Spain were cut low by Chile, England by Uruguay, Italy by Costa Rica. Argentina were pushed to the last gasp by Iran, Germany had to come from behind to match Ghana. Add to this the merit badges earned by Croatia against Brazil, Bosnia against Argentina and the Aussies against the Dutch, and we have a remarkable list of performances by underdogs against countries who to some extent fancied their chances for the trophy.
The most striking feature of all these performances is the way the results were achieved. Apart from their own dead rubber in the Nou Camp last season, Celtic beat or narrowly lost to Barcelona in a series of games over the last decade by defending their 18 yard box as though their lives depended on it. Ventures forward were never supported by many players. We’ve not been alone, this is the way lower-resource clubs have taken on the super-rich in the Champions League.
World Cup 2014 has seen this change. Australia, Iran and Bosnia will head home proud of their performances, something which takes balls. When we’re inevitably drawn against Barca next time in the Champions League, should we press them high up the field? My feeling is, we would be slaughtered, but at one point in this tournament, we need to mature.
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Morning
Dont know if this has been posted already….
Looks like Ronnie and JC were run real close…
http://metro.co.uk/2014/06/21/six-year-old-applies-for-celtic-job-gets-brilliant-reply-from-club-4770995/
HH
guyfawkesaforeverhero
02:15 on 23 June, 2014
Ok, I think I’ve mentioned that the little things I post are, habitually, invisible to others.
Anyway, I think Al Jazeera news on my tv, channel83, is commendableat all times.
Al Jazeera refused to report the deaths of workers on the Qatar world cup building project until several reporters threatened to resign
Morning all.
Most unusually the sun isn’t shining brightly. Bit overcast, to be honest. We will have had our summer, I imagine.
Things get brighter and brighter over Parkhead. Things get darker and darker over Govan.
Just in to say….
When it was announced that Johnny Collins would be coming in as our assistant manager, I got the same ‘buzz’ that I got when, Jock Brown made it public that, Murdo Macleod would be be joining the the managerial set-up with, soon to be appointed Wim Jansen.
It’s just one of those feelings that ye get every now and again.
Johnny Collins would be good enough to do the top job imho.
And, I’m sure that if PL chances his arm and appears in the dressing room with new, puppet-strings then, JC would chuck it and, tell the Celtic fans why!
The jury is obviously still out on the Ronny guy but, time will tell.
The last time that I believed in anything religious was when, Gerry McNee opined that, Celtic’s Centenary year double was down to – devine intervention.
If, devine intervention wasn’t the case then, how can the following 9 years be explained?
Anyway…Johnny Collins is ‘the’ man.
You’ll see……
Off oot.
Morning Timdom.
Pulling into a cloudy and slightly damp Gla.
KTF y’all!
HH jamesgang
And John Collins is the Mhan IMHO.
HH jamesgang
with todays euro draw, we can anticipate a barrage of posters all trying to be first to post on here sometime after 11am with who we get drawn against
it’s a kind of mid-article podium if you like
instead of this, i think an individual cqner should be given the task to write the one or two word post with the name of our opponents rigth after the draw gets made
there should be a list drawn up this morning of all cqners who will be watching the draw live and so would be able to do that post, and then Paul67 or a suitable understudy chooses one from that list
they can make that decision anyway they want, bribery or old pals act are both allowed to decide who gets the job
doing it thsi way will prevent overload on the cqn servers when the usual barrage of posts right after a cup draw gets made
the wee hamster (kevin) who runs on his wheel all day long to power the cqn server isnt getting any younger and cant handle the power surges at times like that
Good Morning Jobo, I hope to be reading the same repetitive post for many mornings to come!
Morning All.
Can I just publicly say thankyou to The Honest Mistake, Chris, Max, Jimmy and everyone else at the Wimbledon Celtic Supporters Club who looked after myself and big Yogi so well on Saturday. Your kindness, companionship and hospitality were greatly appreciated.
I hope all the members and visitors enjoyed the night, especially the chat with John Hughes.
I have now had the pleasure of doing a couple of these things with John and each time I become more and more impressed with the man as opposed to the player.
John tells it like it is – with room for the good and the not so good — but at all stages he makes it very clear that he was and only ever wanted to be John Hughes of Celtic.
He also has some very good arguments and rationale as to where he might have stood had he been allowed to remain at Celtic for a few more years.
I also know that in private conversation he too was very grateful for the way he was looked after.
It may come as a shock to some but where there used to be a very healthy Celtic Supporters Network in and around London, the guys in Wimbledon were very clearl that this has seriously dipped in recent years with the number of clubs in the area reducing sharply. Some have gone out of existence altogether, others have seen their memberships decline.
If there are any CQN’ers in and around London who are not members of a CSC can I suggest that you look into the possibility of joining a club.
The people I met on Saturday were great fun, great craic and interested in all things Celtic.
The Q&A’s covered all of Yogi’s career ( he was even asked how he would vote in the Independence referendum ) and at one point strayed into topics such as Res12, the SFA, Governance and so on — and in that regard can I thank Auldheid who took to the mike despite being a paying guest.
However, reasonably quickly we were brought back to big John, his career, and his memories.
Hopefully the club managed to raise some money for Evie’s fund and we collected a few bob for the Celtic Charity Foundation as well.
Special mention must go to “Jack and Victor” who brought the SPFL trophy all the way down from Celtic Park.
Again it was a pleasure to be there and chat with as many people as possible.
Best wishes and a sincere thanks to all concerned.
BRTH
( although can I just say I really do just prefer Jim )
Simpson – 5
Craig – 1
Gemmell – 18
Murdoch – 12
McNeill – 29
Clark – 4
Johnstone – 23
Wallace – 7
Chalmers – 5
Auld – 3
Lennox -10
Jobo Balde:
ML5 struggling to the see the Sun, share a little.
Anyway, 10:00 start this week before I take a well earned week off.
Have a great day Tim Land.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
wc – Scotland caps?
Lennybhoy – working from home today but will be starting long before 10! Hope you enjoy your holiday when it comes around. And hope you get back in time for Aberdour (no arrangements yet by the way!)
Hoopy do
A list clique! Genius.
Combines 2 CQN obsessions in a onesie!!!
HH jamesgang
Winning Captains, just goes to show John Hughes was right.
Good morning from a cloudy but warm and soon to be very hot les stables d’olonne.
Good morning from Saarland; gonna be yet another scorcher today.
Doc/WC
The Lisbon Lion’s cap issue may be a little more complicated than it might first appear.
Willie Wallace is adamant that Jock Stein had a reasonably big say in who would play for Scotland — or at least which Celtic players would play for Scotland.
When Willie was told that he would be travelling to London to replace Jimmy Johnstone in the national squad before the 1967 game at Wembley, Jock was able to say that he would be playing despite being a late call up.
Further, Willie also consulted Jock when he decided that he would never play for Scotland again. Jock them advised Willie about how and when he should go about permanently withdrawing his availability.
Yogi makes it plain that he hated the Scotland set up and didn’t want to play.
All of Bertie’s three caps came in the 50’s and he was never capped under Stein’s management.
Ronnie Simspon gained his first cap whilst being managed by Stein at Celtic.
A couple of years ago I wrote an article about this for one of Paul Larkin’s books ( before I had been given Willie Wallace’s version of events ) and if I get Paul’s permission I will put it on my Strandsky Blog and post a link here because whilst it talks about the anomaly of the number of caps the Lions got, it also highlights some other salient matters which are worth considering when thinking about this.
I have often wondered about the number of Scotland caps for the lions. Be good to get another slant on it as I always thought it was the old SFA committee who picked the
Players and therefore not answerable to anyone on their choices por cierto
Mornin’ troops,
Glorious drive into town this morning, weather phenomenal here..
When does the all-important draw take place?
In Big Ron – We Trust.
HH.
The truth around the SFA is and has been known for some time, no need for any revisionist nonsense, in 2010 we had a joke president who presided over an executive committee which amounted to a parcel of rogues running the game, it is to every member club shame including Celtics that this was allowed to happen, 4 years on and we have had changes in structure and personnel at the SFA, much still has to be done
bankiebhoy
its at 11am
I see the papers have us linked with Stefan Scougall who John Collins raved about when at Livingston.
Wiki page says he is a fan of a dead club…
Livornobhoy so was Scott Brown , Paul Lambert few others too Celtic are an inclusive team. Anyone who puts on the hoops will become a Celtic supporter and their Grandchildren too : ) . Looking forward to the draw hope it is a home second leg and I will get to it, even if it is Murrayfield. Dresden looking good too we are in Prague that day how lucky is that. Taxi to Dresden.
What time is the CL draw today…?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27969231
England captain Steven Gerrard has called on Harry Redknapp to name names after he claimed players tried to avoid international duty when he was in charge at Tottenham.
Players and the truth……………………………………..
lionroars67
More chance of players and the truth than
SFA and the truth :-)
I have seen Scougall play a few times for Livi. Not good enough for Celtic in my opinion. I wouldn;t argue with John Collins though who knows a lot more about football than I do. Too light and if anyone wants a comparison think Kevin McAllister and you won’t be too far away from what Scougall is like. If he costs us more than £500k here is not a lot of value there.
LB
FourGreenFields
10:15 on
23 June, 2014
Hi bud hope you had a great time on Sat and managed to get home ok
Yes truth……………SFA……….. strangers to each other
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0474yct
Does the media image suit the person ? suspect music tastes doesn’t make her a bad person
Kirsty Young’s castaway this week is Judy Murray.
A tennis coach since she was 17, she’s the current British captain of the Fed Cup, the premier team competition in women’s tennis, and was herself at one time ranked 8th in Britain – achievements worth celebrating.
But what she’s best known for is being the ultimate tennis mum. Both her sons have reached the top flight of the game – one as Wimbledon mixed doubles champion, the other becoming the first Brit to win the men’s singles in 77 years. In the moments after Andy Murray’s heroic win on Centre Court last year it was to her he turned pumping his fists and roaring – as if to say ‘we have done it’.
Judy’s many followers on social media know how she spends her time – countless hours travelling up and down the country coaching and working to inspire children to take up the game.
She says, ‘I’ve always been competitive. I’m like Andy, or maybe he’s like me – I wear my heart on my sleeve. And when something is great, then yep, I am right into it’.
lionroars67
Had a good time on Saturday and believe it or not , stayed sober and got home safe and well .
Good to meet you in town last week , need to catch up soon for a few beers and a chat .
HH
FGF sounds like a struggle to keep sober mate, yes catch up soon waiting for C/L draw laughing at myself at getting excited……………..see this Celtic thing
Wee glimmer of hope for one of Evie’s ailments,perhaps?
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/real-life/family-joy-rare-eye-cancer-3746172
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon
Apparently there was a pre-draw draw and we are to avoid Ronnie’s previous team. I think the real draw starts at 11. The radio turned over a few seconds early for a traffic report and I didn’t give my full attention
With 10 minutes to go before the draw starts, who has been given the honour of announcing our opponents on CQN ?
JJ
….and where can one listen to aforementioned draw?
Good morning all.
BMCUW
We have to go out today. Can we have our wee blether usual time tomorrow. Will explain then if ok.
Weefra HH praying to Wee Oscar.