You and I have been in some dark places. While we remember winning nine-in-a-row by brilliant scouting, tactics and athletic endeavour, we also remember when that proud achievement was violated in 1997 by a considerably less wholesome achievement.
At the end of season 1995-96 Celtic finished second but lost only one game. I convinced myself that our world was about to be put right. Tommy Burns’ team would go one step further and win the league in 1997; it had to happen.
It didn’t.
Today I don’t want to talk about the reasons why we didn’t win the league in 1997, we will discuss that in the weeks ahead, but that season taught us the lesson that simply wanting something to happen doesn’t make it likely.
I thought of those dark days yesterday when I hear Ally McCoist’s rallying call:
“We’re going to march right through it
“I’m as positive today as I have been in a long time.
“This institution has been around for 140 years and I want it to be here for another 140 years.
“You’ll see what Rangers mean to so many people. We are really looking forward to the game.
“We have the best fans in the world.
McCoist loves his club the same way his good friend Tommy Burns loved his, but irrespective of the challenge he faces in the league from Neil Lennon’s awesome team, there is nothing McCoist can do to ensure his club survives until the end of the season.
When you’re on the wrong end of history there is nothing you can do about it.
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Sir Minty when Airdrie went bust,
Ibrox chairman David Murray applied for an interdict, on behalf of his company Carnegie, for a debt of around £30,000 owed by Airdrie.
Mr Murray said: “I feel very sorry for Airdrie and their supporters but we’re running a business. We have given them repeated warnings and felt they were playing on our good nature.”
Is Paul away to Easter road today? – No new articles – dissapointing for podium lurkers.
Jings! We can’t really be surprised by the Sunday Post failing to see (or hear) the type of support which too many Rangers fans give their team. Tom Nairn once suggested that ‘Scotland would only be free when the last Presbyterian minister was strangled with the last Sunday Post’. Much as I think that the Church of Scotland is often a reasonable institution, there is no doubt that the Post, the Kirk, and our friends on the South Side are representative of one kind of establishment view. If the CofE is perhaps no longer the Tory party at Prayer, I think the Kirk has moved on, but the Post represents an attitude which has not evolved since the 1930s (I actually went into a library once and looked at copies of the Sunday Post from the late 1940’s – virtually identical in their attitudes and prejudices). My impression is that the Post would be happier if we all lived in oor wee but ‘n ben, ate Scotch broth seven days a week, and didn’t have too much to do with those manky immigrants from the other side of the Irish Sea.
In their world view, the boat must not be rocked! As they would say makes you think, doesn’t it?
Looking back …..
Philvis and RobertT talking to each other amicably…. I must still be drunk :¬)
V
HH
REMEMBER BHOUYS TO E-MAIL THE TAX PAYERS ALLIANCE REGARDING ANY DEALS DONE REGARDING RFC [LIQUIDATION] WITH THE GOVERMENT/HMRC LET THEM KNOW HOW YOU FEEL AS A TAX PAYER WE HAVE TO KEEP THE PRESSURE UP THERE IS STILL A LONG ROAD TO GO !
There’s probably no point in the football authorities fining R@ngers for the sectarian singing yesterday but in a fair world they would dock them a few more points. Won’t hold my breath though.
SoE@12:32
haha…ye couldnae look into both MBB’s eyes at the same time…one points East and the other points West!
Ya dancer!!!!
Got a ticket!!
vaultbhoy
they will not be an attractive proposition for an investor for some time
by that stage we should have a squad far superior to their`s
Magnificentseven says:
Totally agree. I was just being sarcastic with that sentence.
Just repeating the crap the MSM have been spouting for weeks.
We don’t need them in any form.
No to Newco
Is the game on ESPN or Sky today?
WE DONT DO WALKING AWAY
WE DONT PAY TAX EITHER
If I hear 140 year proud history again, I think I’ll scream. What’s proud about 115 years of apartheid and 12 years of defaulting on taxes to their queen and country.
Oh and the other 13 years they spent money they couldn’t afford.
This is an outfit with an embarrassing 140 year history
BSR
breathtaking hypocrasy from Minty
theweegreenman says:
19 February, 2012 at 12:37
I kinda thought you were …hail hail
game is on sky
SonsOfErin says:
19 February, 2012 at 12:32
Nice :O)
MAY I ASK WHY ARE WE SHOUTING?!?!?!?
HH
Hoop hoop Hooray says:
19 February, 2012 at 12:37
Spot on !!
Mr stimpson.
They’ve already said they are operating at a 10 million loss. Now they’ve sold off their season tickets which means they are operating at a 20 million loss. They will need to pay hmrc at 6 or 7 million a year over 10 years. That’s a 27 million a year loss for the next 4 years and as they owe tax they will have no European income in that period. How can they be saved?
Debts written off, rich benefactor or newco.
Did anyone read the request from Celtic FC for ideas for tunes to be played after goals at CP? Well here is mine
Elias and his zig zag jive flutes
James Forrest is The Emperor of Ice Cream says:
18 February, 2012 at 19:15
I have dreamed of covert surveillance tapes emerging online, of a huge masked orgy ending with everyone pulling off their false faces to find SFA officials, Rangers directors, referees and newsmen all engaged in a great big game of hunt the thimble.
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Out of context, James, I’m deeply worried about you…
;)))))))
The Honest Mistake loves being first says:
19 February, 2012 at 12:40
I agree with everything you say but… I don’t believe that the hun fans will quietly disperse to other clubs. Somehow they will get started again.
The good folk at HMRC see Rangers as something of a test case. The outcome will be used to frighten many other clubs into keeping up to date with tax payments. So, with this motivation, which of these messages would you want to give out:
a) Pay your taxes. If you don’t we will take a wee bit of money off you every year for lots of years; or
b) Pay your taxes. If you don’t we will close your club down.
Ah, the good old Sunday Post, whose publisher had a rather selective employment practice until 15 years ago…
No Lawside or St Johns FPs need apply.
Aberdeen V St Johnston – ground is empty.
All,
In Edinburgh with Mrs and mates and it doesn’t seem like I’ll get a ticket for today.
Anyone recommend a decent Celtic minded bar to go meet up with a few fellow hoops and enjoy the occasion?
I’ve been recommended Malones by a taxi driver. Any use?
Mucker
Only 2 Outcomes financially:
1. Pay in full over many years = alive but on life support = GOD pour Celtica
2. Can’t pay won’t pay = Liquidation = no history = start again Div 3 = GOD pour Celtica
I’ll happily take either.
Meanwhile over at (we know) SFA Mansions
Perhaps rather than running a pointless ‘investigation’ as to whether Whyte is a fit and proper person (since we already know the answer) they should instead be investigating whether the current PRESIDENT is a fit and proper person to lead the SFA given his recent roles in both Bust FC and Nearly Bust FC.
HH
If my sons reappear with their pals – I’ll have more folk in my house than at Pittodrie..
bournesouprecipe says:
Have you heard about the jeffry johnstone fight oh what a hell of fight
row z \o/ (O) Truth 2012 (Truth? – You Can’t Handle The Truth!)
Good call. Has Mr Ogilvie been seen lately? Has anyone even requested an interview?
calabam,
did you have bangers for breakfast :o)
and mash
Cultsbhoy
Are you trying to suggest that Scottish football is already being badly affected by the loss on dutyfree fc? ;-)
HH
good to see america pay homage to a crack junky
row z
Ogilvie was ate The Hun when they implemented a secatrian employment policy and now as it transpires prhaps finanacial impropriety
at Wee Huns …woeful financial peformance
what qualities does he possess ..?
Does anyone have knowledge of the details of the TV deal. I keep hearing that SKY will walk if they do not get 4 OF games each season and this is the primary excuse we hear for Der Hun being allowed back into the SPL should they go into liquidation. However no one has explained how they can guarantee the huns being in the top 6 each year or being drawn against Celtic to ensure that there are the requisite 4 games played. Is the LL insinuating that the SPL will somehow ensure that Der Hun is always in the top 6 after the split?
Celtic Supporters buses arriving early in Edinburgh……………..hmmmm