League of Ireland in Europe 2014

Originally Posted by dundalkfc10

Numerous fines

What did the fines relate to? The Rapid Vienna game?

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

What did the fines relate to? The Rapid Vienna game?

Milan game last year, fine for a display which they claimed was political yet let Barca away with having Catalan flags and a msg about their right to freedom the following week.
Europa League game in France the year before for an anti Uefa banner
Plenty more for pyro

Im sure I could go on and on

Originally Posted by dundalkfc10

Milan game last year, fine for a display which they claimed was political yet let Barca away with having Catalan flags and a msg about their right to freedom the following week.
Europa League game in France the year before for an anti Uefa banner
Plenty more for pyro

Im sure I could go on and on

The poor things.

Originally Posted by dundalkfc10

Milan game last year, fine for a display which they claimed was political yet let Barca away with having Catalan flags and a msg about their right to freedom the following week.
Europa League game in France the year before for an anti Uefa banner
Plenty more for pyro

Im sure I could go on and on

But those incidents are all against UEFA rules, which Celtic voluntarily sign up to when they enter UEFA competition. They're not indicative of an anti-Celtic bias. Lots of clubs are punished or fined for similar reasons; not just Celtic.

Get out of it. The worlds against them. That's why they haven't won the last 25 Champions Leagues.

Originally Posted by DannyInvincible

But those incidents are all against UEFA rules, which Celtic voluntarily sign up to when they enter UEFA competition. They're not indicative of an anti-Celtic bias. Lots of clubs are punished or fined for similar reasons; not just Celtic.

The point people were making is Celtic have never been punished by Uefa.

The incidents of both Sion and Leiga were against UEFA rules, that both boluntarily signed upto when they entered the tournament, so they have rightly been banned (Sion as per rules) and lost 3-0 (Leiga as per rules)

Originally Posted by dundalkfc10

The point people were making is Celtic have never been punished by Uefa.

The incidents of both Sion and Leiga were against UEFA rules, that both boluntarily signed upto when they entered the tournament, so they have rightly been banned (Sion as per rules) and lost 3-0 (Leiga as per rules)

If you have a look back to the origin of the discussion, you'll see that people were questioning the following notion: that Celtic haven't had the rub of the green, as it were, over the years when it comes to UEFA (as if they've often had to put up with some form of institutional unfair treatment or bias), thus justifying the good fortune of which they were beneficiaries in the past week.

The Rapid Vienna from 1984 example is fair enough - the punishment of demanding an Old Trafford replay of their 3-0 win in Celtic Park seems odd and unusually harsh - but that's just one example. I've not been able to find any other examples where UEFA have given Celtic a raw deal. I'm not necessarily saying they don't exist; I just haven't seen the evidence yet.

Sion and Legia have nothing to do with this; they knew the rules and were rightly punished, is right.

At this stage I think we've wandered far enough from any tenuous link to LOI involvement in Europe. If people feel the need to further discuss Celtic it's best to take it to the SPL thread.

Just want to pay a belated tribute to our European entrants. Say what you like about League of Ireland teams in Europe, but they generally only get hilariously eliminated once per season.

Originally Posted by Sheridan

Just want to pay a belated tribute to our European entrants. Say what you like about League of Ireland teams in Europe, but they generally only get hilariously eliminated once per season.

YAY! Everybody, It's Sheridan!

I think that might be the most positive thing I've ever seen Sheridan say.

You guys need to stop cyber-bullying me :/

Originally Posted by Charlie Darwin

I think that might be the most positive thing I've ever seen Sheridan say.

Originally Posted by Sheridan

You guys need to stop cyber-bullying me :/

It's either him or TOWK. We can't have both.

Malmo, who only this time last year needed a goal in the last minute in the 2nd leg to see off Drogheda United in the Europa League qualification round, have qualified for the Champions League. Well done to them.

Originally Posted by MeathDrog

Malmo, who only this time last year needed a goal in the last minute in the 2nd leg to see off Drogheda United in the Europa League qualification round, have qualified for the Champions League. Well done to them.

Their second goal was brilliant:



Edit: Video's been removed from YouTube; here's a vine: https://vine.co/v/MlDY5m0DjMp

If we look at the 5 entrants from the Champions section this season, one is likely to think that a good all round League of Ireland team is capable of knocking out one of those teams, perhaps not APOEL but the others, its what I think anyway

Maribor (Slovenia)
Ludogorets (Bulgaria)
Malmo (Sweden)
BATE (Belarus)
APOEL (Cyprus)

Originally Posted by TheBoss

If we look at the 5 entrants from the Champions section this season, one is likely to think that a good all round League of Ireland team is capable of knocking out one of those teams, perhaps not APOEL but the others, its what I think anyway

Maribor (Slovenia)
Ludogorets (Bulgaria)
Malmo (Sweden)
BATE (Belarus)
APOEL (Cyprus)

It's not so long ago Cork City beat Malmo 4-1 in Europe and Bohs knocked out Bate. Just shows what long term planning and investment can do.

Originally Posted by TheBoss

If we look at the 5 entrants from the Champions section this season, one is likely to think that a good all round League of Ireland team is capable of knocking out one of those teams, perhaps not APOEL but the others, its what I think anyway

Maribor (Slovenia)
Ludogorets (Bulgaria)
Malmo (Sweden)
BATE (Belarus)
APOEL (Cyprus)

Sorry not a hope Ludogorets had an amazing run last season, and knocked out a few big hitters in the Europa, and BATE are very well funded. 40th in the Europe for the LOI is about right I think, the LOI has gone backward in years while these leagues have improved steadily.

Originally Posted by TheBoss

If we look at the 5 entrants from the Champions section this season, one is likely to think that a good all round League of Ireland team is capable of knocking out one of those teams, perhaps not APOEL but the others, its what I think anyway

Maribor (Slovenia)
Ludogorets (Bulgaria)
Malmo (Sweden)
BATE (Belarus)
APOEL (Cyprus)

Drogheda almost knocked Malmo out last season. I know Cork knocked them out a few years ago but that was back 2005. As for BATE and APOEL (didn't Cork knock them out in the CL?) it just goes to show that if a LoI club can break into the groups stages they can be set-up for life! Not so long ago if one of of our clubs got any of them you'd fancy are chances!

Originally Posted by dundalkfc10

Forced to Replay a game against Vienna when a fan attacked one of their players.
Numerous fines

The "Uefa Cup" final against "cheating" Porto

That wasn't cheating. Just a poor ref in fairness. Every club in the land have fell foul of that and have benefited from it as well. Celtic FC - Never defeated, always cheated.