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  2. maccargo on

    Watching the goals back this morning and the part Giakoumakis played in the third one should not be overlooked. His run from back to front post drags three and a half defenders with him creating the space for Abada to ghost in again. If you watch his celebration he knows he did his bit. Cracking team mate is the big man.

  3. GFTB on

    Watching the game today (with a clear head and no nerves) even though he was in my Jobo’s top 3, Matt O’Riley actually had an even better game than I thought … Reo & Callum both worked very hard yesterday but Matt O’R was excellent

  5. yorkbhoy on

    An Tearmann

     

     

    From that angle the pass for the second goal looks even better..

     

     

    and the the fourth goal even funnier

  8. Big Jimmy on

    BIGRAILROADBLUES on 4TH SEPTEMBER 2022 10:13 AM

     

    Shawlands this afternoon. Will I spot the handsome hun? Or any hun?

     

    ……………..

     

    Maybe you will see some Huns still lying in the gutter after they jumped outta their windaes yesterday ?

     

    LOL

     

    Magical CELTIC, and THANK YOU to ANGE and ALL the Players.

     

     

    Real who ?

     

    HH

  9. Saint Stivs on

    Jota watching the big screen replay, hahahaha

     

     

    the huns going for the exit in the background at 4-0 hahahahhahahaha

     

     

    new joys to watch on repeat

  10. Big Jimmy on

    A fantastic result and Performance from the Celts yesterday, but NOT wanting to appear churlish….was the number of times in the 1st half that Barisic was allowed to fire in crosses.

     

    He must have fired in around 5 or 6 crosses, that THANKFULLY were overhit most times.

     

    I was GLAD to see KYOGO on the bench yesterday after his injury, at least we knew then that he wasnt in hospital being X RAYED and treated.

     

    Hopefully, he will be okay for Tuesday, if not next Saturday ?

     

     

    HH.

  13. Big Jimmy on

    I would suggest that the Celtic Bhoys are ALL REALLY ENJOYING being at Celtic at this time and working under ANGE etc.

     

     

    MORITZ JENZ was ON HIS FEET in the dug out during his spell as a Sub. He was reacting to Celtics goals and near misses etc. He ALSO had almighty grin on his face when celebrating Celtics 4th Goal in the 2nd half as he rushed forward to congratulate David Turnbull.

     

    This is a NEW Bhoy, who appears to ” GET CELTIC” in the very short time he has been here.

     

     

    HH.

  14. An Tearmann on

    Oops soz maccargo bout reposting weird angle thing

     

     

     

    Yorkbhoy

     

    Don’t watch it to many times it gets better every time :-))

     

    Superb goal

     

    Alertness,the quickie by Cal took out 3 teds

     

    Matto Riley pass took out their defence

     

    Combined with Jota early run

     

    His control and dink adds to Jota’s range of goals.

     

    Breathtaking.

     

     

    Hail Hail

  15. DeniaBhoy on

    AN TEARMANN – Wonder if the guy with the orange hi-vis vest enjoyed the hug from Jota? Looks like he pushes him away ir maybe he was embarrassed to be outed in front of the away fans?

  16. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    https://youtu.be/jCu46R_m1SE

     

     

    My favourite ball boy celebration of all time.

     

     

    Fast forward to 39:45 and watch the lad behind the goal progress from

     

     

    – boredom at goal kick

     

     

    To

     

     

    – wait a minute, something is on here at the interception

     

     

    To

     

     

    – unbridled joy at the goal

  18. Saint Stivs on

    SCULLYBHOY on 4TH SEPTEMBER 2022 10:26 AM

     

     

    from last night, you keep on posting it adds interest to the blog, i enjoy that someone else is making an effort to inform and entertain with the links to pics and celtic mided questions …….

     

     

    just add a wee comment to each so we know where we are going

     

     

    more power to your elbow.

     

     

    keep it lit.

  19. Saint Stivs on

    get ready for a wee tear and a lump in the throat.

     

     

    we did indeed win the league for doyle.

     

     

    does anyone have the RTE clip linked anywhere.

     

     

    ———————————–

     

     

    ‘I always wanted to hear dad speak’: Johnny Doyle’s daughter, Joanna, reflects on her father’s career…

     

    and being the last Celtic player to score against Real Madrid

     

     

    Joanna Doyle was only three years old when her father, Johnny, died at 30

     

     

    Johnny Doyle played 118 league games for Celtic before his death

     

    He was the last player to score a goal against LaLiga giants Real Madrid

     

    Celtic are set to take on Madrid in the Champions League group stage

     

     

    By STEVEN MCGOWAN FOR MAILONLINE

     

     

    PUBLISHED: 01:12, 3 September 2022 | UPDATED: 01:14, 3 September 2022

     

     

    Joanna Doyle clings to memories of her father like a comfort blanket on a cold night. Only three years old the night he died, some recollections are more vivid than others.

     

     

    There was a visit to the Celtic dressing room at Parkhead, when the powerful aroma of Deep Heat mingled with the smiles and handshakes of team-mates. ‘A bit overwhelming,’ she reflects now.

     

     

    She was always more comfortable taking up position at the living-room window in Jasmine Road, Kilmarnock, waiting for the car to turn the corner after training.

     

     

    ‘Dad would pull up and, when mum opened the front door, we had quite a long L-shaped path and I would wait until he got to the bottom of the path before running to him,’ she recalls.

     

     

     

    ‘He would say: “Who do you love the best?”. I’d scream “Daddy” — and he’d lift me up and spin me round.’

     

     

    The last childhood memory of her father is delivered with sober finality. On October 19, 1981, Johnny Doyle was carrying out some DIY work, watched by Joanna’s brother Jason, when he was electrocuted and killed. The Celtic winger was 30 years old.

     

     

    ‘I was sitting downstairs at the time with my gran and she was feeding me porridge,’ says Joanna. ‘There was a live wire no one knew about and Dad touched it. It was one of those things. An accident.

     

     

    ‘There was a loud bang and that was followed by an almighty scream from my brother.

     

     

    ‘We ran upstairs and dad was lying there. I was very young. Maybe because it was such a huge event, I have pretty strong memories of that night.’

     

     

    In the last 41 years, Doyle’s former team-mates, Celtic supporters and YouTube images have done their best to fill in the bits she was too young to remember.

     

     

    There is no way, for instance, of recalling the Monday night in May 1979 when — trailing Rangers in their final game of the season — ten Celtic players won the league after her dad was sent off.

     

     

    Doyle was shown the red card ten minutes into the second half for aiming a kick at Rangers goalscorer Alex MacDonald. Inconsolable in the silence of the empty dressing room, he feared he had cost his boyhood idols the league trophy.

     

     

    At the end of an epic 4-2 win, jubilant and buoyant Celtic players streamed into the home dressing room to find their team-mate in tears.

     

     

    ‘I let you all doon, I let you all doon.’

     

     

    George McCluskey, the scorer of Celtic’s second goal, offered reassurance. Two goals in the final five minutes had secured a famous 4-2 win. A relieved Doyle dried his eyes, hugged his fellow striker and said: ‘Thank you, thank you,’ repeatedly.

     

     

    When the celebrations died down, players returned to their cars and Doyle asked McCluskey for a quiet word. Tears replaced by a mischievous grin, he turned to his friend and said: ‘Tell anybody I was crying back there and you and me will have words…’

     

     

    ‘Dad was volatile,’ Joanna acknowledges. ‘He was a hothead. And that was always amplified when they played Rangers simply because of the rivalry.

     

     

    ‘His temper got the better of him and he cut loose. He was no stranger to getting sent off, but he was sitting in the dressing room and couldn’t see what was going on. All he was hearing outside was cheering and he assumed it was the Rangers fans because of what he had done.

     

     

    ‘George told me he remembered going into the dressing room after the game to find Dad in tears. He was a fan and he thought he’d blown it.’

     

     

    In March 1980, ten months later, Celtic hosted Real Madrid in their first appearance in a European Cup quarter-final in six years.

     

     

    All 67,000 tickets were sold out in days as England manager Ron Greenwood flew to Glasgow to watch winger Laurie Cunningham play for Real in their blue away kit.

     

     

    Outplayed in the first half, a different Celtic team emerged for the second. McCluskey poked a rebound into the net to make it 1-0 after 52 minutes.

     

     

    With 16 minutes to play, Parkhead erupted when Doyle — 5ft 8ins in his stocking soles — nipped in between two Real defenders to head Alan Sneddon’s looping cross past keeper Ramon. Ahead of Real Madrid’s return to Glasgow on Tuesday, he remains the last Celtic player to score a goal against the current kings of Europe.

     

     

    YouTube images of that header are easy enough to find. Ditto footage of the day he was farcically sent off for accidentally striking referee Bob Cuthill with an attempted cross in a game against his old team Ayr United at Somerset Park. For his own flesh and blood, however, there was always something missing.

     

     

    Logging on to find Johnny Doyle the footballer was easy. It was harder to find audio reminders of Johnny Doyle the man.

     

     

    ‘My goal was always to hear Dad speak,’ Joanna admits. ‘I spent years searching for a clip, anything at all. I was so young when he died that it was hard for me to remember how he sounded.

     

     

    ‘It became a real goal of mine to find something. I was sure there had to be something. These days, a player has a microphone shoved in his face the minute he leaves the pitch.

     

     

    ‘In the 1970s, it was nowhere near as common. But I felt there must be something out there.’

     

     

    Letters and emails to BBC Scotland, STV and Celtic drew a blank. The search finally came to an end when Irish broadcasters RTE posted an old ten-minute documentary centred on a top-of-the-table clash between Celtic and Morton from 1980 on their website archive.

     

     

    ‘I was in work and my phone started pinging with notifications,’ recalls Joanna. ‘The writer Paul McQuade had written a book on Dad and he phoned me and said: “Joanna, someone has come across an old clip”.

     

     

    ‘It was eight minutes in when I opened it for the first time and my heart was thumping. I was so excited, so emotional. I paused to compose myself and take some deep breaths and thought: “This is it, I’m finally going to hear him speak…”.

     

     

    ‘They’re just a kid-on, actually. I think it’s an ego trip for the manager…’ crackled the words of Doyle on the RTE documentary.

     

     

    ‘He was cracking a joke. Of course he was,’ says Joanna. ‘Everyone else is politely answering the questions. Not wee Johnny… he was mocking Billy McNeill’s training sessions…

     

     

    ‘All told, it was only 15 words, but it made no difference to me. Now I can hear his voice any time I like. I listen all the time.’

     

     

    There were those who swore that she only ever had to look in a mirror to find the image of her father staring back. Ex-team-mates and friends commented on similarities in their personality and speech patterns. Supporters who really didn’t know her dad at all did their best to flesh out the details.

     

     

    In 2015, fans clubbed together on an internet messageboard to buy one of Doyle’s old Celtic jerseys at an auction hosted by McTear’s and handed it over to the family for safekeeping.

     

     

    The last picture taken, meanwhile, was at the annual Player of the Year dinner of the Tranent and Haddington Celtic Supporters’ Club after a 1-1 draw with Dundee United in 1981. Doyle agreed to attend the event with Lisbon Lion Bobby Lennox and close friend Tommy Burns.

     

     

    ‘Tommy was my godfather,’ reveals Joanna. ‘And when he was Kilmarnock manager, I would visit him from time to time because I lived close to the ground. He was always quite emotional when he spoke about my dad and I always remember him introducing me to Billy Stark when I was only 14 or so and speaking about Dad in the present tense. He said: “Johnny is a very good friend of mine”.

     

     

    ‘They shared a strong bond and they were almost soul-mates. There are clips on YouTube when Tommy speaks about Dad. He was a beautiful soul.’

     

     

    Fans have spoken to Joanna about being in the crowd when her father scored against Madrid

     

     

    When older supporters hear the family name, there are four games they usually want to talk about. Ten men winning the league is one, the rescinded red card in Ayr is another.

     

     

    A man-of-the-match display against St Mirren in the Scottish Cup usually features and, last but not least, is Celtic’s last goal in Europe against Real Madrid (Celtic lost the return in the Bernabeu 3-0).

     

     

    Joanna says: ‘I remember reading a comment on Twitter on the anniversary of the goal with one guy saying that he remembered the cross coming over and thinking to himself: “Why are you aiming a cross like that towards a guy who is five foot nothing?” Next thing he knew, the wee man came flying in with a Batman cape on and sticks it in the back of the net.

     

     

    ‘So many Celtic fans have spoken to me about being in the crowd that night and the atmosphere when Dad scored that header. To be the last Celtic player to score against Real Madrid in Europe is still a huge achievement and I’m very proud of that.

     

     

    ‘He was a Celtic fan and I think it’s amazing that other fans will think about him on Tuesday night because of that.

     

     

    ‘I still speak about him every day, 41 years down the line. He might not be here physically. But he is still such a huge part of my life.’

  21. bankiebhoy1 on

    We should complain / comment on hun fouling……………………..Squeaky has a licence to lunge and needs reigned in………….He’s a dirty player but scoddland deliberately refuses to label him as such……………..

     

     

    Another thing, has Hampden been asked about the huns on the watch list????

     

     

    Tumbleweed CSC

  23. An Tearmann on

    Scullybhoy

     

     

    Was reading your post of Soutch Derry and Seamus Heaney(Bellaghy area) there was a great wee programme on Seamus Heaney on iplayer for TG4

     

    Contributed to by all who knew him.

     

     

    The Music of What Is.

     

     

    Worth a look

     

     

    =====================≈===

     

    Deniabhoy

     

     

    The huns are a touch angry at jota’s pose which of course was ratified by ira(in ceasefire:-) was reading some obscure stuff on hun meeja forwarded by them as to why Jota would do that(the hun suggesting it was cause he scored took pelters haha) silly teds!

     

    Yon steward didn’t appear gappy I agree

     

     

    Hail Hail

  27. Saint Stivs on

    AN TEARMANN on 4TH SEPTEMBER 2022 10:59 AM

     

     

    “Dare to Struggle’:Tirnaog blog on yesterday’s Tifo

     

     

    thats a great read and a real rememberence of the struggles.

     

     

    further down though, the comments from anonymous, dearie me.

     

     

    i expect the two goonies will be on soon spouting the same , unless they are still stuck in the car park after the game.

  30. DeniaBhoy on

    I was really hoping GG would score yesterday after getting nearly a full game,. He got a couple of decent chances in the first half but not his day. Maybe Tuesday night will be his night as I can’t see Kyogo recovering in time. Was it a dislocated shoulder? If so it could be 6-8 weeks out.

     

     

    As an aside, anyone else notice how bulked up Tavernier looks? Jack also looked a few kilos heavier when he came on.

     

    Heard some huns saying a few of the players are obsessed with bulking up and doing heavy weights. Maybe it’s all for Instagram :)

  36. Philbhoy on

    Hello my friends!

     

     

    Great night!

     

     

    Started with a malt, then beer, then red wine, then more malt and finished with a Baileys.

     

     

    Not so great morning!

     

     

    Very late cooked breakfast and watched the game on the beeb again.

     

     

    They seemed to spend more time making excuses for the huns heavy pumping.

     

     

    Sad deluded barstewards.

     

     

    The speed of Celtic’s thought and speed was spellbinding!

     

     

    Absolutely wonderful!

     

     

    And that’s the truth.

  37. Saint Stivs on

    The referee was their best defender, he single handedly kept the score down.

     

     

    a penalty and two sending offs he didnt call.

  38. Saint Stivs on

    scullybhoy, thats a brilliant find of johnny scooring against real, never seen that one before, very evocative of its time.

     

     

    if they sold 67,000 tickets for that match what do we think the real attendnace was ? 75,000+

  41. GFTB on

    Goldson’s elbow is nasty, Giamakous gets the same yellow card as Goldson does for “hacking” down Maeda with no intent to play the ball …

     

     

    These refs letting Lundstram & Goldson away with virtually kicking opponents with no intention to play the ball .. one of these days these bams are going to seriously hurt another professional, yet guys like Walsh and other referees are watching them do it …

     

     

    The sooner VAR is in the better … at least it will highlight their cheating … Kent on Abada = stonewall penalty

     

     

    We could, and should have scored more than we did at Tannadice

  42. DeniaBhoy on

    As far as momentary lapses of reasons go, what was the verdict on Hart’s pass to Arfield in the 2nd half? He got away with it because Arfiled ran into the box but it looked to me like it was going straight to him regardless.

     

    Other than that, he had nothing to do until Calmac nearly scored with his best ever flying header.

     

     

    By the way, over on FF, I saw this that made me chuckle:

     

    “They ‘spent £12m to stand still’ according to some of the bright sparks on here.

     

    If today was ‘standing still’, we better hope they don’t spend to improve.”

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