I was told during the week that whenever I preview an opponent they seem to be on a run of good form. So I’m delighted to share the information that Morton have not won any of their five Championship or Challenge Cup games played since November. They even lost on Saturday, when bottom club Hamilton arrested a seven game losing streak in the league.
After a storied wander across Scotland since leaving Celtic, which took him to Hibs, Livingston, St Johnstone and Dunfermline, Efe Ambrose (34) settled in Greenock earlier this season and is expected to make a return to the Celtic Park pitch tomorrow.
His mind will no doubt drift back to halcyon days – beating Barcelona, included. Let me take you back to another Efe occasion, though, just 10 months after that Barcelona win. Morton visited Celtic Park on League Cup while they were bottom of the Championship. The visitors knew they were onto a hiding if they dared lose concentration, so wilfully stuck to their task.
The game went to extra time when Efe fell on the ball inside the Celtic penalty area. Current Morton manager, Dougie Imrie, scored with the resultant spot kick and apparent no-hopers knocked the champions out of the League Cup. We started the game slow, Morton got into a defensive rhythm and no amount of effort could change the outcome.
No chance of that happening tomorrow. Right?
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CELTIC40ME
The Premier League is out on its own now, insane fees.
theBHOYfromU.N.C.L.E on 20th January 2023 4:48 pm
Chalmers + Hughes……..3rd Lanark?
HH
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Spot on.
HH
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Last one for you.
Scorer and significance?
Jinky 2-2 Ibrox ’67 league winning point
Wee Jinky 2-2……..clinched league.
Crack the code – the names and numbers represent a sequence in Celtic history, and uniqu in Scottish football, what is it ?
CELTIC:
GK Ronnie Simpson x 3
FB Ian Young x 1
FB Tommy Gemmell x 4
RH Bobby Murdoch x 5
CH Billy McNeill x 5
LH John Clark x 3
RW Jimmy Johnstone x 4
IF Charlie Gallagher x 1
CF Joe McBride x 2
IF Bobby Lennox x 4
LW John Hughes x 4
FB Willie O’Neill x 2
IF Bertie Auld x 4
FW Stevie Chalmers x 4
FB Jim Craig x 3
CF Willie Wallace x 2
GK John Fallon x 2
LH Jim Brogan x 2
FB Davie Hay x 1
RW Tommy Callaghan x 1
IF Harry Hood x 1
gingernut on 20th January 2023 5:25 pm
Jinky 2-2 Ibrox ’67 league winning point
theBHOYfromU.N.C.L.E on 20th January 2023 5:27 pm
Wee Jinky 2-2……..clinched league.
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Yip!
Enjoy your Friday bhoys.
In Ange we trust (Run, Run and Run)😀 😃 😄 😁 😆 😅 😂 🤣 🥲 🥹 ☺️ 😊 😇 🙂 🙃 😉 😌 😍 🥰 😘 😗 😙 😚 😋 😛 😝 😜 🤪
Is it founded 1888?
welcome back efe
Saint Stivs
5 league cups in a row – players who played and number of winners’ medals.
Jimbo
PAULSTHROUGHBALL88 – APRIL 1968
That Bobby Lennox goal😄 As a ten year old I was right behind the goal when it hit the net – pandemonium of mental proportions- party on the bus back to Greenock.
The Premier League indeed is out on its own. I posted the other day the value of its current broadcasting contract from 2022 – 2025.
For UK and overseas it comes to an astonishing 10.05 billion gbp.
That money is swilling about there.
JIMBO67 on 20TH JANUARY 2023 5:49 PM
Saint Stivs
5 league cups in a row – players who played and number of winners’ medals.
Jimbo
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par excellence jimbo, top of the class.
i am now looking at who played in all 8 winning cup final for the quad treble ,,,,,,,,,,,, an acheivement not yet praised enough,
Parkhead erupted, as Jinkyredstar peered through the net …….
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“Swilling about” indeed.
If I taught economics I’d use the EPL to illustrate the causes of inflation.
So one game to go. Rangers v Aberdeen, and Dunfermline Athletic v Celtic. The snag was that it was Scottish Cup Final day, and Dunfermline were playing Hearts. So Celtic would have to wait until the following Wednesday. But now Rangers, having insulted Glasgow a few months ago, now decided to insult Scotland as well.
It was put to them that, as Dunfermline and Hearts were two east of Scotland teams, it might be an idea to let them have Glasgow to themselves to swell the crowd at the Cup final. Would Rangers possibly think of playing on the Friday night, perhaps, or even the same night as Celtic were in Dunfermline? Any such suggestion was arrogantly refused, something that further alienated those who used to love them in the Press.
Stein now saw another psychological victory here, and told the world that he was taking the Celtic players to Hampden in a bus, whether they wanted to go or not. He also encouraged Celtic fans to do likewise. He did, of course, still have some affection for Dunfermline, but it was also an ideal opportunity to watch the Pars a few days before a game that would decide the League.
It so happened that it didn’t decide the League, for a now dispirited, outmaneuvered and disorganised Rangers managed to lose to Aberdeen, a team which had improved over the last few months. For a long time, it was a draw at Ibrox, but the Dons scored late, and just about the same time as the Cup was being presented to the Pars, it was confirmed that Rangers had lost and that Celtic, unless they lost 16-0 to Dunfermline on Wednesday night, were the champions. Legend had it that Stein nearly broke his ankle jumping for joy when he heard. It was certainly a very sweet moment for him, the team and all Celtic supporters.
Champions again!
There remained the game at a grossly over crowded East End Park as the Scottish Cup winners played the Scottish League Champions in an atmosphere of total love and respect between two teams who had a lot of time for each other. The big worry was the overcrowding. Mercifully no-one died through falling off the enclosure or the floodlight pylons, but there were quite a few injuries.
All in a good cause, though, as 1967/68 finished on a high. It was an action packed, emotional roller-coaster of a season with an awful lot crammed into it, but summer 1968, although not as good as summer 1967, was a great time to be alive!
David Potter
JINKYREDSTAR
Great to hear testimony from someone lucky enough to have experienced the euphoria of that moment, with the added bonus of thems’ pukin’ down at Killie.
Quite a contrast from my spectating experience that season in my early days of being a jinx. Only got to one game that season, first – round Scottish Cup home reverse versus eventual winners, the Pars.
The Callaghan brothers too much for us that day.
My first game that was since Dundee United beat us 3-2 for the second time in ’66-67 league, the only 2 league games we lost that unique season.
I wasn’t allowed to go to the AC Milan quarter final match the following year, allowing me to point the finger at my late father as being the real jinx.
Any chance of the auld classic ‘your keeper works at Greggs’ being renewed tomorrow?
I’ve finally plucked up the courage to watch the BALLYMURPHY documentary. I’m really struggling to continue watching it – ‘where’s your papa gone?’ – unholy scumbags!
Wouldn’t mind seeing this line up start tomorrow…if all are fit, that is…
Hart
Johnston Starfelt Kobayashi Bernabei
Mooy Calmac Turnbull
Forrest Giakomakis Jota
Wouldn’t normally start Turnbull, but tomorrow’s opposition provides an opportunity whereby we should be able to afford him a start at number 10.
I’d love to rest Calmac and Hatate, but feel we need one of them in there to provide legs in the number 8 role. Other options would slow play down.
Expect Morton will sit deep, with two banks of defenders, so probably no space for Maeda or Abada to get in behind. Jota’s trickery, and Forrest’s crossing ability could be better suited, with GG leading the line.
Just a thought :-)
HH
Apologies to any survivors/family members out there – I can’t even watch it.
PAULSTHROUGHBALL88
It wasn’t only your Dad’s fault. I was behind the same goal when Jim took the shy and Billy let Prati in – can still see it!!
JINKYREDSTAR
One that got away, no doubt. We could have taken Manure in the semi, and AC hammered Ajax 4-1 or something in the final.
My dad couldn’t go much due to work. His next game was Thistle in the league cup final.
Jist sayin’.
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Joe – clue – 67
Scullybhoy
Celtic 2- 0 Aberdeen Scottish cup final
(Wallace 2)
If you look just above the ball I was hanging from a drain pipe under the north standard –
I was at the Celtic v Morton game when Lennox grabbed the last minute winner. I was 14 and my dad took me to the main stand. I remember feeling devastated as the minutes ticked away at 1-1. Contrast that with the pandemonium when the ball hit the net. The usually reserved stand patrons were leaping around as if possessed and my dad lifted me sky high as we celebrated like crazy. What a high that was.
Following Saturday a few mates and I went to Hampden for the Cup Final and were happy to see Dunfermline beat Hearts 3-1.
Next it was on to East End Park on the Wednesday for the season’s climax — Dunfermline v Celtic. My uncle took his car and my wee brother and I and my dad joined him. We set off early as it was cash at the turnstiles. We were actually there for the gates opening and my brother and I were at the front beside the Celtic dugout.
What a night as Celtic won 2-1 in front of a massive crowd, with fans on the roofs, half-way up the floodlights and sitting on the tracks at the side of the pitch and behind the goals.
After full-time both teams did a joint lap of honour with their respective trophies.
Amazing times to be a Celtic supporter.
Gene on 20th January 2023 7:58 pm
Scullybhoy
Celtic 2- 0 Aberdeen Scottish cup final
(Wallace 2)
If you look just above the ball I was hanging from a drain pipe under the north standard –
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I thought it was you.
Brilliant.
HH
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Here is an easy one:
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And a really hard one:
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Then I’m off to collect my daughter at the airport.
BTW Gene, just the names of the goalscorers please.
BOURNESOUPRECIPE on 20TH JANUARY 2023 5:16 PM
And they’re hoovering up all the young European talent as well. £20m seems to be the going rate for the sort of players we used to look at picking up
Watching g the Burnley v W Brom game.Dear me,the weather in Burnley must be Tropical,the condition that pitch is in.
Or maybe Sky are now doctoring the cameras to make Championship parks look good as well now
Chalmers scores verse Liverpool 1966 goalkeeper was Tommy Lawrence
Good to hear the memories of the lucky bhoys who got to witness such great Celtic drama back in the year that followed the season of all seasons.
Stevie Chalmers ECWC semi final first leg – should have been 5 that night
Bobby Lennox from the spot
Tommy Lawrence fondly know as the flying pig
Bobby Lennox v Liverpool
and
Bobby Lennox
Bobby Lennox from the spot
Against Aberdeen’s Bobby Clark ?
Jenz getting papped seemingly
Looks like Stevie but he didn’t score the goal v Liverpool.