Treat Benfica as though they were Barca

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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.

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  1. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    sea Cucumber,

     

    so the best way to refuse to answer if fly off at a tangent, still I might as well answer it for you, both the Armenians and Kurd lived in the Turkish empire, now who would want the Armenians removed from Turkey, the Kurds, I doubt it very much, the Turks, bingo, who would have controlled the information and misinformation in that part of the world at that time.

     

    I mean to say, try at least to look at the whole picture instead of simply countering an argument because of who profers.

     

    I’d like to think there was a clash of personality but you dont have one. Your simply a contrary indian.

  2. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Petec 00.51, no bevvie on a thursday, you have my deepest sympathy buddy. I’m tucking into a bottle ofLatium Ameroni, hic………………oops. Pretty damn tasty it is too.

     

     

    I might even have a wee dram after, just by way of a night cap.

     

     

    :-)

  3. I Personally Knew Many Folk Directly Involved In The Mau-Mau Emergency…

     

     

    The ‘Revisionist History’ Trumpeted By The Odious Rag,Al Grauniad….

     

     

    Has No Basis In Truth…..

     

     

    Just More Propaganda To Destroy Britain’s Golden Reputation….

     

     

    And Serve To Divide And Dishearten Us..

     

     

    So That We No Longer Value Our Glorious National Heritage….

     

     

    And To Enrich Our Predatory And Shameless Lawyers….

     

     

    Al BBC-Al Grauniad-Unwashed Socialists

     

     

    The AXIS OF EVIL……

     

     

    In Our Troubled Times…

     

     

    So ‘Izzy’….Are You A ‘Plastic Turk’…

     

     

    Or Something Similar…?

     

     

    “No Chilli Sauce On The Kebab…”

     

     

    “ThankYouVeryMuch…..”

     

     

    (ThumbsUp?)

  4. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire

     

     

    00:58 on 16 November, 2012

     

     

    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

     

    ___________________________________________________________

     

     

    Sorry for not computing coherently.

     

     

    You are definitely right.

     

     

    Apologies m8.

     

     

    SmallplacesofWorship.com/invitefamilyandfriendstoworshipGOD

  5. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Being relatively new to this blog, Neil Canamalar what or who is “seacucumber”?

     

     

    BTW, after our chat about the 360 degree photo I had another look and about 12’000 in the ground had tagged themselves in the picture, including a large amount of the ghuy’s and ghals in section 111.

     

     

    Now, I’m not saying that’s wrong but maybe you should tell them not to ID themselves to the polis so easily.

     

     

    I think that pic is only available for a month then gets taken down. I think thats a shame. I’d like to be able to use it as evidence of how poorly myself and young ACGR were resituated after them greedy bastards from eufa took our SB seats.

     

     

    I’m taking a hacksaw to the spartak game to remove a four foot section of the foot thick pillar thats right in front of us.

  6. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    petec,

     

    no apology needed,

     

    there should be no need to gather in groups to worship, in fact I believe it becomes dangerous an all groups end up believing they are the true faith, your life and how you live should be enough testament of your worship.

  7. Bold Canamalar….

     

     

    The Kurdish Auxillaries Were WILLING Accomplices Of The Turks In The Genocide Of The Armenians…..

     

     

    Perhaps Your ‘Butterfly Mind’ Would Be Best Served By Concentrating On ONE Historical Topic Per Week…

     

     

    This Week….You Are Tasked With Studying The Armenian Genocide…..

     

     

    I Will Expect Your Jotter To Be Handed In On Wednesday Morning….Promptly!

     

     

    ~~~~~~~~~~

     

     

    ” You are just a contrary Indian ”

     

     

    ??????????

     

     

    Do You Mean ‘ Cowboy ‘ ??

     

     

    My,My…..Are We Havin’ A Wee ‘Duke Of Edinburgh’ Moment…..?

     

     

    Surely NOT….?

  8. Kilbowie Kelt

     

     

    01:00 on 16 November, 2012

     

     

    ______________________________

     

     

    Let the Biggest ever judge us all, and let us all enjoy each other.

     

     

    Please take it easy!!!!!

     

     

    And I will let you into a wee secret, my gamer tag was easygroove back when I was playing online gaming.

     

     

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zuhxfrXocw

     

     

    There are a lot worse things happening than an uber capitalist (blind now perhaps) holding true to his beliefs.

     

     

    I am an unbelievable sinner, as wicked as anyone, in the eyes of God. I am Filthy.

     

     

    I love ye KK m8ty and this site would be enhanced, if that was possible, if you could one day, praise Kojo for a good thing he says. It is easy to isolate people online without thinking it means anything, what if that means everything?

  9. “I Personally Knew Many Folk Directly Involved In The Mau-Mau Emergency…”

     

     

    >I don’t doubt that. Were they wearing that gallant beret perchance?

     

     

     

     

    “The ‘Revisionist History’ Trumpeted By The Odious Rag,Al Grauniad….

     

     

    Has No Basis In Truth…..

     

     

    Just More Propaganda To Destroy Britain’s Golden Reputation….

     

     

    And Serve To Divide And Dishearten Us..”

     

     

    >guy mansfield qc doesnt share that view.

     

     

     

    “Britain’s Golden Reputation”

     

     

    >Aye

  10. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    my post at 01.16…………….apologies

     

     

    bastards = B*****ds.

     

     

     

     

    Sorry:-(

  11. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    A Ceiler…,

     

    :oD

     

    what would be the point of section 111 doing anything else :oD)))

     

    come on, the polis already know who every single one of them is including their home address, national insurance number and passport number, I mean come on mhan :oD))

     

     

    My point as you know is, we are becoming the Orwellian society so many snorted at only 20 years ago, as a fantasy being used for scaremongering by commie libertarians :o)

     

    My main point which you continually ignore was that we have been conditioned to find this as acceptable, your comment ‘if you’ve nothing to hide, whats the harm’ is the perfect example of that conditioning working. Its not much of a shift from that attitude to being forced to carry identifications cards then restrictions based on the colour of your identification card.

     

    Be careful what you wish for and how you justify your wishes.

  12. Oh, dear, it’s after closing time here in GMT land; opinions kinda rise to the surface, an’ stuff, so…

     

     

    Here’s a thing; there’s no reason to dispute that people of Kurdish origin were involved in the process of the Armenian genocide; as were Turks and Turkmens and Azeris and Syrians and Chechens and Druzes and just about every single ethnic group within the Ottoman realm that wasn’t actually Armenian; attributing particular responsibility to the Kurds is analogous to identifying one nationality, e.g., the Ukrainians, as being the authors and sole enactors of the Holocaust.

     

     

    In a similar vein, I’d be the last to deny that the current Israeli regime is responsible for the ghettoization of the Palestinians – a repugnant policy meriting zilch other than condemnation; however, that policy, however morally reprehensible, does not bear comparison with the genocide enacted by the Nazis; it’s loathsome, yes, but it’s nowhere even close to carefully organised massacre, on an industrial scale of an entire people; the Palestinians are taking it in the neck, but they’re not being trucked off to specially constructed vernichtungslager. There is a quantative and qualitative difference in what’s happening currently. Comparable/ Well, okay, but surely only in the most generous sense…

  13. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    I love talking to myself.

     

     

    Who said that?

     

     

    He did.

     

     

    Naw he didnay, did he?

     

     

    Aye, naw.

  14. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    Oh Ceiler…,

     

    in case you still dont know who the sea cucumber is its the singing detective, the sea cucumber was a wee name I gave him and he enjoyed for a while :o) until the description of the animal was explained to him :oD))

  15. A Ceiler Gonof Rust

     

     

    01:32 on 16 November, 2012

     

     

    £25 Celtic win V Benfica.

     

     

    Good bet or blind faith?

     

     

     

    Odds?

  16. Let’s Hear About A Country Which Has A Glorious History….

     

     

    Any Country….?

     

     

    Statelet…

     

     

    Island…..Even….

     

     

    [ We Have ALREADY Heard About Costa Rica…

     

     

    Which Is Run By The MAFIA…..

     

     

    And Has No Need Of A Standing Army ]

     

     

    Goodnight…..

     

     

    And May Our Christian God Be With You..

     

     

    The God Who Disnae Change His Mind…

     

     

    And Sends Down ‘New Instructions’….

     

     

    Countermanding And Replacing ‘Earlier’ Ones….

     

     

    So He Disnae Confuse Us Simple Folk…

  17. The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie

     

     

    Night Night TSD

     

     

    Keep posting.

     

     

    I always read what you post.

  18. Canamalar

     

    Correct.. The sleekits are willing to go two steps forward, one step back in taking our liberty.

     

     

    Theyve waited a long time for the opportunity to enslave us.

     

     

    9-11

     

     

    Id cards

     

     

    Muslim enemies

     

     

    Economy collapse

     

     

    Its all been engineered.

     

     

    Has been for a long time.

  19. £25 Celtic win V Benfica.

     

     

    Good bet or blind faith?

     

    ———————————-

     

     

    I’ve placed £20 on Celtic FC doing the biz versus our Portuguese bretheren; in my current state of mind I find it difficult to regard this as other than a judicious investment…

     

    Mind you, not so judicious as to deserve a punt in the £50 range.

     

    But blind faith? Nahhhhh, nowhere close to blind faith; start counting your winnings is my advice…

  20. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    Bó-aire,

     

    I’m no sure the truth is going to work, but that was generally what I was driving at on the Ottoman empire, maybe you’ll be told to help me with my homework :o)

     

    As for the Isreali treatment of the Palistinians, my personal comparison with the Nazi’s is centered around the creation of the biggest ghetto in the world were undesirables are placed and every resource is controlled except were the inhabitants can acquire these covertly.

     

    I also believe their treatment is proportional to the information they cant control, if Isreal had the same control of information as the nazi’s I would not trust them to be any more humain.

  21. Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire on

    petec,

     

    “Inverted Marxism In America”

     

    I made a very similar argument on here not too long ago.

     

    Yep I like the look of that site, added to favs for future browsing.

  22. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Petec, 5/1 (young acgr may buy into or augment my stake, the wee parasite bought 10% of my barca bet………….kind of after the event) .

     

     

    Bo-aire, I was stupid enough to put a twenty on Celtic at 20/1 last week. My head said no but my heart said GO. Luckily my young bro Pedrocar******67 took the bet.

     

     

    Here’s to blind faith. Here’s to dreams and headlines across the globe, here’s to Celtic with fingers crossed……………………….and hope in our hearts.

  23. hi fholks there is talk about the nation boycotting starbucks,amazon,google and their likes because of non payment of taxes.the southside(ss) team consider themselves to be the same old team{with 140 years of history)if their followersdont boycott then the rest of scotland should……..at least till they admit that it is a new company,WITH NO HISTORY !!! HH

  24. A Ceiler Gonof Rust

     

     

    01:56 on 16 November, 2012

     

     

    Petec, 5/1 (young acgr may buy into or augment my stake, the wee parasite bought 10% of my barca bet………….kind of after the event) .

     

     

    Bo-aire, I was stupid enough to put a twenty on Celtic at 20/1 last week. My head said no but my heart said GO. Luckily my young bro Pedrocar******67 took the bet.

     

     

    Here’s to blind faith. Here’s to dreams and headlines across the globe, here’s to Celtic with fingers crossed……………………….and hope in our hearts.

     

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    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRkIMG63TVc

     

     

    and when you listened to that kicking track listen to this 80+ minute jibber jabber… get the book….

     

     

    http://www.canarycryradio.com/2012/11/14/ccr-036-dr-aaron-judkins-interview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ccr-036-dr-aaron-judkins-interview

     

     

    It’s a long slog but it is worth seeking.

  25. FFS I miss Thursdays here – am having to skim through this page alone, but realise I need to go back and follow the old arguments more closely before I can possibly contribute anything.

     

     

    One question – why is no one asking who these people are??

     

     

    I demand to know.

     

     

    The Scottish public demands to know.

     

     

    Anyhow, I can reply to charliebhoy’s post @ 01:57 as it’s the one I’ve had time to read.

     

     

    Huns are the peepil. They are special and don’t need to pay taxes, so why would anyone boycott them for tax evasion. FFS, they are the peepil, you mugg, innit. They raise money for the Hun Fightin Fund using orange poppies and psychotic Territorial Army killer wannabees and what not. :))

  26. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    Neil Canamalar, thats a helluvan insult, ha ha ha:-) Funny!!

     

     

    Anyway, I’ve never read any of tsd’s posts since the first day I got logged on (the day we played Helsigborg at CP). He was one of the first to call me a hun (expected on day one, not an issue) but came across as a pretentios knobend.

     

     

    But everyone’s opinion is valid to a point. Then, if you dont want to read, just scroll on by when you see that moniker.

     

     

     

    HH Bruv and stay away from them cameras.

  27. If the huns boycotted themselves, would the air close with a bang as they disappeared from view?

     

    I really must get to sleep now.