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.
PAYPAL UPDATE
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This is a not for profit promotion which is intended to benefit the Lisbon Lions themselves. Let’s give them a proper thank you from the Celtic support.
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Good morning friends from a dry, broken clouded, slightly breezy but still just champi6n East Kilbride. One more sleep till the ole Glasgow Derby.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 4TH APRIL 2017 6:27 AM
Provide housing for the homeless before introducing more who will need homes.
What`s the problem.
New Lanark. Great idea.
TWISTS N TURNS on 4TH APRIL 2017 6:33 AM
Perfectly reasonable points.
Agreed. No simple solution.
Good morning CQN from an overcast, cool but dry 6 in a row East Devon.
Manchester United gonna sign Kieran Tierney for the princely sum of £10million?
Good one.
Why not just drop the bid and offer 10p sure?
Because there’s just as much chance of Celtic selling KT for two bob as there is for £10million.
No chance.
DeludedBestLeagueInTheUniverseFoolsCSC.
HH.
Macjay
Any meaningful change to the poverty rate in UK ( or anywhere else for that matter ) will automatically change the rate of wealth inequality .
For me they are inextricably linked .
Envy? More like pity.
I pity any fool who is so spiritual lost that they believe wholeheartedly that accumulating vast amounts of wealth will lead to happiness .
Last from me on it.
Dbhoy
Reducing wealth inequality is fundamental to any sustainable improvement. That’s why simply throwing up houses wouldn’t come close to addressing the homeless situation.
It needs a more expansive plan to improve the income of the poorest in society.
In the great famine in India, people lay dying of starvation whilst the grain stores bulged at the seams.
DBHOY on 4TH APRIL 2017 7:08 AM
Don`t disagree with any of that.
Some of the obscenely wealthy adopt the Bill Gates approach , but that is seldom mentioned.
Last from me too.
Persisting down here in darkest Lancashire. Main objective of the day is to get into that Media City and not be hipsterised so much that my life changes for the worst. Have a good day everyone. HH
TNT
Have a look at my 3.10 post, we are signing from a very similar hymn sheet.
Closing tax loopholes for major corporations would be a start.
Apple for example reports a quarterly profit of $18.4 billion, the largest in history in last three months of 2015. But it pays tax of 1% or less on it.
I agree that it needs to be addressed on a macro level but there won’t be any meaningful change under the current political system IMO.
http://money.cnn.com/2016/08/30/technology/apple-tax-ruling-numbers/
FECK POVERTY !
Morning from a sunny Glasgow.
TIMHORTON 4.22PM ….Cheers mate. now if I can only find the Channel on my BT system ?
I see that thug John Brown putting himself forward as number 3 at Sevco ?
Two points…1) .what is a number 3 ?
2) Why would any parent wish to inflict this nutter on young players at any club ?
Hail Hail.
1972 EUROPEAN CUP SEMI-FINAL
Celtic:
Williams; Craig, McCluskey, Murdoch, McNeill, Connelly, Johnstone, Dalglish (Deans 61), Macari, Callaghan, Lennox. Substitutes: Connaghan, Quinn
Inter Milan:
Vieri; Bellugi, Facchetti; Oriali, Giubertoni, Burgnich, Jair, Bedin, Bertini, Mazzola, Frustalupi. Sub: Pellizzaro.
Referee: Rudi Glockner (East Germany).
Attendance: 75,000
1974 EUROPEAN CUP SEMI-FINAL
Celtic:
Connaghan, Hay, Brogan, Murray, McNeill, McCluskey, Johnstone , Hood, Deans (Wilson 70), Callaghan, Dalglish. Sub:Hunter, McGrain, Lennox.
Athetico Madrid:
Reina, Melo, Diaz, Benegas, Overjero, Eusebio, Ayala, Adelardo, Garate (Quique), Irureta (Albert), Heredia
Referee: Dogan Babacan (Turkey)
Attendance: 70,000
Word of The Day
Impecunious /ˌɪmpɪˈkjuːnɪəs/
adjective
1. destitute, poverty-stricken
2. without money; penniless
Derived Forms
impecuniously, adverb
impecuniousness, impecuniosity (ˌɪmpɪkjuːnɪˈɒsɪtɪ) noun
Word Origin and History for impecunious
adj.
“lacking in money,” 1590s, from assimilated form of in- “not, opposite of” (see in- (1)) + Latin pecuniosus “rich,” from pecunia “money, property” (see pecuniary ). Related: Impecuniously ; impecuniosity.
KTF
I don’t want Brendan to stay for another 4/5 years.
Given his obvious love of Celtic and Glasgow in particular, if the Celtic Board continue to support him to the hilt, why shouldn’t he stay much longer ?
He’s only 49…( A PUP).
Who’s to say that there won’t be sweeping changes as to what league The Celts are playing in within the next 4/5 years, and the possible increase in finances for buying top drawer players etc, which IF Celts were involved in ( larger TV money etc), Brendan could say…” hang on a minute, life is great at Celtic, and the goalposts have now moved….I want my team Celtic WINNING the Champions League, with me as the Manager” ?
Hail Hail.
Big Jimmy
” Brendan Rodgers (born 26 January 1973) ”
Which makes the Bold Brendan 44. He is still wearing short trousers.
JJ
BIGJIMMY
BR has not long turned 44.
Btw,seems Adrian Durham has spawned a clone.
http://www.hitc.com/en-gb/2017/04/03/west-ham-and-newcastle-prove-brendan-rodgers-is-deluded-over-cel/page/1/
Chris Sutton has picked Scott Brown as his Celtic POTY.
I am very very close to agreeing with him.
I think Scott Sinclair could run him very close if he is hugely instrumental over the next 10 ( I hope) games. We might have to award a joint award. For me- the other candidates – Dembele, Forrest, Tierney, Armstrong and Gordon- fall into the tier below the two Scotts.
Our fixtures before the Split:
Thistle (H)
Kilmarnock (H)
Ross County (A)
Sevco (Cup) (N)
Sevco (A).
Do we go full out for all of these games then begin preparation for the CL Qualifiers ?
When, if we make it, is the Cup Final?
How does that affect our CL preparation?
Do we rest all out Scottish Internationals?
Questions, questions, questions.
JJ
If my ole memory serves me right, there are normally four final candidates in the running for player of the year.
Has there ever been four players from just 1 club as the nominees?
Id be surprised if there was a player involved from another club this year!
SFTB
Scott Brown for me. Our most influential player, I feel.
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
I agree that Brown has been superb this season,but Sinclair for me.
Oozes quality and petrified defenders by running at them at speed-and,worse,putting the ball in the net!
A wee update on the young lad from last night.
My wife got a couple of her team to do a home visit last night (one of whom was on her way to her car when she saw what was happening and came back into the office).
The upshot is that there is nothing that is un-resolvable for the family. It’s another example of how the benefit system is scandalous. The mother (on her own) has been trying to hold down a job but every time she gets some work, her benefits stop reducing her net income and creating more financial difficulties for the family! She then ahs to give up work and re-enters a depressing cycle of: work, benefit cuts, no work …. now on the verge of eviction.
No reward for trying to get a job and improve her family’s life.
The weans got a feed last night; the mother was (hopefully) pulled out of a pit of despair. More intervention today to try and improve their lot, initially by stopping an eviction.
The wee boy, in his innocence, was also very distressed that because of their problems he would have to give up his wee dug! Heartbreaking.
Thanks so much for the supportive comments from many on here; I also got a smashing e-mail from one of our erstwhile posters via BMCUWP, so I can report that Kit is doing fine!
Hamiltontim on 4th April 2017 1:16 am – I know that in the area you work it will, in many ways, be magnified in a full class of kids and that must be tough.
As for those who say there is no such thing as society: I grew up in the Drum, which in the early ’70’s was the most deprived area in Western Europe; I can safely say that such a circumstance would never have happened there. If anyone was really up against it, the weans were always fed by family, friends and neighbours. Thatcherite policies from ’79 onwards killed that.
She and her ilk are still visiting today’s downtrodden with their evil political philosophy.
KTF
VFR
Thumbs up all round,mate.
HH
SFTB, Brown is POTY for me, and fairly comfortably so. As a driving force and leader he has been quite exceptional.
On top of that, he is a damn fine footballer and his drive, play and distribution of the ball from midfield has been first class. Sinclair, Armstrong, Dembele, Forrest, Roberts etc. get the plaudits because they are creating and scoring the goals. We have been without most of them for periods this year and haven’t missed them.
Could we say the same if Scott Brown was out of the team? IMHO, no: we would miss him more than any other player in the squad. Those in front of him would suffer.
I said yesterday that our toughest job over the next couple of seasons will be replacing Scott Brown; I stand by that. Armstrong may go some way to doing that when Brown eventually retires but he will be a hard player to replace!
We will know just how hard when he has gone!
KTF
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER 821
Just reading back after my night shift, great work done by your wife and colleagues in a tragic situation. Well done too to the young man for his initiative.
HH
POTY in Scotland was decided several months ago. The award went to Joey Barton.
Hrvatski Jim
……and deservedly so .
Cheerio for now.
JJ
PS BMCUW
I read that Link you posted at 8:37. Surely the guy is just trying to provoke a reaction ? Surely?
HOTSMOKED
Aye,probably. He’s also an ignorant clown.
Probably still reckons the EPL is the best league in the world too.
SFTB…
Player of the year ?
Scott Brown for me, hugely influential, even when he is not playing at the top of his game as was the case on Sunday.
However, if we were to complete the season winning everything and remaining unbeaten I would suggest the Celtic squad should be awarded the honour.
GORDON
“However, if we were to complete the season winning everything and remaining unbeaten I would suggest the Celtic squad should be awarded the honour.”
Way too sensible a suggestion. And a darn fine one too.
This summary of malfeasance at Ibrox and SFA / SPFL from JJ is worth a read and keeping for later …
https://johnjamessite.com/2017/04/04/a-very-british-scandal/
I voted for Sinclair as POTY, Dembele as YPOTY and Dembele v St Johnstone as goal of the year on the Celtic website poll
Can you imagine the carnage if the jam tart fan aimed the ball at one of the walking dead from govan?
The faster walking zombies would be ” oan ra pitch ” to protect their own, and the smsm would be backing them up, and a few of the mini huns would have spent the weekend in the nick.
So with that in mind I reckon our away support must be up for men of the season awards, Failing that Scott Brown for me, YPOTY to KT ( the younger one).
Manager goes to Brendan.
Goal of the season is obviously the one that puts us into the SC Final.
H.H
In 2014,Man U paid Southampton 30 million for teenager Luke Shaw who had made the total of 60 games for his club over a two year period.
We are now being told that they are”Considering”an offer of 10 million for KT.
We all know its crap,but it really maddens me that this guff is printed daily.This is in the MSM down South,which really only adds fuel to the fire of Celtic being a second rate team in their eyes.The SMSM only too happy to regurgitate it up here.The Mirror even adding that KT is very interested in joining Man U.
TURKEYBHOY
Don’t read the shite and calm doon!
It means to me that the hun press are terrified of how much and for how long we will dominate football in Scotland and perhaps beyond.
Me?
I love it!
50 SHADES OF GREEN on 4TH APRIL 2017 10:13 AM
Goal of the season is obviously the one that puts us into the SC Final.
H.H
I will second that.
There is now only one game left that matters and it is a fortnight on Sunday.
VFR
Give your wife a hug from me please!