Willie Maley’s 1917 62-game unbeaten run in domestic football (or just football, as it was back then) was matched against Kilmarnock, but as Rangers fans found out in 1998, you should never assume that just because you can match a record, you can beat it.
Tomorrow Celtic’s shot at history goes on the line at McDiarmid Park against St Johnstone, where we last lost a domestic game, back in May 2016. St Johnstone have already relieved Celtic of a couple of points this season, and will have no fears of what they face in tomorrow’s early kick off.
For Brendan Rodgers, the challenge will be to peak energy levels after an emotionally and physically draining evening against Bayern Munich on Tuesday. His players are Celtic, not Robotic, and he will know there is a very real chance of a reversal, if we are anything less than 100% prepared.
History is yours for the taking, Celtic. Bring the glory home from Perth.
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ERNIE LYNCH on 4TH NOVEMBER 2017 9:51 AM
JIMBOB on 4TH NOVEMBER 2017 9:46 AM
When was the remembrance day minute’s silence introduced to football games?
It wasn’t always there.
Will you be going to a proper, dedicated remembrance day ceremony? Or are you not that bothered?
Cannot put an exact date on it.
It probably came about through a combination of Gordon Brow’s desperate attempts to be Ultr British and TVs, ever tightening stranglehold on the game.
The above was helped along by an increasingly over the top society which cannot resist kicking the nuts out of things.
DENA29 on 4TH NOVEMBER 2017 9:38 AM
And a great to celebrate a Birthday. Have a hooptastic day G and hopefully the record of 63 will top it off…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Hooooooooooopy Birthday Dena, hope the Bhoys bring a present home from Perth for you:-)
Ernie,
We enhance our award in the eyes of the same persons who awarded us .
Possibly more importantly: We also prove we are indeed worthy of the award to those who did not ( or who would never ) vote for us.
We are indeed fortunate to have a choice, others have sacrificed to give us this facility. let’s choose respectfully and wisely.
HH.
Jimbob
The poppy has gone full 180 and is no longer a solemn remembrance symbol for those who gave their lives in the unnecessary loss of life in the 1st world war or any other war thereafter, it is now a celebration (enforced) of war and patriotism. It has been politically hijacked to this end and as you have evidenced in your post is now a baton ram to beat those who decide not to celebrate patriotism, war and murder.
MWD used to wear one before the hijack.
Happy Birthday Dena, hope you have a fabulous day.
Was lovely to meet you last week. :-)
Bigot Alert Bigot Alert
The unwashed will be taking to the streets of Paisley this afternoon.
Don’t know if it’s
A) To protest about guy Fawkes getting a day named after him
B) To protest about the uppity time not being quiet
C) To protest about the accounts coming out that mark the beginning of the end(again)
Let’s be careful out there,they are mad !
What exactly is the symbolism today re wearing a Poppy?
Is it exclusively to remember the fallen in World Wars 1 and 2?
Or does it extend to all who are/have served in the armed forces?
Anyone?
Good luck to the bhoys today.
Bring it home.
Invincibles
MWD
Happy birthday Dena
What a waste of time and energy
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A foot
Happy Birthday Dena, have a lovely day, to be remembered for the Invincibles reaching 63.
HH
Hoops birthday Dena and belated wishes of birthdayness to BT and BRTH
MWD
Every year we have the poppy debate – with the same old comments being rolled out
Wear one or don’t – its up to you Your conscience will let you know what to do
Everyone has there own reasons to wear or decline
For what its worth – I see no harm in Celtic having one on their shirt
Today I am far more interested in Celtic breaking a record that has stood for 100 years
67ECW
great day to have a birthday dena
Hoopy Birthday
Have a Happy Birthday Dena….little Mrs dynamite hh
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPY Birthday Dena
Two fine Celtic buses just left Dunblane, the famous Tommy Gemmell CSC and the Celtic FC team bus after the team was well looked after last night and this morning by the Bhoys and Ghirls at the Hydro.
Treble Winning Captain…
Prompter than the prompterest thing ever the book has dropped. ;-)
Many thanks
S
Hoopy Birthday cuddles Dena..
Belated wishes to B.T and B.R.T.H.
Incredible Dena, have a Wonderful day watching the Record breaking Celts.
” McGrory of Arsenal just never sounded as good as McGrory of Celtic ”
Keiran Tierney won’t be hawked like a Jimmy McGrory to be sold like the family jewels or Kenny Dalglish despite the naysayers this is how it is to be modern Celtic.
The Bellarmine boy created a new benchmark with our manager and put a new contract down for him that cements Celtic’s future for years to come. It follows that to be part of the dynasty players will sign up to a Celtic, a Celtic that obliterated its oldest rival.
They’ve given us James McGrory and Paul McStay and Celtic legends are what Celtic fans make them, here’s to the Rodgers, Maley’s McGrory’s McStay’s and Tierney’s in the class of the 63.
Hail Hail
Let’s break the record Celts
HH
Belated happy birthdays to BT and BRTH and a very happy birthday to DENA!
(BRTH – Doesn’t the telly make one look younger? :-))
Happy birthday Dena.
Have a brilliant day.
Belated birthday wishes to BRTH.
Hail Hail
Bobby Madden would be a madyin te have a badyin the day.
Wouldn’t he?
If we can keep 11 fit players on the park we should be fine.
My guess is Broonie or CG for an early bath.
Then we get the grovelling apology after the game.
Poppy Debate.
We live in a democracy do what you think is correct for your beliefs.
My belief is it is no longer about Remembrance it’s more about he armed force.
I struggle with the concept of the Poppy only remembering our military war dead and not civilians who died in conflicts.
Anyway back to football, I will be unable to see the game today, which is highly unusual. I hope when I check later that we will have created a new British record.
Enjoy the game folks.
Hail Hail
A very Happy Hoopy Birthday to Dena, have a great day pal:))
SP
Gooooood Morning CQN
And a very Hoooooopy Invincible Birthday to Dena
Best of luck to our Invincibles in achieving 63
I love that number for some reason :-)))
Incidentally is Remembrance Sunday, not next weekend ?
Why does society insist on starting everything early
Answers on a postcard
After 63
The Timreaper
How ya doing big guy?
Re the accounts, if, as you say, the £3m to Ashley was the supposed value of unsold stock then their cash position is even worse than I thought.
No matter what they say this Newco has lost around £40Million since its inception and will continue to lose money.
I am told that King cannot put in any more money and that despite what it says he will do in the accounts he cannot and will not actually fulfil those commitments and so the position is far worse and even tighter in terms of cash than is stated in the accounts.
Add to that the suns due to former managers and being ramped up in legal fees, compensation payments and the need for new funds for a new manager and you have a severely busted flush.
St Stivs.
I was amazed to hear the Souness interview and continue to be amazed by what is so blindingly obvious to anyone who has any media knowledge and/or the ability to look at how Sports media works in the modern era.
Souness is not an unintelligent man and I hear he can be quite charming. I, therefore, conclude that having worked in the media for several years he knows he is talking complete and utter bullshit with this argument – but not for the reasons that many will think.
He says that there is a drop off in interest in Scottish Football down south and that this is caused by there being a weak Rangers and/or no challenge to Celtic.
Even ignoring the superficial argument that a challenge to Celtic can only come from Rangers this is nonsense. Fergie’s Aberdeen and wee Jim McLean’s Dundee Utd at one point challenged both Glasgow teams but it didn’t really result in a huge rise in interest in Scottish Football.
Back in those days, both ITV and BBC had regular features on the Scottish game and Scotland produced a whole host of good players many of whom eventually found their way south of the border.
However, Graham Souness, of all people, should know that Sky, and to a lesser extent BT, concentrate hugely on covering (first) the English Game (second) The Spanish and German Leagues and then, if you are lucky (Third) comes the Scottish game – although there are arguments to say that the Scottish coverage is even further down the pecking order.
In England, BBC coverage is now an England and Wales only affair and all Scottish coverage is virtually non-existent.
ITV just don’t count at all anymore.
The fact is that the global brands of Barcelona, Madrid, PSG, Man Utd and others mean that more and more people are fixed and interested on these big teams from the big leagues in Europe with the rest of the footballing world very much in their shadow.
Sky, where Souness works, has played a big part in this in this country.
The ability to travel widely and cheaply in Europe also means that foreign clubs can and do attract British fans on a regular basis and internet broadcasting can beam a particular club into your living room – something that Celtic should be far better at in my opinion.
In Spain, Barcelona and Real Madrid now attract the support of over 79% of all football fans who watch on TV. Athletico Madrid, Valencia and Athletic Bilbao don’t muster 10% and they are the next three big clubs in terms of viewers. Once famous names like Celta Vigo, Real Betis and Villa Real are very much also-rans.
The Spanish League are now wholly dependent financially on the money brought in by El Clasico viewing rights and Spanish Football is suffering for it with the provincial clubs getting poorer and poorer each year.
Souness also ignores the fact that viewing figures for Match of the Day and general interest in the English league has dropped off in Scotland because, strangely enough, it is a league to which many Scottish Football fans just cannot relate.
It is hyper-marketed, false, showboated media driven drivel, and while the big names who spend colossal sums on players of dubious ability may actually make a mark in Europe this year, in the main what is on offer is utter rubbish in terms of sports entertainment.
The Sky technology is more entertaining than what they are actually filming.
If Celtic and Rangers were “eachy peachy” to use EBT Rae’s terminology, It might conceivably increase interest from the half hour viewing morons in an English pub 4 times per year and it may attract the attention of some true sports fans who like to see a big game and a close contest. You can’t ignore that as a reality.
However, Souness and Rae’s argument is predicated on the notion that only Rangers can challenge Celtic (something that is not historically accurate) and that it is more important to attract the man with the pie and the pint in Clapham than the season ticket holder or occasional seat buyer at Pittodrie, Tynecastle, Easter Road and elsewhere in Scotland.
The Souness/Murray driven version of Rangers didn’t want a competitive Scottish league and instead wanted to bury all competition within the league. That is a fair enough argument for promoting Rangers (short or medium term) but holds no water if you are trying to promote top-flight Scottish Football overall and for a prolonged period of time.
Even the dreaded joint sponsorship and business partnership between Celtic and Rangers must be seen as a disaster for Scottish Football overall as it made everyone else feel like also-rans — especially when you had one bank funding the whole league and so that same bank could either make or break a rival club at the whim of a crooked ego driven maniac with close connections to said bank.
I cite the systematic and barely disguised destruction of the 1999/2000 Hearts team as an example of how to neuter perceived competition via Ibrox and The Mound.
Further, selling media rights is also about selling controversy, or potential controversy, and part of the attraction of a Celtic v Rangers game to the broadcaster is all the horrible baggage that comes with what was the traditional fixture (now dead for obvious reasons).
Is it really in the interests of Scottish Football to play up and highlight sectarianism, potential trouble and flash points as a marketing tool for a media company?
No, it is not.
Since the demise of Oldco, many clubs in Scotland have refound their identity in the community, their business mojo, their ability to bring forward youth talent and to create local and national interest in their club and their players.
Everyone in Scotland can see what a good job is being done by the Tommy Wrights, Derek McInnes, and Neil Lennon’s in the league and there is an interest in other teams which was not there when the business model which Souness espouses ruled the day.
Yes, all but two clubs struggle financially, but that struggle is being well fought and would be enhanced by fairer, bigger and better media coverage from the state broadcaster whose TV coverage could be classed as a disgrace – but only if it improved by 100% on the current pitiful level.
Souness makes no connection between the change in media coverage and the current perception of Scottish Football down south and for someone involved in broadcasting that is equivalent to a surgeon examining a patient on the operating table and failing to notice that a limb has been severed and the would is open and bleeding.
He lives close to the very lovely Westbourne Roundabout between Poole and Bournemouth and you can go on a very nice wee pub crawl around the bars and wine bars that go all around the roundabout itself and take in the antiques shops and boutiques in between times.
However, like the roundabout itself, Souness just goes round and round in circles with this daft mantra and again like the roundabout he is nowhere near the reality of Scottish Footballing life.
And all of that is before we even start on why Rangers died, cheated, and their real position in footballing terms were they to play the game on the same basis as every other football club!
The argument is that of a well quaffed and well quiffed dunderheid!
Remembering Celtic’s Fallen…
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/today-we-remember-peter-johnstone-and-all-of-celtics-fallen/
Leigh Griffiths not on team bus that has just arrived at McDiarmid Park.
Happy Birthday to a special ghirl, Dena. Have a brilliant day pal x
It seems I’ve missed the birthdays of BT and BRTH. I hope you had a great time lads.
Just arrived in Perth. C’mon the history makers!!!
TWC.
Rumours that some Celtic players have been suffering with a virus.
Maybe Leigh?
Hail Hail
Happy Birthday DENA have a great day !!!
Unchanged starting 11 from Tuesday
Happy Birthday Dena – have a great day.
Can I thank everyone for the kind wishes yesterday.
Now that I have finally entered my Thirties I intend taking life a little easier ………. and might even plan yet another retirement if the runes fall the right way and my plans come together!
But then again ………
By the way “Would” in the above rant should read “wound”.
Hello again all you young rebels.
Just back in from a hunt a hun day again, it really is
getting very difficult to find them, maybe i’ll go out
after midnight :-))
Think we are getting set up tonight for a msm
barrage of anti Celtic news so hope our young lhads
screw the nut in Perth, there will be many traps put
in their way hopefully they will realise they are being
set up.
Down to the rebel peninsula in the morning to have
a few beers with Paddymac and the bhoys, don’t
know if EDDIEINKIRKMICHAEL has arrived in Oz yet
so maybe see him and his lovely daughter Emma
as well.
And now a big happy birthday to a CQN legend DENA
what a star.
H.H Mick