I was away from home when Brendan Rodgers left, so absorbed the news in isolation. I didn’t feel any of the betrayal that others seemed to. Maybe things would have been different if I was in the middle of things. Maybe feelings of betrayal are contagious?
For me, feelings towards Celtic heroes leaving goes back to two players: Kenny Dalglish and Charlie Nicholas. I was 10 when Kenny left and 11 when he came back with Liverpool, and the European Cup, for Jock Stein’s testimonial. He was booed by some in the home support, which I found incredible. He was our everything for so long and still a hero to me.
By the time Nicholas left in ’83 I felt differently. I’d bought a “Charlie Nicholas” scarf and told myself that’s the last time I hold up a player’s name. Even now when I walk past the vendors outside the ground I think back to that scarf. It was sore. Kenny went for the European Cup, Charlie when for the parties and the Tories, and cannot bring himself to speak generously of Celtic. He is forgiven for leaving but his scarcely disguised resentment toward Celtic means I am finished with him.
As for Brendan, would you or I leave Celtic for a three year contract worth over £15m? Of course not. It is fair to say some have rejected fabulous offers to stay at Celtic Park, so maybe we really wouldn’t, but most go, even fans like you and me.
It was clear Brendan was working his ticket since he decided to create disruption in August. He could have waited until the end of the season, but working with a disruptive influence, who refuses to cooperate in planning decisions, but will not admit why, it not an ideal scenario either. I was not unhappy to see a clean break.
But for me, he is in the same column as Kenny Dalglish, not that nyaff Nicholas. He won us an incredible invincible treble, then another treble and another League Cup. Europe aside, he was magnificent. There are no comparable candidates because few have his sheer presence.
He is part of our history, and when we hopefully look back on 10-in-a-row, you will want to remember all of it with a smile. It’s Easter, forgive.
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Roccobhoy
best wishes for your health
You’ll be included in my prayers tonight xx
HH
PETEC on 19TH APRIL 2019 9:30 PM
Excellently summed up.
We thought everything was right in the beginning with Brendan but it unravelled.
Roccobhoy
Best wishes mate and I hope you have a Champion weekend.
YNWA
It’s not about answering questions ‘honestly ‘, it’s about allowing the MSM to dictate the agenda.
When addressing this shower he should talk about Celtic and Celtic only, playing a very straight bat to everything else.
Alas his pressers come across as if he is part of the Scottish football clubby circus.
Dena 29 and Roy Croppie,
Many Thanks for your well wishes. Hugely appreciated.
Wishing both of you and your families a fantastic Easter weekend.
Please God the Bhoys do the business on Sunday.
HH
Roccobhoy
Petec
I too have followed Ajax’s fortunes for many a year, despite their fan base.
Political perceptions always have consequences.
HH my friend.
The Blogger Formerly Known As GM on 19th April 2019 9:45 pm
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Lenny has always been part of the circus
Honesty is always the best policy. ( so they say ) You don’t need a mega memory either.
As previously stated, NFL has observed and emulated the BR technique.
HH.
ROCCOBHOY on 19TH APRIL 2019 9:48 PM
They will and I hope it brightens your Easter Sunday :-))
HH
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Peter, Daley Blin came through the Ajax youth programme, he played similar amount of games for Ajax and manure and the transfer fees seemed tae balance out, Ajax knew what they were getting, it’s not as if he was a pig in a poke.
The Blogger Formerly Known As GM,
It’s the SMSM being Vultures and seeking out weakness in Neil as he is not Permanent.
Brendan Came with the Stellar reputation and has more Leverage in every respect/aspect.
Nouvelle Vague are playing in a place of Worship (transformed) next weekend in Glasgow.
It’s a Sign of the Times. Time to Realise. :((
I would just like to say a belated ‘thank you’ to all the men who lifted me over the turnstiles during the late fifties…thanks guys!…
Dena29,
I’m confident also ‘re Sunday. Just hope Hearts get a result tomorrow.
Had 2 tckts for Sunday but gave them away to 2 mates – 1 from Dublin and 1 from Glasgow. Hope for their sake we win the league Sunday. Be some buzz at Easter Road.
HH
Roccobhoy
Btw…I was the one with the khaki shorts and Celtic socks… :-)
ROCCOBHOY on 19TH APRIL 2019 10:06 PM
YOUR GENEROSITY WILL BE REWARDED XX
HH
And a special ‘thank you’ to the guy who, on my last ever attempt at a lift-over, said…”What? You’re joking son, you’re big enough to lift me ower!”…from that day on I stopped being a child…and I joined the queue at the ‘boys’ gate…1/6d to get in…hauf a croon fur the ‘men’ gate…
They were good, unsuccessful Celtic times…
:-)))
HH
I hope Steve Clarke’s Kilmarnock keep the heid and scare the hell ooot the huns……………
WotPressure? CSC
Lenny should only get the job if he tells us what fanny McCoist said to him
Tontine Tim on 19th April 2019 10:00 pm
Peter, Daley Blin came through the Ajax youth programme, he played similar amount of games for Ajax and manure and the transfer fees seemed tae balance out, Ajax knew what they were getting, it’s not as if he was a pig in a poke.
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A very strong point TT.
We have Noone yet that does that. Kieran and Callum could… Its not the way of Celtic players – Believers in Celtic. I dinnae ken.
The Netherlands roughly 3 times the population of Scotland.
There is IMO, if the SFA is wiped out, a chance for Scotland to Flourish. Not gonnae happen – Haters gonnae hate.
ROCCOBHOY- sorry to hear, hope you get better soon amigo HH
Magical
Neil and Big Dan Rodgers – two different people with different skill-sets…………………
in his Pressers……….it might be better for us and ultimately for him if Neil just stuck to Celtic stuff.
There are ways of shaping the on-going Celtic story without getting into the middle of it with the muck-rakers and meeja midden-men.
!!BADA BING!! on 19TH APRIL 2019 8:59 PM
Chairbhoy- it’s difficult for me to quantify BR’s tenure,domestically great times,Europe was embarrassing at times,the timing of his departure unforgivable. HH
*fully concur here although I don’t doubt the heated driveway adversaries won’t.
The only difference was that Europe was not just embarrassing but downright humiliating. 2 of the UK’s finest midfielders Liam Brady and WGS both got off to horrific starts in Europe but the former bounced back the following season with an amazing comeback against Köln only to go out in the next round only to go out in the next round to beaten finalists Borussia Dortmond, no shame there.
As for WGS some great European nights.
ROCCOBHOY on 19TH APRIL 2019 10:06 PM
Dena29, I’m confident also ‘re Sunday. Just hope Hearts get a result tomorrow.
*Unfortunately cannae see it, they have nothing tae play for except going above Hibs and believe me they hate us much more than them. They’ll be now looking at avoiding injuries and red cards.
I’ll be keeping an eye on Killie, they survive the physicals of the sheep and 3rd place at least is theirs.
BTW good luck with your health, as long as you have that nothing else matters.
bankiebhoy1
Leftfield
Tune you will Like. ;))
Not convinced Neil Lennon is the man for the job, but also not sure who is.
However, dislike the presser comparisons. Neil is genuine, Brendan is, and now we know, always was an actor.
In pressers the actor wins every time.
Tontine Tim,
Brendan Won us 7 Trophies on the spin.
Let it go big chap.
We move on and Hopefully get even Better.
Seen Fawlty Towers referenced here,a bhoy on here a few weeks ago, likened BR to Lord Melbury….brilliant:)
Made of chocolate.
Easter is all about the chocolates.
TONTINE TIM on 19TH APRIL 2019 10:43 PM
Agree with you , but avoiding red cards and injuries may be easier said than done against “them”
HH
Petec
He’s gone now and surprisingly, despite the success, not missed.
It’ll be interesting to see how he is received when we have the 10 celebrations, however there is no doubt he will have embarked on a huge charm offensive by then.
The levels of stupidity remind me of going to Motherwell Civic Centre only to find that Cooncillurs, in their role as book-avoiding moral guardians, had cancelled a showing of ‘The Last Temptation of Christ”.
Imagine my surprise at being able to rent the movie the following week for 50p from Motherwell Library.
Very good it was, too.
Bada Bing
That was me.
I regard Fawlty Towers as a great educational tool re people’s, at times absurd, behaviour.
As well as being hysterically funny, even 2nd/3rd time around.
It’s not a psychiatrists couch, a confessional or a cosy pub bar-stool……………It’s a place of work, as tactically significant as our formation when faced with an opponent.
Beatbhoy-cap doffed,FT and The Office UK,have that cringe quality, no matter how many times you watch them HH
This week my beloved Godmother Aunt Eileen passed away. Today, her big sister my mammy Molly joined her in heaven. I am totally devastated.
Molly and Eileen Delaney RIP
Dena29,
God Bless You G, I hope you get a Cup Final Ticket.
The Irish Support are thee Greatest.