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Article: Celts need to get a reality cheque.(Sport)
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- August 19, 2009
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Byline: by STEPHEN McGOWAN
THEY rolled up in numbers in the cushioned, expensive seats; the scouts, the spies, the managers. At Celtic Park, expensive jewellery and wafting cologne were much in evidence last night.
Like human vultures, they were there to pick on the bones of Celtic's anticipated Champions League demise. The Parkhead side may have performed one miracle in Moscow. What follows now, surely, is let-down in London. And an expensive one at that.
Let the Premier League gloating begin. For Scottish football, the mood of all-enveloping gloom now threatens to become all pervasive. A vicious verbal beating from south of the border will ...