When Ibrox legend Walter Smith issued a statement in June 2012 saying, “We wish the new Rangers Football Club every good fortune”, he no doubt hoped that one day the club would win a major trophy. That happened yesterday, when Celtic lost only their second domestic trophy since 2016 and their first league in a decade.
Credit where it’s due, “new Rangers Football Club” have yet to lose a league game this season and are worthy winners. Like old Rangers, they chose to play Casino Football, accumulating £86m in operational losses in their 8-year of financial history, while, as ever, Celtic live within their means. There is not a hope in hell they would have won the league this season otherwise.
Notwithstanding this, Celtic can reflect on a season of unmitigated failure, and the feeling that they never asked a question of a team who famously bottled every opportunity to win a prize against full time opposition. Had we got our act together, even as late as January, the outcome may have been different.
Today, the consequences of failure are ours. We will explore the reasons at the end of the season, none is insurmountable. The consequences of playing Casio Football are structural and also for a later date. We got many things wrong this season but trying to live without our means is not one of them.
In January 2005, When Martin O’Neill’s Celtic were sliding below the water line before our eyes, I told you we were 5 years into a Generation of Domination (I was mocked and abused thoroughly for my trouble). How spectacularly correct that turned out. It was not a gambler’s hunch; it was the inevitable outcome of how Celtic and Oldco were corporately managed.
I know it’s difficult to step back and look beyond today’s pain, but this is not Self-Flagellation Quick News, I’ll leave that to others. What was overwhelmingly evident in January 2005 remains so today. 21 years in, we are now in our second successive Generation of Domination (cue 2005’s blind reaction). All that has changed is the weather, not the climate, so forgive me a lack of panic.
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BIG JIMMY
OK i know who you mean.
Apols typos.
They’ll magic up somebody else’s money from somewhere next season paul67.
The Greenock Shammy
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EE5rvBFXoAATE-K?format=jpg&name=large
Hi Paul 67. so Like old Rangers, they chose to play Casino Football, accumulating £86m in operational losses in their 8-year of financial history, while, as ever, Celtic live within their means. There is not a hope in hell they would have won the league this season otherwise.
So Paul correct me if I’m wrong, but is this in breach of FFP rules ?, and if so what will ( in my opinion ) our overpaid, Blue pound lover C E O do about it ?. Nothing I suppose like the 5 way agreement, Cheating with EBT’s, LNS, same club myth and Res 12, The Blue pound at any cost for our Board any cost !!!!!!. Hope they were tuned into the behavior & celebrations in George Square yesterday, cause that is what they want and in my opinion have helped create to come back and do it again and again while spouting their vile bigotry. Our board should hang their heads in shame
I think there is still a helluva a lot of unknowns to come out of the club as to why this season’s displays were so inept and lacking, por cierto
There is NO FFP rules in Scottish football, none, por cierto
St Stivs – you mean your younger than me😀
aye i am only 54, it just my hobbies make me appear much much older.
were you in school with any of the Highholm Higgins ? I dont think i asked you before.
SFTB
My question wasn’t aimed at defeating your point .
In fact your response is accurate and true .
I wouldn’t be able to do the job that a seasoned professional manager would do .
No should I be able to .
My sarcastic comments are born out of hurt and frustration.
The question was aimed that the praise received by PL and NL for winning a one was race than we were stick ins for.
The same with Stevie Woods getting praise for improving Fraser Forster , but no criticism for destroying Barkas .
The truth is , he was most probably not responsible for either.
We have been let down badly by our leaders this season and betrayed by them over the continuation myth.
TT
Calling all cars ! Calling all cars !
There IS a police investigation under way and action will be taken against “fans” who breached the coronovirus restrictions yesterday .
Supt Nigel Henry (not a very Tim name) of the PSNI is conducting the inquiry in Belfast.
Meanwhile, somewhere in the 1970’s,Police Scotland have reassured the general public that they have found Mrs McDonald’s car after three days.
Presenter on Radio Nova (Dublin, Kildare etc) has just said ‘ we are the people’ to Rangers fans everywhere.
I just sent on a text explaining that this slogan is not about football
he is a Kiwi and a rugby dude so i didn’t hassle him , just educated him
the shamrock strip in vivid colour, look at the size of the crowd for what i assume is a kilmarnock game.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvMyPFuXEAYhrG6?format=jpg&name=small
Rangers Shame- banner headline on STV (who did a decent job)
BBC Scotland- banner headline- Rangers Celebrations……
Raman terrified to say Liquidation
thems are not celebrating 55 or 1 , thems are celebrating/relieved that we didn’t get 10.
“January 2005, …. I told you we were 5 years into a Generation of Domination (I was mocked and abused thoroughly for my trouble)”
[ And you have been again Pablo ]
“What was overwhelmingly evident in January 2005 remains so today. 21 years in, we are now in our second successive Generation of Domination (cue 2005’s blind reaction)”
[ Right on cue ! ]
Celtic cyberspace will be punctuated with “negative waves” (to quote Oddball in Kelly’s Heroes) for a while.
Shows people care admittedly.
Which is a good thing.
Like hope.
Hope is a good thing, perhaps the best of things (to quote Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption).
Maybe I should stop watching movies and get out more?
But alas, if I did I might run into neanderthal white trash – snarling, foaming at the mouth, defiant, staunch – all the while smashing up memorials.
Someone on here yesterday called them “sore winners”.
Respect to that person. Nailed it.
Eternally grateful I’m not one of them.
Hail hail
Keep The Faith
Tiny Tim
Agreed about the Continuity Myth but not about diminishing our 9iar.
As an honestly earned set of triumphs it ranks second only to 66-74
Saint Stivs
How good is that strip?
Bring it back. It would sell MILLIONS
BBC….Let’s take the heat off the huns by reporting how other teams’ fans broke covid-19 rules.
STV pretty scathing
buzzbomb
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvL3PeEXcAELH99?format=jpg&name=small
Raman , delighted to say 55
Ulster TV news reporting on newco frolics,”its their first league title since 2010″ ….since their reform.
Celtic shirt with the shamrock,I am almost sure Clonard AOH,got the strip,photo shows Pat Cleland and I think Andy Kerr (kilmarnock)
STILL CELTIC
Crerand.
It’s true that Scotland has no FFP rules but UEFA does – how close are they to sanctions from Europe’s governing body?
As for “no-nonsense” managers, I don’t think Gordon Ramsey would tolerate a lowering of standards but that doesn’t mean he can manage a football team. Roy Keane’s record in management is woeful. No…please, just no.
Took BBC Scotland about 45 seconds to mention Celtic….a report of a phone call on Kaye Adams programme
The shamrock strip against Killie I’m sure it was a Scottish cup game from memory ..I was only 8 or 9 at the time but think there was 4 or 5 goals …3-2 …2-2.
foreverabhoy csc
Rules, any rules, do not apply to Sevco. Why don’t people get that?
I thought that was Pat Crerand in that photo. Why don’t we bring back that strip. It’s better than any other bar the Hoops and a lot better than any of those black efforts. Didn’t we even have a pink one a couple of seasons ago?
The polis escorted fans from Ibrox to George Square yesterday!! No comment from them as to why that was a wise strategy. Of course, they have form on escorting procedures. We all need to get onto MSPs and MPs on this and demand a statement / enquiry.
Update : radio guy texted me back; he was being sarcastic about the huns, i tuned in mid sentence due to ads on the app . Says he got a whats app from a hun living here and he looked like one! I have apologised profusely
PS
Arlene Foster just on the NI BBC ; all smiles about the ‘celebrations’ on Shankill. Did a ‘girlish’ smile saying ‘ even Ally McCoist said to social distance guys’
Suppose they’re always breaking records
0 penalties against.
0 red cards for.
22 penalties for.
11 red cards against.
0 First team Covid
St Stivs – always loved that strip
Btw – I was born in Gibshill but left during primary school so St Columba’s was my school.
For those of a certain age I have a framed photo of Pat Crerand,that was torn from the Topical Times annual.
The huns, they just don’t know how to behave.
All the way back to Barcelona with the dead club, their fans just have to involve violence, disorder, vandalism and sectarianism when they occasional do something or reach a final.
Scotlands shame then and Scotlands shame now
Saint Stivs @ 6.11 👏. 👏
Apologies for previous typos.