Celtic UCL reinstatement: The funniest tweets

THE league season hasn’t even started and we’ve already had one of the biggest breaking news stories in Scottish football this campaign.
A famous night. Picture: SNSA famous night. Picture: SNS
A famous night. Picture: SNS

Celtic are back in Champions League group stage contention after UEFA found Legia Warsaw guilty of fielding an ineligible player in their 2-0 win at Murrayfield on Wednesday, sending the Scottish champions through to the next round.

Unsurprisingly it caused quite a stir on social media with Twitter, as it tends to do, going into the proverbial meltdown.

Here’s our Twitter inspired round-up of today’s events:

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The story had been brewing since last night and there was a lot of activity on Scottish football related timelines this morning when the bomb dropped...

STV Sport @STVSport

Celtic reinstated in Champions League play-offs after Legia forfeit.

The rules state that punishment for fielding an ineligible player is an automatic 3-0 defeat, meaning Celtic advanced on away goals. Some were diplomatic in their reaction...

Ronnie MacKay @RonnieMacKay

Anyone saying their club wouldn’t accept a reprieve is lying. Rules are rules.

Tom English @TomEnglishSport

This Legia business is pretty dramatic. Embarrassing for Celtic to progress despite their shellacking, but the rules are there for a reason.

Others didn’t share such passiveness since the punishment had been so extreme when compared to an apparent precedent laid down in 2010...

Andrew Gibney @Gibney_A

IMO what Legia did was the same as Debrecen 4 yeas ago. They got a fine and remained in the competition. Why is this different?

The Away End @TheAwayEnd

Celtic reinstated after UEFA discover they have a bigger fan base and media appeal than the team who outplayed them twice.

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Celtic fans, to their credit, were generally a little sheepish in celebrating, while reserving unbridled joy until the situation is completely resolved...

We Are @Celtic @celtic

Listen. Nobody is saying we weren’t jammy, but we’ll take it.

Hail Hail@CelticNews @celticnews

The decision to reinstate Celtic to the CL is open to an appeal by Legia Warsaw within 5 days, this isn’t a done deal.

And then, inevitably, the jokes started...

Craig Anderson @craig_killie

Deila vu.

Ewen Kerr @ewenkerr

Oscar Pistorius stripped of medals. UEFA give them to Celtic.

Narey’s Toepoker @Nareystoepoker

I understand that Celtic have proven that sometimes it really is the taking part that counts

And on they went...

Football Clichés @FootballCliches

Celtic unceremoniously dumped back into Europe.

Pie and Bovril @pieandbov

Frantic phone calls currently being made to Glasgow Airport to stop Fraser Forster boarding his FlyBe flight to Southampton.

Paul @pault1888

At least I can say I was there to see the winning substitution.

And on, and on, and on...

Martin Samuel @themartinsamuel

Legia Warsaw are set to appeal their expulsion from the Champions League, claiming Celtic fielded 11 incompetent players.

Alistair Darling (parody) @A_DarlingMP

Embarrassment for Salmond as Celtic reinstated to the Champions League. The uncertainty of being in, out, in Europe isn’t helpful. #indyref

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