Soccer Football - Champions League - Group E - Celtic v Feyenoord - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - December 13, 2023 Celtic players pose for a team group photo before the match Action Images via Reuters/Jason Cairnduff
For some fans, of a club that has never even won a point in the Champions League, understanding that competition is a little alien.
Watching on jealously they had hoped that someone, somewhere would flop to six defeats in the competition and rack up the near impossible -21 goal difference.
Alas, the big cup was to bring them nothing but disappointment, a familiar theme in the competition that their grandfathers went to a 1960 semi-final expecting to hum the Gerry’s then lift the trophy in glory at Hampden.
Since then the big cup has delivered nothing but humiliation and pain for generations, in 2023 Billy, Gordy, Stewarty and Rossco have grown to hate the reminders that seeing the big trophy sends them.
Hearing The People are saying Feyenoord weren’t interested. The keeper was up for a corner.?
— Swed (@Swedleypops) December 14, 2023
On Wednesday night Feyenoord had the chance to record an important win, pick up 2.8m euros prize money and co-efficient points to keep them alongside PSV Eindhoven and Ajax.
A look at the match stats, fouls and cards shows what it meant, backed up by the celebrations for the equaliser from Yankuba Minteh.
Celtic have multiple problems to address to improve their Champions League record, no other Premiership club has ever won a point in the competition.
Some of the tackling was tasty.?
— Swed (@Swedleypops) December 14, 2023
Feyenoord 14 fouls Celtic 4. Obviously didn’t mean anything to them then. That’s not counting some of their more exuberant challenges they weren’t penalised for.
— MM (@mbm_1965) December 14, 2023
They celebrated their goal like a cup win and were getting tore in. They were playing for the ££ on offer. Pleasure to watch 2 teams trying to win by playing open football – in comparison to ? we get playing SPFL teams most weeks.
— Baggins ??????? (@BagginsGSX1250) December 14, 2023
We had to earn it.. they wanted to prove something. But we’re similar strength, I just think when we’re confident and on our game we’re a step above. Like the O’Riley ball to back post, we’d normally have no luck with a ball like that over.. but you need luck and a clever pass.
— ??????????? (@Daeyewanaknow) December 14, 2023
We won a dead rubber.
A morale booster, and extra cash won.
But it was a deeply disappointing CL campaign.
The takeaway: the Board was ‘economical with the truth’
about having any European ambitions.
Who is accountable for the woefully inadequate summer transfer business?
Nobody at Celtic is ever ‘accountable’ however if you rephrase the question and ask who was responsible then I think it must be ‘Daddy’s Boy’ Lawwell minor. Suitably coached by his Auld Man of course.
World Class FFS, appointed as Celtic’s Head of Scouting & Recruitment with no experience at CFG other than typing up reports of someone else’s findings. He’s a ‘pen-pusher’ just like his Daddy was just an over promoted and grossly overpaid ‘ bean counter’.
Always pish masel laughing at the zombie null points with the worst CL record in the history of the competition; null points and a minus 21 goal difference.
Historically the shitiest performance that ever was or ever will be given that the competition has now changed to a different format.
They must be SOOOOO proud.