I wasn’t trying to find you
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Celtic have contributed more to the Scottish co-efficient than any other team over the period for which results count, despite what the likes of @Fran say.
@ChairmanDan, it’s an unbelievable achievement for the League of Scotland to have two representatives in the group stages of the CL when the elite coterie of super franchises and the governing body have done everything possible to shut them out and make it a closed shop.
It will also be a massive boost to the Scottish economy.
I think it’ll be a cracking league in Scotland this season too btw. I think Celtic or Rangers will win it though.
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That’s not true. Sevco are 33rd in the UEFA coefficient ranking while Celtic are 51st
“In the five-year period determining the country’s place in UEFA’s coefficient rankings – so from 2016-17 to 2020-21 – Celtic’s points haul was 34, set against Rangers’ 31.250.”
Source: The Scotsman.
The current individual team rankings are a separate point.
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Do they break RB Leipzig record of newest club to play CL group stages?
Is that from this season? Why would the coefficient not include the most recent season?
PSV disgraced themselves
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Fun fact: PSV won none of their quarter-final, semi-final and final matches in the 1987-88 European Cup, scoring only two goals in those five matches, and no goals in the two matches they played at home.
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the hard running Soren Lerby with the socks down …
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That was very disappointing news to wake up to this morning.
Never mind.
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Or Lerboo as George Hamilton used call him
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Jack O’Connor would have loved him.
“During a qualifying match against Ireland on 13 November 1985, Lerby left in the 58th minute as he had to catch a private jet to fly back to Germany to play, as a substitute, for his club Bayern Munich in a cup match on the same day,” writes Christian. “On that busy day, his country won 4-1 in Dublin while his club drew 1-1 in Bochum.”
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Remember that day. Not the details around that player, but the fact that RTÉ showed England v Norn Iron live that evening and only highlights of the Ireland v Denmark game. Just remember realising how shit we were playing back then, that Hand had lost the dressing room, the senior players like Stapleton and Brady were running the show and Seamus McDonagh was keeping Packie Bonnar out of the team.
“Player power” was formerly a great cliché especially in GAA parlance but has fallen out of use.
I know little about Seamus McDonagh other than that he used to be referred to as “Big Jim McDonagh” and then suddenly became Seamus in a similar manner to how Tommy Carr suddenly became Tom Carr, and that a little over three years on from that Denmark game he was managing Galway United as player-manager, not very successfully. I recall him angrily barking instructions at players from his box in a game they lost to Cobh Ramblers at Terryland Park on a pissing wet afternoon in the first days of 1989. I had a feeling at that point things weren’t going to work out, and they didn’t.
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My Dad would shout at the telly “Look at Dive-a-lot McDonagh in the goal again…” as Seamus would fly across the goals in vain as the opposition would add to their total. Perhaps my fathers greatest, I want to say insult but maybe slag, against McDonagh was at the time was to say that a goalkeeper from the 'Lockes would do better “than that useless fucker McDonagh”. That actually happened.
cc @Piles_Hussain
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Gakpo and DeJong missed sitters for PSV. Huge error by the keeper for the critical goal just like in the first leg.
What a move that would be 
Rangers have really got their house in order … remarkable to think the cunts are now in champs lge group stages from where they were only a couple of years ago …the gamble has landed …
It was coming all night … the PSV defenders were so uncomfortable on the ball yet they insisted on trying to play out from the back all game …
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