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When Martin O'Neill and Gordon Strachan were trying to describe the effect of 55,000 Celtic fans turning up at Parkhead last Tuesday evening for a charity match, they reached for the same analogy: It was just like a European night, they said. Something about the passion of the support, the mood of the occasion, felt familiar to them. "It was special," O'Neill said quietly.
Having played in European ties for Celtic himself, Neil Lennon will understand the sentiment. But he knows well enough how those occasions can also turn out to be agonising. "It still annoys me," he says sharply about his team's 4-0 loss away to Utrecht last season. "We didn't do ourselves justice on the night." Twelve months ago, Celtic were a team in transition, as the manager attempted to integrate several new signings at once. They were undone by a slicker, more coherent side; but now it is Celtic who are the settled team and their midweek opponents who are undergoing a radical overhaul.See the full content of this document
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; Lennon Out to Recreate European Feel-Good Factor
Sion expect to be able to include all of their six new signings - Gabri, Jose Goncalves, Mario Mutsch, Billy Ketkeophomphone, Stefan Glarner and Pascal Feindou...
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