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TONTINETIM. 412
The two men in a boat story involved Willie Wilton,not Winton. I don’t say that from my usual stance of pedantry,I just remembered a party at a posh house in Marlborough a few years back.
It was only polite to congratulate the owner on such a palatial pile,and I pointed out that the house’s name-Winton-originated from my hometown.
And was,in fact,responsible for the legend of Nostradamus.
Weird,the things you can pull out when yer blootered at four in the morning!!!
GFTB
They look like a good team..They are not a great team..They are not -PSG good /they are not Bayern good./they look (-IMO ) to be a better team than Anderlecht….They look fit and strong .They have pace.They Don’t have a No 10…Do Celtic have a chance -yes -but It’ll take 2 top drawer performances. .
Celtic Mac
And the European high water mark of the Real tie was in 1980- the Rapid Vienna tie in 84 was the closest we got again to making a mark during that period. There were a lot of Sachsenring, Wacker Innsbruck, Timisoara, Partizan, Neuchatel and Zurich type of experiences in the post-74 period.
GERRYFAETHEBRIG
Me anaw,mate. The lads I was with,all hoping he could play through it. It was clear he couldn’t.
And shouldn’t have tried.
WITS – glad you got on at a nice price.
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
Sporting Lisbon,I reckon.
Are the winners of the EL guaranteed a place in the CL for the following season, if so plenty clubs will be trying to win it.
John51
Our top league should have grass parks, I actually think Stevie Clarke would prefer his team to have grass as well
South of Tunis
Cheers for the update, without seeing them I think along the same lines as you, two very good performances could see us through
Delighted to be in the mix
Dessybhoy 4.42
Yes, that’s how Man Utd qualified this season
GFTB
Zenit will play 2 more Friendlies before playing Celtic .Red Star Belgrade/Maribor. .
See the Mane & Kane show is underway…
Or should that be the Maney & Kaney show…
GFTB
Yes, but wasn’t sure if that was a trial or something that is continuing.
GERRYFAETHEBRIG
Rugby Park was known as the finest surface in the country,back when I were a lad and you were but a twinkle in your parents’ eyes.
Yesterday it looked like an offcut from DCS.
BMCUW
Beating Sporting got us to the 3rd round of the UEFA (which was the 3rd tier tournament then). Beating Rapid, as we would have but for an idiot in the crowd would have got us to 3rd round of the ECWC (2nd tier competition). It’s a marginal call- both fall below the 1980 high water mark.
P.S. I agree about the Rugby Park surface- a great pitch. A young Gordon Smith was playing well for them as a left winger before Ibrox ruined him. I once played 5s against him when I was visiting his college with a Thistle mate of mine who knew him. Even in 5’s these guys are at a different level- I never got near enough to kick him not that I wanted too as it was pre his Ibrox signing
SoT
Cheers, keep us updated you are our unofficial Zenit correspondent
Dessybhoy
I think having the winnners of the UEFA cup, ah mean Europa league getting into the CL is one of the few things the suits hit correct
BMCUWP
Am watching Caen v Nantes the pitch isn’t the best but at least it’s grass, as a bhoy I remember red ash onlyntoo well, and black ash I think up in Garthamloch or thereabouts, any time getting on a (flat) grass park was amazing
Easily pleased CSC
The Kilmarnock dressing room yesterday at fulltime.
Can you spot Kris Boyd?
https://twitter.com/twitter/statuses/960188687274438656
Watching the Catalan clash fae Spain.
Pitch a joke, Barca Quack News no be a happy blog tonight. :-)
H.H
Reading back, there have been quite a few excellent analyses of yesterday’s debacle, particularly from JOHN51 and SFTB. I will not venture another, but will offer a comment on a matter I have touched on before.
We had one shot on target (from Ntcham) in 90 minutes. We had 2 corners, which, given the appalling threadbare surface, offered possibly our best opportunity to score. Sinclair took both. For one of them, he struck it so hard, he overhit every player in the box by a large margin. For the other, he struck it so high that the angle of the drop made it virtually impossible for an attacking player to head it with any force towards goal. Danger to Kilmarnock? None.
Why is it that, out of all of our players, only Griffiths can be relied on to consistently strike a decent corner? Seems elementary, my dear Watson. Having played in the Scottish Amateur League for 17 years as a winger, I can testify to the blistering comments I would get from my own team if I dared waste their time as they ventured forward for a wayward corner. So what did I do? I practiced on my own for hours, first with my left foot, then with my right. I hardly struck a poor one thereafter.
Funny that.
IniquitousIV
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
I’d have kicked him anyway.
His brother,IIRC,was the last Labour candidate to lose the local seat to the tories prior to Brian Wilson. I coulda kicked him anaw,went after the wrong demographic and lost the ones who would have voted for him anyway.
SFTB
Also played two times European Cup winners Notts Forest in 1983-4 season, big games home and away. Pain and disappointments in the 1980s no doubt, not least against Real, Forest and Vienna but I personally would never write off, or describe even, the 1980s as a lesser time for Celtic. Not in my wee green book!
GERRYFAETHEBRIG. remember playing football on the pitch that was opposite them factory units, just as you come into coatbridge from glenboig, every friday after work at hurlls brickworks.then down to john hughes pub yogis bar and get pished. happy days.
BMCUWP
Back in the 60s, the best playing surfaces, according to my dad, were Rugby Park, Douglas Park, Hamilton and Cathkin. All gone now. The old SPL were quick enough to insist that top clubs have 10,000 seater stadia, causing Falkirk, Airdrie, Raith Rovers and Partick Thistle (maybe St Mirren too) much financial grief. Aberdeen escaped relegation because Falkirk, I think, didn’t comply with that rule.
I understand that Celtic’s new pitch will cost less than £1m. Surely a grass pitch rule could be agreed upon by the SPFL.
Dens Park was always a good surface anytime I was there.
Big Packy 5.07pm
Coltswood Park…. probably the best grass park in ML5
I was an espiside Bhoy next to Townhead golf course, up and down the bumps fairly helped your close control
Some great posts today!
Thanks!
SFTB
I remember us discussing the season undefeated.
Hope I wisny impolite!
Great post btw.
GFTB
Garthamloch?
Naw, Garthamlock!
Grew up there, loved it!
SETTING FREE THE BEARS FOR RES. 12 & OSCAR KNOX on 4TH FEBRUARY 2018 4:57 PM
BMCUW
I agree about the Rugby Park surface- a great pitch. A young Gordon Smith was playing well for them as a left winger before Ibrox ruined him.
*I remember after wee Davie Provan joined us my da saying we had signed the wrong winger.
GERRYFAETHEBRIG thats it, remember scoring a lovely headed winner there, ala big billy against vojvodina.
GERRYFAETHEBRIG on 4TH FEBRUARY 2018 4:58 PM
Am watching Caen v Nantes the pitch isn’t the best but at least it’s grass, as a bhoy I remember red ash onlyntoo well, and black ash I think up in Garthamloch or thereabouts, any time getting on a (flat) grass park was amazing
*Red blaize at St Pats Dumbarton and black ash at Clyde Street in Clydebank, still shuddering.
Iniquitosov 5.02pm
Nice analysis, for not analysing :-)
TONTINE TIM
More than 50 years ago after playing on a red blaize park I was taken to the Glasgow Royal with a badly skinned knee. The wound was full of gravel.
Anyway, the doc says to me “Have you ever had the brush?”
No, says I with a smile.
Anyway was back in about 3 weeks later with the same problem.
Doc says “Have you ever had the brush?”
I can’t print my reply.
Philbhoy 5.18pm
Only you could argue about lock or loch ????
In fact I think the park was in Blackhill somewhere in the Glasgow suburbs :-)
Celtic Mac
“but I personally would never write off, or describe even, the 1980s as a lesser time for Celtic. ”
Fair enough. I would stick with saying that we did not do as well in Europe as we should have done, reaktive to 66-74 when we were world class and 2000-2017 when we have restored our level to being a 2nd tier European team rather than a 3rd or 4th tier one as we were at times in that period.
We will always have memories of our youth.
Aff oot
TONTINE TIM
A few more. Black ash at Plantation, Greenock High, Croftfoot, Shettleston. Red blaes at Toryglen, Fifty pitches, Ruchill, Lourdes, Tormusk, Bellahouston, Househillwood, Corkerhill, Strathclyde Park. Many others that I can’t remember for the moment.
IniquitousIV
PHILBHOY…
Had a chat with my mate about the chap you mentioned who fought Benny Lynch. It was his great Uncle James.
Sorry about my confusion in the earlier posts…
Hail Hail
GFTB
Blackhill?
A lovely part of old Glasgow Town!
Liverpool?
I’ve watched to or three of their recent televised matches.
Bill Shankly must be turning in his grave at the antics of these players.
Diving at every opportunity.
Is it the manager who gets them to do this……….?
Lincoln avenue
Did that have the odd red ash park ?
50 pitches at Paisley as a youngster those parks were bowling greens compared to our Coatbrig parks
Weebawbabbity if lurking my Saturday morning team used Farm Park Road ??
Between Uddingdton & Blantir
Not too far from the Parkville
As our home park, as the dressing rooms at Espiside had problems in the showers !!!! Legionnaires or some other disease :-)