Well, Celtic might be without Boruc after pulling out of Saturday's game against Aberdeen. Boruc reportedly felt some pain while warming up so was replaced with back-up goalkeeper Mark Brown.
On reading this I looked into the Shakhtar Donetsk team to take some relief from their problems and I hit the jackpot, almost. At the weekend the champions of Ukraine could only manage a draw against the league's bottom club, Neftyanik, and this was made all the sweeter by their record signing Nery Castillo who, when awarded a penalty, refused to give the ball to their regular penalty taker, Lucarelli, and hit the ball straight at the goalkeeper.
The Shakhtar Donetsk manager, Lucescu, was left absolutely raging on the sidelines and it looks like Castillo won't be playing against Celtic, or again for the club.
I quote Lucescu, "
He has shown by his actions that he doesn't want to play here and that nothing interests him, that kind of behaviour is beyond all possible acceptable boundaries."
For anyone going to the game though:
Quote:
Celtic Football Club is to pay respect to the 100 miners who were killed in the recent mine blast in the Donetsk region of Ukraine.
Before the start of this Wednesday's UEFA Champions League match between Celtic and Shakhtar Donetsk there will be one minute's applause to remember all the men who died in the tragedy.
The disaster, which happened last week, is the worst in the country's recent history. After the tragedy, the Ukraine observed three official days of mourning. A government commission has since been set up to find out what happened.
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That's a really nice touch, and reminds me of the game against Barcelona just after the train bombings over in Spain a few years ago.
Back to the football, I can only hope we maintain our home form in the Champions League and can get a win against Shakhtar to keep our challenge alive. 1-0, or 2-1 for Celtic.
