The Centenary Season was memorable for many reasons, not least the brand of skilful, attacking, football we played. The title was destined for Celtic Park after a win at Ibrox, but Hearts at Tynecastle would be our first opportunity to officially become champions.
Two tickets were secured, but for the Hearts end, so title celebrations were planned without colours. We were in the ground early – the enclosure in front of the stand. As the place filled up there was the occasional Hearts scarf, but the majority were also without football colours. By kick off it was clear there were more Celtic than Hearts fans in the section. Both sets of supporters were free to express their feelings without any trouble.
The game was forgettable. Celtic, who had run teams ragged all season, were unable to craft a goal and left pointless. It was disappointing, but a week later, 63,000 (over) packed Celtic Park in the sunshine as the league was won in a more appropriate environment.
My preference would always be to win a title before our own season ticket holders at Celtic Park, but if we can’t do that, Tynecastle comes pretty close as an ideal alternate venue. Hearts fans sang “We’re only here for the party” when we lost the title seven years ago.
Let’s remind them who the champions are tomorrow, as we celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Albert Kidd title in 1986. Albert Kidd, a Celtic fan, was a Dundee player at the time. On the last day of the season he was on the bench against Hearts, who needed a point to win the title. They were 32 games unbeaten. Albert hadn’t scored a single goal all season.
He was introduced with 15 minutes remaining. Five minutes later he opened the scoring at a corner kick. He then scored the goal which inspired Diego Maradona to run through the England team and score at the World Cup a few months later. Diego’s goal was brilliant, but Albert’s was far more astonishing. It was utterly astonishing.
We did something to Hearts that season. They never recovered and never will. That 15-minute cameo from Albert, with Celtic’s five goal mauling of St Mirren, finished them.
The Celtic Foundation’s ‘Heroes of ’86 – 30 years on’ dinner takes place on Sunday. Albert Kidd is guest of honour, as are Celts from that team (not all of them!), including our captain, Paul McStay. I hear the Kidd family will be very well represented on the night. It should be something special.
Enjoy your weekend, especially if you’re going to Tynecastle, or the Foundation dinner. These moments are precious.
30 years later, I’m still astonished.
Charlie Gallagher, What a Player
Charlie Gallagher was at Celtic Park for over 10 years. Encompassing the 1960’s, his career was an eventful one, touching the depths of despair and the ultimate triumph. Slightly-built, he seemed to lack the necessary robustness. But appearances can be very deceptive. Behind the easy-going exterior lurked a tremendous football brain, with the ability to spray passed which fast-running forwards would relish.
Charlie starred in one of Celtic’s best performances in years as MTK Budapest were beaten 3-0 in the European Cup-Winners’ Cup semi-final at Celtic Park. When Jock Stein arrived in March 1965, Gallagher was given a settled role at inside-right. His play was quiet but effective and good enough for him to retain a place for the Scottish Cup final. Eight minutes remained when Charlie trotted over to take a corner kick on the left. It was like one of those Spot the Ball competitions in the newspapers where the entrant must place the ball in the exactly the right spot. In this case, the target was the moving one of Billy McNeil’s head… And Gallagher’s accuracy was to signal the return of the glory days to Celtic Park.
The next two seasons were to see Charlie in the role of valuable pool member, covering for injuries or being used as a surprise weapon. In the first league game of 1965-66 season at Tannadice, Charlie hit the bar in the first two minutes and rumour has it that the bar is shaking yet. And, of course, it was the action replay from him and McNeill which gave Celtic their narrow victory over Vojvodina Novi Sad in the European Cup quarter-final in 1967.
One day at Muirton Park, where Celtic won 6-1, there was a brilliant Freudian slip by an old-timer standing near me in the enclosure. One particulate long pass was greeted with a clap and a cry of “Well done, Patsy”, an understandable confusion with Charlie’s namesake of more than 40 years earlier.
CHARLIE GALLAGHER? WHAT A PLAYER! by David Potter is published today by CQN. You can order your SIGNED copy HERE.
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Fell asleep last night before WC revealed his hand.
Has Chris Kamara been announced as the next Celtic manager yet?
(I’m sure that’s what he was alluding to)
I can’t do the links thingy, there’s a great article in
today’s Scotsman on Albert Kidd,check it out it will
bring back memories of a wonderful day.
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james1955 on 29th April 2016 9:26 pm
Winning Captains, The Donald & Tony Doc spotted in Brazen Head
looking a bit the worse for wear.
FACT
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Aboot The UNSEALIN’….
Of The Legendary H&P Biscuit Tin…
Pay Attention In Class..!
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Oglachon 29th April 2016 7:50 pm
Nye Bevans’ rebel soldier on 29th April 2016 5:00 pm
Anyone who want’s to know where the unions are
in the 21st century should take a walk into the new
Southern general hospital and gaze at the Unison
office in the main foyer along with Marks and Spencer
and WH Smith………assimilated into the whole corrupt
matrix.
NBRS,unison member.
Good Evening Timland.
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Some unions keep the faith, ad’s in last weeks Morning star
Unite. London mechanical construction branch
‘calls for the unfettered control of Irish destiny’.
A ‘Connolly association’ supplement about the 1916 rebellion – supported by the RMT
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Comrade Nye…..
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Bentnall : ” Doing The BEST for the MOST….! Ed ]
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A Bag O’ Gary Lineker’s Ears..
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Merely Tae Substain Theirselves…
Withoot Hivin’ Tae Worry Aboot Nippin’ Oot Of The Hospital….
Tae Grab A Snack….
Whilst Worryin’ Aboot Bein’ Hit With ADDITIONAL Parking Charges….
An’ If They Could Even FIND A New Space!
These Folk Hiv OTHER Things Oan Their Minds….
Tae Worry Aboot..!
An’ They Don’t Need The Additional STRESS !!
The Hospital Chefs Perform Wonders Oan The Culinary Front….
Whilst Meeting The Exacting Nutritional Standards…
On A Very Limited Budget…
With The Result That Some Meals Might Not Be As Appetisin’ Tae Those Wi’ ‘ A Fussy’ Palate…
As Might Be Desired…
And The Portions Can Be….SPARTAN.
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YOUR MIGHTYNESS Wishes To Deprive Them Of Their BASIC HUMAN RIGHTS….
Tae Buy Stuff They Really Need….
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Like “Normal Folk” Can ?
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Like The “Hotel California”.
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Wm. Hill,Ann Summers,Argos..
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YOU…
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An’ The FRANKFURT BOYS Are AHEID O’ Schedule..! ]
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A Braw Uniform Wi’ A Cap..!
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Bless..!!
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3-1 Tae The Bhoys….
No “Ronnie-Roar”
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oh ffs!!!!
Hopefully at some point today I’ll be up on the tables in The Brazen giving this laldy :)
http://youtu.be/3GwjfUFyY6M
It is pleasing to discover that Albert Kidd does not take himself, or his status as villain to some and hero to others, too seriously. When he decided to apply for permanent residency in Australia it wasn’t because he was being pursued by a pack of Hearts fans, tempting though this scenario is to imagine.
It had simply become clear that being the surprise protagonist in a great drama played out one afternoon at Dens Park did not guarantee an upswing in his own football fortunes. Little more than a year later, he was on a plane to Australia. Before long he was filling out forms to become a resident.
Kidd did what anyone with his background would have done. He talked up his footballing deeds, focusing on one memorable substitute appearance, while adding cursory mentions of other skills and qualifications.
“I had two pages of my football achievements, soccer clinics, player of the year, the fact I played over 280 games, including one game in particular,” he explains.
“I had a small bit on toolmaking, which is what I did as an apprentice after leaving school. I went to immigration with this form, feeling pretty good about myself. The guy there said: ‘did you play for Scotland?’ I told him I once played for a Scottish select team.
“‘But did you play for the national team?’ I said: ‘well, no’. He said: ‘what to do then is get rid of all that football stuff and expand on the toolmaking. I said: ‘the toolmaking?’
“ ‘Yes’, he said. ‘Keep the football stuff to a minimum’. So I reversed it, and got residency. The guy was like, ‘yes, that’s perfect’. I phoned my dad. I said: ‘dad, remember you told me to get a trade? Best advice I got in my life’.
“Turns out they didn’t care I’d scored two of the most famous goals ever scored in Scottish football.”
Others did, of course, and still do. Venice, a cruise ship en route to Barcelona and various spots in Australia, where he still lives on the outskirts of Adelaide, are just some of the places where the legend of Albert Kidd has stretched. Just some of the places where two goals scored in the space of four or so minutes meant he was hailed – or hounded. Hailed is the operative term for those overjoyed to learn they have run into him. More often than not, these turn out to be Celtic supporters. Or, of course, fans of Hibernian, whose cup of schadenfreude overflowed that day, 30 years ago on Tuesday: 3 May, 1986. Kidd was even named player of the year by a Hibs supporters’ club based in Sydney.
Then there was the time he met Billy Connolly, outside the Hyatt hotel in Adelaide.
“That really made it hit home how big a thing it was,” he says. “I was coming out and he was coming up the main driveway. I waved to him and said: ‘How you doing?’ He said: ‘ah, you’re from Scotland.
“‘So what are you doing here?’ I told him I came across here to play for a Greek club, West Adelaide, and he was like: ‘oh you play football?’ I said: ‘yes, I used to play for Dundee. We share a common thing, I’m a Celtic man as well’.”
Kidd was surprised Connolly didn’t recognise him: “I still had the feather cut happening, and the moustache was still happening. ‘Look, I am going to say something to you: I scored a couple of goals that helped Celtic win the league in 1986’. And I kid you not, he went: ‘f***ing Albert Kidd!!’
“He grabbed me on the steps. He was basically jumping around with me. He said: ‘pleasure to meet you’.
“I told him the pleasure’s all mine!”
Not everyone is pleased to meet Albert Kidd. Now shorn of moustache and bubble perm, his identity is even less obvious to those he meets now.
He could probably stroll through Gorgie and barely draw a second glance, which is strange considering he is the “folk devil”, as newly published book AK 86: Two Shots in The Heart of Scottish Football has it, who shattered Hearts with a match-winning brace to hand the Premier Division title to Celtic.
Now a successful businessman in Australia, Kidd still sometimes bumps into Hearts fans, even on the other side of the world. “Well, being in construction, I was on construction sites a lot. There are a lot of Scots, especially in Perth. One guy on the site will go, ‘f***ing hell you will never guess who is working down there’. The next minute they are down abusing me!”
It’s a different story when he returns to Lochee, the area of Dundee where he grew up, round the corner from David Narey, and where Celtic fans tend to outnumber those of Dundee and Dundee United.
“There is a pub in Lochee called the Albert, but it gets called Kiddies. I think its owner used to be an Albert Kidd too. I had my 18th birthday in there actually. Even now, I go in it’s like: ‘god bless you wee man’. I don’t put my hand in my pocket. But it’s been 30 years. And you start to think, what is it with people?”
Still, Kidd clearly understands how the story holds its charge, with fate bringing Hearts and Celtic together at Tynecastle this afternoon. He is back in town to help promote a book on the remarkable climax to the 1985-86 season.
Hearts hadn’t lost for 31 games when Kidd wriggled free on the right to score his second goal of the afternoon for Dundee with three minutes left, meaning the shell-shocked visitors, in need of only a point from their last game to win the title, were dead and buried.
But that was only the half of it. On the same afternoon, Celtic were playing St Mirren at Love Street and needed a high-scoring win coupled with a Hearts defeat to wrest the title from the Gorgie side.
It was the Parkhead club’s final game on the back of seven – soon to be eight – straight wins and, if they had not fulfilled their part of the deal, Kidd would likely be only a footnote in history, remembered, if at all, for once being Dundee’s record transfer buy (£80,000 from Motherwell). However, with Celtic racking up the goals in Paisley – they were 5-0 up after only 54 minutes – everything changed. Kidd, named on the bench alongside John McCormack, detected nervousness. He was aware of there being a radio in the away dugout.
“It was something I wouldn’t have done myself,” he says.
“I was conscious of them knowing what was going on, I thought it was a silly move, and maybe distracting for the players, who might have been looking to the radio for updates. So I knew Celtic were winning handsomely. Cowboy [McCormack] was a right Celtic supporter, and he was saying: ‘Celtic are killing St Mirren’ – he was a former St Mirren player. But we [Dundee] were not affected by that. We had our own job to do.”
People tend to forget Dundee were hoping Rangers, with whom they were locked on 33 points, would come unstuck against Motherwell. Providing the Ibrox side dropped points in Graeme Souness’ first home match as manager, Dundee knew they would secure a first European spot since the early 1970s with victory. Like Hearts, they lost out on goal difference.
It probably adds insult to injury for Hearts supporters to note that Kidd truly did come from nowhere that afternoon.
If Alex MacDonald, the Tynecastle side’s manager, was looking for a potential danger man in the Dundee ranks, he might have settled on John Brown, the uncompromising but talented midfielder, or Graham Harvey, an awkward forward with extra motivation as a diehard Hibs fan.
MacDonald probably didn’t even think someone whose last start was on the first day of February was even likely to feature. Kidd didn’t either. Record transfer or not, he was struggling at Dundee. Prior to the final game, he scored only once that season, against Hamilton Accies in a League Cup tie.
And yet the bold Kidd had a feeling things were going to go his way. Not that he expected such premonitions were going to make any difference when he knocked on manager Archie Knox’s door the previous afternoon.
“The season was a write-off for me,” says Kidd. “The reason I spoke to Archie was I probably thought I had nothing to lose. You have to push your own barrow. I was capable of scoring goals, no doubt. I just thought they never used me well enough. I could have had a better career.”
“Archie was like: ‘come in’. I said: ‘look, I’d just like to say you should consider me for tomorrow. I have a really good track record against Hearts. Whenever I have played against Hearts, I have done well. I am not trying to force your hand. I am just saying if you look at my history, I have always done well against them, even when I was at Arbroath and Motherwell’.
“He said: ‘Ok, wee man, I will consider that. Appreciate you coming in’.
“I thought it would just fall on deaf ears. Archie’s secretary called me and said: ‘you’re in the squad for tomorrow’. We went for a pre-match meal at the Dundee FC club and then went to the dressing room, but I never expected to get on the bench.”
Kidd almost came to blows with Knox on a number of occasions, which is strange, since they were closer than this makes things sound: “He used to coach me as a youngster when I played at St Columba’s school and I liked Archie. I just don’t think he did me any favours.”
But the manager made the call that secured Kidd’s place in Scottish football history. There have been few more significant sentences uttered at Dens than the order Knox gave Jocky Scott, his assistant: “get Albert on”.
In the 61st minute of the 36th league game Kidd replaced the injured Tosh McKinlay, triggering a chain of events that led to Celtic securing a league title that has remained in the Old Firm’s grip ever since.
“The manager had to reshape the team because Tosh is a full-back,” he says. “I came on on the right of midfield. It was not really my position.” But Kidd, in contrast to the tense opposition, had energy to burn.
“If you look at the tape, there is a moment where John Colquhoun breaks away and it was just as well I ran all the way back because he would have been in on goal, but I just nicked the ball off him.”
Kidd’s first goal, with seven minutes left, was from a Robert Connor corner (which Kidd earned). The ball broke fortuitously at his feet, and he duly swept it beyond Henry Smith.
“I remember after the first goal went in, they shut down,” he says.
Kidd took advantage of Hearts’ dazed state to score a second goal, skinning fellow sub Kenny Black on the touchline before bearing down on the box, where he played a one-two with Harvey. “Normally you wouldn’t skip past players the way I did,” he says. He then delivered a second shot to the heart.
Talk about an impact substitute. His cameo provoked a variety of emotions, even within the Dundee camp.
“There’s one thing that sticks in my mind,” he says. “When I came into the dressing room at the end I was feeling rosy pink about myself, I was sitting where I normally sit. And Archie was sitting right across from me. He didn’t normally come into the dressing-room, but he was there then. He looks at me and says: ‘f**k’s sake wee man’.
“I was saying to myself: is that a compliment or what is he actually saying? “I always wondered about that, still do: what did he mean? Is he disappointed? I mean, Archie swayed towards Rangers. I am not even sure he was that happy. I have a lot of time for Archie. But I was never sure what he meant.”
Seven minutes in May changed everything for Hearts, and Celtic, but altered little in Kidd’s own circumstances. “Save for the death threats, nothing really changed!” he says.
“A guy wiped his backside on a piece of paper and sent it to me – a Hearts supporter.
“Oh yes, there was also a photo of me with my young lads [Kidd has two sons and two daughters] in the paper, and this was sent to me. ‘Hope you feel smart about yourself, we are coming to get you’. I remember the photograph vividly.”
Kidd, now 58, is puzzled by the suggestion he is somehow considered notorious, because, he protests, reasonably, his perceived crime was doing what he was paid to do, which was score goals. If there was any complaint, it might have come from the Dundee fans; he didn’t scored enough (and, indeed, after his famous double, didn’t score again for Dundee).
But then Kidd, too, could argue he wasn’t given the opportunity.
Kidd started the first game of the 1986-87 league season. This happened to be against Celtic and he watched them raise the title flag, won thanks chiefly to him. But Kidd suffered a familiar fate when he was dropped to the bench for Dundee’s next game (by this time Scott had taken over from Knox as manager).
He never did get that lap of honour at Celtic Park, another Scottish football myth busted. But there was a standing ovation.
“When we went out on to the park it just worked out that I was last to leave after the warm-up,” he recalls. “The ball went away over to the Jungle. I ran across to get the ball, hence the reason I was last by about 25 yards coming off the park.
“I will always remember the crowd applauding as I was walking off. There must have been about 60,000 there that day, it is something I will never forget. The hairs were standing up on the back of my neck.”
But there were times when he felt like a marked man, although he often didn’t help himself. Even now, he leaves himself open to the accusation of revelling in another team’s misfortune. He is guest of honour tomorrow at a function at Celtic Park to celebrate a league title win in which Kidd, although he never played for Celtic, performed such a crucial role.
Hearts fans were never likely to forgive and forget, even when he switched clubs the following season.
“One of the first games for Falkirk was against Hearts at Brockville,” he recalls. “Every time I touched the ball it was ‘booooo!’ The place was jam- packed.
“There were more Hearts fans there than Falkirk supporters. I had a 50-50 with John Robertson and I went right through him and hurt him. He got up and gave me a wee dink on the head, and I went down and started rolling around. He got a red card. Can you imagine how the Hearts supporters reacted? They were going to kill me.
“Scrimmy [former Dundee teammate Brian Scrimgeour] was playing, and I needed to go into Scrimmy’s [car] boot to get away. It was his turn to drive. I had to get into his boot to get out of Falkirk.”
It’s a strange life being feted by clubs he never played for, while at the same time knowing Hearts supporters can barely bring themselves to mention his name.
And it is interesting, if largely unremarked upon, to note Kidd could have put the spoke in Dundee United’s wheel three years prior to taking centre stage against Hearts, with Dens Park the venue for some earlier last-day title drama in 1983.
With Aberdeen and Celtic also gaining victories that afternoon, Dundee’s neighbours needed to win to claim their first Scottish championship, and they did, narrowly – 2-1.
“I missed a header that would have stopped them winning the league,” says Kidd. “You can see it on YouTube, I remember it vividly. I just could not get above it. Had I scored there they wouldn’t have won the league! It was almost the same situation.”
As history now records, Kidd’s destiny as a destroyer of dreams was merely delayed.
l AK 86: Two Shots In The Heart of Scottish Football is published by Teckle Books and will be available on Kindle, iBooks, Kobo and other digital formats from Tuesday 3 May for £3.95.
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DELANEYS DUNKY on 30TH APRIL 2016 8:04 AM
Macjay
Hard men ?
Soft centres. Aye.
Tell you what , though , mate.
Early days but I am starting to think that Erik may be the man.
Tony
Hardly a mention in the smsm about the terrible injury problems we have suffered yer on the verge of another league win
I couldent agree more with this guy, and I’m not wanting a debate on it, it’s just that it seems the simple thing to do, only my opinion,.
Concern for the oppressed and the persecuted is noble and worthy, but to be consistent, shouldn’t we fly the flags of Kurdistan, Tibet, the Yazidis, the Rohingyas and the dwindling Christian minorities of the Middle East, not in place of, but as well as the Palestinian flag? Or should we instead leave these flags at home and enjoy our team, playing and hopefully, winning, as we all pray they will?
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My Dear Comrade Nye….
We Can ‘Revisit’ Yer Cognitive & Ideological Deficiencies…
Oan Anither Less-Excitin’ Day…
Agreed..? \☺/
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TONY DONNELLY67 on 30TH APRIL 2016 8:04 AM
MACJAY1 FOR NEIL LENNON on 30TH APRIL 2016 7:54 AM
TONY DONNELLY67 on 30TH APRIL 2016 7:52 AM
And who are our hard men ?
:-(
You don’t have to be hard, you need to be cute, and not back off, not asking for dirty stuff, just plenty of heart, and come off that park at the end of the day, with nothing in the tank, every last playe has to do it, even one weak link today and we are done for its as simple as that, come off that park knowing you’ve given your all, because the fans will on the terraces .
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Tony.
What a summing up.
We can`t ask for anything more than that.
P.S. Why am I reminded of Bertie.
:-)
THE DONALD…….you take care petal,and go easy
on the cherry if we wrap up the title today.
SIPSINI
I’m here until the 11th May.
HH!!
Finish the job today celtic please . Then it’s up to the celtic hierarchy to show if they want to push on . There intentions will soon be made known , by the calibre of manager they appoint . For gods sake get it right this time peter , and leave the guy alone to get on with making us great again .
Has wits posted any tips today , I’ve just logged on .
HH
EMERALDBEE
Thoughts with your cousin .
HH
EMERALDBEE
YNWA
Starry
THE DONALD on 30TH APRIL 2016 9:31 [
” What could be MORE Socialist & Utilitarian,true to the Founding Principles Of The NHS….”
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Yep.
Minus striking doctors.
The antithesis of patient care.
Keep telling it , Donald.
TALLYBHOY
BLANE VALLEY,evening of 7 May for a swally,if yer interested.
Should be fun-I won’t be there!
MacJay
In a period of 4 months, Erik and Kieran have become my favourite Celtic players because they give 100% every match.
As a paying spectator that is the least I should expect from Celtic players.
EMERALDBEE\O/ STILL PROUD TO BE AN INTERNET BAMPOT on 29TH APRIL 2016 6:46 PM
A wee request lhads. My younger cousin (an unrepentant rebel) is arriving soon for his ‘last supper’ (his words) after being given a couple of weeks left in his fight with cancer. I would love it if we won the league tomorrow for his sake – he might not last as long as the Aberdeen game. Keep him in your thoughts and prayers.
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May God bless your cousin and give him and yourselves strength at this painfully confronting time.
From me and mine in Sydney.
Pater noster qui es in coelis .
The Tonald
Credit where credit’s due. Your script writer has upped his game recently. Your humour has given me a few laugh out loud moments this past week. Keep up the good work please. :)
Ronny’s last roar would be fitting for the Celtic away support who tend to be more supportive by their very nature, and this Celtic side has got to halt a slide which forced the premature confirmation of Summer change.
Since we last got a draw in Edinburgh we’ve imploded and players have been unable to capture any semblance of form, apart from beating Hearts in the return at CP. I hope the crowd lifts Celtic unlike last Sunday where the crowd was down from the start.
The back seven from Gordon to Bitton will be the same, and Deila will shuffle three players to play along with Leigh Griffiths, plus ça change plus c-est la même chose.
I think he’ll go with CKR, Rogic, and Roberts again, barring injuries one if not all of these three will be substituted, but if Celtic win it will be celebrated like we just done five in a row, by the truly worthy.
BMCUW
I will bear that in mind.
Where you off to today?
HH!!
DD,
The blog would be boring if we all agreed. Not much scope for debate there.
It also requires humour, even the posts that are not meant to be funny.
Hail, Hail to you and COYBIG.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 30TH APRIL 2016 10:22 AM
Keiran is ” the hope ” for the future.
The young `uns coming through.
I`d love to see Izzy in mids in front of Keiran but his crossing ability hardly seems to have improved.
Erik ? Aye.With you.
Delaney’s.
Giving 100% is ALL I expect from every Celtic player. Everything else happens as a result of that. Win, lose or draw isn’t important.
Playing with style is second on the list.
You learn something every day.
Albert Kidd came on for Tosh.
Good wee bit of trivia that.
HH
EMERALDBEE\O/ STILL PROUD TO BE AN INTERNET BAMPOT on 29TH APRIL 2016 6:46 PM
Gob bless your cousin.
Greenpinata
You are talking crap pal, but I agree with you. :)))
We are all here for one reason. CELTIC.
Two hours to go.
Remember wee Leigh ragdolling Hearts central defender a few seasons back and scoring a cracker.
Helter skelter to the dugout.
Would LOVE a wee repeat cameo today
And if I do come on the blog philbhoy are you gonna call me names again?
It was a very quiet night last night wasn’t it?
All these mysterious things always going on in the background eh.
And it seems that , game after game of awful performances doesn’t alert some to how awful we have become.
And still the board says and does nothing. And our host doesn’t want to talk about it.
MacJay
Ronny’s legacy will be the Bonny Bhairns coming through.
He would be perfect youth developpment coach at Lennoxtown next season.
TALLYBHOY
Few cheap and cheerfuls in town. Then a few more!
Leigh
Tynecastle.
Happy hunting ground.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTs9vd4MS4s
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