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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Leave Pat Fenlon alone
Leave trash talk to the hun
Tombola, Winning Gemmell,
Have known the Burnett family more than 40 years. Sadly, Alec’s elder daughter died on Easter Sunday last year – a lovely, lovely woman & long-term friend of my wife.
@ verdant – there’s the way, I hope you don’t get called “snyde”
The cheek now of some of the Rangers fans now screaming for our history to be erased since we became a PLC ?.
WTF didn’t they become a PLC in 27th May 1999 ?.
Wouldn’t that erase their wee 5 silver stars then ?.
AWWWW wee shame for them NO TITLES and NO SILVERWARE since them being a PLC and we got 13 IAR by default to go with our tainted title assuming they got striped because of cheating by their enhanced debt management system.
That might wipe the smile of them if they got their wish and we had to start from being a PLC in historical terms.
Imagine that eh ! how many in a row now with the mighty Rangers fighting off every shark and vulture in every direction.
Sorry but sides are splitting a the thought of slamming 20 IAR at them by the time they win their FIRST title.
Podium !??
oglach says:
21 February, 2012 at 09:50
I have a degree in Scottish History and concentrated on the reformation period through to the covenanting movement and up to the end of the Jacobite rebellions.
Famine and plague were common throughout (King William’s reign was known as the Seven ill years at the time even though he didn’t rule for 7 years) but it had nothing to do with plantation which was exacerbated by James 6th and 1st.
21. Folly Folly says:
21 February, 2012 at 10:01
I stock piled jelly a few weeks ago still have 6 packets left let me know if you want a Red Cross parcel delivered.
What is it about the Scotsman and they way they employ so many journalists who quite openly detest all things Celtic?
One of the latest efforts below
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/spl/alan_pattullo_dignity_not_sanctimony_is_required_at_parkhead_1_2126779
I’m beginning to wonder how many of them sat on the jury at the assault trial on NL where the infamous “not proven” verdict was delivered.
Nah, change that….of the Scotsman people had been on the jury verdict would have been not guilty.
Sir Paul
collie, jis done tole me ..
That ..
Alyss.. says.
“The Leaves o ‘ Tea, they tell a Tale so Sombre,
which, I hesitate to Tell,
But, Truth will out , as the Savants say,
and Those who Cheat, have a Debt to Pay,
And So To Whyte a Demand is made , by the
Relentless, Mister Piper,
Which means,He no longer Holds the Reins of Charge,
and His Come Uppance won’t be Small, but… Large.”
And ye know somethin’, Kiddo..???
Ah am inclined tae Agree!
Kojo
and..
Still.. Laughin’!
.
Philvis.
Vintage play,my good man…
I salute your Awesomeness !!
Bit concerned about Oor Ernie..seems to me that his Marxist zeal has faded somewhat…
Mibbies these Courgettes ain’t all they’re cracked up to be…??
(thumbsup?).
P.S. A newspaper story earlier in the week suggested that Donohoe MP was the Secretary of the Westminster Rangers (In Administration) Supporters Club..