Yesterday Uefa announced a series of revisions to the Champions League from the start of season 2018-19.
The headline initiative, which was trailed in the media for some weeks, is that the top four qualifying nations are guaranteed four entrants in the group stage. At the moment the top three nations are guaranteed three entrants each, with a fourth team entering the tournament at the play-off round. The fourth placed nation is guaranteed two in the groups, with one more team in the play-off round.
In effect, all this means is that Italy gets one more team in the tournament, while the likes of Tottenham don’t need to go through the anxiety of a play of qualifying, even if the outcome is pretty much inevitable.
How teams earn coefficient points, and how they earn money are both changing, with Celtic standing to gain more than any other team in Europe. At the moment part of each teams’ coefficient is made up of an average of their nations’ entrants over the previous five years.
This penalises Celtic more than any other team in Europe. No other country has one team in the Champions League group stage, while all other teams failed to qualify for all group stages over the previous five years. From 2018 coefficients will no longer be dependent on the performance of other teams from your national association.
There’s also a Lisbon Lions Dividend. Teams who have won the European Cup will earn four monetary coefficient points. If they have won the Champions League within the previous five years, the bonus will be 12 points, and if they were European champions earlier in the Champions League era, the bonus will be 8 points.
As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Lisbon, it is astonishing that the achievement of those men is still bringing benefits to Celtic in ways no one could have dreamt of back then. I’ve said it before, but it’s impossible to overestimate what they did for Celtic. Without them, we would have been as relevant to Scottish football as Hibs.
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quonno on 10th December 2016 4:24 pm
Is it not time to remove the green blinkers and admit that THEY might not be as bad as many of us wish THEY were?
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How many of their players would make it into our SECOND team? Maybe their keeper?
wasn’t motor car mcphee seen shaking hands with naesurname at the crumbledome last Saturday, hmmmm
Quonno,never a gun,but its more the rest urny that good:-)))
Quonno-gun ment Hun’s
quonno on 10th December 2016 4:24 pm
They are on a par with Aberdeen and Hearts, slightly ahead of the rest and miles behind us.
Quonno ….. they may just be showing respect for the deed ……anyway, me thinks thou doest protest too much…?
Marrakesh Express @1:53
Do you know what was No1 on the 25th of May 1967?HH
Celtic scored as many goals last night as the ten teams playing today did combined.
FRANNYB67 on 10TH DECEMBER 2016 5:01 PM
Marrakesh Express @1:53
Do you know what was No1 on the 25th of May 1967?HH
Silence is Golden, The Tremeloes
Interestingly enough Aberdeen and Hearts are just 4 points worse than this time last season.
Celtic are 5 points better.
McGenius fails to win again. He’s still brilliant though…..
new rangers are on a decent run
didn’t think we’d cope as well as we have done without kc – not sure why, ss maybe or the higher pressing has given us more options in the final third. Not so long he was a necessity, now he’s a memory
FRANNYB67 on 10TH DECEMBER 2016 5:01 PM
Marrakesh Express @1:53
Do you know what was No1 on the 25th of May 1967?HH
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This:
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I see it has already been posted but I will still say what I came on to say !
Sevco are obviously not as bad as we would like them to be. They are almost certainly the best of the rest.
Miles behind us, I agree but all the wishful thinking in the world doesn`t make them rubbish.
JJ
HAMILTONTIM on 10TH DECEMBER 2016 4:20 PM
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Sorry just back on.
If we truly are a club open to all does that include those who choose to sing Irish Republican songs mate?
Last night there were thousands singing some of these songs.
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I think I know the point you are making but with a little bit of interpretation, this “open to all” argument could leave us in a real mess.
I felt very uncomfortable standing next to my son in the lower tier of the Etihad, yes there was provocation but it wasn’t my proudest day as a Celtic fan, despite a superb on field performance.
Last night watching the game on TV with my family, the uneasy feeling returned.
Choosing my words carefully here, no mention of embarrassment, not ashamed but definitely uneasy.
Fergus to a stand re the songbook, I suspect somewhere along the line we are going to need to see similar leadership from the club. Not easy, as you say there is a sizeable and vocal section of the support who clearly disagree with my perspective and want to be heard but I also believe there is a sizeable majority who share my unease.
I personnaly believe there is enough middle ground for a united support to occupy but it needs willingness from all.
Hail Hail
We have enough songs that celebrate both our team and culture
EBThompson sounding a bit happier today. Sounded pretty down the night Hearts beat Sevco.
ROBERTTRESSELL on 10TH DECEMBER 2016 3:22 PM
HH RT,
Stephen Pearson is another OLHS Motherwell FP
TC45
What season did we win the league with a 5 or 6 nil win at Rugby Park. Maybe 2012-13?
GLASSTWOTHIRDSFULL-4:40pm-I don’t think quonno compared our teams, they can keep their keeper to :-))))
Big cup winners 17:01
:))))))
In the charts HH
It’s OK, found it – 7th April 2012.
I remember at the time when I watched the game back, taking a note of our song choices and posting on here much to the amusement of all. There are times when being such an anorak is useful though. Abd I saved that post!! Interesting to compare our songs at that away game to those now being regularly sung – wonder why the set has changed so much?
First half
1 ~ 0.00 ~ Hail, Hail, The Celts Are Here
2 ~ 0.48 ~ Just Can’t Get Enough
3 ~ 2.05 ~ Toy Town
4 ~ 2.55 ~ This Land Is Our Land
5 ~ 3.42 ~ Glasgow Celtic Champions (oh oh oh oh oh oh oh)
6 ~ 4.33 ~ The Celtic Symphony
7 ~ 5.55 ~ Having A Party (when Rangers die)
8 ~ 6.18 ~ Ooh Aah Samaras
9 ~ 6.51 ~ Ki, Ki, Ki, Ki
10 ~ 7.00 ~ Toy Town
~ 7.08 ~ GOAL!!!!! MULGREW
11 ~ 7.55 ~ Glasgow Celtic Champions (oh oh oh oh oh oh oh)
12 ~ 8.35 ~ Glasgow Celtic Champions (oh oh oh oh oh oh oh)
13 ~ 9.40 ~ We’ve won the league again (fly the flag)
14 ~ 10.30 ~ We’re Only Here For The Party
15 ~ 11.43 ~ Just Can’t Get Enough
16 ~ 12.48 ~ The Lonesome Boatman
17 ~ 13.35 ~ One Neil Lennon
18 ~ 14.04 ~ We’ve won the league again (fly the flag)
19 ~ 14.53 ~ The Huns Are Going Bust
~ 15.58 ~ GOAL!!!!! LOOVENS
20 ~ 16.38 ~ Glasgow Celtic Champions (oh oh oh oh oh oh oh)
21 ~ 16.51 ~ Championees, championees
22 ~ 17.21 ~ Burley, Burley, what’s the score
23 ~ 17.29 ~ Let’s All Do The Huddle
24 ~ 18.14 ~ Craig Burley, you’re a….
25 ~ 18.55 ~ One Stan Petrov
26 ~ 20.08 ~ Ole! Ole!….
27 ~ 20.41 ~ This Land Is Our Land
28 ~ 21.43 ~ Broonie…Broonie
29 ~ 22.17 ~ Doing The Broonie when Rangers die
30 ~ 23.26 ~ Oh the Rangers are sh….
31 ~ 23.48 ~ Hey, oh oh, hey hey, oh oh oh
32 ~ 25.01 ~ In The Heat Of Lisbon
33 ~ 25.38 ~ Super Joe Ledley
34 ~ 26.12 ~ Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Hey Hey Hey Glasgow Celtic
35 ~ 26.54 ~ Toy Town
36 ~ 27.36 ~ Ki, Ki, Ki, Ki
37 ~ 28.30 ~ Roll Of Honour
38 ~ 30.45 ~ One Neil Lennon
39 ~ 31.30 ~ Over and Over
40 ~ 32.50 ~ The Celtic Symphony
~ 34.01 ~ GOAL!!!!! MULGREW
41 ~ 34.50 ~ Toy Town
42 ~ 36.03 ~ Championees, championees
43 ~ 36.40 ~ Craig Burley, you’re a….
44 ~ 36.55 ~ The Charlie Mulgrew Song
45 ~ 37.13 ~ Oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh oh oh… (ray, do, ray, mi, fa…fa, mi, ray, do, ray)
46 ~ 38.19 ~ Broonie…Broonie
47 ~ 38.41 ~ Glasgow Celtic Champions (oh oh oh oh oh oh oh)
48 ~ 38.54 ~ Ole! Ole!….
49 ~ 39.23 ~ Having A Party (when Rangers die)
50 ~ 39.55 ~ Glasgow’s Green & White (for 2min 40secs)
51 ~ 42.49 ~ Glasgow Celtic Champions (oh oh oh oh oh oh oh)
52 ~ 43.10 ~ We’ve won the league again (fly the flag)
53 ~ 43.43 ~ No Huns In Scotland!
54 ~ 44.15 ~ Rangers Till July!
~ 44.37 ~ GOAL!!!!! HOOPER
55 ~ 45.23 ~ We Can See You (sneaking out)
56 ~ 45.50 ~ Toy Town
~ ~ Second half
57 ~ 45.00 ~ You’ll Never Walk Alone
58 ~ 45.35 ~ Craig Burley, you’re a…
59 ~ 46.15 ~ Victor Wanyama Song
60 ~ 46.41 ~ We’re Only Here For The Party
~ 47.05 ~ SUBSTITUTION – Twardzik for Brown: Captain’s armband to Samaras
61 ~ 47.08 ~ Broonie…Broonie
62 ~ 47.38 ~ Doing The Broonie when Rangers die
63 ~ 48.29 ~ Super Joe Ledley
64 ~ 48.52 ~ Fields Of Athenry
65 ~ 49.58 ~ What’s That Coming Over The Hill, Is It The Taxman?
66 ~ 51.13 ~ Bring on the Hearts, the Hibs, the Rangers
67 ~ 51.39 ~ Sebo, Sebo…(directed at Mulgrew!)
68 ~ 51.59 ~ Rangers Till July!
69 ~ 52.35 ~ Ha ha, ha ha (to the tune of ‘The Billy Boys’)
70 ~ 53.01 ~ Sebo, Sebo…(directed at Kelly of Kilmarnock)
71 ~ 53.44 ~ There’s only one Craig Whyte
72 ~ 54.22 ~ Craig Whyte’s Fenian Army
73 ~ 54.48 ~ Craigy Whyte, Craigy Whyte, Craigy Craigy Whyte (to the tune of ‘Give It Up’)
74 ~ 55.56 ~ Toy Town
75 ~ 56.40 ~ One Neil Lennon
76 ~ 57.20 ~ One Alan Thompson
77 ~ 57.52 ~ Johan Mjallby, Johan Mjallby
78 ~ 59.45 ~ Tommy Burns, Tommy Burns, Tommy Burns
79 ~ 60.34 ~ Jimmy Johnstone (on the wing)
80 ~ 61.18 ~ Willy Maley Song
81 ~ 62.12 ~ Willy Maley Song
82 ~ 63.20 ~ Artur Boruc Song
83 ~ 64.20 ~ You Are My Larsson
84 ~ 65.37 ~ Always Look On The Bright Side Of Life
85 ~ 66.30 ~ The Boys Of The Old Brigade
86 ~ 67.40 ~ Ooh Aah Samaras
87 ~ 67.52 ~ Toy Town
~ 68.13 ~ SUBSTITUTION – Stokes for Samaras : Captain’s armband to Mulgrew
88 ~ 68.45 ~ Tony, Tony Stokes Song
89 ~ 69.07 ~ We’ve won the league again (fly the flag)
90 ~ 69.58 ~ Championees, championees
91 ~ 70.31 ~ Passing The Trophy (when Rangers die)
92 ~ 71.55 ~ Stand Up For The Champions
93 ~ 72.09 ~ Doing A Huddle (when Rangers die)
94 ~ 73.10 ~ Doing The Conga (when Rangers die)
95 ~ 74.39 ~ We Shall Not Be Moved
96 ~ 75.23 ~ Championees, championees
~ 75.47 ~ SUBSTITUTION – Blackman for Mulgrew : Captain’s armband to Ledley
97 ~ 76.30 ~ Come On Over To My Place (we’re having a party)
98 ~ 77.31 ~ Glasgow Celtic Champions (oh oh oh oh oh oh oh)
99 ~ 77.55 ~ Super Joe Ledley
100 ~ 78.25 ~ Just Can’t Get Enough
101 ~ 79.00 ~ Ooh Ahh Gary Hooper
102 ~ 79.51 ~ Craig Burley, you’re a….
103 ~ 80.20 ~ Hail, Hail, The Celts Are Here
104 ~ 81.27 ~ Aiden McAnespie
105 ~ 82.50 ~ The Celtic Symphony
106 ~ 84.30 ~ Na, na, na na na na na Celtic (to the tune of ‘Hey Jude’)
107 ~ 84.50 ~ Over and Over
108 ~ 85.13 ~ Jock Stein!
109 ~ 85.41 ~ Championees, championees
110 ~ 86.25 ~ Do, do do do, Nakamura
111 ~ 87.15 ~ Hey, oh oh, hey hey, oh oh oh
~ 87.39 ~ GOAL!!!!! LEDLEY
112 ~ 88.08 ~ Super Joe Ledley
113 ~ 88.43 ~ Toy Town
~ 89.04 ~ GOAL!!!!! HOOPER
114 ~ 89.28 ~ Toy Town
115 ~ 90.20 ~ Ooh Ahh Gary Hooper
~ 92.11 ~ FULL TIME : GLASGOW CELTIC CHAMPIONS!!!
BCW-superb a proper legend
1 nil East Fife, the travelling santa band go wild
I should af said legends:-)))))
Are Man City really aw that good, EPL at its bestest:-)))
2 nil Leicester against City, Pep for the sack :o)
Jobo-5:19pm,as turkeybhoy told one time,you need to get a life:-)))))))
Warbiola survives for another week. Spoke to two R*ngers fans this morning. They were looking forward to todays game as they reckon that Warbiola has eventually embraced the R*ngers (in liquidation) way and is becoming more Wattienaccio than a development pe teacher……
The Warbanaccio is a coming…..
BIG PEAT OF ISLAY on 10TH DECEMBER 2016 12:16 PM
Political Correctness is a misnomer. It is sheer moral vandalism.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bc-high-schooler-didnt-want-to-hear-teachers-pro-life-view-and-so-he-ends-u
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Totally agree. All in the same week as Strathclyde Uni bans the prolife group.
It’s the old “you can have freedom of speech as long as you’re saying what we want you to”.
New totalitarianismCSC
HH
Pep’s first league match against defending champions since May 2, 2009, not going too well then.
Jobo-turkybhoy told me to get life for less:-))
3 nil now
Warbiola respectfully awaiting the call.
Original sadiesbhoy the changes being introduced to the CL are designed purely to ensure the rich clubs remain rich and to exclude others.
Paul67 and other on this site have (rightly) bemoaned this before. But because Celtic have been thrown a bit of a bone then it’s all okay. It’s a pathetic attitude. And why should previous winners be given coefficient points. Is this to give them an advantage? Why? What’s fair about that?
More and more I see how some attitudes are just like the Huns. I am beginning to think the clubs really are two sides of the same coin.
I mean guys like turkeybhoy and tonydonnlly who wallow in name calling and revel in their own ignorance alongside paul67,s increasingly duplicitous leaders.
Who on earth are we kidding?
Jobo,
My joint top CQN post of all time.
Believe the hype
I think Erik will stay with the Celts for his whole career, I hope so anyway.
Erik is really something special as a player. He is a real Joy to watch at the moment.
Big Kolo will be helping him get even better. It was Brilliant seeing Kolo enjoying himself so much as the Celts won the Cup.
Emilio has been superb stepping in and fighting for the Celtic cause. A real Celtic Man.
i have said on many occasions Pep’s system has been rumbled.
His lack of success in Europe with Bayern was not down to bad luck.
Pretty to watch but not effective against the better teams.
Defensively suspect against pace and high press.
And who in their right mind would pay 50 million for Stones?
Guys like he and Mourinho’s best days are behind them as guys like Zidane and Conte have combined flair with solid defense and flexible systems for success.