Good afternoon, champions! If you enjoy your history……….
Yesterday, Celtic retained the league title, which has been a rare achievement for much of our history. We won six in a row during the first decade of the 20th century, then won four in a row (1914-17) during the Great War, but it would be another 50 years before Celtic retained the league title, on 6th May 1967.
Jock Stein re-wrote all the rules during his nine in a row era but after that ended in 1974, Billy McNeill retained the tile in 1982 and it would be another 20 years before Martin O’Neill retained it, the only time he did so.
Gordon Strachan then set about writing his own chapter in our history, retaining the league in 2007 and 2008, while becoming only the third manager in our history, after Willie Maley and Stein, to win three in a row (history awaits you, Neil).
Neil Lennon now joins a select band of Celtic managers, Maley, Stein, McNeill, O’Neill and Strachan, who have retained the league title.
In total Celtic have retained the league title 22 times but yesterday was only the fourth time since nine in a row. It was the sixth time in total we have won two in a row.
Remarkably, of the 13 times Celtic have retained the league since 1919, this is only the third time it has been achieved at Celtic Park, the other occasions being when we beat St Mirren in 1982 (remember unwelcome half time news from Pittodrie over the PA?), and Livingston, to win the 2002 title. Lazy journalism prevents me from confirming which of the pre-1920 titles were won at Celtic Park.
This is your history, I hope you enjoy the memories as much as I do.
The Andrea Kearney Fund, which supports women diagnosed with cancer during pregnancy, is holding its annual dinner at the Radisson Hotel in Glasgow on Saturday 1 June. The event is excellent value with a cracking line up of entertainment, including Ricky Ross, Michelle McManus and Lou Hickey. The fight against this disease goes on….
You can book a table here. Look forward to seeing you at the dinner.
Enjoying the incredulous Sevco 5088 events, more on that later.
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Pog
Hope you’re on the mend mate
V
When id the 125 up?
11:00 am in the local to finish off a great weekend and back to work tomorrow, can never celebrate enough being a Celt…..
Have a nice day all…
MickTT
Are you a hun?
Welcome to CQN
Top of the morning to you all from a dreich Fife.
The Sports section of The Scotsman runs with a very funny piece by Darren Johnstone entitled: “Donald Findlay wants to see new dignity at Ibrox” in which Donald Findlay QC is quoted as follows:
“In my day at Rangers we sorted everything out behind the scenes, we did not wash our laundry in public and that’s how it should be. I think the club has lost a bit of dignity and that’s why I say that you’ve got to get the right people with the club’s interests at heart.”
I think the Scotsman have got this in the wrong place. A piece for the entertainments section surely?
If Donald had his way he would have his good friend Andy Goram on the board I suppose?
They just love the word dignity but fail to act with it.
What was the song that a red-faced, sweating, Donald belted out after an Old-Firm game?
That’s right, The Billy Boys (it wasn’t the Sash), an anthem about a razor thug wishing to be wading up to his knees in Fenian blood.
Aye dignity indeed.
I hope we never have to entertain that lot again at Celtic Park.
http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/sfl-division-three/donald-findlay-wants-to-see-new-dignity-at-ibrox-1-2905461
Donald Findlay wants to see new dignity at Ibrox the same dignity as in his time………….tax evasion, cheating with player registrations, borrowing tens of millions you dont have and cant pay back to round it all off a good ole sectarian song bash up to yer knees, but hey we wear our club tie and brouges with dignity…………………………..
Guy is a joke
Good morning CQN still on a high following wee Oscars spectacular news, God bless wee Ocsar and family BTW that is what i call dignity
BT
Kano 125 ends on the 5th May, 125th day o the year.
Kitalba will be back on CQN at that point as he’s doing CQN abstention as well.
I think he’s taking it too far with that though :>)
V
MickTT,
I see you’ve received the obligatory welcome already, enjoy the rest of your weekend!
Morning All, I see they have announced the name of the ‘top law firm’ that will investigate goings on at Mordor…….Pincent Masons! You couldn’t make it up!!
From BhoyEddie via twitter.
So Pinsent Masons and Deloitte, who respectively worked with Whyte and Green are to investigate any wrongdoing #nothingtoseehereTimmy
maccargo
Oh I beg to differ, I expect Pincent Mason will make it up.
Murdochbhoy, yermanfromMK
The thought did occur to me! They are backed by Deloitte I believe who I’m sure I have read somewhere have links to Mr Green.
Morning,
The Richard Wilson articles in the Herald were annoying me for a while there. Now I just find them hilarious.
Stupid hurting zombie…
maccargo
After Nimmo Smith and the farrago that’s currently being played out anything is possible, except, of course, justice.
Gotta go,
Have a good day all and keep smiling, we’re winning.
Champions.
Been off-line for a while : what is the news re. Oscar? Sounds positive, whatever it is.
Scrolled back, but can’t find anything exact.
Ta.
Murdochbhoy, yermanfromMK
07:50 on
23 April, 2013
maccargo
After Nimmo Smith and the farrago that’s currently being played out anything is possible, except, of course, justice.
Exactly, I’m starting think this is all 1 big set up.
He got the all ALL clear MIKI67
KLV
blantyretim
I feel an urge to answer… lol Och I just have
Murdochbhoy, yermanfromMK
Ah know a Tuesday, ridiculous, but hey up for the Cup… May 26
MickTT
Didn’t want to leave you out if cqn welcome
blantyretim
Is appreciated, cheers.
HH
Latest from the sevco news, sorry herald………
In the blue corner . . . battle for heart of Rangers is rejoined
Richard Wilson
Tuesday 23 April 2013
R angers are back in play.
Not in a stock market sense, since the majority of shares are held by a loose coalition of individuals and funds gathered around Zeus Capital, the Manchester investment fund, institutional investors from the city and supporters. That situation will change, perhaps even sooner than when the club returns to the top flight and the share price is more steady, but for now what is at stake is in effect a battle for the heart of the club.
The boardroom is divided, with the chairman, Malcolm Murray, and the non-executive director, Walter Smith, having sided together in most votes with Philip Cartmell, another non-executive. Charles Green, before he told the board of his intention to resign as chief executive, Brian Stockbridge, the finance director, and Bryan Smart, a non-executive, also tended to side with each other. Ian Hart, the fourth non-executive, has tried to play a conciliatory role. Supporters are now having to choose sides, particularly with the approach of season-ticket renewals, which are fundamental to the finances.
Not all issues have been contested but fans are left to surmise that it is one side against the other. It is a fragile balance, and Cartmell may have to step down to attend to his other business interests, although he has not yet made that choice. At a time when decisions ought to be being made about investment in youth development, scouting and next season’s squad, many are instead being taken in London – where Cenkos, the broker that dealt with Rangers being launched on the Alternative Investment Market, have sought to bring boardroom tussles to a swift conclusion – and Manchester, where Zeus Capital are based. Green and Imran Ahmad, the commercial director who is also expected to leave the club imminently, can call upon a shareholder proxy of around 30% to 40%, with Green being the major shareholder with 7.8%.
That proxy includes the members of the original consortium that Green fronted to buy the club last summer, although at least one of that group has been actively trying to sell shares in recent weeks despite being bound by a lock-in agreement until the summer. There has been growing concern among some members of the Rangers board about the full extent of the links between Green, Ahmad and Craig Whyte, which have also generated uncertainty about the sale of the business and assets last summer from Rangers Football Club plc in liquidation to Sevco Scotland.
There is no suggestion that Whyte is currently involved, but he claims that he was a director and funder of Sevco 5088, the company that had an exclusivity agreement with the administrators Duff & Phelps over the sale of the club. When the vote for a Company Voluntary Arrangement failed, the assets were sold instead to Sevco Scotland. With the details of this transaction being so clouded in mystery and uncertainty, the club cannot move on from the toxicity of Whyte.
Green and Ahmad were undermined by the extent of their dealings with Whyte, and the independent examination commissioned by the club should go some way to uncovering what deals were struck last summer. At least one recent city investor is ill at ease with the situation. If there are more damaging revelations, it will harm those who remain at the club and were part of the original consortium. But even then, a change of control can only truly be effected by somebody buying significant amounts of shares.
At least two high net-worth Rangers fans are closely monitoring events, and one would be prepared to move immediately if he felt it was in the best interests of the club. The share price has been steadily falling and may not yet have found its true value, but there is also cash remaining following last year’s launch on the Alternative Investment Market. However, some fans have grown concerned at stories of significant monthly losses. So while the independent examination unfolds, and an interim chief executive is not even in place, Rangers remains a club suffering from its own insecurities.
Even the choice of the independent examination team, Deloitte and Pinsent Masons, caused grumblings among fans. The accountancy firm advised Green during the takeover, the share issue, and his own personal tax affairs – although it is the forensic arm that has been employed by Rangers – while the law firm briefly advised Ticketus and have prior links to Ahmad. The reactions to this are indicative of the sense of unease Rangers fans feel. They don’t know where to turn.
The majority will be inclined to support Smith. The former director, Paul Murray, spoke on the radio last Saturday about only trusting Smith and the chairman and also about the club needing cleansed, a phrase that the manager Ally McCoist used at almost exactly the same time in his post-match press conference. Paul Murray even went so far as to say that the club had been the victim of “a fraud”. If evidence of that comes out, the boardroom split would harden, as would the mood of supporters, but changing directors and other staff would not alter the shareholder power of the group of original and recent investors who are loosely aligned.
Rangers lack stability, so that even the impending appointment of Craig Mather as interim chief executive was delayed by disagreements on the board. It will be a short-term appointment, while the recruitment process identifies a full-time candidate. Mather is considered part of Green’s group because he put £1m into the club early on, at Green’s suggestion. Around Murray Park, where he has been an occasional visitor as director of sports development, he is considered warm, affable and intelligent. Yet the club desperately needs to move on from the recent past. A wholly independent figure, linked to no faction on the board, needs to be brought in as chief executive, and Gordon McKie, the former Scottish Rugby Union chief executive, has been mooted.
Herald Sport also understands that the disputed £400,000 bill from Orlit Enterprises that resulted in a petition being made for a winding up order last February has not been resolved. The petition was sisted (the legal term for suspended) at the Court of Session, but it has not been removed.
Rangers are still caught in the grip of the recent past and it is holding the club back. The split on the board cannot continue and a period of turmoil would also exasperate a fan base that has little stamina for another bout of civil war. Only a truce, or something dramatic and decisive emerging about what happened last summer and so bringing matters to a head, will bring Rangers peace.
Talking of Donald Findlay, I heard that he is coming to Baku this coming Friday to talk at a sportsmans dinner type thingy. I didn’t realise there were so many Cowdenbeath fans here.
MJM
lol.just watched mclean on sportscene with big mick talking about our title win, bbc even showed the defeat by ross co. unreal. bbc= know your enemy. National broadcaster playing to the majority?
KLV
Another battle for the heart of sevco headline. yesterday it was their soul. Easy they have neither, they are dead and were formed out of the seeds of hate so they have no soul either. may they rot on hell.
KLV
Sorry to drag the blog back to things Celtic…
I think we are missing a player in the Lubo, Di Canio mould, not specifically style of player but a player who gets the fans excited every time he gets possession. Since it looks like Paddy is not the one does anyone have any suggestions of who could do the job for us. I’m not talking a big name just a player you would pay your ticket money to watch.
Oh forgot… Oscar to raise the flag…
Kayal33
08:15 on 23 April, 2013
‘At least two high net-worth Rangers fans are closely monitoring events’
Sid and Doris Bonkers.
KC kinda does it yorkbhoy but yeah we need more creativity. Like Gary M Stevens at Utd. good wee player but not sure about his injury record. Hopefully Neil will be looking as he knows 9/10 teams in spl play with 10 behind the ball for 90mins,
KLV
kevinlasvegas 08:01 on23 April, 2013:
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That is absolutely amazing.
HH!
Baku/Black Isle Celt
08:18 on 23 April, 2013
‘Talking of Donald Findlay, I heard that he is coming to Baku this coming Friday to talk at a sportsmans dinner type thingy. ‘
That talk will tell you all you want to know about his idea of dignity.
Third rate Jim Davidson.
To totally change the subject Any one watch Game of Thrones?
someshow.csc
KLV
kevinlasvegas:
“were formed out of the seeds of hate so they have no soul either. may they rot on hell.”
THEY are hateful but you want them to rot in hell? A tad ironic 0:-)
Incidentally, is your nom de plume Kev, in Las Vegas or Kevin Las Vegas?
Yorkbhoy
What about Kris Commons? That man oozes talent.
Yeah Miki the Good news just keeps coming. Karma mate! We reap what we sow.
KLV
yorkbhoy
Tom Rogic could be that player imo.
I like what I have seen of him so far, ‘tho he hasn’t exactly had a lot of game time since joining. With the league in the bag I expect to see more of him in the remaining games, as well as Tony Watt and Dylan McGeough.
HH!!
kevinlasvegas JJ, Too early for Irony mate.;)
KLV
ernie
I was playing golf at Arbroath yesterday and Nearest the Pin at the 16th was one E.Lynch. Wasn`t you ,was it? 0:-)
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