if Celtic are the best team in SPL it shows a poor reflection of the SPL.

no matter what spin you put on it scottish football is as i have always said (rubbish)

It was no battle and never will be. I was bored out of my trolley watching Utd skip around in 2nd gear that I switched over to Juve and Madrid. I think we all have to remember that Uefa do not want Celtic or any other side in this world other than the top 3 or 4 from the Spanish/Italian/English leagues to win the CL. Yid or not I personally hate the CL bore fest that involves this league c**p. Go back to playing straight knockout home and away ties all the way through and make it exciting. Make it like it was so any team like Celtic stand a chance. But no it is all about the money and it is purely set up in such a way to ensure even if the wee team has a spunktastic moment and pull off a shock the nice little league setup ensures the big boys will always slip through.

When will we ever see a team like Nottingham Forest win the European Cup again? In my opinion who should inscribe the names of the top 9 clubs in Europe onto this trophy and delete as appropriate. The days of good honest football are over lads and we live in a fantasy world thinking their is a chance for anyone other than the top teams to win a trophy.

I prefer to see the Sky Blues play than watch pouncey overpaid footballers worry more about their hair and what they look like. Remember this when the rest of the world is in economic melt down their is only one profession whose wages continue to rise - footballers.

Give me local football with local people any day over mid-table pointless c**p. Being in a relegation battle in my opinion is better than sitting 10th with feck all to play for. This is much more exciting. How many Spurs players are worried about the poor little fan sitting at WHL in their £60 seats? Feck all as they drive out in their bentleys!

And don't get me started on Joey 'I am a role model' Barton! If he was a normo 9-5 he would never have got the chances he has got or walk out of prison on £30k a week. Rant over..............

Interesting debate. Yes many footballers are overpaid prima donna's.
At the same time however the CL provides the best teams and the best players in europe as they go head to head. The group stages are a bit of a joke tho as 9 times out of 10 we know the sides that will reach the last 16 but when it comes to the knockout stage we see some high quality football being played. Especially in recent years, you can never tell which way it will go.

It just so happens the big 4 in the prem are the most feared in the champions league. The premiership is now considered to be the best league in europe as a result of chelsea,lpool,united and arsenal wiping the floor with the barcelona's, real madrid's, both milan's etc in the last 4 or 5 years. Surely that can only be seen as a positive thing?

Opinions, opinions

I agree that Scottish Football is poor but I would also have to state that as the chairman mentioned after the big 4 clubs in the Premiership ye have a bunch of also ran, no hoper, mid table mediocre teams that Celtic could compete with week in and week out. Without the massive financial support of Sky Sports, Blackburn, Boro, Wigan and so on could not afford to stay in football with a home support of barely reaching 25,000 fans. Bad and all the standard of the SPL is the 60,000 hoops fans every other weekend arent all wrong and the lesser clubs in the SPL survive on a lot less than the Premiership also ran brigade. In my view (and I really do stress it is my own view)the SPL is a competitve league in its own right that provides an opportunity for young lads from this island and gives young Scottish talent a chance, these lads are just not up there with the poncy Ronaldos & the likes but are steady proffessional players who came from working class backgrounds and a lot of them started with small clubs like ourselves. Coachmon and a few others have braved many a Saturday cup game against the likes of Airdrie or Clyde getting pished on from the high heavens watching the Tic and enjoyed every minute of it so I LOVE SCOTTISH FOOTBALL. There I said it with pride. As for the Champions League the draws are set up to make sure none of the big 4 in the top leagues come against each other, WHY?. Surely all the names should go into 1 hat and picked out fairly. So what if Chelsea played the Pool or Utd in the group stages or Barca V Real, THE STRONGEST SURVIVE. Revenue as usual. They are scared of the LIKES of the Hoops who are always strong at home getting an easy group and battling their way through the knockout stage and the LIKES of Man U against the best of the Premiership before they get out of the group stages just in case they wouldnt qualify. Where would the CL be if it was a Celtic V Roma final or something like that, I' ll tell you were, the same as the Cardiff V Portsmouth FA Cup Final. Great for the ordinary football fans but not the European football millionaire hierarchy.
Over and Over



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Alot of truth in what you are saying there lofty to be fair

Good post.
Many fans have grew up with one team and one team alone. I dont get how alot of people can support a team from the english league as well as one of the big teams in spain or italy with the same passion.[/quote]

What happens then when both of these great loves play each other Are you in a win win situation, or do you lose out whatever happens

Listen men I like Arsenal and always have but if the Gooners came against the hoops I would be backing the hoops. The reality is the Arsenal will always have a more realistic chance of winning the Cl but as with every Celt or say a Gers fan who also supports the Pool or Utd ye back what your heart says and thats just it. Nothing wrong with supporting 2 teams it just gives ye more bragging rites on a big day.
People say ye can only pick 1 team, (bolox), its a free world and if I want to splash out £40 on a new gunners jersey or a new Celtic jersey or spend £500 to see either of my teams who is to say its wrong (except the missus). i think supporting just 1 team makes you narrow minded and 1 tracked, over the past 25 years the one team thats always on my mind is the Sky Blues, wether playing, training or taking the cubs, it comes first. Booter, Chada, Martin Mc Guckin, Savo, myself and a host of others got badly injured playing for the club but kept coming back for more, the players over the years who togged out in freezing days in Magilligan or got down and dirty week in and week out for the shirt, that s what the Sky Blues mean to us all and thats what we have to preserve.
It ll be a long day in hell before we play play CL but who gives a feck. Being the best we can is what we are striving for and with a club as tight as ours who knows what the future will bring. 1 thing for sure "the future is bright, Its Sky Blue"

Dont forget your £2.00 tomorrow lads

Prawn Sandwiches bite me

ONE TEAM

ONE LOVE

ONE RELIGION

ONE UNITED

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Some win for the scousers today, outplayed chelsea on the pitch, outsung them off it.
We really are a unique club.

Steven Gerrard is easily the most complete player in world football.

Really disappointed in Strachan tonight ! We got our goal in the first half with a quality finish from Scotty and kept United scoreless until the 80th minute but really was only a matter of time until they scored. The Tic dropped deeper & deeper until we couldnt even get out of our own penalty box and the obvious happen all be it dodgy keeping . Surely some one who could have at least carried the ball to relieve the presure on our defence would been more benefical that to sit back and hope for the best !! HAIL HAIL !!