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  1. BrahimHemdani
    The match officials have to check that the names on the team sheets correspond with the players' passports, whilst the match delegtate is there to report on the match itself and I don't think he would have a list of suspended players. In any event it is the responsibility of each Club to ensure that all the players they list are eligible to play. If the delegate did have a list and was charged with that responsibility, which I doubt, then presumably he would have indicated that the player was not eligible as soon as he checked the team sheet, so the situation would not have arisen. I don't know what other "backroom staff" might be in attendance or what their roles might be. I assume that there must be some central checking system or it is entirely possible that UEFA rely on the other team in match to protest if they check and find an issue, as happens in domestic football. Has there been any information on how this was discovered? If it's on the Legia web site, did they self report? There is still nothing on the UEFA web site and they are currently listing Legia Warszawa in the CL Champions Route play-off matches. If there is a genuine issue then it will have to be resolved by 10.00CET because Celtic would be seeded whereas Legia are not, so they cannot put in an either/or in the draw. Ludogorets Razgrad of Bulgaria, surprise conquerors of Partizan Belgrade on two away goals are interested parties because if Celtic go into the draw as seeds then they will drop down to the non-seeds. Rather than postpone or run the risk of a re-draw, it may well be that if the issue cannot be decided before 10.00 CET then UEFA will simply say that Celtic would take Legia's place as an unseeded team if they are awarded the tie. They could hardly complain given the actual result but could then find themselves up against Steaua Bucuresti or Bate Borisov, neither of which would be an appealing prospect I suspect. Celtic may actually prefer the ELQ4 route to the EL Group stages, as I said earlier, it should present a negotiable tie and a tough but not impossible group; both of which might be better than a difficult CLQ4 tie with the very real possibility of humiliation were they to reach the CL Group stages. However, as Rangersitis rightly points out below, a defeat in the CLQ4 would see Celtic parachute into the EL Group stage anyway. This all seems very unlikely however, I expect the result to stand.
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    I think Celtic will play in the ELQ4 and will probably qualify for the group stages, where they will be in Pot 2 but will find it tough going with the likes of Everton, Hull and Sociedad in Pot 3 and even Partizan Belgrade, Feyenoord and Torino in Pot 4. Oddly there is a possible rematch with Legia as well, not sure if that would be allowed.
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    I think you will be correct; but it seems really odd that Legia and indeed the player, allowed it to happen?
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    I don't see anything about a case being opened on the UEFA web site. The only current things about Legia are: Legia run ten-man Celtic ragged; and Legia ease past Celtic and into play-offs
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    Actually it wouldn't make any immediate difference, so far as I know they wouldn't get anything unless perhaps they were awarded the match itself; but I'd need to look that up. It's then simply a case of being in the CLQ4 where they would be seeded; with Maribor & Malmo by coincidence, as well as their 2008 nemesis Aalborg, Slovan Bratislava and the Bulgarians, Ludogorets Razgrad as possible opponents; or the ELQ4 where they would also be seeded and have along list of possible opponents none of whom have a third of Celtic's points, so they would probably fancy that better in truth, because they SHOULD beat any team on the other side of that draw. That said Legia didn't have half their points and still wiped them out.
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    Must have got the girl friend's visa sorted then, straight into the team on Sunday methinks
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    I don't think the current Board is the concern, well not the major concern anyway.
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    Price is down a tad today at 30.50p. What I'm hearing (as reported a couple of weeks ago) is that some of the investors that, like you, I thought would stay for the SPL/Europe bounce in the medium term at least, have lost patience with everything that has been going on and want out.
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    Thank you very much for that. I have taken a lot of stick on here and on European trips even became known as Mr Coefficient for taking the stance that all Scottish Clubs playing in Europe are in it together; I have often been met with we'll be fine on our own and don't need to rely on others to help us, jibes. But in truth the opposite is true. Celtic's performances in 2002-03 & 2003-04 pushed Scotland to 9th/10th place and helped Scottish Clubs for the next five years as did Rangers European run in 2007-08 (10th again), to give just two examples. As things stand right now, the combined efforts of Aberdeen, Motherwell, St Johnstone and Celtic have amassed a meagre 7 points in the qualifiers, for an average of 1.75; which is just about half our running average for the past five years (the period taken into account in the coefficient rankings); and Scotland's worst performance for exactly 20 years when Lou Macari's Celtic didn't even qualify and we went out in the Qualifying Round of the CL beaten home and away by AEK Athens. Those well known footballing nations of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan have more points than us this season and even Liechtenstein, whose only entrants FC Valduz won two and drew one in the qualifiers, have a better average than us. That shows the level Scottish football is at right now.
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    It might be that it was part up front and part on playing a certain number of games or at the end of the season and we are offering a discount to get it all now; much like Hearts did for Wallace on a bigger scale. I would expect the directors to explore every avenue to improve our cashflow, nothing untoward about that. Yet another "success" for the don't buy a ST campaigners.
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    I don't know who the new vultures are at this point. I think it was more that I saw Green as the best show in town at the time and I certainly wasn't alone in that. Thanks for the link but I'm more into the American Civil War and other history than ornithology or at least the type of ornithology that you have in mind.
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    Tend to agree; two more Scottish defeats coming up tonight. To be fair to Aberdeen they already have 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 defeat and have accumulated the same number of points, 3.5, as the rest of our teams put together. Must be a long time since it wasn't an old firm team saying that.
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    Well I can see where you're coming from but my logic tells me it's only 1.5 mins "wasted" i.e. 2.0 - 0.5. Not sure that it's necessarily the case that an independent timekeeper would add more time than the match referee, there might well be circumstances where a referee adjudges time wasting, say by a goalkeeper taking a goal kick, when the independent judge would be reluctant to add any time.
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    The stoppages certainly suit the TV advertising and often particularly in the Superbowl artificial stoppages are created and the players just have to stand around for the advertising. I'm not sure that the game was designed that way but you may well be correct.
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    Glad you're taking a light hearted view and don't forget the men from Aberdeen and Perth; but I'm sleeping with my tin hat on.
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    Don't get your logic at all on this. Surely the game would take longer if an independent time keeper added more time than the ref and the difference in your examples is 2 minutes not 2 mins 30 secs anyway? In any event I don't agree that having an independent timekeeper would change the time it takes for substitutions or injuries or time wasting.
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    Been considered and rejected many times in the past; I think because football/soccer is fundamentally different from American Football where most times the end of each play creates a natural stoppage in the play. It wouldn't stop time wasting at all; it would just take it out of the referee's judgement; in fact it might increase it for that very reason.
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    It's a desperately bad night for Celtic, beaten comprehensively by a team 35 places below them in the coefficient rankings; but it's also (and I know some hate to acknowledge it) a desperately bad night for Scottish football and no doubt worse to follow tomorrow. There are a lot of banana skins in the ELQ4: Torino, Feyenoord, Partizan Belgrade, Dynamo Moscow etc but IF they were to get through that (and I dount even the most diehard Celtic fan would be betting on it right now) then they would be seeded in Pot 2 in the Group stages and have a chance of a decent campaign (and here again I know that wouldn't please many). We are already in a situation where countries like Austria, Israel and Cyprus are way above us (24th) in the rankings and we are in danger of dropping below the likes of Bulgaria, Norway and Serbia to 27th which would mean that even the team that finishes 2nd in the SPL would start in Q1 of the EL.
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    The referee has to be in control of what's happening on the field of play; supposing the player going off or the one coming on takes a swipe at at an opponent, then it's going to be down to the 4th official. Sorry just don't like it.
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    I think we'll see them soon enough.
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    Sources tell me tonight that new investors are being sought. Much as I can say at this point. What I don't get, is that it is now absolutely wide open for King and it's entirely possible that he is very active in the background but lets face it it would be unusual for him to keep quiet about it; or for that matter his acolytes in the UoF/SoS/RST. GS and others will be pleased to know that I think the end game is in sight. Whether the grass is greener........ is quite another matter.
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    Take it from me, it's hard enough to referee a football match without players running off and on without your knowledge.
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    You'd be down to 10 men then. No stoppage implies one goes off and the other goes on at the same time; chaos ensues. There's a reason why players aren't allowed to run off and on the park, unless through accident; the reason is it would cause mayhem.
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    I hear the vultures are circling.
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    Yes it worked really well in the World Cup and is being adopted in the EPL this season and no doubt in other top leagues. Only issue I have with it is it has to be clear if the players must stand behind the line i.e. not touching it at all, as it was noticeabale after the first few WC matches that players started to stand on top of, then more or less in front of the line; taking their queue from the rule as it applies to other lines on the pitch.
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