I am sure you have many great Scottish Cup final memories. For me the best was Airdrieonians, twice. My earliest memory of attending a final was the 1975 win, Kenny Dalglish, Paul Wilson and Pat McCluskey. Watched big Billy and Jinky emerge from Hampden with the trophy after the game.
Then, of course, there was that huge final in 1995. Six years without a trophy, Celtic were at their lowest point in decades and had already lost a final to Raith Rovers that season. Beating Airdrieonians in that final is one of the most important victories in Celtic history.
By any measure, apart from Scottish Cups, Hibs are the fifth biggest team in Scotland, yet they haven’t won the Cup in 110 years. Since then the Wright brothers headed to Kitty Hawk and tried to get ‘Flyer’ off the ground for the first time in history and Teddy Rosevelt made history by becoming the first US president to ride in a motor car.
If they can pull a good 90 minutes together today, Hibs might become the first club in Scottish footballs’ rebirth. They have reclaimed thousands of fans in recent weeks and are proof that there is life outside Glasgow.
Good luck to them.
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Just got back from a cloudy Barcelona to a sunny Scotland, been in a daze for 3 days , so are the Huns dead yet?
Hibs are awful, how many would we have taken off them?? Come on Bayern!!
Hibs are a poor side and I feel for their fans today except their newest one. Nevin does talk some rubbish and wee Doddsy just makes things up. What clip? Poor from the BBC yet again but I’m sure Wednesday will be better viewing.
tommytwiststommyturns on 19 May, 2012 at 17:23:
No, no, no x 1,000,000 to Black.
Although Skacel seems to turn it on against us, I agree, no.
Fraser Forster left training with a case containing all of his gear, not the actions of somebody intending to return for preseason training, IMHO.
Craig Gordon, was definitely a serious target before FF signed on loan. There was also serious consideration given to signing him in January but with the emergence of FF as a quality GK; this was shelved. I would not be surprised IF Fraser Forster went to WHU, we signed Craig Gordon. I heard as far back as last Summer that Gordon would not be adverse to a return North.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Pine Barrens on 19 May, 2012 at 17:17
You’re forgetting……………………
We don’t get the kind of decisions Hertz got today.
The only chance the Hibees had after a poor start was snatched away by thomson, the lack of honest and critical analysis on refereeing performance is nauseating.
HH
Keevins thinks Hibs were totally embarrassing and doesn’t know what they have to do to get back to the days of Blackley, Stanton, O’Rourke and Brownlie. Why not spend beyond their means and then go into liquidation. Complete and utter fud of a man.
Renewed my seat today, now Block 106, Row DD (Lower Tier) guy in the Office said it is the last row before corporate seats.
Anybody sit near or anybody got a link to seating plan, just to get an idea of where exactly I’ll be?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
So here is the received wisdom from the BBC experts.
Ian Black’s act of thuggery was committed early on in the game so the referee used his common sense and discretion to issue a warning rather than a card.
My question is why this same discretion was not applied to Cha Du Ri against they who must not be named.
I would also advise anyone who wants to injure an opponent in a match to do it early on, since this is apparently acceptable in Scoddish fitba circles.
Let’s see how the laptop loyal react when the national team gets its usual pumping by whomever in the next futile attempt to qualify for a major Finals, when as usual they will try to blame homer/dishonest referees.
Funny how only Scoddish refs are above reproach isn’t it?
• I think it was An Fear Rua who drew attention to the fact that the Ireland team are to wear black armbands in their game against Italy on 18th June which is on the eighteenth anniversary of the Loughinisland massacre when 6 people were shot by the UVF in O’Toole’s bar as they watched Ireland play Italy.
• Today The Irish Independent report that Messrs Dunphy and Giles are opposed to this initiative. They also carry a separate article about an atrocity carried out by the IRA in Warrington. The tone of the article is in stark contrast.
• The Irish Independent is now in the control of Celtic shareholder Denis O’Brien!
• http://www.independent.ie/national-news/pundits-attack-fais-move-to-commemorate-massacre-3111510.html
Cruel metal thieves steal plaque to children killed by IRA bomb …
Further to my post at 17:36, WHU would have signed FF at the start of 2011/2012 season but could not offload Robert Green. However, Green is now a Bosman…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Green Lantern is called laying down a marker – some you win, some you lose.
And the reason for my magnanimity is my joyful remembrance of Barry Robson ‘doing’ Dailly in the Celtic Park derby for the Tommy Burns league.
U
Some dreadful loan-signings in that Hibs team.
Can’t understand why Fenlon and Lenny never did a deal to loan a couple of our young Bhoys. Would have been an ideal opportunity to blood them or put them in the shop window.
Hibs were very poor today. They looked like a disjointed team made up of strangers. But you can’t fault them too much for effort. Nonetheless, Craig Thomson had a real shocker, yet again. Scottish ref’s in general are awful and if he is our best then God help us. He should have at LEAST booked Black for that assault on Griffiths in the first few minutes. He could easily have broken Griffiths jaw. A few minutes after that assault he books Kujabi for a foul on the ever willing to go to ground Suso Santana. A few minutes after that Skacel should have been booked for a foul for a similar challenge. Then that penalty decision. Outside the box and a dive with no contact ( if there was it was accidental) yet still a penalty! Crazy decision! A Hearts player (Zaliukas?) hit the ball with his hand in box ( replica of Big Vic’s against in the Semi) yet no penalty…not even a comment from commentators…I despair of our refs & the bias commentators…I think the cousins of William would become the primary beneficiary’s of establishment honest mistakes if the Sons of William vanish from the top table…
Come on you Bayern!
Lennybhoy…Supporting Neil Lennon and CFC until I die on 19 May, 2012 at 17:43 said:
I used be 106 DD 18. Great seat. You are one row below the “soft seats” and on the edge of the centre circle Lisbon Lions end
I see that the Charles Green purchase of Craig Whyte’s (bow) shares is conditional on a CVA being agreed. Hence all the talk of hundreds of millions of pounds, you can do that when playing monopoly. So, no CVA = no buyer .
Anybody got a good padlock?
Oh…….I forgot, the Blue Knight will return :-)
Lennybhoy @1745 hrs
20 yards left of the centre line
Paul67
You, Phil & RTC have to grind out the demise of RFC all the way to the end. We know that Scottish football officials, pundits and press do not change their allegiances they just look for another form or way to fit their own order on ‘sport’ in Scotland.
Houl yer wheest on 19 May, 2012 at 17:52:
Very spooky, my new seat is DD 18, why did you move or give it up?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
mickbhoy1888 on 19 May, 2012 at 17:56:
Do you sit nearby?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Ulysses.
Ian Black certainly laid down a marker today.
Let’s hope someone lays down a marker against him soon.
Barry Robson is a player who I had a lot of time for when he was with us but he was not an out and out thug like Black, who ironically has some ability.
I will be interested to see how Black gets on should he end up in the Championship, where he would get at least as good as he gives and where his elbows to the face and potentially carteer ending tackles will not be tolerated.
I think Gordon would be a great signing if FF walks away. Lenny also needs to decide what his defence is going to be
Lustig ,Rogne, New Guy. Izzy would do for me
Neil McCann calls it correctly.
The Hibs player unintentionally gets the very slightest of flicks on the Hearts players foot.
This causes him to trip up.
He does not trip over his own feet.
The contact is outside the box.
The player deserves his second booking ,and therefore the sending off.
Hearts were well deserving winners.
Hibs were very poor.
I wanted Hibs to win,but I only care about Celtic.
Euro final holds no appeal for me.
I hope Chelsea get beat,but again I only care about Celtic.
Disappointed not to be enjoying a treble ,and I can only dream of a Champions league final which involves Celtic.
Whilst Scottish football dehydrates,Such an event may not be seen in my lifetime.
TT
Lennonist on 19 May, 2012 at 18:06:
Matthews in front of Lustig for me. Charlie with Rogne as well. If we go with the new Bhoy (TBC) where would you play Charlie?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Green – I was being a wee bit flippant. Black’s a thug – there’s no doubt. Semi Final / Final – got away with murder. Just like guys like Lafferty got/get away with murder. Remember the Hinkel tackle?
Black is destined to mediocrity – and has had his 15mins of West Coast fame as a dirty Rangers player ripped from his grasp by short sighted financial mismanagement. Oh how those heady days of a bought for 9 in a row must seems like a musty old memory.
Thompson, Gow, Naismith, Boyd – the list is endless – ship ’em in but as soon as they don’t meet the meritocratic benchmark? Ship ’em out to Championship obscurity (Lauded as astute business in the press) followed by erstwhile return to the St Mirrens and Kilmarnocks and ICTs etc, etc…
But remember as Murray once said in the soon to be post PLG days – only Rino has went on to better things after leaving Rangers.
Although that is at worst subjective – I think it said more about their blinkered retirement home spend than it ever did about their level of superiority.
U
Lennybhoy,
Hope this works
http://www.celticfc.net/tickets_season_buy_today
Link should go to stadium plan.
Fencelt
“no cva no buyer”.
You are misreading this.
Green will still buy the club,he just won’t buy Whytes shares.
TT
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Listened to some of the post match “analysis” if it can be called that on BBC. What a load of guff. For two ex pros, one of whom is the national manager, they seem to know very little about the game.
Hearts deserved a penalty although the foul was outside the box? Black’s assault was too early for the ref to show a card – which Law of the Game is that?
And then a lot about the Hearts manager having a difficult job because they overspent. A bit like the adulation of Sally for the hardship of having to manage players that his club couldn’t afford.
Off topic.
The Olympic torch tour of Britain. Honestly! What the F**K!
A token gesture to a bankrupt & disenfranchised wider U.K. as public money is siphoned off, once again, into the South East economy.
It adds insult to injury that they believe we’ll accept ‘inclusion’ to mean the fleeting glimpse of some grinning also-ran in a shell suit, with a torch, north of the Watford Gap.
Lennybhoy…Supporting Neil Lennon and CFC until I die on 19 May, 2012 at 17:57 saide
I had the seat for 8 seasons but didn’t renew in time last year. There was a terrific group of people beside me. We used go for a drink after the last game before Christmas. I can remember a group of 16 of us in the Tolbooth having great craic. However many of them gave up their STs towards the end of the Gordon Strachan era and the Christmas group dwindled to 3! I’m now in 104
Lennonist on 19 May, 2012 at 18:06 said:
I think Gordon would be a great signing if FF walks away. Lenny also needs to decide what his defence is going to be
Lustig ,Rogne, New Guy. Izzy would do for me
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You be happy with a very injury prone keeper, then drop Matthews and POTY Charlie. Nah, not for me. Hopefully FF signs if not then someone much better and reliable than Gordon should be signed.
We cannot plan on Rogne being our regular centre half.
He is a good player,and is very capable when fit.
He however is very injury prone and is historically likely to be injured and miss quite a few matches.
Lenny will try and add 2 central defenders to combat his frequent injuries.
TT
Here’s a thought. We bring in Craig Gordon. He returns to form and to number 1 international spot. That then gives us the spine of the international team plus James Forrest. A couple more and even if Rangers ever manage a recovery you’d have nearly a generation of fans being brought up where Celtic are more ‘establishment’ than them. All manner of changes are being brought about by their unholy mess.
Lennybhoy
Think Mathews and CM are more productive in wing back /wide midfield positions but you are right both can and will make substantial contributions defensively.
undercover footage from blantyre !
I would be gutted if we don’t get Forster. I have said on here for sometime he will play for England as only Joe Hart is better than him.
Gordon woudn’t be my second choice either.
I would go for Kasper Schmeichel. No where near as good as his da but a decent keeper.
TT.
Our team plays in Scotland so we have to be concerned about the standard of refereeing in this country regardless of who is playing.
I care deeply about Celtic but I also care about football, sport and fair play.
.
Tommy on Shortbread again
An olde version of Tommy on Shortbread!!
Craig Gordon has been very unlucky with injuries over the last two years but was a damned good keeper. If fully fit I would sign him in a minute, but given how little he has played I would be looking closely at a medical report first.
It could just be that he has had a series of unfortunate injures and there is no underlying weakness or ill effects. Or it could be that he won’t ever be the player he once was. It’s a difficult one to call. We could pay wages on a player who contributes little. Or we could get a £9M keeper for free.