Photo by Vagelis at Big Lens.
I know when you begin to dominate a championship that when another team eventually lift the trophy it can seem like an intolerable failure; compare our distress in 2009 to our resolve to do better after the final home game in 1996. Time adds perspective to our triumphs. As does not being there and seeing photos of the presentation hours after the event.
These are special times, enjoy them.
Many thanks to the Columba Club in Blantyre for Friday night’s Question and Answer event, and to the irrepressible Phil Agnew, who organised the event. I was delighted to share a stage with Paul McConville and Phil Mac Giolla Bhain. Great to see so many CQN’ers there too, my only regret is that I didn’t get a chance to catch up with everyone. With supporters like those in Blantyre on Friday night, we’re in good hands.
Remember to buy Heart of a Lion, Willie Wallace’s magnificent autobiography, available below.
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I never found out the real reason why Stan looked so unhappy on the title day for 2005/6.
He along with Maloney had had a great season, He had signed a new contract even if it was just for Celtic to get a transfer fee.
He took a lot of stick at the time but nobody ever really said why?
Roy Croppie
Worse …the others are Huns …Walker should know better
PFayr,
Don’t know if you did any report on your WHW walk.
Weather was not very helpful.
How did it go ?
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
When you watch it, watch Wright look for Mikael Lustig and then plant the elbow. It was the most obvious and blatant assault I’ve seen for a long time; since Lafferty did Andreas Hinkel even.
Sanna – well done big man. I knew the KF jumpers would be safe when I heard they were using the elastic from your Jockeys! :-)
Great effort by all concerned.
T4
sanna
great effort mo chara, very well done…
vmhan
canny find a linky….?
canny get ma heed around sponsoring a bouncy..
.PFayr
12:51 on 12 May, 2013
Gerrybhoy
Very generous of you…..
………..No more than he deserves. At all. He has a proven track record in this regard.
Hell mend him and his other turncoat friends who are in the pay of the Scottish MSM..
pfAyr
Too true, a real disappointment.
KK
Good as ever
The weather was a nightmare
Along the loch side …what are normally streams flowing off the hillside were raging torrents
On the Saturday we walked from Crainlarich to Kingshouse….long day …made longer by walking in a storm up Rannoch Moor ….minus wind chill ….driving rain …bracing stuff
Slow going in th sodden conditions ….magic all the same
Third time I’ve done it ….something different next year
I hate walker,provan, burley etc for how much they sup soup. Your bfdj, wishart, deeelllll, and smsm have always despised us and to a certain degree you can accept that as that is how they were bred. But these soup takers were once our heroes and had the chance to pull on the hallowed hoops. I am sure every man on this site would have given their right arm to have had the chance just once to have the opportunity to run on to Celtic Park playing for Celtic. To have the chance to tell your children and your grandchildren that you once played for Celtic. Blantyretim you are indeed a privilege man as the original Holy Goalie is a legend sir, he lived the dream and would never in the creation of Christ supped soup with this lot. I salute men like your father for who they are and the principals that they hold dear.
As regards hating the soup takers the reason I hate them is for making e hate them.
KTF
HH
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OldTim..
Someone mentioned there will be Signed copies at Aberdour..
Summa
From Vhman, last thread:
KANO 125 message
Kitalba has asked that I coordinate any monies from the Kano125 sponsored tee total event.
Can all participants email me at my home addy please, if you don’t have it ask Lennybhoy or Blantyre Tim to forward it on.
As Kitalba said in December this is money gathered by us and presented in good faith in the name of Martin Kane, our bhoy KANO.
Any donation is welcome it’s cool if you don’t wish to.
One love and HH
oldtim67:
I met him in Sydney with John Clark when Celtic played there and I couldn’t remember that he played in Lisbon. Just a total blackout to his being in the team. I did remember that he scored two goals in the Scottish Cup Final but too late, I was already praying for the ground to open and swallow me up.
I think Macjay may have been witness to my gaff.
lennybhoy
if that was for me thank you, so what do I do? are all donations verbal through e-mails?
PFayr,
Thanks for that.
My thoughts were with you when I saw the weather conditions.
Well Done.
masty is neil lennon 13:01:
If you have a donation e-mail Vhman, contact me and will send you his e-mail addy. lennybhoycfc@gmail.com
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
PFayr
Thanks – definately one to be avoided!
Nothing was said but I could sense the hostility.
Mind you I might pop back every Silverware Saturday for the next 8 years. I reckon by 10-in-a-row I could ask the barman for “the usual”.
Jeeso – Griffiths has just scored a cracker!!!!
HH
Is the ref sure that Griffiths shot was over the line?
Hell of a goal from Griffiths
Willie Wallace isn’t short of highlights when he looks back on 1967.
I’m sure he’ll have meetin’ a young Old Tim on the ole podium.
Cannot give him free kick chances at Hampden. The ole Hibee fans have woke up!
lennybhoy
you have mail..
001 bhoy message received and reply sent, to clarify Kitalba is coordinating the Oz Tims Kano 125 monies.
001 Sammi mad CSC
troontim
12:51 on 12 May, 2013
The maltman with your mrs?
Don’t go there on a night out and tell your good lady she will have clocked on to what the pub’s all about now!!
1-1, c’mon the hibees.
After watching the Dukla video and the subsequent final, how many Celts played for Scotland around that time?
Additionally, what’s the most number of Celts on the pitch playing for Scotland ?
P
Good day all round yesterday , weather was a bit shiote , but we cannot have every thing going our way, can we ?
Regarding Frazer Wright , he should be banned for 10 games for a deliberate assualt , but will he ? Will he feck. A hurting Hun is what he is and to an extent they cannot help themselves, Wee Walker is a different matter. He is without doubt the first in the queue in the soup kitchen, I have bad mouthed him before so I will not go over old ground.
I agree with Mighty Tim , it`s the hating of them that drags us down to their level. If we want a better world , look in to yourself and ask what you can do to make it so.
Last year three of us chipped in and bought a paving stone outside Celtic Park.
We added the name of a great friend of ours, who sadly passed away the February before.
We shared some great experiences together over the previous twenty years, following Celtic in good and bad times, in Scotland and throughout Europe.
Today, one of the lads just brought me back a photo of the pavement.
My heart is bursting.
It was a tiny price to pay for such a lovely, long lasting gift.
TimsinOhio 20:28 on
11 May, 2013
BMCUWP, if you’re around I took your advice. 4 more today.
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Due to an unexpected compass failure and a few wrong turns-ending up in the wrong FORESTERS pub-in Bristol,I couldnae put the bet on in time!
Delighted you enjoyed it,mate. Be grateful my advice doesn’t extend to directions,or you’d still be stuck over the Pacific
Sign Griffiths for next season. This guy cld cost us the double!!
I’m sure the cup final ref will have noted Hibs’ free kick prowess.
Hibs fans belting out ” No huns in europe”……
hehe
HH
jude/Gordon j
I was feeling the same as you both regarding the final, but, after broonies cameo yesterday, I feel much more confident
I think against the Soviets 7 or 8 Celts were in the team; Scotland lost and the ‘experiment’ was never repeated.
…or the ole memory could be playin’ tricks.
This is the < a href='http://www.11v11.com/matches/scotland-v-ussr-10-may-1967-229801/'game
TTTT
wee pleasant surprise when I logged into my PP account
£65 up…..then I remembered I bet Well to be second in the league ..,11-2..,
Means I don’t have to lose my own money today :-))
pod i
I am sure when jock was caretaker manager he played 6 celts in a friendly i think against russia or czech
Football’s ‘forgotten hero’ Leigh Richmond Roose
By Neil Prior BBC News, Wales
Welsh goalkeeper Leigh Richmond Roose in action for Stoke in around 1904
You could be forgiven for skipping over yet another article talking about a talented international goalkeeper who courts the cameras, dates the trendiest singers, lands himself in hot water through his bad behaviour and gets big money.
But you might take a second glance when you notice that the footballer in question isn’t playing in 2011, but in 1911.
Leigh Richmond Roose was born in Holt near Wrexham on 27 November 1877, and died during the Battle of The Somme, aged 38, in October 1916.
His biographer calls him a “forgotten hero” and the game’s “first superstar”.
Roose started his amateur career at Aberystwyth Town in 1895, while studying medicine at the university there.
But within two seasons Roose became famous throughout Wales, both for his keeping, and his crowd-pleasing antics.
He would turn his back on play to tell jokes to the fans, and perform gymnastics from the goal crossbar while the ball was at the other end of the field.
Physical specimen
By 1900, he’d led Aberystwyth to the Welsh Cup, and earned an international call-up
It also brought him to the attention of English First Division clubs, seeing him play for Stoke City, Everton, Sunderland, Celtic, Aston Villa and Woolwich Arsenal.
His biographer, Spencer Vignes, explained the Football Association was even forced to change the rules of the game because of him.
Leigh Richmond Roose told jokes to fans behind his goal
“Leigh revolutionised the way the game was played in England. Before Leigh, goalkeepers were just shot-stoppers, if they came off their line they had no protection from being punched, shoulder-charged and trampled by the forwards, in a game which was vastly more physical than today.
“Usually they were too terrified to come out of their goal, even though – in those days – they were allowed to handle the ball anywhere in their own half of the field.”
“But Leigh was such a physical specimen that he could take on the forwards at their own game.
“He’d flatten the striker, catch the ball, and carry play up field like a rugby fullback does today. So in 1912, at the end of his career, the rules were changed so that keepers could only handle the ball inside the penalty area.”
Practical jokes
But Mr Vignes said the FA was not a fan of Roose.
“They hated him every bit as much as the fans loved him. He insisted on staying amateur, playing practical jokes and larking around at a time when the FA were trying to portray football as a serious professional sport.”
“Leigh was also a bit of a London socialite, and made as many headlines off the field as on it; something else which didn’t go down too well with the FA”
In 1909 the FA launched an investigation into the expenses Roose, as an amateur, was claiming from his then club, Sunderland.
As an amateur, he could not be paid for playing, but received more in expenses than his team-mates earned professionally.
He was the first football super-star, with the playing style of Peter Schmiechel, the bon viveur attitude of George Best, and the media-savvy sense of David Beckham”
According to Mr Vignes, the FA’s concerns weren’t entirely unmerited.
When Roose missed his train from Euston for a 1906 Stoke match away to Aston Villa, he hired his own locomotive and carriage, and sent the £31 bill to his club; this at a time when a miner would earn around £1, three shillings a week.
Yet Roose’s clubs considered it money well spent.
“You have to remember that the people who run football clubs are businessmen. If Leigh was getting £1,000 a season in expenses, then you can be sure that the clubs were making £2,000 a season through the turnstiles and in extra publicity.”
Eligible bachelor
“He was the first football superstar, with the playing style of Peter Schmiechel, the bon viveur attitude of George Best, and the media-savvy sense of David Beckham.”
“People who’d never watched football in their life knew who he was, children chased his carriage, and women hung around his hotel for the chance to spend a night with him.”
Among those women was music hall star Marie Lloyd, who popularised the song My Old Man Said Follow The Van.
Their relationship – Lloyd was married at the time – caused a media storm, displeasing the FA, but only serving to enhance Roose’s popularity.
In 1905 The Daily Mail listed Roose as London’s second most eligible bachelor, behind cricketing legend Jack Hobbs.
When the paper invited readers to vote for players in a World XI, Roose won the goalkeeper’s spot by a landslide.
Roose is commemorated by a plaque on the Pryce Griffiths stand at Wrexham’s Racecourse ground
One hundred years ago, Roose ended his playing career with Arsenal, having never properly recovered from a broken wrist two years before.
When war broke out in 1914, he joined the Royal Army Medical Corps, despite having never completed his medicine degree.
Later he transferred to the Royal Fusiliers and served in the trenches at the Battle of The Somme in 1916.
He earned the Military Medal for using his goalkeeping skills to fend off a flame-thrower attack on his unit, by hurling grenades into the enemy.
But just weeks after learning of the honour, Roose was killed on 7 October, 1916.
Details about his death had remained a mystery until Mr Vignes researched his biography.
“Nobody knew exactly what had happened, Leigh had simply vanished from the official records.”
“It was only after studying the war memorial to the Somme victims at Theipval, that I discovered that he is listed on there, but as ‘Corporal Rouse’, not ‘Corporal Roose.”
“I don’t know why Leigh is largely a forgotten hero nowadays, his life had all the ingredients to make him a legend a century on.”