any live games on tonight?
malarbhoy
saw the brothers at the Joe’s at 10am..
was down the KSC on sunday….
Forties, Cromarty, Forth
South becoming cyclonic then northwest later, 5 to 7, perhaps gale 8 later.
Rockall, Fair Isle
Northerly gale force 8 expected soon.
Parkhead
Intermittent squalls, hail, hail, turning to thunder by evening.
Quick update on my 11:11 post ,
any London bhoys want to make their way to Sheephaven Bay , Camden , Tooting Tim , myself , and hopefully a few others , will be cheering on the bhoys.
TootingTim will be the tall good looking one. I’ll be the one flogging Kano Foundation scarves , badges , etc.
Sanna
godblesstommyburns
11:43 on
29 August, 2012
Ahead of tonight`s tie the following quotation was accredited to the Helsenborg manager…
“To come here and play at one of the best grounds in Europe, and in front of the best fans in Europe must be a fantastic inspiration”
Åge Hareide
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Did you get that from the BBC site ? NO CHANCE
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
11:42 on
29 August, 2012
Monaghan1900,
Yer peddling MSM lies, the club is the company, which is responsible for all irregularities pertaining to its staff.
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My eyes have been opened. And there was me thinking……
Anyone think Tam Shields is a fan of wur ain ESTADIO?
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everyday superheroes
Tom Shields
Columnist.
A real-life superhero called Wheel Clamp Man is making the world safe for careless parkers.
In his green Lycra suit with red mask and false moustache he uses an angle-grinder to cut away the metal that binds and saves motorists from paying those irksome fines. He wears a green plastic helmet, presumably for health and safety reasons.
Wheel Clamp Man operates in Perth, Australia, not Perth over here where his efforts should not be required since clamping is illegal in Scotland. But I can think of many aspects of our daily life where a mundane superhero would come in handy.
Running for a Bus Man: uses his superpowers to stop the vehicle from moving. Or scoops up potential passenger and flies to the next bus stop.
Answer Phone Man: automatically intervenes to explain to cold callers that you have never taken out PFI insurance and you can’t buy a conservatory because you live three floors up in a tenement building. Also explains to foreign call centre staff what a tenement is.
My Feet Are Killing Me Man: whooshes ladies in distress home to steep the tootsies in a hot Radox foot bath.
Ad Man: uses extra-sensory powers to fast-forward the 10-minute advertising breaks on television. Also brings you a cup of tea and ginger nut biscuits.
Litter Man: transports to the North Pole schoolchildren who drop their Greggs pokes in your garden. Then flies back to post the pokes through their mammy’s letterbox.
Where’s My Effin Keys Man: turns up at the moment of crisis when you have keyed in the code to the alarm system but can’t lock the door as you leave. This superhero also uses laser vision to locate mobile phones, specs, hearing aids, dentures and wooden legs.
Hairdo Woman: always ready to come to the rescue of a male who has failed to find an adequately reassuring response when asked to give an opinion on the unusual and adventurous piece of styling with which his wife/partner has returned from the hairdresser. Also uses telepathy to advise husband whether wife should wear the purple strapless dress or the little black number to the office Christmas party.
Supperman: when your dinner’s in the dog, he delivers fish and chips.
Wonder Woman: she can pop round anytime she likes, even when there’s no crisis.
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No mention of our hero’s own hero,QUALITYMAN…….
Tallybhoy
11:25 on
29 August, 2012
67Heaven…
Know what you mean – but we are talking of a company (BT) who have a market capitalisation of c£19 billion.
Don’t think the prospect of losing a few thousand customers in Larkhall, Kilwinning and other hun strongholds would worry them unduly tbh.
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Tallybhoy,we don’t use BT in Kilwinning.
Surely you realise that it’s an Orange stronghold?
Malorbhoy
I wonder if you would ask your cousin where would be a good place in vegas to watch Celtic games as I m going there in October with Mrs BP and some friends.
Looking forward to the game tonight, confident in an anxious kinda way. My team to take us through if all are fit would be
………………………………Forster
Matthews……..Rogne………….Wilson…………Izzy
……………Brown…….. Wanyama…….Mulgrew
……Commons…………………………………………Samaras
………………………………..Hooper
Subs Zaluska Lustig Forrest Twardzik Watt McCourt Blackman
Score early Celtic and they might just wilt in the bedlam.
I have a feeling we’ll draw Real Madrid, Man City and Ajax if we are in pot 4.
Go for it Celtic let’s bury them and keep growing.
HH
The red card count in Serie A is about to rise.
Nigel de Jong, apparently, is on the verge of joining Milan from Man City!
Arrigo Sacchi would be turning in his grave if he were dead!
HH!!
BMCUW
Howdy!
I had no idea that Kilwinning was an Orange stronghold!
How could it be – I went to a Catholic school there, remember?!
It’s no longer there of course – we were run out of town! Too many bampots – and nuns!
HH!!
Bigphil47
Will do
TALLYBHOY
As I’ve said before,it amazes people when I tell them that Kilwinning has both a convent and a seminary.
Must be missionaries,eh?
If BT were to sponsor our Club would the hun fall off not be offset by the Tim take up?
Makes sense te me!
Cheers mate
Monaghan1900
11:06 on
29 August, 2012
According to Sevcomedia, a group called “Huns Unite” last night issued a statement.
What worries me is the rumours of the OO adopting a militant stance ala KKK style or one of those American Christian fundamentalist militia groups if Scotland gains independence. I’ve been saying this for years: but the toleration of an extreme hate group like the OO is a strategic disaster for Scotland. It is potentially operating as a sleeper unit for more extremist figures to employ it as a recruitment base for a terrorist organization right here in good auld Scotia. You also have a scenario whereby extremist elements indoctrinated to a reactionary mindset are settling in many parts of Scotland in fairly sizeable numbers from Northern Ireland. If the prospect of Scotland leaving the UK excites the republican imagination, it haunts the unionist one – or parts of it at least. In January, Tom Elliot, then leader of the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) – until 2003 the dominant unionist party in Northern Ireland – launched a highly charged attack on the SNP, accusing Alex Salmond of “posing a greater threat to the Union than the violence of the IRA”. This was followed shortly after by an equally provocative intervention from one of Elliot’s predecessors, Lord Empey, who warned that Scottish secession could push Ulster back into conflict: “I don’t wish to exaggerate,” he said, “but if the Scottish nationalists were to succeed it could possibly reignite the difficulties we have just managed to overcome.”
Others in the Unionist community of Northern Ireland have called for Southern Scotland to break away and form its own separate region within the Union- what implications would this have for the rest of Scotland? These are after all people who find it impossible that other people have a different opinion from their own limited one, never mind accept the complexity’s of an alternative belief system. There is potential for much trouble ahead if we continue to tolerate the OO in Scotland.
BMCUW,I just clicked on your link to the Volvo advert in that dreadful rag.
Could we have found the CH we have been looking for? The one on the left:-)
Would certainly keep me out………..
Where’s awe the newbies that were on yesterday?
One day wonders, nae doot!
I see no N A!!!!
Missionaries among the cannibals in Papua New Guinea had an easier time than those in Kilwinning!
HH!!
Philbhoy – It’s just the beginning!
I have used Kingsfield driving range before is the course open to the public?
Captain marvel abt to sign for newco? I thot rats jumped off a sinking ship!!?
parkheadcumsalfordwhoisneillennonand paulmcbrideandtrishgodman – Well, Radio Scotland did its best this morning to play down our game tonight. Mention of it was tagged on to their coverage of last night’s League Cup matches. Almost an afterthought, which they couldn’t completely overlook. There must be some seriously hurting folk at Pacific Quay.
Abolish the BBC, sell of its assets to the highest bidder, and let the hurting huns pretending to work there find real jobs. (thumbsup)
Some on the nightshift appeared a bit nervous about tonight.
Full house at Celtic Park.
Roaring waves of emotion rolling down from the stands terrifying the opposition, raising the hackles on the Hoops.
2-0 lead from first leg.
Helsingborgs no strangers to us this time.
If this group of players can’t get safely through to tomorrow’s draw then they never will.
TIMMY 7 NOTED
Keep you out?
I’d be more than happy to never leave the house again!
Which reminds me of a wee tale which is still legendary in the HONDA,SWINDON paint-shop,eleven years on.
Which would get me barred from this site,however…….
JUDE 2005
Must be joost roon the corner.
PHILVIS,erm,RETURNS just in time for these.
Hope we dont score in the first 5 minutes. The first wd be better!!
B M
Noted that masel!! (:)
Philbhoy
Exactly!
BT are a huge company who are not going to worry about losing a few customers in the wastelands of ‘the best little bigotted country in the world’!
Time for Ian Livingston to pull his finger out imho! He’s been on the PLC board for 5-6 years now: time to start contributing something to the finances of the GLORIOUS CELTIC!
Rant over!
HH!!