The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[T Fearon]

The difference is Stein"s team had stiff domestic opposition.

[thebar]

First team to go unbeaten in Scotland in over 100 years.  Some achievement that for Rodgers and his team.  Rangers with all their dosh in the 80s and 90s couldn't achieve it.  Stein and the Lisbon Lions neither.  Surely credit where it's due.

i couldnt have put it better myself

[Franko]

Fearing makes stupid statements and ignores anyone who contradicts them. I'm going back to ignoring him

How you getting on with this tonto? 

[Keyser soze]

Sad to say but this thread needs locked.

[illdecide]

Sad to say but this thread needs locked.

No it doesn't need locked...you guys have to learn to ignore that Fearon woman and stop responding to her posts, i know it's hard as time i feel like jumping in and saying a lot of things that would have me banned. Ignore her posts and when she gets no reactions to her silly wind up's she'll run off to the Spurs thread or wind up the Armagh ones on the Armagh thread as she's already doing.

IGNORE, IGNORE, IGNORE PLEASE...

[PAULD123]

The fact remains no one club enjoys such a huge advantage in England over all its rivals as Celtic does in Scotland.In truth Celtic should not even be drawing with Scottish clubs,they should be winning every single domestic fixture.

Name another player with any other club in Scotland who would get into the current Celtic squad? There aren't any and if there were Celtic would buy him immediately.

Also if Aberdeen win the Scottish Cup on Saturday Brendan will simply have won the same two trophies as Ronny did in his first year.The only difference is that Ronny qualified for the knock out stages of the Europa League in his first season

If you read my post earlier you will see that I answered this exact point. You are wrong.

Celtic's advantage over their rivals is very comparable to Chelsea's advantage over Crystal Palace. yet they lost to them. And I gave a long list of the same thing over ten years. EPL champions each year losing to teams that they spend ten times more than. So by your theory the EPL champions should never even draw against a team with a fraction of their income, but they do. If Celtic are expected to beat every Scottish team every time then Chelsea should have won every single game against Burnley, Swansea, Crystal Palace. But they didn't!

Second point - Name a single player in the Crystal Palace team that would get in the Chelsea first eleven (this can be repeated for any of the last 25 years except the invincibles). Celtic have four players in their team that played for other Scottish clubs first.

Like I said I'll give you the top 5-6 teams in the EPL. We'll only count games below Europa spots for comparison. But when EPL champions are losing to a relegation contender you cannot claim that Celtic unbeaten for an entire season is not worthy of praise. That is a totally fair like-for-like comparison.

[tonto1888]

Fearing makes stupid statements and ignores anyone who contradicts them. I'm going back to ignoring him

How you getting on with this tonto? 

I know. Sometimes I cant help myself. Nice to see youre still checking up on me tho

[Denn Forever]

Will Celtic and Liverpool be at the same stage in CL i.e. will they have the same number of Qualifying games to play to get to the group stages of the CL?

Will be interesting to see who progresses furthest.

[ned]

Will Celtic and Liverpool be at the same stage in CL i.e. will they have the same number of Qualifying games to play to get to the group stages of the CL?

Will be interesting to see who progresses furthest.

No. Different side to the draw. As it should be, Liverpool will have more difficult ties largely as they are not champions of their country. Until the big four leagues have all their representatives parachuted straight into the groups as is planned.

[foxcommander]

Will Celtic and Liverpool be at the same stage in CL i.e. will they have the same number of Qualifying games to play to get to the group stages of the CL?

Will be interesting to see who progresses furthest.

No. Different side to the draw. As it should be, Liverpool will have more difficult ties largely as they are not champions of their country. Until the big four leagues have all their representatives parachuted straight into the groups as is planned.

Just take the top 6 from England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France directly and be done with the charade of champions league. Add in a couple of token teams from a 10 round qualifier to make up the rest.

[ashman]

Irishmen and indeed Irish women  following British soccer teams are pathetic . 

It is really noticeable that there is no thread on this site on either Irish pro soccer league. 

[Dougal Maguire]

How am I not a true fan? Honouring the Lions and paying a substantial sum for two tickets with all profits going to the Celtic Foundation who do magnificent work?

Look, by the time you've guzzled up every scrap of food about the place, you fat Cnut, there'll be little profit left for any foundation.

[Hectic]

Irishmen and indeed Irish women  following British soccer teams are pathetic . 

It is really noticeable that there is no thread on this site on either Irish pro soccer league.

I think it is pathetic that what people do in their spare time appears to irk you so much. Would the same go for watching non Irish tv shows, non Irish movies, eating non Irish foods? Get a life FFS.

[general_lee]

Irishmen and indeed Irish women  following British soccer teams are pathetic . 

It is really noticeable that there is no thread on this site on either Irish pro soccer league.

Are you really that insular? There's big Irish communities in cities across Britain so it is only natural that people will follow the teams. I don't think there's anything pathetic about that.

[Hectic]

I wonder where Ashman stands on the idea of uniting the two states on the island of Ireland to once again create an Irish Nation and an official Ireland.

That for me would be higher up the priority list than worrying about recreational preferences. That said if he is so staunch about sport it is probably pretty obvious he is at the forefront of promoting Irish unity.