Champions League 2014/15

[Guest Inno]

Figured I'd start this as tonight, I go to the first Celtic Champions League game in Scotland. I don't say at home, as because of the Commonwealth Games, Celtic play at Murrayfield tonight. I'm not expecting a full house, or even close to one.

 

After a dodgy 1-0 win in Iceland, we should in theory take 2 or 3 off them over here. I'm still a bit wary of playing under a new manager at the moment, especially when he's not signed anyone bar perennially injured Craig Gordon.

[Guest Magic]

Huh I thought I'd started this thread? Must not have, never mind :)

 

We were poor in the first leg but I'd still expect to win comfortably tonight. Anything other than that will be not good enough. I'm willing to give Delia a chance but I admit to being quite apprehensive at some of his decisions last week. I really don't like Griff playing wide right, he has to be through the middle.

 

There's a fair bit I dislike about the squad and would change, the first being Izaguirre. He's just bad, I don't understand how so many people have been taken in by him. He was ok before his injury, but that was two years ago and he's been terrible since. Get him out and get Charlie to left back.

[Guest Magic]

Rather frustratingly, this game isn't on live anywhere, which is really weird given the away leg was on live on the BBC. You'd think they'd have the home one too. Lucky I've got the Darts to watch anyway or I'd have been pissed. Celtic two up early on, couple of goals for big Virgil Van Dijk.

[King 277]

A game against St Pats would be great for the Irish club, be a real money spinner for them.

[Guest Magic]

4-0 now and five on aggregate so no problems for Celtic. I don't know much about Irish football King, but I can imagine a Celtic tie would be indeed be pretty good for them given the Irish following of Celtic. As long as Celtic get to the group stages I'm happy, anything beyond that is a massive bonus. If we do get to the groups I'll be saying my prayers at the draw for my Real Madrid dream match!

[King 277]

Oh Celtic will batter them them but the 2 legs will be a sellout, as you can imagine Celtic have a few followers over here :lol

[Guest John Hancock]

Who likes Celtic more in your opinion, actual Ireland or Northern Irish Catholics? I've always thought the actual Irish were a little more ambivalent to that whole thing.

[King 277]

Yeah in Ireland it's mainly Liverpool and Utd but everyone's second team is Celtic, the North are far more into them I think, but that's a whole new thread :D

[Guest John Hancock]

The angriest, most violent thread on the board to not involve etz.

[King 277]

My local team Cork City will hopefully be in the CL next year, that sounds so strange to me :lol

[Guest Inno]

Decent game, controlled performance from Celtic. Played some nice linking football, can see they're still settling into the new system, but I like it - Griffiths on the right actually worked - he cut across the line so many times, the poor left back must have been dizzy.

 

And I had Virgil on to score first at 18-1 :D

[The Fury 65]

celtic have imploded. down to ten men and getting beat 3-1 against a side they really should be beating easy...

[GENE 86]

4-1 and Warsaw missed two penalties, I don't think Celtic will over turn a three goal deficit. They are playing at BT Murrayfield and not Celtic Park which won't help them, Celtic are not a great team bar Forster and Van Djik the rest of the squad are very very average. Although on the plus side Ambrose is suspended the guys a bomb scare!

[The Fury 65]

they really need players, but i aint complaining as this could be the best time to tear them apart this season

[GENE 86]

We are in the Championship so it doesn't bother me! Your an Aberdeen man yeah? I reckon your lot and Utd will finish a lot closer to Celtic this season.

[Guest Inno]

To steal a line from Steve Austin "Jesus H Christ on a popsicle stick, son"

 

The board keep downsizing, and this was a disaster waiting to happen. Punched above our weight for years in Europe, finally come back to haunt us.

 

Bizarre team selection too - sign a random Norwegian on loan from Cardiff reserves for 5 months and put him straight in the team, away from home, just over 24 hours after signing him? Dropping Izzy to play Matthews on the wrong side? Mulgrew in midfield? Then after Efe goes off, he shifts Commons up front to lead the line!

 

Insanity.

 

I'll still go next week, though :(

[Guest Ciaran The King]

Celtic to go through, I'm sure they slipped up in a first leg going back a few years ago under Lennon and bounced back agian

[Guest Inno]

Scored three to go through against Karagandy last season. I was there... one of the most spectacular nights of football I've ever been at. Can't see it this time though.

[The Fury 65]

Celtic are out after a 2-0 loss and 6-1 aggregate defeat. Inno had a terrible time as he'll explain later

[GENE 86]

They need to open the biscuit tin.

[Guest Inno]

I was in section H upper tier in the East Stand and right after the first goal; to my right a guy jumped up to celebrate, got glared at and sat back down again - then there was an almighty rammy at the stairs at Entrance 16 - about 15 blokes doing that drunken pull apart/swing a punch over the head bollocks - one steward in the middle trying to cope hopelessly with it all, he took a few hooks and sure I heard him tell someone he'd had a tooth knocked out. People in the front row told the steward at entrance 14 what was going and pointed to it, and he just shrugged his shoulders and looked the other way.

 

Pretty sure I saw the fourth official point to it and tell a polis on the touchline.

 

It was a good 5 mins in the stands, and apparently spilled outside for another 10 or so mins on the concourse. Far as I could see it was 90% Scottish guys and Celtic fans knocking lumps out of each other.

 

My boy has ADHD and a few social interaction problems, and he was physically shaking and grabbing on to me. Every time someone near us stood up to move or whatever, he wanted to leave in case it all spilled up to us. He didn't calm down again until we got to Waverley and saw the police standing around. That's absolutely disgraceful in this day and age. We actually left before the final whistle which is something we never do.

 

I dunno what the stewards were playing at, or the police - but bar the one guy trying to stop 15-20 people from punching lumps out of each other, nothing was done! The cops turned up just after half time to stare at the crowd and help one guy try and find a lost wallet's owner, but by that time it had all died down.

 

I'll post on the game itself tomorrow, but missed pretty much all of it after the first goal up until half time trying to calm the boy down.

 

Stewarding and policing there tonight was shamefully underpar.

[Guest Inno]

Double post... BUT!!!

 

Celtic could be reinstated in the UEFA Champions League qualifiers after the governing body opened an investigation into claims Legia Warsaw fielded an ineligible player.

 

Bartosza Bereszyński came on as a substitute with four minutes to go at Murrayfield. But the governing body are considering a complaint the player should have been suspended for the match.

 

In a statement, Legia confirmed they have prepared a submission to UEFA regarding the matter.

 

If found to have fielded an ineligible player, Legia could be forced to forfeit the second leg.

 

UEFA regulations state that Celtic would be awarded a 3-0 win. In that case, having lost the first leg 4-1 to their Polish opponents, the Scottish champions would progress on away goals to the play-off round stage.

 

Bereszyński was sent off in the UEFA Europa League last season. The duration of his subsequent ban was for three games but he missed Legia's next three UEFA matches against St Patrick's Athletic and the home leg of his side's tie with Celtic.

 

UEFA regulations however state that a ban only applies to a player if he is listed in a club's squad for matches. If the player in question was not on Legia's squad list for the St Patrick's tie, he would have been ineligible for both Celtic matches.

http://sport.stv.tv/football/clubs/celtic/285519-uefa-investigate-legia-warsaw-over-possible-inelgible-player/

 

BWAH hahahaha!!!

[Guest Magic]

Ha! Man, if Celtic get back in on a technicality I will LOL so damn hard. Ineligible player cases usually end up with books getting thrown so this'll be very interesting.

[GENE 86]

Celtic got reinstated into the Europa League a few years back because Sion fielded some ineligible players.

[Guest Inno]

Sion fielded players they bought during a UEFA imposed transfer embargo that they disagreed with; they were warned against it by UEFA and did it anyway in a big "get it up ye" to them and got booted. One was Goncalves that used to play for Hearts!

 

This is a right back who was banned for 3 games but not included in the official squads for St Patricks so his suspension didn't officially count. He came on for the last 4 minutes last night! :D