What matters most in 2012?
Euro 2012 is providing plenty of excitement and goals while the twists and turns of the Ibrox pantomime continue to develop at an incredible pace.
Over the last 20 years close seasons have usually involved trying to build a title challenging team, finding a manager or during the Martin O’Neill years retaining a manager.
Without doubt the current close season will have long lasting consequences for Scottish football- not just because Georgios Samaras scored for Greece against Germany!
August 4 can’t come quickly enough when the proper football gets underway and the great sporting integrity question is finally answered. Will Michael Johnston be rubbing his hands as fans of reborn Club 12 fill up Rugby Park or will there be a few dozen Fifers chanting ‘We Are The Pars’.
What matters most is being fiercely debated from all angles.
The Ibrox crisis is certain to run and run allowing Celtic to get on with their business on the quiet- the fact that Mark Wilson, Darren O’Dea, Niall McGinn, Cha Du-Ri, Glenn Loovens, Daniel Majstorovic, Efrain Juarez and Dominic Cervi have all left has barely been noticed.
Next season will be one of the most dramatic in the history of the Scottish game. Will it emerge vibrant and competitive from the demise of Rangers or will the doom-mongers from Motherwell and Kilmarnock be proved correct as the roof finally falls in?
Celtic’s priority is to reach the group stage of the Champions League- four years without the football, finance and attention that the competition brings is far too long for our club.
Last season’s Europa League group provided encouraging sings of improvement with the players and management gaining priceless experience.
In an ideal world in May 2013 Celtic will be SPL champions, three of our younger players, any three from Tony Watt, Joe Chalmers, Marcus Fraser, Dylan McGeough, John Herron, Callum McGregor or Filip Twardzik will have featuered in 20 first team matches and we’ll have reached the last eight of the Europa League after picking up seven points in our Champions League return.
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