A two-goal win for Hearts on Saturday lunchtime would be enough to move them into second in the table. It would be reassuring to have an early opportunity to restore our five-point lead at the top of the table. Another possibility is that Newco win at Tynecastle to go top, for a few hours at least.
Irrespective of how well our season has started, defeat in Paisley last time out suggests that five-point lead gave us some false comfort. If they get through Saturday intact, Newco have the comfort of knowing that within the first seven games, they have already played away against four of the other five clubs in the top half of the table. They have significantly fewer challenging periods ahead.
We were in a far worse situation this time last year, when we comforted ourselves with the knowledge that we had almost certainly come through our most difficult period. With many eyes on the Champions League game on Wednesday, we first need to get the job done against Motherwell.
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SCULLYBHOY:
Posted early yesterday morning in hope of catching you.Got clutch sorted,then starter went.Have guys coming to do work on home insulation between 11 and 2 Monday,then car booked for Tuesday.Will get something organised,probably for Thursday.I live ten minutes from Culturlann,it’s hard to believe that this simple errand has had so many complications(LOL]
HAVEBOOKSWILLTRAVEL CSC
Before Celtic, the patch of grass bounded by Dalmarnock street to the east, Janefield road on the south, the necropolis wall on the west, and houses to the north was known locally as Whineys Park (mutiple spellings were used), locals used it for sports and grazing.
After Celtic moved to NEW CELTIC PARK (clearly stated as the name in multiple sources), the OLD CELTIC PARK Iis renamed as ROSELEA PARK and used by various teams including Parkhead juniors.
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Scottish Athletic Journal of Feb 88, about our pitch, a few inaccuracies, but, the sentiment is correct
“A club composed exclusively of Irishmen, and Scotchmen of Irish parentage, has been started in the East End somewhat similar to the Hibernians in Edinburgh. The name of the new club is to be “The Glasgow Celtic Athletics.”
A ground has already been secured in Dalmarnock Road, and it is to be called Dalmarnock Park. They have taken it on lease for five years at a rent of £30 a year.
It is a splendid field, with plenty of scope, and includes a couple of pitches, one being for practice. There are to be two stands – now in course of erection.
The club intend to draft the best players from the surrounding clubs. Of course the players must be Irish or of Irish extraction. They mean to have an eleven second to none.
An effort will be made to open the ground at the end of the present month, and if a fixture can possibly be arranged between a Glasgow club and Hibernians, these clubs will be the first to compete on the ground. As the club has influential supporters and no lack of means, the necessary guarantee will be forthcoming.
Failing a fixture with either of the above clubs, some other notable teams will be invited for the preliminary match.
A cinder track, 12 feet broad, runs round the field. The committee have held several meetings to discuss affairs in a hall in East Nile Street”
Oh send for McGrory
That’s not a problem, Joe. I work almost opposite, so it will all work out easily enough.
See you soon.
!!bada bing!!
Didn’t Fergus also refer to the Holy Ground as ‘The Park’?
OLD CELTIC PARK
Glasgow Herald Advert 20th Sept 1895.
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EMERALDB
Hope you are not in your sick bed for too long!
Get well soon!
Take care!
EMERALDBEE, of course!
old celtic park –
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Why was this match significant?
SCULLYBHOY
Last game at the “old”Celtic Park?
saint stivs
Of course that particular street is no longer called ‘Dalmarnock Street’
Morning all
Always known the official name was Celtic Park and until the last 24 hours have never known it was a bone of contention or some 80s Yuppy / Yuppie ( check spelling sub-ed) thing to call it that. People i know also quite often refer to as ‘Parkhead/ Parkheid’ and never known anybody correct somebody who referred to is as such. ‘Paradise’ is a wee bit less common than either although in a football context everybody in Glasgow knows what and where it is. I think that Parkhead/heid is the most commonly used – especially amongst ourselves- but that the stadium is officially Celtic Park has always been far more widely known and used than the official name for St Mirren’s old park was.
My mum- dead since 2009- referred to the place Celtic plays at as ‘Parkers’ if she was slagging off her posh friend Jo (a lower middle class Londoner whose accent was considerably more refined than her cockney parents’ accents were) and I once heard my pal Joe from Saltcoats use the term in jest in a bar in Zagreb but since I’ve only read that is in common usage since not heard it.
Jimbo
Looking to the old maps.
Dalmarnock street becomes Springfield Road
Janefield Road becomes Janefield street.
NEW CELTIC PARK appears on the 1895 map,
Stx2 @ the edge of time.
The effort you put in to try and save a lost cause.
The issue relates to our lifetime not Victorian kick and rush.
We play at P/head — that is the historical truth for us all.
Younger supporters might call it CP — 88 Yuppie nonsense and the like.
However the historical name for the ground is P/head.
It is my understanding from the 70’s.
Others have confirmed its use in the 40’s / 50’s / 60’s.
That is the lived experience that we have.
Ancient press clippings shouts main in hole working hard.
A better use of your time would be finding out when P/head became the accepted name?
Was it always the name used or if not when did it become the generally accepted name?
new article posted.
Stx2 @ 1895
It is the opinion of the support that counts not the Ordnance Survey.
Emerald Bee
Hope you get well soon my friend
Take care
Hail Hail
HOT SMOKED on 30TH SEPTEMBER 2022 10:58 AM
I don’t see any connection between what previous (or present) generations call the stadium and their living conditions .