Celtic fans warned to behave themselves in Madrid:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/14905023.stm

 

And in the middle of the article, a reminder of the trouble we faced out there.

I'd take Christie if it were financially viable though as I stated elsewhere I really don't think it will be and anyway I'd prefer Scott Allan.

 

I wouldn't take Christie. He was shite for his last six months here. Gutless.

 

If they're nowhere near good enough for the team we're trying to overtake, a team we are already ahead of this season, they should not be good enough for us. Call me old-fashioned but how about trying to raise the standards of the footballers we recruit and also get better performances from the ones we have?

Joke on Twitter:

 

Why not put Brendan Rodgers in charge of Brexit?

 

He managed to get Celtic out of Europe in just 180 minutes.

 

Did smile at that 

Except that the c@nts aren't out of Europe at all...

Except that the c@nts aren't out of Europe at all...

 

Shit, forgot about their escape route, not so funny after all. 

Hayes was a 7/10 minimum every game I ever saw him play bar maybe one a season.  Inconsistent is not a word I would ever use to describe him as an Aberdeen player.  Don't want him back though....

Bar his first season with us I thought Hayes was a tremendous player for us. His final ball let him down at times, but if he had that we would never have had him in the first place. His workrate was tremendous and even when having a shit game he was still running about trying to create or defend. We really missed him last season and I would have had him back, but not now that we have McGinn back having them both back would be a huge step backwards for us.

He reiterated that his interest in Aberdeen defender Scott McKenna had ended - "that is closed, no more to add," - and said he is looking to lose some players before Friday.

"The squad is way too big, it is as simple as that," he said.

 

If Brendan Rodgers needs to ship out some players on the cheap I am sure Aberdeen will take a couple of his hands.

Wheels are falling off the celtic cart big time, they have caved amd let dembele go.  Be interesting to see if they can get someone else in.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-45390489

 

Now this is something that concerned me both at the league cup final and when I did a couple of first aid stints at tic champions league games.

If ever a stadium smacks of rennovation on the cheap it is celtic park and the situaiton they have on Janefield street is shocking.

The old 'Jungle' only held 5033 when they made it all seater yet the building standards folk of the mid 90s saw fit to allow the Janefield street access to remain the same for the current 27000 seater stand.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-45390489

 

Now this is something that concerned me both at the league cup final and when I did a couple of first aid stints at tic champions league games.

If ever a stadium smacks of rennovation on the cheap it is celtic park and the situaiton they have on Janefield street is shocking.

The old 'Jungle' only held 5033 when they made it all seater yet the building standards folk of the mid 90s saw fit to allow the Janefield street access to remain the same for the current 27000 seater stand.

 

Absolutely. Anyone who thinks it’s a half decent ground, let alone something of high standard, is kidding themselves. It’s a concrete shitehole.

Mind coming out that end after the LC final being a bit of a stramash. Can see how a wee bit of trouble could escalate

I guess that's why you need to have all of these pesky planning requirements these days, access routes, concourses to let crowds out into etc, etc...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-45390489

 

Now this is something that concerned me both at the league cup final and when I did a couple of first aid stints at tic champions league games.

If ever a stadium smacks of rennovation on the cheap it is celtic park and the situaiton they have on Janefield street is shocking.

The old 'Jungle' only held 5033 when they made it all seater yet the building standards folk of the mid 90s saw fit to allow the Janefield street access to remain the same for the current 27000 seater stand.

 

I mind being at a Scotland game there ,  against Latvia about 20 years ago, when we qualified for the World Cup finals. Me and the missus we in the North Stand that day and I can vividly rememer the crush on the ground floor in the area beneath the stand when the crowd was leaving at the end of the game. We were literally moved along by the surge of the crowd , and would have been unable to stop or change direction even if we wanted to. I can mind thinking that this must have been the norm due to the crowds the Tims got most games would have been about the same as the size of the crowd that day. I was surprised at not having heard of that sort of problem before.

 

From memory , I think there was a big iron fence/gate that was closed ,or had only a very small open bit which seemed to be the cause of the problem

 

We were back in the North Stand for the LC final in 2014 , with our 11 year old loon. We made sure that we hung back longer than most of the crowd before leaving our seats that day.

I guess that's why you need to have all of these pesky planning requirements these days, access routes, concourses to let crowds out into etc, etc...

 

Was this not due to police shutting a road or some such? Not stadium planning requirement, but match day planning requirement?

The SFA/SPFL eating out of their hands now UEFA have joined the bandwagon.

 

UEFA have revealed they have given Rangers special permission not to give visiting teams their full allocation of tickets in the Europa League due to safety concerns expressed by the police.

 

https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sport/football/3329145/rangers-special-permission-uefa-ibrox-away-end-tickets-europa-league-safety-concerns/

 

Rules do not seem to mean nothing to these minks.

 

And this has what to do with the Dhims?

Just wondered this morning when the greatest fans in the world will start to get irked with Brenda.

 

Six points behind Hearts (ok, with a game in hand) and beaten twice in the league already this season.  Knocked out of the Champions League and hanging on by their fingertips in a Europa League group that their fans will have expected to get through.  The pressure is on their manager for the first time since he has been there.

 

Interesting to see what the reaction will be if he loses on Sunday. 

As long as he keeps delivering league titles and keeps their quest for 10 in a row on track he is perfectly safe. The only question mark exists over Brenda himself. He will get bored winning trophies in a country where, with the huge financial gulf that exists between Celtic and everyone else, only the cups provide the (still relatively small) chance of an upset.

 

He will have his eye on another big job in England. Newcastle could become available soon and he is bound to be mentioned for it. As could West Ham. I think he would jump at the chance. Smaller clubs than Celtic for sure but would easily double possibly treble his current £30k per week

his current £30k per year.

 

Maybe Huntly, or Formartine or someone?

Just reading that Celtic trained at Murrayfield earlier on this week.  What is all that about - as these semi finals are being played at "neutral" venues, have all teams been training at Murrayfield/Hampden as it's the first I'd heard of it?

Something brewing?

 

Please let it be a points deduction from sevco. The great unwashed meltdown would be hilarious

Sounds like it’s a historic child abuse story that he’s working on.

Ok strictly speaking no longer relates to the Victims, but fucked if I was starting a new thread about this horrible specimen.

Without doubt one of my most disliked individuals to have played for Racist FC in the last ten years or so.

Don't bother clicking on the link.

The jist is that he is training with the youngsters at Gent, was voted in the League's team of duffers last season, banned from appearing in the squad photo for this season and has had all reference to him deleted from the club website

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-transfer-news/mikael-lustig-suffers-pariah-status-22574540

 

Celtic get KB'd for fans in the ground this weekend. Good. I've no idea why it was only them applying, it should be all the teams in the league given the go ahead, or none of them.

There was also a hygiene issue identified by the club with their filthy supporters long before Covid hit.