How do you set off a million “Celtic fan walks into a bar in Barcelona and barman says “the usual?” jokes?
You get UEFA to draw the Hoops against the Catalan wonders yet again ( alongside a wee side named Man City with some manager named Pip or something and a German outfit wae more letters than Rachel Riley), thats how.
Barcelona
Man City
Borussia Mönchengladbach
Celtic
You cant whack the Champions League draw for suspense..from Ian Rush having ball ache to Therry Henrys handling balls and a million Irish voices crying out “BEEN THERE YA FECKER” in unison and they sure made Celtic fans wait. Barcelona were out first and Brendans Matadors appeared last. “Celtic fans, the only ones to call it the Auld Camp” was our Twitter offering.
You cant beat Celtic fans for mock outrage.
- “Och no Barcelona on my birthday yet again!”
- “Messi, Suarez and Neymar, Im sick of those diddies!”
- “Im sickened, Ive been to there 3 times awready!”
Its a lovely complaint to have isnt?
Anyone who listens to the Group of Death hype is welcome but after Hapoel, everyone understands where we stand in European placings. We will be looking to pressure any team at home, hope for a break against a great team such as Barca if possible, and hopefully scrape an unlikely point away anywhere if we can. If we score 6 points, it will be a shock, if we manage 1 win it will be a good result in all reality but we have a chance at home with a bouyant fan base.
It isnt all about Barcelona of course but they do have the real superstars and players who love being in Celtic Park on CL nights. Cue more Messi and Iniesta pictures in the Trophy Room but we have to respect the other teams too. Borussia are a very good team and respected Commentator and twitter pal Derek Rae rates them highly this season and Man City while in transition have a certain Mr Guardiola at the helm and he has just started a mental spending spree ( £50 million for Stones,,,truly mental) and he has had the brains to get rid of the dodgy diving diva that is Joe Hart.
Along with the kids getting some real glamour ( as well as Barca, the kids believe that EPL hype too!) there is the additional bonus that Players we may want to attract will now be thinking “Messi?…Suarez?….Aguero?.” as well as “Tierney!” and the negotiations especially for a high glamour loan deal might be a little easier. Of course WE and Messi and Iniesta all know that the real draw is running out to a buzzing Celtic Park on a Champions League night but every little helps when we want to raise the quality level of our team.
The only sad moment was the usual exploitation by Airlines. As per usual, flight prices soared as soon as the dates were confirmed. For example GermanWings flights from Glasgow to Dusseldorf soared by 250 quid within 5 minutes. Supply and demand they would say in defence, lest we forget thats the same justification Celtic used for Sevco ticket prices and will no doubt use for the CL package prices.
So its “Bring them on!” even if we are getting familiar with every pub in Las Ramblas, First World Problems CSC..population us!
Fantastic but bloody frightening!
Was really hoping it would be B or G. I think we would have had a decent chance in Leicester’s group. But It is the glamour group. Hardly disappointing, now for 2 or 3 first teamers in before next week And we need to rest a few against Newco to prepare for the Camp Auld. We should still win.
This is what it’s all about lhads, the biggest clubs in Europe playing at Celtic park, fantastic.
Having a battle of britain clash v Man City is just the icing on the cake for me.
Some will find this daunting, well let’s make it fucking daunting for them!
NO FEAR!
Toughest group,Leicesters group would have been ideal indeed,but let’s sit back and Njoy the ride
I would love that if we rested half the team against sevco and still fucked them
I would love it we rested half the team against Barca and still humped them.
We get grouped with possibly te most famous team on the planet, in the biggest club tournament on the globe…and yet, yet some folk still want to discuss that shower fae Govan. Why? Doin the MSM work for them.
Right on Bondi. The sooner Celtic fans drop their obsession with Rangers the better. Far too much space on this site devoted to them. Boring boring boring.
Iljas/Bondi,
There is no obsession with ” Rangers “!
There is however a desire to see cheating lying bastards who have ripped off our club, all ckubs and hundreds of creditors, there will be no let up of mentioning them, referring to them until Title stripping is complete.
Just for the record i will be increasingly mentioning them.
Oh. and let’s be clear that our “obsession” with finally seeing truth & justice prevail in Scottish Football is not only about “Rangers” … but those in charge of the game – the SFA, SPFL – from Murray, through Ogilvie to Regan et al, plus all those liars & hypocrites in the media who’ve colluded in this long conspiracy of obfuscation.
Well said Monti/Carl,justice for Scottish Fitba.
Never ever let thems forget,we know and they know,dirty cheats.
Better still just play the colts against them
Well Messi got his wish,playing at Cellic Park again.
Toure got his wish,playing against his wee bro.
Suarez got his wish,playing against his mentor,Brendan.
The Cellic support got their wish,just being and competing in the Champions League,Hosanna,Hosanna in Astana.
A STAUNER. well Awe got my wish.He.He.
Agree mike ,
just being there means everything ;bear in mind there was no Chelsea , no Liverpool , no Man Utd presence in Monaco tonight .
Puts into perspective the achievement of us being there .
For me , we should go out and enjoy these 6 games , gaining invaluable experience and exposure at the same time .
The remainder of this window plus the Jan one should be used with an eye on next summers 6 qualifiers .
Going into them with this years experience , 2 (hopefully) good transfer windows plus a year of having had BR in charge should see us through the 6 qualifiers with a lot more ease than we had this summer.
This time next year we may be sitting in the group stages again ,ready and prepared for a real good go at this competition.
I’m hopeful and quietly confident that this is one more building stage towards a strong and sustained presence in this tournament.
Completely agree Mayo Bhoy and well said.
I’m over the moon! Can’t wait and can’t get enough of the wind up from all these Broussia Monchenglabach fans. It’s brilliant!
an auld one but: who is the most unpopular man at a Broussia Monchenglaback gemm?
…the one that starts “give us a B…”
shite ah know.
Bondi,
If that’s your level of Craic you are first at the bar on the ETims night out….
Awful patter
Monti, re sevco they huv nae relevance to this particular topic: The Tic in the CL. When it pertinent then aye let’s comment on them. We’ll Niver let them forget they died. Straight up to the bar? Nae bother…Wud buy yi a swally aw day long. MON THE HOOPS!
Two of the three richest clubs in the world with players of appropriate quality. You’d be forgiven for thinking UEFA were doing a GIRFUY over the paythefineforPalestine embarrassment last week….
To clarify : embarrassment for UEFA.
These games won’t be about the state of the fields, the weather or the travel. They will be about ability, belief and tactics. I’m a bit disappointed to hear PL say “We hope to get ONE player in before the transfer deadline.” Realistically we need two or three to avoid embarrassment and drop into Europa League. But that would be a good result and great experience for the team. What we need is to become experts in counterattacking in Europe.
U.E.F.A. Are as corrupt as F.I.F.A. Ever was . Why the f- ck are four English teams in a draw for the “CHAMPIONS” league. There is only one champion from any country. Money laundering bastards. Hh