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GCC FlagCeltic’s Champions League reprieve sparked the greatest online celebrations since 14 February 2012 when Craigy Whyte placed Rangers in administration.

The overnight news that Legia Warsaw had fielded the suspended Bartosz Bereszynskiego for four minutes was confirmed by mid morning on Friday when UEFA overturned the match result to give Celtic a 3-0 win.

Discovering that Bereszynskiego was born on July 12 started the fun rolling although former Ranger, Henning Berg, a member of Alex McLeish’s whitewash squad in season 2003/04 probably didn’t see the funny side.

No sooner had that news been confirmed than Celtic were paired with Maribor- the club that killed off Rangers Europa League hopes in 2011 accelerating the onset of administration and liquidation.

An early text proclaimed ‘We did it by having the correct paperwork; beautiful concise paperwork’ in a nod towards Jock Stein’s famous quote from Lisbon.

On twitter Hoops funny man Kevin Bridges joked: “Haha. Mad Celtic. Good to see justice done. Legia Warsaw were a disgrace. What chance have you got against blatant cheating like that.”

He added: “Over the two legs, Legia were maybe the better side, but it doesn’t excuse such a cowardly act of gamesmanship. Sickening.”

It’s unlikely that big Kev will be touring Poland any time soon.

Also on twitter @etims recalled: “As we were saying after Weds nights 3-0 victory over Legia, Ronny Deila is doing a bloody great job.”

The news wasn’t welcomed throughout Glasgow however with much muttering going on about the influence of the Vatican Bank, the Labour Party, SNP, Co-op Bank, Glasgow City Council, HMRC and others in no particular order.

One text message later claimed ‘Glasgow City Council has today taken down the Palestinian flag and are instead flying the flag of UEFA.’

As is widely accepted throughout football these things even themselves out over the course of a season with Legia likely to benefit from a disputed throw-in in their Europa League play-off tie against Aktobe of Kazakhstan.

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