Celtic V Man Utd Thread

Welcome mate I too am relishing the thought of this one. Cant make it down for the Old Trafford game but I'll be at the Celtic Park game. I fancy us to take at least a draw tonight all going well and a few big perfomances from our main players, VoH, Gravesen, Lennon ect.
HAIL HAIL

 

Cant wait for this one , going to the Sun in Preston tonight to watch this one ,will be packed in there tonight ,not long now

 

Is Van Der Sar definitely out tonight? He's in my dream team but I can sub him before 4 o'clock. Anyone know?
Hope he is out, the man's class.

 

its highly likley fergie will rest him and possibly giggs, with the * to come on sunday.

i hope the game is played in the same spirit as the bryan robson testimonial was, with both sets of supports clapping each other.

don't think YNWA will go down to well though. I will be there tonight but not at parkhead for the return as the ST i use is shared and i did not win the toss up. a little gutted really as i've never been an away game in europe for money reason, but one on our own soil was a good chance to amend that.

Anyways, my prediction - 1-0 or 2-1 (gonna be a tight game)

 

Just about to leave for Manc shortly, * COME ON THE HOOOOPS!!!

 

welcome mate, this gonna be the first league or cl game I wont be supporting man utd. shame these two grand teams have to play eachother. i hope everything remains fair, on and off the pitch and we will see a big football show.

 

i hope so too mate, the history of our two teams meeting (testimonials ect) has always been good with very little trouble, so hope it continues

 

Shunsuke Nakamura admits Celtic are not ready for their Champions League game against Manchester United.


United welcome the Scottish champions to Old Trafford tomorrow night and the Japanese midfielder believes the clash has come too soon for a team who only just managed to scrape a win over Aberdeen at the weekend.

'We need to improve as a team before this game because we're not playing well enough for the Champions League,' he told the Scottish Sun.

'The manager has brought in two or three new players and unfortunately we still don't know each other well enough.

'So far this season, I don't think we've been playing well as a team.

'Our last game against Aberdeen brought a win, but we didn't play well. For me, we played too many long balls to [Jan Vennegoor of] Hesselink and that's not good enough for the Champions League.'

Nakamura believes a point from their Champions League opener is the best Celtic can hope for.

He added: 'For this game, we can't go down to Manchester and attack, attack, attack. It's hard to win there so for us it will be vital to defend in this game.

'Right now, I think a draw would be an important result for us.'

smokescreen or honesty?

 

A draw would be a good result for us away. I think its a wee bit of a smokescreen to try and make your already over confident players a bit more confident, leading to your ultimate downfall.

 

our players are not over confident, its the press and our and your ex players saying we will walk it ect...

i and many reds are expecting a tough game.

 

Cheers Big Al, the Archway is my nearest bet so i'l pop up there. Any good?

 

It used to be heaving but I haven't been there for a few years now. I'd bet it's still the same though. Watched the 6-2 game there, wonderful memory.
If you walk down the Holloway/Caledonian road there is another one but I can't remember the name. Proper hardcore Celtic/Irish place. There's also a hun pub near there though so I'd avoid that :O)

 

I've cracked it, here's the team and formation which will get us a result tonight:


Flat back four, with the fullbacks not pushing on too much
Lennon sitting in front of defence
Gravesen pushing forward where possible
McGeady and Naka providing the width
VoH holding the ball up
and Miller running the legs off their defenders and generally making a nuisance of himself
1-0 win
I'll be e-mailing WGS his lineup shortly

 

Greendave, you're not suggesting Kenny runs down the channels are you?!!? How's he going to have the time to bang in a hattrick?

 

You can buy it for £3 on Sky sports.com

http://streaming.skysports.com/ucl/public/homepage.aspx

 

Agreed !

thats the team i picked last night. and i think its our strongest for this game.

im getting nervous just now !!! pre match exitement

CMON CELTS GET IN ROUND THIS MOB !!

HAIL !! HAIL !!

 

50 mins of work to go, lots of * to to do, but cant, to excited, 50 mins then home swim (in madrid) and of to finnibars, home of the madrid emerald c.s.c standing myself drinking heiniken and watchim the tic!

cant wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Cmon the sellick ger intae them!!!!!!
canny wait 2and a half hours tae go tae we give it tae this manky mob
C'mon the Hoops!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Right, I'm off to the boozer



C'MON THE HOOPS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

This is for anyone that wants to watch the game

I can't watch the game because it's on sky sports and I found this website

http://www.bugmenot.com/

Which can give you logins to websites the only problem is I can't find a site showing the game which has a login on the site so if you really want to watch it search websites and post the link into the box on the site and should come up with different logins

When you find it post it here

The more people that do it the better