Playing away domestically after a Champions League away game is statistically the time you are most likely to drop points, so Manchester City’s defeat at Tottenham was unsurprising. The manner of Barcelona’s defeat at Celta de Vigo, 4-3 after being 3-0 down at halftime, was distinctly out of character, but showed signs of their exertions in Germany on Wednesday.
Borussia Monchengladback’s 4-0 defeat at Schalke, who were bottom of the Bundesliga having lost all previous five games, was the shock of German football this week. Gladback have one game before coming to Celtic Park, home to Hamburg, who took over Schalke’s mantle at the bottom of the table, with one point from six games this season.
Borussia are the only team from Celtic’s Champions League group who will be rattled by their weekend reversal; Barcelona and Manchester City will take the defeat in their stride. It’s unlikely they will drop points to Hamburg on 15th October. Their defeat to Barcelona was the first competitive game at home they’ve failed to win since January, while it’s been straight away defeats this season for Hamburg, but as we know, playing bottom of the league is a no-win scenario for a Champions League team.
There will be a hangover from that 4-0 defeat, one which will be allowed to fester for a fortnight. Think what you will of Celtic, but the prospect of travelling to Glasgow in two weeks will not be relished in North Rhine-Westphalia.
Before heading off for the Great Scottish Run yesterday I read through the donations to the Celtic Foundation. There’s nothing more effective than putting the wind at your back than knowing a lot of people put whatever they could afford into supporting the Foundation’s cause.
It was a brilliant day. The green competitors’ t-shirts with the Foundation’s Health, Equality, Learning and Poverty written across the back were storming through the streets of Glasgow in force. Well done to all.
Thanks to everyone who supported all of us. The MyDonation’s page hasn’t closed, yet, but this will be the last call, honestly!
Thanks also the lady who while out pushing a go-chair with her child in town yesterday, took off my shoe and bent back my toe. Over and above the call of duty – but it was that kind of day.
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Drat and indeed double drat!!!!!
RTE
DUMBHOY@5.48
Game will be on one of the pay per view Mediaset Premium Calcio channels.Kick off 20.45 local time..Bars etc will be showing the Napoli game -the person on holiday’s best bet would be to pay to watch it on the tele where they are staying .
My rendition of Grace, for the ‘purification of your soles’ ….. get it learned, and let’s make it our Paradise Anthem ….
https://youtu.be/G6Oi7CdBc78
Must be difficult being a Celtic supporter now-a-days for some with all the support of politico educated uni type supporters plus all the immigrants playing football for the club.
MWD
south of tunis
cheers
HH
MOONBEAMS, I was one of many og the Glasgow Uni CSC in the sixties and enjoyed the Euro exploits including a certain victory in Lisbon. We were there for the football not club politics, and club politics were going on even then.
Good luck to Kaddy tonight, great to see him in the squad.
H.H
Ron. Educated? Shameful that! :-)
MWD
https://twitter.com/paulthetim/status/782999744238985220/photo/1
Gerry Mac tells listener ‘he could have won titles 4 & 5’ listener that is.Why even throw that smart remark in?
https://youtu.be/G6Oi7CdBc78
A sublime version of the most poignant song.
Thank you 67 Heaven for posting.
Development squad trailing 1-0 to Hearts. had chances and missed a pen. second half
Celts equalise
MOONBEAMS, I had a good catholic education which encouraged pupils to question everything, even catholic teaching – got multi highers and became a computer programmer in 1970.
2-1 Celtic 2 goals in 2 minutes
Jamie McCart and Broque Watson with the goals for the young hoops
Jamie McCart makes it 3-1 to Celtic as we go into the last 30 mins
Voice of an angel and have not seen this link posted as of yet.
https://youtu.be/uLoHPdKUvqc
HH
Young Dembele on for the last 10 minutes
NESR, sounds interesting, give me a bell would you.
Aw naw, where did the link go, I was on a fortune there.
FT 3-1 Celtic
Ron
Programmer. Not all good then :@-)
MWD
Kieran McGrath also brought on. He turned 15 in July.
Jobo…
Cheers for the update re: CQN predictor… Can’t believe how many took the Huns :((
I’ve not put a penny on them in my life.
Maybe that’s why I don’t punt much. HH
Ron
If 1970 then
Programme on paper
Hand to punch card dude
Punch card punched
Punch card fed into machine code
End If
MWD
poldark is an awful load of auld tripe!
Rigobert Song critically ill after a stroke.
Unbelievable.
MMWD
Looking at the fallers in LMS,
why is Londonbhoy88 out when Tottenham won?
Sips
Win win. If they get stuffed it’s not so bad getting punted out of LMS.
Bless me father….
HH
Ps
I wouldn’t punt on them either but choice is to put them into LMS in the first place or no????
Pps
I don’t punt on Celtic either in case I scud them
MOONBEAM, True, computer room was a mainframe housed in a vast air conditioned hall with operators loading/unloading card readers, printers, and mag tape drives, mag discs if you were lucky.
45 years on I retired, having survived the constant changes of IT. Was always the best.
GEAROID1998…
Who are these people? What is their names? :))))
I was only joking, I’m still hanging in anyway, shocked the old fox Praecepta fell. HH
GORDYBHOY64 on 3RD OCTOBER 2016 9:03 PM
Looking at the fallers in LMS,
why is Londonbhoy88 out when Tottenham won?
He has just asked me that question ……..
*** LAST MAN STANDING – AN APOLOGY ***
Just to save anyone else worrying, Londonbhoy88 is of course still in the competition having chosen Tottenham this week. Clerical error to blame. No excuse, even though we have to get through over 100 emails every week.
Only just in but aff oot….. ;-)
mustdobetterCSC
!!BADA BING!! on 3RD OCTOBER 2016 8:51 PM
Kieran McGrath also brought on. He turned 15 in July.
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Is he a striker ?
Think thats the name of the boy
I was told by someone (who’s bhoy is pro youth) that he was by far the best
player he had seen at that age group…We took him from Hibs.
Sipsini
I have made a fair few bob out of the huns over the years, they were always good for the next goal when they fell a goal behind, they nearly always got the dubious pen, why not make a few bob from them, if I was going to bet on them or not wouldn’t have made a blind bit of difference to their score or the outcome, I will happily make money on thems all day long.
HH