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  1. Apricale on

    Good Christmas video from Atletico Madrid, it’s getting some publicity here in Italy. And yes, I know that they are the guys in the black hats (I was at the 1974 game). And perhaps it’s manipulative. But I guess they know that they will always be in the shadow of their city rivals, and their support is mostly local – their shirts are not easily found in most airport lounges.

     

     

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

     

     

    Have a Good Christmas

  2. Big Jimmy on

    VOGUEPUNTER on 25TH DECEMBER 2023 9:00 AM

     

    A very happy Christmas to Paul and all on CQN🍀🌲

     

     

     

     

     

     

    🤮 get well soon Big Jimmy hh

     

    ………………

     

    Cheers mate.

     

    Merry Christmas to you and yours.

     

    HH

  4. David66 on

    Heading out soon to daughter’s for dinner and see the grandkids.

     

     

    Of course wee Riley (junior cappo) has a flecking Drum agggggghhhhh.

     

     

    I think my daughter will need my van.

     

     

    We have too much for the weans.

     

     

    What happened to a hand me down bike or pair a footy boots.

     

     

    D. :)

  5. stpatricksbhoy on

    Happy Christmas to Paul,everyone on CQN and their families special thanks to Jobo.Enjoy this special day.stpatricksbhoy.🎅☘🙏

  8. Big Jimmy on

    DAVID66 on 25TH DECEMBER 2023 9:30 AM

     

    Good Christmas morning to 1 and all.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Hope you all have a lovely day.

     

     

     

     

    Big Jimmy sorry to hear you are not well amigo.

     

     

     

     

    Hope you pick up soon.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    If you are feeling up to it, we will be in the pub about 2pm maybe earlier tomorrow.

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Anyone else fancy it we will be up the back facing the big TV.

     

    …………………

     

     

    Cheers mate.

     

     

    I doubt very much that I will make it to your Pub Tomorrow. This FLU Bug is driving me nuts.

     

    Also, I wouldnt wish to ” Infect” anyone else by being selfish and turning up regardless.

     

     

    I am ” Home Alone” yet again and feeling a wee bit sorry for myself.

     

     

    My Bets are on for the Dundee v CELTIC game……..Heres hoping for a Celtic VICTORY…..AND a stunning performance also ?

     

    Merry Christmas to you and the family.

     

     

    HH Mate.

  9. Gene on

    Merry Christmas to Timland

     

     

    A few Celtic gifts received

     

    2 x polo shirts

     

    1x Christmas jumper

     

    I x Wim Jansen book

  13. Celtic Mac on

    A very special Merry Christmas to those for whom there is no room at the CQN Inn

     

    Saint Stivs, PeteC and East Coast Tom McLaughlin et al…

  14. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Merry Christmas to all here on CQN.

     

     

    We’re a small part of a wonderful family.

     

     

    And a Merry Christmas to that wider Celtic family everywhere.

     

     

    Anyone who wants the best for Celtic is a member.

     

     

    We may disagree occasionally about the most effective way to achieve what’s best for Celtic.

     

     

    A consequence of us being a broad church. Amen to that.

     

     

    If you will, spare a thought for our manager, coaches and players who are working today ….. thanks to the two-fingered scheduling windup by Sly Sports.

     

     

    All part of the plan to catch more of the dumb ass blue pound.

     

     

    Knock yourselves out. You deserve each other.

     

     

    Hail Hail

     

     

    Keep The Faith

     

     

    We Shall Not Be Moved

  16. scullybhoy on

    1897: Clyde 1-9 Celtic

     

    1909: Kilmarnock 0-1 Celtic

     

    1915: Celtic 6-0 Airdrie

     

    1920: St Mirren 0-2 Celtic

     

    1924: Kilmarnock 0-4 Celtic

     

    1933: Queen’s Park 2-3 Celtic

     

    1934: Celtic 4-1 Queen’s Park

     

    1937: Kilmarnock 0-8 Celtic

     

    1943: Hamilton 3-4 Celtic

     

    1946: Celtic 1-0 Queen’s Park

     

    1947: Celtic 4-2 Hearts

     

    1948: Celtic 2-0 Aberdeen

     

    1954: Celtic 2-2 Clyde

     

    1957: Celtic 1-2 Queen of the South

     

    1965: Celtic 8-1 Morton

     

    1971: Celtic 3-2 Hearts

  20. Almore on

    Nollaig faoi shéan agus faoi mhaise daoibh go léir.

     

     

    And to you Paul67.

     

     

    🇵🇸🍀💚🇳🇬💚🍀🇵🇸

  24. rimtimtim on

    A Very Merry Xmas to absolutely everyone on Celtic Quick News and to the special one Paul67 who gives us all the chance to get our tuppence in 🙏 🤶

  25. Scaniel on

    CELTICMAC at 2:11

     

    Good shout…..these 3 ghuys are a huge miss on here, really huge. If you’re lurking, Season’s Greetings and All The Very Best to SAINT STIVS, PETEC and TOM.

  26. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    Sevco on Channel 5 just now

     

     

    Scaring the daylights out of Judy Garland and her three pals.

     

     

    The wee dog will expose him for what he is soon enough

  27. Harryboy on

    Happy xmas to everyone on the blog. Should gub dundee and thats a great boost for our game against sevco. No scum fans and a brilliant atmosphere from our fans should put them to the sword.!!

  29. Greenpinata on

    And our manager gave his tine to turn up at Celtic Park today when Celtic were helping with the cost of living crisis.

     

     

    Credit where credit is due.

  32. What is the Starz on

    I didn’t realise that Stivs Tom and Pete had been banned…Can’t imagine why.

     

    Happy Christmas to you 3 guys ,hope to see you back posting.

  35. Celtic Mac on

    scullybhoy

     

     

    Great work on the Christmas day fixtures!

     

    Cannot match that but did find out a wee bit more about what I think is our last Boxing Day match against Dundee FC. Wed. December 26 2012. 7.30pm kick off contributing to the er holiday atmosphere. Dundee of course inherited the SPL membership of a club who had went into liquidation. We won 2-0 (Samaras, Hooper) live on radio and tv.

     

    Lenny’s team;

     

    Forster

     

    Izzy Effie Wilson Mulgrew

     

    Kayal Brown Wanyama Samaras

     

    Watt Hooper

     

    Actual subs; Lustig, McCourt, Forrest

     

    Not a bad line up in my book.

     

    Lets do something similar tomorrow.

  36. clunks on

    Virgin broadband is down in my area

     

     

    No technicians available till thursday

     

     

    Was transfered to 2nd level tech support

     

     

    Who confirmed thursday was the earliest they have a technician to fix the problem

     

     

    I then asked if no technicians are working on boxing day

     

     

    To which they replied

     

     

    No technicians working on boxing day

     

     

    Then all off a sudden a fault on the system flags up for my area

     

     

    24 hours to fix it

     

     

    When I asked how they would fix in 24 hours with no technicians working

     

     

    Line went silent

     

     

    And they transferred me to the 3rd level tech support

     

     

    Whose answer was

     

     

    Penalty to rangers…..

     

     

    Still without internet, but the mystery technician will fix it tomoz

     

     

    Madness

  37. clunks on

    all true apart from 3rd level tech support

     

     

    Tho how they can fix a problem with in 24 hours with no technician available boxing day

  38. itscalledthemalvinas on

    A few hundred arselickers out to see the royal racists attend church at Sandringham this morning. They must be laughing all their way through lunch at these morons.

     

    Anybody know what happened to that injunction to stop Charlie and Kate being named as the two who mentioned one of their relatives not being white ?

  41. Fritzsong on

    A very happy Christmas to you, Paul and to all of your family. Similarly, on our saviour’s birthday the season’s greetings to all the excellent people who contribute here.

  42. scullybhoy on

    Yuletide goals!

     

     

    The idea of abandoning the presents, turkey and in-laws on Christmas Day for a trip to Celtic Park is now an alien, if tempting, concept for a generation of Celtic fans.

     

     

    The closest supporters will now get to seeing the Hoops in festive action these days on the big day is if someone challenges them to a game of FIFA on the Xbox.

     

     

    The ghost of Christmases past however shows that this has not always been the case. Although never an integral part of the fixture calendar like the New Year’s Day game, matches on December 25th were an infrequent but hugely popular feature of the Scottish game for more than 70 years.

     

     

    Between 1893 and 1971 Celtic played twenty times on Christmas day – and on most occasions the opposition came bearing gifts.

     

     

    Indeed the Hoops’ record for this festive fixture makes remarkable reading.

     

     

    Out of those twenty, sixteen were competitive games, with the Bhoys winning 14 mathes. Celtic have netted an incredible 62 goals on Christmas Day, an average of just short of 4 a match. In contrast the Hoops’ defence was uncharacteristically Scrooge-like, conceding a measly 22.

     

     

    The first Celtic game on Xmas day was actually in Celtic’s inaugural year when the Celtic Strollers (reserves) played Airdrie St Margaret away on 25 Dec 1888 in a 2-1 defeat, in which William Naughton so impressed for the opposition in having “a demon game” on the day that he was to soon sign for Celtic.

     

     

    Some might be a bit surprised now by the fact that matches were played on Christmas day but in truth Christmas Day as a day of celebration is really quite a recent phenomenon in Scotland. Up to around the 1970s, Christmas day wasn’t celebrated but rather Hogmanay was the big day. People used to even work on Christmas day in Scotland (it was not a public holiday back then). Celebrating Christmas was seen as too Catholic for the more austere Presbyterian establishment. Commercialism is really what forced the change.

     

     

    Celtic have also played three times on Christmas Day in friendlies (1893, 1895 & 1906) ; two draws and a victory: 1-1 v Clyde (home) and 3-3 v Bury (away), followed by a 2-0 away win v Woolwich Arsenal.

     

     

    The inaugural Christmas day match, the 1-1 draw with Clyde in 1893, is significant as it the club’s first attempt to host an illuminated match. The Christmas clash drew a crowd of 5,000 spectators due to the novelty of a football match taking place under the aid of electric light. Football had been played under artificial lights in Scotland before, particularly at the Edinburgh Exhibitions, but this was the first match of the kind in a club owned stadium such as Celtic Park.

     

     

    Some 16 arch lights were suspended above the pitch on wires, which were fixed to a dozen, 50 feet high, wooden posts. Meanwhile, almost 100 gas-jets provided additional illumination along the covered enclosure. Apart from the obvious eyesore of multiple wires hanging across the pitch, the cables also tended to sag too low and interfere with lofted passes.

     

     

    Celtic’s first Christmas day outing came in a competitive fixture came in 1897 when they travelled the short distance to Clyde and thrashed their hosts 9-1. For this goalkeeper, Edward O’Brien, not a Happy Christmas that’s for sure.

     

     

    Another notable victory came on 25th December 1915 when Airdrieonians were hammered 6-0 at Parkhead.

     

     

    Kilmarnock were the Christmas day visitors to Celtic Park in 1937 when the Bhoys showed little festive spirit by dishing out an 8-0 drubbing of the Ayrshire team. Under normal circumstances such a result would have had the entire Celtic support in raptures.

     

     

    But this game marked the return to Parkhead of legendary Celt Jimmy McGrory who was making his debut as manager of Kilmarnock and who had received a thunderous reception from the home fans as he took his seat in the stand. As such there was much discomfort among the Celtic followers as McGrory’s side were humiliated.

     

     

    Celtic had led the Rugby Park club 6-0 at half-time and with his side chasing the league title Willie Maley instructed his players to show no remorse to their opponents or McGrory. For some Celtic fans though this public humiliation of an idol they still worshipped was totally unacceptable.

     

     

    While McGrory had no qualms at all about Celtic’s attitude some supporters were less understanding. Their feelings were summed up in a letter sent to McGrory from Dublin priest Father Coleman in the wake of the game. The religious man denounced what he viewed as Celtic’s ugly attitude to the match and he wrote the performance was:

     

     

    “…a very ungallant, uncalled for, even dastardly act of the so-called Bhoys”.

     

     

    There was no such sympathy on display on Christmas day 1965 when a Joe McBride hat-trick had helped put Celtic 7-0 up at half-time against Morton. With the Parkhead faithful licking their lips in anticipation of a record victory Jock Stein’s men, perhaps mindful of a busy holiday schedule, took their foot off the gas and the support had to eventually content themselves with an 8-1 triumph.

     

     

    It was in hindsight a wise decision as 10 days later Celtic had plenty left in the tank as they destroyed Rangers 5-1.

     

     

    In England the full Christmas Day fixture programme was abandoned in the 1950s but north of the border occasional games would continue to be played on December 25th right up until the mid 1970s.

     

     

    The last full programme of Christmas day fixtures in Scotland was held in 1971, and it was on that date that Celtic bowed out of Christmas action. They did so with another victory, this time a 3-2 win over Hearts (pictured above) which was watched by a crowd of 34,000.

     

     

    More than five decades on from that game all talk of seeing the Celts in action on Christmas Day is now confined to the history books. However given Celtic’s amazing record in these fixtures perhaps the Celtic support should be hoping for the return of a green and white Christmas!

     

     

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    Stolen from Celtic wiki.

     

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