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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TBB
unless the video evidence proves that he racially abused Logan. Then I have to disagree. It is unreasonable.
HH
newradbhoy
16:00 on 16 December, 2014
If celtic do go to acas.
Does that not mean that any team from the sfa cannot play in Europe.
They wouldn’t self harm themselves just to get at us and make sure we couldn’t earn extra revenue out of Europe would they ?
WOULD THEY ?
No it’s an in house league thing, EUFA won’t take any thing to do with it.
tom mclaughlin
14:48 on 16 December, 2014
JimTim –
Neither Auldheid nor I made any reference to the SFA easing off on Celtic. My post was about a shift in their dealings with Sevco. The Tonev case does not involve Sevco in any way, shape or form.
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Tom . I’ve read my post again and couldn’t,t find any reference to sevco . My point was in response to auldheids thought that things could become more even handed with regards to them . As I said canny see it myself , especially with today’s decision and there handling of the Boyd affair , I also mentioned that Ashley was a player , because no action will be taken by them against him . It’s a gesture nothing more .
Awe_Naw
They considered that the video evidence did.
geordie munro
Likely be on reporting scotland ref the smoking in cars bill.
HH jamesgang
This whole affair is an absolute disgrace and piles more evidence on the fact the SFA is a total mess of an organization. A complete embarrassment to football and Scottish society in general.
Like most in here , I played football and many other competitive sports. In the heat of the moment things are said , arms thrown , winding players up etc. In every sport on the planet.
Why the Aberdeen player ran to his mum is laughable!!
Now, we all condemn racism and all other isms of similar ilk – but for Aberdeen to pursue this case says more about their hatred of CELTIC more than the actual case itself. Man up Aberdeen.
Nobody knows if tonev said those words – nobody. Even if he did he is not a racist. CELTIC should take this all the way with the support of villa and Bulgarian fa. Otherwise a very dangerous precedent is set.
See Walter smith touch line antics , Andy goram when Pierre van h missed penalty (clearly you effin black bar steward).
Sfa and Aberdeen – anti CELTIC and this is why this case continues.
Have we heard from the Bulgarian FA yet?
They will stick up for their bhoy!
Bsr
lip readers or audible ?
HH
philbhoy
Playing with me mate you would be three off the tee, sorry :( a lost ball is a lost ball, you have to find the ball to drop it.
Boyd case was found unproven when clearly it is violent conduct.
HH
what if he did say it then justice has been done then surely thats all that matters !
tonyD
Mibbe you are the “rules man”??
:-)
However, a lost ball is not necessarily a lost ball, especially if it is in “ground under repair2.
Fact.
2 = !
dixiebhoy
what if he didn’t say it then injustice has been done then surely, ach, disney matter.
If we don’t defend Aleks to the hilt, we sack him immediately.
I’ve read the evidence, it’s a sham, Logan clearly thought he heard Tonev calling him a b… c…. That much is blatantly obvious. But to go from that to therefore he must have said it is utterly ridiculous. Using the ‘balance of probability’ option is a sham – it’s the only way they could justify their decision. Celtic must take this all the way.
Am away.
Awe_Naw
Lip reading (arschlochs © TBB ) :-)
philbhoy
If it’s a lost ball? Then you don’t know where it is, sorry, back ti the tee Al keep an eye on yer drive incase yo hook it again;))
Fed up with the constant bullying of CELTIC. A club which seeks to always do the right thing! Charity work, great fans , worldwide representation If Scotland , strives to play the game in a proper manner. The Sfa constantly undermines us ! Not a surprise but what the fk is being done about it????? What can be done
tonyD
Check the Rules of Golf.
was the reaction of logan at the time not significant ?
Philbhoy
16:12 on 16 December, 2014
‘If we don’t defend Aleks to the hilt, we sack him immediately.’
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Calling someone a ‘black c***’ in the heat of a game when English is a foreign language to you does not prove that you are a racist.
I think we draw a line under the whole affair and move on.
stebhoy
You forgot to say the support have had the club fined 4 times in the last 3 years.
The 5th time is just about to happen.
But I know what you mean.
philbhoy
F-@? The rules of golf that’s got F#%^ all to do with it ;))
If Tonev plays again we should have him wired for sound.
What would happen if the same allegation was made again by some fine upstanding opposition player – would our man be seen as a believable witness a second time around?
Ernie Lynch
What if our player is innocent?
tonyD
You ere that “rules man”!!!
:-)
In the balance of probability…………..
Pig wrasslin’ courtesy of horrible hurtin’ huns……
……and those that want to take the heat and focus
off the team they support and pitch it onto the team and people they despise.
The horrible issue at its heart is over-looked.
Our team and the reputation it carries across Europe is the goal here.
scoddland’s finest.
Really gotta go!
Does Aleksander speak “Doric” ?
“Knapdarloch”
Dung hanging in knots in wool round a sheep’s bottom.
Rock Tree Bhoy
Much is our shared inherrent mistrust of the ole SFA, they didn’t invent the standard of proof, i.e. the balance of probability, just for the Tonev case. IMHO the grounds of appeal is where the lawyers have failed Aleksandar.
They should have done better, maybe they will if the case is ongoing, and I hope it is.
Inter Milan tickets on sale tomorrow to ST holders.
weeminger
14:49 on 16 December, 2014
Astounding that the SFA cite Tonev’s responses being “guarded and hesitant” as a reason Logan was considered more credible. He’s being cross examined in his second language for goodness sake.
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And in a foreign country
A truly shocking finding but an expected one ,
The Rt Hon Lord Bonomy would have this ripped to shreds in a court room though moves are affot to have the need for corroborating evidence removed in courts.
Considering that Logan got a red card for calling the referee a fu(king cheat a few weeks afterwards he cannot be seriously considered as a reliable witness. The disciplinary panel of the SFA are undermiming even their own mibs to get at Celtic.
HH
Tonev has basically been convicted because he looked a bit shifty, whereas Logan didn’t.
Cannot believe Celtic fans- of all people!- are defending this. This kind of vague presumption has been the root of miscarriages of justice through the ages.
Evidence, corroboration, proof.. All lacking in this case and now a young player will be tagged as a racist until his retirement. Absolute scandal.
I think that it is certainly possible that Logan believed that Tonev racially abused him. Because he was so sure about it he complained to the ref and again because he was so sure he made a good witness. None of this means that Tonev did racialy abuse him only that Logan thought he did.
Making decisions such as this with no real evidence is a poor show and while I wish we didn’t have to be the ones to do it I reckon someone needs to take this further so as to discourage future tribunals passing highly important judgements on such flimsy evidence.
As in the case of the SFA and us.
Life is a spell so exquisite that everything conspires to break it.