The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Some papers talking up the possibility of trouble tonight, apparently Hamburg have close connections to Rangers and their fans are intent on trouble.  Hope it passes off incident free and Celtic can sneak the result.

huns fans rioting again last night in Romania, scum give us all a bad name. papers just trying to tar hoops fans with the same brush. should be some craic in hamburg with st Paulie fans. shebeen will be giving it a rattle tonight.

from what I am hearing there is no link between rangers and hamburg , plus while the two clubs hamburg/st pauli are in the same town, there is no actual animosity between the two apart from a friendly rivalry and is apparantly is normal for one club to support the other in whatever competition they are in !!!!

Celtic fans will be well looked after by hamburg and the st pauli guys are to bring Celtic fans to their pubs (though I hear this is in the rougher parts of town near the docklands!!)

the german police are no slouches either and there wont be too much trouble other than drunkeness !

as for rangers fans causing more trouble - well thats the usual !

LB you've gotten this wrong completely wrong.
There is a massive rivalry between both sets of supporters.
For a start ones neo-Nazi and the other are anti-facist. They may play in different leagues but have a great dislike of each other.

As for the links with the Huns (sorry its wiki, but it was quick): 

Rivals and affinities
HSV shares a cross-town rivalry with FC St. Pauli and to the other big club of northern Germany: Werder Bremen.[citation needed] HSV have an affinity with Scottish Club Rangers. HSV fans unfurl their club logo at Rangers away European matches. The link between Rangers and Hamburg dates back to the early 1970s when the Hamburg Rangers Supporters Club was set up by Rangers fans who had relocated to the Hamburg-area. The links were further strengthened when Rangers signed Jörg Albertz from Hamburg, but this was not the start of it. A further point which reinforces the affinity is the link between St Pauli and Celtic, main rivals of HSV and Rangers, respectively.[citation needed] HSV have a friendship bond with Hannover 96, due to both being known as HSV. Their meetings involve the visitors club song to be played, and fans chanting HSV from each end of the stadium.

And the "Jolly Roger is close to the Rieperbahn.

[lynchbhoy]

fair enough if I am wrong but what you have said is the complete opposite of what some of my Geordie based Celtic friends are telling me - they have been over to St Pauli games in the past (not always when they play Celtic) and are going again today !

So there ya go !
I'm sure some of both is bound to be true ! 

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

fair enough if I am wrong but what you have said is the complete opposite of what some of my Geordie based Celtic friends are telling me - they have been over to St Pauli games in the past (not always when they play Celtic) and are going again today !

So there ya go !
I'm sure some of both is bound to be true ! 

I've been over a few times myself for league matches involviing St Pauli, (even had my Stag do over there!) I would know Henke and a few of the boys who run the supporters club over there and they have no time for Hamburg at all.
Sure those Geordies don't even know if their English or Scottish! 

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Celts live (in German)

http://tvoo.net/

[anportmorforjfc]

Good man GDA

Promising stuff so far?

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Haepol one up at Vienna, if they win and we lose we're out of contention!   

[Clown]

steady enough performance so far

i think we were out of europe before tonight, but a few good results/performances will do to get the confidence back up
hope we can get a result here

i see the hamburg fans had a massive red white and blue banner with no surrender on it before kick off

[anportmorforjfc]

Link not working anymore.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

English commentry on this one


http://www.sportztv.net/chan1.html

[ExiledGael]

Anyone notice the Hamburg fans' hardwork at half-time?
Had obviously put a lot of effort into turning one of the stands into a human union jack with the words no surrender on a banner beneath them.

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Hamburg fans giving a rousing rendition of "follow follow"! 

[ITS KAAAT]

Wat way did the match finish

[Gaoth Dobhair Abu]

Wat way did the match finish

Nil each draw

[ITS KAAAT]

Big ask from celtic now. As long as they win on sunday wat the hell.

[Archie Mitchell]

Found out about the Rangers and Hamburg link when was over at the City v Hamburg game last year. There was alot of Rangers flags, Northern Ireland flags etc in with the Hamburg supporters. Not the most pleasant of supporters. No doubt if what happened last night, was done to Rangers fans there would have been a riot. The sooner UEFA do something about these idiots the better.