Football Focus

[Mick Mac]

Jock Stein

"Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don't shrink to fit inferior players"

....Celtic had 11 ineligible players on Wednesday night.

[Rolo Tomasi]

Premier league advert on NBC for the coming season

[Jah Lush]

Yeah, bit late with that one, Rolo. From last season.

[Rolo Tomasi]

Really? A whole season?

[SCSB79]

Perhaps he meant to link this one?

http://youtu.be/iRqypM7jb5Y

[Alan Medic]

https://www.skybet.com/football/specials/transfer-specials?aff=9718&dcmp=ss_betlink_TRANSFERPANEL

Interesting to see what the bookies think. I counted 4 players that are odds on to join United.

[Rolo Tomasi]

SCSB79 Wrote:

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> Perhaps he meant to link this one?

>

> http://youtu.be/iRqypM7jb5Y

That's the one. Anyway.

[red devil]

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> https://www.skybet.com/football/specials/transfer-

> specials?aff=9718&dcmp=ss_betlink_TRANSFERPANEL

>

> Interesting to see what the bookies think. I

> counted 4 players that are odds on to join United.

Balotelli going to Spurs at 25/1 must be worth a punt. Spurs will be in the market for a striker if Soldado moves back to Spain, and Milan seem keen to move Balotelli on...

[Otta]

Think Liverpool spoke to him but Rogers quickly said it wouldn't happen. Fuessingw that's either his wage demands or the fact that Rogers could do without a complete loon in his strike force for a change.

[Mick Mac]

Liverpool's greatest signing? Today 1977

http://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2014/08/kenny-dalglish-liverpool-lfc/

[Mick Mac]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> "For even more unpredictability, the Scottish

> Championship now has three of the highest

> supported and attended clubs in the country among

> its ranks. Rangers, Hearts and Hibs are all

> battling to gain promotion to the Premiership this

> year and it?s very difficult to work out who?s

> more likely to do it first."

>

> The thought of Hibs and Rangers as the new Old

> Firm battling it out for promotion, is a nice

> little twist on Rangers expected rise to the SPL,

> Alan Stubbs might be a decent manager for Hibs.

>

> The Scottish Championship is the league to watch

> folks. No buts.

>

>

> Mo

Opening fixture, Rangers 1 Hearts 2

It's going to be the league to watch in Scotland this year.

[Alan Medic]

So Legia have appealed to Celtic to play again on various grounds of honour, fairplay etc. Celtic's response is they are unhappy with those comments and it's a UEFA matter. What's wrong with those comments? If Legia were a bigger European fish I bet UEFA would find a reason to allow them to continue in the competition.

Celtic, do the right thing. It would be a breath of fresh air.

[Ladygooner]

We will need a bigger trophy cabinet at this rate! Highlights on BBC1 tonight - great goal by Giroud

[Mick Mac]

Are you on some sort of wind up AM. Never going to happen, not with 15m at stake etc.

Celtic are unhappy with Legia for playing a game of emotional blackmail I'd imagine.

[Alan Medic]

If you were them, you'd try it.

[red devil]

Mick Mac Wrote:

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> Celtic are unhappy with Legia for playing a game

> of emotional blackmail I'd imagine.

My thoughts exactly. Legia should take it up with UEFA...

[Alan Medic]

I presume they have and this is part of a duel approach.

[Mick Mac]

Ladygooner Wrote:

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> We will need a bigger trophy cabinet at this rate!

I recommend you hire one. You never know how long it might be before you need one again. :)

[Seabag]

Great to come home and watch The Gooners in some form

Goals and a good bit of badge pointing too

What's this foamy marker spray malarky tho ?

[Mick Mac]

Excerpt from Legia's public letter:

He continued: "Imagine Jock Stein and Billy McNeill deprived of the chance to achieve the biggest triumph in their career by an application form, filled improperly by a club employee acting in good faith.

"Would any true legend of Celtic FC accept the qualification won despite the double defeat suffered on the pitch? I am strongly convinced that their legendary Celtic pride would not allow them to do that."

Well if that doesn't take the biscuit. Who are they to try to put themselves in the mind of Jock Stein.

"How could they then look in the eyes of their humiliated fans?"

F.R.O.

[maxxi]

Terrible letter by Legia. By all means appeal vociferously that a minor technicality shouldn't be so harshly punished but this sort of limp PR garbage is laughable. Wonder if they sent it on tear-stained paper?

Charity shield - a lot of leaden feet being slowly dragged back to life on the ManC team.. and that skin-tight beach-volleyball shirt the gooners were wearing?... can't see many fans in the over 35 bracket struggling into a replica one of those without corsets.

[Otta]

I can barely force myself to watch the charity shield if Liverpool are playing in it. Glorified pre season friendly, means nothing.

Season starts next week. Hurrah!

[JohnL]

Surely it's not up to Celtic - they'd probably be punished

if they made any offer.

FIFA and UEFA can be quite nasty.

Alan Medic Wrote:

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> So Legia have appealed to Celtic to play again on

> various grounds of honour, fairplay etc. Celtic's

> response is they are unhappy with those comments

> and it's a UEFA matter. What's wrong with those

> comments? If Legia were a bigger European fish I

> bet UEFA would find a reason to allow them to

> continue in the competition.

>

> Celtic, do the right thing. It would be a breath

> of fresh air.

[red devil]

Otta Wrote:

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> I can barely force myself to watch the charity

> shield if Liverpool are playing in it. Glorified

> pre season friendly, means nothing.

>

> Season starts next week. Hurrah!

It used to mean something, the traditional curtain raiser to the new season, but with clubs now going on long-haul pre-season tours it's lost it's appeal. With nearly 20,000 empty seats yesterday perhaps there's an argument to play it overseas too...

[Parkdrive]

Ladygooner Wrote:

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> We will need a bigger trophy cabinet at this rate!

> Highlights on BBC1 tonight - great goal by Giroud

Ozil, Mertesacker, and Walcott not available for us but 3 good goals and great performances from Chambers, Ramsey and Cazorla. Sanogo looked good, so it bodes well. The usual suspects demeaning the result, and like Arsene said if you lose people point and say you bought these players for a lot of money and failed, you win, it's a pre-season friendly ( no matter that previous winners have celebtrated winning it with gusto, yes Yanited included). The empty seats were City allocation seats from what I hear, but what made the victory sweet was sticking it to the little bitch Nasri. If ever a player need some PR advice, he's your man.