I’m sure I’m not the only one who winced when I read Neil Lennon suggesting tomorrow would be “very joyous”. Let’s remember, Inverness Caledonian Thistle won at Celtic Park on their visit earlier this season and have punctured our title ambitions in recent seasons. There is a competitive football game to win before anyone can talk about joy.
Getting nervous about tomorrow already…..
Delighted Motherwell made short work of Dundee United last night. They deserve their second successive top two SPL finish, a remarkable achievement for a small club. Where are you, Aberdeen, United, Hibs, Hearts?
The curious situation of Charles Green, no longer Newco Rangers chief executive but still director of the club, and expects to remain so until the end of May.
Dundee manager and professional deep searcher, John ‘Bhomber’ Brown this afternoon told Radio Scotland, the SFA “want to take stock and take a look at their own department”, when asked about Neil Lennon’s victimisation for using industrial language at a football game.
Wise words from Bhomber.
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O.G. Hope it was a good night out, thanks, double helpings of J&IC.
Magic.
O.G. tax returns for Oldco?
I really want us to win this with a bit of style tomorrow ICT are due a thumping and I am so looking forward to 2 IAR.
The old hillbillies will be sick as they know this will be number 2 IAR with many more to come as they eat themselves.
St.John.Doyle, that just makes it sweeter.
Here we go ten in a row, here we go………
Doc – is the bus at 11 ?
Magnificentseven / Doc
Cheers guys. I’ll give it a go.
Really looking forward to tomorrow. I feel exactly the same sense of anticipation as I’ve ever done since ’77. No hint of a tainted or devalued title here.
Anyone else think this title will mean less than any of the previous ones?
Doc is Neil Lennon, 23:17
Saw Rich Hall.
Did a song about Glasgow and a boy trapped down a well. Boy’s name? Jimmy Johnstone
Ten in a row?! God help us!
To be stuck in this hellhole environment for that long….perish the thought. :-(
T4
Cowiebhoy, 10.45, I’ll hold it for you, you’ll be late, as per.
T4, another league, level playing field, competition, I would take that now.
“Whers yir charlie gone” no one knows….ours left for the gunners…….didnt chicos ex wife used to sing with the band that sung that wee ditty…???..could be wrong mind you
O.G.
Sounds like a good night mate.
Keep the snippets coming this week as you get them.
was gonna head for match tomorrow but need to visit relative in hospital,might not even see game in boozer,and CQN doesn’t like smart phones so cqn’s a no no,
shithappenscsc.
I read an interview with Shaun Maloney this year in which he said ‘I now know you can play football when not fully fit’.I love Young Shaun.I thought it thought provoking in so many levels.
I love to see ex-Celts doing well.
We love you….
Nope, much sweeter tasting in fact as it’s got a kind of jelly n icecream flavour about it for some reason.
Might be singing this tomorrow
Re the1978 game against them.
It was wee Doddie MacDonald who pulled off a magnificent one handed save at the base of the left hand ( cuboidal as opposed to cylindrical ) post at the Celtic end.
Horseface
Good night champions .. this time tomorrow we will still be champions
Doc is Neil Lennon, 23:28
There’s been quite a bit going on, be interesting to see how it all plays out.
The quiet before the storm. Make the most of it Chris Graham
O.G.
I would actually like to sit down and have a wee chat with Chris, just to point out where he has it wrong, not a hard job, but I’d enjoy it.
Some great pics in this vid from Vic Mulvey
Moronic Sevcovites with a banner with HMS Flavius on it.Vermin and may their hurt continue for years to come.
Who else thinks that V for Victory will be handed the Captains armband tomorrow?
Vic will be devastated He is out of the Final.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jTTTuV_yI0o
tommytwiststommyturns
23:25 on 20 April, 2013
Ten in a row?! God help us!
To be stuck in this hellhole environment for that long….perish the thought. :-(
T4
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TTTT,
If you were my age,… & 150/1 to still be about in ten years, you might see it differently.
I would love to be stuck in this ‘hellhole’ ten years from now.
:¬)))
One day at a time, Tommy.
nally81
I read an interview with Shaun Maloney this year in which he said ‘I now know you can play football when not fully fit’.I love Young Shaun.I thought it thought provoking in so many levels.
I love to see ex-Celts doing well.
We love you….
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Maloney was very talented but was a wimp, I remember the Strachan interview where he was asked if Shaun was fit for Saturday, WGS said yes he was fit all we need to do now is convince Shaun of it.
Your interview sort of confirms WGS thoughts.
Doc is Neil Lennon,
surely your not suggesting Chris Graham has got it
wrong when he says everythings gonna be tickety boo
KK
One game at a time.
Who knows what the future holds for Celtic
but i’ll guarantee the supporters will play a huge part.
Thanks to the couple of suggestions earlier in the blog about my hard drive issue.
Got a bit side tracked with Baby Craggy and watching In Bruges.
craggy
ScotPatsFan
22:33 on
20 April, 2013
Some prime exhibits in that mugshot.
Williamry fair dripping oot them.
Doc is Neil Lennon, 23:39
For all his bluster and supposed grey matter he makes the classic mistake that seems to come as second nature to the followers of Oldco and Newco.
A refusal to look at what’s presented to him with any objectivity.
An inconvenient truth is a truth nonetheless
Guys, looking forward very much to tomorrow and a day celebrating all things Celtic. I’m sure the Green Brigade will make us smile with more of their hilarious banners – how the huns must hate the pelters they are routinely given at the hands of the Green Brigade, which makes it all the merrier. Been a strange season with so many highs and a few lows, including the shameful treatment of the Green Brigade by the Scottish Police and SNP and the victimisation of Neil by the disgrace that is the SFA. Delighted to see many posters advocating that we stay to a man until Lenny can join the celebrations and my son and I will not move until we have cheered Lenny – we’re all Neil Lennon. Hope they play Something Inside when he appears – even tho I always risk making an arse of myself as it usually brings a tear to my eye. So proud to be a Celt. HH
Without contradiction there is no other football club in the world
where 80,000 supporters would travel 2,000 miles
to support their team.
KK – my wish for you my friend, and every other Hoops fan, is to see us play in a much bigger environment and win the big one again.
That won’t happen while we’re stuck in SPhell and none of us is getting any younger!!
Tick Tock!
T4
Not long to go now. Can’t believe it’s not a sell out, can’t believe we have a collection of Radio Clyde Celts in our ranks.
No 44 just as special as No. 1 and all the rest inbetween.
It’s a fact that we have had bigger title victories in 2001, 2002, 2004 and the 2007 so after all their efforts in Europe and since Christmas at home in the SPL this team deserve a full house to cheer them on.
Since we played Ross County just before Christmas and scored four against them we scored four or more in all but two home SPL matches Motherwell (1-0) and Hibs (3-0).
This great scoring run coincided with Stokes’ return to the team. For me Anthony is the most important member of the squad.
the huddle
Yeah. Think Shaun was mega.
Made his debut on the day Henke scored his 50th goal of the season and later that day won the PPOY (Henrik I mean)
Hated the SMSM did young Shaun.
A good man all day.
Gave the olhuns their dinner a few times.
HH.
the huddle
Strachan’s best spell was the first 18 months when Maloney was fantastic, after he left Strachan’s Celtic were never quite as good.
The howling hour is upon us.
NEIL Lennon hasn’t ruled out the possibility of Celtic spending up to £4 million on one player this summer. However, the Celtic manager gave a flat “no” when asked the other day whether such a recruit could be a marquee signing.
The chances are that Celtic will do enough at home to Inverness Caledonian Thistle this afternoon to officially clinch a league they had won before a ball was even kicked in the campaign – one reason why, if there are celebrations in the east end of Glasgow today, those indulging in them are likely not to number close to the 60,000 the stadium can hold.
Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell admitted last week that 10,000 season ticket holders were declining to attend league games. The attractiveness of these fixtures has been diminished by the removal of jeopardy that has resulted from the demise of the old Rangers. There was a time that Celtic might have sought to mitigate against any potential boredom factor by bringing in a player who could be considered a draw for the crowd. That is not the way the club can afford to be run now. A certain David Murray used to talk about “changing the menu” by signing names every summer. That gave his club carte blanche to end up in football’s soup kitchen.
“There will be good players coming in,” said Lennon, pictured below, who must steel himself for a number of good players going out. “We want to turn them into stars. At the end of the day, [Victor] Wanyama turned out to be a marquee signing. But if there is a £3m or £4m player who can make us better now and who can make us money in a few years time then we will do it. I think the board would have no problem seeing that one through. Look, I think the squad needs a jag. I think some of the players need to see some new players come in. We have been together three years and done remarkably well but they need a bit of a hand. It is always good to see new players come in. It gives the squad a lift, it gives the backroom staff a lift and it certainly gives the fans a lift as well.
“As a player, you would always get excited [if the club made a high-profile signing]. When Juninho came it was: what he is going to be like? [Craig] Bellamy was fabulous. He had a great six months up here. He lit the place up and gave everyone that little bit of a shove in the right direction. We haven’t spent a lot of money. We are probably in the black with transfer dealings with Ki [Sung-Yueng] going and some other big hitters like [Daniel] Majstorovic and [Glenn] Loovens coming off the wage bill. We only brought in really [Efe] Ambrose, [Fraser] Forster and [Thomas] Rogic for not a great deal of money. There is money there to spend.”
Yet spending money, or identifying the right players, is a devilish task when you operate in such a modest domestic environment as Scotland. Players such as Miku, Lassad Nouioui and Rami Gershon, sparingly used reinforcements added to the squad in the past year, illustrate the inherent difficulties in squad augmentation.
“It is never easy,” Lennon said. “Already we have been knocked back on a couple of enquiries and already we have had agents on the phone pricing them out of coming here. We have a wage cap to think about within the group. I don’t want to break that by having a big disparity between one individual and the rest. It never changes. You are successful with some, you are unsuccessful with others. What I have to take into consideration is: will he makes us better? That is what we are interested in. The wages have to come into line as well because there is a fantastic spirit in this group of players and I don’t want to change that.”
The likely departures of Gary Hooper, Wanyama, and the possibility that another player such as Kelvin Wilson or Forster could be tempted back south, ensures Lennon will impress upon his players the special moment they have created. Some may never win another title, he pointed out. Keeping his players motivated with no Rangers on the scene has been problematic, the Northern Irishman admitted, but he was scathing about the suggestion from former Celtic striker Andy Walker that the title soon to be landed could not be anything like “as satisfying” as the one the club beat the Ibrox side to last season.
“That is just total nonsense, absolute rubbish,” said Lennon. “Andy has won a title so he should know how special it is. I do get the feeling that sometimes ex-players aren’t as complimentary towards our club as other ex-players are towards their own. That disappoints me because this club has been nothing but good to them. Of course it will be as satisfying, off the back of the European run, off the back of reaching a cup final. That is pretty satisfying to the players, I would think.”
“When you win the title it is the best feeling in football you can have because it is a season’s preparation, work, endeavours, all coming to fruition. It is really good for a player to have on his record. When you don’t have it you realise what you have lost. I lost two titles on the last day of the season, one that was in our hands, and one we couldn’t do much about. The feeling after that was one of total emptiness, despair. When you’ve come through that adversity it makes you stronger and hungry for more, so I want the players to realise what they have done and take a lot of pride from it.
“I know we have lost six games this year. That is not ideal. We have conceded more goals than we have done in the previous two seasons. Our points total will be lower than it has been in the previous two seasons. On the plus side, we have had a brilliant European run, totally beyond anyone’s expectations, and brought the supporters some nights they will never forget, and the players will never forget in their careers. And we are six or seven goals short of the best total of goals scored under me so I would like to get over the line in that department – there are pros and cons.”
Celtic must hope that when season ticket renewals come around their followers focus on the pros.