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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Chico: if Rangers win the tax case then David Murray has no case to answer.
Ibrox: 2013 (thumbsup)
Sadies Bhoy
Spot on.
btw – I think Alastair has moved from “honest” to “frank” after hearing earlier interview….
To be honest with you, it’s been a long time coming.
“If Rangers win the tax case, David murray would have no case to answer”…Chic Young!
Did FPLG ever benefit from EBT?
What is the record points gap between 1st and 2nd in the SPL?
Evening everyone, good to see the players doing their bit for the crisis today by foregoing their win bonus! A fine end to a momentus week. Have a lovely evening – and be safe if you are out and about! sTICks
if the Huns no paying their taxes leads to cuts at BBC Radio Scotland then it might all be worth it !
Traynor,in any other universe,would be sacked.
In his blue one…nae feckin’ chance.
Traynor,,,,you are a rat!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hail hail
philvisreturns
pmsl
They are now called the crisis hit club – where are the cracked crests???
Note to self.
Must get lottery ticket.
Lubo.
oops forgot the we as in elephants never forget and neither will we James Traynor your days of feasting at the parochial table of sir moonbeams have gone now accept your punishment and watch as your paper and your team are both liquidized as anne robinson would not doubt say Glasgow Rangers you are the weakest link good bye :-)
I truly can take no more.
MON’s bhoys ( Sunderland ) gubbin’ Arsenal.
WATP
We are totally pissinwursels
What channel is the Sunderland game on??
harryhoodsdugbitme says:
18 February, 2012 at 18:28
Shortbread could get people hurt with their tone. What did Neil do wrong? It’s Saturday night in Glasgow for goodness sake. I know a bar owner in the city centre who put his security staff on at 5pm today. Stay safe all. HH.
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100% agree m8,,,Keevins was at it earlier also,,,he might as well have painted a bullseye on Lennys chest,no doubt Lenny brought it on himself though eh!!!!
Hail hail
Fraser…….
good point, well made.
If scoddish football is to sort itself out that mob need to first accept their wider responsibility for the position they are in, and the one that the Game is in………
If…..IF, they do this and work their way up from Div 3 they might just make it.
Radio Scotland make the Reverend I.M. Jolly sound jolly
That must be some dossier that Minty has on Jabba.
Well done frank fae EK
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy says:
And to think Big Billy nearly feckin signed him. Shortbread better than Dallas, Traynor is JR, a fat bully who has no shame in his business dealings. Saying that JR did get his Nat. Chick is Cliff Barnes, an alcoholic with dreams of an empire.
ToomuchchampersCSC
Paul 67 Your articles of late are fantastic. I do not always agree with what I read but certainly I sense a new energy, articulation and humour in your writings.
The Rangers must not be let off with this appalling tax issue. I pay my tax even though I dont live in Uk!
Goodnight from India (where I do my bit to spread the news :-)
Ally Lamont
We Feel Your Pain…………
‘defiance’
Aye.
Sunderland game on 993
My boyhood love winning 1-0, ha’way lads, ha’way lads finish off a perfect day
1. Celtic_First says:
18 February, 2012 at 17:56
Traynor: “Given what I know, I see liquidation as a distinct possibility. They will apply to the SPL to come straight back into the SPL.”
Chic: “There’s nothing in place to say Rangers would have to play their way back up.”
Traynor: “There’s no place in the SFL for them. A handful of clubs will say we need some sort of deterrent with points deductions. But they need Rangers in the SPL.”
Chic: “No matter what happens people are going to be angry.”
Apart from this section of the SPL Rules that is.
Club ceasing to play and be a member of the League
H5 If any Club in the League ceases to operate or to be member of the League for any reason, its playing record in the League may be expunged and the number of relegation places from the League shall be reduced accordingly.
993 sky that is
NegAnon2..ITV
You know the best bit?
These numpties are going to have to cover the biggest, best party Scottish football has seen in decades tomorrow. They are going to have to sit there in the middle of it.
That is going to make their pain of today seem minor.
Today was supposed to be the emotional, rejoining of Rangers’ spirit. It was another deep rend in the “fabric” of this bonkers football club. In short, the event which was supposed to fortify these people for tomorrow has been another sign-post on the Road to Hell.
Their feelings going into tomorrow can only be guessed at. But think on this.
This time last week we had just beaten Inverness 1-0 and maintained our four point lead at the top of the SPL. Things seemed to be going very, very well. Who knew what was about to happen?
Can it only have been seven days since then? How can Rangers have given notice to go into administration, fell into administration and then been propelled to the edge of liquidation inside a week? How can the …club which everyone in the media was still saying was in good health have been paying day-to-day expenses with HMRC money? How can we have found out that £9 million has been added to the debt and £23 million stolen? In a week?
Has there ever been a week like it? A week when our club blasts the man who is First Minister of Scotland? A week in which Strathclyde Police, PLUS, HMRC and the SFA all have seperate probes going on into the club which were (haha) our biggest rivals just seven days ago. Can this really have happened?
A week in which our hard fought four point lead turned into a 14 point deficit, which can become 17 points tomorrow. A week in which Ally says he has 100% faith in Craig Whyte and then does a U-turn one day later. A week in which the whole media builds up a match at Ibrox where Rangers only had to turn up to wipe the opposition away, only for them to lose it 1-0?
A week in which every journalist who has ignored this story, every hack who ever said we had it wrong, wants to talk about nothing else and is trying to convince us they saw this coming all along. A week in which RTC gets into the Guardian to slate the main street media, and they turn on each other. A week in which the comic caricature of a Rangers Legned, David Leggat, started out being a defender of Whyte and ended it asking why the SFA let him take control!
They say a week is a long time in politics.
Holy Hell, but it’s a long time in football alright. Think where we were just seven days ago.
Then think where we will be seven days from now ….
No wonder they are hurting. And the pain is only just begining.
Ma wee tuppence worth…….i wis 16 when Souness rolled up. If anybody needs a reminder of the sheer, unabated and total arrogance of Rangers, just think back to his first year or two. Now, im in my forties and i can still feel the dread of going into my work on a Monday in the late 80’s to face the most smug shower of pigs i ever met. I was a kid, they were grown men and believe you me, they absolutely revelled in putting me right in my place and i can remeber every single one of thier contorted faces as they let me ‘know the score’. Then again, my tales is only one of thousands.
Do i feel sorry for them??
Do i hell.
I hear that the hibs fans are planning a balloon and streamer celebration of the angry mobs demise at tomorrows game- one big party then?
Gotta Go.
Tomorrow’s Result.. TODAY!
Hibs 0 Celtic 1
So,it wiz a Close Game!
Still.. Three Points in the Bag~
Right?
Darned Right!
Good Night Scotland
Good Night Ireland
Good Night Wales
Good Night England
Good Night Canada
Good Night New Zealand
Good Night Australia
and
Good Night.. Paddy Finney..wherever You are.
Kojo.
O.G.Rafferty says:
18 February, 2012 at 18:08
It’s been this sort of week.
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SUPERB stuff m8!
One of the BEST days of my life!
I’m in that picture somewhere.
Sorry I canny do the link-thing!
Off oot noo!
Hail! Hail!
Celtic should ban the BBC and Clyde from Celtic Park.
Billy McNeil had the right method of reply!
18:36
Yipee!
The link-thing worked.
Hail! Hail!
Off oot noo.
Utterly incredulous stuff from Chico & Jabb like watching a fight in the school playground
Chico showing unbelievable stupidity in his defence of Murray
Our national radio station stoops to levels lower than the jerry Springer show
James Forrest is The Emperor of Ice Cream says:
18 February, 2012 at 18:36
:D
I fear for Lenny’s safety James,sections of the meeja painting him as the bad ghuy,,,,, on the radio today Keevins amongst others saying Lenny has to watch what he’s saying “as Glasgow is full of nutters” or words to that effect,,,not on,not on at all!!!
Hail hail
If these bottins were really interested in the ‘guid of scoddish fitba’ then they would be lauding the fact that lowly Kilmarnock cuffed the huns at home.
Sounded like McCall just said
”We had a little dick, but we’re alright now”
ooooooooooooooh Matron!