“Wot? No mention of the original punk japester, arch-nemesis of Strummer & Jones, and Rodgers & Hammerstein cover act Captain Sensible in the ongoing list of Palace fans?” – Tim Grey. Though if you wait a couple of seasons it’s possible it might be ‘Dat Jehr-mun get’” – Barrie Francis. “Both Mark McFadden and your Scouse vernacular editor are incorrect (Fiver letters, yesterday) it’s ‘Yehr-gun’. If you value our journalism, please support us by making a one-off or recurring contribution. Producing the Guardian’s thoughtful, in-depth journalism – the stuff not normally found in this email, obviously – is expensive, but supporting us isn’t. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA SUPPORT THE GUARDIAN “I didn’t know the chairman picked the players, he’ll have to come down and spend 10 minutes in the technical area and see how he goes” – Nigel Clough summons the spirit of his father to shatter Burton Albion chairman Ben Robinson’s dream of taking Usain Bolt on trial.Ĭhip off the Old Big Head block. Whatever happens tonight, one thing’s for sure: there will be narratives. It’s August, but we’re already talking about the importance of the home side keeping a clean sheet. We knew it was a difficult group but having Champions League football back at Celtic Park after two disappointing years previously was massive for everybody involved.”Ī win and a clean sheet are Celtic’s twin aims, as Astana have a very good home record in Europe. “Last year it set us up on a great platform.
“It makes or breaks our season if we get to the Champions League,” said Leigh Griffiths. These teams met at the same stage a year ago, with Celtic needing an injury-time penalty in the second leg to go through to the group stages, where they impressed at times despite not winning a match. So after a break for the start of the Scottish Premiership, Celtic return to competitive action tonight with the first leg of their Big Cup play-off against the Kazakhstan champions Astana. The only way to improve is to get more practice (and then load the bloody thing again, enduring another eight minutes of computer caterwauling). They’ve done all the levels of Scotland, yet in Europe they keep walking into the wrongun with the shooter. We mastered the first four levels quicksmart, but could never – never – get past the wrongun with the shooter on the final level. We recall a youth spent staring at the ZX Spectrum 128k, enduring the necessary caterwauling as it loaded beat-’em-up classic Renegade. (There were five English teams in 2005-06, but Everton went out in the third qualifying round, and England were so bad in Europe in the 1970s and 1980s that they never had more than two teams in Big Cup.) If Liverpool qualify – and they should – England will have five teams in the group stages for the first time. We didn’t get Klopp’s answer, as security had already bundled us out the door marked “Do One”, liberally applying boot to hole in the process. “I have to say, for an 18-year-old to have the balls to kick a free-kick is better than the mistake.” Klopp then said he had told Alexander-Arnold to take the free-kick, prompting your hard-hitting Fiver to suggest to Klopp that it would surely have taken balls not to take the free-kick and therefore disobey the manager. “He is an incredible young player,” said Jürgen Klopp. The teenager Trent Alexander-Arnold’s excellent free-kick was the highlight of a 2-1 win.
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