Do you remember the midweek game against Dundee in April 2001? Win that game, and Martin O’Neill could win his first league title at the next game, home to St Mirren, but it was a fraught evening. Dundee equalised midway through the second half, before Johan Mjallby scored a winner six minutes from time.
Afterwards Martin O’Neill complained that the crowd was unnecessarily anxious. Celtic were well ahead, the title was not in doubt, but Martin didn’t appreciate how much we all wanted to be there when it was won, a few days later. To the manager, we seemed to be demanding too much. But while Martin was guaranteed a ticket to wherever the league winning match would be, Celtic needed to beat Dundee and St Mirren to ensure season ticket holders would be in attendance.
Similar themes are evident now. It is not that Celtic fans don’t appreciate the exceptionality of our season-and-a-half unbeaten domestic run. We do, but it’s that exceptionality that makes the prospect of the run coming to an end after being two goals ahead at Easter Road so disturbing. We know that when this run ends, the chance of anything similar starting up again is remote. The cost of defeat is meaningless to the outcome of the league title, but when it happens, you are going to feel it. Rightly so.
Celtic Foundation Auctions
The Foundation has several auctions which close at 7pm tonight. There are some exceptional prizes, currently at very competitive prices. Including a ‘Lisbon 67’ golf club, signed by Ryder Cup player, Stephen Gallacher.
Funds from these auctions will help around 300 local families living in poverty, who will have a mean on Christmas Day and presents for the kids. And you are bound to be struggling for a gift idea for someone, so take a look at what’s available…….
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Auldheid
Hope you’re well .
Fair enjoyed those links you put up.
I remember faces but not names and the one of the
soccer was it a ‘bank competition fives? . Great to see the
pitch up the Boydstone Rd behind the oldest bit of ‘Ledgers”
I’m not playing in the photo ;-) but I was among those lining the
touchline the way we did back in the day.
Magic stuff CSC
speaking of music …. for the next visit of the zombies …. how about our PA guy plays the theme from ‘The Walking Dead’?
which, incidentally, was written by a gentleman named BEAR McCreery! (I kid you not)…. so, it seems to fit.
MIKE IN TORONTO
I’ve often been called a trumpet or worse.
My twelve year old autistic son loves trumpet music.
I’m up at six preparing his school lunch and he is blasting trumpet music in the background.
It’s Wynton Marsalis playing Prince of Denmark march.
Stirring tune and pretty certain i make the lunch twice as fast as i would in regular circumstances.
He also loves Donald Byrd.
Fanatic …
sounds like a great way to start a day! your son has great taste!
I usually turn music on before I get out of bed …. my favourite was to start a saturday morning is to put a fire on, and have Pachabel’s canon playing throughout the house …. makes me glad to be alive …. or for quiet days, Saties’ Gynmopedie No. 1.
I was always more of a Branford fan, then I saw him play in a small club one night… and he was such an a******e that it really turned me off…
conversely, I always thought Wynton was a bit too ‘cool’ …. and not enough soul … but I saw him play once, and he could not have been nicer … really cool, but so gracious … clearly loved the music …. I developed a much greater appreciation for him ever since ….
also Lee Morgan is a fave! his work on Moanin’ … love it!
my teacher is a big Clifford Brown fan ….. not my fave, but who know what he would have done had he not died so young….
TRUTH BEAUTY AND FREEDOM @12:26pm.well said,brilliant post
Good evening, friends.
Fred Colon (from page 2) –
Had you been seeking a guitarist/bassist/pianist/singer I’d have considered the offer. But drums I have never quite mastered.
Have you contacted the guy at the front of the Green Brigade?
Mickbhoy 1888 @ 5.42
Guessing thar neither final was the Junior Cup Final between Kirkie Rob Roy and Cambuslang Rangers
Jimbo67
‘I remember Fred Colon and the Concomitants back in the days of the ole Burn’s Howff ‘
ST. DBBIA tribute post
THETIMREAPER@5:06pm,the special one being found out is magic:-)))
BSR- VG ;))
TONTINE TIM on 12TH DECEMBER 2017 5:41 PM
Who needs Wikipedia when we have Tontime Tim?
Fred Colon. sadly hung up my drumkit 26 years otherwise would have been up there. by the way my first cup final the 67 aberdeen game. had the biggest ever crowd at hampden .146,000 anybody remember.
nah still stayed in G33 at the time so hadn’t heard of either of them.
Big Packy
official attendance 126,102
Jimbo67
I was actually at that game between Kirkintilloch Rob Roy and Cambuslang Rangers in 1969. My first visit to Hampden.
Second was beating St Johnstone 1-0 with the very early goal by Bertie Auld.
First Scottish Cup Final was 6-1 v Hibs – 106,000 biggest crowd I have been in.
the 1937 final was 147,000
GENE. thanks only 20,000 out.hh.
Big Packy
The gates were broken down at the 67 final – you wouldn’t be far wrong
Hrvatski Jim
I lived in the Briggs then which had no junior team so the Rabs were the nearest team. But we never went. I later worked beside a girl whose dad played foe Kirkiw and apparently he got his leg broken that day
And I was at that St Johnstone final too and Srevie Chalmers broke his leg thar day – and his eldee son , Stephen, was in my class at the time.
Really useless info that!
Jimbo67
BP
Without Googling – I was there as a tiny tot.
Willie Wallace scored two and I think it was just a weeks ahead of Lisbon.
I was there balanced on a shoogly corrugated iron fence at the very top of the Rainjurs or Mount Florida end.
The referee was Willie ( not to be confused with David ) Syme an original man of mibbery, who preceded
JRP ( John Right Protestant ) Gordon, Bobby Davidson ( Davids-hun ) and Ian Foote (flute).
Hail Hail
THOMTHETHIM
1961 it was!
My memory aint what it used to be!
GENE. remember a bit of a crush. now ive never admitted to this on here but ive got a touch of claustraphobia to my embarrasment my dad always took me to the sevco end at parkhead because of less crushing please dont call me a pansy.lol.
BSR
I was hanging onto a drainpipe at the back of the north enclosure underneath the stand – at the end of the game I was black and dripping with sweat. – but very happy
BOURNESOUPRECIPE .yes remember it well. hh.
Jim Craig’s signed book arrived today and thanks for the “free gift!”
Wonderful reading!
Thanks again!
Big Pansy – your secret’s safe with me :))
big packy
i was there never again , thought i was a dead bhoy when we scored first goal. was crushed against the steel vertical barrier. then getting out dont think my feet touched the ground.
I also believe that the official attendance for the Leeds game at Hampden of 135,000 still stands as a record for the EC/CL.
Unless sumdy tells me otherwise…………….
Sorry, make that 136500 approx.
Philbhoy
136,505 is still the record
How Bizarre?
How Bizarre CSC
GENE
Fanatic saw you hanging there ( thumbs up ( Philvis tribute) )
HH
Thanks GENE!
TIMHORTON. dont mind admitting. i was fecking terrified the big pansy that i am.lol.
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/the-king-and-the-pretender/
A sensationally exciting second half centred around a compelling battle between Brown and McGinn. Rodgers claimed: “no contest”. Disingenuous? I assess their performances.
67 SC final at the dump.
I was at that one, told this story before on here, I was in the front row of the North stand and looking down at the sheep in the enclosure below me , they were giving us the fingers etc so I accidentally dropped the cup of cola my old mhan had got me over the edge, soaking a few below , my big smile looking down on them seemed to upset them even more.
69 cup final v the long dead was a fav of mine, also at the Leeds game , I know it was not a final but my fav game was the Harry Hood hat trick game.
But it was a dump then and is a dump now.
H.H
JIMBO67 on 12TH DECEMBER 2017 7:00 PM
I live in the Briggs now.
Back then i lived near Ashfield and Perthshire juniors and i was weened onto football through them, then to a pre-season friendly between Partick Thistle and Nottingham Forrest who went on to be English league runners up that season – 66-67.
Need to get out of the office now so will be off-line.
Depends which end of the Briggs, the nearest might have been Petershill or Rob Roy