Jammy Arsenal got an easy draw against Celtic in the Champions League play-off round.
Celtic v Arsenal is on Sky 7.45pm on Tuesday, August 18.
So William Gallas will be in Scotland on his birthday, the 17th.
Celtic are a pedestrian outfit and Arsenal should cruise through to the Group Stage.
The Bhoys have never met Arsenal in European competition, so this is a massive challenge for them.
Uefa have revamped the format to allow more champions from smaller countries to go through, with fewer also-rans from bigger countries, who now eliminate each other in this round.
The revamp means teams taking what Uefa now call The champions path or The non-champions path. That’s what Celtic and Arsenal have in common. Both are non-champions.
The clubs last met in a pre-season friendly in 2003 at Parkhead, when Jens Lehmann made his debut.
What a superb bargain Lehmann was. Wenger only had £1.5 million to spend on a goalkeeper and he signed the best £1.5 million keeper in the world and Lehmann became an Invincible and got them to Paris, where he was sent off after 18 minutes. Lehmann had personality and balls. He was the finest keeper in the Champions League that season. He was so good that three girls from ZDF came round to interview me for German television and I sat on a white bench in the garden while they filmed me talking (in English ) about Lehmann and his rival Oliver Kahn. It was really quite bizarre, I could not understand why they wanted someone as obscure as me, and had no desire to be on television, even abroad. Myles, an old English beatnik, overdubbed into German, captioned, broadcast into millions of houses in Deutschland?
The whole notion was surreal, fantastical, like something that might happen in a parallel universe.
Was that only three years ago? It seems like eight or nine years ago.