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Celtic v Man Utd CL; Remember the 5th November!
Topic Started: Nov 3 2008, 08:18 AM (768 Views)
blair7-1
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We don`t belong in the last 16 that is obvious, but the "Men" didn`t beat the "Bhoys" did they Ince?

I hope that Blackburn lose every game while he is in charge. Disrespectful twat.

McDonald`s goal: Had Ronaldo scored that we would be hearing it as goal of the decade.

Team defended well, with Wilson star man in defence for me. Stuck to the task very well.
Brown played well too, but the fitness was the thing for me. They looked miles fitter.
I`m not biased. I don`t care who beats Rangers

It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don’t want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends."
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Hinkel,wilson,Caldwell and Mick were stand-outs all night.

Midfield were great until they tired dramatically

Mcdonald and Sheridan ran themselves into the ground

We done well considering we were 5 first team regulars down and if ever we needed McGeady for an "out" ball then last night was it!

Still, beat Aalborg,Villareal 2-0 and hope Man who beat villareal then we're through

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PS - Displays from Fans last night were immense

PPS - YES WE DO BELONG THERE, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!! :ynwa:




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BTW, Ronnie Hawthorn should be sacked NOW!!

2 pitch invaders in 2 years is just not good enough




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strachan shat it with 15 minutes left.
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Dropped off the kids at school today and the janitor (Man Utd Fan) walks in out the playing field.
Before I could speak " If I ever hear the Celtic Manager saying how proud he was of his team again... Absolutely disgusting! Defended all night... Celtic wouldn`t beat lower league English teams. Blackpool would beat them!"

Cue laughter from me (not to his approval) and "Drew with the reigning CL EPL club": "Hull wouldn`t beat ICT!": " Only four teams in England" "We had no strike force and still scored!"

This typifies Man U for me. Heads up erse with no dignity. The fact they didn`t beat us obviously made him mental.

As for them wearing Celtic /Man U scarves, we should ban this. They will never be the people`s club.

prawnsandwichtraffordbrigade

Hopefully Arsenal/ Liverpool will gubb them in the league
I`m not biased. I don`t care who beats Rangers

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Henke
Nov 6 2008, 02:25 AM
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Nov 6 2008, 12:26 PM
We have all the attributes that have got us to the last 16 in the last two seasons though.

Problem is Rosie, this seasons team isn't as strong as the last two seasons teams.

We haven't invested significantly enough to continue that process of improving each and every season. Instead we have remained static and indeed in some cases backwards. I'm not the only one who thinks this. There are numerous ex-Celts who feel this way.

Like Lubo says, it's not a slur, just fact. Well, actually it is a slur on those who run the club. :angry:

We can all dream about another European final, but it will never happen unless the squad is invested in.

And it will never happen in the CL.

That's your and some ex Celts' opinions though. :thumbs.up: It is not fact. I never expected Porto to get near a CL final. Monaco either for that matter but both managed it four years ago. So you can't know what can happen, it is difficult with the disparity in resources but, as long as we are in it, I always believe there is a chance.

WGS said before our CL campaign started that we have a better squad of players now to be in a better position to win away in the CL, well words to that effect. We've obviously still not won away but then he didn't say it was definite. Obviously home results, particularly v Aalborg haven't gone the way we would want but, mathematically, we are still in the competition so we still do have a chance. I can understand what WGS meant about the squad though. We are better equipped, he is right about that. We never make injuries an excuse but it does have an impact on your chances in games, it can be especially restrictive if you are trying to make changes in a game. As the Celtic site said last night, we went into that match decimated by injuries, we still competed and still very, very nearly beat them again. To even get a point in those circumstances was magnificant.

Hopefully, by the time we play our next round of fixtures, we will have more/all of our injured players back and so have more options. The first thing we must do is beat Aalborg, that will guarantee us post Christmas European football. Then I certainly wouldn't bet against us at home. We have nothing to lose. If we lost/drew, we'd still have a UEFA cup place. If we go for it, we get a goal, we only need one, maybe two more in case we concede one but I can't see Villareal getting much change at our cauldron if they only managed a goal against us at home. We can do it and, if we do, we deserve to be there and, after what we did to the European Champions last night especially and with a decimated side, I would not bet against us whoever we draw in the last 16. :love:

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Who among us thinks we will beat Aalborg away? :hmmm:
I`m not biased. I don`t care who beats Rangers

It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don’t want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends."
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Nov 6 2008, 03:40 AM
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Nov 6 2008, 12:27 PM
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Nov 6 2008, 01:22 AM
Any linkage for McDonald's goal yet?  Cannae find any.  :(

Best I could do

It's got their goal as well. :(

Skippy's was a belter though. :love:

:thumbs.up:

Great goal and great overall performance from wee fat arse! Really got it right up his critics tonight.


Just watched the reply at ma Da's there and can't believe that diving poser got away with his kick at Broon. :rolleyes:

I had a wee sneaky before the match Skippy might score. :) It wasn't really a goal though, it was a work of art. :clap:

Don't! :angry: I hate that wee rodent with about the same venom as I hate that rat faced bastard Novo! :angry: Big pansy. :fight:
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Caldwell.......McDonald.........VENNEGOOR OF HESSELINK :love: :pmsl:
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Nov 6 2008, 09:23 AM
PS - Displays from Fans last night were immense


What did the banner in the JS end say before kick off, the big massive one? I couldn't see it because I was underneath it. :D

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PPS - YES WE DO BELONG THERE, WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS!!  :ynwa:


YES WE DO! :ynwa: :ynwa: :ynwa: :ynwa:

Jinty, we need a megaphone smilie. :D

HAIL HAIL
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Caldwell.......McDonald.........VENNEGOOR OF HESSELINK :love: :pmsl:
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Nov 6 2008, 10:42 AM
strachan shat it with 15 minutes left.

:rolleyes:

And if he hadn't made us more defensive and they'd scored, you'd have been castigating him for not being defensive enough. :rolleyes:

None of that team, and that includes WGS, shat it last night!
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Who among us thinks we will beat Aalborg away?  :hmmm:

ME! :cheer: :huddle: :yadancer: :celtic: :ynwa: :luck: :guinness: :luckyclover: :stpaddys: :pished: :doc: :wiggy: :cup:
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Good point about Porto and Monaco, except for the fact that both are far superior teams than ours and Portugal and France are also able to cherrypick their former colonies at will.

That helps a lot.

The performance last night was outstanding. The effort the guys produced was amazing, however, effort will only take you so far and presently we are a CL group stage team.

And Grouch is right and I said it earlier myself. Strachan shit himself with 15/20 minutes to go. He took off Sherridan. Fair enough he was knackered. However, bring on Hutchinson, instead of pushing Brown up front and most bizarrely Robson, who was majorly outclassed last night, to the awkward and unfamiliar right midfield position. :rolleyes:

As soon as that happened, Ferguson smelt blood and immediately brought on Evra at left wing back to run the legs off Robson.

He then took off Maloney and McDonald. Again, they were knackered fair enough, but Donati?!?!??!?!? Cannae get a game in the SPL, but I'll play him against Manure. Plus, he's shite. Push Brown into the middle, take off the clearly outclassed Robson and bring on Naka. Or better yet, fucking start Naka in the first place. :rolleyes:

Strachan took off any attacking outlet we potentially had, which is what killed us. Every time we cleared the ball it came straight back to us and as anyone who has played the game will tell you, that is a fucking nightmare if you are playing in midfield or at the back. It is absolutely knackering. We started to crack and got pushed further and further on to the edge of our 6 yard box.

As soon as Strachan made his changes, the equaliser was inevitable. You keep a presence up front and who knows?

Also, I have to re-emphasize his decision not to play Nakamura, a player who is an expert at keeping possession of the ball, in a CL game like that, was lunacy. :rolleyes: :banghead:

And his after match comments were a disgrace quite frankly.
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Nov 6 2008, 10:12 PM
Who among us thinks we will beat Aalborg away? :hmmm:

Well we have to break the hoodoo eventually.

My only worry is that Aalborg seem to have more of a threat up front than ourselves presently.

Knowing our luck it will be another shambolic away performance. :unsure:
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Great article from McNulty.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/philmcnulty/200...ands_elite.html

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Big four toil as Celtic show spirit


Phil McNulty - Sport Online chief football writer


Celtic made a mockery of Paul Ince's needless jibe that it was "men against boys" when they met Manchester United - as Scotland's pace-setters rounded off a testing week for England's elite in the Champions League.

Blackburn boss Ince's comment was an insult to Celtic's players after they lost 3-0 at Old Trafford recently, conveniently ignoring the fact that plenty of English clubs have suffered that sort of ignominy, and worse, at the hands of Sir Alex Ferguson's side.

For all their deficiencies and inferiority in the face of United's attacking riches on another noisy night of Parkhead passion, the qualities you could never doubt were their heart, spirit and bravery. These were real men at work.

If they actually wanted to answer Ince's sideswipe, and there was a feeling in the air that they did, then it was achieved.

Bodies went on the line. Massed ranks were formed in a green and white wall of defiance - and it almost worked as they clung desperately to Scott McDonald's brilliant 13th-minute goal.

After what seemed like several hours of United pressure, Ryan Giggs finally headed the leveller with only six minutes to go.

United, make no mistake, were in a different class to Celtic as an offensive force, but there is an art to defence as well as attack and that was what earned Gordon Strachan's side a precious point.

Celtic could have been broken completely had Dimitar Berbatov converted a simple last-minute chance, but the Scottish champions deserved a draw for sheer courage alone and Ince might now like to revisit his summary dismissal of their abilities.

Celtic's draw is unlikely to be enough to keep them in the Champions League beyond the group stages, but they once again showed they are a formidable barrier for anyone at Parkhead.

It made it a very rare winless week for the Premier League's so-called "big four" in the competition - the first in the Champions League group stages since December 2005.

United were vastly superior, but were so often blocked, frustrated and denied after a team selection by Ferguson that had the look of a gambler's throw about it, or at least that of a manager saving key players for another day, namely Saturday's game at Arsenal.

Berbatov and Wayne Rooney were kept on the bench, but eventually had to be used, with the Bulgarian emerging at the interval and the latter coming on for the last 20 minutes.

Celtic put pressure on United in central midfield, stayed compact, forced them wide and packed bodies around the penalty area. It was a ploy that almost brought another famous win on home turf.

But it was also high-risk in that it eventually invited ceaseless United pressure that brought Giggs' deserved equaliser.

It leaves United ready to strike for a place in the knockout phase, while Celtic restored much pride after a poor campaign so far.

United are likely to be joined in the last 16 by Chelsea, Liverpool and Arsenal - but it has not been a week in which England's finest have covered themselves in glory.

Arsenal's goalless draw against Fenerbahce at The Emirates ended seven days of frustration for Arsene Wenger and left his team in need of a lift ahead of Saturday's visit of United.

Liverpool, for all their pressure against Atletico Madrid, needed to be on the right end of a laughable injury-time penalty decision to claim a draw at Anfield on Tuesday.

It was a game that only under-scored the fact that they simply cannot afford to be without Fernando Torres for a significant length of time.

And Chelsea copped a real punch on the nose against Roma after being lathered all over with soft soap from the Italians' coach Luciano Spalletti, who announced they were the best team in the world.

I would back Chelsea to put matters right and reach the latter stages of the competition along with United, Liverpool and - a prediction made with less conviction

But, for once, it was a week when the English super-powers in Europe's elite trophy did not get things all their own way.
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PS - Displays from Fans last night were immense


What did the banner in the JS end say before kick off, the big massive one? I couldn't see it because I was underneath it.
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The display was from the GreenBrigade. They had a banner with the image from V for Vendetta with the message 'Blow Them Away' With 2000 green and silver cards, forming a hooped style around 111 corner.... :clap:
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