You and I have enough recent experience to know teams we’ve never heard of, or know little about, cannot be underestimated when it comes to European football. We should expect, and will get, a very difficult game tomorrow.
The good news is that Hapoel Beer Shiva have lost goals in three consecutive matches after a solid defensive run which saw them keep 8 clean sheets in 12 games. But they scored four while conceding in two of those games, the only reversal coming at home to Ashdod in the League Cup last midweek.
They shut up shop away from home in their two earlier Champions League qualifying rounds at Sheriff in Moldova after a narrow 3-2 home win, they kept out Olympiakos before winning the return 1-0 in the last round.
Unlike in previous years, we are not facing a team midseason in the playoff round; Hapoel have had a few cup games but will not open their league season until Saturday.
Hospitality for 3 people at Celtic-Hapoel Beer Shiva at Walfrid Restaurant
Celtic sponsor, Intelligent Car Leasing, have given us three tickets for fantastic hospitality at the Walfrid Restaurant, before, during and after tomorrow’s night’s Champions League qualifier. This is another money can’t buy opportunity for three people to watch Celtic in a hugely important game in sumptuous comfort.
Anyone can enter the competition, however, as this prize of so incredible, I’d like everyone who enters to donate a recommended £10 to the good work of the Celtic Foundation.
You can donate at this MyDonate page.
The Celtic Foundation work to improve Health, promote Equality, encourage Learning and tackle Poverty (H.E.L.P.) in Scotland, the rest of the UK and Ireland, and worldwide. It’s your Foundation, you built and maintain its good work.
A few guidelines for the raffle:
Raffle closes at 21:00 BST TONIGHT, so there’s not a lot of time and I’m not expecting many entries. You will not be entered into the competition if you donate or apply afterwards.
Enter with an email address you are going to check later tonight or early tomorrow, add a phone number, if you like.
You can enter two ways:
By making a recommended £10 donation to Celtic FC Foundation here. Then email me at celticquicknews@gmail.com with Walfrid in the subject line, to make sure I can get in touch with you.
Or
By emailing me the names of every Celtic shirt sponsor and official kit manufacturer. Ever. To celticquicknews@gmail.com
One of the above will be pretty easy for most of us. The other will be pretty difficult. Do the easy one.
Great prize. Only open for a few hours so there will be little competition. Go for it!
Thank you, and thanks to Intelligent Car Leasing for supporting our fundraising efforts.
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Macjay
In context I believe he’d make the same reply now.
Anyway, as usual these days, too much to do and not enough time!
C’mon the Celtic.
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
Sir Robert had died by then. We had the accountant in charge.
I think the morals of the PLC need to be taken into account…i.e. they dont have any.
Bereft.
Im totally sick of the feckers.
Tories and half-wits, and sevconians.
They truly would sell their own grannies for a profit.
They are a disgrace to Celtic supporters imo.
Cant tell the truth….sadly.
HH
Chief Tonto, thinks scalped magic hat man speak with fork tongue.
http://videocelts.com/2016/08/blogs/latest-news/warburton-attempts-25000-a-week-magic-trick/
B<CUWP
He was alive when we played the last named 4 teams. The 56 uprising in Hungary was even more brutally put down than the Czech one was. When we entered European competition in 62, we took on the risk of playing a team from a Soviet controlled country.
I don't think Robert Kelly's motivation was just anti-communism but one of sensitivity re being seen to conduct sporting relations with a country seen as having supported the oppression in Czechoslovakia (like Hungary had a veto!!). Still he got a knighthood out of it.
ACGR 12.45am and BEATBHOY 12.50am
Crude, but effective. Morning coffee over the couch.
Pmsl :)
To pretend that thems are the same team, purely for money….is despicable imo.
Stick it where the sun dont shine.
The PLC are cowards.
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
True. Apologies.
In fairness,difficult to read as tears are blinding me from reading those Veet reviews!
Morning.
I’m against flag waving…and flag wavering….but…
Was the Kurdish flag not flapped aboot at Celtic Park against Fenerbahce without punishment?
Sviatchencko fit for tonight ?
Back in training
Hail Hail
CLUNKS 12:22am
Good luck to your brother in law for his operation.
I don’t know the circumstances, but trust in the skilled surgeons we are lucky to have in this country. I had three emergency procedures on ma heid in the space of five weeks, just over two years ago, and due to the skill of doctors and dedication of other medical staff I am here to tell the tale.
It will be a worrying time for him and the family, but favourable outcomes from bleak prognosis happen everyday in our wonderful NHS.
Tell the family to stay strong, he will need their emotional support when he is recovering from the op.
Oh aye, I see a couple of the level 5 little helpers in this AM trying to spoil our day, the usual suspects, feck the board, but! Cmon the hoops? And the defenders of Palastine in as well, sooooo predictable, anyway £10 on the army belts 3-0 11/1, but? Any score with them not scoring will suit me fine, PS leave yer flags, flares, combat jackets, ban the bomb badges, an cagoules, in the hoos beside you university payment request on yer unpaid student loan.
Level 5 little helpers, and lurking SMSM, and Huns GIRFUYs.
Cowiebhoy
Good news, but I think it’s too soon for him. I’d rather have Toure and O’Connell at the back tonight.
Would like to see him pair up with Toure in the once fit though.
TD67
Anthony
Celtic are playing today
Not interested in a shat out liquidated farces identities attempts to Pretend they did not cheat and self harm.
They did
HH
In some utopian fantasy land this is a Machiavellian plot to prove to the world that they’re not the same team. The club have priced it as if they were knowing full well that fans will baulk at the price for a new team, the game won’t sell out and we’ll all be proven correct.
Australia to close Manus Island detention centre:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-37104363
Thank God we’re not playing a team from Australia….imagine the arguements!
Like i said….the PLC are cowards, not the kind of peepul you could trust.
Social Darwinists, Masons,….you name it…..everyone welcome, except Celtic supporters.
Back of the bus, and tugging that forelock like a good yin.
Backing the Hun lies up and looking the other way.
Thats the PLC for you….Bigotry for money.
Disgrace.
Smsm/level5 helpers
Celtic fans go and support Celtic
Nevwr mind the stereotypes
Pish stained jakies have no more rights in going to see Celtic than anyone wearing a combat jacket/dribblin pensioner/student/doddery old pensioners.
Cliched stereotyping of todays generation of Celtic fans is NOT celtic behaviour.
so come on Celtic fans
Follow and support the team
Be you a pish stained doddery fool or be you a radicalCelt
You are all Celts
No sitting wi your arms folded, raise them
No waiting to join in, sing that song.
Flags subject to t&c ha.
Celtic.one team.one club and no flookin stereotypes.
HH
49 quid to keep Sevco going.
Its them who will reap the benefit of the bigotry, helped no end by the Celtic PLC.
Paying to keep the huns going.
But carry on.
An Tearmann
Well said that man.
Btw, does this mean you will support me wearing a burkini to a match in protest if we draw a French team this season?
AN TEARMANN on 17TH AUGUST 2016 9:22 AM
TD67
Anthony
Celtic are playing today
Not interested in a shat out liquidated farces identities attempts to Pretend they did not cheat and self harm.
They did
HH
That’s fine by me I just posted it, read it or scroll on by it, makes no diff. To me mate, some may want to read it, .
BMCUW 8:29am
Aw man, thanks for re-posting that, missed it first time.
The story by the boy with the ice cream is absolutely the funniest thing I have ever read :)))
Still giggling. Brilliant.
If any of you had any balls at all.
You would boycott the 49 quid bigot farce.
Shameful in the extreme that the PLC are rubber stamping the hun cheating and bigotry.
Makes me sick to my stomach.
Yeah, dont call out the cheating…..Look the other way
Dont wave a flag
Dont sing a song
Dont have a point of view
Dont rock the boat
Dont bring politics into football,….and this coming from people who are quite happy with Tory ideology residing at Celtic Park.
Yeah…pull the other fecking one.
If I’m wanting to go somewhere and I don’t like the price of the venue then I don’t go simple as that, if £49 is over the top then don’t go, I’v got two tickets for the Glasgow Derby and I’m not going, and I never will go back to one either, and that’s just me and my business why I won’t go, but I’m not moaning about it, it is what it is, you either pay it or don’t pay it, some been waiting a Wee while since the start of the season for a moan, but you know eventually they will get ther, it’s in they’r DNA, malcontents are like that, never please them.
Basically….DONT THINK
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 17TH AUGUST 2016 9:47 AM
If any of you had any balls at all.
You would boycott the 49 quid bigot farce.
Shameful in the extreme that the PLC are rubber stamping the hun cheating and bigotry.
Makes me sick to my stomach.
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Basic economics of supply and demand. If there is a market for £49 tickets, they will sell. If there isn’t they won’t – simples. The Club is a business and they are there to make money as part of the business.
If you feel so strongly, don’t go.
KTF
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 17TH AUGUST 2016 9:55 AM
Basically….DONT THINK
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Oh, the irony ……………………….
Sevco cry poor at Celtic ticket prices.
The Daily Record has yet again found a way to attack Celtic on the eve of a Champions League match…
Along with a little help from some in here.
Level5 little helpers, they’r here don’t kid yerself.
YS SACK THE BOARD on 17TH AUGUST 2016 9:55 AM
Basically….DONT THINK
Naw don’t go.
HUNDERBIRDSAREGONE
Oh,there’s some belters!
Moral is-Read and abide by the instructions. Not advice I’m much known for listening to,I might add.
VFR
I wouldnt bring disgrace on myself by attending a lie, designed to prop up the huns.
Are you a hun?
Dont ever speak to me about supply and demand, take your business nonsense elsewhere.
I wont be buying into the farce.
I couldnt lie to myself like that….unlike some.
49 quid to watch a game against a new club……while pretending that its Rangers…Ha
The PLC are taking you all for fools….but carry on.
You are all obviously wiser than me.
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 17TH AUGUST 2016 10:04 AM
VFR
I wouldnt bring disgrace on myself by attending a lie, designed to prop up the huns.
Are you a hun?
Dont ever speak to me about supply and demand, take your business nonsense elsewhere.
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I rest my case!
KTF
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 17TH AUGUST 2016 10:08 AM
You are all obviously wiser than me.
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As the old saying goes: “many a true word spoken in jest”.
KTF
VFR
What case?
Dont talk nonsense.
You dont know who i am…..even though ive been on this site for many years.
So kindly feck off
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 17TH AUGUST 2016 10:08 AM
You’re not a ST holder then?
And from what you’ve said, you might have been prepared to take an upgrade ticket for the TRFC game had it been cheaper?
Do you go to other games on a match by match basis, or were you going to make an exception for this one (had it been cheaper)?
Amidst all the furore over the cost of game versus the Huns; surely Celtic’s relationship with Ticketmaster should be examined/questioned!
Detail re is sketchy, to say the least but there are some press releases etc., out there, e.g. “Extending their long standing relationship with Ticketmaster, Celtic have signed a new multi-year contract.
Celtic have been Ticketmaster clients for more than 20 years. The club are benefitting from all the latest Ticketmaster technology as fully outsourcing their telesales to the Ticketmaster Call Centre to expand the service to their fans and help to deal with spikes in business demand”
Seems to be that Celtic are paid an outsource fee by Ticketmaster and allow them input on Ticket prices, distribution etc.,
As I said sketchy!
Maybe CQN could shine a light on the Celtic/Ticketmaster agreement/relationship; with the best interest of the support in mind of course.
Anybody???
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM