Give Us A Break!
Morning, all.
Tonight is a big night for us, and no mistake. We take a three goal lead to Austria to face their champions, LASK Linz. I mention that they are champions to remind us all that this is no diddy team we are facing, but we already know that from the first leg last week.
We scored three wonderful goals, but they could have taken the lead after only a few seconds with an absolute screamer of their own. It was far from the only time they caused us concern, including another goal, like that one correctly chalked off for offside. I wouldn’t go as far as their coach did after the game and say that they were the better side, but we could hardly have grumbled had our advantage been less than three.
There seems to be a school of thought amongst our fans that while this tie isn’t over, another goal from us should kill it. Well, if there is a genuine concern that they can score three, perhaps we should also be worried that they can score four-and the reported absence from training of Trusty does little to allay those fears! I well remember our run to Seville when we took a two goal lead to Stuttgart and quickly scored another two. That four goal advantage should have had us on easy street, but we lost three goals and were hanging on grimly at the end.
It’s football, and we all know that there are no certainties!
I expect that the management team will go with the same starting XI as last week, though we may be forced to call on Scales as a replacement for Trusty. We will have to be ready for a full-on onslaught right from the off, and that means our midfield will have to work overtime, while our attacking line will be our first line of defence. It won’t be a night for passengers, that’s for sure. It will take 100% commitment and 100% concentration, and all the while being on the lookout for a chance at a break.
That said, and having given myself the fear even writing this short article, I’m looking forward to the game. We would have been delighted a week ago at the position we are in now, and if I’m honest, I’ll settle for any result which sees us in the group stages of the top competition. I don’t care if tonight is another classic, one which we will be talking about for years to come, or an updated version of The Great Escape. Just as long as it has a happier ending. So you’ll pardon me if I don’t say-“Good luck!”
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Above article by BMCUWP
We now have a new JustGiving page set up to enable donations to be made for our latest charity appeal.
We wanted to focus again on a local charity, and this time one which is dedicated to helping those suffering from homelessness, addiction or poverty.
The one we have gone for is
GLASGOW CITY MISSION
You can find our dedicated page at
https://www.justgiving.com/page/sentinelcelts67
It is coming up to that time of year when the betting aficionados amongst us have to get our thinking caps on again.
As usual, our site will run a NAPS COMPETITION with some healthy prize money, and once again it will start on St Leger Day in September and run through till the last day of Royal Ascot in June. There will be a short break from the end of November till the end of January.
And for those whose betting interests are mainly centred on the football, we will also run our MAGNIFICENT SEVEN accumulator, starting on the same day and finishing when we no longer have eight leagues to pick from. Usually the end of April. Let’s hope that it gives us a more magnificent return than the litany of near-misses and total failures we got last term!
We will be looking for volunteers for this year’s ACCA , so please join up!
Both these initiatives are FREE TO ENTER, and will be on their own dedicated page nearer the time. I look forward to your participation.
D R M has also very kindly volunteered to operate a competition over the three days of the AYR GOLD CUP meeting. Usual rules, with a selection from each race.
There is £100 of prize money, and as alway is FREE TO ENTER!
More details will be available on the dedicated page nearer to the beginning of the event on 17th September.
POTY Competition.
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Same here! We have to bear in mind that fantasTIC run that M’oN brought us through to win the League Title, a seemingly impossible task we could hardly afford to drop a point thank’s to Desperate Dan, the Flower Pot man. Think about that winning mentality and the team spirit he created in that team with these very same players, only difference is the addition of some new excellent forward players, so, for me its – In Martin I Trust. COYBIG.
Victory In Europe: A seemingly impossible task, but the team did it. # 67 The Lisbon Lions.
Have no fear, the Celts are here. No one wins as much as the mighty Glasgow Celtic.
Tonight we’ll show why we were the first club to ever get their hands on the big cup!
We’ll score because we ALWAYS score.
HH 🍀
These are the nights you invest in quality to get you through. We now have players, especially in the top third of the pitch, who can win a game simply through their own brilliance.
Oh we’ll score, you can be sure of it.
🎶 Camilo oh oh
Camilo oh oh oh oh.
T’was from south America he came
To Paradise to make his name.
Camilo oh oh
Camilo oh oh oh oh
Just sit down and watch him go
His teeth are white as snow
Camilo oh oh Camilo oh oh oh oh 🎶
Go grab the glory Celts!
HH 🍀
The Ipswich fans now know what earning your wages actually looks like.
His new team mates won’t get away with strolling around putting in half a shift now, as Daizen will embarrass them.
Didn’t take the wee man long to make an impression.
MAEDA!!
Happy Hooooopy Birthday to
WEEFRA!!!!!!!
80 years young, and hoping that our team can give him an extra reason to celebrate tonight.
🍾 🤞 💚 👏 ⭐️
Nabbla
August 24, 2026 11:12 pm
‘Reality is hard for you’.
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Not so hard that I have to pretend it doesn’t exist.
The reality is that Scottish football now operates on the basis that the huns didn’t die, that they continue as the same club and are entitled to the honours acquired before administration and liquidation.
That is what Scottish Football requires us to accept as reality.
Celtic have failed to challenge that narrative. They could have challenged it, but they didn’t.
That they didn’t might be because it suits Mr Desmond’s agenda for the Club. We all know that Mr Desmond is only a minority shareholder, and when he speaks as an individual he doesn’t speak for the plc. And we can chose to believe whether or not that is how things actually works in reality.
Personally I think anyone who believes that Celtic plc would do anything other than what Mr Desmond wants is full of shit.
Some of us are aware of the reality and find it unacceptable. Others aren’t aware of the reality and carry on as before. Others are aware of the reality but prefer to indulge in a fantasy, because the reality, and the consequences of accepting it, are is too harsh for them to deal with.
Big Audio Dynamite
August 25, 2026 7:09 am
Nabbla,
I have absolutely no problem with that. I don’t need you to tell me Dermot is a rat, I can work that one out for myself 😉
Seriously …
BAD
I thought our exchange ended but I have to add,if you think I said anything like ” Dermot is a rat” to you,you are well mistaken.
You seriously work out zero prompted by me.
No one involved at Celtic is a “rat”how can one have an exchange when that is your base.disgraceful and hunlike comment imo.
There is no need for that BAD
HH
Nabbla,
My friend, no one accused you of doing anything, I was actually trying to be nice and end the discussion amicably.
Oh well.
You don’t think Desmond is a rat, I’m absolutely cool with you having your opinion ..but, am I allowed to have mine?
Yeah?
Ok.
Dermot Desmond is a fucking rat …
Have a good day.
NABBLA
To be fair, calling Desmond a rat is fairly mild, considering you called BR a tumour.
Ernie,
Dermot is the kinda guy who would try consoling you after your house had been burgled by praising the burglar’s thieving abilities.
HH 🍀
Ernie.
I am fine with reality.
Rangers liquidated.
Challenge
They didnt with sfl,sfa,uefa or FIFA,get it right,we were one vote in 2012 out of how many in Scotland?
All those bodies see The Rangers as founded 1872.
And your base point we must wrestle with the pig-no thanks.
DD as you know controls Celtic(no semantics about minority s/h,approx 44% when ironed out.but iyo it is he who authenticated the hun,truly laughable,he could have 100% control it would not change the fact Celtic are one vote out of how many in Scotland?How does that one vote operate?
You wrote
Personally I think anyone who believes that Celtic plc would do anything other than what Mr Desmond wants is full of shit.
Does that mean you Ernie?,I wouldn’t say your f.o.s :-)) just stuck in your thinking.
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Bobby Murdoch
NABBLA
To be fair, calling Desmond a rat is fairly mild, considering you called BR a tumour.
BR2 was a tumour and was rightly removed from Celtic at the end up.That was a DD error.Dealt with,that error cost us and we are only getting back in the saddle now.
HH
Brendan – Fair game.
Dermot – Untouchable?
Right, I think I’ve got it now
NABBLA
I’ll leave the comment unedited, as I left the other one. However, it is a despicable thing to call anyone. If you repeat it, I’ll ban your access.
Nabbla,
Brendan was a tumour?
Oh my god that is so hun-like, there’s just no need for it, Nabbla! No one at Parkhead was ever a tumour etc, etc 😉
That your credibility I just saw fly out the window?
Ernie
Rangers Died. End of.
New Rangers exist and were allowed to take the place of old Rangers as the game in Scotland was and has been run for their benefit.
Nonetheless, the death of Rangers meant the biggest losers would be to Celtic – it was proven correct as attendances nosedived (39,00 season books 14/15).
Revenue in 2015 was only £51m with a £4m loss. This is less than in 2011 when we finished 2nd to Old Rangers. As a club we were on an unsubstainable path.. not the 90s but not the 00s either.
Something needed to give and the easiest way out was domestically as we couldn’t ever bank on CL ( a sensible approach imo).
So, whilst we had a rebrand of the Glasgow Derby the Old Firm was our salvation. . A team called Rangers were there, they played in blue, at Ibrox and had the same rancid support. But crucially, they were financially hamstrung and of no threat to Celtic for at least a decade. And that’s proven to be correct, despite the odd COVID blip or so.
A decade after new Rangers entered the top flight , Celtic were sitting on £80m of cash reserves. Which, whilst preposterous, has proven that financially the club done the correct thing.
Admittedly, we could have been sitting on much more but ridiculously bad CL qualifying results to the likes of AEK or Almaty (amongst others) has ensured we haven’t.
Now , personnally, I preferred when the Huns were either dead or at worst in lower leagues, out of sight and mind. But my preference isn’t necessarily what’s good for Celtic. I’m not sure what else Celtic were expected to do? Why do Celtic always need to be the Judge and Jury of What’s best for the Scottish game? Our vote is the same as anyone else’s. I think that’s fair.
Nonetheless, we continue to thrive and operate well in what many consider a footballing backwater.
HH.
Regardless of what we think Celtic should or shouldn’t have done, it doesn’t change the fact Desmond turned out stomachs by praising the very people who had cheated us for years (Probably for decades) , and who absolutely despise us.
The Huns cheated because they know they really aren’t in the same league as us. On a level playing field we blow them out the water, so they felt they had to cheat to compete.
That’s not hard to understand.
But, what I will never understand is, why did king rat think it was a good idea to tell us how great the Huns are? Why not just continue the silence?
Oh, I’d bet money there’s lots of our fans who were utterly disgusted with how he praised the very institution that would bury us, given the opportunity.
Why?
Follow the money.
Our support love a Glasgow Derby just as much as theirs and just as much as TV audiences do.
It remains the only show in town and those who love money know this.
Morning all
i can’t quite believe that on the day we play financially the biggest game in our history we are still arguing over the status of (historically) our biggest rivals!
Especially as I comprehensively laid this all out for you a few years back.
So, for those of you with short memories, perhaps due to suffering with COVID at the time – here’s a wee reminder of what i said about what went down in 2012…
San Luis,
Is the “Why” for me?
Billy,
I couldn’t give a shizzle about the Huns, my point is about Desmond’s take on how great the Huns are
Can’t deny I love watching them struggle and lose their minds watching us sweep up all the trophies they had to cheat to win though.
Can’t deny myself that pleasure. I hope their pain lasts forever!
Billy Bhoy
Excellent summary. I don’t think anyone on here doubts there’s a new club. I think we’re getting into semantics of the why DD said what he said and some things Ernie posted last night too
Again, I say follow the money..
As for tonight, no Trusty so Scales returns. This means the high line needs to drop back a bit and our shape needs to be more compact as a result of the lack of pace. They will score but as long as it’s not too early and we don’t concede a second immediately afterwards then I think we’ll get the job done.
2-2.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
August 25, 2026 9:50 am
NABBLA
I’ll leave the comment unedited, as I left the other one. However, it is a despicable thing to call anyone. If you repeat it, I’ll ban your access.
Bobby Murdoch.
If you want to ban me,do so.it will only reflect on your blog
I am bang on with my comment on BR2.
TIME WILL PROVE ME WRITE is all i can say at mo.i will stand by my comment that what BR2 did was not to the clubs advantage,when his actions were forwarded to him he had no hole to run into.
He was rightly ran out town.maybe he may sue?……then again he wont.
This years budget for tfer is covered.pity it wasn’t used last year,we took the hit,we go on.
I think your getting a tad preoffended over my language,but its your blog,I think its the perfect way to describe him and his(non)actions and his self preservation while in tenure.
“Despicable” really? Contrasted with the general tone and abuse fired about i would suggest a general warning over demeaning language,it appears the norm here.i doubt Bobby if my comment was directed at a board member it would be backslapped.there is a contrast right there this morning,its ‘roland’around :-)) you’ll see it.
HH
Nabbla,
You seem to be saying it should be ok for you to call our great manager a tumour, while it’s not ok for others to call Desmond names.
You can’t see the problem?
Billy Bhoy.
Sound post.pages could be added but Celtic to some must annoint the nefarious hun
“Accepted into” sfa statement issued as the world as the world watched the Queen jump out a helicopter during the opening ceremony of London Olympics.
Wonder why they were outside?(liquidation maybe:-)))
As you say onto a result tonight.
And God willing champions league football.
Forward with Celtic:-))
HH
Nabbla,
You seem to think it’s absolutely fine for you to call one of greatest managers what you did, but it’s hun-like if ohers do the same with Dermot Desmond.
Surely you can see the problem, no?
Bobby
Time will prove me right (should have read)
Nabbla
August 25, 2026 9:44 am
At the time there was no issue with saying the huns had died.
Celtic could have done what the Cardigan did and simply wished the new club every success, “We wish the new Rangers Football Club every good fortune” ‘, and left it at that.
Nothing confrontational, triumphalist or hostile about it. Just a straightforward acknowledgement of the facts, that a page had been turned and a new future awaited.
Why didn’t they do that?
I’d suggest it was because it didn’t suit Mr Desmond’s agenda.
Ernie,
Now that would have been funny!
HH 🍀
Bobby Murdoch
Have I been banned?
Surely Trusty won’t be out if it was only a tummy problem.
I think he’ll be fine by tonight.
Bobby Murdoch.
Comment unacceptable
Thanks.
Billy Bhoy @ 10.41am,
Great post, maybe Bobby & MAHE could post Points 1-12 with every new article like the charity and racing Links 😁
Nabbla, below is why we should never let them forget:
Had the misfortune to run into a rabid old female hun in Traders Bar on Saturday. Boasting about drinking in a Celtic pub – who cares? Someone, not me, mentioned her team was deid. Well, she then went off on a mad explanation of how her cousin had spent thousands proving they didnae die, WTAF. Before I could say to her that her cousin would soon be bankrupted like the huns a seat became available in the Lounge. 😁
As for DD and his tribute re the huns. If I remember correctly, he was (surprised/highjacked) by the Scottish Press on the golf course just after the Huns were Liquidated. Well, if it had been me, I would have went right through them not missing a thing but, he’s not me. I can slightly understand his response surprising though it was.
Having said that, I would still like him to leave our club.
HH
Now thats 3 replies impeded.
A ban
Thanks Bobby.
That shines a light more on your blog.
Calton,
Her cousin spent thousands PROVING the Huns didn’t die??
Seat in the lounge or not, I really don’t think I’d have wanted to miss that conversation, even if the drinks were free in the lounge.
Gutted I missed that
HH 🍀
BAD @ 12.10pm,
I think she also mentioned he’d been in touch with the SFA & UEFA.
She was mad, period.
BTW there were no free drinks in the Lounge 😁
HH
Calton,
She sounds like a brilliant night out!
You didn’t happen to catch her phone number? 😉🤣
HH 🍀
NABBLA
Nope, you’ve not been banned. But certain words are not allowed.
BAD@ 12.22pm
Her phone number:
Was probably 1690 101010
HH
Afternoon all,
Well forget all this football nonsense, I’m off to a Jersey Boys tribute act, this afternoon in the Local Pub. 👍👍
Then after a few Vinos and Ciders can the football chat begin.
ItsonlyagameCSC 😜😜😜
Well , the blog in the last 24hrs has been a poor read .
https://publicaccess.glasgow.gov.uk/online-applications/files/2C6F3508D8F6809E8B6053A5048CCD4D/pdf/26_01307_FUL-EXIST_LOCATION_PLAN-6962127.pdf
St Tams
Dissenting blog think here is easy,counter false unproven narratives you get banned.
Think differently you get banned.
Its a noddin shop
BILLYBHOY
You are a star!
NABBLA
I’ve told you that you aren’t banned, despite your every effort for some kind of martyrdom. Some words are banned, another one of which is because of you.
I’ve asked you to tone things down. You ignored me. Playing the martyr doesn’t suit, you have crossed into trolling territory.
Leggy 👋🏻
Enjoy the Jersey Boys show. Should be some good old classics in there 🎵.
I was lucky enough to catch The Four Seasons at the Apollo back in the 70’s and Frankie Valli in the 90’s at the Concert Hall. ( oh. !! And the stage show in the West End) Fond memories.
Hogh Loves You –
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-KtYgOM62fk&ra=m
HH💚🍀
p.s. Jersey Bhoys 👇 😂