Admit it, you smiled when you heard “St Johnstone are now the second most successful Scottish football club over the last decade” on the news last night. The most trophy-laden period any single club has enjoyed in Scottish football history is over. It saw Celtic win their fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh domestic treble.
Due to the peculiarities of 2020, we knew the run would end when Ross County eliminated us from the 2020-21 League Cup competition St Johnstone won yesterday, three weeks before facing Hearts in the 2019-20 Scottish Cup Final and winning our 12th successive Scottish trophy. If you live for another 100 years, you are very unlikely to enjoy (or endure) watching any club match this record.
We deserved every one of those 12 trophies, just as we deserved to drop out of the League Cup and League challenge early this season, the latter could officially be over within six days. The Scottish Cup is our only hope of silverware this season, although there is every chance the latter stages may be postponed until after the summer.
John Kennedy’s win in his first game in charge together with Motherwell’s win at Easter Road killed off any chance in-form Hibs had of catching Celtic in second place.
“Policy is being driven by the data”, a recurring theme you are being told by politicians and public health officials. Hmmmm. We are now in a situation when politicians, backed up by our National Clinical Director, tell this disease was eliminated in Scotland in the summer. To back his political sponsor, Professor Jason Leitch claimed there was no deaths for an entire month (there were 24, a remarkably low figure considering where we were before and have been after).
At that time (different from now), Celtic ran consultations with fans about safely returning to stadiums. The club invested in temperature scanning equipment and distances processes to no avail. It seems the data was not driving policy. It remains to be seen what data drove the crackdown on Celtic that saw 13 players side-lined in January.
St Mary’s in Calton, the church where Celtic were born, are taking the Government to court on the very issue (you can support their case here). Like Celtic in the summer, churches are curious about the data informing the decision to close churches in Scotland while they remain open in England and Wales.
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In the autumn of 1967 I was transferred tae Kirkton Avenue tae work on the flats. Typical of the building sites back then it was littered with Tims and I don’t mean just the navvies who incidentally all seemed tae be called Sweeney or Swanney as they pronounced it.
However, there was usually the token bluenose and one of those was a labourer, John, fae the Good and the Bad, not just your usual bluenose but also an accordion player with a tangerine bond.
As the great Bo Diddley once said “you can’t judge a book by its cover” and likewise with John who was well aware of who and what I was but always looked out for this young lhad fae down in the Bonnie Banks.
One wet day as we were sitting in the trailer he told the squad how he had started out as a cobbler, he lived close tae the local Junior team and one day his door went, it was a club official and some of the players were having problems with their boots, would he have a look at them.
After he fixed them they asked if he would like tae help out in other areas. Irrespective of the colours and obvious Celtic links they were still his local team so agreed.
The trainer with the Candy at the time was Bob Rooney and John developed a close relationship with him and widnae hear a bad word about him.
Told me that all the expensive electronic equipment at Parkheid was Bob’s own not that Celtic widnae upgrade it just that Bob had developed it.
At the time the Brogans were there as was a young Benny Rooney, he said that the most technically gifted player was Frank, he did score our 5,000th goal, but was very faint hearted. Jim on the other hand was as tough as nails.
Jim would often tell him when he got tae Parkheid he would sort out the deidco hammer throwers out especially their greatest living thug, think the quiet assassin beat him tae that.
Now this was 1967, Jim was still a reserve but by the time he did replace Luggy I was well aware of him.
Benny he admitted was a good player but lacked the drive of the Brogans, so by the time I was working with John he was now a converted centre half up at Muirton having failed tae make the breakthrough at both Parkheid and Tannadice where he had went tae on a free fae us, and this was probably his level.
For some reason Bob had a fall out up st Provanmill and moved tae Cambuslang as did Benny, wisnae there long before both joined us along with IMHO one of our greatest ever players, Bobby Murdoch.
I had an uncle that went tae a lot of reserve games and said that Benny took a lot of abuse fae the Jungle along the lines of “your only here because of your father” etc, mibbees HJ can expand on this.
It seems this was the reason that Kevin Gallagher opted for Tannadice rather than Parkheid. Could also be a deterrent for young Shaun Rooney.
BTW John also had a close boyhood friend who was legendary in Glasgow, he had a house called after a ranch in a well known cowboy tv series at the time. Regaled us with a few stories about him, crucifixion comes tae mind.
From the supersoaraway…..
“Ex-Celtic star Maloney, who currently assists Martinez in taking charge of Belgium, thinks the club should make an appointment quickly.
However, he couldn’t be drawn on the prospect of them taking over at Parkhead.
Speaking on the BBC’s Sportscene highlights show, he said: “It’s an impossible question for me to answer.”
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Not a straightforward NO then, somethings up…..
here’s the rest of it…
“I have to show respect to the federation that have put massive faith in me.
“From a sporting point of view, I really hope that Celtic, whatever decision they make, they make it quickly.
“These decisions have to be made.
“They can definitely fight for the title again next year and the big thing they need to do, they have to get that connection with the supporters.
“If that’s not there then they’re not going to be able to fight.”
THELURKINTIM on 1ST MARCH 2021 5:01 PM
Marspapa…Shaw has signed a pre-contract….he’s ours next season…hopefully this is our new DOF & Managers’ 1st choice…;-))
H.H.
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Cheers bud .👍
Tontine – Another great story.
D :)
DAVID66
due you remember K Gallagher from his Duntocher b.c days..he was nicknamed nasher..plenty better players than him about at that time.He went to tannadice very young..and mclean made him into a player..was fast and could finish..bit of a fearty tho
There is no doubt that the SNP cult treated Celtic differently than our Ibrox challengers. Why no outcry on Celtic social media sites?
The reason is that they are polluted by deluded Celtic-minded SNP turkeys. Turkeys voting for a Christmas where we all get stuffed, unemployment soars, industry & the financial sector moves south where 95% of the customers are based.
Our Catholic schools will be phased out and our culture & lifestyle marginalised.
There are none so blind as those who will not see. The SNP have no interest in our ‘kind’, never have had. SNP were in partnership with the Church of Scotland in the 1930’s & 1940’s in framing a Irish Go Home policy – the Church has since apologised, the SNP never have.
The SNP only want the Tim/Irish/Catholic vote – if independence ever transpired they would turn their back on us. They will be even more corrupt than they are now…..if that is possible.
Highland Paddy
Mr Maley animated in GIF form, quite impressive (but i was a bit spooked tbh).
https://twitter.com/i/status/1365363922715426818
JHB…How do you know all this? I’m really impressed. I’m now considering not voting SNP because of what you say. Wow! Imagine phasing out Catholic schools. Shame on them! I’m going to vote Tory now. That’ll teach them!
Then again, perhaps I’ll vote for the Greens because I’m vegetarian and I’m told the SNP are all meat eaters and carnivores as well…
Collins just stuck in Kennedy on Shortbread, said he’s definitely the defensive coach at CP
TONTINE TIM at 5:39
As a very young bar man in my faither’s pub, yer man asked me for a round of drinks at twenty tae three – pubs closed at 2:30 in those days. I refused him, saying the bar is closed and would he like to go home. Auld Neilly, our bar man pulled me to one side and whispered “do you know who that is? Haven’t you heard of The Ponderosa!” Don’t care the bar’s shut, I replied, but getting rather nervous by now, whereupon my faither intervened and poured the drinks. Still remember the look of astonishment on his face, but to be fair he joked about it next time he came in and bought me a drink.
JHB,
Turkeys is it, your making an ass of yourself.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EpYIo8AXMAAk0bd?format=jpg&name=4096×4096
St tams @ 5.52
Read that article. I would be surprised if he has been replaced. As far as we hear, Lenny wasn’t into that side of things. Also, watching the same people making the same mistakes week in and week out would suggest that either we don’t have an analyst or that his observations haven’t been heeded.
I don’t know which of the two scenarios annoys me more.
Of course we might have appointed an analyst who isn’t very good.
Reading the article made me think of Celtic by numbers.
BADA BING!! on 1ST MARCH 2021 7:13 PM
That’s interesting, there has been debate about what Kennedy actually does.
Enzo Maresca the favourtie with Paddypower.
PB- exactly that,nobody ever owned up to it, he said he was in charge of corners and free kicks…🙈
Hamburg derby on BT Sports now
Murdoch
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Evaq_f5WgAMFwRK?format=jpg&name=large
The Scottish Government has caused a drop in the polls for the independence vote. It appears after 22 polls showing an Independent majority that the latest poll shows a 44 43 majority against,
Now I wonder how much this is down to the Salmond case which is not playing well for SNP. Alternatively, it could be due to an increase in popularity of Boris and Co who are stealing the effective way that NHS are rolling out the Vaccine.
Then again the Biased way in which Scottish government treated Sevco Covid 5 in comparison to the treatment dealt out to Celtic with fixture postponement and fines and the criticism of the pre-approved Dubai trip. This may have affected celtic minded voters.
How this plays out will be interesting?
coybig
The Dublin Decider
too soon ?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvaAWoMXMAk_sXe?format=jpg&name=medium
TT,
Frank Brogan
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvZ-qm1XAAMOxS4?format=png&name=900×900
Henke looks like he could still play.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eu-WsLmWYAATL4A?format=jpg&name=medium
TONTINE TIM,
As I’ve said before on here, Jock Stein said “When Bobby Murdoch plays, Celtic play”. Best ever Celt I have had the pleasure to watch.
JHB, never in the field of human blogging has one man voluntarily made a tit of himself with such regular occurrence.
Big red coupon CSC.
Elliott’s horses out of Cheltenham
Stivs @7.18…that’s a mule ;-)) mibbe
H.H.
Up the clune brae, across from mccolgans hoose, walked it a thousand times, never appreciated it till i grew up.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EvT_9aLXMAE-vAC?format=jpg&name=large
THELURKINTIM on 1ST MARCH 2021 7:53 PM
Stivs @7.18…that’s a mule ;-)) mibbe
H.H.
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were is WITS for the definitive
JHB on 1ST MARCH 2021 6:41 PM
There is no doubt that the SNP cult treated Celtic differently than our Ibrox challengers. Why no outcry on Celtic social media sites?
####”cult” – are you mispronouncing what Rupert called the liar blair after he found his wife with him!####
The reason is that they are polluted by deluded Celtic-minded SNP turkeys. Turkeys voting for a Christmas where we all get stuffed, unemployment soars, industry & the financial sector moves south where 95% of the customers are based.
#### dont leave the union! our wee labour socialisty/capatilisty will never have the chance to wreck the country and cause a banking crisis again if you do.Your figures like the rest of your stuff only makes sense in your head. please dont share
ps.paul67 is not snp minded to my knowledge.=====
Our Catholic schools will be phased out and our culture & lifestyle marginalised.
====utter,utter,utter guff.You leave the catholic school debate firstly
-to those who follow the faith
-and those who forward and better our catholic education system from each Archdiocese.
no need for george galloway(tory skank) phone in blowhards to seek advice off=====
There are none so blind as those who will not see. The SNP have no interest in our ‘kind’, never have had. SNP were in partnership with the Church of Scotland in the 1930’s & 1940’s in framing a Irish Go Home policy – the Church has since apologised, the SNP never have.
you really believe your own guff..That “kind” you write of are Scotlandx democratic majority and the are gunning for independence.
===The Church of Scotland changed
the snp changed
the sectarian lodge soz noolayburr changed
it is funny how the sectarian card is played by an amateur like yourself and without a mention of layburr luj members,jeez when the war criminal was in charge they even had tbeir own westminster luj there was that many.====
The SNP only want the Tim/Irish/Catholic vote
==they have got it.it always needs to be worked on==
– if independence ever transpired they would turn their back on us.
you get the feeling your the only pape in the wrong lanarkshire council eh,makin stuff up👆
They will be even more corrupt than they are now…..if that is possible
corrupt
– like nationalize bank debt
– give us the still to be paid off pfi
marketize…ok ok privatize health service
cult themey song.it didnae get better.
https://youtu.be/UwWfE4DAyao
Not a bad game in Hamburg derby, could go either way.
This page has two good laughs the JHB one was a belter and Bada revealing Kennedy was the defence coach😂😂😂
Stivs …good shout @ 7.55
But I suspect donkeys
JHB
The Tim/Irish/Catholic/Normal Working Class Protestant/ Moslem/Sikh/Atheist vote is going to ram it right up the unionists at the next independence vote.
Ourselves Alone.
Drew1967 – Drew yes I remember him.
I remember playing them and 1 of my very few sending offs was against Duntocher, the Ref was letting them away with murder.
You were probably playing.
There is a few players that played with us that went to profesional clubs early and when I was out on trials in my teens played against at least 2 who after a few years knew every trick in the book and had improved vastly.
D :)
Elliott’s horses out of Cheltenham
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possibly not
depends how long the irish horse racing board take to investigate it
and the owners can transfer their horses to a different trainer and they can run in the uk
i think chevely park might do this for their horses but michael o’leary seems to be sticking by him
jhb
What exactly is your “kind”?
Is it the same as ours?
Let’s all- thanks for reply, I didn’t know they could transfer trainers at such short notice, Mick Fitzgerald was in tears in an interview earlier, could be curtains for Elliott.