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I know we met them in a European Cup semi-final in 1972, but the forthcoming tie against Inter Milan is all about the wonderful heritage we were gifted in 1967.  La Grande Inter, as Internazionale, then the greatest team Italy had known, had won two of the previous three European Cups and were controversially denied in the semi-final of the other.  They won three of the previous four Italian titles, denied the fourth on a play-off, and topped the table with two weeks of the Italian season to go.

They were an awesome team with gifted strikers but it was the defence which marked them out; this was a team who didn’t concede goals, when they took the lead, they kept it.

Simpson, Craig, Gemmell; Murdoch, McNeill and Clark; Johnstone, Wallace, Chalmers, Auld and Lennox, and Jock Stein, not only killed La Grande Inter, but did so, so comprehensively, they forced Inter, and the rest of the Italian game, to change their ways.  Catenaccio, the suffocating, ultra-defensive system, was finished.

For Europe, the consequences were profound.  Celtic, with their wave after wave of attack; 45 attempts on goal in a European final; were celebrated everywhere.  The drift towards caution stopped, teams realised the very best defensive sides could be beaten into submission by sheer talent.  In the two subsequent decades the dominant Latin countries of Italy, Spain and Portugal, who had won all previous European Cups, would win the trophy only once.

Football fans across the globe, not just Celtic fans, will want to be there when the teams meet in a game which represents History, not just our history, Europe’s History.

We’ll talk later today on moves being put on the SFA at the moment.  ‘Here we go again…….’
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You can also order the CQN Annual and DVD bundle here. It’s a great offer, check it out – oh, and there’s tons of photos, fresh stories and comment on the first time Inter faced the green and white hoops.

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  2. Jungle Jim Hot Smoked on

    Jim Jeffries? I hope those who refer to him will not resort to simply using his initials when doing so.

     

    JJ

  3. South Of Tunis on

    Italian media reporting that Taliban nutjobs have murdered 84 children and 16 adults at a school in Peshawar ., The situation is being described as ” ongoing “

  5. hun skelper on

    Jim Jefferies hahahahahahaha

     

     

    Just when you thought the sevco comedy show couldn’t get any funnier they pull this wee belter out the hat, dinosaur in football management HH

  8. jamesgang on

    If Jeffries gets the gig he’ll at least move their style of play forward by at least a decade……to somewhere around 1973!

     

     

    SOAL.

     

    So you share your birthday with Celtic’s most faithful son. There’s nothing tops that!

     

     

    And Joel Garner! A Bhoy to make An tearmann look like wee thing!!!

     

     

    BlackWashCSC

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  9. winning captains on

    skyisalandfill

     

     

    Can you drop me an email so I can match up name and order – david@cqnmagazine.com

     

     

    As you have pointed out there is an option to get Faithful Through and Through – The Tommy Burns story DVD with this year’s CQN Annual – which also has a great feature on a Tommy inside.

  10. Folly Folly on

    Keepthehighballslow

     

     

    I’m intrigued by your nomme de plume.

     

     

    Are you perchance a graduate of Milton School of Soccer Excellence … ?

     

     

    FF

  11. Tom McLaughlin on

    TheOriginalSadiesBhoy said:

     

    I don’t know if the points been made here already but when I found out last night that the SFA have charged both Ashley and Sevco, I couldn’t help but think that there’s mischief afoot. This is most un-SFA like. They have performed somersaults to accommodate Sevco to date. It smells to me as if they are trying to stifle Ashley’s ambitions at Ibrox and it wouldn’t surprise me if they impose a fine on Sevco. Both outcomes could expedite the administration event that we’ve all been anticipating, followed by liquidation. If Ashley retaliates by calling in the Sevco loans then he only hastens the process. The SFA are also putting down a marker to Ashley, imo, that he won’t be able to buy up the assets and gain SFA membership for any new entity that he might want to compete in Scottish Football. This would clear the way for a Newco run by “Rangers men”. No?

     

     

    Fantastic.

     

     

    Even The Exiled Tim on steroids couldn’t have come up with a conspiracy like that one.

     

     

    Well done.

     

     

    :-)

  18. jamesgang on

    Tom@11.06

     

     

    I wouldn’t trust the Scottish football establishment as far as I could through a hippo with my weaker right arm…….

     

     

    And what’s TET got to do with it?

     

     

    That comment looks like a 1 way ticket to Barney-ville mhate.

     

     

    UnitedNationsCSC

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  20. EKBhoy on

    Looking forward to the Inter game but struggling to see how we can progress further.

     

     

    Defensively we need Lustig and Denayer back and to hold a line about 30 yards from goal , Lustig is told to hold his position and not overlap , otherwise his hammy will go again , as it often does in these high tempo games.

     

     

    We are not as skillful / have a decent first touch as Inter and our midfield tend to chase the game like headless chickens , I would protect the full backs with Efe and Chas wide , Scott and Nir holding , with Stefan and John carrying the fight.

     

     

    We need to let Inter take the game to us.

     

     

    We can learn from the recent games against the Italian teams , they are fitter , stronger , and canny – pointless chasing the game and getting picked off on the last 20 minutes.

     

     

    I would also forget the away tie against AC recently , which was early season , AC looked a bit rusty , had a look at us for 45 minutes then pushed on to win. They also left Chas the complete freedom of midfield as he takes the most touches allowing the opposition to mark up and get a defensive line sorted.

     

     

    We should do a Maribor , play it very tight for the first 45 , and bring on the secret weapon, Wee Jamsie and target whoever is having a dodgy game for the Italians.

     

     

    0-0 first leg would be a good result.

     

     

    HH

  21. Tom McLaughlin on

    I came on CQN a couple of months ago and said I had been in conversation with a football man who was close to officialdom and who had told me that the SFA were totally and utterly pissed off with the whole Rangers/Sevco thing, on the basis that they had put their necks on the line to keep them in the game after liquidation and they had learned nothing and were still trying to bend the rules and spend money they don’t have.

     

     

    I was told that the SFA had had enough and would no longer hold back on them and at a meeting, when a question was raised about their behavior and Campbell Ogilvie tried to speak up for them, he was immediately shot down with the words, “Don’t even go there Campbell!”

     

     

    I think we are beginning to see the chickens coming home to roost.

  24. embramike on

    LB

     

     

    If you have a few hours a week and you want to stretch your brain, have a look at

     

     

    https://www.coursera.org/

     

     

    It’s free, has a huge range of courses typically 2-3 months long that are made available by some of the wold’s biggest universities. In a little over 2 years, it has grown over 10m users worldwide.You can also get certification if you want.

     

     

    It is a good way to keep the brain active in an area where you may have an interest or want to learn new skills to develop a career path.

     

     

    I’d recommend it particularly to those not working full time (retired?) and I have found it extremely engaging and worthwhile.

  26. glendalystonsils on

    These guys who take flares into games like the Zagreb game know full well that the club will be fined and our name besmirched by their actions.

     

    I would far rather see them stick their flare up their a**e.

     

    Lit,of course.

  31. hun skelper on

    ekbhoy

     

     

    11:16 on 16 December, 2014

     

     

    If we score more goals than inter we’ll progress or we could progress by away goals or penalty’s if it’s a draw. That’s the only way I see us progressing mate :-) HH

  32. Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on

    HOW good would it be to do a job so badly that you put in your notice and they doubled your money?

     

    That’s the dream, folks. That’s up there with the Fred Goodwins in the bracket of being rewarded for failure.

     

     

    Because in case you’ve slept through the last few days, here’s a recap: Ally McCoist has intimated his intention to leave Rangers in 12 months’ time, his team marked the occasion by being played off the park at Queen of the South and the club has now announced his salary has risen from £400,000 to £750,000.

     

     

    I was about to write that you couldn’t make it up. But someone actually did. Someone within an organisation that’s been liquidated once and is still haemorrhaging money agreed to this deal, at the same time as workers on little more than a living wage were being sacked without a second thought. Of all the scandals that have shamed Ibrox these endless past few years, this is surely the most odious.

     

     

    You might almost be able to understand the board sticking golden handcuffs on a manager who was masterminding their way back from the abyss with unparalleled skill and judgement, swishing stylishly through the leagues with a team of youth products who not only saved them a fortune in wages but would one day bringing in massive transfer fees.

     

     

    But to see McCoist actually gaining from his underwhelming role in what has been a shoddy three seasons of ho-hum, hump-and-chase football played by overpaid under-achievers?

     

     

    It’s wrong, just so wrong.

     

     

    Doesn’t matter whether you think he’s the smart one here for the way he’s played his hand or that the board have outflanked him by putting his wage rise out in the public domain.

     

     

    Fact is, he’s all but doubled his bubble in the wake of a hounding by a team whose annual playing budget would barely cover his salary.

     

     

    It also doesn’t matter whether you think he’s the lovely man’s lovely man, that you hold him in awe for his record as a goalscoring talisman, because none of that entitles him to the position he’s been allowed to manoeuvre himself into.

     

     

    All that stuff about how he didn’t know how much he was on, how he just signed what was put in front of him. All the palaver about not having looked to see whether his pay cut had gone through or not. All the promises about always putting Rangers first. All of it mouth-music, all leading to this tawdry end game.

     

     

     

    Part-time Alloa players celebrate win over Gers

     

    Keith Campbell

     

    It is not for me or anyone else to decide that McCoist doesn’t need the money. It’s no one else’s business what his personal financial situation is.

     

     

    It simply seems ridiculously poor housekeeping that one man can be paid at such a level, with the freedom to sign players on a wage level not far removed from his own, while his employer staggers from crisis to crisis, constantly struggling for working capital, wangling ways of repackaging share issues, going cap-in-hand to another club’s owner to keep their heads above water.

     

     

    All of this while dozens of workers are cast aside, saving what in relative terms is washers; the cost of a couple of first-team big-hitters.

     

     

    The last swathe went on the eve of last month’s pivotal 2-0 defeat away to Championship leaders Hearts, a move put into perspective when midfielder Ian Black declared that the players would only be affected when their wages weren’t paid.

     

     

    How they must have choked up at the guy’s empathy with their plight.

     

     

    How, too, they must have chortled at the thought that the club had to hire in an agency to do the firing, seeing as its own huma resources department had already been emptied.

     

     

    That’s how ridiculous it all is, right there. Paying people from outside to come in and sack people because you’ve sacked the people whose job it was to sack people.

     

     

    Sitting on top of all this stupidity, like the fairy on the top of a tattered Christmas tree, is the manager. Not just protected from it all, but actually getting better off the worse his own performance sinks. Former team-mates and sympathetic pundits bowl on about how tough he’s had it, how much he’s had to put up with, how no manager in history’s operated under such duress.

     

     

    With no disrespect to any of them, though, that’s cobblers.

     

     

     

    Queen of the South stars saw off Gers last week

     

    Keith Campbell

     

    Sure, it hasn’t been easy. But like the old adage says: While money doesn’t bring you happiness, it sure as hell takes the sting out of being miserable.

     

     

    In other words, however much grief Ally McCoist might have had to take, however much of a burden he’s taken on his shoulders, he’s been more than well recompensed.

     

     

    All those poor souls binned over the last two-and-a-bit years would swap with him any day of the week.

     

     

    So for him to now be playing to the gallery the way he is, to be grandstanding so spectacularly — and, while we’re at it, for the club to be taking the bait by turning him into the pantomime villain — is an insult to every single person who’s lost their job there, every creditor who ever had to settle for a fraction of what they were owed, every fan who pays through the nose at the gate.

     

     

    Whenever he takes his leave, here’s hoping a man who used to always know how to say the right thing remembers where he came from long enough to apologise to all of them.

  33. jamesgang on

    Tom

     

     

    We’ll see!

     

    Ref your comments about the SFA and the implication of their new found interest in sporting integrity …… If it was genuine then shoooorley it wouldn’t be ‘Campbell, don’t even go there…..’

     

     

    ‘Campbell, don’t even be hear….’ Should be the comment. And should have been several years ago.

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  34. Keepthehighballslow on

    Follow Follow

     

     

     

     

     

    Keepthehighballslow

     

     

    I’m intrigued by your nomme de plume.

     

     

    Are you perchance a graduate of Milton School of Soccer Excellence … ?

     

     

    No I’m a Bellshill boy.

     

    It was one of my old Da’s pal’s favourite sayings…..we never quite got it!

     

    However, I’ve kept it as my CQN Handle!

  35. jamesgang on

    LB

     

     

    I knew Uncle Embramike would sort you out with his usual sage advice!

     

     

    That Bhoy never let’s you down.

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  37. jamesgang on

    LB

     

     

    I knew Uncle Embramike would sort you out with his usual sage advice!

     

     

    That Bhoy never lets you down.

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  38. Summa of Sammi.... on

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    Tom McLaughlin

     

    11:17 on

     

     

     

    I was told that the SFA had had enough and would no longer hold back on them and at a meeting, when a question was raised about their behavior and Campbell Ogilvie tried to speak up for them, he was immediately shot down with the words, “Don’t even go there Campbell!”

     

     

    Tam..

     

     

    Been in a Funny Mood tonight..but that Comment made me LoL..

     

     

    I Mean You would Totally Sh1t yourself (If Your name was Farquar..)

     

     

    Hope Yir Guid..

     

     

    Summa

  40. lawwellsacountant on

    So now it,s Jeffries ,yesterday it was Gattuso and Stevie Clark,just what even remotely ambitious manager,would take over at toxic park.maybe the guy who took over motherwell he seem to be in some alternative universe,as he thinks the hopeless thugs of motherwell can win the SPL

  41. Keepthehighballslow on

    BT….

     

    I am working…..

     

     

    No bad hings happen in The Silver City without yer old Da sticking his big hooter in!

     

     

    Just having a wee CQN ten minutes…

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