If Neil Lennon carries the scars of defeats around with him, Saturday’s game against Aberdeen will have some significance. The last trophy Neil lost as Celtic manager was at the hands of Aberdeen.
Then Derek McInnes was in the Aberdeen job a year and that season saw his team with the League Cup, their first trophy in 19 years, and qualify for Europe for the first time in five years. Anthony Stokes put Celtic ahead in the fifth round tie at Celtic Park, but Aberdeen came back to win 1-2.
That game took place on 8 February with Celtic out of sight in the league. They won the title in March, at the earliest date in over 80 years, but elimination from the Scottish Cup so prematurely meant the last two months of Neil’s tenure were anticlimactic. The stadium was flat on match days, giving everyone unwelcome time to ponder, What next?
If we got the better of Aberdeen and extended competitive pressures until the end of the season, different decisions might have been made.
Much has happened since but Derek McInnes still knows what he is doing. He won at Celtic Park, Ibrox and Hampden (against Newco) last year, killing that old question about Aberdeen: Can they win in Glasgow?
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We will get better in Europe very quickly. Did lennie stop celtic squad getting off the plane after a euro shi* display once ? Have I made that up?
‘I feel sorry for him’ – Craig Levein on Steven Naismith
Levein joins a small group of people.
Bobby Sands – 66 Days to start on RTÉ 1 at 10:15pm.
MIT & HAG,
Seems Shrodinger was totally underfunded as a scientist…I managed to find a box, a cat and a radioactive source (my grandas radium glow-in-the-dark watch)…no need for thought experiments here….I put thum all together and buried the box….watch this space ;-))
Tontine…is a walking talking Celtic Wiki and if I had any brains I would have been saving all his posts ;-((
THELURKINTIM on 7TH MARCH 2019 10:18 PM
Tontine…is a walking talking Celtic Wiki and if I had any brains I would have been saving all his posts ;-((
*Thanks when I was gainfully employed I was known as tontineipedia lol
Weefra…great to see you posting…keep on keeping on young yin ;-))
SFTB…I felt physically sick seeing that abomination…were you looking fur a half n half scarf ;-)) for the next *old firm game – don’t be giving our board ideas
*history means that old firm means Aberdeen v Dundee United
H.H.
Just read we are interested in Marco Rose.
When I was on social media I followed his coach Rene Maric. He has a real modern day football mind – he is obsessed with tactics.
I was very, very impressed with him and would live him to come along too. He really is one for the future IMHO.
It was fascinating to see someone share so much knowledge and be so open online.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/sep/19/chatroom-bootroom-rene-maric-modern-coach-salzburg
A PALESTINE ambassador was given a VIP tour of Celtic Park as he thanked Hoops fans for their incredible crowdfunding efforts three years ago.
Dr Husam Zomlot touched down in Scotland this week for the first time since taking his new role as Palestine’s head of mission to the UK
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PEN PALS Palestine ambassador given VIP tour of Celtic Park as he thanks fans for ‘unwavering support for our cause’
Hoops supporters raised £176,000 for Palestinian charities in 2016 after the Scottish champions were fined by Uefa for a huge fan-demonstration against Israeli side Hapoel Beer Sheva
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By David Fowler
7th March 2019, 5:37 pm
Updated: 7th March 2019, 5:37 pm
A PALESTINE ambassador was given a VIP tour of Celtic Park as he thanked Hoops fans for their incredible crowdfunding efforts three years ago.
Dr Husam Zomlot touched down in Scotland this week for the first time since taking his new role as Palestine’s head of mission to the UK.
Dr Husam Zomlot, right, was given a VIP tour of Celtic Park
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Dr Husam Zomlot, right, was given a VIP tour of Celtic Park
Celtic landed in hot water for a huge pro-Palestine fan demonstration against Israeli side Hapoel Beer Sheva-
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Celtic landed in hot water for a huge pro-Palestine fan demonstration against Israeli side Hapoel Beer Sheva
In 2016, the Scottish champions were fined £8,000 for a huge pro-Palestine fan demonstration against Israeli outfit Hapoel Beer Sheva.
But the charge was dwarfed by the £176,000 raised online for Middle East charities in a bid by fans to match what they thought would be a far harder hit.
And Mr Zomlot paid homage to the extraordinary sum raised by thanking the club and its supporters today during a trip to the stadium.
A tweet from the Palestine in the UK Twitter account read: “H.E. Dr @hzomlot visited today @CelticFC to deliver a message of thanks from the Palestinian people to the club and Celtic fans for #Palestine for their wholehearted and unwavering support for our cause. #YoullNeverWalkAlone”.
Tontine..am curious…do you have an eidetic memory?
H.H.
BL
An interesting article. Thanks for sharing that.
Bada..commendable…but where does that fit in where CFC should be non-political/partisan…far too much sh!te being spouted about our songbook…which is more about the past and those that cannot learn from it being doomed to repeat it
H.H.
THELURKINTIM on 7TH MARCH 2019 10:18 PM
I will look forward to a report on the outcome of your experiment ???
?⚽️
MIT
My pleasure. As I say, I was very impressed with him and would be very keen to have him at Celtic Park
HAG,
It’ll be biased…I sneakily left a wee spade in the box ;-))
H.H.
That could be the new name for the zombies … Schrodingers FC … simultaneously dead and not dead at the same time
MIT…aye…but only in the mind of those that profit from it in Scotland ;-((
H.H.
“for a huge fan-demonstration against Israeli side Hapoel Beer Sheva”
Same as it ever was, the protest was against the actions if the Israeli govt murdering unarmed civilians, as is their want, Beer Sheva were inconsequential,any club from Israel would have witnessed the me demonstration. The protest was to show Israelis watching on tv, that a fair amount of Celtic supporters shared solidarity with the Palestinian victims of war crimes.
Lurkin
Not chatted in a while. Hope you are keeping well
Same
Melbourne …,
Aye yer up there with the bard…….
McGonigle ?
Mike, am still amazed that u wurnae targetted by the Japanese ;-))
toocrypticCSC
whalers lol ;-))
THELURKINTIM yes I do, wish it was a photographic one then I would be a lot wealthier lol.
It can have it’s good and not so good points. Most of us tend to remember all the good times in our lives, never rained, sunny days, lots of fun etc. I generally do but now and then a few unhappy moments seem to creep in and it’s a battle to get rid of them, but by and large the good triumphs over the not so good.
MnemenoicsCSC
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rmHDhAohJlQ
Keith Flint….RIP….
Prodidigious music…lost to us
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xem30f6bzkA
KTF
H.H.
Weefrathetim
Good to see you post F,hope you and yours are good :-)
HH
Good morning CQN from a rather cold and frosty Garngad
I see our players got a well earned rest on Sunday and Monday this week.?
I think we will be refreshed and raring to go mañana, so I predict 4-1 to the ghood ghuys mañana ?
As much as I dislike the Hibees now, a wee win tonight would start off a good weekend?
HH
D. :)
Good morning, friends and a Big Happy Friday to you all from a dry, clear skied and therefore cold and, indeed, frosty East Kilbride. But just one more sleep until Neil’s first home game in charge. Excited like it’s Christmas Eve!
Wet and Baltic in Corcaigh…………………(at least it’s Friday!)
It’s Good To Be A Tim…..o……
HH
morning bhoys, from a calm and mild for a change, Cheshire..COYBIG.HH.
in ither news………..
Why bother!
Huns at it……………………………….
Battle of the bottle chuckers tonight eh.
Maybe not a good idea to let the zombies know that the cctv is gubbed at Easter rd, could be carnage, glad Neil is out of it.
Good Morning… Fresh and Sunny here in the Chilterns…
See there was good news and bad news for Steven Gerrard’s Sevco Rangers…
First the good news
“Eintracht Frankfurt are interested in Rangers forward Alfredo Morelos, 22…
Now the bad news
…and will be represented at Easter Road on Friday evening when the Ibrox side take on Hibernian.
Hail Hail
50 shades – they’ll always be welcome at any club wee Leanne is in charge of.
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 8TH MARCH 2019 8:39 AM
50 shades – they’ll always be welcome at any club wee Leanne is in charge of
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Aye true,,,,,a match made in Hades ?♂️?♀️
Some fantastic posts last night and great to see the weefratheTim posting…
On reading back though I can’t believe I missed this…. Shameless re post
BEATBHOY on 7TH MARCH 2019 7:56 PM
Glendalystonsils@7:34pm
His uniqueness is to be regretted.
Daily Mail, March 2014.
“Despite a particularly nasty backlash, however, the redoubtable Hutton says he would take the same stance if it happened again.
‘There was all this talk about Armageddon and the slow death of Scottish football, but the best thing to come out of that whole episode was the death of the SPL,’ he said.
‘I didn’t need or want that kind of profile. People forget that situation did not come about because of the Rangers financial situation. It was because of the involvement of Eric on that three-man panel.
‘Ally McCoist’s famous “who are these people?” speech kicked off a whole series of events that placed me to the fore. Eric was eventually outed, we had threats to our staff, supposedly viable threats to burn our stadium down.
‘Eventually you think: “To hell with this!” How could I support the rule book being ripped up for Rangers? I came out on the steps of Hampden, had 25 reporters in my face and I told it like it bl**dy well was.
‘But you stick your head above the parapet and suddenly you’re all over the bl**dy internet and it spiralled out of control. I became “Turnbull The Tim”, which I found quite amusing. But pro-Celtic – or anti-Rangers – had nothing to do with me taking the stand I did.”
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I’ve either never read that, or forgot about reading it… I won’t forget it again. RIP Mr Hutton.
Hail Hail