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After two highly productive performances against Barcelona confidence will be high, but it is worth remembering that Benfica earned a 0-0 draw at Celtic Park on Champions League match day one, and will have no fears for Tuesday.

After that game in September Celtic were favourites to finish bottom of the group.  Barca managed a slim 3-2 at home to Spartak after a late surge, placing them top of the group while the Russians were rightly encouraged.  Benfica earned a valuable away point without being greatly troubled by Celtic.  Indeed, the half time video analysis from the Uefa technicians looped repeatedly on one incident, a Benfica penalty claim.

That scenario has changed.  Celtic sit second top but a win would see Benfica match them on points and go second on the head-to-head.   Make no mistake, despite Celtic’s heroics against Barcelona, Benfica expect to be second in the group on Tuesday evening.  They are rightly favourites.

We are now tantalisingly close to the knock out stages of the Champions League but two of the most difficult games of the season lie ahead.  The best thing Celtic can do is show Benfica as much respect as they showed Barcelona.  Benfica are not quite as dangerous as the Catalans but they are more than capable of exploiting any gaps in the Celtic defence.  Treat them as Barcelona-lite and we might even collect our second win in this tournament away from home.

The Andrea Kearney Fund have a signed Celtic jersey available for auction on eBay. The fund, in memory of Andrea, assists families of women who are diagnosed with cancer while pregnant. Since Andrea died, aged 41, four years ago, over 50 families have been helped.

You can keep an eye on the auction here.

The CQN Annual will be available next week, both online and at one or two selected retail outlets. There’s a cracking image on the cover of a goal celebration from a recent goal….

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  2. TootingTim on

    Hi CRC,

     

     

    No I haven’t…just starting to ‘swing into action’ and get on the hunt…

     

     

    PFAyr,

     

     

    Have family ties there and abouts, is it your parish?

  4. ....PFayr on

    Tootingtim

     

     

    Previously ..went to school at local RC High School there

     

     

    When I’m home I’m often found in The Vaults

  5. The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie on

    There’s Bold Canamalar…..

     

     

    Fresh From Spouting Off About How The Christian West Isn’t Doing Enough To Stop Arab Child Slavery Across The Middle East….

     

     

    And In Mali,Sudan…..And Mauritania…

     

     

    Now He’s Criticising The West For Turning Their Backs On The Kurds….

     

     

    And Not Helping Them Gain A Homeland

     

     

    After They FOUGHT THE NAZIS!!!!????

     

     

    Complete Utter Rubbish,As Usual…..

     

     

    As ‘Izzy’ Will Tell You,The Kurds Were Complicit In The Genocide Of 1•8 Million Catholic Armenians In The FIRST World War….

     

     

    They Did Not Aid The Allies In Either The First Or Second World War…..

     

     

    So That There Was Not A Great Appetite Amongst The Allies….

     

     

    To Help Them Gain A Homeland….

     

     

    And Besides,The Turks Threatened To Go To War Again With The Beleagured Allies..

     

     

    If The Kurds Achieved A Homeland…

     

     

    As Bismark Used To Say Of The Balkans

     

     

    Not Worth The Bones Of Even ONE Of Our Gallant,Beret-Wearing Heroes….

     

     

    Viva Christo Rey…!

  7. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    I see we are debating the Israeli / Palestinian situation …….. I have sympathy for both and just wish they would settle their differences ‘around a table’, and not with the lives of ‘innocents’…… When all else fails, ‘give peace a chance’…..good night, folks

  8. celticrollercoaster loves Wee Oscar, our Celtic Warrior on

    Bhoys

     

     

    Need a spare tix for the Spartak game pls for Tooting Tim.

     

     

    Incredible lad, who goes out his way to meet up with CQNers who hit the Big Smoke. He even meets up with Sannabhoy :-)

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  9. Kojo on

    My dear,dear,dear,friend… The Singing Detective.

     

     

    Thanks, Pal. fur the Plethora o’ Nods.

     

     

    Ah Appreciate.. awe awe them.

     

     

     

    Ye know something.. Whit Ah am aboot tae write.. oan here…

     

     

     

    Wull..

     

     

    Explain.. Awe aboot how tae Attract.. followers.. tae any.. Political Philosophy.

     

     

    Ah hope oor Unfriends ur Reading this…

     

     

     

    Maist of the Guys oan here.. who are Laborites.. Progressives,using the Yankee Definition.. or Liberals…

     

     

    In other Woids..

     

     

    Lefties..

     

     

    Awe these folk . who come under the Wan Umbrella..

     

     

    And Here it It..

     

     

     

    Awe o’ them..

     

     

    Are Staunch Adherents, of the

     

     

    POLITICS OF ENVY!

     

     

    Yes, Virginia..

     

     

    The Political CATCH ALL… The One Hook.. tae CATCH THEM ALL.

     

     

    FUR..

     

     

    Basically.. that is ,the only thing….whit awe the Left .hiv going fur them

     

     

     

    The Left Thrives oan using, tae the Fullest… that Human Emotion.. called.. ENVY

     

     

    Fur

     

     

    Communism. Socialism. Liberalism. whit hiv ye…

     

     

    all o’ those Isms…

     

     

    Practice and Preach..

     

     

    The Politics of Envy…

     

     

    And ye know something.. It . WOIKS!

     

     

    Jist ask.. President Obama..

     

     

    He used it.. tae Stunning effect..and

     

     

    In doing so..

     

     

    Captured..

     

     

    a

     

     

    Nice wee.. Joab.. fur him and his Family . fur the Next Four Years.

     

     

     

    Kojo

     

    Yer pal..who thinks ye are wan in .. Two Million

     

     

     

    Still. Laughin.

  10. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Wow a wowa, just watched episode three of American Horror Story Asylum.

     

     

    Totally shocking, sister Jude the deranged auld nun does the worst ever rendition of YNWA ever to cross the airwaves.

     

     

    She’s getting reported to the Green Brigade.

  12. TootingTim on

    PFAyr,

     

     

    My dad’s dad…was the licensee at the Vaults for a time.

     

     

    Way before my time…umm, after the second war but way before colour telly…

  16. ScotPatsFan on

    Kojo

     

    There are very few altruists in politics.

     

    I would also agree with you that most of them are out to feather their own nests.

     

    As they say, power corrupts.

     

    Goodnight.

     

     

    SPF

  18. Jonny the Tim on

    Well guys, if it came to a vote on either the Palestinians or the Israelis, I would defend the Israelis. These people have had to spend almost all of their existence defending themselves against other religions, and, as we all know, the Nazis. They are constantly being attacked by rockets fired indiscriminately from Gaza, and any attacks by them, are normally retaliatory, and targeted.I dont profess to be an expert on this subject, but as I see it, the Israelis are the victims in this conflict.

     

     

     

    Nice to see BBC reporting from inside Israel for once, as they usually have a pro-Palestine agenda, only showing the damage done by Israeli forces.

     

     

    Rant over.

     

     

    Hail Hail.

  21. TootingTim on

    benthebishop,

     

     

    best of luck with a fine plan…and…

     

     

    Is that a Tetley tea-folk figurine in the picture?

  24. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Mate

     

    Haven`t had the time to respond to your earlier comment addressed to me.

     

    Sorry.

     

    However I specifically did not equate Israel to Nazi Germany.

     

    There are ,however,similarities and I do feel that it is reasonable to describe the current Israeli govt. as fascist.

     

     

    Invercelt

     

    22:22 on 15 November, 2012

     

    Ernie,

     

    Your latest post is really naughty.

     

    You asked me about the difference between the creation of Israel and a war of conquest: now that I’ve told you, you change the subject.

     

    No-one in Palestine has been kicked out of his (or her) home by a UN resolution: the war which sparked off the kicking-out was started by the Arab States, not Israel – too bad if you don’t like the facts.

     

     

    Inver.

     

    I think this refutes your assertion

     

    http://middleeast.about.com/od/israelandpalestine/a/me090412b.htm

  26. Geordie Munro on

    ” jude2005 is neil lennon \o/

     

     

    22:55on

     

     

    15November,2012

     

     

    izzy

     

     

    As I said last week I wonder how Victor felt wearing the Poppy on Sunday knowing that some of his family were abused and killed at the hands of the brits who invaded his country.”

     

     

     

     

    Wanyama wore a poppy on Sunday???

  31. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    leftclicktic 19.12

     

     

    Thanks for clearing that up buddy, as I said having read their rabid drivel on hun media, they were almost trying to convince themselves they had outed the right man.

     

     

    Poor deluded fascist scum. Maybe Mr PMcC’s friend will be the next one issuing an injunction against the deadbeats who frequent the hunmedia blog. Of course I excuse us tims who visit for a laugh, or to know our enemy.

     

     

    These idiots should be thanking the RTC blogger for enlightening them about the years of mismanagement and theft perpetrated by their bogus heroes, instead they threaten violence against him. Strange messed up deidheids.

     

     

    Dum Dum huns, they really are as thick as a brick.

  33. Geordie Munro on

    ” Was it not on the strip?”

     

     

    Should you not know that Jude before posting?

     

     

     

    Lennon was the only member of staff I noticed wearing one.

     

     

    Or it mighta been a kick it out but I don’t think so.

  36. Mort on

    Geordie Munro

     

     

    Yeah I know. Can’t believe after all the talk about poppies that someone still thinks we wore them last week.

     

     

    Mort

  37. THE EXILED TIM on

    It seems the wests plan is working.

     

     

    They stormed into Iraq cos there was a nasty man there who had nasty weapons, they invaded Afghanastan cos there was nasty terrorist types hold up in the mountains there, they instigated a civil war in Libya cos there was a nasty dictator there, they have managed to install their people in Egypt, they are behind the civil war in Syria……just as well they have a nuke power situated smack bang in the middle so it is.

     

     

    I can see a pattern devolping here, I wonder what it is ????

     

     

    Next will be Iran….I wonder if the Saudies are feeling safe……once they have Iran…who knows what next, a new world order.

     

     

    No wonder I fear for my grandweans…..money, money, money……..

  38. Kojo on

    My dear,dear,dear,friend..Petec

     

     

    Pal.. Ah hiv bin No quite ma old Self.

     

     

    That explains the diminishment, in Ma Postings,oan here.

     

     

    Ah am feelin’ a Loat.. Stronger Noo…

     

     

    Getting.. back tae Being.. MA Ole self.. but,it taks time,as ye

     

    probably know..

     

     

    You and Ah .. and oor Pal.. The Singing Detective..

     

     

    are Three Lonely Linwid Car Dealers.. oan here..

     

     

    Fur..

     

     

    We Know that ..the time is Fast approaching. when..whit.. Neitzsche.. said..

     

    Ah believe it wiz he ..but ,it it wiznae..

     

    Whoevah did say the Following.. Two Hundred Years Ago.. ”

     

     

    Said a Moothful.. and wiz he Right.

     

     

    “The Time will come, when there will be a TRANSPOSITION of VALUES..

     

     

    When,,,,Right will be Wrong.. and what was considered to be Wrong…Will be Right.”

     

     

    We Three Guys.. are witnessing thatPrediction..being Fulfilled.. right at this time

     

     

    No Prayer in Schools..in the U.S. A.

     

     

    Legalized Abortions.. at request..

     

     

    Blatant Homosexuality.. Not only Accepted .. but, Promoted Openly.

     

    as a way of Life and a Right.

     

     

    And those are only .. A few of the Former.. Wrongs..Noo. considered tae be Right..

     

     

    There are quite a few more..

     

     

    Anyway..

     

     

    The Fix is well oan it’s way..to pave the way for a ONE WORLD . and Atheistic… GOVERNMENT..

     

     

    Yes, Virginia. It is Coming.. And

     

     

    Ah hivnae a Clue oan how it wull be stoaped..

     

     

    Unless….

     

     

    the Big Guy in the Sky.. Decides tae Interfere, wi those Well LAID PLANS..

     

     

    Kojo

     

    Yer pal..who likes ye aloater..

     

     

    Still, Laughin’

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