CHAMPIONS LEAGUE DRAW FRIDAY

[Bergkamp-Genius]

This a pretty good draw for us,

Unlike with a lot of the big clubs that go up to Celtic and under estimate them i think the noise up there will benefit us, although it will no doubt raise the Celtic players to cup final like performances i think it will also bring the best out of our better players.
As BT suggested i would be a lot more worried about a laxadazical performance from our boys if they were playing a lesser team in a silent stadium.

Overall i think we will be too quick too clever for them and if Mowbray doesn't know how to play it tight like Strachan did i expect us to win home and away
I'll give them the benefit of the doubt in the first leg and say 1-1 or 2-2 but only because i think they will give us problems from set pieces but i would still expect us to have the bulk of possesion.
As for the home tie they will struggle to get much ball and i would expect us to win a reasonably comfortable 2 or 3-0

[xDAVEYx]

nah turkey has as much right to european football as greece, its just the significant cultural differences that strengthen the division between asia and europe.

Turkey is not European culturally, linguistically and most importantly geographically. 95% of their landmass, including the capital Ankara, is in Asia.

greece, russia and serbia are chalk to our cultural and linguistic cheese. scandinavia has contributed to german, polish, dutch, flemish and british culture and language but have had next to no impact on spain, portugal or italy. although the majority of the landmass was once known as 'Asia Minor' it is on the Eurasian Tectonic Plate and on a different one to Syria.

turkey is significantly more european than israel.

None of this (even if it was all true) stops Turkey from being an Asian country.

rascist

[g88ner]

Following on from xDAVEYx and PHP's debate (in a way)...

It would also surely be possible for Russia's Vladivostock to compete in the European Champions League even though it's on the Sea of Japan, and a few thousand miles away from Europe?!

[xDAVEYx]

good thing the local team in vladivostok is shite innt

[Yankee_Gooner_Dandee]

i just hope i get to watch this fucking game

[norfbankN16]

Augie, it might have been said earlier

some of our players have displayed a level of arrogance against so called lesser teams in the past

but we got rid of ade so we should be fine. Also rememeber we have andre in the CL squad,

[Chippy]

Chippy is telling the guys not to underestimate Celtic and talking about the atmosphere. And no I am not doing a Radford.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2009 ... ue-playoff

[digger]

Following on from xDAVEYx and PHP's debate (in a way)...

It would also surely be possible for Russia's Vladivostock to compete in the European Champions League even though it's on the Sea of Japan, and a few thousand miles away from Europe?!

It's not about distance.... Russia is in Europe, Israel isn't, end of Part of Turkey is in Europe, none of Israel is. Let's get the Syrian Champions in the Champions League

[Chippy]

Just read this on Wikipedia about Vladivostok

Situated in the far east of the country, their location poses a significant problem for away teams:9 hours by flight from Moscow. When playing FC Zenit Saint Petersburg at home, a trio of Zenit fans (Evgeny Stepanov, Aleksandr Zaraysky and Veronika Davidova) drove 15,000km across the country only for their car to break down when in Vladivostok, leaving them unable to drive home. These fans thus took the Trans-Siberian Railway back to Saint Petersburg, upon which the club rewarded them with a new car on October 1, 2006. In addition to this, Igor Akinfeev, the CSKA Moscow goalkeeper, said that "they should play in the Japanese League", after his team lost 4-0 after a seven hour flight.

However it does seem ridiculous that if this lot ever got good enough we could play them in "Europe".