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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MWD
Happy Birthday my friend, a very special feat when your age and waist size come together as one :-)
HH
CRC
Lennybhoy – no, not APY (good guy with a brain the sizre of Jupiter), anotehr mate of mine.
Back to MOTD……….
Jobo 10.07
Both my sisters worked with you in Cotton House, I know Dick Byrne, another couple of Portcullis House punters know you well…… In fact Stevie who has joined LMS works in the Centre……blur paths have never crossed because as you we were out running around Strathy Park I was playing on the red ash !!!!!
Both my sisters from Cotton House know you well, one often works next to BT’s uncle ?
HMRC is full of tims
CRC
Still a few years till my age catches my waist
MWD
Gerry
JI retired in the summer
Are we Together?
Don’t get me started on the United Nations. :D
oops we are
together
BT
He has more nights out than Batman…..
My sister worked with him for decades, I asked if she had met you you, her answer
“He had a family retirement there is even more of them than us” :-)
Happy Birthday ,Moonbeams WD
Probably the only cyclist who is clear of any kind of doping.
BT
Cheers. I managed to get it but don’t ask me what channel…….just kept hitting different channels and up it popped. Don’t want to come out to see which one it is cos I know I’ll lose the stream.
Get Bobo Jaldie to run for Presidente of Scotland – EK first.
Go for it Joe.
CQN is unanimous in Support of you, you Humble dude. Think about it.
HH
Gerry
That’s true on both counts :-))
3’sy
Good stuff
Watched Real Madrid tonight. Two goals in the last 10 minutes to preserve a great winnnig run. Hope some of our boys were watching. Phenomenal will to win from guys like Ramos who have seen and done it all. Watched guys celebrate like crazy to scrape past Deportivo when they won multiple Champions Leagues, the World Cup and much more. Respect.
Brendan’s boys are relentless. Our will to win and batter teams week in week out is fantastic. I foresee no let up.
Hungry.
Petec in da house!
BT
I disagreed with her, she couldn’t spell Cellic (sic) there’s hunners of us :-)
Jobo, my wee Brother is over at Christmas, I’m sure he’d Love to have a go at that Route.
I’m not being a bellend – I’d expect James to set a new Record.
James is now starting to ask Questions why I’m so… I’m so.. I’m so….
he is 42 right noo
Where is Roy C when you would like to listen to a folk song or two……remember panty wetters no hatred just a song that might remember mothers or fathers who might not be here …..
Grace is now being sung….. My next choice would be
“A Town I Loved So Well”…….. Remember no hatred
GFTB:
We had a great afternoon with our Bhoy but he ditched us so that he could celebrate his 18th properly, that’s what he told us…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Leigh is hungrier and more motivated than ever. I believe this experience will make him more humble and mature.
Unleash him.
Turkeybhoy-you do like the word trumpet don’t you
thetimreaper,
The ole Runner
Jobo
You have mail
HH
CRC
Selecta
Hope and TCR.CSC
Goodnight Timland
Play nice
HH
Lennybhoy 11.06pm
We would both do the same :-)
Hope you all had a great day ……. You’ve got my number if you want me to go over the street and keep an eye on him :-)
CRC –
read and understood! Thank you!
let me know about launch date and we can start to get the teasers out! Back to MOTD. And wine…. ;-)
I’m so Lucky.
sticky pitch
partick cltic 1980
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPA5N73knfE
Didn’t matt mcglone put Wilson’s side of the Paton story in its place
Saint Stivs
A few years later Danny Crainie hat-trick at Firhill… walking down the hill behind the goals a sea of “pish” as a kid I said……it hasn’t been raining, big cousin says “wee man that’s not rain”
BT
Brilliant fight
A wee thought on the Songbook debate. It’s mad me think of some of the good old rebel songs I used to hear my dad and older brothers ing when I was a when (are you reading Gerihatric?).
One of my favourites which I would add to the songbook:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GonUTdh7VBI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GonUTdh7VBI
KTF
getting as many as possible to Believe that God Stepped into his own Creation… Took awwe the pain…, Och ye awe know it, lately do you?
They never played this
LadiesandGentlemen.CSC
Fellow Celtic fans, good night and God bless, let others judge acceptable songs (?) but remember Cqn is up its own bahookie…… Do as I say not as I done, then the other belters “we don’t need this, it’s detrimental to the club” away and fling shite at the moon…… Detrimental ?
If you don’t like the young team singing their songs, am afraid we reap what we sow, just be thankful there is no hatred………and if you tie a wee minute we live in good Celtic times…….
Let the paying public sing
3’sy
Hard to judge a winner,
Is for AJ
I am the Luckiest CQNer ever.
Noone has any Idea how LUCKY I am.
philvisreturns.CSC
ublished on Oct 1, 2015
Celtic clinch the 1987-88 Premier league with a solid 3-0 win at home to Dundee thanks to goals from Chris Morris and an Andy Walker double. Officially the crowd was 60,800, but given that the pitch side track was also full I think we can deduce that figure was low.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQSR8_oOc6M