A Hibs fan suggested to me on Twitter that as his team are wearing their home kit for next week’s Scottish Cup Final Celtic should take the opportunity to wear their 125th anniversary top. Despite there being 100 years precedent of Celtic and Hibs both wearing their home kits, recent rules (or perhaps customs) dictate that clubs are not permitted colour clashes.
That being the case, let’s take the opportunity to reach back to our founders and wear the anniversary kit.
Before that we have the small matter of Dundee United to play on Sunday. Celtic won the league by 20 points last season, 10 of which were gained after a competitor failed to come up with enough money to meet their commitments. Defeat at Tannadice could reduce this season’s winning margin to 10 points, in a season where everyone, even Hearts could afford to meet their commitments.
Who would’ve thought this SPL would be so competitive? Not me. More please.
Thanks for the excellent support for Willie Wallace’ autobiography. Orders in today from East Brisbane to West Didsbury and many places in between.
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Interesting to see what will happen to AEK Athens post liquidation. Will they blame Dundee United?
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/top-football-stories/shades-of-rangers-as-aek-athens-to-go-bankrupt-1-2929877
Why not just give everyone 6 cans of Tennents at the turnstiles
when they show up……Ah! memories.
Teuchter ár lá
Oglach
Still some in Glasgow stores. Happy to buy one for you and post on. If you want get my e-mail from Paul67 and give me posting address.
HH
I would like to distance myself from midfield maestro’s post @ 12.46
I am 100% not a virgin!!
31003
Kwality podiums, 2 in a row….will u get 3 tho?
Paul67 et al
Glasgow is green and white. Celtic must insist on wearing the Hoops.
LEFTCLICKTIC
Someone somewhere may be wishing that CORSICA68 did a bit of walking away!
Me,I think he has the bit between his teeth on this one and will take them on till he gets a result.
Naturally,I wish him every success…..
South Of Tunis
13:41 on
15 May, 2013
Oglach @ 13 24 .
I haven’t been to any of this season’s domestic games but the view from the lap top is –
It would be great if the SPL was truly competitive but the sad reality is that it isn’t. Some of this season’s performances have been absolutely dire . At times players have looked under motivated and complacent .. Crap pitches and mince officials haven’t helped.. Celtic humped St Johnstone last weekend —– St Johnstone were dire. . I watched that game with my in his 80s Inter supporting neighbor . At one point he asked me if St Johnstone were amateurs . I wasn’t sure he was kidding so gave him the truthful response —- No — Premier League players . A top 6 team — to which he replied —— You’re joking
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Make him watch Stoke v Reading at some point
Is the new home shirt not on sale in the week before the cup final… I thought that was the usual these days
Doc
I think we’re losing each other here :-)
Has the SPL been more competitive this season?
Yes, but it’s my belief that this has only come about because of some of our abject performances particularly away from home.
I mean we’ve one something like one out of our last 8 away games if you exclude our semi final win at Hampden. I’ve got a mate who regularly texts me after draws or defeats with just one word, “Unacceptable!!!”
It does my head in how negative he can be. However, the sad fact is that this season there have indeed been a number of performances that have been ‘unacceptable’.
I genuinely want games to be more exciting and I wish for title run ins where the Champions aren’t known before a ball is even kicked in earnest.
Sadly though, the competitive nature of the SPL this season hasn’t been because of the skill, adventure and imagination of the opposition, it’s been because in several games we’ve been absolutely rotten.
Are we any closer an understanding? :-)
lct
Brill!! Send that around the world!! Skullduggery at its best.
pedrocaravanachio67
14:05 on 15 May, 2013
If you and MM are meeting ACGR and JUNGLE JIM for the golf I reckon you will ALL be virgins again before yer respective better halves allow you near them again!
I support Tennents’ efforts to get as much exposure in the Cup Final,they have put money in to the club and compromised on the 125 kit design.
itsabouttim
22:06 on
14 May, 2013
One final beg before I have to go. Does anyone know the dates of the 6 Champions League qualifying games we need to play this summer?
This website will tell you everyting you want to know about the champion leaque 13/14 including dates of all rounds including qualifiers. It also has a list of teams that celtic could face in the third round based on the fact that most leagues now know the teams that have qualified for europe.
Go to the main menu and explore from there.
http://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/calendar2013.html
Chairbhoy,
i know i may be biting here, but the aul 125 kit does have the swoosh, but I assume, like Tennents, that they agreed to keep it minimalist in form, so as not to detract from the kit itself.
The swoosh is white……..
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
oglach
If you want a name/number on the jersey it’s about £55 from memory.
Bought one for my daughter at Christmas.
Yellow bibs over the HOOPS?? Go wash ur mouth out. And run a cleaner scan too!!
blantyretim
12:24 on 15 May, 2013Meals on wheels delivered. My old man very busy as my mum is in Spain for a week, if she was here I would get a wee cup of tea at least….
Lol brilliant… dads they’re all the same..
The main problem with poor performances home and away,has been the managers tinkering with selection,it’s alright to make a few changes spread out the team,but to play a match with no recognised strikers(kilmarnock at home) was ridiculous,also technically lennon is wanting,the last time we were at perth we dominated the first half ,but when st johnstone made changes in second half lennon could not react and were garbage in the second half and but for some dodgy offside decisions would have lost.I admit i was totally against a novice manager getting the managers job and nothing over the last 3 years has changed my mind,I hope lennon moves on in summer and we bring in a more tactical aware manager.
The SPL this season has been very competitive from positions 2 to 11. Positions 1 & 12 have been a foregone conclusion since before a ball was kicked.
The fact we are only 10 points ahead of Motherwell, and won the league with only 4 games to go, is down to the fact that overall we have been poor in the league this season (many reasons for this, Europe, complacency, not as good as we think we are, continual chopping and changing of the team etc). Its nothing to do with a competitive championship race, there isn’t even a race let alone a competitive one (as would also have been the case had the authorities got their wish and sevco were parachuted straight into SPL).
We are simply too big for the environment we play in.
blantyretim
13:41 on 15 May, 2013More4The o’neils of dungannon.. Time team…Bored.com…
A new chapter in the turbulent history of Ulster
Boredtoo.csc
Micktt
The auld yin has done himself out of a couple of brandy shandies this Friday down the KSC..
HT, we have had too many poor away results, no doubt about it.
What I was looking for in my last post was a reason why?
Didn’t find it though did I, rambled on a bit, I was looking ahead instead of at this season.
It wasn’t that I didn’t understand you’re point, just made mine poorly.
Must try harder;-) here goes…..
Competition is lacking at present, but it wasn’t totally missing as all the pundits predicted.
Why? We have better players and resources, simple.
We know it, they know it, everyone knows it. Therefore it has a psychological effect on the players, we can play poorly, loose a few games where the intensity is lacking, so what, we’ll win the league. Acceptable, perhaps not, but true non the less.
For those reasons we haven’t run away with the league by 20+ points, therefore the league has been more competitive than predicted.
Poorer from our point of view(Celtic) but more competitive non the less.
Next point, going forward. Will the league be more competitive next season.
No.
The year after, doubt it.
But then, perhaps, and going forward more chance of it being so.
Why? Other teams will grow stronger, they don’t have to go spending money they haven’t got to keep up with the Jones, so to speak, no club will be going out spending more than they can afford any more.
Finance is being redistributed down, that will help, but it will take a few years.
Sevco will have little part to play in this, not just because I want it that way, but because they are financially hamstrung, and it will take many years, if ever, for them to get reasonably competitive at the higher end of Scottish football.
Ps, it hasn’t all been dross domestically, a fair few games that I thoroughly enjoyed, not all involving Celtic.
Need a drink after that. Back to work.
Hope that made more sense than the drivel earlier;-)
Anti-Celtic bias still rife in Scotland
There still seems to be a very strong anti-Celtic feeling throughout football and Government in Scotland, if recent incidents are a pointer, then it is more than an isolated case.
While we celebrated the retention of the SPL title at Celtic Park on Saturday, it seemed to annoy certain people, and in particular some of the players of St Johnstone FC.
At least three players stood with their hands behind their backs as the Champions were afforded a guard of honour when entering the field of play; it will be no surprise to you either to know the three players were Tam Scobbie, Frazer Wright, and Murray Davidson. I sincerely hope the three stoogies get the chance to play for their beloved Sevco FC in the 2nd Division next season.
We also seen from the elbow incident involving Wright, and some of the tackles flying in from the St Johnstone players, Celtic were lucky not to receive any injuries for the upcoming Scottish Cup Final next week; I don’t think Hibs will need to wrap Leigh Griffiths in cotton wool against Kilmarnock tonight.
The bias was obviously very evident when the personal football awards were being handed out as well. The Clydesdale Bank Manager of the Year is Stuart Mc Call; Lenny’s team won more matches, drew fewer matches, lost fewer matches, scored more goals, and conceded fewer goals than Motherwell, so obviously Mc Call was a shoe-in for the award.
Let’s take the bias a little further; everyone remembers the so-called shame game which enabled Alex Salmond to bring in his completely unnecessary Offensive Behaviour at Football Scotland Bill, a bill which has filed the courts of Scotland with young football fans guilty of nothing other than supporting their team.
There has been much said and written about the need for reconstruction in Scottish Football, and for the introduction and expansion of the play-off system to decide promotion and relegation, everyone thought it was really exciting this season.
Well at the two matches at the weekend there eight red cards. At Dunfermline versus Forfar, Forfar had three players red carded and their manager sent to the stand, along with some non-entity coach of Dunfermline.
At the Alloa versus Brechin match, Alloa manager Paul Hartley has been accused of punching Brechin boss Ray Mc Kinnon, they were joined in the stand by another Brechin official. I imaging when Paul Hartley was punching Mc Kinnon he wasn’t using bad language, in fact none of them could have been using inappropriate language, as they’ve not been cited for it, I guess it was case of calling each other big buggers.
I might have missed it because of my weekend of celebrations, but I don’t think King Alex has summoned the great and the good to the Toy Parliament to discuss the weekend’s shenanigans during the play-offs. I can’t remember Roseanna Cunningham shouting that something needs to be done about this behaviour, but then again, maybe she hasn’t sobered up yet since her verbal attack on a couple of Tory MSP’s in the bar at Holyrood, Hypocrisy is a word that just doesn’t cover it.
I think Stewart Regan and Neil Doncaster have failed in their attempt to change Scottish Football, they have come up against barriers which they would not have expected to be there, but they have not come against as many barriers as we have in 125 years of unbroken history.
The main difference with us is, we are run by people who are really Celtic people, and who truly care about our club, we are not run by guys out looking to make a quick buck, who don’t care how they make it. Here’s to the next 125 years of unbroken history.
Always have been, always will be Celtic.
Joe O’Rourke
that on there rubbish and boring celtic team,
is that the same team that have scored 88 league goals in 37 games, making them the 5th best scoring team in domestic league competitions.
Celtic Intrigue – 8pm Perth
Jockey P Brennan
LB
Robert Tressell @ 14 07
” Make him watch Stoke v Reading at some point. ”
I’ d need to tie him to a chair and give him a bottle of Grappa for that..
He has a daughter who lives in Leicester. He visits . His son in law took him to Leicester v Birmingham.. I asked him about the game and he said ————
” I felt sorry for the ball “
The Scotsman article on AEK Athens is a joke piece.
The guy suggests Rangers were relegated to div3. No mention they were liquidated and that the tribute act schemed their way to an SFL membership.
Couldnt get the 125th top anywhere at christmas
I was home from oz at christmas celtic shop in derry was closed down, jjb (wasnt gonna buy there anyway) was closing so sold out , the celtic home jersey couldnt be bought anywhere in derry. Very bad for a celtic stronghold.
I had to go to belfast to buy in celtic shop as i wanted my money to go to the club, many in derry wont do that. Therefor club losing alot of money.
Was only home for 3weeks so didnt fancy buying online, esp after the black strip took over 2months to arrive in oz.
darwinsbeautifulidea @ 14.24
I find myself in agreement with you there. It’s my belief that no “rookie” manager should get the job at Parkhead. I’ve never been convinced of his tactical nous, nor his ability to adopt a “plan B” if and when required. I expected his motivational skills to be a lot better than they appear to be, especially after his “bring back the thunder” speech! In saying all that, however, I have to accept that our CL run had me contradicting all my earlier thoughts. If he decides to leave, I think he will fall on his bahookie, and his next job may well be his last!
Tin hat on!
HH
can we not just wear that new strip thats in the clydebank celtic shops windae
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Chairbhoy
The 125 kit does have a white Nike SKOOSH on it, same as white TENNANTS.
New Kit has Magners in black and green/white hoops with small white hoops spaced thru the green.
Maybe take time but SPL teams WILL get closer to Celtic due to having an equal chance of getting European money, maybe from from us, but at least against other teams in the TOP Scottish Division
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS 12:13 on 15 May, 2013
MICKTT
I keep begging the oul sod to register on here but he won’t.
So now I’m for trying casual insults to tease him out of his shell.
BTW,having b/band problems at home so e-mails are on back burner till I fix my settings over the weekend hopefully. Then I can forward certain details as promised.
If only we had had computers at St Andrews,eh?……………………………….
The things you learn on CQN eh! Never knew you were a green-keeper…………
Good luck with Wiltshire Municipal and watch out for they llamas digging up the fairway…..
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
Token Tim @ 14;17,
No I couldn’t see it, thanks for the clarification.
Hail! Hail!
St Stivs
Havin’ a pyjama party when Ran#ers die :)
Teuchter ár lá
Teuchter ár lá
14:48 on
15 May, 2013
St Stivs
I wish i was brave enough, or drunk enough , to wear one to the cup final.
i like making an eejit of myself.
chairbhoy. its in white m8 to blend in…lets have a big T on the strip..who gives a forinstance…
T for Tommy(burns)
T for Tims
T for Teninarow
h.h
Celtic heading down to Brentford pre season.
St Stivs
Mind and sew the sponsors name on it then :)
Teuchter ár lá
THE BARCA MOLE
It was our Alma Mater-and had you listened to MIKI67’s Dad,you would know what that meant,haha!