The Scottish Premier League title was secured in emphatic fashion at Kilmarnock this afternoon as The Champions recorded the highest winning margin by any team in the league this season before celebrating an unforgettable league title.
There were sterling performances all over the field for Celtic but it was Charlie Mulgrew who made it his business that there would be no mistakes today. He scored two and created another two of Celtic’s opening four goals before a late flurry finished the scoring.
The opening goal was a bullet header from Charlie from a Kris Commons corner with less than 7 minutes on the clock. Mulgrew could have added a second three minutes later when he combined with Commons on the edge of the area before trying to clip the ball past Cammy Bell in the Kilmarnock goal but on this occasion his attempt went wide.
Glenn Loovens made it 0-2 after 15 minutes when a short corner was played across the field to Mulgrew on the right. Charlier swung in a deep cross to the back of the six yard box for Loovens to of back across goal and into the net.
On 35 minutes Mulgrew cut inside from the left wing and opened space for a delicious right foot shot inside the far post to put Celtic 0-3 ahead and in dreamland.
Moments later Adam Matthews crossed to the dangerous Commons who could have turned and shot but played the ball into the past of Georgios Samaras who drew a magnificent save from Bell.
Seconds before half time Mulgrew sent in a mirror copy of his earlier cross for Loovens but this time Gary Hooper raced onto the ball at the back post to fire into the net and give Celtic a four goal lead at half time.
Commons, who played as a false centre forward for most of the game to great effect, should have earned a penalty on the hour mark when he was barged off the ball when clean thought inside the box but his distinct hooped shirt counted against him.
Kris then played a magnificent pass onto the rampaging Loovens who injured himself in a challenge with Cammy Bell as his shot went narrowly wide.
The second half looked set to end without a goal before a couple of late contributions, the first from Ledley who combined with Stokes before clipping the ball over the goalkeeper. Gary Hooper then fired an unstoppable shot into the postage stamp corner from 19 yards to complete the rout.
Have a Champion Easter and enjoy your well earned celebrations.
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Watching the game again, again.
Theres moments that you remember and cherish when titles were won.
Bratbakkk n Larsson v St Johnstone
Jan van Hesselink in Dundee on Tremendous Thursday.
Chico Muldini on the right with a Beautiful cross for Loovens 0-2 goal, is my new one. You cant explain how he got there, on the right? why he was there or what he was doing but it was just right. He had to be there. He was, he just appeared and was CELTIC. He turned up and WAS Celtic.
The sheer beauty of modern Celtic is Chico Muldini on the right crossing it in for Glen Buckin Loovens to score.
ChicoMuldiniCSC
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EstadioNaci..
Yea Agree..Got my Words Mixed up Again..
Up there with Tommy Burns Thursday..What l meant l thought Nothing would Come Close..Ever to TBT..
Lenny’s Lions have Came Close Considering all the Facts..
Summa
Paddy Gallagher 02:52
Thanks, its good to be here.
No matter whats going on with sheet you can always rely on CQN for good stuff like this, thats quite an amazing thing when you think about it.
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EN..
I Was a Bit away from the Screen in the Pub..and Kept saying Who is that..? Chico my Mate Replied..What is he Doing there..? He is Charlie Mulgrew the Smart Ar%e Answered..
Summa
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The Chico Muldini cut in and right foot shot is further evidence Ive dreamed this season. Its got to be a Dream, this carry on cant be real, it cant.
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EN..Paddy Gal..
l came to Oz in Nov 96′ if Celtic had a great Result like tonight..You had to Wait till Tuesday 1pm to buy the Weekly International Daily Record..
God how times have Changed..For the Better thank You Paul67..and the http://WWW..
Summa
Summa of Sammi…03:06
It would be majic to be on the CQN Sammi Shammy Samaras Shammy bus for the next game.
EN
SOS 001 ….
Young Daniel is looking forward to standing with ye in the … Erm new jungle…… Happy days mate.
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VHman..
Yea I’m sooo Looking forward to it..Was telling a Girl Hoop l know from Texas tonight..Good for me to Stand as Well as cant Sit for Long..
Did the Huddle tonight After the Game and Had to Go home as l was Stuffed..Jelly & Morphine Ha Ha Ha..
I still have Dan’s Number l will text him Tomorrow..Still not Booked..:O(
Summa
EN: Buenas noches amigo. chico was amazing today, he was there and always will be there.
slainte
tony
This deserves a repost … Nice one pal…..
Auld Neil Lennon heid on 8 April, 2012 at 01:53 said:
V aliant
I n their face
N eil
D efiant
I rrepresible
C eltic
A nimated
T im
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D efinitely. :) :)
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V
I love Glasgow Celtic
Hope all you bhoys back home had a great day and night celebrating and that there was no backlash from the you know whos out there!! Also hope the players stayed clear of any altercations and enjoyed their glorious title win as they and Lennie and the 3 amigos deserved their day today!! “Tainted title” aye good one all you laptop and media pundits!! Now wheres the rest of that jelly and ice cream!!!!!
I don’t hate the Huns but I do wish they stopped stealing…… We won the league in spite of the their £11 million adavantage…. If we never paid tax. NI or vat that would be another £11 million, so when you think about it we’ve won the SPL while being disadvantaged to the tune of £22million….
HH
Vmhan…..every title we won we did it fair and square, against all odds. The huns cannot claim similar; awe their titles are tainted, oors urny:)
slainte
tony
Torontony 03:21
Good evening. Hope all is well.
Really enjoyed today, really enjoyed that. Celtic
EN
EN: all good at my end amigo; great day today, nursing a large malt before bed time:)
slainte
tony
This will be the day the rangers die.
WOW, JUST Freekin WOW, THATS GOOD.
‘Bye bye let the rangers dye, we’re heading for a bevy, let the Guinese run dry
Thats up there with ‘You can sing about yer great defenders, and sing about your no surrenders’ as one of the best lines Ive heard.
EN
Celtic folk are majic.
Six of the best on behalf of the very best.
To each member of the Tim family.
A glorious Easter gift presented to us by Lenny and every member of his team and the Board, which had the courage to appoint a novice whose heart and commitment were never in doubt.
Muchissimas gracias.
And now,this splendid Easter Sunday, affoot fur a wee spitada and a small refreshment.
Greetings to all , from the Celtic diaspora,Sydney branch.
Torontotony well said sir!
Deserves a repost HH to ye!
V
Macjay G’day! How’s the Heid
Right bhoys maniana…. Party tomorrow ……
V
Vinny, i trust the good lady Derrygirl is taking good care o ye:)
Yer a lucky mhan.
slainte
tony
One of my many favourite rfc defeats.
This is good. I will miss them…
Aberdeen 3- the muck nowt.
Aberdeen 5 rangers 1
Before financial doping, quite good to watch.
Morning summa. How as Melbourne last night, Sydney , cheers bar was bouncing , best I have ever seen it
My heid is downstairs somewhere
Special to see charlie play that way
As he is the only one of us in the team, he was immense
Did big forster sit with the Celtic fans , I don’t think he done a thing the whole game
Macjay is it sunny outside ?
ST
Sixteen roads to Golgotha on 8 April, 2012 at 02:56
We’ve had our differences this week but couldn’t agree more with your sentiments re-Belfast Celtic.
Enjoyed the vid too!
HH
Every silver lining has a cloud and today my hangover is mean.
We’ve come a long way since last October; a lot of people have learned a lot and some heads in the sand just won’t ever see the light of truth and integrity.
I hope the Everton center forward didn’t feel too much of a dick and I hope Beram didn’t feel too left out.
Congratulations to Celtic Football Club and the Family, we done good.
Pure chocolate music
Does anybody know if LondonDave managed to see the game?
The Duritti Column
2010 Never Again
All Hail – Neil Francis Lennon
They vilified him
They attacked him
They ridiculed him
They lied to him and about him
They conspired against him
They demonised him
They tried to intimidate him
They assaulted him
They attempted to murder him
They tried everything in their dark evil hearts – And they failed
They never broke the spirit or the resolve of the man who is Our Leader
Stand Up For The Champion of The Champions
Neil Francis Lennon – A Celtic Legend
2010 Never Again
Neil Francis Lennon – Champion of The Champions
2010 Never Again
My friends in Celtic
We must make 29 April – “Neil Lennon Day”
Spread the word
Getting ready to go for my 12 hr shift, im on over Easter
Listening to the incredible Celtic support on the radio yesterday was heart breaking being stuck in work
Caught up with recorded highlights and jelly and ice cream was consumed with much joy last night all mixed with a drop of tears
Someone asked (tounge in cheek) to George best were did it all go wrong, im sure Neil must have felt like that in October, enjoy your Easter Neil no Celtic manager in my lifetime has earned a league title more than you, love your heartfelt passion for the club
2010 Never Again
Compliments of Auldheid
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqiXRNqPMwk&feature=player_embedded
Art of War on 8 April, 2012 at 00:21 said:
Smiddy Lounge (ehem), Paul S in front showing you how large his charge sheet is! ;-)
Don’t know Paul S but that is one of my nephews Gary R sitting behind him. Now Gary’s late father Billy was one of the most famous tims in Partick. Ask about him you’ll learn some History.
When you said you’d post pics of the Smiddy i knew at least one of my bhoys would be there. I stomped about the Smiddy in the 70’s with Billy russell, Geordie Dunn, hugghie Burns. Those were the days and they were Tims and Partick knew all about it.
LEGEND … Neil Lennon
By BIL LECKIE Published: 07th April 2012
CELTIC don’t do running away — well except with the league.
And let’s not beat about the bush here.
They have done it like Usain Bolt, jogging backwards from 30 metres out to take souvenir snapshots of the panting field.
OK, so their only genuine challengers got disqualified halfway down the track for taking performance-enhancing substances.
And the rest were either so skint they could only afford one shoe or had to turn out in diver’s boots.
But you can only win the race that’s there to win. Something the Hoops have done like good, solid pros.
Has it been a world record performance? Hardly. Have they moved with effortless grace? Not often. Have there been a few stumbles along the way? Of course there have.
Overall, though, they have been the fastest, the strongest and the ones with the greatest will to chest the tape first.
In anyone’s book, that’s got to be the definition of champions.
Down the back straight of the season, from the first Sunday in October through until the third in March, they went 26 domestic games unbeaten.
That’s when the competition got burned off. That’s when they earned the right to get a bit clumsy, to let their rhythm falter.
A scrambled draw at Aberdeen and a shock League Cup Final defeat to Kilmarnock took the shine off their glowing stats.
Yet even then, they STILL went into their next match knowing a win would clinch the title.
That match was at Ibrox, of all places. And it says everything about just how comfortable this triumph has been their fans were able to laugh in the face of defeat to their bitterest enemy.
They knew their moment was in sight. After three years straight of trailing in second-best, another week wasn’t going to make hellish much difference.
Now, they are finally over that line. Their race is run, the green-and-white garlands hung around the necks of their heroes. It’s time for celebration, for resting weary legs.
And those legs WILL be weary. Because when they look back on this season, Celtic will surely recognise the greatest opposition to them finishing top of the pile came from within their own camp.
Their 2011 summer holidays were little more than a long weekend in football terms.
They went to Australia for three games then Cardiff, back to play Wolves at home, back to Wales to face Swansea and then — even after the SPL was underway — to Dublin for a four-team tournament.
All this before meeting Swiss outfit Sion in a play-off to see if they got a crack at the Europa League.
As preparations went, it was like making Steve Ovett jog barefoot through nettles.
Anyone who saw Neil Lennon’s side play in those early weeks could see they weren’t sharp.
They lost that European tie, only to get a pass into the group stages thanks to their opponents fielding ineligible players.
Then, barely by the time the clocks went back, they found themselves trailing a pre-administration Rangers by 15 points.
So, is it fair comment to say that without the off-field misdemeanours of shysters in Switzerland and Govan, the season for Celtic might well have turned into one long disaster? Maybe. But it didn’t.
Instead, they slowly improved in continental competition, taking it to the last game away to Udinese before being edged out of a place in the knockout stages.
And by the time Joe Ledley headed an Old Firm winner in the last game before Ne’erday, they’d turned that 15-point deficit into a lead.
It was one I’d doubted in this column they would achieve.
Yet once they had it, there never looked a prayer of them surrendering it.
Even without the ten-point deduction that wrecked the campaign for Ally McCoist’s men the gap would have been wide enough that Celtic would only have needed to stay upright after the split to see it through.
That’s why there should be no more talk of devalued championships.
Celtic won more points than anyone else, fair and square.
They have won 26 games out of 33, three more than Rangers. They have lost only four, two fewer than Rangers.
Their goal difference is better than Rangers.
So where’s the argument? No, if there IS a criticism of Celtic — and a major one at that — it’s not about their title victory in itself.
It’s about their inability, yet again, to win important individual games when it matters.
In Lennon’s temporary spell at the helm, it was the Scottish Cup semi-final against Ross County.
Last term, it was qualifiers for both the Champions League and Europa League at the start, followed by crucial fixtures away to Caley Thistle and Rangers at the end.
This time, Celtic have failed to collect what seemed like a shoo-in piece of silverware against Killie and then come up short against a Rangers side ripe for humiliation.
This, more than anywhere, is where Lennon MUST improve if he’s to justify the hype about him writing his name into history.
Yes, he could have become the first man to win Trebles as both player and manager. But he didn’t.
Yes, he could have been only the third Parkhead boss to wrap up the title at Ibrox. But he didn’t.
Yes, he keeps promising to keep the head when the pressure’s on. Then he doesn’t.
Over the piece, his team has done what it set out to by landing Scotland’s biggest domestic prize.
Until he makes them far stronger on the on-off occasions, though, there will always be doubts about both their status as a team and his as a leader.
Lenny, the REAL hard work starts here…