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Hello this is WEE BGFC. Hello fellow tims, thanks old tim for a great day. Sent us home embarrased after all the drink you were buying. Widnae let us put our hand in our pockets all night! Yer some man.
Onwards and upwards.
HH
WEE BGFC
Lawwell must go
Lustig and Simonovic outstanding again yesterday
Why doesn`t WITS post anymore?
JJ
A huge well done and thank you to Lenny and the Bhoys for the title. Pretty much everything that could have gone wrong this season did go wrong and they still delivered. In particular an injury list like I can’t remember and Rodgers’ departure. The results since Ibrox have been nothing short of brilliant and the defensive stats immense. It must be hard to sustain motivation at the same high levels year and year, with an exhausting schedule and so little time off. Speaks volumes for the players that they have done so. Very proud of them and their achievement of 8 in a row. Even better that it pains the Ibrox facing media so much.
All the players deserve credit, but especially the Scottish core. They are the heart of the team. And Lustig! What a man. Great goal yesterday.
Thanks again Lenny. You came when we needed you and you delivered, even if it wasn’t pretty at times.
Celtic players facing this schedule …
25th May – Scottish Cup Final
8th June – Scotland v Cyprus (2020 Qualifier) + other country qualifiers
11th June – Belgium v Scotland (2020 Qualifier) + other country qualifiers
10 day training camp end of June in Austria & Switzerland including …
26th June – Pre season friendly – SC Pinkafeld (Austria)
29th June – Pre season friendly – Wiener SC (Austria)
2nd July – Pre season friendly – FC St Gallen (Switzerland)
9/10 July – Champions League Qualifier R1 1st leg
So for yet another summer, where’s the break for players to rest physically and mentally ?
No wonder we are running on fumes in December …
‘Celtic need to appoint a manager, who can compete with Steven Gerrard…’
Garth Crooks- BBC
To think we actually pay this clown….
Oglach on 5th May 2019 9:20 am
Thank you for that.
EMBRAMIKE on 5TH MAY 2019 12:55 PM
You are right to highlight this concern . It is also connected to the number of wear and tear injuries which we’ve been plagued with . Can’t see a way out other than maybe squad rotation .
Bada…Garth Crooks is a fanny…(one of those-‘do you know who I am?’ characters)…
Met him at Heathrow on our way to Boa Vista game…what a chump!…@big jimmy
I see the BBC website article going into the logistics and stats of our latest title signed off with some begrudging credit about our good defensive record and coping with a ‘resurgent’ Rangers????????…
‘Resurgent’????…from 3rd place to 2nd place and dumped out of both cups before the final…haha.
It seems those dark days for us in the early 1990s where infact not the horror show I remember but infact ‘resurgent’
Our injury list has done more damange to Our season than anything else. Losing dembele, and BR was far from great. We also lost real quality in K.T, griffith, rogic, eduard, benkovic, boyata, christie and ntcham etc, ect… for long periods which of course is ignored by the smsm.
We look forward to one more big game this season, the scottish cup.
For next season:
i hope we will have better luck with injuries,
I hope we can empty about 12 players who dont contribute.
I hope we bring in 3 starters to improve the team, a right back, centre back and forward.
HH
I’ve just opened the door to a Wetherspoons to let a rangers fan pass through with the biggest smile ever !!!!!!
Hello again all you young rebels.
‘ I like ibrox believe it or not ” said Celtic manager Neil Lennon
with his tongue firmly sticking out of his cheek.
” I love these old antiquated stadiums where you never know
if a huge lump of steel will fall on your head ”
Aye Neil we all believe you lol.
But then again whats not to like? a midden where you always win.
O.k Neil i’ve got you now 8-)))))))
H.H Mick
IVEHADTOCHANGEMYMIND
Who had the smile you or the hun?
H.H Mick
https://twitter.com/darrellcurrietv/status/1125014822553309190?s=08
BT Sport ‘s James Hardcastle, says Celtic have made an offer to Jose Mourinho…….
A national hero in Scotland… and Lithuania: Vilnius hails Celtic legend Billy McNeill’s family roots in Eastern Europe
by Stacey Mullen
He is a hero in his Scottish homeland but Lisbon Lions legend Billy McNeill has also been hailed in Lithuania, the homeland of his maternal grandparents.
A tribute to the player, whose funeral took place on Friday when fans and football greats paid their respects, has been paid by the country’s minister of Foreign Affairs Linas Linkevicius.
After the Celtic legend’s death, aged 79, Linkevicius posted a tribute on social media: “You’ll never walk alone, Cesar. RIP Billy McNeill – you made Celtic FC great and Lithuania proud. A football legend, a grandson of Lithuanians who made Scotland their home, Billy McNeill, 1940-2019.”
A spokesman for the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in capital Vilnius told The Sunday Post, the Celtic legend’s life and successes would be of great interest to Lithuanians around the world.
He said: “It is estimated up to 1.3 million Lithuanians and persons of Lithuanian descent live abroad.
“Therefore it is difficult, and at the same time very important, to collect every piece of information that helps build a coherent history of Lithuanian people.
“We will pay tribute to Billy McNeill by posting corresponding information in Ministry of Foreign Affair’s Facebook account for Lithuanians all over the world.”
McNeill’s maternal grandparents, Kazis and Urzula Walatkaviczus, were Lithuanian immigrants. His mother Ellen, who was known as Nellie, was named Anele at birth but her family later anglicised their names, adopting the surname Mitchell.
In his 2004 autobiography Hail Cesar, Billy joked he might have been a “Yank” had his grandparents not boarded the wrong immigrant ship to Scotland.
He said: “My Lithuanian grandparents boarded an immigrant ship believing they were bound for the New World but, instead of landing in New York, they disembarked at Leith.
“But for the geographical hiccup I might have been born a Yank on March 2, 1940. I can only assume my maternal granny and granddad were duped by some unscrupulous wheeler-dealer when they chose to leave their native land to seek a better life in America, but I am rather glad that they were, for I could never envisage myself starring in the NFL or playing major league baseball.”
Billy, whose father James was of Irish descent, was born in his grandparents’ home in Main Street, Bellshill where he lived until the age of six.
A census entry for 1911, before his birth, reveals the family once lived in Muirpark Rows and his grandfather was a coal miner.
In his autobiography, he said: “I remember them as very proud, kind people. Years later, on a trip to the Ukraine to play Kiev, local journalists were keen to interview me about my family connections behind the Iron Curtain, although I have to confess that I wasn’t able to enlighten them greatly.”
His grandparents, who later changed their names to Charles and Grace, never saw his 1967 Lisbon Lions victory for his grandmother died in 1947 while is grandfather passed away some years later in 1960.
They made up the thousands of Lithuanians who came to Scotland between 1870 and the First World War. Many settled in the industrial central belt, including Billy’s hometown of Bellshill, seeking work in the mines and steelyards.
The town is home to the Scottish Lithuanian Social Club, formed in the 1950s, and it is thought there was 7,000 Lithuanians in Scotland by 1914.
Professor Marjory Harper, chair in history at Aberdeen University, said: “They came because of the push of agricultural hardship and Russification policies in Lithuania, and the pull of agents’ promises about high wages and amenable work in Scotland.
“The majority of them came to Lanarkshire, where they worked in the coal mines. There were clusters of Lithuanians in places like Bellshill.”
Mary Rose McAleenan, 77, from Mossend, grew up with Billy. Both her mother Anastasija Kursvietaite (Nancy Coris) and his were friends, and she shared the same heritage, with her father also of Irish descent.
She said: “Having come from a mixed background like Billy McNeill, we probably weren’t as immersed in the Lithuanian culture.
“We, as a family, ate Lithuanian food and followed certain traditions but, because it is a mixed background, we weren’t as Lithuanian as some.
“We didn’t have a Lithuanian name for a start, so people didn’t associate us with Lithuania, the same as Billy McNeill I suppose.”
Mourinho is an exciting name but don’t his appointments ultimately end in disappointment? If we got two good years out of him I could find it in my heart to forgive him.
The record shows he took the blows and did it his way: How Scott Brown skippered Celtic to eight-in-a-row
by Sean Hamilton
Not so much strutting as strolling.
That’s how Scott Brown skippered Celtic to their eighth title in a row.
That it didn’t take more of his trademark fire wasn’t down to Aberdeen’s failings. The Dons had real moments of quality.
It was just that Celtic’s quality was greater when it mattered.
That’s how you win trophies year after year. It’s how you win title after title after title.
That Brown has been there for all of them is no coincidence, and that he is loved by Hoops fans is no fluke.
He started as a vital cog in the green machine.
Now he is their talisman.
And the early signs all suggested Brown was up for this one.
The Hoops skipper led his team out for their warm-up like a man possessed.
He didn’t jog. He sprinted. Full of purpose. Setting the standard.
Then, of course, there was that famous walk out of the tunnel before kick-off – shoulders back, chin thrust high into the air, cocksure, and resplendent with it.
His attitude has plenty to do with why Celtic fans love him so much.
But without the unique brand of midfield generalship he has practiced with distinction for so many years, he wouldn’t have been the same force.
A wind-up merchant is only ever going to be useful in one dimension.
Give him skill, vision, tenacity and touch, however, and he’ll be a man you can build a team around.
At his best, even now aged 33, Brown is a snapping, snarling, domineering force of nature.
Yet within two minutes at Pittodrie, his timing looked a touch off the mark.
It was only a missed interception; a sliding, early lunge for a temptingly placed Dons pass. But it boiled down to energy misspent, and soon Celtic were haemorrhaging the stuff.
The Dons were without their own midfield leader, in the injured Graeme Shinnie, but they weren’t short of bite.
Brown felt it when losing the physical battle with Sam Cosgrove that led to James Wilson’s heart-in-mouth volley off the crossbar.
Normally, Celtic’s captain is the man who rattles opponents.
Put it down to nerves, or whatever you want, but in the Granite City, the Hoops – with Brown in the middle of everything – looked rattled.
Another one-on-one contest in midfield, this time with Dominic Ball, but the same outcome as before – Broony on the losing side.
Heart taken, Aberdeen hit the woodwork again, and Celtic’s captain, their steely-eyed inspiration, responded by telling his team-mates to calm down.
And there lies the multi-dimensionality of the man.
It’s not necessarily the kind of thing his reputation would suggest he has in his locker.
But anybody who has watched Brown for any length of time knows his value isn’t just in the brash stuff, and the headline-grabbing grandstanding.
It’s also in the small things, in his shrewdness, his innate sense of a game’s temperature, and his unparalleled-in-Scottish-football knowledge of how to manage it.
His direct involvement in Celtic’s opener may have been limited, but his attitude and application played its part, even in spite of those earlier physical missed steps.
Mikael Lustig’s header settled Celtic.
Then Jozo Simunovic’s effort freed them completely.
“Champions again,” sang their jubilant fans.
In midfield, Brown, the pressure off, strolled around imperiously.
Never mind the proverbial cigar, Celtic’s skipper might as well have been puffing on a real one – even though the late challenge on Aberdeen’s Ethan Ross that saw him booked would probably have made it fall out.
Before kick-off, Pittodrie paid its respects to two Celtic greats, Billy McNeill and Stevie Chalmers.
The Hoops fans raised banners and sang songs in their honour.
At this point, there’s no more room for argument – Scott Brown has earned his place in the pantheon of Parkhead greats.
If he can skipper them to another two titles after this one, and the fabled 10-in-a-row, he’ll be able to make his way to the top table.
To strut or to stroll? The choice, as ever, will be entirely his.
SAINT STIVS
I think Broony has already strutted and strolled to the top table.
H.H Mick
Not feeling gr8
Hungover as f#ck
Champions again ole ole!!
B-)
Driveways don’t heat themselves
8 in a row CSC
Multiple reports that we have made an offer to Jose Mourinho (there was recent photo of him in company with PL – might be coincidence).
If that is the case, for him to be interested , he must be being offered a sizeable transfer kitty to make a challenge in Europe. Otherwise, as he is only 56, he may be looking for a bigger challenge elsewhere.
And then there’s Seville ….
Either way – it’s just what is needed to ensure another up-chuck around Govan just as they were recovering from yesterday…
I hope the stories about Mourinho are rubbish, a sleekit snide arsehole of a manager, who is counter attacking in his set up, fails when he has to take the game to the opposition, steer well clear Celtic please, in manner and attitude more suited to Sevco than us.
Italian media saying Mourinho has been made an offer from Celtic
Would love to see Jose Mourinho for a couple of years.
Sky Italia’s Gianlucca De Marzio reckons we have made him an offer.
A lot of strange coincidences have happened recently.
HH.
Pundits talking pesh watch:
Radio Scotland: who’s the daftie who’s just come out with this one?
“Rangers have come out and hit the ground running – albeit a bit too late for this season.”
BADA
No way Jose
Amidst the joy of clinching the title yesterday, was a feeling of relief.
Relief at the conclusion of what, to my mind, was the dirtiest, ugliest league campaign in my memory.
Notwithstanding our massive long term injuries and the internal strife, the conspiracy to deprive us of the title, exceeded anything that has gone in previous years.
From the first kick of the ball, Gerrard hasn’t removed the dog whistle from his mouth.
Calling out referees, even from the past, plus selecting who should be or not be appointed to their games was not once challenged by either the SFA or media.
His and his Board’s constant claims that they needed CL money for survival was a Widow’s Son appeal.
This, and more had me convinced, at one stage, that we would not be allowed the win the Title.
Credit is due to Neil Lennon, his staff and squad, for keeping their collective eye one the ball.
Credit also due to Brendan Rodgers and his staff for bringing the club to this position.
Credit is not due to him for the manner of his departure.
My opinion is that he came to Celtic in an attempt to rebuild his career.
It had suffered badly when it was deemed that hid Gerrard led team had bottled the PL.
He knew he could win titles in Scotland.
It seems to be accepted that he was working his ticket.
However, I think that he had doubts about winning the eighth, when he studied his injury list and the closing gap. Especially with cup and vital league games pending.
When Leicester came calling, he jumped.
He saw the possibility, to his rebuilt reputation, that defeats at Easter Rd and Tynecastle would erode.
It’s the only explanation that makes any sense to me.
Thank you for your patience and attention. Going for a wee lie down.?
Gerrard looked totally disinterested during his interview on Sky there….
Alisdair- Silly Dodds?
Apologies total non football/Celtic question, anybody got a view on the Toyota C HR Hybrid Thanks H H Hebcelt
Madhun starts for Sevco
!!Bada Bing!!,
Far be it for me to slag an ex-Ross County man…. but I have to say it tickled me!
Congratulations to Celtic and everyone here, by the way.
Big Celtic and CQN connection with the championship winners as well of course, with our own Delaney’s Dunky’s nephew captaining Ross County to the title there.
Hebcelt, I’m just in the process of buying a Hybrid Toyota Rav4 . Had a good look at the C HR Hybrid before I made up my mind. Test drove it and must say I liked it a lot but in the end I decided to go for the Rav4.
I certainly wouldn’t put anyone off the C HR.
Have to say I would be apprehensive and a wee bit sad if the Mourinho rumours are true.
His apparent historical “ethos” doesn’t fit with how I view Celtic.
Please please,
No Way Jose