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The Belgian league put the cat amongst the waffles yesterday by declaring the Jupiler League over and Bruges champions.  They sorted out their TV and other commercial arrangements and can start next season as soon as it is safe to do so.

There are very few calls to cut seasons short.  Tight leagues, such as in Italy and Spain, would forever  have questions hanging over them, while those assured of winning the title, as in Scotland and England, want to do so on the field, not at a league meeting.  Still, it was nice to see panic among the Null and Voiders, who would rather everyone lost than anyone (Celtic) won.

The Belgians have been pragmatic but premature, football is finished for the season, their champions are assured without controversy and they will accommodate those threatened with relegation.  The rest of Europe still clings to the hope that competition can start behind closed doors in the summer.  It will next month before we know if this is possible, there is no reason to make decisions before then.

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  3. Big Jimmy on

    “VIRTUAL” GRAND NATIONAL ” …on STV Tonight at 5pm.

     

    Ive already placed a Bet on with Bet365..

     

    MON THE TIGER !

     

    HH

  8. PeteTheBeat on

    Anybody with BT Sport should check out ‘I Believe in Miracles’on at 9 pm tonight.

     

     

    It’s the story of that great Clough/Taylor Notts Forest side and their rise from the old 2nd Division to European Champions in 4 years or so.

     

     

    I think it’s the best of the BT Sport films and it was heartwarming to see how they all still seem to enjoy each other’s company still.

     

     

    Celtic interest is provided by MON and John Robertson and there are a few parallels in their story to the Lisbon Lions in that had yopu predicted it 3 years earlier, people would have laughed at you.

     

     

    Also woth catching is a short film about VVD from his upbringing in the Netherlands through his Celtic time and now to his superstar status.

     

     

    I can’t think of another ex Celtic player who did so well after leaving us.

     

     

    Dalglish and Larsson obviously didn’t do too badly but they were established stars at the time of their departures.

  15. Saint Stivs on

    The Glasgow Herald, Monday 16th April, 1916

     

    A NEW RECORD.

     

    The Celtic won the Scottish League Championship on Saturday for the thirteenth time, established a new record, and played two League matches on the same day, a series of achievements remarkable even for a club which has made a reputation of specialising in such things. The Parkhead men required to score six goals against Raith Rovers to aggregate 104 goals for 34 matches, and thereby eclipse Falkirk’s total of 103 goals for the same number of matches gained in season 1907 – 1908. They held a lead of three goals at the interval, but the Fife defenders were unwilling to contribute to the desired record, and it was perilously near the finish when Dodds scored the all-important goal which deprived Falkirk of the honour they had held so long. There was intense excitement among the spectators as the home team gradually approached the century of goals and then forged ahead, and several hundreds took train for Motherwell in expectation of seeing Celtic win the match postponed from March 25, and annex the Championship for the third year in succession and the thirteenth time since the competition was inaugurated in 1890.

  16. David66 on

    Have the cowards at the SFA awarded us the title yet?

     

     

    Nah didnae think so. Have they even made a decision as to what will happen yet?

     

     

    Nah didnae think so.

     

     

    They will wait to see what is happening down south, in other words shitting themselves to say Celtic are deserved CHAMPIONS.

     

     

    D. :)

  18. Saint Stivs on

    1916-04-15: Motherwell 1-3 Celtic, LeagueThis is a featured page

     

     

    In this, the second of two games played in the one day by Celtic the team that had earlier hammered Raith Rovers by six goals to nil had an enforced change, with Trooper Joe Cassidy coming in for the injured O’Kane.

     

    Motherwell’s outside right in this game, Frank Kelly would later play for the bhoys before serving in France and sadly after surviving the war lost his life in a train accident in France after the war had ended. LINK

     

     

    This result brings Celtic’s current unbeaten run to 23 matches since losing to Hearts on 13th November 1915.

     

     

    Teams

     

    MOTHERWELL:

     

    Jock Rundell, Penman, McSkimming, McStay, Finlayson, Archibald, F Kelly, Waugh, Robertson, Gray, McNeil

     

    Scorers: Robertson

     

     

     

    CELTIC:

     

    Shaw, McNair, McGregor, Young, Dodds, McMaster, McAtee, Gallacher, Cassidy, McMenemy, Browning

     

    Scorers: Browning, McMenemy, Dodds (pen)

     

     

    Referee: G. H. McKeane (Glasgow)

     

    Attendance: 10,000

     

     

    The Glasgow Herald, Monday 16th April, 1916

     

    A NEW RECORD.THE SECRET OF SUCCESS

     

    The Parkhead officials hoped at one time to be able to play the same eleven in both matches, but McColl and Johnstone were unable to assist their club in the final stages of a memorable contest. Their enforced absence merely emphasised that feature which has been the distinguished trait of past and present Celtic championship teams, the adaptability of the players and their facility for taking up a new position in an emergency. Dodds, usually a left full back, took up the centre half position and scored a goal in each match, and O’Kane, the reserve centre, scored twice against Raith Rovers and stood down in favour of Trooper Cassidy at Motherwell, where the soldier player was also seen to advantage, though not successful at goal. Were professional football the dishonest business it is sometimes said to be, the Celts might have foregone victory at Motherwell and prolonged the life of the competition. Defeat would have invested their remaining matches with no little interest and added to the club treasury, but financial considerations do not weigh with a club which once declined to take part in a replayed Glasgow final rather than have the venue decided by a quibble. Not the least meritorious record gained by Celtic is their carrying through their entire League programme without taking advantage of the official permission to play in mid-week, and so encroach upon the claims of labour at a time when every hour lost in the factory means so much to our brave fellows at the front.

  24. Saint Stivs on

    LEFTCLICKTIC on 4TH APRIL 2020 4:41 PM

     

    SAINT STIVS

     

     

     

     

    Thank you for your input on here.HH

     

     

    just passing the time bud.

  35. Saint Stivs on

    Celtic:

     

    Fallon, Craig, Gemmell, Murdoch, McNeill, Brogan, Johnstone, Wallace, Chalmers, Auld (Callaghan), Hughes.

     

    Scorers: Wallace (12), McNeill (43), Chalmers (56), Johnstone (65)

     

     

    Morton:

     

    Neilsen, Ferguson, Rankin (Mason), Jensen, Gray, Strachan, Coakley, Allan, Harper, Sweeney, Bartram

     

    Scorer: Allan (2)

     

     

    Referee: J W Paterson (Bothwell)

     

    Attendance: 48,394

     

     

    celtic in all white with green trims, brammer of a strip

     

     

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3He1odIH78

  36. WEE BGFC on

    Hey yall.

     

    For those who don’t know me and Da are going to be doing some tunes on the youtube live later on.

     

    Think I’ve got the live streaming thing down.

     

    Will update you all with the link and a time in due course. Country with a bit of scottish and irish mixed in (calm down nothing too dodgy ;))

     

    Take it easy

     

     

    HH

     

    WEE BGFC

  38. South Of Tunis on

    Covid 19 – Italy @6pm -4/4/20

     

    Cases,-124,632

     

    Dead–15,362.

     

    681 people died in the 24 hr period between 6pm yesterday and 6pm today

  41. Tontine Tim on

    SAINT STIVS on 4TH APRIL 2020 4:19 PM

     

     

    1916-04-15: Motherwell 1-3 Celtic, League

     

     

    Motherwell’s outside right in this game, Frank Kelly would later play for the bhoys before serving in France and sadly after surviving the war lost his life in a train accident in France after the war had ended.

     

     

    *Frank Kelly was james’s oldest son and possibly his successor at Parkheid, things may have been a lot different if he had survived. we’ll never know though.

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