At the start of this month I look at the fixture list; three away games, at Inverness in the Scottish Cup and both Edinburgh grounds in the league, sounded a tall order. Before the Inverness game I wrote that it was games like that which often brought a promising treble run to a halt, while Hibs and Hearts had already taken points from us this season.
‘The record shows’, we’re in the next round of the cup and hit an incredible nine goals over two visits to Edinburgh without reply.
We’ve scored 21 goals away from home since the last goal conceded (at Udinese) and have scored 26 in domestic away games since Motherwell took the lead against Celtic on 6 November last year. In that time Dunfermline Kilmarnock and Dundee United have scored at Celtic Park, while Falkirk managed a goal at Hampden in the League Cup semi-final, but I don’t remember such an imperious Celtic team away from home.
I remember throwing a troublesome away stat at Gordon Strachan’s team. Despite winning the league Gordon’s team went over 15 months in all competitions without keeping a clean sheet away from home. Celtic were the best team in the land, indisputable winners, but no matter how lowly the opposition, there was a fragility about the team.
These great times need to be placed in a suitable historical frame.
The signed Celtic jersey we were auctioning on eBay raised £5000 on Saturday. I get to see a lot of Celtic fans, so should know your nature well enough by now, but you continue to raise the bar higher.
Stunned.
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PAYBACK EVERY PENNY THEN LIQUIDATION IS THAT BETTER
Jeez_Blinker
Thanks – heard some similar stories but always wondered how my Dad’s pal Alec got a job in the first place. Some of the blatant bigotry in the stories I was told were unbelievable.
Thank goodness that kind of thing has a completely disappeared and we live in a completely tolerant society now!
TonguefirmlyincheekCSC
HH
Tombola
ASonOfDan says:
20 February, 2012 at 13:52
The hate is building. I would imagine that if Rangers lose a game away from home the pitch will be invaded and the battling will commence. They are hurting and their form would prove that voilence is round the corner.
LB
Anybody with kids in Scotland who are Celtic fans need tocwarn their kids not to gloat especially if you have been setting the example.
Dangerous times ahead.
HH
ibleedgreenandwhite1 says:
20 February, 2012 at 13:44
What low life they are I would rather starve than work there.You would have to get hosed down before you came in your house
Watching Channel 4’s really rather good new drama Homeland last night it struck me that when Hollywood eventually make a movie of the life of Whytie (‘Huns : My part in their downfall’) who better to play Lenny than fellow ginger and top acting bloke Damien Lewis. Other cast members could include..
Craig Whyte ; Rik Mayal/ A Hammerhead Shark
Super Saveloy : Himself (he may need the gig)
Thomas Rogne :Ricky out of Eastenders on stilts
Georgios Samaras : Christopher Eccleston with a wig and some Dick Emery teeth
Jabba : Jabba
jimtim says:
20 February, 2012 at 12:38
I think we should let celtic deal with leckie should we not .
jimtim.
Lackie and his rag should have been sine died from CP after the Coughgate lies mate.
Anyone who wants us to get into bed with the overtly right wing, racist, taxpayers alliance, should have a look at the excellent
tabloid-watch.blogspot.com.
Scroll down on the right to taxpayers alliance, that tells you all you need to know what their agenda is.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo says:
20 February, 2012 at 13:55
Anybody with kids in Scotland who are Celtic fans need tocwarn their kids not to gloat especially if you have been setting the example.
Dangerous times ahead.
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I agree,,,the level of hate is building,,,some poor soul is bound to get hurt,simply because these fools cant handle the truth!!!
Hail hail
BlantyreKev-Michael Kelly could well be the man to deal with Lackie.
I bleed green and white
What are we living besides in this country? I despair l really do.
How can parents bring there kids up to think like that?
Mtt
It is amazing that a player is fined for unsporting conduct but the huns can sign cousin with full SFA backing and fail to pay their outstanding bills to fellow SPL clubs.
Is their a rift between the SFA and SPL ?
If UEFA eventually find out that the SFA is not fit for purpose how can they get a vote at the big FIFA table ??
UK team league and association ?
Sir Paul
Ah read wiv interest that the wee Darling Thai Kids.. wull be coming tae Celtic Park, oan a visit.
No actual dates wur mentioned.. but, they are slated tae be in Glasgow, sometime
between Late April,of this Year ..and Early May.
Ah hiv nae idea whit wid be the actual date, when Celtic wull Hoist the League Flag,
in Front of their Adoring Fans…but.. surely, the Visit of the Thai Youngsters wid be made all the Sweeter and Memorable ,if …
the Celebration of Oor League Triumph could also be witnessed and celebrated by the Youngsters.
Do you believe that this suggestion of mine, has also crossed the collective mind of the Celtic Administrators?
Ah, fur wan…Hope so.
And,if it has.. then the Youngsters Visit has already Been arranged tae Co-incide.
Ah guess we wull find oot,the answer tae that question,in time.
Kojo
Almost Fugoat
STILL LAUGHIN’!!!!
Hamiltontim
Rogueleader provided this earlier,
.http://lockerz.com/s/185522717
On safety – reading about some SDL/EDL protest planned for this Saturday in or around George Sq. No doubt they’ll be looking for Celtic fans who are on their way the the game.
I know WGS is like marmite, I love him, but appreciate he rubs some up the wrong way…. This is him being asked about Rangers, finances at Celtic and even Leeds…
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/17086479
Mick, Ibleedgreenandwhite,
Caller to Flanders “football is a funny funny game..”
He got that right. Absolutely hilarious at the moment in fact! :)
Weirs of Cathcart. always had that feeling about them,regarding employing catholics, McCool the guy that owns them now big Rangers fan ,so i wouldnt imagine them to be so different.Lairds the box makers in Swanston Street in Dalmarnock, were just as bad as Weirs.
Re: Thompson at DUFC getting abuse from Rangers fans.
This is just the tip of the iceberg – I think there could be lots of bother over the next few months and would urge every Celtic fan to take care.
They’re hurting badly and some will revert to type if and when Lenny brings home the treble and any leading questions the media ask.
Keep your eyesies on the prizes Celtic, publically ignore the Orcs plight – privately revel in it!
Tombola
TimJim says:
20 February, 2012 at 13:59
ibleedgreenandwhite1 says:
20 February, 2012 at 13:44
What low life they are I would rather starve than work there.You would have to get hosed down before you came in your house
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My younger brother was at Rangers up until he was 17 when he got a bad knee injury and they let him go (they dont do loyalty) we as a familyof Celtic die hard’s stood by my brother after all he was just playing football,,,,but i will never forget just how deep rooted the anti Irish/Celtic feeling is at that Cess-pit,you would see how people would change toward us when they found out we were tims,in the end we were practically ignored,,,,,there were some decent people there but that was a tiny minority!!!!
Hail hail
Pleit I thought was German for bankrupt
So I have been singing all week
Oh the Rangers are pleit
Only for my son to ask this morning ..what does pleit mean dad ?
It’s pleite he told me. Which sound like pleit-uh in German.
HH
Clydesdale Electrical, interview as an apprentice TV engineer, failed at the school question, and yes it was as blatant as that.
mickthetic says:
20 February, 2012 at 14:00
I bleed green and white
What are we living besides in this country? I despair l really do.
How can parents bring there kids up to think like that?
Mtt
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Its scary,,it really is,,,i have a 14 year old son,,,and there are times now i think to myself,,,,”maybe i shouldn’t let him wear his Celtic top”,,,because at this moment in time there are too many angry huns looking for some innocent person to take out all there anger on,,,a a Green jumper, a Celtic top, or a Crucifix could be the trigger!!!
Scary!!
Hail hail
jeez_I_thought_blinker_was_pants says:
20 February, 2012 at 13:29
Half Time Tombola @ 13:12
Re:Weirs
Brings back memories – my uncle became the 1st ever Catholic foreman draughtsman employed by them in 1966!
new article posted.
Scottish Mutual (before they were taken over by Abbey National). Worked there as a temp one summer so through an agency rather than directly. Was asked ‘you a Rangers man ?’, I answer ‘no’, ‘ah just follow Scotland then’ came the serious reply.
Few years later I’d a recruitment firm contact me about working there and could they send in my cv in, OK I said. Recruitment company were perplexed when I was turned down for an interview given my cv.
Barr & Stroud
Like Weirs (and so many other Glasgow companies up until around that time) Barr & Stroud (then in Annielsand) employed previous few Tims.
One year (around 1975/76, I think) it transpired that almost all of the latest intake of 20 or so apprentices were Catholics.
It turned out that the recruitment officer had converted to Catholicism and had kept the fact to himself … until it was ‘too late’.
FF
Linn Products, Advised by their CEO after an interview one day out of Magges- “Don’t put a priest as a reference” – 29 years and I still don’t know if I am getting the job!!
The taxpayers alliance is a nasty malicious Tory front group.
Having said that the Huns are (by a country mile) worse. So I held my nose nd completed the online form.
Sometimes you have to do unpleasant things to (hopefully) achieve a good outcome.
praecepta
It must be the cleverest tims that slipped the net re Weirs – with good bit of stubborness as well no doubt!
It was the Weirs man and my Dad (himself one of the first Catholics to be employed in his work) that told me always to work twice as hard and never give your gaffer the slightest excuse to sack you………….like spending all day abusing your internet access…….what?…..oh right.
BacktoworkCSC
Tombola
Keevins, along with the rest of the rat pack, are all the guys who got tore into Joe Ledley for coming out with “if we win all our league games between now & the end of the season, we CAN win the league”. 15 down, 11 to go. Well said Joe Ledley, don’t expect them to apologise.
Algarvian says:
20 February, 2012 at 14:00
‘Anyone who wants us to get into bed with the overtly right wing, racist, taxpayers alliance’
You have to wonder how naive and gullible people must be to think that the Taxpayers Alliance are our allies when it comes to the huns.
They are a front organisation for the loony right wing of the Tory party and their whole purpose is campaign for lower taxes.
They support the use of tax avoidance schemes.
Jack Regan
I worked in Clydesdale for about 4 years, wasn’t that bad.
Purdie & Kirkpatrick on the other hand!!!
Rieperman says: 20 February, 2012 at 14:04
The gift that keeps on giving.
Sympathy…. not one bit ;-)
hindsight is a wonderful thing.
but reading the comments at the bottom of this ‘joe ledly october’ story is realy funny.
celtic-star-joe-ledley-insists-players-want-neil-lennon-to-remain-boss-86908-23527106
whits wae aw the hullabyloo we Stephen Thompson and the twitter threats?
An Orc oan Hun Meedja has jist said its a “bit ah banter”
Surely the Polis will accept that as a reasonable explanation?
Whits this country like when yae canni call “a taig ah taig”?
!!Bada Bing!! Kano 1000 says:
20 February, 2012 at 13:59
jimtim says:
20 February, 2012 at 12:38
bada mate . i would have hunted them all long before that . we show them too much tolerance
The huns are calling themselves a “family” in their typical mimicking of us…if so then what type of family are they? One of those family’s you get in the backwoods of Louisiana? The Adams Family? The Fritzels?