The moment Scott Brown threw himself into a challenge on the edge of his own penalty area, laser-like in precision, to dispossess Barry Robson, brought the memories flooding back. Barry was regarded by many as a journeyman when he signed for Celtic alongside Georgios Samaras in January 2008. A month later he scored against Barcelona in the Champions League knock out stage and was well on the way to convincing the Celtic support of his ability.
At the time, Scott Brown’s fortunes were different. He’d arrived the previous summer, a £4m buy from Hibs, but had yet to acclimatise to the central midfield role at Celtic. In the spring of 2008, Celtic were well behind in the title race, and playing poorly. Robson was on the bench with Brown given midfield responsibility.
The script for that season was written by a gifted hand. As the season reached a climax, Scott was suspended for three games, punishment for a rash of misjudged tackles throughout the season. Gordon Strachan turned to Barry, who was made for the moment.
Seven years ago Barry Robson could tackle, in fact, he could foul, without being noticed. He brought determination and menace to a team which was questioned in the CQN comments section for an apparent lack of leadership.
Two of our last five league games that season were at Celtic Park against Rangers. Rangers had a games in hand but the effective gap was 10 points, Celtic needed five wins, and even then their chances of winning the league were regarded as remote. Towels were thrown everywhere.
The first, a midweek game, memorably started with Barry Robson putting a thumping challenge into Christian Dailly in the opening minutes. The tone was set, Celtic were there to fight for everything. Rangers thought they had the point they needed, their manager offering high-fives in the technical area as they cleared the ball late into added time.
I still can’t quite believe what happened next. In the 95th minute Gary Caldwell threw a long ball into the Rangers box, which was won in the air by Scott McDonald, the smallest player on the field. McDonald headed across the face of goal for Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink to head into the net. Celtic survived to fight another day.
11 days later Celtic Park saw an equally dramatic game. Scott McDonald (scorer of incredibly important goals) put Celtic ahead but the season looked to be in tatters as Rangers struck back with two goals direct from corner kicks.
1-2 down in a must-win game it was an uphill struggle, but McDonald struck again two minutes from the break to level the game with the assistance of a deflection. The second half was a tense affair, so much was invested in one game of football, but one man was made for the moment.
McDonald broke free inside the box and was hauled down by Broadfoot. Barry Robson stepped forward to take the penalty, it was the defining moment of his career. If you’re in Celtic Park early enough before kick-off these days you can still hear the echo of the roar that went up when his penalty hit the net. His celebration was unforgettable.
It’s remarkable that Barry is still performing at this level so many years after his peak but yesterday’s decisive challenge by Scott Brown demonstrated the enormous leaps our captain has made since becoming a Celtic player. We need players with that fight and craft.
Many of us are still telling stories of the 1985 Scottish Cup Final. A goal down, Celtic roared back to beat Dundee United with a Frank McGarvey diving header. Frank’s offering the jersey he wore that day for auction to raise funds for Maryhill Foodbank. It’s a genuinely unique piece of Celtic history, for a very worthy cause. Check it out here.
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HT/Auldheid
Completely destroyed the momentum of the disheartened and turned it into a well meaning grievances into a sideshow. It was a mistake at the time and is still in my view a mistake today.
First meeting were laughed off and ridiculed by happy clappers then it was afforded happy clapping status as soon as it hit KDS and PL guided it down NL manager propaganda road show. A management choice which fortunately worked out. But that was never the basis or reason for the first 4 meetings.
Big mistake.
MWD said AYE
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Saltines en Seville mmmmmm. Ms Black didn’t say the same about the Huns……
Mmmmmmm,mm……………..
A wee inconvenient truth for you.
A huge thanks to all the CQN’rs who had taken time to donate or send messages of support for Eileidh.
Sending this message as I did not have email addresses for some folks
Thanks Mouldy67
tractorbhoy
21:49 on
11 May, 2015
timbhoy2
Willie Miller did indeed go to John Street. The family lived in Ruby Street.
*as did Victor Salvatore Davidson who was also a follower of the dark side, his da used to take him there. His brother who I worked with followed Clyde, but eventually us.
Vic was offered terms by the deid team until they heard what his middle name was.
MWD
I attended one of the road shows hosted by the Grangemouth Bhoys in a hotel there
I questioned PL then on our signing policy and competency of John Park, for him to pass the question to Lenny, and the answer he works hard, he often leaves his house around 5am to get to airport for travel, as had been done week before to go and watch Barcelona B team
I was that stumped I couldn’t respond
Hope your well bhud
Hail Hail
clogher celt
22:10
There was a video report of the meeting on al-jazeera yesterday morning.
Seemed a relaxed, smiley occasion. At one bit the two were face to face, elbows on a little square table like Smith & Jones. Made me chuckle.
Holy Father is being given credit for melting some ice as US-Cuba relationship thaws. He’s going to Cuba on a pastoral visit later.
NegAnon2
you of all peeps should understand teenage stroke pubertal phenomena…..
me I think it is absolutely amazing that the parameters of the Scottish electoral conscious can be so stretched ……and I mean stretched like in the back green stretchers …where athing wis hung oot to dry …
toi toi Miss Black
braw
Cowiebhoy
I was asked by my work to travel to Essex at 12pm a few Wednesday’s ago and flew at 6:20am the next morning. If you travel it’s part of the gig. The key is doing the job when you get there. I would give one of my baws for the head scout job at Celtic!
LB
Mouldy67 – Lost my bankcard, should have a replacement sent out by Friday.
Gonna try and send 3 x £10 donations by text.
Would that be alright?
See if it works anyway.
;)
Good luck and God bless yous all.
Slan.
HH.
neganon2
22:46 on 11 May, 2015
Saltines en Seville mmmmmm. Ms Black didn’t say the same about the Huns……
Mmmmmmm,mm……………..
A wee inconvenient truth for you.
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And people on here defend an individual who called Celtic fans scum. We live in a strange world. A foul mouthed human being who does not deserve our time of day.
The strictly no papes worry me. Definetly underlying bigotry there.
Added to that mhairi black is a midden.
Livibhoy,
Yer mould master ?
Night all Night wee Oscar my hero God bless x x
Found this on the internet. Body language and eye contact…Charlie at Ibrokes
If you want a late night laugh, have a look.
http://youtu.be/p058ChEu3tM
Clogher
Neustadt braw. Yes we scots are good at cognitive dissonance. We take it to all new levels.
Estorilbhoy ah nationalism will make Huns of us all eh!
estorilbhoy
22:59 on
11 May, 2015
neganon2
22:46 on 11 May, 2015
Saltines en Seville mmmmmm. Ms Black didn’t say the same about the Huns……
Mmmmmmm,mm……………..
A wee inconvenient truth for you.
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And people on here defend an individual who called Celtic fans scum. We live in a strange world. A foul mouthed human being who does not deserve our time of day
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Ach it wiz jist banter, she wis only a wean then………….n’at
cowiebhoy
The point in making is that the first 4 meetings which were airing a lot of discontent was railroaded by the club turning it into a PR happy clapping roadshow.
There was a lot of discussion on various issues fans had with club and external bodies.
That stopped at the point of the road shoes and it took another year and a half to 2 years before a similar body met again to begin the process once again. Fortunately 2nd time round the UEFA or was it FIFA enforced JP role was instated giving those supporters a route to air and bring the grievances in a proper manner without the club controlling the direction and topics requiring attention.
The road shows were a pile of pish!
I know only 2 other CQNers who attended at the first 4 meetings that I recognised. One of whom was Terry O’Neill and the other who’s nome de blog escapes me. But the feeling from those I spoke to after the roadshow route was taken was that the initial meetings and forum to air fans grievances was railroaded. That is my view to this day.
The meetings were never at any point setup to sell Neil Lennon as manager.
It was a error, a large one in my opinion, to allow the grievances to be Side show Bobbed for the happy clapping PR stunt it turned out to be.
MWD said AYE
Re questions on our scouting recruitment and John Park
I got the impression from the AGM, that the board felt our scouting and youth network could be improved.
There was nothing implicitly said about scouting of senior players, and i am reading into the way / tone of answers rather than the specific words.
On youth development there was a view that board were disappointed with number of young players coming through.
Also, it always confused me why we recruited Peter Houston, but didn’t seem to replace him.
estorilbhoy
22:59 on
11 May, 2015
neganon2
22:46 on 11 May, 2015
Saltines en Seville mmmmmm. Ms Black didn’t say the same about the Huns……
Mmmmmmm,mm……………..
A wee inconvenient truth for you.
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And people on here defend an individual who called Celtic fans scum. We live in a strange world. A foul mouthed human being who does not deserve our time of day.
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she said at 16 years old …she hated the Celtic ….she at no time said she hated Celtic fans ..or did she say Celtic fans were scum ……….
fact
think think think
it really is below us …
braw
Road shoes – I’ve never been to one of them either :-)
MWD said AYE
NegAnon2
23:03 on
11 May, 2015
Neustadt braw. Yes we scots are good at cognitive dissonance. We take it to all new levels.
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aye its a wee baldy mentality …..braw
The serious misogynistic, racist abuseand threats handed out to JK Rowling by cybernats, and latterly by their English equivalents, has been discussed on here more than once.
I don’t recall any nat posters indicating concern or disapproval.
MWD, I agree with you
Was just making point on how we were being fobbed off
Livibhoy, I do the early morning flight on a pretty regular basis, but not to watch Barcelona :-)
My views on JP then, and now have not changed either
Hail Hail and Nytol
A late sign on tonight after a very long shift, before I scroll back fully, well done to The Black Cat for a fine LMS victory.
Also many thanks to Jobo and CRC for their dedication and efforts in setting this up.
As for Ross Co and St Mirren …. -:)
HH
Clashcitybhoy
We have replaced Peter Houston, can’t remember name, but another ex Hearts assistant manager
We have also slightly changed Youth set up, with addition of Willie McStay back in the fold
Hail Hail
Cowiebhoy
Completely fobbed off. But I was surprised to hear tonight that the fob off was offered to PL on a plate by Jeanette Findlay. I was not aware of that before today. Disappointed by that news.
But thankfully a similar forum which Jeanette again chaired was reinstated latterly after even she must have realised she was duped. Not duped in the way DM was duped at the Huns but PL duped. I’m sure her intentions were good and that the grievances would be aired to a wider forum and acted upon. But that wasn’t the case. Hence the regrouping a year or two later.
MWD said AYE
Guyfawkesforeverthehero,
Pope Francis seems to be doing his very best. If he can fix out Cuba… It will be some achievement.
Re Oscar and the Kano Foundation, we will try and raise some cash next year in Dublin. Sorry it isn’t earlier.
Both causes will be on the agenda though.
Clogher
16 roads – celtic über alles…
22:57 on 11 May, 2015.
Received with thanks , appreciate your kind donation
cowiebhoy
23:17 on 11 May, 2015
John McGlynn is now a scout for Celtic
neganon2
22:46 on 11 May, 2015
Saltines en Seville mmmmmm. Ms Black didn’t say the same about the Huns……
Mmmmmmm,mm……………..
A wee inconvenient truth for you.
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I saw all the stuff about her comments, and as she was standing for election in the constituency where I live, I decided to write to her and asked her to explain her statement. I wanted to know why any Celtic fan would want to vote for someone who thought I was scum.
There was no on-line information available indicating that she had apologised or offered some context around her tweets. I thought that was extremely odd. (I don’t buy newspapers.)
She visited me at home the week before the election.
To be fair, I thought that took courage and I was impressed by her willingness to discuss her version of events face to face.
She explained that she had told the MSM her version of events and that they had not carried the story. That only Spiers at the london Times would do so.
She told me she had been furious at the time and that she regreted her actions. I felt that was acceptable, in the sense that she was just 17, and her own understanding of the situation was that it was Celtic fans that had damaged seats.
At this point I don’t know if Celtic fans had wrecked seats, or if there were seats damaged by sevco fans.
I wanted a reassurance that she was not anti- Celtic and did not have unacceptable views about the Celtic family.
My overall view is that she was telling me the truth.
Mairhi black she hates the Tim’s
Doo dah do oh dah
The jagtown darkies sing this song
Dooh dah doo dah day
Go
Celtic ya bass
Nietzsche 1899
Sorry 1889
He was ahead of his time
saltires en sevilla
23:29 on
11 May, 2015
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CQN straight up ….thank you …..braw but even if we didnae ken wid we throw such talent in the bigot bin …hahahahaha na ja Braw is in the belly of the Beast !
fecking amazing this auld wirld
braw
So you want a resolution
Well number 12 comes to mind
But if you go carrying pictures of chairman Mao
You ain’t gonna make chicken cashew anyhow
Tontine Tim That’s right about Vic Davidson da being a supporter of the dark side.I Knew him he drank in the Strathie Pub in Dalmarnock Rd .nice man .and the Strathie had the best pint of light beer in Brighton.2 brother’s ran great wee boozer.in them days its all men that drank there.them days are well gone .