Celtic v Rapid Vienna's infamous crunch match

aww can we keep him :icon_mrgreen: cheers mate always a * way to introduce yourself

 

Well if you would have read my earlier post, you would know that my Fiancee is from Dundalk,which is in Ireland (you *) where i live.
So , what do you think , which Team do people follow here (you *).When i was reading some of your forums (Rapid Vienna Forums that is) i really start to look forward to this game, its gonna be a lot of fun. When you come over (you *) make sure you behave in normal manner and you gonna be fine.
Hail Hail :bbpd:

 

bit of a * arent we

 

completley and utterley. a right dingus!

 

I feel much better now

So mates, I have a question, which striker is considered the best, or the most famous at Celtic football club? Is it Henrik Larsson? Well this guy scored far more than 150 goals or?

Now I am quite sure, that we will experience 180 minutes of fights on the pitch, where 11 green - whites form Glasgow will encounter 11 green- whites from Vienna, and the better team will pick up the points

Great or not? Football with emotions, shouting and cheering supporters, but no teeth will be left on the street, coz the were removed by a terrible fan fight or?

 

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jd5gqEkbErQ[/YOUTUBE]

 

what a cheating * !

 

Heard this game is moving to the national stadium because there has been a massive amount of ticket requests, more than what their stadium can hold.


If it gets a bit hairy watch your backs people. Stay safe

 

villa should have pumped them

 

i think the level of bitterness towards the RV club is down to how badly cheated we felt. back in 84 we were flying in europe we were looking good. the fact that rapid eventually got to the final was a sickener but at least everton did us a turn. i reckon we were good enough to get to the final. however i do believe we also would have lost to everton like RV did, as everton were magnificent that season.

 

Echoes my sentiments totally.

 

aye everton team during that period were awesome would have won the european cup only the english teams were banned the following year!

 

never read so much crap in ma life lol no disrespect to other rapid fans but this guy is saying we have poor record in europe our run to seville we played incredibly away and we have made it twice to the last sixteen of champions league albit no group away wins but look at the teams we have beaten at home and to mention your league is better than ours is nonesense i dnt remember the last time a austrian club was in the last sixteen lol i remember when the last time a scottish club was and two scottish clubs making it to the uefa cup final eg celtic in seville 2003 and rangers in manchester 08 so please take a minute before you write so much nonsense in a thread

 

Yes, you should be.

What a load of rubbish. Just wait and see mate. Yes limited the best way to describe yourselves and your methods of winning. Cheating.

 

Taking the *

 

First of all, thanks to ScottishGhirl for posting that vid.

Now, I'm a Rapid Vienna fan; ever been since I entered this world. Which means my views probably won't be any less biased than yours. Still I'd like to point out some things most (not all) Celtic supporters seem to have forgotten conveniently.

Let's have a look at that vid (#107). Celtic went 2-0 up, deservedly as far as I remember that night. From there, if things hadn't escalated, Celtic probably would have gone through on away goals - we'll never know.

Well then, stop the vid at 2:14 and watch what happened next. It's blinding obvious that our 'keeper had his hands on the ball before Tommy Burns ever got there. So, no, it wasn't a "loose ball" as so many Celtic fans insist. Instead it was a reckless, brutal two-footed lunge at our 'keeper that left him bleeding from Burns' studs.

Not only wasn't Burns sent right off the pitch, he was even allowed to score a goal that never should have stood. You see, that's the moment most Rapid fans remember when they think of that infamous match. And that's why Burns got kicked by our 'keeper, and punched by Kienast. The entire game might have taken a different direction had the ref disallowed that goal and sent Burns off - alas, we'll never know that either.

Don't get me wrong - not only Kienast but also Ehn (the 'keeper) should have been sent off for their actions, but you see, it's Burns who started it, and as a Catholic I hope he repented and confessed in time.

Now, to the Weinhofer incident. Apparently many Celtic fans have fond memories of seeing the bottle (sg.) fly and miss Weinhofer by yards/miles/whatever. Have you all forgotten that it wasn't just the one bottle, but many, and also not only bottles but also coins, lighters etc.? This alone should have sufficed to abandon the game and hand Rapid a 3-0 victory.

I suppose the only person in the world to really know whether something hit him or not is Weinhofer himself. If he wasn't hit then he's a cheat and a disgrace to the entire club. However, Rapid Vienna maintain to this day that he was hit by a "Gegenstand" i.e. an "object" - probably a coin.

I know there's nothing like a long-held grudge, and I know how many Celtic fans must feel - exactly the way we would have felt had Celtic got their way. You didn't win that match "fair and square", you won it thanks to an incompetent ref and foul play. (I haven't even mentioned Peter Grant's disgraceful deliberate stamp on a Rapid player's head! - much like Adebayor recently did to van Persie.)

My feeling is that in the end, with the UEFA ruling and the re-match we won at Old Trafford, justice was done; and no doubt most, if not all, Rapid fans will feel the same.

I'm not in a position to judge whether that Celtic side was one of the best ever, however I do know that our side was one of the best in the club's history, with Krankl, Panenka, Kranjcar (father of Nico) and Brucic. It was the season when we lost 0-3 away to Dynamo Dresden, only to win the second leg at home 5-0. When we played Everton in the final, Panenka was missing injured and Brucic suspended (a yellow card too many in the semis), and without our two central players we didn't really stand a chance.

Well, so much for history. I do hope our upcoming encounters won't take a nasty turn again. I reckon Celtic are favourites in Glasgow, and Rapid in Vienna. We're hard to beat at home.

One last remark: some Celtic fans said that Rapid are a bunch of divers; that's what they saw when Rapid played Villa. I'll tell you something: at Villa park there was one diver on the pitch, his name was Ashley Young, and he played for Villa. Two ridiculous penalties, that's all I say.

Thanks for reading this novel ,

Green-white regards,
Luke

P.S.: Our hue of green is nicer than yours

 

I see there point about the Tommy Burns goal. kinda anyway. We would have been * if that goal was allowed against us. But that's football, you get decisions and you don't.


Pretending you get hit by bottles which have been shown don't hit you though....that is NOT FOOTBALL.

The more banter back and forth on here the more I'm up for this game next week. Over these 2 legs we can maybe put at least a wee bit of that awful memory to bed by beating these bastids at parkhead and away (fingers crossed).

In the immortal words of Kevin Keegan, "I would love it if we beat them".

Hail Hail!

 

COMPLETE AND UTTER * BOLLOCKS. And not true. Rapid were blatantly seen to have cheated and CHANGED their story accordingly. First it was a bottle. The change to the 'coin' lies came later.
That is historical FACT mein freund.

Now you really are taking the *?

JUSTICE??? GTF?

Like KKK lynch mob justice from a kangaroo court maybe

Aye, right. My veggie * in parsely.

 

Speaking of Old Trafford I suppose? :icon_mrgreen:

Ah, and don't call us all Nazis. We don't call you English either.