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Unlike Champions League, tomorrow is a faux drama

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It’s been suggested I’ve been “trolling” by concentrating on our forthcoming Champions League campaign instead of the Premiership. Really? I don’t think so. We are a Champions League team this season, nothing else comes close to being as important as this tournament.

Think back to the stress you had when we were a goal down in Astana, or when they equalised a week later at Celtic Park? Those were two BIG, big games.

And it didn’t end there. The rollercoaster of Hapoel at Celtic Park was more thrilling than stressful, but the return in Israel was not only acutely stressful, it will be by far our biggest game of the season, unless we make an appearance in Cardiff in June (yes June!) next year.

Amid all of these blockbuster football games we have the small matter of Barcelona at the Camp Nou in four days. Four days! From now! Tomorrow’s Premiership game will keep the Glasgow constabulary in overtime, but despite all the column inches written over the last four years about the commercial consequences of this game to Celtic, it’ll be the least lucrative game we will play this week, it will have absolutely no impact on our domestic season, and frankly, is a game we could do without. I know one or two in the corridors of power at Celtic Park who view things the same way.

I suggested we need to rest players for Tuesday and I mean it.  Win or lose tomorrow, you are going to walk out of the ground knowing we’re going to win the league.  Unlike the Champions League, with its tens of millions of consequences, this is a faux drama.

You’ll not see the Dear Green Place at its best tomorrow. Let’s get it over and done with.

There will be another blog up within the hour.  Been avoiding the temptation to get drawn into the subject of the week thus far, but have relented.

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  1. vfr800a8 on

    Good afternoon. If you haven’t completed the consultation survey on the repeal of the Offensive Behaviour at Football Act please click this link and complete it now. If you are unsure about what to write, this crib sheet will help. Remember you are agreeing that the act should be repealed. Also remember to click Complete Survey at the end or your views won’t be included!

     

     

    FAC the Act!

     

     

    KTF

  2. Alasdair MacLean on

    Going to have a football day at home tomorrow.

     

    Celtic game at a venue to be decided as I don’t have Sky…..followed by a live game against Motherwell in Dingwall.

     

    The Celtic game will be a nice warm up before the real stuff!

     

    I’ve ben asked if I want to go to Ross County’s first game ever in Ibrox a week tomorrow – for the first ever league match between the league’s youngest members……

     

    I’m still undecided, but advice will be useful.

  3. vfr800a8 on

    So no extra CL 3-game packages available at this time? A move away from the previous sale strategy!

     

     

    I cannot believe it’s sold out.

     

     

    FAC the Act

     

     

    KTF

  5. Hrvatski Jim on

    Text from HATRED FROM THE HORDES

     

    BY CQN MAGAZINE ON 9TH SEPTEMBER 2016 FOOTBALL MATTERS

     

    Tomorrow is The Glasgow Derby and the hordes will be on the march. VFR800 looks at what’s likely to happen…

     

     

    “Events over the last week have shown that this is the most troubling and concerning element of the new club. It was epitomised in their wee jaunt to Béal Feirste last Saturday to play a testimonial against Linfield. The fact that the The Rangers players and officials were ill-advised enough to be pictured alongside members of a loyalist flute band was troubling in itself; the fact that the same flute band were then heading off to march in a commemoration parade for a vile UVF terrorist made this a catastrophic lack of judgement that should have been condemned universally. ”

     

     

    One for the employment lawyers amongst us.

     

     

    Is it acceptable under a contract of employment to be placed in such a position if you object to being associated with such a band? Does this contravene employment or Human Rights legislation?

     

     

    It appears that no complaint has been made so no case can be followed up but if an employee of The Rangers had refused to be in that picture or objected after the event, would a court likely find that the employee was in breach of contract or that the employee had been subjected to an unreasonable demand under their employment contract?

     

     

    I expect 10 lawyers to reply and to get 20 different opinions.

  7. petec on

    Alasdair MacLean,

     

     

    Go for it m8ty, I expect Ross County to beat the New Rangers – why would you want to miss that?

     

     

    ;))

  9. Summa of Sammi.... on

     

    ‘but despite all the column inches written over the last four years about the commercial consequences of this game to Celtic, it’ll be the least lucrative game we will play this week, it will have absolutely no impact on our domestic season, and frankly, is a game we could do without. I know one or two in the corridors of power at Celtic Park who view things the same way. ‘

     

     

    ..

     

     

    Yea that will be the same leeches in the ‘Corridors of Power’.. That Sold All our Best Players in the Last 4 Years and Never reinvested the Transfer Fee because we could Loose 10 games and Still Win the League a Policy that has Denied us Champions League Football..

     

     

    Don’t think I’ve Dissagreed more on Anything ever written on a Celtic blog..

     

     

    But Hey.. You are Mingling with the Powers that be.. In the ‘Corridors of Power’.. WTF

     

     

     

    Summa

  10. Eurochamps67 on

    Hoping for us to be 4-0 up by half time tomorrow.

     

    I won’t be attending, choosing to go golfing instead.

     

    I’ve never watched a Sevco game. Don’t know if I ever will.

     

     

    Born in the 1950’s and supporting Celtic from the early 1960’s, Rangers were a factor that I had no choice in.

     

    They were Celtic’s greatest rivals long before I existed and, as a Celtic supporter I had to deal with their existence and that of the Old Firm alliance.

     

    But that ended in 2012 when Rangers died.

     

     

    That a new club was created and now pretends to be the same club as the old club is an irrelevance.

     

    Only if I choose to make them relevant by attending their matches , or awarding them the undeserved status as Celtic’s major rivals can they become relevant.

     

     

    I choose not to commend that status upon them.

     

     

    It may be in years to come that this new sevco rangers merits the status of being our major rivals by their performance on the football field, but at this moment in time, that is not the situation.

     

     

    What we have at the moment is only a collection of remnants from a former existence, masquerading as some pathetic tribute act.

     

    The only real aspect of this tribute act is the , all too real, gullible, sectarian, racist support that have decided to attach themselves to this new entity.

     

     

    I choose not to engage with this base low life.

     

     

    Eurochamps67

     

     

    whateverpartoftbeingcelticdependsonbeingpartoftheoldfirmicandowithoutCSC

  11. TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on

    Paul

     

     

    While I enjoy your concentration on the Barca game and playing down the importance of tomorrow’s game against the Glasgow Shysters, it will not be ignored by most Celtic fans, myself included. It is important to us that the detritus that follow them wake up on Sunday morning with that horrible realisation that their team were grubbed the previous day.

     

     

    Like all Celtic fans, I want to be celebrating (quietly at home) yet another League victory in the way that I have celebrated our three previous league victories this season. I do not want Celtic to lose this game as I do not want them to lose any other game so I hope all Celtic players chosen to play tomorrow are 100% focused on winning. The CL game will take care of itself.

     

     

    COYBIG

  14. Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma on

    OK who will support Glasgow Celtic by pledging £3 per goal for every goal we score against … eh… um … Sebastion Coe, I mean Sevco, or the Rangers, or the Texas Rangers or the Mighty Power Rangers, or Lazarus & Co or whatever they are called?

     

     

    Come on support the homeless, the Celtic Charity Foundation and bams like me who are going to sleep out in the wet and the cold on 12th November for a good cause.

     

     

    Donate your money here: https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/jamesmcginley2

     

     

    Anyone caught wildly celebrating but not donating after the 4th goal will be named and shamed in the Celtic View and their weans will get a Sports Direct Royal Blue Freebie shirt for Christmas whether they want one or not!!

     

     

    HH

     

     

    BRTH

  19. 16 roads - Celtic über alles... on

    16:35 @ Leopardstown – Le Vagabond – NAP!

     

     

    Today Celtic teach that dishevelled monkey outfit a lesson that they won’t forget in a hurry.

     

     

    Good luck everybody.

     

     

    HH.

  21. Nye Bevans' rebel soldier on

    Up In Lights 4:50 Doncaster.

     

     

    Celtic too score in the first 15mins 16/5 wae the black’n’tan bookie.

  22. Teuchter ár lá on

    Just in from waking up the larks.

     

    Heading for the Flamingo in Santa Ponsa today. Although I realise the team died – their zombiefied remains stagger on, which gives me every reason to be there to cheer on the Celts. Hit them for six…..with a baseball bat Oh yeah!

     

    RamonesCSC

  23. Gerryfaethebrig on

    Nap the day 2.35 Doncaster – Double Up

     

     

    If I was a betting man -2 for Brendan’s Bhoys would be getting lumped on

     

     

    Best of luck to all

     

     

    Cheers GFTB

  27. hashadenough on

    Will have a few beers watching the game, then into the musical in the Pavilion and no doubt a couple of post show beers.

     

     

    Hope to be merry therefore going for

     

     

    Plough Boy in the 2.15 at Chester.

     

     

    Cannae get beat.

     

     

    Have a good day.

  31. Eurochamps67 on

    Looking for good things, go for Celtic -2 goals and Qemah 5.35 Leopardstown.

     

     

    Today’s nap

     

     

    TOORMORE 3.10 Doncaster

     

     

    Best of luck everyone

     

     

    EC67

  40. fleagle1888 on

    Absolutely brilliant from Brendan’s Bhoys… and…

     

     

    I backed Celtic (-1.5) & Celtic (-2.5) so it’s happy, happy days!

     

     

    Now hoping to double up with my CQN nap :

     

     

    Up in Lights (16:50 Doncaster)

     

     

    Hail Hail, fleagle1888

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