We should commission a study into what happens to football teams immediately after a big game when they need to play a less illustrious opponent. This week Kilmarnock got a better result against Celtic than Barcelona, and unlike the Catalans, Kilmarnock were away from home.
Cast your memory back five years for a better example. Celtic beat Champions League holders, Milan, remarkably the only time the club have recorded a win against reigning champions, and met Gretna the following weekend, at Fir Park, Motherwell. Gretna were promoted that summer but had cutbacks forced on them, as the financial gamble to promote them to the top flight. Still, a James Grady free kick caught Artur Boruc on his heels. It took goals from Chris Killen (remember him?) and Scott McDonald in the final three minutes to save face for Celtic. Gretna failed towards the end of that season and were subsequently liquidated.
Celtic got the better of both Spartak Moscow and Benfica that season.
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Gene
I remember a very famous cowboy called Gene Autrey who was very very popular at the time. One of my heroes. :)) (Memories)
Weefra HH
The red telephone
I can remember sheets being used in the 50’s and possibly early 60’s for charity collections. It would most likely have been at Parkhead but could have been Shawfield, Cathkin, Firhill or Love St.
Really enjoyed listening to Pat Nevin’s pain there on 5 live, “honestly, it’s not because I played for Chelsea”.
Aye right ya horrible wee scrote.
Sounded like some game, will enjoy later.
Any good debates on here today?? >:-(
Gene
Sorry, got the spelling wrong, Autry, and before anyone asks, his horse was called CHAMPION. He had three horses all called the same. (Anorak)
Weefra HH
Evening bhoys from a warm hun free mountain.
Sad so I am, the grands weans home in the morning :<(
TCC
Couldn't get on earlier, too much happening…
Anyways…..
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Roma
When I was at school I had a mate called Roy Rogers.
It was a panto when we got caught by the polis playing football in the street.
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Jandy Sardine strikes again.
Izzy
I rest my case. :)
Weefra HH
Have no recollection of a sheet being used to collect for charity at CP in the early 60s.
Certainly remember the ‘black babies’ episode at primary school during the same period ‘tho. Seem to remember taking a few pennies in every week.
Now on to a totally different topic – cooking! I am a bloody good cook if you will allow me to say so! Dont get the chance to show off my culinary skills when I am over here because auntie is brilliant – only get the chance when I am back in Scotland! Just ask BMCUW about my soup!
HH!!
I was a primary school pupil in the 60s (St Bonaventure’s aka Wee Bonnies) and we used to give a penny a week to the black babies. The teacher marked up your card and when you’d paid for 24 weeks then your particular black baby was saved.
The daft thing is that if anyone outside the south side had seen the state of us they’d be raising money for us.
Still….happy days eh?
Tallybhoy
For matters liquid culinary the master on this site is bournesouprecipe
I also remember the black babies, but by then (70s) it was officially called the Holy Childhood. We got a little paper figure to cut out and move up a ladder as we brought in money. We also got a card with a child’s photo on it and a grid of boxes below to colour in as a record of how much money we’d donated. When the card was full we got to pick a name for a child. Pick a name for a child! That sounds horribly colonial to me now.
Don’t remember any particular ‘blanket’ collection at Celtic Park.
I do recall that such events were commonplace through the 40s & 50s at grounds all over the country.
Phyllis Dietrichson
And you got a wee card with a picture of a child on it;
ANNNNNNND the swings and swing parks got locked on a sunday.
Why do they call hurricanes, which can cause death and
widespread destruction by such innocuous names, e.g
sandy. Why not numbers , hurricane 1 etc
Bob a Job cards at primary school hard labour for 5p
happy days indeed :(((
On the Black Babies collections that we used to get our penny to take to school for,….
the clock moves forward & young black British soldiers in Derry & Belfast were greeted with the challenge, ‘ Are you the ones that we gave our pennies to at the school’.
Black humour indeed
Kilbowie
The only blanket collection I can remember was for John White RIP ( Spurs and Scotland ) – i had a box that day and we got into Celtic Park for free – of course we had Little Sisters there every week
Kilbowie
I was in Belfast on holiday when the troops arrived – asked if he was a Catholic the soldier replied that it was tough enough being Black
Haven’t posted on here for a few months, though lurk when I can. Nothing to do with quality of debate, I personally don’t think it’s went down on here recently, if you’ve been on here for a few years, just like real life, people have different opinions. Like my old gran used to say “ It takes a lotta different people tae make a world”. Honestly, she said that, every time she disagreed with what was being said. (caveated though with a with a soor look on her face)
The black babies thing drew me in, and just how much we have moved on from then. One of my memories of primary school were when you reached the magic 15p (mid to late seventies), you got to name the person in the photo you have been buggin your parents for a few pennies for, for weeks. I actually believed that due to my pestering powers, there were a few babies in Africa called Kenny (Dalglish)
HH
Gene’s a Bhoys name
I should point out that BMCUW has never actually tasted my soup – he happened to text me last Saturday as he was heading back ‘home’ and I was, briefly, back in Scotland.
I was in the kitchen at the time… eh… making soup! Exciting stuff indeed!
Anyway… Gene’s a cracking name for a ghuy – just look at Gene Hackman!
HH!!
Remember black babies but also in the old memory box there was something called ‘ the crusaders’.
I can’t remember what the detail was just a distant memory.
Ps plant a tree in 73 :))
A strange one from Hampden, starting next next week:
New exhibition at the Scottish Football Museum: Huns’ 140 years of history.
Curator Richard McBrearty said: “…The storylines will finish on the memorable run to the UEFA Cup Final in 2008 …”.
Should be lots of great memorabilia on show of Manchester 98, eh?
But surely the storyline ends circa 14/02/2012.
Hopefully, Mr McBrearty will be a busy man keeping the exhibition up to date as his colleagues in the rooms upstairs are obliged to strip the titles and cups “won” during a fair chunk of that history.
As I say, a strange one from the blazers at Hampden, but no doubt they are expecting world record attendances for the Hun’s one and only appearance at Hampden this year.
To us the Crusader was a little yellow magazine full of naff jokes that went on sale once in a while. I’m not sure whether it was specifically catholic or just christian in nature. I remember it from the year I was 11-12 but then changed to a different school and never saw it again.
I live on the east coast, just been to the shops for weekly food shopping everyone else buying lots of batteries water ect going mad for some high wind and heavy rain as if this has never happend before, msm over here scaring the pants off people not like there is an election coming up to report on.
I’m away to nail old bits of wood across the windows in case i’m wrong.
From Phil…….
“An SPL match delegate told me two years ago that RFC had sectarian problems with “half their season ticket holders”.
The seven wonders of the new world.
1. Who killed Kennedy
2. Does Nessie exist
3. Who made Steve guttenberg a star
4. Where is Shergar
5. Where is lord Lucan
6. Is pie relative
7. Who owns ibrox
I feel that lm ancient as I remember giving money for the black babies.Also we used to get a penny for going a message and bought four black bobs for the penny, a farthing each black bobs was black coloured chewing gum.H.H.
goldstar10
18:38 on
28 October,
Any good debates on here today??
Naw. Reminded me of Princess Margaret’s views on opera – “Just a bunch of fat people shouting at each other”. :-)
Joe Fillipis Haicuts
Were they not called blackjacks
Mattgallscot
Stay safe, it’s on the news over here also. All our fingers and toes are crossed for you all. And in our prayers. Stay strong.
Weefra HH
thetimreaper – hurricanes are named in alphabetical order at the start of each calendar year, and alternate between a male and female ( e.g. Albert, Betty, Charlie, Deirdre etc) – I suspect if they called Katrina, for example, Hurricane 23 it may not be remembered as well.
Joe
I think they were black jacks – but the farthing is a long time ago
Joe Fillipis Haircuts
Im wrong blackjacks were chews
NatKnow
Opera?!
Went, or rather, was taken twice – fell asleep once.
HH!!
Speaking of sheets going round the park brings back a story my old man has told me a hundred times. He was at the Spurs v Rangers European Cup game at the Lane 1963 when Greaves and co destroyed a good hun side.
At half-time it was normal practice for nurses from the local hospital to carry a sheet round the track and the fans would toss in money. On this particular evening the boozed up huns were in a bad mood as their team were being ripped apart and true to form they started launching screwtops at the nurses.
It was all over the London papers the next day.
This was around the same period when they were christened ‘Huns’ by a Wolverhampton journalist after they had laid seige on that town.
On that note, my mate was in Barcelona and he told me today that he spoke to a Spanish copper who said that he could not believe we were from the same city as that other lot who vandalised statues and generally behaved apallingly.
hh
natknow :-)