As we feared, momentum builds across the city as Barry Ferguson took control of a ragtag collection of players and within 90 minutes turned them into a team capable of rivalling Celtic. The heat is well and truly on the champions as they see their hopes of achieving four-in-a-row dim a little.
Not only was Barry able to control previously loser footballers, with a whiff of greatness, he brought referees and var under his spell. The value to Celtic of those three points against Aberdeen on Tuesday is now clear to see.
Actually, the most influential result of the night was in Perth, where St Johnstone deservedly beat Ross County to move within three points of Dundee at the bottom of the table. Saints visit Dundee on Saturday, a win there would lift them into 11th place on goal difference.
The top half of the table now has a settled look, with Hearts joining Celtic, Newco, Aberdeen, Hibs and Dundee United. All teams from our ‘proper’ cities and all capable to taking points of each other on their day. It will lead to a challenging end to the season.
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Just woke up ,is Gene about ? 😜
Happy Friday eve all!
Jazz’s must stay
Bazza even
Gene H. RIP
Paul, no way do our hopes of 4 in row dim in any way.
13 points ad 30 plus GD!
You are over egging it a bit! ;-)
I saw the goal celebrations and the post match slaps on the back. The scenes were extraordinary considering they cut a 16 point gap, down to 13. We’ve utterly broken them.
Is Paul being serious or taking the mick??
New Club Paul
New club
HH
RC
He is drifting!
HH
That lead article was written with his tongue planted firmly in his cheek
It might be a wee dig at the succulent lamb, sorry , its chicken nuggets now ,brigade who are surely getting their crayons out to write about their heroic turnaround
An Dún on 27th February 2025 12:13 pm
I saw the goal celebrations and the post match slaps on the back. The scenes were extraordinary considering they cut a 16 point gap, down to 13. We’ve utterly broken them.
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Pundits and the Media going overboard on wee Bazza’s decision to take off that Hun CHUMP ” NSIALA” when they were 2 Goals down.
I read that Bazza spoken a couple of days ago and HE ADMITTED that HE had seen BOTH the games v Queens Park and St, Mirren at Ipox.
Therefore, HE MUST have witnessed just ” HOW BAD” Clinton Nsiala was in BOTH those games at least, but HE STILL PICKED him to play in defence last night in the starting line up ?
Instead of praising Bazza for his so called ” Bravery” last night in taking the Hun Chump OFF when they were already TWO Goals down…wee Bazza SHOULD have been asked ” WHY play Nsiala at all AFTER Witnessing his shocking performances recently, before last night game” ????
Anyone who has watched Nsiala recently KNEW that he was an utter Diddy BEFORE last night.
Lets not forget the helping hand from the Ref Don Robertson last night in awarding a NON EXISTENT Corner Kick in the build up to the Huns equalizer.
CHEATING in Plain Sight.
Have we been given the conclusive proof that the correct decision was made last weekend in Edinburgh
@RC on 27th February 2025 12:13 pm
Is Paul being serious or taking the mick??@
100% taking the Mick.
“RC on 27th February 2025 12:32 pm
Have we been given the conclusive proof that the correct decision was made last weekend in Edinburgh”
It would be difficult to be given something that doesn`t exist !
Glad you brought it up , though. These `things` tend to be brushed aside.
“The top half of the table now has a settled look, with Hearts joining Celtic, Newco, Aberdeen, Hibs and Dundee United. All teams from our ‘proper’ cities and all capable to taking points of each other on their day. It will lead to a challenging end to the season.”
With that and the Cup run in, it looks like a competitive end of season, hopefully get us fit for the UCL-Qs…
Hail Hail
Ferguson might not be the brightest, and we know he is not a good manager based on all previous evidence. But he has every right to use whatever motivational techniques he has in his locker to get his team to go out and play for the jersey. In his newpaper column, he has regularly laid into the players for not playing as if their careers depended on it. So it will be no surprise to see them becoming a bit more physical over the coming weeks, leaving the boot in to remind opponents that it is the ranjurz they are playing.
Clement’s reliance on science to tell him which players could play and which should be rested will go out the window. Bazza won’t give a monkeys if a player is feeling a bit leggy. Red Bull and corticosteroids will have them running through brick walls.
For that is the Bazza way. Blood, sweat and snotters. It will have some success, at least in the short term. But it cannot turn crap players into good ones. They have, I think, four meaningful games left before project Barry ends. Two against Fenerbache and two against us. If he has any kind of success in these games then he will deserve some praise. I expect them to lose to Mourinho’s team and to us at CP. If the Ibrox game against us comes after the league has been won then he may well get a wee win to bow out on.
Paul 67
What larks Paul – what larks
Has oor Wullie had anything to say about Muir’s uncalled for interference on Saturday?
Back to Brother Walfrid and the name Celtic.
Various books and published authors such as Sweeney, McCallum and Kelly have found no conclusive definitive evidence that Walfrid chose the name Celtic soft C (Keltic) as a cultural bridging effect for the collective Scots/irish and as an early way of integrating the Irish into Scottish (protestant and anti-catholic) society.
Indeed there is also a theory that the Keltic name chosen over Glasgow Hibernians may have been more to integrate indigiouness Scottish-Catholics (Highlanders) with Irish Catholics to get full support for the churches and the work of feeding and educating the poor to stop the effect of proselytization.
It could be argued that through education itself, reading and writing english, dilution of gaelic language for the highlanders and the irish catholics, one generation still communicating in their own language, but their childern now speaking english outside the home, could lead to the elders calling the football club Keltic (like walfrid himself and several of the founders) while their young and the general populace called the club Celtic.
The more the learn through my own ancestry, both sides, I often think that recency bias means we forget how bad it all really was, my ulster/scots/orange forebears having a much easier time in becoming Scottish as they were though off as eck said “blood of my blood”, anyways I am haviring now.
More in a while.
Sarcasm is hard to read at times but this is clear as day:
“As we feared, momentum builds across the city as Barry Ferguson took control of a ragtag collection of players and within 90 minutes turned them into a team capable of rivalling Celtic.”
The issue for me with this piece and others I’ve read who (yet again) “fully expect” us to not just beat but hammer them in the next game is that they have proven that they could rival us on any given day even under a manager that is either poor or who had lost the dressing room with a useless/spineless squad of players, depending on what you read.
If even Mickey Beale can get a bounce and players are playing for moves out / to be part of SanFranSevco then things can only get better for them, if only temporarily given if we do our job they have effectively glorified friendly games bar the Europa games until the season ends.
I expect us to still win the league, I hope that we beat them at least one more time before the season is out and assuming we don’t sell all the crown jewels and go back into project scattergun mode I expect we will be favourites next season, especially with Hagi and Cerny going, seemingly too rich for their budget which might finally be cut to fit their cloth.
Our momentum and complacency are my biggest worry for the rest of this season and there are signs of the later (or fatigue) creeping into the team and certainly signs of both widespread on T’imternet. It’s great that we can win well when playing pretty poorly (Aberdeen) or recover after a bad half (Hibs, bar the VAR) but I hope we can avoid getting to the stage where we need the opposition to score to get us going.
Hopefully one game a week and rest time will help in the weeks to come, it has been a long season for the squad.
the always excellent celticwiki
Celtic – The Name
https://www.thecelticwiki.com/about-celtic/celtic-the-name/
The Highland influence
Another aspect to the name is possibly from the following (as taken from the ‘Not the View‘ Celtic fanzine):
“John Glass (first Celtic President) helped to organise several political rallies at which Michael Davitt (an Irish republican campaigner) addressed Scottish Highland crofters. The question must therefore be asked: did the name ‘Celtic’ originate in part from this popular political influence of the day, and did Brother Walfrid and John Glass see in this name a method to celebrate Irish-ness, symbolise Irish-ness, yet simultaneously join hands with Scottish Celts? After all, historically speaking, the peoples of Ireland and Scotland were one and the same – Celts!”
One point that is often overlooked is that the Roman Catholics in Scotland weren’t all of Irish descent. There were many from the Highlands who had moved south to the lowlands who were Catholic, and there was a number located in Bridgeton who were of Highland descent (the area where Celtic Park is now located). The area even got given a nickname of “Glengarry” reflecting this fact.
So it’s a possibility that Celtic was chosen to encompass Catholics not only of Irish descent but of Highland stock as well. St Columba brought and preached Catholicism to the Scottish Highlands, and Columba was the name of a team earlier formed by Brother Walfrid, and it was a possible choice for our own club’s name before settling on Celtic. So who is to say that Celtic was not chosen for more than its Irish overtones?
Must add that for Celtic to gain as much support as possible it needed to reach out as far as possible. There was even very real hostility in the Catholic Church in Scotland to the large numbers of Irish priests coming in to service the phenomenal increase in parishes from the mid 1850s onwards. From what we understand, the hierarchy did not look too kindly on the ‘gaelicisation‘ of the church in Scotland, favouring a more non-contentious Anglican-type approach to community relations.
Bishop John Murdoch was later discovered to have made some very alarmist (and what might today be deemed racist) comments about the inflow of Irish worshippers and priests and the appointment of the Englishman Charles Eyre, who was Celtic’s first patron before Michael Davitt, was perceived as an attempt to reduce tensions between the factions.
All of this will have had some influence over the choice of name. Brother Walfrid and the St. Mary’s parishioners were very adept (and often active) politicians and possibly that they wanted the Church broadly very much onside at the club’s formation. By the time of the second Celtic Park a few years later the church/clerical influence was much reduced, Michael Davitt was the new patron, and the club was on a different course.
I am wondering if the decline in CQN posting is a reflection of the changing nature of being a Celtic supporter.
It is understandable that a belief that we will be Champions nearly every season coupled with the knowledge that we won`t go far in the CL could lead to a sense of complacency.
The many thousands who leave well before the end might be another sign that the nature of our support is changing. I KNOW many people have reasons for leaving early but I can`t say I am aware of departures to such an extent at other grounds. that
Don`t know where `that` came from :-))
Hot Smoked on 27th February 2025 3:06 pm
The early leavers.
Just my own experiences. I do believe the two glasgow clubs have the problem.
Bigger support, many travelling from all over the country and further, maybe an older demographic, and the council created problem of no parking close to the park, the traffic management after, the hobbling distance to the car, and so on.
I really notice it when watching the english/german/spanish/dutch/portugese games on tv. The venues are packed early and it stays that way till the end of injury time. C
One of the recent cup finals, a Celtic win, the fella and pal next to me got up to go, with the game not finished, i jokingly said what a time to go to the toilet, hurry up or you will miss the presentation.
He said its fine i have seen us getting the cup before.
He lives in Shawlands
Celtic lodge plans for huge new store in Glasgow
12-18 Queen Street, next door to Primark.
acorr the street from Will Maleys bank restraunt.
https://www.glasgowtimes.co.uk/resources/images/19140697/?type=mds-article-620
I started going to see Celtic in the early sixties and have always seen folk leaving before FT. Was a was very young we would leave with a few minutes to go to avoid the dangerous crush which occurred at the exists- changed as I got older or if game was really tight. Everyone getting back to the bus was also a factor.
Maybe it’s just more noticeable as empty seats are very visible.
Jinkyredstar,
That crush coming out of the Jungle at the rangers end into Janefield Street was very dangerous, when I think of it now. I never went to the other end, as I left in the direction of Springfield Road.
Parkheadcumsalford
Yes very dangerous, as was the other corner, old ‘Celtic End’ out towards London Road. Big adventure fir a four year old – don’t tell the Social Worker 😀
Paul’s right – they did last night what we couldn’t do against Hibs, overturn a 2 goal deficit.
Ignore at out peril
Traffic situation contributes to early leavers. Glasgow CC should be ashamed
of their dreadful “performance”.
Can’t get anything right!!
Big Jimmy at 12.27
I think you are being unkind to diddys 🤪
Fred Colon on 27th February 2025 4:18 pm
Big Jimmy at 12.27
I think you are being unkind to diddys 🤪
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I know mate……maybe I’m just a bad man ?
HH.
Saint Stivs on 27th February 2025 2:01 pm
the always excellent celticwiki
Celtic – The Name
Very interesting post from Your Holiness. As a boy I read Handley’s ‘The Celtic Story’. That’s a long ime ago but his theory was that the name Celtic was chosen as it could appeal equally to ethnic Scots and to those who were Irish or of Irish descent.
Another thing: apparently the Irish immigrant population alarmed the Scottish Catholic hierarchy by insisting that the church in Scotland adopt the Irish custom of publishing transparent accounts.
H.
FRITZSONG on 27TH FEBRUARY 2025 4:47 PM
Saint Stivs on 27th February 2025 2:01 pm
Celtic – The Name
Very interesting post from Your Holiness. As a boy I read Handley’s ‘The Celtic Story’. That’s a long time ago but his theory was that the name Celtic was chosen as it could appeal equally to ethnic Scots and to those who were Irish or of Irish descent.
*I believe that Brother Dorothea who hail hailed fae Dundee had a lot to do with that