Fate intervenes in football regularly. Friday, 21 April, marks the 100th anniversary of Celtic’s UK record of 62 league games unbeaten finally ending. Willie Maley’s team won 49 of the 62 games, but took their eye off the ball on the second last game of a long season, at home to Kilmarnock.
The run stood as a European record for 70 years until the great Steaua Bucharest European Cup winning team eclipsed it.
While we will remember one of the early great Celtic teams, with Patsy Gallacher, Alec McNair and Jimmy McMenemy, thoughts inevitably turn to the tantalising prospect of an unbeaten record which would be just as incredible – that of an invincible domestic treble.
100 years and two days after Maley’s team’s great run came to an end, Brendan Rodgers’ team put their aspirations on the line in the Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden. The weight of history will not burden Brendan or the players, but Sunday is a great opportunity to mark the passing of one incredible record by setting your sights on another.
Great records happen at Celtic. It’s time for another one.
I’ve no axe to grind with Dundee one way or another. Completely understood the decision to sack Paul Hartley. Whatever was going on, the prospect of relegation after losing a play-off against Dundee United was looming large, but good grief, appointing a rookie from the television!
Apart from saying, “Don’t take tax advice from an adult film producer”, I can’t imagine what else he will tell the players with any authority.
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Weebawbabitty
Yes, eldest brother is 56 mate
Bet365 go 7/1 Sevco, 2/5 the good guys.
Serdar Tascin ,of Turkish decent and has played for Germany.How good he is,no idea.
jc2
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jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on 20th April 2017 12:29 pm
jc2
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Had Schalk been booked for his dive, his yellow card offence against Broonie (a minute after compounding his cheating by robbing Celtic of two points) would have seen him dismissed from the field of play. Broonie would have then been unable to take the opportunity to do to even things up by fouling him back, and would not therefore have been sent off himself.
The point that Ross County gained as a result of Schalk’s cheating could yet see Ross County stay in the SPL at another club’s expense, costing that other club potentially millions of pounds. And the loss of two points by Celtic could see them miss out on setting an all time record for the highest number points EVER accumulated in a Scottish league season, surpassing anything previously achieved in 127 years of Scottish football history.
The incidental minor gain enjoyed by Motherwell and ICT, if there is indeed any such gain at all (RC will still field 11 players in those games), is largely irrelevant compared to the aforementioned two scenarios.
It was in fact anything but relatively insignificant in terms of potential impacts, and the victims of these actions should indeed have redress.
The only fair outcome would have been to annul the penalty, and therefore RC’s second goal, this awarding a 2-1 win and all the points to Celtic, and to retrospectively penalise Schalk with a yellow card for the dive, and therefore consequently upgrade his actual yellow card to red.
Only when the relevant authorities are prepared to take such actions against cheats, will such behaviour be eradicated from the game.
Not had time to comment on here for a wee while! (still lurk)
What strikes me with MSM comments on referee comments is that they are always taken in isolation then they can be construed as honest mistakes.
In my opinion refereeing has gone backwards with the appointment of Pierluigi Collina as head of referees. There is an arrogance that throwing more officials at games will resolve issues whilst evidence continues to stack up that this is a failed policy.
Personally won’t be a Hampden this week as fed up leaving it feeling cheated.
HH
TIME FOR CHANGE
Good points there.
Maybe Collina is there to help ensure the fix?
He was held in high esteem as a ref.
Anyone who appoints Dallas has to be aware of his bigotry and cheating so he would be suspect.
The last few seasons the stench from Champions league games has risen.
The fines dished out to smaller nations while favored big clubs are ignored for worse.
The recent fine for Celtic against city was the result of allowing a prejudiced hun from Northern Ireland to be match supervisor.His jaundiced vision only saw fault in green despite many reports of City fans attacking Celtic supporters.The ref also did his part by ignoring a stonewall penalty for Celtic to ensure cash rich City qualified.
UEFA are short sited greedy bass’s who will come crawling to teams like Celtic,Ajax.Benfica when their elite plan crashes and burns and the rich patrons abandon it.