Today’s photo of the day sticks with the theme of European away matches. It dates back to 3 March 2004, and shows a section of the Celtic support in Teplice.
The Hoops lost the match 1-0, but prevailed in the tie courtesy of a 3-0 victory in the home leg.
The image has provoked a lot of nostalgic discussion on social media. The common themes are that it was absolutely freezing, the area outside the stadium was like an ice rink, and that the town had little to offer except extremely cheap beer which was favourable with the majority of the Celtic faithful! There was even memories of a power cut inside the stadium, which delayed kick off by ten minutes. (You can enjoy the comments in the thread beneath the embedded tweet below)
Martin O’Neill said of the support: “If anything proved that we have some real die-hard supporters, that game in Teplice did it for me. We had more than 4,000 people turn up for it and that’s quite extraordinary.”