Six league titles in-a-row was achieved for the fourth time in Scottish football yesterday as Celtic retained their championship, the third time the club reached this mark.
Jimmy Quinn, Celtic’s first superstar, powered the club to six-in-a-row between seasons 1904-05 and 1909-10, but that run ended there.
It would be 60 years before the feat would be repeated as the club’s greatest team made its final mark. This would be the final season of Lisbon Lions, Willie Wallace, John Clark, Bertie Auld, John Hughes and Stevie Chalmers. Ronnie Simpson had already retired. The Quality Street Gang picked up the mantle without skipping a beat. Although the club won their sixth successive league title, they failed to six League Cups in-a-row as Partick Thistle upset the odds in the final.
Celtic fans look back on this era as their nine-in-a-row, but in truth, those seasons were two eras. The first five years, ending at the European Cup Final in 1970, saw Celtic win five leagues, five League Cups, two Scottish Cups, the European Cup, as well as reaching that 1970 final in Milan. They regularly humbled top teams in this period.
The final four of the nine-in-a-row seasons saw Celtic eliminate (in total): Kokkola, Waterford, Copenhagen, Sliema Wanderers, Rosenborg, Turku, Vejle and Basel from European football, all of them from (then) semi-professional leagues. The team would run out of steam before 10-in-a-row.
Rangers got in on the act, winning their sixth successive title in 1994. Like the Quality Street Gang they would go on to add another three titles, but reflective history will always point to the ousting of the old Celtic board in March of that year as the point at which the tide began to turn.
This Celtic team is very likely to go on and achieve the illusive 10. Instead of signs of regression, they are only getting stronger. The apparently impossible objective – winning League, League Cup and Scottish Cup, undefeated in all, is now a serious possibility
They have a manager and a core of players who are a the top of their game and enjoying the challenge at Celtic. This may be Scottish football’s fourth six-in-a-row, but the current Celtic are by far the strongest team to reach this mark.
Enjoy every minute of it, your support has made it possible.
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VFR800.
Well done to you and your missus.
Hopefully all will be well asap ?
VFR…
That’s a gut wrenching story about those kids and their mum.The world’s hard to take at times.
Thank god for folk like your good lady.
I hope the family get the help they need and all of them enjoy some happiness together again.
Keep us posted please.
VFR, another shocking story which sums up the lack of empathy from government to those in need.
First of all, what a way to win the title. Fantastic. Always good to beat the morons in maroon, but to win the title there is very sweet. Now, here’s the thing. I’ve only been able to look in 3-4 times a day as haven’t had the time to contribute or thank all you ghuys for the updates of matches. Can’t listen to shortbread commentaries as they do my head in, don’t have sky and I’ve stopped listening to all of shortbread’s sports stuff for 4 years now….mmmm, wonder why? Anyway CQN updates can’t be beaten – just like the team.
Last week, during a brief spell of light at the end of a very long tunnel, I had the chance to book myself a couple of tickets for the Thistle match and now I’m as excited as a donkey with three tails. My last game was the Beer Sheva game and I’m indebted to GFTB for excusing me, and everyone like me, who has to put family first. Tell you what, though, it’s more nerve racking pressing that refresh button than it is sitting in The Celtic End. So on Wednesday evening, myself and daughter number 3 – the one who’s coming to Lisbon with me – will be able to show our appreciation and gratitude to Brendan and his wonderful team for all the joy and happiness they have delivered this year. Oh, and I hope to be distributing some leaflets before the game as well. Can’t wait….Can’t wait….just two more sleeps, as Jobo would say.
St Petersburg metro bombed in terrorist attack, doubt it’ll be reported on uk MSM except to blame it on the Russian authorities.
Jimmynotpaul, the so called greatest league in the world sending S McG and yourself ‘s chances in LMS dwn the spout.
VFR
Just read back, good luck to that lad and his family. Fair, brings you back down to earth.
On a more positive note, there is a fantastic picture of Lovely Locks Armstrong celebrating his goal on the cover of The Times Scotland football section.
VFR
he country may still be reeling from the triggering of article 50 but it’s this week that Britain will truly define itself – and in the most shameful of ways. In the coming days, Theresa May’s Conservative government will bring in a range of widespread benefit cuts – cuts that target disabled people, young people, and parents on low wages.
Cancer patient’s family stands to lose £50k under benefit cuts
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The official line may be that austerity is over, but the onslaught orchestrated by George Osborne almost two years ago has been simply waiting in the wings. Go through the list of cuts coming into force this week and it’s a blueprint for the callous: from taking £30 a week from people too severely disabled to work, and housing benefit from young people at risk of homelessness, to withholding child tax credits from the poorest parents, and cuts for bereaved families.
In December, 51-year-old Alan – a dad of two – was told that his cancer of the tonsil had spread to his lung and chest, and that he had between one and five months to live. As Alan desperately tried to plan how his wife, Kate, and their 10-year-old daughter and 14-year-old son would get by after his death, he realised that the new bereavement policy – a cut to the widowed parent’s allowance – meant his family could lose £50,000 in support over the next decade. He’s now faced with the situation of knowing that if he survives beyond this Wednesday 5 April, it – in his words – “changes my family’s wellbeing to the tune of tens of thousands”.
This is simply barbaric, but that’s the level this country has now stooped to. Independent analysis shows this week’s tax and benefit changes will actually mark a transfer of support from the poor to the wealthy: while the richest will reap 80% of the rewards, the poorest will become poorer. Over half a million disabled people will be on average £1,400 worse off a year because of the new £30 weekly cut: people who are already so poor they’re currently struggling to afford food.
Guardian analysis found that the cuts to tax credits coming into force this Thursday will push 250,000 children into poverty. The numbers are so vast they seem unreal: a quarter of a million kids deserted, just like that.
As it gets set to make children poorer, the government is about to pay £500m to bring in a “blue Brexit” passport. The multi-million-pound contract is said to be for the “design, production and personalisation of the UK passport” after 2019. “It’s a matter of identity,” as one Tory MP put it. “Having the pink European passports has been a source of humiliation.”
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Apparently national humiliation comes from the wrong colour passport, rather than failing to keep children from going hungry. And the prime minister can make light-hearted remarks about whether Britain’s going to war with Spain over Gibraltar, while disabled people, bereaved parents and children have the money they need for a home, food, and clothes taken from them.
Inhumane cuts to vital government support are far from new in this country – the benefit sanction regime, “fit for work” tests and food banks are proof of that. Yet this latest round of measures still makes me feel sick. Not only at the members of society who are being targeted – and the damage it will cause them – but just how little this government cares.
It is a matter of national identity. And this week, Britain’s is becoming that much more cruel.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/03/theresa-may-blue-passports-children-poverty-cuts-uk?CMP=share_btn_tw
Dallas.
I should have clarified its only the English Premier League you can choose from, you can only pick a team once, it was week 6, so you quickly start to run out of options.
Hail Hail
hahahaha jimmy
for a bit of fun ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
the 6 in a row contributors. pick your starting 11 and 5 subs ,
1, Gordon.
2, lustig
3, Izzy (keiran has a bit to go).
4. mulgrew
5, virgil van dyke.
6. wanyama,
7. james forrest (yip i said it !)
8. Broon,
9, hooper.
10, commons
11, sinclair
12, griffiths
13, foster.
14 johansen
15 ledley
16,samaras
Jimmynotpaul, I enjoy having a pop at the best marketed league , no , the ‘best league ‘ in the world.
Ivehadtochangemyname.
I’m glad you laughed as I forgot to put a smiley face at the end.
Hail Hail.
Celtic should question Hearts re security and player / manager protection at that place, i-m guessing BR would want to let it go, rather than highlight it.
MURDOCHAULDANDHAY
I try not to comment on politics but your post and VFR’s previous post just brings to light ALL that is wrong in society today.
The level of greed and self preservation that exists due to the policies of the governments of the last 40 years is deeply offensive to any decent human being.
I know what poverty is I was brought up most of my young life both in it and surrounded by it.
How the people sorry bastards (because people couldn’t do this to another human being) that dream up these policies can live with themselves I just don’t know. They cannot have a mirror in their house for fear of having to look at themselves.
People need help, but anyone who tries to stand up for them is ridiculed in the press and so alienated in society as a fool. Oh for the days when a leader of the working class could come and speak on their behalf.
I was a shop steward from the age of 20 and fought the angry young mans fight for 20 years against the backdrop of these conditions. I then became self employed because I couldn’t get employment of the type I was accustomed to and so my skills as a union rep were no longer needed and my fight left me.
I hate to read of these things and it does still raise the anger that now lies deep in my soul, but feel not enough people have the humane qualities needed to end this. The guilt I feel at having rolled over eats me up. I wish I could go back to those years of trying to make a difference.
Thanks for reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNpXE8q_p4s
Christy Moore – Ballad of James Larkin
KEEP THE FAITH
SS – Samaras would be in my first 11, on your post.
LEFTCLICKTIC ,-3:49pm yesterday – magic story mate,grandweans are the future:-))
Saint Stivs
My best 11
Brendan Rodgers
Brendan Rodgers
Brendan Rodgers
Brendan Rodgers
Brendan Rodgers
Brendan Rodgers
Brendan Rodgers
Brendan Rodgers
Brendan Rodgers
Brendan Rodgers
Brendan Rodgers
OR
for a bit of fun ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
the 6 in a row contributors. pick your starting 11 and 5 subs ,
1, Gordon.
2, lustig
3, Tierney (don’t be silly …. luv Izzy, but Kieran is the bees knees)
4. Siminovic
5, virgil van dyke.
6. wanyama,
7. james forrest
8. Brown
9 Armstrong
10 Sinclair
11, Dembele
If a tim had done that to a Hearts player yesterday, there would have been a throng of stewards and cops trying to get him.
We are fair game though.
This was posted on Friday evening but we were then hit by some untimely technical difficulties with the PayPal link on cqnbookstore.com
Please read this again and if you can order your book and Jock Stein Lisbon t-shirt, selecting the correct size.
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/ask-not-what-the-lisbon-lions-have-done-for-you/
Talking of t-shirts the Res12 Persistance Beats Res12tance shirt will be back shortly. For 2017 it will be in a more fashionable green.
Could be that it will be more relevant than ever before…
Thunder Road
Correct……but that’s what makes them all bitter little cretins of the lowest order …. HH
Watching Inter v Sampdoria on BT Sports 3 ….really good game
Right…..ive finally made my mind up about which was the best goal yesterday.
In 5th place- Sinky pk to complete his hatrick and our rout of the jambos.
4rth Ours and Sinky’s 2nd.
Great wee bit of footwork from Paddy in the midfield and then the brains and ability to see, opt for and deliver a perfect pass for Sinky to coolly carry forward and bury.
3rd Stretch’s strike was a thing of controlled beauty after great work from KT and great awareness from CMG with his wee dummy.
2nd Sinkys 1st and the opener.
Its about the oldest move in the game but you cannae beat a pefectly co-ordinated 1-2 and Sinky’s finish was emphatic.
1 Wee Paddys goal.
Could he have placed it any better?
2 men facing him up in an effort to stop him yet he picks he nonchalantly says….i dont need to beat yous as they turn to see what they crave nestling in their stantion with their keeper looking longingly at it as well.
Pure genius.
Kinda glad 2 were chopped as well or that would have been tougher :)
VFR800 is now a Monster 821
such a sad story , your wife has a job where your never off duty and its nearly impossible to clock off at finishing time
Thank God there are still people like her prepared to go the extra mile
HH
Good Evening Bhoys and Ghirls
Just looking for last minute recruits to help us distribute 10,000 leaflets for Wee Shays Green Raffle Army on Wednesday prior to the game between 6pm to 7:30pm.
We need about 10 more helpers to ease the burden on the 20 volunteers so far
Anyone able to assist, drop us a wee email at walkwithshay@yahoo.com
HH and thank you
CRC
!!Bada Bing!! @6:30
Like the line “they have an eye for a bargain”
so would they if they had to work under the financial constraints we do
cracking article as you said
HH
John Grieg, John Greig….:-))))
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-39482506
Dena
Hit the kip last night so im sorry that i missed ya.
Was/is great to see you on.
It was also great to finally have a woman do what i tell them :)
Thunder Road on 3rd April 2017 9:35 pm
:-)))
hope the head was ok this morning
HH
Average SPFL Premier League club salaries from SI 2016 survey – what’s that about “For every fiver …” ?
https://twitter.com/Embramike/status/848999324747001857
Dena
Surprisingly…..i was actually fine.
Might have just still been on a high though!
What a way to win it :))))
Perhaps someone with the wherewithal could send this to the appropriate people:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5XkusEiEuo
JJ
Thunder Road
I know what you mean
cant wait for the week-end to get to Paradise and celebrate
HH
John grig stray dug chant still. My favourite.
Good Evening.
Here is something new about the efforts to portray Pedro Caixinha as a genius…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2017/04/03/pedro-caixinha-mr-masterstroke/
My son told me that big Jamesgang was on Reporting Scotland News at 6.30 tonight. Will need to check if the big handsome Tim is on BBC1 at 10.30. :)
Dena
Enjoy your day in Paradise :))
Stand up for the Champions!!
About any other season it would have become a pretty meaningless game for us but this undefeated record and the semi should ensure we are still competitive!
In light of Brendan’s comments about Callum today, he is another who has improved under Brendan’s tutelage.
I have been critical of Callum previously but in the build up to our second and third goals yesterday, he dummied the ball to let it run through to Patrick and did similar letting it go to Stuart for our third.
I can understand others who would rather Callum was not playing as he can be anonymous in parts of some games.
He keeps the ball moving well and plays with hIs head up with a reasonable goal scoring return .