The photo above, of queues out the door of the Celtic Ticket Office this morning, are a consequence of what happened 49 years ago today in the photo below.
It is impossible to overstate the cultural, sporting and social impact of this event on millions of lives. You are in for a year of unadulterated indulgence. Enjoy every minute of it and if you meet a Lisbon Lion, make sure he hears what he did for you.
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Have no idea where the blog wanders anymore.
Thanks Winning Captains, I’ve received the books I ordered to boost the campaign via a friendly neighbour and I appreciate the extra annual.
My sister persuaded me to renew in 143 and I stood 90 minutes at the ticket office today for her, so our seats are set.
We’ve been told the advert is held back a week which takes the campaign beyond the club’s season ticket renewal campaign.
Casting no aspersions, an ordinary Celtic supporter waits four years for a call for a public inquiry into the corrupt SFA and then two turn up in a month.
You’d think that was good, except the inquiry I’ve paid to promote hasn’t made it past the lawyers yet.
Celtic forever, CQN never.
TinyTim on 25th May 2016 10:03 pm
Evening TT
Hoop your well?
Packie was a fine servant but he is now a soup taker of the highest order, IMO.
Was at a Greenock CSC night recently and all he talked about was Rangers this and Rangers that, and how we need them back. He had definitely bought into the same club myth.
Was disappointed with him
HH
CRC
Not keen on the ‘first British club to win the big cup’ thing.
Reality is Celtic were the first team north of the Alps to do it!
Quite fitting really. Not for the first time in history the first people to stop the Latin dominance of Europe were The Celts!!
GORDON on 25TH MAY 2016 10:23 PM….That explains it then…thank you.
Apricale, sorry, you were right…
I was only three and a half when we won the big cup so I have no memories of the occasion. I doubt the match was shown here as there was only one tv channel at the time. I didn’t start supporting Celtic until 1972 but it wasn’t until around 1980 that I began to realise the strong connection between Celtic and Ireland. I have no family connection with Celtic, I just fell in love with the name when I first saw it! I was in my twenties before I knew we had won the European Cup and the first match I attended in Scotland was in 1994.
Latestartercsc
CRC
You were going to send me an email?
Wall of silence to come crashing down?
Neil Cameron @NeilCameron5 13m13 minutes ago
So I have interviewed these guys @theoffshoregame for @heraldscotland. In tomorrow. We talk Rangers, tax, stripped titles and loopholes.
CRC
You were going to send me an email as well??
Ambush CSC
BIG TAM – LEGEND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsCOydsjBmg
Celticrollercoaster, TinyTim and others:
It’s an interesting point you raise.
I recently did the Celtic Park stadium tour. The ex-player was Evan Williams and he was funny, entertaining, and an absolute gentleman to the ladies including Mrs Fieldofdrams. Still a twinkle in his eye, and a great sense of Celtic’s place in the game, with due respect not only to the rivalry with Rangers (1872) but with Aberdeen, Dundee Utd and others.
The other guide – not an ex-player – put everything ‘Celtic’ in the context of rivalry with Rangers. It was very narrow and damn depressing.
I’d much prefer us to define ourselves BY ourselves and not by others. There’s such a positive story to tell and we don’t need to define it in terms of a rivalry with an ex-club.
As Paul67 has said – any part of my club that is dependent on (any incarnation of) Rangers is a part I can live without.
Hail Hail, good times ahead for us!
Guy….,
You never paid for an inquiry, you supported a request for one, paying for ad that highlights injustice is not the same as paying for an inquiry.
Now if you think because you contributed either financially or vocally that you deserve better, then you really need to examine your own sense of entitlement, honestly, as you and everyone else were told from day one, getting this right is far more important than any individuals perceived selfrighteous demands for satisfaction.
The priority is getting the submission to UEFA right, the ad is icing on the cake, expensive icing granted but icing all the same.
Anybody else want an email? -)
Thanks CRC
No, but I sent you a text :-)
SENOR PABLO DIABLO on 25TH MAY 2016 10:43 PM
Wall of silence to come crashing down?
Neil Cameron @NeilCameron5 13m13 minutes ago
So I have interviewed these guys @theoffshoregame for @heraldscotland. In tomorrow. We talk Rangers, tax, stripped titles and loopholes.
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Good, I’m a bit worried the TJN report will be buried under the Brendan Rodgers coverage and SC Final investigation.
GUYFAWKESAFOREVERHERO
The work that the Res 12 guys have done is quite remarkable. BRTH has a superb legal mind and Auldheid is an absolute authority of the rules of the game.
You could not buy this expertise in and we have had it for free. We are truly blessed.
The point of the Newspaper Statement is to give the Res 12 a wider platform, create interest beyond those who already know about it and hopefully to influence.
However the main agenda is what the purpose of Res 12 is and we can’t lose sight of that.
The ads are in English and Swiss newspapers. We haggled for decent discounts but they were very expensive. This has been crowd funded from CQN but fans of other clubs have also chipped in including Hearts and Aberdeen.
The first Statements will appear next Wednesday so not long to wait.
Hope you enjoy your books.
Almore @ 10.36….better late than never… :-)
Happy big cup day CQN.
Thanks to TG for gracing us with his presence and greater thanks for what he and the lions delivered to us mere Celtic supporters. He will forever be a legend.
I was six years old in 1967 and do not really recollect the day itself.real memories are from my dad and the memorabilia he kept from the day.
My moniker is in respect of my late father who took me to the games as a young one and stayed in Estoril whilst in Portugal for the game. He then came back and ‘Named’ the house Estoril which remained the house name until the day he passed away.
He also took my cousin Gerry to the game, a young man then who worshiped the hoops and appreciated his uncle being his chaperone for the greatest day in our clubs history.
After the victory, each year, on 25th of May, Gerry would visit or phone my dad ( his uncle ) to reminisce about that great night and did this religiously until the year my father died in 2009.
Thanks Gerry ( McNee) a true Celt.
Hail! Hail!
Something about the tone of Neil Cameron’s tweet that says he’s out to discredit them. Starting with the word ‘so’ seems a bit odd.
Cowiebhoy on 25th May 2016 10:51 pm
Nothing received yet
Is it uphill from Bannockburn? :-)
HH
CRC
I was 14 when the big Cup was brought to Celtic Park. My Father took me to the stadium to see it, cos his close friend and work mate was a lovely man called Bertie Peacock who was the commissionaire at Celtic. He was a wonderful man, a huge size as I remember, and I called him uncle.
He showed me and my Father into the trophy room and I remember looking at this huge huge Cup that stood on a wooden table. I was frightened to touch it, but wee Tommy my Da and big Bertie made sure I put my arms around it and hands on the handles. I’ m glad they did.
I’ve never forgotten that day.
Hail Hail, God Bless.
i was 9 when we won the big one,cant remember much of the the actual game.
But i can remember going to CP the next night to see the team coming back
with the cup,and my most vivid memory was of a guy climbing pylon between jungle and celtic end
and tying his scarf near the top.
anybody know who it was?
Celt55,
Trick being, the article will publicise and allow people to investigate further if they want, it opens it up to further scrutiny.
Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on 25th May 2016 11:06 pm
I really hope so. I appreciate what you and other lads have done. Great stuff.
As exclusively predicted last Friday on CQN!
The truth will always come out. Just needed a wee nudge…the Newspaper Statement doing it’s work already.
Here’s the first of hopefully many…
http://goo.gl/jIcAEX
Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on 25th May 2016 10:47 pm
I’ve re-read what I posted in order to understand your post. Yes, my last sentence should have been ” ..call for an inquiry..” rather than “..inquiry..”
Now, you can butt out, thanks. Res12 is a glory. I expected a newspaper advert and a statement from Celtic before I paid my sister’s cash plus mine to the club. Not to mention my family’s three seats in Lisbon Lions.
None of your words are relevant to my thinking.
crc,
there is a guy writing a sports column in the evening times looks quite like you,, i had to do a double take at his picture
CQN at it’s best today. Some wonderful and emotional posts of memories from 49 years ago. Being only 2 years old at the time I remember nought.
Thanks to every contributor.
Having Tommy Gemmell on adding to the blog makes it even more special. Nice one.
Celt55
I think your average SMSM hack would have a hard time trying to discredit the Tax Justice Network.
Anyway, we’ll see what the article brings.
WINNING CAPTAINS on 25TH MAY 2016 11:09 PM
As exclusively predicted last Friday on CQN!
The truth will always come out. Just needed a wee nudge…the Newspaper Statement doing it’s work already.
Here’s the first of hopefully many…
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so thats it, the thing i asked the other day, ok, got you,
looking good, and keeping it lit.
Canamalar it looks like OCD obsession on 25th May 2016 11:06 pm
Celt55,
Trick being, the article will publicise and allow people to investigate further if they want, it opens it up to further scrutiny.
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Mr C – Nice
Thanks to you and your Crew.
I think it is ok to allow for Doubting Thomas, The Almighty is the guy who Creates the Story.
Thanks Dude for getting the ball rolling.
Almore on 25th May 2016 10:36 pm
RTE showed it alright
the summary.
Rangers cheated their tax, stole from the authorities, made a competative advantage,
and
the SFA (THE AUTHORITY) covered it up.
meanwhile thier players were not properly registered.
STRIP THE TITLES
“It’s very clear from the decisions that they (Lord Nimmo Smith inquiry) were only looking at the tax avoidance scheme which became known as the Big Tax Case, which is still in the courts. They came to the conclusion that, because it was legal at the time, there was no competitive advantage to Rangers and, therefore, they could not be deducted points or suffer any sporting sanctions.
“However, we know that Rangers were operating another tax avoidance scheme, which is known popularly as the Discounted Option Scheme (Small Tax Case).
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If the scope of the LNS Inquiry was limited it becomes redundant by default. Whether it can be reopened or not is irrelevant. A fresh independent Inquiry is required.
7 Times Perfection = 49 surely?
or perhaps.
What a Year.
Thanks and Praise the Almighty.
CQN’s finest thomthethim gifted this prized possession to me, don’t know how many were ever made
– how many remember it?
Glasgow Celtic Champions of Europe
Hail Hail
Celt55,
Long and short is, if nothing comes of it, we have been blowing smoke out wur arse.
Being meticulous has been the our priority, make sure our submission leaves those reading it demanding the same answers we need.
A couple of excellent legal minds confounding and convincing a cynical gobshite like me, contrary to public opinion, is no so easy.
winning captains on 25th May 2016 10:56 pm
Thanks for your comment. I’m not a nay-sayer.
My concern is that the huns have read the runes from these last weeks and pushed the SFA to promote an inquiry, which is in their control, to divert any momentum from CQN’s accusations.