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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THE EXILED TIM
The whole arab spring, iraq, afghanistan,syria thing seems to have been
all about setting up new american military bases , country hopping just like
the island hoping in ww2 against japan. But i think its china they want to
get at eventually.
Sea Cucumber,
I am not on any side,
Yep I condemn the Arabs for their intransigence and medevil feudalism.
I condemn the Isrealis for their intransigence and nazi like treatment of the Palistinians, especially after what they went through.
And I condemn the west for creating all these problems.
As for the Kurds genocide of Armenians, you’ll remind me was there an empire in the vicinty who actually ran the show over the Kurds
Good Night Scotland
Good Night Ireland
Good Night Wales
Good Night England
Good Night Canada
Good Night New Zealand
Good Night Australia
And
Good Night.. Bobby Paterson, wherever you are..
Kojo
Still. Laughin’
petec
If we are all fighting and killing each other, its easier for someone
to come in and claim they are your saviour
Elephant in the room : modern Zionism in the Zionist State (Israel 2012) is every bit as pernicious as National Socialism.
You can’t say that? Yes. I just did. It’s not anti-semitic to say that what Israel is doing to The Palestinians is comparable to what the Nazis did to the Jews. Because it is.
TET, the 28th is good. I thought you being an old hand on here would know how to get my addy? I’ve no idea how to get yours.
I dont want to post it here so I’ll create one you can respond to.
What’s the typical climate like then? I.e. can I travel lite on the keeping warm gear? I’ve never been to Spain in winter.
I’ll organise a threeball and two buggies, you can buy the range tokens and beers:-)
thetimrieper
They know they can’t
It will be split three ways, and it has been with the approval of the other two so far.
Afghanastan is for the pipe line from the north, Iraq and the rest for the oil and water reserves.
They need Iran, the thorn in the side, the Saudies will do what they are told, they will sell out as quick as anything, they will walk away with riches to beat the band, the Saudie people won’t mind you.
I hope I am way off the mark, but I doubt it.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
nohunshere@hotmail.com
is my addy
Sounds good to me :>)
petec,
that reminds me of the bbc2 news the day after 9\11, footage of blacked up camera men standing atop a black transit van filming the planes crashing into the twin towers, they were asking who could it be filming, the footage was neither seen again nor was the question ever asked again.
TET, here you go
mickdev1@hotmail.co.uk
I’ll check this later and give you a proper contact addy.
Hail Hail bruv
Sorry.
The weather, it won’t be cold, down that part of Spain it never gets below 5 deg ish, as long as it doesn’t rain, it should be fine.
Up here in the mountains, a very different matter.
miki67
00:29 on 16 November, 2012
Elephant in the room : modern Zionism in the Zionist State (Israel 2012) is every bit as pernicious as National Socialism.
You can’t say that? Yes. I just did. It’s not anti-semitic to say that what Israel is doing to The Palestinians is comparable to what the Nazis did to the Jews. Because it is.
Bold Canamalar…..
The Point Is That In The ‘Death March’ Of The Armenian Elderly And Infirm,Women And Children…..
Out Of Their Ancient Turkish Homeland..
And Across The Desert Into Southern Syria….
They Were Guarded By Kurdish Militia…
Who Were Said To Have Behaved In An Extremely Cynical Manner…..
And Kurdish Guards Overseeing Them In The Syrian Concentration Camps…
This Hardly Squares With Your Fiction Of The Kurds ‘Helping The West To Defeat The Nazis !!!!????’…..
Too Much Sauce….And Not Necessarily Of The ‘Houses Of Parliament’ Variety..?
izzy
00:20 on 16 November, 2012
petec
Saddam was once a friend sure….a very good friend
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And it was time to turn the country over at the appropriate time. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdUoKhV-bII
Fast forward to about 2:08 and listen up until to 2:25 and beyond if you like LOL.
THE EXILED TIM
I hope we are all wrong, but theres an insane logic behind it all.
paulsatim is neil lennon
The end of the world in 2012.
Easy to see how we all get it wrong.
Each of us comes on & advocates a particular way of doing things.
All absolute Bollox.
The greatest teacher that ever lived told us to look after one another ( he called it LOVE) as I look after you .
End of story .
End of moral judgements.
Just treat him the way you would like him to treat you.
Drunken CSC.
That BBC post reminded me of something I’d like to share before going to bed.
When Operation Cast Lead was in full flow I went on the BBC website to comment on an article about the situation so I could counter pressure groups like Give Israel Your United Support who bombard media outlets with their view.
They state their objectives on their website “Today’s conflicts are won by public opinion. Now is the time to be active and voice Israel’s side to the world. Together we can make a difference.”
This was also stated by Alon Pinkas, Consul General for Israel in New York, who said “We are currently in a conflict with the Palestinians…. and engaging in a successful PR campaign is part of winning the conflict.”
Anyway I wrote my piece and clicked to post it, and checked to see if it had been uploaded. It hadn’t. I checked again later and it still hadn’t. Hmmm I wondered if these articles are screened, so I thought I’d try again using an Israeli moniker.
I used the name Rabbi Ya’acov Perin and Jersulem as address, and immediately my comment was up on the BBC site.
I posted the following comment from Rabbi Ya’acov Perin’s eulogy to Baruch Goldstein after Goldsten murdered 29 worshippers and wounded more than 125 in a mosque in Hebron in 1994;
“One million Arabs are not worth a single Jewish fingernail”.
Boycott Israeli Goods CSC
Sea Cucumber,
you’ve still no answered the question, which empire did they represent
miki67
The thing that galls me is that the israelis are treating the palestinians
the way the nazis treated them. Does nobody pay attention to history.
TET, you have mail.
Barrach Obampot
The control of information and disinformation is a tool of war
Kilbowie Kelt
00:15 on 16 November, 2012
Socialism, like all the isms, is totally flawed. It is the worst sort of pyramid scheme when you factor in Human Nature?
The Social Engineers have been working on the populace Religiously but, with maximum respect, I don’t think you understand the amount of money ploughed into these efforts.
Hail Hail and try and listen to the fascists you are condemning, even if they post a thing you agree with, say you agree with them. It makes a difference I tell you auld fella.
Nite bhoys.
Been quite an education tonight, but as ever CQN does not dissapoint.
Do unto others seems the right thing for me.
Take care and god bless Timland, and the rest of humanity.
HH
KTF
STD
Back to Kenya for a mo..
Do you accept the Brits (berets n all) mutilated, tortured and raped the people of that region in the name of queen and country?
petec,
does that include evangelicism
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
I don’t, but as it has to fly a few miles it will get here soon enough :>)
Laters.
HH
The thing that galls me is that the israelis are treating the palestinians
the way the nazis treated them. Does nobody pay attention to history.
In the above comment there is no way that i am saying they are
committing genocide. Just the comparison of treating them
l less than human and forcing them to live a ghetto type of
existence.
offtobedcsc
canamalar
Alright buddy, can you timestamp please. You know I have a bevvie on a Thursday. :))
thetimrieper
absolutely
and in your reply to miki67
more so than you may know as the Sharon administration admitted in Ha’aretz to studying the military tactics used by the Nazi’s in the Warsaw Ghetto, so they could apply them in the West Bank and Gaza… who fecked is that?
HH
defawaytobedthistimecsc
In the interest of whataboutery, the grhunt who set this up was seen canoodling with überhun Graham Crackers in Wine Alley. Maybe there’s a connection we can all make there as we hunt down the reprobates responsible for besmirching us. I have retained the good services of George Smiley (his website has promised me no quibble money back guarantees on services rendered…or not, whichever) and his sterling crew. These currants must not be allowed to lumpenly cavort on we Tims in their shiny broguery, their tempestuous and windy blue and orange driven fervour for dominance of the o.o. in Scottish ludgery and football.
Their magnificent efforts in the lower reaches of the leagues is a Churchillian struggle on a par with The Normandy Landings and nothing we do or say must detract them in their quest for righteous European victory. In this pursuit, CelticTaxCase is their answer. I kid you not.
That and the wonder of their führer, the indomitable and aptly monikered Rangers Leech.
Confused? You will be. I know I am.
http://celtictaxcase.wordpress.com/
Good Ole Canamalar….
Just Blame The West….As Always…..
But You Are Correct,In A Way…..
If Rome And Constantinople Had Tried Harder To Heal The 1054 Schism Between The Orthodox And Catholic Church….
The Middle-East And North Africa Could Have Been Restored To Christianity….
Ushering In A New Golden Age For Humanity….
Which Would Have Advanced Civilisation.
So That Our Kinsfolk Would Already Be Inhabiting Distant Planets…..
And Searching In Distant Galaxies…..
For The Answer To The Burnin’ Question..
That Occupies The Thoughts Of All Sentient Beings….
WHAT IS THE POINT….
Of Kilbowie Kelt….?
Still….. Laughin’….
Up The Hoops..!
petec,
“that reminds me of the bbc2 news the day after 9\11, footage of blacked up camera men standing atop a black transit van filming the planes crashing into the twin towers, they were asking who could it be filming, the footage was neither seen again nor was the question ever asked again.”
Was in response to
“The amount of Freemasonic memorabilia that was exposed on the first BBC reports after the looting of Saddams place was incredible. Never seen that footage on the later bulletins funnily enough.”
About information management and suppression.
does that include evangelicism
was in response to
“Socialism, like all the isms, is totally flawed. It is the worst sort of pyramid scheme when you factor in Human Nature?”
About why is it ok for religon to operate the pyramid scheme and not be jugded on the same basis
thetimrieper
>>>>>
Aye….I posted earlier today about the capacity of ‘man’s inhumanity to man’ becoming ever greater with each passing year, and how the only thing an individual can do is keep their own corner clean and decent.
Most days I despair, but somehow I have to carry on, if only as a witness to all the barbarity.
I do manage to enjoy myself, I do have a laugh. But the staggering violence, everywhere, every day, is beyond my understanding.
What’s the point of it all? Money? Power? If so, we will get wiped….like the dinosaurs.
petec
00:45 on 16 November, 2012
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No, sorry my young friend.
You don’t begin to understand the simple message of Jeshua Bar Josef.
No hidden, cryptic messages.
Just the simple instruction to LOVE one another.
Somewhere, my young brother, you have complicated what this simple man was telling us.
‘ If you do it to the least of these my little ones, you do it also to me’.
Forget about those hidden forces that so pre-occupy you.
What twisted people do does not matter.
Ignore it.
Do you love the guy who reads your gas meter as much as you love yourself ?
That’s it.
That’s all of it.
Good night & God bless you.
Zzzzzzzz……..
“Philosophy should always know that indifference is a militant thing. It batters down the walls of cities and murders the women and children amid the flames and the purloining of altar vessels. When it goes away it leaves smoking ruins, where lie citizens bayonetted through the throat. It is not a children’s pastime like mere highway robbery.” – Stephen Crane