Football Daily | Borussia Dortmund dish out another Champions League beatdown

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Travelling to Germany with his team having won nine games on the bounce in all competitions, Brendan Rodgers was understandably bullish ahead of Celtic’s Bigger Cup match against Borussia Dortmund. His team had conceded only four goals all season while scoring 33, with just under half that tally coming in their past three outings, against St Johnstone, Falkirk and Slovan Bratislava. Having seen off such exalted opposition with a minimum of fuss, it was small wonder that Rodgers talked up the new “mindset, belief and experience” that he felt would help his side as Celtic attempted to secure their first competitive victory on German soil in 15 attempts.

I don’t want to put too much pressure on us but I do think that this is the year” – Bukayo Saka, there, not in any way turning up the heat on his teammates by predicting Arsenal’s 21-year wait to win the Premier League will end this season.

Sergei Baltacha looks mightily p!ssed off to have to stand next to that (oddly filthy) Lada Samara (yesterday’s Memory Lane – full email version). He no doubt thought he’d left the damn things behind in Ukraine. He was probably ready to jump into his Peugeot 205 GTi in the background when everyone had got off. The Samara was awful, the previous boxy Riva was actually a better vehicle, and the Niva 4×4 was very underrated. They should have got him one of those if they wanted him to crack a smile or even actually drive it. Also, without snark, I found yesterday’s lead piece very amusing, and the mention of Jemeni in that context made me laugh out loud, at work” – Jon Millard.

Noble Francis can complain all he wants (yesterday’s Football Daily letters) that the Football Daily deciders are against him whenever there’s a prize on offer, but I actually managed to win a precious book over a year ago, and yet here I am, checking the post every day, in the adorably naïve hope that I might finally receive it. Is there, perhaps, some rule I missed that Football Daily prizes must take 1,057 days to arrive?” – Mac Millings (we’ll be in touch).

Has targeting Noble Francis been declared a small scale industry already? Is he the most targeted person after Mikel Arteta today in the football world?” – Krishna Moorthy.

Once again Football Daily gets it completely wrong. Those weren’t PSG Ultras mobbing outside Football Daily Towers (yesterday’s News, Bits and Bobs). They were all disaffected prizeless letter o’ the day posters come to make their feelings known after cruelly and unexpectedly failing to win a prize yet again. Just what sort of clearly heavily AI-assisted/random email generator evil methods are you using down there? And yes, that’s what we all look like in real life. PS: if you look closely you can just about make out me in the photo, trying to look well ‘ard, wearing a super-sodden black hoodie and showcasing my pretty vacant stare, despite the sunglasses – oh” – Steve Malone.

John Stones is ‘100% ready’ to replace Rodri, eh? [yesterday’s News, Bits and Bobs]. For what it’s worth, so am I. Ooh, pick me, Pep!” – Mike Wilner.

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