If charm brought European success, Brendan Rodgers would have left Celtic Park with the Champions League trophy yesterday. After speaking to the media he sat down with a small number of fans and immediately bound himself to the group by quoting the vernacular of the Celtic Park of his youth.
He spoke about it all. Paul McStay was his favourite all time Celtic player, “when we were in trouble you always looked to Paul to do something”. There was a special place for Anton Rogan, “flying down the wing” but it was Tommy Burns who made the most durable impression on Brendan.
“He went to Mass every morning before training [at Reading]. Family and people were important to him. He told me all about managing Celtic”.
There was a glint in the eye when he recalled stops in Baird’s Bar on trips to Glasgow before heading to Celtic Park, and of recounting his trips for weeks afterwards. The thought crossed my mind that this was a guy who had just picked up keys to kingdom he dreamed of ruling.
There was a short sentence: “I was 39 when I went to Liverpool”. He didn’t need to elaborate. The Liverpool job came when Brendan was still young enough to be play. He’s sure he is a better manager now than then, although he was a pretty impressive manager to be able to land the Liverpool job when he was still a pup.
Several of you have noted that the pickup in season ticket sales will pay the reported multi-million pound salary Brendan will earn. That will pale into insignificance compared to the money his family spent in the Superstore yesterday. They are a very proud family.
He wants his teams to defend aggressively. The responsibility to develop players remains, but he noted that it takes the right experienced players to properly bring on young talent. Oh, and no one needed to tell him the importance of the last week in August.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the newspaper advert fundraiser, the money is now in and fundraising closed. The Guardian and Tribune De Geneve have been paid, and the balance will go to Mary’s Meals.
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Have the resolution 12 adverts been placed today?
TT
The Missing Warbs mystery deepens.
Reports coming in of two men setting out on a boat on Hogganfield Loch………only one returned.
On This Day 1967
Hurried home from work. Quick dinner. Settled in front of telly, with green and white ribboned bottle of Champagne sitting on top.( No one thought of putting it in the fridge!)
Game over- Cup won, dash down to St.Pat’s ,Anderston for quick Mass.
Home via off licence to party. Phone red hot and more joining the celebration.
Party in a different house from Thursday to Sunday.
Working on a bank conversion in Main St. R’glen, when, on Tuesday,the apprentice dashed into the hut during tea break to tell us that Bobby Murdoch was on the Main St. , sowing his medal to one and all.
‘Twas a very good year.
TWISTSNTURNS
Yes,boss. I know where my bread is buttered.
I’m right-handed,so I follow your reasoning…
*showing
TINYTIM on 25TH MAY 2016 10:04 AM
Have the resolution 12 adverts been placed today?
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Next wednesday
GEORDIE MUNRO on 25TH MAY 2016 9:59 AM
Jc2,
Try looking at flights from one of the North England airports as their schools provably won’t be off yet.
Geordie,
Mrs Emeraldbee and I, two sons/wives, four grand kids heading to Malaga end of June saved £1400 in total flying from Mankychester rather than Glasgow! An utter nonsense of course, but the savings paid for the villa for one week.
Hell slap it into them.
I’m sure other people have noticed but from seeing various bit’s of coverage from the SMSM pay attention to articles about Celtic and *rangers. The coverage of football talks about *rangers Celtic players, matches, classics etc. When it’s an article about crowd trouble, riots, violence etc it’s suddenly becomes Celtic *rangers..
iki
Cheers.
TT
TWISTS N TURNS on 25TH MAY 2016 9:52 AM
Geez. Won our first game 7-1 and I’m getting grief already.
The Green man needs to play up front
And what about the youngsters ?
HOOPY LISBON LIONS DAY TO ALL TIMS TODAY
ESPECIALLY THE BIRTHDAY BHOYS AND GHIRLS
I Quit.
Bunch of overpaid whinging wasters. I’m off across to FF. Got a better salary too. Something called an EBT.
( roon ye’s)
Twisty
You lost the dressing room, time to go.
Emerald bee,
Perfik.
We’re the same, well similar. Majorky early July. £800 quid less from Newcastle than it was embra.
We’ve done it for a few years now. Normally a little cheaper but not worth the extra drive for but the flight times are far better.
Always handy when you’ve got 2 hyper kids. Lol
HH
To all of the remaining Lions – Thank you for that great day, which still keeps us warm on cold nights, forty-nine years ago.
Gone, but never forgotten – Ronnie Simpson, Bobby Murdoch and Jimmy Johnstone, thank you and rest in peace.
Hail Hail
Maybe Warbs is off looking for King’s warchest……..
And so King Dave of Glibland did give The Magic One a map. And said to The Magic One, “Look at this map. Study it well. Put on your Magic Hat and go forth unto the kingdom and you will find my warchest. But beware. Do not deviate from the path on the map. For deviation will bring trouble.
When you find the warchest guard it safely. Count the money in it and then call the number on the back of the map. For this is the number of a wise man – Baron Keith of Radarland. And Baron Keith will announce the amount of money in the warchest to the Sevconians. And the Sevconians will cheer because Baron Keith will have changed the amount to a number acceptable to the Sevconians. And the Sevconians will have been duped once more.
But it will not matter. For Baron James from the land of lamb will have conjured up a fable about how King Lionel of Catalonia will be joining the Sevconians.
And the Sevconians will believe it. For they are a gullible people. And they will cheer. And they will feel good.
And King Dave will still be King.
49 years ago – kicked off with Mass in St Mungo’s Greenock and thence to a preparotory warm up game on the street outside my granny’s place. 3 generations gathered in the front room where you could see the river over the top of the wee black and white telly. Sick when Inter scored but we knew we were better, we knew it would come – and it did! Mayhem at the end, the youngsters all had a 20 a side game back on the street, it was a cracking night, I got really hot at the fitba and ran into the house for a drink, picked up a glass from the mantelpiece and downed it in one – unknowingly taking my first (huge) Whisky – it’s been all downhill since then!
Btw – Eurochamps – who gave you your Talk Assesment at ND?
Hail hail
Guys Thanks for RYANAIR details.
Hoped someone on here would know a ploy .
: > (
As I said my Wee nephew lives in NORTH of Engurland.
(When I say wee he is 6ft 6)
So a new flight from down there a better option.
Cheers
The Tim reaper
Yeah. Was a tough gig:-)
Better go do some paid work now
JINKYREDSTAR on 25TH MAY 2016 10:26 AM
Your Granny lived at 3, Generations Gathered?
What an unusual address ;)
Hunderbirds yes sounds like a name from an Ian M Banks novel!
Gibshill in Greenock was famous for unusual things :-)
Brung up in a small bitter orange mining village in deepest darkest Lanarkshire.
10 years old in ’67. Watched the game at my granny’s. Ate a biscuit every time there was a corner.
It was in the physche that we would be gallant losers, confirmed when we went behind to a soft penalty and their keeper performing miracles.
It was surreal when we won, we absolutely destroyed Inter and looked good doing it.
I ran out in the street after Billy lofted the Big Cup in the air.
At 10 years old, I expected people to be out in the street celebrating, I kicked some tumbleweed doon the road. To be fair to some, they did say “yer team done well son” they were the exception though.
That win DID kill Rangers.
Greetings from Jaipur, Rajahstan, India.
I have not been able to access this site ( to comment )for some time so have been unable to contribute to the press placement. I still wish to do so.
How uplifting these last few days have been which in complete contrast to the moaning Minnie’s who seem to take an inordinate amount of pleasure in negativity. Celtic will always have difficult spells and the support should not be supine however we are more than a club and the fates look as though they have intervened to set the good ship on a better course. All those who thought that the support has drifted away will be proved wrong ( again ). The level of commitment to Celtic, as an idea, really has no boundaries. There is clearly pent up desire for Celtic to play attractive football, win trophies in Scotland and again make their remarkable mark on the European scene.
Jaipur had it’s hottest day a few days ago in recorded history here- it reached 51 degrees and the young lads were still out on scrubland playing cricket. I love their joyous enthusiasm. Reminded me of my Gorbals days when the all consuming passion was football ( even heady football ) and Celtic. I saw us lose to Clyde in my first Scottish Cup Final ( replay ) to Clyde and so it went on through the fifties ( 7-1 aside ) with the Board under Robert Kelly being jeered and booed during games. We lost cup finals to Hearts, Dunfermline, Rangers and regular semi finals to boot ( Kilmarnock 4-1 after a replay ).The early 60s was a terrible time. Rangers won everything and regularly hammered us. I was at Ibrox in 1963 ( we lost 3-0 ) in front of the smallest Celtic support I can recall for a game against them. Always the Celtic spirit was alive amongst those who held it in their hearts. Jock came and unleashed that pent up passion with a Charlie corner , a Billy header and I still recall standing on that terracing knowing something monumental had happened. Celtic were transformed to winners that day. All the bigots, masons or SFAX couldn’t stop the forces that had unleashed. Celtic were going to win the European Cup. No doubt. I have often spoken of my late father’s prediction that if Celtic could just win the league then we would win the European Cup. He has seen Real Madrid in Glasgow ( I was there too in 1960 ) and he observed they play Celtic style football.
Sheltering from the heat today I have been reflecting on the turn of the wheel of fate. Brendan then Hibs then big turnout at Celtic Park. It’s all so beautiful.
Now all this football stuff back then was happening just as the Vietnam War was capturing Western youth ( that included me ). South America ( Che ) was getting into a freedom fight as were the oppressed minority in the North of Ireland. A whole generation of Celtic supporters were being politicised but mostly the football came first such was the heady success.
I have also been absorbed in a reread of Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s Love in the days of rage- about the Paris Spring of 1968 ( I was there too for bits of that and saw Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir lead a demonstration from the Place de la Republique).
There is reference to Salazar the president of the murderous fascist Portuguese regime – who presented the European Cup to Billy. A wry smile crossed my face as I thought of a few who could start an argument in an empty room. Should Billy have accepted the trophy, declined, read a statement. I blame the Board.
Good luck Brendan. You know you have a duty of care.
BAWSMAN
Dalmellington,Patna,Drongan? A whole list of suspects,tbh.
Places like that remind me how lucky I was to grow up in Kilwinning!
Right was ooot in the Heat of Bannockburn :-))) there – taking dogs for a stroll
Been down south a couple of days, whit have a missed oot oan
And will nip through to Celtic park this afternoon and Renew 2 Season tickets, just for my Da’s birthday, or is it for Lisbon day
Feel much better now, and I see will have MWD as company :-)) Nice
GARCIA LORCA
Welcome back,mate. Wish I’d had the chance to chat with you in Wimbledon two years ago,but just as you were pointed out to me,the intermission ended!
I’d say you’ve been around,bud. And fair play to you. Some memories the oul’ fellas have,the pain and misery then unbridled joy.
As I saw my first game in Autumn 67 and my first defeat in Autumn 71-aye,THAT yin!-I feel as if I did it the other way round from such as yourself and my Dad. He was at a fair few of the games you mention,btw-inc the 7-3 final.
For me,as for most of us,watching Celtic is all about,erm,watching Celtic. You are gonna have a right moan wi yer pals after a bad performance,whatever. Course you are. Highlight of yer bliddy week,ruined!
But NOT watching Celtic?
No. Never. It’s unthinkable.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
You might have been seen as the Messiah in certain quarters had you been born on the Twelfth:))
BMCUWP, Law mate. Every 12th they invited floot bawns over from Ireland, they did their practicing right at our front windae.
I was the only maroon blazer on the primary school bus and the only black one on the secondary one. Had quite a few scraps back in the day. Still handsome though
Twists ‘m Turns
Your take on 25 May 1967 as being the reason for Rangers’ bankruptcy is very probably correct.
Professor Reilly came to the same conclusion 20 years ago in the Herald. He also pointed out the unwelcome truth that young people in green and white had.a disproportionate chance of getting killed after OF games
49 years ago this evening my Gran and her neighbour from up the close walked round the deserted Glasgow Green, rosary beads in hand, saying endless decades of The Rosary until a tramp ran up and cuddled them, proclaiming the victory.
COWIEBHOY
Proud of you,mate.
Well done.
HH.
hrvatskijim
THANKS for taking time to speak to my wee friend.
BAWSMAN
Law? Wow,I thought I had it hard having to walk the length of the town to go to school instead of going to the one round the corner wi my pals.
Mind,I was about ten before I found out that all those bands on the weekend nearest my birthday weren’t for me-and I’m not kidding either!
TONYDONNELLY67 on 25TH MAY 2016 9:42 AM
Tony there is room for reasoned debate on PL and any other board members or employee. When it happens it’s not always down to level5 or huns trying to divide us.
I am sure you must have some doubts about what PL is reported to have said to the Sun about ‘ more of the same and nothing changing’ (paraphrase). When you compare what he said and what has actually transpired?
I’ve never been to CQN Corner, but I know some of the bhoys and ghirls that do go and I first met in the last 6 at various charity events or Celtic/CQN Hootenannies. Others I have known all my adult life. One or two I have known all my life. They are Genuine Celts with Celtic’s best interests at heart. Do we always agree on all matters Celtic? Hell no, there are as many different opinions as there are different people.
That is a good thing, when you really think about it, it’s what makes us strong!
The debate will continue…
HH
Garcia Lorca @ 10.42
There is reference to Salazar the president of the murderous fascist Portuguese regime – who presented the European Cup to Billy.
I didn’t know that – in fact it has never, ever occurred to me to wonder who exactly presented our own King Billy with the Big Cup!
Every day is a school day on CQN.
BLANTYREKEV et al
There have been some marvellous tales about a marvellous day 49 years ago.
I canny remember it,but then,I can barely remember Saturday. Though I remember us beating Aberdeen 2-1 four months later…
But-if anyone beats SOUTHOFTUNIS at 833,they have my total admiration!
SALTIRES EN SEVILLA on 25TH MAY 2016 11:06 AM
When does reasoned debate become an obsession?????
HH.
Happy Anniversary Bhoys. 49 years ago the Lions roared.
Magic!
KLV
EMERALD BEE
That’s nothin,mate.
In 72,in Barcelona,a trophy was awarded by the nearest toilet cleaner.
GREENPINATA
You may as well ask…
When does stifling honest debate by calling us huns become an obsession?