I watched Hearts batter Pat Fenlon’s Hibs into submission at Easter Road last month. They are not a good team but they have elbows and commitment, often the key resources in a football game. With our interest in the League Cup and Europe curtailed, and the league title a sure thing, it is enormously important that we remain in the Scottish Cup into the New Year.
Attitude is the most important attribute for Celtic this weekend.
Things you don’t expect to do when you start blogging: I took four calls from journos yesterday asking if I knew a Celtic fan prepared to go on record as an IRA supporter! I don’t, for the record, not one, so no one else should bother checking. Lack of support for that organisation and, where support exists, an awareness that representing yourself as such, is not inconsequential, will explain the dearth. Just as it’s not inconsequential when you represent your club. I can’t see many inviting the consequences.
I also got a call yesterday and a faxed copy of a contemporary Celtic View (yes, a fax) from a fan who was beside Jock Stein when he went into the crowd at Annfield that day in 1972. It was all very cordial, of course, no one argued with Jock.
Jock was at the height of his powers. Five years from the European Cup win, two from his last final and four months since losing a European Cup semi-final on penalties, he had yet to lose a league as Celtic manager. His comment in the View, “The Wreckers are chanting about things that have nothing to do with football” was respected, Celtic fans went back to football matters. But this was 1972. News from Ireland was despairing. Rangers fans (and according to newspaper reports, Hearts fans) were chanting “UDA” without censure, Celtic fans eventually retorted.
This is all sooo last century, apart from the consequences, of course.
Sharp focus for Sunday…
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Gordon64
Are you suggesting a new manager?
New coaching staff?
No?
Well, I am.
Now I’m confused
Back in the day
Was I a Celtic man who supported the IRA ,or was I an IRA man who supported Celtic?
sipsini
Quite a bunch of brougers.
As you said a few decent questions from the floor, and not a single one answered with any conviction.
And they wonder why they are in the shit.
HH
Philboy-are you his agent or his dad?
eddieinkirkmichael
21:14 on 29 November, 2013
Magnificentseven supporting Oscar all the way
21:08 on
Sorry I did mean to ask. “your point is exactly”
see 21.05…….that is my point, what do we do in the years it takes us to win??
retro Celtic showing some great photos on Twitter tonight
Philbhoy
Do we change his name from Calvin to Kevin? :))
D D
Yes
Trained with them but wasnt picked. Scot Booth was at the Celtic v Dons game Celts won one nil.and Josh was MOTM. Scratched my head on that one.
Jeezo, lighten up dudes it’s Friday nite.
Since we’re talking politics….
…anyone tell me Nelson Mandela’s mums name (in full)?
Clue: Jim Goodwin.
Bonus point: at what age did Mahatma Ghandi become a father? (for a tragically short time)
Point being…..depending on subject matter, time, location and observer…anything can be political.
Itsallinthemindcsc
Ps. I still want answers :-D
Well done Scotland U 16.
The young hoops playing for the under 16s. Are they the bhoys that all go to school together.
http://t.co/vaE2UBin0t
Huff post
philbhoy – free the dam 5!
21:17 on 29 November, 2013
Stop drinking and go to your bed ya idiot
1) Who funds the GB?
2) Who elected them as the conscience of Celtic?
3) What makes them think that such an apparently small minority of ‘fans’ has the right to put ‘our’ club at risk of doing what we want it to do -play football at the highest level in front of a full stadium
…………………………………………………….
1. I believe they are self funded, maybe the pot has more than piss in it.
2. Nobody, and they don’t see themselfs as the conscience of the support, they are of their own mind, as you are and everyone else is.
3. No idea, go on to their site and ask them.
HH
Magnificentseven supporting Oscar all the way
21:18 on
So because it takes time to right a wrong we should just accept the wrong. Great strategy mate, you should be in politics.
Stairheedyrammy?Delaneys Dunkey
He won’t make the first team as long as the present manager/ coaches are in situ.
And you know that.
Lennon is obsessed with winning the league as many times as he can before the huns are back in it and he won’t play youngsters, even if they are rated the best in the world.
Being manager of Celtic has turned into a huge ego trip for him, imo.
Atajic, Johnstone, et al and the manager couldny handle Tony Watt, whatever his “problems” were!!!!
We need a change in management and this is the time to do it.
Jude
Scott Booth picked my Godson/nephew, last season, but didn’t play him. However Jackie MacNamara gave him a 2 year contract in the summer. :)
hun skelper
Personal abuse is what I expected from you.
Off out for some karaoke at the Eagle Inn, And a few goldies too btw. HaiL HaiL
Supporting Celtic just now is hard. We can’t compete. We lose players to bottom EPL teams. Championship teams outbid us. We will buy cheap and sell high. We are a used car shop FFS. We play in a backwater league with no chance of getting out. But all this GB shite is really getting on my wick.
HH
Sorry, bad link there bhoys, dont touch it!!!
D D
Brill. he’s at a good place with Jackie. What position does he play?
Yes St Ninians.
DJBEE
It was ok for me, honestly.
HH
The Croybhoy
The GB are getting on my t*ts too!
The tail wagging the dog!
I lived in Condorrat and was involved with ST Maurices.
You?
eddieinkirkmichael
21:25 on 29 November, 2013
Magnificentseven supporting Oscar all the way
21:18 on
So because it takes time to right a wrong we should just accept the wrong. Great strategy mate, you should be in politics.
that’s not the point I was making
I am sure all of the current players thank Marc Bosman for making them rich, however did any of them put their hand in their pockets to help him out and thank him for sacrificing his career on their behalf??
If we take on UEFA what is the cost to us and who backs us up?? you know the answer to that one.
Politics!!!!! you know nothing of politics, fight the winnable battles, that’s politics
Croybhoy – I take it the 1990s passed you by sir. Watching the deid ones thieve their way to league after league ?
You don’t know you’re born.
We could do a lot worse than sign Stevie May in January.
Great wee player IMO
Jude
Left back, the move from school in Clydebank to digs in Broughty Ferry has done wonders for the wee man.
We missed out on James McCarthy(1 mill ended up 12 mill).Ryan Gauld(again tonight) seems a superstar.
Can we afford to miss out on a homegrown prospect, probably for a song again?Surely 1.5 mill would get him? donotalwayslookabroadcelticsupportersclub.
Philbhoy – Free the Dam 5!
Yip me too man.
THE EXILED TIM-Free the Dam 5
It was the blue bit that sent me to different site.
The Huff post is generally very even handed
Big Wavy
The only way we can sort that is to put a team on the park that the opposition and the referee cannot beat.
Pukki, Baldie, Stokes, bangura, Fridginsson or whatever his name is.
Oh aye, and Brown, Mulgrew, Ledley, Kayal, Commons, Forrest.
Oh aye and Forster?
Okay then, give me a hint.
Burghbhoy
At least he knows the way to goal, young enough to have it all coached out of him >}
HH
Croybhoy
I did the West Highland Way in 1984 to raise funds for the school.
Peter Quayle, PT teacher also did the walk.
Before your time?
PaulElliotsPerm
21:37 on 29 November, 2013
We missed out on James McCarthy(1 mill ended up 12 mill).Ryan Gauld(again tonight) seems a superstar.
Can we afford to miss out on a homegrown prospect, probably for a song again?Surely 1.5 mill would get him?
if 1.5 million would get him we would be mad to turn the chance down, however, I suspect his value is way beyond that, we will not be the only suitors, the boy is a star
DJBEE
Got straight in, never saw a blue bit.
HH
IMO our club is reaching a pivotal point.
We are no longer a unified force.
Our board has lost it’s way and is now at odds
with an increasingly disillusioned support.