The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Sheedy]

celtic should have been the ones to offer a replay.

[Syferus]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-2720870/Celtic-ignored-calls-emails-let-Legia-Warsaw-Champions-League-place-says-Polish-football-chief.html

Desperate stuff from Warsaw. It's a tough break but rules are rules.

[Over the Bar]

Ridiculous decision but it's not as if Celtic lodged a complaint, UEFA acted unprompted AFAIK.

The starting point in any situation such as this needs to be "Did the club gain, or seek to gain, any advantage?"  If the answer is no then the result should stand regardless of a rule break.

   

[general]

Gordon is a top class keeper, even if he is Hearts through and through. While he has had major injury problems for the last 2/3 seasons there is no doubt about his quality and if Celtic could manage to get him fit and manage him properly he could prove a shrewd signing.

I read today on sky sports that celtic are in talks about a loan move for Tonev of Aston Villa. Don't know much about him but IMO if he can't get a game for villa then why should celtic consider. If it was a possibility I would like to see Kevin Doyle at celtic. Think he has more or less been told to find a club by Wolves

[straightred]

celtic should have been the ones to offer a replay.

Eh ? Celtic aren't the lawmakers and the chances are that if they did something like this then they'd end up getting punished themselves. This has absolutely nothing to do with Celtic and legia are acting like kids. They messed up and were awarded a 0-3 result which ended up putting them out. UEFA will not want any precedents to be set - they administer the rules and not the clubs.

[general]

I know it wasn't an ineligible player but I don't think France offered us a replay? Still haven't forgot that too.

At the end of the day, it was uefa's decision, can't see them changing it now!

Take what ya get

[Sheedy]

celtic should have been the ones to offer a replay.

Eh ? Celtic aren't the lawmakers and the chances are that if they did something like this then they'd end up getting punished themselves. This has absolutely nothing to do with Celtic and legia are acting like kids. They messed up and were awarded a 0-3 result which ended up putting them out. UEFA will not want any precedents to be set - they administer the rules and not the clubs.

UEFA will never sanction a replay, rules are rules and all that. what I should have said was that celtic should have offered a replay, UEFA never would allow it, but celtic would have looked good out of it for at least offering a replay.

[Itchy]

Celtic should consult with Meath GAA on how yo do the right thing, basically just do the opposite to what Meath do!

[lynchbhoy]

I see the main sponsor/owner of legia has written an open letter to Celtic saying that if they had the high morals and standards that the club always allude to - then they should offer a winner takes all replay in Glasgow or warsaw.

I'd say no.
One - rules are rules and they are particularly stringent in soccer, plus as mentioned things like Thierry henris handball are not dealt with by myriads of committees as we have in the Gaa.

Two - Celtic need the money and a guarantee of at least Europa league participation

It would be risking financial suicide to offer a replay

[illdecide]

The right thing to do is give them their spot in qualifying round morally but I keep asking myself if the shoe was on the other foot how many teams would offer Celtic the tie or a reply...NONE. Football clubs are now run as a business and I'd imagine the board and shareholders wouldn't be happy if Peter Lawwell were to give it to Legia...just won't happen.

[StGallsGAA]

News just in!! Peter Lawwell has graciously offered a one leg play-off to the Legia Warsaw chairman - on fifa14...

[illdecide]

Celtic are a lucky bunch as the appeal from Legia Warsaw was rejected... Will they have enough to get past Maribor...going by last nights display and the way Legia disposed of us then you'd have to fancy the Slovenians but hopefully well get better as the weeks go by and scrape thru...

[updown9194]

The rumour is that even if Celtic stepped aside, UEFA would have just given Maribor a bye and left Legia in the Europa League. Meaning Celtic would be out of Europe altogether.

It's all well and good saying that Celtic should step aside, but the repercussions aren't clear.

[lenny]

Celtic are a lucky bunch as the appeal from Legia Warsaw was rejected... Will they have enough to get past Maribor...going by last nights display and the way Legia disposed of us then you'd have to fancy the Slovenians but hopefully well get better as the weeks go by and scrape thru...

As a celtic fan I would prefer us to play in the Europa league. It's much more suited to our level and our young players would develop. Some fans say we need to qualify for the champions league for the money but even if we qualified we wouldn't spend the money on players anyway so the europa league would give us more winnable games but still against decent quality opposition.

[Applesisapples]

Celtic are a lucky bunch as the appeal from Legia Warsaw was rejected... Will they have enough to get past Maribor...going by last nights display and the way Legia disposed of us then you'd have to fancy the Slovenians but hopefully well get better as the weeks go by and scrape thru...

As a celtic fan I would prefer us to play in the Europa league. It's much more suited to our level and our young players would develop. Some fans say we need to qualify for the champions league for the money but even if we qualified we wouldn't spend the money on players anyway so the europa league would give us more winnable games but still against decent quality opposition.

Spot on