After last weekend’s disappointment, the players need to put a good, solid, performance. Neil Lennon will welcome the opportunity to dispel any regrets as he faces Ally McCoist for the third time as manager.
Celtic fell apart at Ibrox on their visit in September. A halftime lead evaporated, we lost four goals as Rangers hit the woodwork and missed other glorious chances. It was as complete a capitulation as I remember from a Celtic team.
You can forget any nonsense you hear about this being a young Rangers team, man-for-man they are certain to be older than the (genuinely) young Celtic team they will face. You can also write-off recent poor results; on Sunday they will elbow, kick, push, elbow, block, chase and elbow in an attempt to put our key players off their game or provoke retaliation from our easily provoked’.
Those given the honour to wear a Celtic shirt on Sunday must rampage around Ibrox as though they owned the very tuft they tread upon, as though they were taxpayers legitimately claiming their dues. Each green blade of grass is theirs, secured court order as custodians of Rangers have failed to pass on monies collected that should now be paying for health, education and other services.
Only once in history have we won the league at Ibrox, in May 1967, coincidentally a few hours after I was born. Jimmy Johnstone scored both Celtic’s goals, the second, a thundering left foot strike into the top corner.
The first time I met Jimmy I told him I was born that day and he talked me through the game, which he remembered well. The Ibrox pitch was wet and heavy, as was the ball. Jimmy found the going tough and tired in the second half, all the players did. With 16 minutes remaining Jimmy peeled off his marker to collect the ball from a throw-in. He ran in-field until he could sense space closing in on him. There was one defender at his back and one in front of him, although he told me he felt they were zoning-in from all angles.
His shot from the edge of the D passed inches below the crossbar into the net. Jimmy told me, “My legs were empty, I couldn’t have run any further so just hit [the ball]as hard as I could”.
Typical Jinky understatement. It was an exquisite strike, born of not just outstanding technique on his weaker foot, but from having oceans of reserve to plunder when everyone else is done. This was the most beautiful goal crafted from sheer effort and the will to win.
I wish he was there on Sunday.
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the buttered barnet am no in myrrh. am going to benidorm this year but not till july. i am not one of these fancy petes who can afford twa holidays a year.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 23 March, 2012 at 13:54 said:
Oh that was a whole other arguement…..what was worse, the barren years before Big Jock arrived on the scene (which he witnessed) or the drought between wee Joe’s winner in the ’89 cup final and Big Pierre in ’95 against Airdrie (which I saw).
We used to discuss it for days…..
Declan creator is a genius.
All others,like ANTIFA and CTC pale by comparison.
roll on her majesty
Great Leader Paul67
We’ve got Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy Johnstone on the wing, on the wing,
We’ve got Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy Johnstone on the wing, on the wing,
Jimmy, oh Jimmy Johnstone, oh Jimmy Johnstone on the wing!
Jimmy, oh Jimmy Johnstone, oh Jimmy Johnstone on the wing!
V
s, revenue & customs
celtictaxcase does deliberate mistakes everytime and the stupid huns don’t pick up on it.
Classic was yesterday, that calculation about how much Celtic would owe the taxman.
I am positive it is Declan writing it.
according to kds tweets duff and duff have lost
sadies bhoy what no chris sutton last minute whitewash goal?
Twitter say D &P note refused,
Thems in bother
play
Guy on RTC is saying that in the Ticketus V D&P
The note has been refused.
Anyone shed any light on what that means.
On H/Board
Note refused.
Ticketus prevailed.
Roll on the shotgun wedding
Ticketus deal stands….oh dear. LOL
new article???
All over tweetland ticketus keep the tickets
Ha Ha Ha
South Of Tunis on 23 March, 2012 at 14:10 said:
That day was 4 years before my birth!!
Sometimes we look back in time at events, singers, musicians, political speeches, stimulating orations or stunning, life changing medical discoveries. And we imagine what it would have been like to actually be there.
I wish I had seen Jimmy Johnstone on that day in May 1967.
Note refused? not quite sure what it means ,but I’ll drink to it anyway.
Watch out for the new article all you podium chasers.
HAMILTON TIM 1416
That was always a wee bone of contention wi our generation and that of my Dad,but in reference to the first half of the 80s.
IMO,we should have won everything then,and I mean it,but the older ones just said we had been spoiled by success.
We had a GREAT bunch of players,Billy and Davie were top managers,we were up against the New Firm,but the board would not back the managers when required.
Mind,we could barely get a result against Fergie’s teams,and I still have nightmares about Narey’s late winner in 83 to go 3-2 up.
YA BAM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How am I gonna get any kip before ma nightshift now.
FlashbacksCSC
HT,
I wish I had seen Jimmy Johnstone on those 2 days in May 1967….
;-)
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Vmhan
I will be up for the St Johnstone game on the Saturday , if your about would like to buy you that pint.
HH
Ticketus deal stands. Oh dear :)
A great start to what will be a glorious weekend!
Saw someone on Twitter say “it turns out TicketUs don’t do walking away either”
Made me chuckle.
Twitter saying TicketUs…. Deal stands……
How……… Unfortunate……..
BigjoerufffffffffInMiami
I eagerly await the GB’s contribution to the party at Ibrox. Some of their humorous banners have been thoroughly enjoyed. I guess the only problem will be an overzealous PC McPlod preventing them sharing the love with the H*N. Someone suggested that the support should simply point and laugh at the Glasgow version of a Nuremberg rally in a Nelson Muntz style – “Haha” – good idea.
Looks like liquidation now Bhoys.
celtic tax case
WHAT EXACTLY IS HAPPENING!?
‘At the moment I do not know’
And…
‘Remember bears…. The Boyne wasn’t won in a day. More digging for me tomorrow. FACT!’
This is an absolute wind-up!!!
Mmmm —-
Lovely ——
Craig Whyte owns Rangers .
Ticketus/ Octopus own a big chunk of whatever future Bankrupt FC have —
No to an SPL parachute . No to any Newco that doesn’t have to get down on its knees and beg to be allowed to start at the very bottom .
Vhman – you missed out a ‘jimmy’ :0
“The deal that Craig Whyte did to sell off vast numbers of seasons tickets is believed to be close to collapse.” Tom English, Scotsman, March 9th 2012
Does anyone REALLY believe the Hun will EVER change?
Repentance is not part of their DNA.
The Hun does not play fair. Never has. Never will. Even with all the rotten advantages they’ve had stacked in their favour all through the years they still had to cheat and refuse to fight fair. Its like those old Sufi parables about the Scorpion or the wolf- they cannot change their nature. It defines them. Its what they are. Rotten to the core.
I am in a state of advanced confusion when I think of why people outside the timternet and the Celtic family would want the illegally funded Mammon worshippers to survive. These degenerates do not play by the rules. They will be confident of having the continued support and protection of their Skulls & Crossbones club members- like hairy cheerleaders in the shadows. The well connected funny handshakers will keep working in the background to frustrate transparency as much as they can. Its what these people do best.
Make no mistake those in the big house would have put us in their rigged machine when we were down. Minced us up. Then made sausages out of us. Yet the media circus- now an insane zoo with the cages flown open- call us freaks for our healthy expression of schadenfreude. These cowboy hacks are swaggering fiends expert in misinformation (hardly a virtue in the media of communications)- hired hustlers of inane drivel patched together like paper mache. Hopefully this milksop gang of pimps, whores and beggars will start to turn on each other like the dogs they are ( sorry if I offended the good name of the dog).
No amount of airbrushing will conceal the Huns scar ridden puss hole for what it is. This is our cool aid moment and no gang of geckos will take that away. They have violated the Tao. The universe will make them pay it all back big time. We have kettled them into a corner. Yes they will fight back like a stupid animal. But doom is smeared on their foreheads. They will have their stockpile of bull ready like ammunition. But it will do them no good…with Jabba and Chico wittering on like talking monkeys…hopefully left to discuss the Hun post mortem.
The once unsinkable hun tanker has gone awry. A mangled wreck on the jagged shore of karma. A few holes drilled into the hulk of its hull from us Tims has added to its unseaworthiness…let the tanker sink into the silted sedge of oblivion. Never to return.
Pity Hurricane Bawbag didn’t just do us all a favour and blow them away in a Just wind.
Keep the Faith.
Oh dearie dearie me
Do we not have an insider in the court to let us know whats going on,
i thought even one intrepid CQNr would be on site
Looking forward to an explanation of what the ticketus decision means. I assuming the Administrators getting over-ruled is not good for their attempts to sell RFCIA – but does it also not just mean the the P Murray-Ticketus bid becomes the only show in town and they’ll succeed ? Or ….does the Ticketus victory in the courts also mean that Our Hero’s ownership rights will be upheld, and therefore no-one can move a jot without his permission ? Great stuff – but I’m confused, so any explanations welcome ! HH
Hullbhoy get on the case @tomenglish, the mans a clown.
Phil MacGiollaBhain @Pmacgiollabhain
Before the spin starts in the hack pack the victory for Ticketus today in the Court of Session is VERY bad news for RFC.
Gordybhoy64 from RTC poster please let it be true
Mark,,a poster on the Huddleboard has been reliably posting live from the Court of Session, since administration was announced.
regarding Ticketus, he has just posted that the note was refused.
ie Ticketus have won the case.
details will follow, i’m sure