Celtic Da Weekly 08/11/24

Champions League! League Cup! Women's Shorts!

Hello, good morning, and welcome to the Celtic Da Weekly. This week, we’re back to bask in the glorious aftermath of Tuesday night’s Champions League triumph, a match that surely left fans wondering if they’d accidentally tuned into a different team’s highlights. Yes, I’m looking at you, Leipzig and your “second top of the Bundesliga” patter. If this keeps up then it is only a matter of time before the top 5 leagues demand this format is binned because they are getting shown up. What an incredible night that was. Was it Celtic’s best ever Champions League showing? Some might argue it’s a stretch, but it has to be up there as one of the greatest clashes we’ve seen in the Champions League. And we’ve seen some titanic battles: Juventus; Barcelona; Man United; that wee guy against the Milan keeper; Benfica. The list goes on and on.

It wasn’t the only big fight on Tuesday night—surely someone else saw those two steaming blokes in the concourse under the Rangers end battering lumps out of each other before the game kicked off? The big guy in the grey hoodie and joggers was clearly unhappy with something his smaller mate had said to him, and neither of them managed to make it to the minute's silence.

Which, on reflection, was probably not a bad thing. I can’t be the only person who had no idea that was going to take place, can I? I couldn’t understand why there was a slightly subdued tone to the pre-match atmosphere. I initially put it down to the bloke with the guitar who was trying his best but just couldn’t get the crowd going. Teasing us with a lyric from Celtic Symphony before thinking better of it just left us all feeling a bit confused and deflated. Whisper it but I think it took us a good 45 minutes to get the place really rocking.