10/31/2001

O'NEILL COULD MAKE IT AT OLD TRAFFORD - LIPPI

Juventus coach Marcello Lippi has admitted that he would not be surprised if Manchester United turned to Celtic's Martin O'Neill as the replacement for his friend Sir Alex Ferguson.

10/30/2001

SOMETHING AMISS HERE ME THINKS

FROM CALCIOMERCATO.COM

Rangers, Moravcik refuses to extend his contract: "I want to be new Slovakia coach" Rangers Glasgow midfielder Lubomir Moravcik has confirmed that he does not wish to extend for on more season his deal with the Scottish side: "I want to be new Slovakia coach, every match would be like a Champions League game and I would be responsible towards all the country."

10/29/2001

LARSSON TO MISS ENGLAND CLASH

Celtic striker Henrik Larsson and Barcelona defender Patrik Andersson are the two notable absentees from the Sweden squad to face England at Old Trafford on November 10.

MORAVCIK 'TO LEAVE CELTIC'

Lubo Moravcik insists he won't sign another deal with Celtic - because he wants to be the national coach of Slovakia.

SUTTON - WE'VE BEEN GIVEN A REALITY CHECK

Chris Sutton has admitted Celtic's players have been guilty of thinking they were better than they really are.

CHANGED LINE-UP BRINGS LATE REWARD FOR O'NEILL

Martin O'Neill claimed his side's last-gasp win over Kilmarnock could be the perfect boost ahead of the clash with Juventus.

10/28/2001

JUVE WARM UP WITH NO SCORE DRAW

Juventus drew nil-nil with Inter Milan on Saturday, they have now gone five games in Serie A without a win.

10/28/2001

TEN IN A ROW FOR ROSENBORG

Rosenborg secured their tenth consecutive Tippeliga title on Sunday with a convincing 6-2 win over Brann.

Lillestrom had the chance to break Rosenborg's dominance – but relied on Brann getting a result against the champions.

Their hopes were thwarted, though, when Rosenborg were rewarded two penalties in the first half, Bent Skammelsrud and Frode Johnsen converting one apiece.

Brann reduced the arrears just before the break with a goal from Tomas Razanauskas, but goals from Frode Johnsen (2), Bent Inge Johnsen and Orjan Berg – with a spectacular strike – sealed the win and the title.

10/21/2001

JUVENTUS STRIKER OUT FOR SIX MONTHS

Juventus striker Marcelo Salas will miss the Champions League match against Celtic on October 31.

He sustained a knee injury during Saturday's draw with Bologna and is expected to be out for six months.

Juve have now gone four successive Serie A games without a win.

10/16/2001

CONCERN GROWING OVER TRAVELLING TICKETLESS FANS

FC Porto officials are said to be concerned about the amount of Celtic fans who have started arriving in Oporto without match tickets.

10/14/2001

Juventus squander three-goal lead.

The Turin derby was turned on its head this afternoon with Juventus throwing away a three-goal lead to rivals Torino. Torino stormed back after the break to smash in three goals to make the match all square.

Juventus had they chance to make the points safe when surprise surprise they were awarded a penalty kick in the last minute. Lady luck however deserted them on this occasion when substitute Marcelo Salas the Chilean internationalist blasted wide.

Juventus coach Marcello Lippi claimed that complacency among his players allowed Torino to come back from three goals down at the Stadio Delle Alpi on Sunday.

Juventus took an early three-goal lead thanks to a double strike from Alessandro Del Piero and another from Igor Tudor, but Torino hit back after the break to earn a 3-3 draw with goals from Christiano Lucarrelli, Marco Ferrante and Riccardo Maspero.

Lippi admitted that he finds the outcome difficult to believe, but insisted that his players only had themselves to blame. "They came out in the second half acting as if it was all over," he fumed.

10/13/2001

ALL AWAY GAMES TO BE ON LIVE TV?

Reports this morning that all Celtic & Rangers away matches will be broadcast on live pay per view TV. The report suggests that a £75 season book may be available. This will surely lessen even further the amount of fans travelling to away games. This might not be a bad thing considering we were recently charged £24 into Easter Road and when we travel to Portugal on Wednesday night the price is just £13. Both Old Firm clubs have had their fans ripped off for years and it may now just be about to end, not before time.

10/12/2001

NEW SUPPORTERS CLUB FORMED

The latest Celtic supporters club has been formed in Prague, Czech Republic. The club called P.A.P.E.S. stands for Pardubice And Prague European Supporters. The club has been recently formed by Kenny Kerr from Port Glasgow and fellow Compaq workers who now ply their trade for Foxconn in the Czech Republic. All at the Affiliation wish them every sucess with their new venture.

10/10/2001

CELTS ON COLLISON COURSE WITH SPL

Celtic may ask the SPL to reschedule the Livingston game that has been moved from January 2002 to November 2001. Celtic's Swedish duo of Larsson & Mjallby are sure to be included in the Sweden squad who are due to play England in a friendly at Old Trafford on the day of the Livingston match.

10/9/2001

FULL TIME RESULTS FROM CIS CUP

Ayr 0 Kilmarnock 0 FT Attend: 7,418 Half-time: 0-0 Ayr won 5-4 on penalties

Dundee Utd 3 St Johnstone 2 FT Thompson 23 Hamilton 90 Paterson 97 Hartley 9 Dods 36

Attend: 5,851 Half-time: 1-2 (2-2 after 90 mins - extra time being played)

Dunfermline 1 Inverness CT 1 FT Hampshire 63 Bavidge 15

Attend: 2,006 Half-time: 0-1 Inverness CT won 4-1 on penalties

10/9/2001

CIS CUP UPDATES

Extra time being played between Ayr-Kilmarnock, Dunfermline - Inverness Caley & Dundee United - St Johnstone

Full time results to follow

10/9/2001

CIS CUP SCORES

ABERDEEN 1 LIVINGSTON 6 (SIX)

RANGERS 3 AIRDRIE 0

RAITH 0 HIBS 2

ROSS COUNTY 2 DUNDEE 1

10/9/2001

Former Celtic player takes charge of Widzew Lodz

The former Polonia Warsaw boss and Celtic player Dariusz Wdowczyk have been appointed as the new manager of Widzew Lodz.

Former manager Marek Kusto was sacked after ten matches of the current season because of poor results.

10/9/2001

IRELAND U-21 STAR DOYLE REJECTS AGF OFFER

Republic of Ireland Under-21 striker Mickey Doyle has snubbed the opportunity to make his loan deal permanent with Danish side AGF. "Aarhus want me to stay but I prefer to get back to Celtic and see what is happening," he said.

10/9/2001

CELTIC REJECT ELLIOT MOVE

It's believed that Leicester City have tried to cash in with former target man Matt Elliot being offered to Celtic in the aftermath of Peter Taylor's sacking last Monday.

10/9/2001

LIVINGSTON GAME RESCHEDULED

With Scotland failing to make next year's World Cup Finals Celtic's match against Livingston scheduled for Wednesday 30th January 2002 will now revert back to Saturday 10th November 2001. The rest of the SPL will also revert back to this date.

10/8/2001

UEFA GIVE CHAMPIONS LEAGUE GO-AHEAD

UEFA have quashed reports suggesting Wednesday's Champions League games could be postponed following the attacks on Afghanistan.

A report, in El Mundo Deportivo, claimed European football's governing body would hold an emergency meeting today to discuss if the games should be played following on Sunday's America-led strikes against the Taliban's military installations.

"UEFA will keep a close eye on the international conflict," said a UEFA spokesman.

He added: "All the matches are scheduled to take place this week."

Wednesday's games were originally scheduled for September 12, but were postponed in the wake of the previous day's terrorist attacks on the United States

10/7/2001

LARSSON ON TARGET AGAIN

Henrik Larsson was once again on the scoresheet for Sweden as they beat Azerbaijan by 3-0. The Swede scored from the peanalty spot to net his 8th goal in Sweden's qualifying campaign. Johan Mjallby also played in the game and both players have come through unscathed.

10/7/2001

SHEFFIELD DERBY ENDS IN DRAW

Two ex Celts featured in today's Sheffield derby, Tommy Johnson played the whole match and Simon Donnelly appeared as a sub for the final 30 minutes. The match ended in 0-0 draw.

10/7/2001

Fifa block Old Firm switch

Fifa have blocked Rangers and Celtic's proposed move to the English Premiership.

Both Old Firm clubs have indicated that they would prefer to play football south of the border.

But Fifa vice-president David Will insists both Fifa and Uefa claim the game would "fall apart" if they allowed such plans to go ahead.

He said: "The Old Firm switch would not be permitted by Fifa or Uefa. In recent years there have been only two occasions where Fifa has given permission.

"A New Zealand club play in the Australian league and the two clubs in Liechtenstein are in the Swiss league.

"There is no professional set-up in these countries. Football would fall apart if Austrian clubs played in Italy, Dutch clubs in the Bundesliga."

10/7/2001

TOMMY JOHNSON IN FOR SHEFFIELD DERBY

Ex Celt Tommy Johnson was on from the start in today’s Sheffield derby match being played at Hillsborough, no starting places for the other two ex Celtic men on the Sheffield Wednesday books. Simon Donnelly or Phil O’Donnell, no surprises there then. The game is currently tied at 0-0 with the second half still to come.

10/7/2001

MIXED FORTUNES FOR CELTS ON INTERNATIONAL DUTY

WALES

John Hartson bagged the winner for Wales as they ended a run of 12 games without a win

WALES 1 BELARUS 0

BULGARIA

Stan Petrov’s dream of playing in next years World Cup is over, his team were crushed 6-0 by the Czech Republic.

CZECH REPUBLIC 6 BULGARIA 0

BELGIUM

Celtic’s Joos Valgaeren did not feature in the game that sees Belgium go into a play off with the on form Czech Republic

Croatia 1 Belgium 0

SWEDEN

Henrik Larsson & Johan Mjallby may feature in Sweden’s match against Azerbaijan, the match kicks off at 3.00pm today.

10/5/2001

Celtic battle Rennes for Swedish wonder kid

Celtic are chasing highly-rated Swedish starlet Ndiva Lord Kangana. The 17 year-old Djurgardens defender has already had one trial at Parkhead and is set for another after impressing Celtic's coaching staff.

Kangana is under contract at Djurgardens for another two years and has also attracted keen interest from Rennes.

Kangana said: "I was at Celtic a few weeks ago and I trained and played with the juniors.

"The coaches were very pleased and they want me to come back and allow Martin O'Neill to look at me.

"I would be interested if Celtic offer me a contract."

Djurgardens are asking around £500,000 for the teenager.

10/4/2001

Aarhus want Celtic loan star Doyle for keeps

AGF Aarhus want to make Mickey Doyle's loan deal permanent. The 20 year-old Celtic midfielder has impressed Aarhus boss John Stampe, who said: "He wants to move on rather than sit on the bench again in Scotland. He's definitely interested in a contract with AGF."

Doyle is on loan at AGF until the end of the year and comes out of contract with Celtic in June

10/4/2001

Celtic linked with Bonnissel swoop

(FROM FOOTY MAD WEBSITE) Speculation in the French media has today suggested that the defender is on the verge of a move to Glasgow, with the Celtic boss eager to strengthen his side with an eye on the domestic and european rigours which will test his squad to the maximum this season.

Celtic have not ruled out the move, and a spokesperson confirmed that the Celtic manager is reluctant to fuel the speculation surrounding arrivals and departures at the SPL champions.

He said: "We have got no comment to make regarding signing targets because Martin O'Neill is refusing to comment on any players linked with the club, either coming in or going out.

"I'm afraid we cannot confirm or deny the story linking Celtic with this player."

Celtic are already familiar with Bonnissel's abilities after squaring up to him and his team-mates in the UEFA Cup last season, in the ill-fated clash which saw Henrik Larrson break his leg.

Tottenham boss Glenn Hoddle was said to be interested in a summer swoop for Bonnissel while Liverpool's Gerard Houllier was also reckoned to be interested in the player, with a figure of around £4million thought to be enough to seal his signature at that time.

If Celtic are to follow up their interest in the player they may already have a distinct advantage over their potential competitors as Celtic winger Didier Agathe was a team-mate of the defender during their time together at Montpellier.

They have remained close friends and were delighted to be reunited in the UEFA Cup - and would no doubt be only too pleased to join forces once again, this time with Celtic.

10/3/2001

MORE LATE SATURDAY NIGHT GAMES

SKY TV have announced the next batch of games they plan to show live, as expected Celtic feature heavily in the scheduled games.

Sat 22nd Dec 2001 Aberdeen (a)

Sat 29th Dec 2001 Dundee Utd (a)

Sat 12th Jan 2002 Kilmarnock (a)

Sat 19th Jan 2002 St Johnstone (h)

10/3/2001

APPEAL LOST

Celtic defender Joos Valgaeren has lost his bid to overturn his yellow card in last month's Champions League defeat at Juventus.

He was booked for giving away a last-minute penalty in the Group E clash but UEFA rejected his appeal after hearing from all parties and reviewing video evidence. It's also been reported that Celtic will have to foot the bill of over £4,000 for the hearing.

10/3/2001

APPEAL LOST

Celtic defender Joos Valgaeren has lost his bid to overturn his yellow card in last month's Champions League defeat at Juventus.

He was booked for giving away a last-minute penalty in the Group E clash but UEFA rejected his appeal after hearing from all parties and reviewing video evidence. It's also been reported that Celtic will have to foot the bill of over £4,000 for the hearing.

10/3/2001

MESSAGE FROM N.A.F.C.S.C.

As President of the N.A.F.C.S.C. I am sure I speak for all our members when I say, We are glad to see that Celtic F.C. have acted quickly to identify and ban for life the moron who taunted Claudio Reyna with airplane actions at Sundays old firm game.

This person does in no way represent the average Celtic fan. We the North American Celtic Supporters are truly feeling the hurt today as we have been working hard to gather donations from all our clubs across North America for the families of the people who gave their lives so that others would live.

The tragic events of Sept 11th effected everyone but more so the people of New York and Washington. We have seven Celtic supporters clubs in the New York area and one in Washington and I am sure that everyone of their members will know someone who has been effected personally.

The actions of this one so called fan cannot overshadow the fact we the members of the 71 clubs who are members N.A.F.C.S.C. collected over $50,000 on Sunday to be donated to New York Police and Firefighters Widow and Children's benefit fund.

Celtic F.C. was started to help the people in their time of need and the N.A.F.C.S.C. are proud to keep this tradition, in the last 6 years our members have contributed over $250,000 to worthwhile causes. I think that this represents the average Celtic fan and not the moron whose actions the press have tarred us all with.

Jacky Meehan President For the executive and members of the N.A.F.C.S.C

10/2/2001

SAINT THOMAS OF PERTH?

TOMMY BURNS, the Celtic youth development officer, should know inside the next 24 hours if he is to be the new manager of St Johnstone. Talks between him and the club began last week and are continuing, but a decision is expected shortly.

10/2/2001

CELTIC SUPPORTERS IDENTIFIED & BANNED

Celtic have withdrawn the season ticket of 32-year-old David Munro from Johnstone in a decision that shouldp please most fans. Munro admitted making the sick taunt during Sundays game and has said sorry to the club and is also writing a letter to apologise to Claudio Reyna.