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Official UEFA stats of the Barca game reveal that septic had the lowest amount of possession in C.L history

@ just 10%.

 

And we were slated for this anti-football rubbish.

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Hang on, that can't be right. Celtic won the other night, quite comfortably from what I understand. I was listening to Radio Scotland last night on the way home, it was the proudest moment of Lennon's career they said, it proved his excellence as a manager and restored Scottish pride, I assumed they'd won by 2 or 3 goals. Even the Tims I work with were raving about their performance.

 

This is clearly anti-Celtic propaganda from UEFA, based in Switzerland you know, plenty of Proddies there. Say no more.

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Id prefer non Rangers posts to be in football chat. :)

 

When a Scottish club puts the mighty Barcelona to sword in their own ground it should be a matter of pride for all of Scotland. Put your pettiness to the side, they were flying the flag for Scotland (not literally, obviously) and that victory should make us all proud. I'll be shaking the hand of every Tim I meet today and telling them so.

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Leggat - CELTIC HYSTERIA

 

Just stop and think for a moment, if you would be so kind, Try and cast you mind back and recall the last team to emerge from Old Trafford with their goal intact after having played Manchester United.

 

Can you recall who it was?

 

Of course you can. It was Rangers. And it was more than two years ago.

 

The Champions League point Rangers got that night however, led to an outbreak of anti Rangers hysteria from the usual suspects. It seemed that Rangers were a disgrace to football. In much the same way they had been when they held an in-its-prime Barcelona side to a goalless Champions League tie at Ibrox in a previous campaign.

 

The phrase which emerged from that Barcelona visit to Ibrox was, anti football and it followed one reporter cunningly slipping it into the mouth of a then still young and impressionable Lionel Messi.

 

Efforts to pull that same trick in the zoo that is the UEFA Mixed Zone at Old Trafford, after Rangers produced a performance of tactical acumen and sophistication there, failed, while in the more relaxed environment of the interview room, Sir Alex Ferguson made it clear he had only admiration for the way Rangers performed that night.

 

But back to Barcelona and the mixed messages which followed in the wake of a visit to the Nou Camp of Scottish teams. When Rangers went there and finally succumbed to a bewitching performance by Barca, they were written off as having been exposed. It was conveniently forgotten that Barcelona were given the best possible start when Thierry Henry used his hand when Barcelona scored in the opening stages.

 

It is strange that this blatant form of cheating was ignored, as that was not the case when the same player did the same thing to get a winner for France in a World Cup play off against the Republic of Ireland.

 

But, I digress!

 

The real comparison is the way in which Celtic’s defeat to Barcelona in the Nou Camp has been portrayed as a moral victory for them and a shot in the arm for Scottish football. It is being spun to such an extent that I’m dizzy with all the birlin’.

 

Yet when Rangers kept the scoring machine of mighty Manchester United at bay for 90 minutes at Old Trafford, the opposite was the case. Rangers were portrayed as being both anti-football – again – and lucky.

 

Once again, because it was Rangers who were doing it, the fine and noble art of defending was downgraded. And how well did Rangers defend at Old Trafford that night?

 

The answer will lie in your recall of how many saves Allan McGregor had to make to rescue Rangers. Precisely.

 

And so we return to the Nou Camp this week where the Official UEFA statistics tell their story of how sorry Celtic were outplayed by a Barcelona team which, while still potent and formidable, is no longer at its peak.

 

Barcelona enjoyed not merely the lion’s share of possession, as they do in most of their matches, the actually had possession of the ball for 90per cent of the match, which even by their standards is unusual.

 

Celtic certainly defended doggedly and well, but not as well and as cleverly as Rangers had against Manchester United at Old Trafford. For a start, Manchester United failed to score against Rangers. Barcelona scored twice against Celtic.

 

Barcelona also managed to breach the Celtic defence 14 times to go close, with 13 efforts on target and one hitting the woodwork.

 

Those are the facts of the matter and not the hysterical nonsense, not the diet of pro-Celtic pap, or the warped view from the usual suspects which the public is being force fed.

 

The truth is that Celtic, when they went to Barcelona, attempted to do what Rangers did when they went to Old Trafford. They attempted to cut their cloth accordingly and try to frustrate an extraordinary team.

 

That they did not manage to achieve their goal – as Rangers most certainly did against Manchester United at Old Trafford – is no shame.

 

But please, will the usual suspects stop trying to force feed the public pap and make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear. The facts of the matter, as produced in the official UEFA statistics, tell not merely the whole story, but the real story too.

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