Celtic Discussion

[liam88]

The same goes for the people in Ireland rugby shirts, GAA shirts, London Irish tops, Guinness is good for you shirts, Jameson Herritage Centre Middleton shirts, "My parents went to Dingle and all I got with this lousy T-shirt" shirts, the whole lot.

To right-London Irish=great, you're expressing your country ain't ya! Love London Irish
Good book to

[liam88]

Just when we were getting on so well an' all, Face, you had to go and spoil it. Oh well, since the gloves are now off, I can join my good friend the Señor in roundly slagging off your narrow-mindedness. It's one thing continually jibing at us Celtic fans as we're an easy target for many on here, but your decrying of the Shels' efforts in Europe really does take the proverbial biscuit. Are you really that odious and parochial in mind that you couldn't wish them all the best? Or is it that you're just an inadequate young man still waiting for his first shag who has become embittered by the whole rejection thingy yet again? Either way, grow up ffs because expressing your views to those who don't see the world your way will cause you an awful lot of trouble.

And remember this. When all's said and done, we're here to discuss a game of football. That's all. It really isn't more important than that, so please do us a favour and keep your petty childish prejudices to yourself.

PP

HAIL! HAIL!
Face buudy-enjoy the summer-slag off some Celtic fans outside!! I'm sure there are plenty walking past your window everytime you type so why not get the best of both your worlds and slag off our fans and get some fresh air at the same time rather than clogging up the GENERAL FOOTBALL baord with your prejudices-or even better........just drop it completly!

[sylvo]

To right-London Irish=great, you're expressing your country ain't ya! Love London Irish
Good book to

Mind yerself there Liam, Yer might get ahhh kid Macy after yer, , he dann't like dem Cockney's.

[Pat O' Banton]

Hail, Hail, Celtic are really Irish and everyone shouls support them above eL teams!
(don't really mean it but just thought that I'd see if I can get the thread to 50pages)

[lopez]

FFS, i expected something of a higher calibre response than that Lopez .....

An A*se, if you had a higher calibre of intelligence I would have made a better effort. Why do I think your intelligence is greatly challenged? Because you - and the rest of the Leeside planky gang - have nothing, BUT NOTHING, to say except sh*te, although quick to go running to dahamsta and get myself and Mr. O'Banton banned for a week if we start rising to your insults. Perhaps, when your cojones have dropped things will be different and you can come back and prove me wrong with some sort of coherent argument. Until then (YAWN) you're little more than an irritating itch on my sphincter.

BTW, Sell-thick? That sounds a very good description of yourself: THICK (pretty obvious this one I know) and willing to SELL out his country's footballing prosperity - and in the process stem the flow of the people in the country that feel the need to buy the shirts of foreign clubs - because, oh dear someone hand the poor darling a hanky, his club doesn't have a sugar daddy like Shelbourne.

[A face]

Lopez, ....... see what you can do when you try !!
Ten points for effort, someone give him a biscuit

although quick to go running to dahamsta and get myself and Mr. O'Banton banned for a week if we start rising to your insults.

Listen mate .... while i do at times enjoy your ramblings, i dont go running anyway about them. You are well able to get banned on your own, you dont my help at all, just wanted to set you straight on that point.

And you obviously didnt read my comments about Shels very well or you are taking them out of context, but then again ... that was never a concern for you anyway was it .......... Anyway, while you wither on about it and boast all that is Sell-Thick, i will just laugh at the múppets who "support" a supposedly Irish team, (that somehow makes them more Irish) in Britain and all this, over a team in the National League of Ireland.

[lopez]

Listen mate .... while i do at times enjoy your ramblings, i dont go running anyway about them. You are well able to get banned on your own, you dont my help at all, just wanted to set you straight on that point.

Oh deary me!! Sell-thick the Muppet butts in on this thread aiming to wind people up and what happens? It looks like he's getting all wound up himself. Must of hit a sore spot! F*cking brilliant! You've made my Sunday, an A*se.

And you obviously didnt read my comments about Shels very well or you are taking them out of context, but then again ... that was never a concern for you anyway was it.

Oh I read them alright. Let me see: 'I think a big factor here lads (and wake up to it FFS) is that if Shels won ..... the league title would be over for 21 clubs for the next 10 years.' Then: '...If Shels won last night ... what good would it have done ... it would have raised the profile of the league and that is it. No other eL club would have benefited from it. My argument is that it is not good for the league to have one team pull away from the pack and dominate for the next 10-20 years. It would be like watching SPL .... Shíte ..... Thats what we should avoid. That is all i am saying.' Now Sell-thick, that doesn't sound like positive support for a Shels victory. It sounds like it would be better for Irish football that Shels (or any EL side except your own) failed to make it into the Champions League group stages. In other words, the league is better sh*te, the consequence being that much of the footballing following population will follow the foreign teams you claim to abhor. But then this is just my view: I'll let the rest of the posters on this thread make their own mind up on whether I was taking you out of context...or not!

Anyway, while you wither on about it and boast all that is Sell-Thick, i will just laugh at the múppets who "support" a supposedly Irish team, (that somehow makes them more Irish) in Britain and all this, over a team in the National League of Ireland.

You still expect people on here to take a lecture on who to support? You truly are thick, Sell-Thick!

[nlgbbbblth]

Good to see so many Hoops @ LR yesterday.......btw,many worn by young kids & old FB(Fat B*stards/Bills!)'s,who looked more like yer average weatherbeaten FG candiate,than some sort of rabid sectarian person..................

why have you got against people wearing Ireland jersies to Ireland games?

[A face]

Oh deary me!! Sell-thick the Muppet butts in on this thread aiming to wind people up and what happens? It looks like he's getting all wound up himself. Must of hit a sore spot! F*cking brilliant! You've made my Sunday, an A*se.

Sore spot .... ??? ..... ??? ..... not at all my friend, not at all.

that doesn't sound like positive support for a Shels victory. It sounds like it would be better for Irish football that Shels (or any EL side except your own) failed to make it into the Champions League group stages.

It wasnt meant to be positive support for Shels, where did you get the idea it was ? And yes, i wouldn't like any Irish team getting to the group stages for at least another 2-3 years, and that includes my own.

In other words, the league is better sh*te, the consequence being that much of the footballing following population will follow the foreign teams you claim to abhor. But then this is just my view: I'll let the rest of the posters on this thread make their own mind up on whether I was taking you out of context...or not!

It doesn't matter what the rest of the posters make of it, cos i see that you have already altered it to suit yourself. "In other words ..." ....... Ahm NO, not in any other words at all, not matter what way you arrange them. The point i am trying to make is (again) "My argument is that it is not good for the league to have one team pull away from the pack and dominate for the next 10-20 years. It would be like watching SPL .... Shíte ..... Thats what we should avoid." .... that is what i am saying. !!

You still expect people on here to take a lecture on who to support?

They can take whatever the fúck they want really ... makes no odds to me
But i will still laugh ..... and laugh ........ and laugh ......

[A face]

Did we really see Sell-Thick shown up to be an ordinary team last night v Barca or is it only a hic-up for them ??

[the 12 th man]

Did we really see Celtic shown up to be an ordinary team last night v Barca

opened up the can there,
maybe not ordinary but they were outplayed for large segments of the game last night.
looked a bit out of sorts and i think they gave barca too much room/respect.

bhoys are missing larson big time

[joeSoap]

They're ordinary, and that will continue to be shown in the champions league, especially away from home where the crowd and 'fighting spirit' won't be worth a damn to them.
Ordinary teams spend £1.5 million or so pre-season, great teams spend buckets. Until O'Neills purse strings are loosened, then it'll be the same old same old...

[drinkfeckarse]

Outclassed totally. £45m spent by Barca in the summer showed the difference between the 2 clubs.

I thought we'd a chance of nicking it during a 20 minute period of pressure before and after our goal but if that had happened then it would have been stolen.

No complaints, ability beats passion 9 times out of 10 and I thought we'd get a hiding when I saw them keep the ball from us for the first 5 minutes and when we did get it, the first thing we did was hump it up the park and give it straight back to them . Never really understood that logic myself

Unfortunately I think we'll get a few more comprehensive beatings in this group.

[green goblin]

Well, there'll always been crowing in some quarters, whenever Celtic lose a high profile match like this.
It was a really strange evening all round. The whole Henrik thing was really bizarre, almost surreal to see Jebus-made-flesh himself potting it in the net... and then not celebrating in the usual manner. It wasn't the best of games, to be fair. I thought they were on top for a while, but the it-all-goes-titsup-fairy sprinkled her magic dust and it fell apart.
But to answer the original question, no, they're far, far from ordinary.

[Pat O' Banton]

Define ordinary. Well capable of progressing from the group stage, unfortunately not this group. Barca are a very good side and will probably get better with time. AC may well do a job on Celtic as well.
However they have shown in the past that they are capable of beating some very good teams probably will do so again.
Certainly as well Celtic did have an off night (all three goals were down to defensive mistakes) however were comperhensively outplayed. Restricted by their (and Rangers) success in Scotland big tv companies will not touch them, they will unable to attract players to narrow the gap in Europe. This isn't a bealt by the way I know that the smaller clubs in Scotland have similar grievances against Celtic and Rangers. Simply stating facts.

Prob at monent a second tier European side.

[ccfcman]

Celtic, truely an awful joke, as my Dad said, small time players in a big club. When will Martin O'Neill wake up and jump ship, there is no more he can do with the club.

Before anybody makes scathing remarks, I have no interest in the 32 Counties aspect of Celtic, ie. The Celtic "fans" at Turners Cross a couple years ago.

[thecorner]

a face,will be distraught today

[drinkfeckarse]

Celtic, truely an awful joke,

And what exactly makes them an awful joke??

[ccfcman]

And what exactly makes them an awful joke??

They play every1 in Scotland off the park for fun and couldnt be bothered their arse raising their game in Europe, ffs did you not see the cut of their passing and off the ball running, Neil Lennon is a spoofer supreme, he couldn't get into a flippin Cobh team!

[drinkfeckarse]

They play every1 in Scotland off the park for fun and couldnt be bothered their arse raising their game in Europe, ffs did you not see the cut of their passing and off the ball running, Neil Lennon is a spoofer supreme, he couldn't get into a flippin Cobh team!

So that's their fault that they've outgrown their domestic league? It's a simple fact that if you're playing sh!te every week then you're going to struggle long term against better teams if you're not used to playing them.

2nd half performance was woeful alright but their passing wasn't as bad as you suggest. Can you not recall the move where Hartson ballooned it over the bar in the 2nd half after Camara hit it straight at the keeper? The movement was excellent and they had strung about 20 passes together without Shaktar touching it before he wasted it.

Neil Lennon? While I'm not a huge fan, the facts are fairly simple......he's got a better pass completion rate than most midfielders in the Champions League (opto stats) which basically means he doesn't give the ball away, which basically means if the opposition don't have the ball then they can't score (no smart comments about how it hasn't worked so far!!). Carlo Ancellotti pointed out before the Milan game that Lennon was the player he most admired in the Celtic team and that in his opinion, every team needed someone like him.