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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Some fecking headcases at this PMQ debate.
Roasters
hot smoked/TD
Think it was actually “We’ll keep the League Flag flying here” from way back.
Sung of course at the flag raising day following us winning the League.
Evening times, oh dear.
Celtic’s Scott Sinclair named readers’ player of the year with former Rangers man Joey Barton voted biggest flop
Ffs, look WUT this former linesman told Jim spence, lol
When I was a linesman we had top refs. Hope Valentine McGinlay Syme .Current rubbish couldn’t lace their boots. Fifa badges on clowns today
Paul67 et al
Who voted for Neil McCann?
The precise sum of nobody.
These Tories are barking mad.
Its like a Brian Rix farce.
19th century sideburns, you name it.
Some of them think its 1860.
The stupidity is scary.
Murray Westland was the said Lino, good freemans name eh? Lol
Test.
Big Jimmy 12:57
Thanks for your response and offer of help. We’re taking advice just now, but not from an employment lawyer who quoted us £8-10k for a mibbe I’ll win it, mibbe I won’t. Right now we’ll probably appeal just to annoy the bassas. The more annoying thing is that original allegations were all unfounded, but banged to rights on the Al Capone strategy…..tax brought him down, or in our case policies, procedures and paperwork. Just as well we have our donkeys to cuddle and share our woes with. They never let us down. Cheers,anyway.
This be nice.
KARAMOKO DEMBELE and his Celtic teammates beat off FC Tokyo, Anderlecht and Ajax to win the Marc Overmars tournament last weekend.
In doing so the highly rated youngster was named the player of the tournament after his fantastic displays helped Celtic to victory.
The young Celtic lad has the world at his feet as he looks to continue his progress with Celtic and hopefully breakthrough to the first team when the manager feels it’s time.
With Brendan Rodgers signing a new four-year deal, if Karamoko does stay with Celtic then the Irishman is more than likely to be the man to give the player his first Celtic start further down the line.
Shame eh? Lol
Breaking: Former Chancellor George Osbourne says he will stand down as an MP
For all David Murray watchers it will be very interesting to see where this goes.
Note the part about new roads and infrastructure being essential to anything new in Lothian and West Lothian.
http://www.scottishconstructionnow.com/18589/280m-edinburgh-development-recommended-for-refusal/?utm_source=Scottish+Construction+Now&utm_campaign=14f90c7a21-SCN_19_04_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_da4310d8ed-14f90c7a21-66785045#
BRTH
Great idea re the Mass in Lisbon
I have just mailed a wee request to you
HH
ITV ‘will host general election debate’ without Theresa May
The Green Man… aye old school ties too. Fking masonic huns the lot of em.
All Labour needs is a strong, respected and charismatic leader, then everything else would fall into place.
Maybe Brendan could take on the job on his day off?
BHOYJOEBELFAST on 19TH APRIL 2017 10:29 AM
Tontine:
Thanks for reply. So long ago eh.The .Celtic View had a picture of the fans outside CP.If memory is correct around the time of Dundee game stirling albion beating Celtic one nil.
*aye and the binos whose club colours were red turned out in tangerine, as they called it, that day. they were managed by one of the biggest thugs, and that’s saying something, sammy (the clug) baird, ever tae play the game.
Gideon gutted he cant pick up his extra pay packet for the next 3 years, shame.
JImkyredstar
Got it and replied.
Songs of yesteryear.
Was driving up the M8 yesterday towards Glasgow from the Johnstone area when heading in the other direction I spotted an old (Glasgow) corporation bus, the old green and gold variety with a thin white hoop round the middle, so that had me chanting —-
” The corporation buses are Green White n’Gold, Green White n’ Gold , Green White n’Gold, the corporation buses are Green White n’Gold for U ya OB.
Lovely wee journey home so it was.
H.H
Any chance of McCann taking his wee sidekick Tanner with him to Dens and getting the 2 wee feckers aff the telly?
50 SHADES OF GREEN on 19TH APRIL 2017 2:18 PM
Songs of yesteryear.
I liked this wan..
Theres only wan John Guidetti,
he puts the ball in the netti
Hes a super Swede
and the huns are deid
walking in Guidetti wonderland.
HH
Paul 67, Auldheid,
I have been looking at Rangers use of DOS and the reasons why the football authorities in Scotland have not punished Rangers to date.
Specifically DOS payments were finally admitted by Rangers to be unlawful with respect to them being non tax exempt. My understanding is that these DOS payments were made to 2 players and included De Boer and Flo.
Given the wee tax case then gives rise to the need for resolution 12, are we to assume that there has been no movement by Celtic to do anything on DOS? I.e. These payments were unlawful and also broke the football rules which require all contractual payments to be declared?
The attached Paul McConville blog covers the dreaded subject of the Juninho EBT. There are still statements that Celtic did not declare the Juninho EBT as contractual to the SPL or SFA. See attached BBC article. The Daily Record also maintain that this Celtic EBT was not declared to the SPL or SFA. Paul McConvilles blog raises the question of Celtic declaring their unkowing breach of football rules in return for the prize of Rangers punishment for their knowing ongoing and deliberate multitude of breaches.
Having said that, I seem to recall that the reason Juninhos EBT was not declared was in some way related to this payment being a carry over from his Middlesborough contract. Do we know more about that and can we say for any certainty that we had no obligation to disclose the Juninho EBT to the football authorities?
If we did indeed have an obligation then why not admit this? Is this in some way a reason that resolution 12 has hit the buffers? It is a very simple cut and dried case that DOS payments and the 5 EBTs were illegal had been used , guilt admitted and these payments were not declared as they should have been at that time. There was a sporting advantage as they were illegal (using the LNS test).
The use of DOS plus the admitted guilt on 5 player EBTs meets the criterion in terms of football rules and the law for punishment now. Why are. Celtic not pursuing it? There is no need to wait on the Supreme Court.
https://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2012/05/23/what-if-celtic-accept-wrong-doing-re-juninhos-ebt-aberdeen-spl-winners-2005/amp/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-18169502
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/the-juninho-ebt/
glendalystonsils
Get Ed Balls back in there, spandex outfit and all.
That should do the trick!
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Mullet
Celtic reached agreement with HMRC re. Juninho’s EBT and paid the required sum required to HMRC.
MWD
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Tontine:
Yeah remember baird.Played in the losing team,in a high scoring national cup final,which is a world record to this very day.I know they love to mention world records,well they are welcome to this one. Think baird was living over at the time of his passing
Living over here.
Brexit Ref 2, by stealth. 8/6/17
CELTIC legend Pat Bonner insists Scott Brown can have ‘no excuses’ after the skipper returned to his bad old days with Sunday’s red card showing a ‘lack of responsibility’.
That crap was in Evening Times rag today.
packie, your comments against Celtic have been noted yet again. Yer a disgrace imo
CELTIC MAC on 19TH APRIL 2017 2:31 PM
glendalystonsils
Get Ed Balls back in there, spandex outfit and all.
That should do the trick!
Please!! You’ll put me off ma tea!-))
ERNIELYNCH@12:31
Correct – if the law says Tax Credit for only first two children, we can disagree, however it makes it imperative to have an arrangement, e.g. “rape clause” which addresses special circumstaces; not to do so would be unforgiveable.
The SNP are using the ‘rape clause’ as a squirrel to avoid having to admit that if they wanted to, they could change the law in Scotland to allow any amount of children to be included in Tax Credits.
Many people only hear the word ‘rape’ and jump on the bandwagon, without a clue what the subject entails – of course this is true of almost everything the SNP say and do.
Juninho’s EBT was also part of his Middlesburgh contract. Celtic did not pay into it during his time at club but after he left Celtic having played 12 games as per the terms of his loan agreement. Tax was then paid on Celtic’s part to HMRC with HMRC’s agreement.
This point is irrelevent when comparing to the hun EBT’s.
MWD
Teresa May puts doubt in my mind with regards to references of ‘reptilians’ disguised as humans being the actual rulers of the world.I had never entertained there being a grain of truth in these claims but the more I see May the more i’m coming round to the idea.A scaly,fork-tongued creature with lizardly quirks.Bet she’s cold to the touch.
Hisssssss…
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We should really just destroy this mob on Sunday.Aside from bent mibs and mawkish hacks they have no more quality than an average SPFL side.And Pedro’s an accident waiting to happen.Get our attitude right on the day and they’ll be disposed of.Their clugging will only highlight their desperation.
Into them Celtic.
SCANIEL 1.41,
MAKE SURE !!!!! That ANY policies and/or procedures that were used against your good lady, ALSO APPLIED to every other employee ?
for example, i was sacked over a Medical Questionnaire. At the time that I was forced to complete it, unknown to myself, I was lied to by my line manager, who told me that it was Council Policy. i stupidly believed him.
5 years later, and 10 days after I was sacked, this same line manger ADMITTED to me over the phone that “He had NEVER been issued with a Medical form”.
That is when I carried out my own investigation and discovered another 7 Council employees who ALSO had NEVER been issued with a medical form.
Thats just one example of the evidence that I uncovered in my case.
All the best, but let me know if you think I can help ?
KTF.
Big Jimmy 2:51
Heard packie on shortbread on Sunday you wouldn’t think he was a ex celt another souptaker imo HH
MWD,
As reliable as an underwater hair dryer but the MSM reports from 2012 state that Celtic did not declare the payment to the football authorities.
If you use the LNS sham as the test and assume the payment was not declared when it should have been then Juninho was imperfectly registered. However his tax was eventually paid regardless of whether it fell on the black or white side of lawful. That being the case Celtics use of the EBT would only fall in with the imperfectly registered category… not the illegal part
If we didn’t declare it why not declare that now on the basis of the LNS sham test and let Rangers burn on the illegal DOS and EBT payments that we know using the second part of the LNS test mean that they gained a sporting advantage.
Rangers paid players without paying a bean in tax. Celtic may or may not have declared Juninho EBT to the Football authorities but they gained no sporting advantage as they paid the tax. What I would like to know is if we did not declare it? Why not and did we subsequently declare it.
Surely it is in Celtics interest to state the facts.