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Heroes & Villains => Match Threads & Player Ratings => Topic started by: Louzie0 on January 27, 2025, 10:43:16 AM
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Welcome to GUESS THE CROWD Round 18; The last of 8 League fixtures in 🏆 Champions League 24/25! Hurrah!
ASTON VILLA host Celtic in the first meeting of these two famous old clubs since a friendly back in 2009, so let’s give them a game to remember!
KO is at 8 pm at Villa Park on Wednesday night. Fàilte, Celtic! 😃 🥧
Wiki on Celtic
The Celtic Football Club, commonly known as Celtic is a professional football club in Glasgow, Scotland. The team competes in the Scottish Premiership, the top division of Scottish football. The club was founded in 1887 with the purpose of alleviating poverty in the Irish–Scots population in the city's East End area. They played their first match in May 1888, a friendly match against Rangers which Celtic won 5–2. Celtic established themselves within Scottish football, winning six successive league titles during the first decade of the 20th century. The club enjoyed their greatest successes during the 1960s and 70s under Jock Stein, when they won nine consecutive league titles and the 1967 European Cup. Celtic have played in green and white throughout their history, adopting in 1903 the hoops that have been used ever since.
Celtic are one of only six clubs in the world to have won over 100 trophies, with 119 major honours as of 2024, the most of any European club. The club has won the Scottish league championship 54 times, most recently in 2023–24, the Scottish Cup a record 42 times and the Scottish League Cup 22 times. The club's greatest season was 1966–67, when Celtic became the first British team to win the European Cup, also winning the Scottish league championship, the Scottish Cup, the League Cup and the Glasgow Cup. Celtic also reached the 1970 European Cup Final and the 2003 UEFA Cup Final, losing in both.
But apart from that, they’re nothing special…
Time for Unai’s vision, experience, expertise and legendary commitment to thorough preparation. We’ll need it!
Once again, we look forward to the Bonus known as...Emery’s Extras!... so let’s hope all our chaps have their scoring boots 🥾 on.
The Brucie Bonus is wild until KO on Wednesday evening. COYVB!!!👍
Remember,
Only your first guess counts, and
Please don’t edit your post. Thanks.
Anybody can join Guess The Crowd 🥧 by guessing the number of the total attendance (the crowd) at VP for the match v ‘The Bhoys’ and posting your Guess in here, before KO!!!👍
We’re 9th in the Champions League. They’re sitting 18th. Here’s hoping the Villa bring it! 😎🙏🏼🤞
UTV!
Louzie0
There’s a new figure for the capacity of VP since last summer; the current FA Handbook for 2024/25 has it as 42,918, which is up by about 270 odd from last year.
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40404
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41756
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42,365
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42,111
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41,874
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41,875
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41,727
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42,278
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42,547
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42,350
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42,377
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42,189
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42,345
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42,387
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42,222
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42,176
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41986
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41930
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42,004
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41982
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42,117
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42,377
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42,400
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42,250
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42294
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42389
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41843
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42179
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42,150
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42667
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42,351
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42223
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BBC: 42, 824
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Results from GTC Round 18!
ASTON VILLA 4 ( Rogers 3m, 5m, 90+1m; Watkins 60m) : Them 2
Emery’s Extras 4 = 8
8 Louzie0! 😎
6 ironmaidenmania! 😃
3 AV82EC, thick_mike, VillaTim, dave shelley, TelfordVilla, JD, ldavfc4eva, maidstonevillain, beness! 😁
2 Rotterdam, Rotterdam 82, simon ward 50, KNVillan, Villa Lew, frank, simboy, Caribbeanvillan, nordenvillain, 260475, edgysatsuma89, Towser, Nunkin1965, Godfrey Brian, Fasth56, mjlions, Skerra, littleoldme! 😃
1 sid1964, devilla, Legion! 😁
FIX! 🍰
Apart from Emery’s Extras giving my total a bit of a boost ( ooh er missus) there’s ironmaidenmania getting 6 points this round, and 9 teams all on 3 points, loads of you on 2 points and those with the point for entering - so well played, all! 👍🎉
Stand by for GTC Round 19 for Sunday’s FACup clash which is launching imminently in Heroes Discussion 🚀
UTV!
Louzie0