When Anthony Stokes picked himself off the ground having won a penalty yesterday his eagerness for a piece of the action was clear. Having missed the majority of the season through injury he is a player with a point to prove.
The penalty correctly went to Kris Commons but Anthony still had an opportunity to remind us what a valuable player he can be. He is not the strongest or most skilful player at the club but he is a natural goal-scorer.
Competition for a place in Celtic’s attack has seldom been more acute. Lassad, Miku, Samaras, Stokes and Watt are all pressing for a place alongside Gary Hooper. Each of them will have to consider the possibility of new arrivals in the summer, when securing a place in the squad, never mind the starting line-up, will be a challenge.
Anthony’s return to fitness, and form, is a timely reminder of what he brings to Celtic, and what we have missed once or twice this season.
On Friday 1 March the Lisbon Lions will be at the Kerrydale Suite providing commentary and answering questions on their magnificent European Cup final win in 1967. This has never happened in 46 years since that game, to say it is a unique opportunity fails to tell the whole story.
The event is part of our 125 4 125 campaign – central to reinvigorating the charitable spirit which is part of the club we love. It will be a family occasions, tickets are available at £10 for adults and £5 for children. The night has been organised by several fans working in conjunction with the people at Celtic Charity, so please do your best to support this great occasion. Individual tickets or tables are available, details here.
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twists n turns
great post fella,i was a wee bit different as we lived in parkhead and never went to the games with my old man,we would do the watch your motor mr and than run doon springfield rd to get lifted over or get in with a st vincent de paul box and legging it back before the game finished to get our tanner or whatever it was,then ootside whartons for the crisps and ginger.
i’m still laughing at your post
HH
Glasgow Dave/Tully
thank you. Great stories by the way. Ha….git yer macaroooon bars and speeeeer -a- mint choooing gum. I seem to remember some guy selling gillette razor blades, the loose ones that clipped into a shaving stick thing!!! Razor blades…!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The evening news wee red book. All of the fixtures for the season!
I also had a cardboard thing that came free in the paper or comic annually. League ladders that you inserted all the teams into their league position. Had it on the bedroom wall. Needless to say in those days the hoops were invariably in pole position.
I think that the board need to get together with the GB as soon as possible to get this sorted out, I think it would be a disaster if the GB called it a day
I am not in a position yet to judge who is at fault here, I suspect that there is faults on both sides, but as far as I am concerned both sides need to get talking and they need to go into these talks with no conditions at the outset.
If there is compromise on both sides we can get this sorted
twists n turns,
Think the ladders came with Shoot – I seem to recall having them. Millions of wee pieces and you inevitably ended up losing a wee team like Mansfield or someone.
twists n turns .
Changing times .
My Dad and I walked from Queens X to Celtic Park and we walked from Celtic Park to Queens X [ a save money and a it’s good for you thing ] By the age of ten my Dad had upped the walking regime to ten minutes walking / ten minutes jogging . He’d probably get done for child abuse now.
weet weet
haha, I think I must have met your offspring further down the line when he ‘watched’ my car.
Gordon, you are bang on, it was the shoot. I recall it now. I used to take all those teams and put them in the draw for a British cup. Draw two teams and roll a dice to give them a score each.
If Celtic were playing, and I rolled a 1, simples, roll it again. :-)
Twists n Turns
Great posts this morning, brought back many great memories but please no more- got loads of work to do!
Re your comment on Saturdays at 3pm we get more than most as few home games are showing live and of course no Europa Cup this year. Having said that Dundee game is a lunchtime K.O. this Sunday-is it on TV?
Quick question-when was the last Celtic Vs Zombies game to K.O at 3 O’Clock on a Saturday?
Great memories…………………indeed.
There were only two places you could see Celtic, from the Celtic end and it was either the very front, or the very back high on the girdering ( mentioned by Tully57 ) that held the old black roof, on the terracing. If you were at the front, your head was tucked under the green wooden barrier beams, leaning on perimeter wall, and you were able to play with the gravel on the running track,whilst listening to the loud speaker belting out ” For these are my mountains – and this is my glen ” two hours before the kick off. I’ve never found out who sang that? but did learn via Jim Reeves Why he loved ‘you’ – because
The same for the back just to get a wean’s eye view perched above the last line in the Celtic end, it was the best view ever, even though you had to tuck your hands up your sleeves and cling to the girders (probably with the snotters tripping you) so that you didn’t touch the freezing cold steel. Earliness was the key, and you had to beat rival ‘perchers’ to ensure you
grabbed your place, and when you were up, you could only come down at time up.
This resulted sometimes arriving at Celtic Park before the gates were even open, if you were lucky somebody’s Daa had a motor, and you’d get a lift. I remember a friend diplomatically explaining to his old man the words to a new song everybody was singing ” Feed the bear, Feed the Bear ” it went “Feed the Bear, the bear, he’s roaming everywhere” ” – or words to that effect.
Happy Days CSC
twists n turns
did you have a zephre 4
you owe me
HH
From many accounts on here, it would appear that there is an individual called McCrindle who is to the fore with these attacks on the GB.
What is his background and motivation in all this? Does he have a personal agenda that exceeds his remit?
I think we need to know and perhaps the first move should be to raise a formal complaint against him which would surely then have to be investigated.
Twists and turns
Geeat post i am younger than that but gives a real sense of the enviroment and attitude of the time.
By the way the wee spout on the coffee machine does not dispence hot milk. It jets steam through cold milk in the jug and thats what makes it foamy.
or zephyre ?
West weet weet
My uncle Geordie had a Zodiac Zephyr.
TT
Sorry
Weet weet weet.
TT
The Guardian has a piece about players who walked away from football. Included are these two fine players:
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In October 1949 Celtic’s Charlie Tully declared he was “sick and tired” of football, and the level of attention he received from Glaswegian supporters. Asked about his future at the time, Tully replied: “What would you do if you couldn’t even go for a walk without people shouting and whistling at you? I’ve had enough!” He hadn’t had enough, and was still involved in football when he died, aged just 47, in 1971, while manager of Bangor.
But in George Connelly, Celtic found a stroppy star who had the courage of his convictions. It took him a while to find them, to be fair – he’d already walked out at least five times before – but one day in training in 1975, and with no obvious provocation, he suddenly spat: “Ah, fuck it – I’m away,” and literally ran from fame to a life of taxi-driving obscurity.
He was just 27, but had already played 254 games for Celtic, and was by all accounts a brilliant ball-playing defender. It was not enough. “I was going home with £59 a week,” he told the Sunday Herald in 2006. “That was the basic wage and, at the end of the day, it was costing me money to play fitba. I had a house to buy, a mortgage to pay, I had two kids, two cars, the gas and the electric bills, and a marriage that wasn’t working so what was the point?”
He was asked if he had ever regretted his decision. “Maybe, when I was driving, I would say to myself: ‘Christ almighty! I played for Celtic, appeared in five Scottish Cup finals, won four league medals and played in four League Cup finals, and won two Scotland caps. I’m still a very famous person, yet here I am driving a taxi.’ If I thought about it seriously, I might have parked the car and ran away from it all, eh?”
Tiny Tim
he owe’s me then
HH
Trophyboy
It also makes it scolding hot.
Take the skin right of the back of your hands.
TT
bournesouprecipe
I think a big guy called Peter Mallon sung it as part of a prime time, pre xfactor, show called ‘A song for Scotland ‘ .Sad but i remember watching it.
“For these are my mountains” – The Alexander Brothers.
Emdy remember a bitterly cold game in the 70s or thereabouts when the fans set a fire in the Celtic End to keep warm? Middle of the terracing. God alone knows what they burned on it.
Celtic soul brother, ty and I had better get back to doing some work myself!
Trophybhoy, hot steam? Forty fourteen and I never knew that!
Vmhan, that Leeds game you refer to, I posted a story on here about that day some time ago. Must tell ye about it some time. Long story short tho, I wisnae there, but my elder bro was. I was not a happy bhoy that night.
does anyone remember robby the vale or benny blake from parkhead cross
HH
Celtic soul brother
Last sat 3pm v them
Shurely it was the lubo inspired 5-1 home mauling of them.
In fact it was the first game I attended v them, not a bad one!
Gordon J @ 11 13 .
Shoot League Ladders .
I had a mate at Uni who had a Shoot Ladder on his bedroom wall .@ 1969 / he would have been @ 19 .! He adjusted the ladder every Sunday morning . He supported Brentford. The Ladder was pinned up between a photo of Gyorgy Lukacs and Captain Beefheart . He used to bemoan the fact that most women thought he was a bit strange.
some of my favourite memories of the past include turning up when the league was already lost and the only things worth watching/witnessing where Paddy McCourt cameos, the Jungle Boys and the Green Brigade – remember them ?
Approx mid nov ’98 I believe
It does tiny did you know they put this milk in wee espresso cups now and call it babychinos. Its for weans but they stll charge £1 in the fancy places that sell it.
A sign of the times for me when my two year old happilly sips “a nice coffee” after a lunch of pasta and olives.
Nov 98
5-1
Sat 3pm
HH
twists n turns
10:55 on 18 February, 2013
Great post.
Did I read it right?
You had a trusty tranny that would make milky coffee when you whistled.
How very liberal the Celtic end must have been in those days.
What I remember about that game; despite Celtic stopping ten in a row, rangers spent big and were around ten points ahead before the game, Celtic started great, wonderful Lubo strike for 1-0, a rash Wilson foul mean a first half red for them, total control after that. I remember phil o’donnel playing a blinder that day setting up a headed goal from Henrik. Mark Burchill scored the last goal, convincing many he was the next best thing. They even released a video of the match(yes video)which I got on Xmas day, and watched on Xmas day.
Not a bad first game v them at all. The less said about the next few games v them the better. Hugh Dallas at his best then the worst cup final I’ve ever been to, terrible game!
Peter Mallan was my music teacher back in the day. Him and his missus ran the music dept, a rather eccentric couple. He ran a few times for the SNP as I recall, the speakers in his Hillman Imp blasting out his favourite tunes round Govanhill.
As memory serves, it wasn’t a particularly successful campaign approach, but was pretty good material for winding him up. Mind you, the fellow wasn’t slow to the tawse if the mood took him, whether he was taking the lesson or just wandering past the door and heard something out of line (or key for that matter).
This one for ol BSR: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lldvE-RpE8
Glasgow dave peter mallan taught me music at holyrood. I say taught but really it was just an hour of stories and the occassional musical on the record player.
One of my favourite teachers , and also one of the few who seemed to like me.
pauloantony
01:08 on 18 February, 2013
kilbowie kelt
I would love to see you say that to my face
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No idea what you are talking about. To the best of my knowledge I have NEVER spoken to you, or about you, in my life.
Good luck.
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On the memories of old times thing. I always think back to the days when we clambered on to the back of any lorry that stopped at a red light or was caught up in the traffic on the Gallowgate or London Road.. From school boys to OAPs were assisted to board this form of free travel. Strangely enough, the drivers rarely tried to stop those intent on getting a ‘hudgie’ to the ‘gemme’.
Great days.
Trophybhoy @11 50 .
Many Sicilian weans are given watered down red wine with their dinner . Many Sicilian weans aren’t given an espresso until they are in their teens Seems the belief is that coffee is an adult thing and wine is a nutritional thing.
Battered bunnett he had a audi 100 by the time i went.
spikesauldman
been there mucker,many times
allow us old farts our memories
HH
Looks like Efe is in demand from Swansea, Liverpool and Sunderland. Our players are going to be subject of some serious bidding wars come the summer!
LB
pabloh_AKA_NEIL LENNON
11:47 on
18 February, 2013
Last sat 3pm v them
Shurely it was the lubo inspired 5-1 home mauling of them.
In fact it was the first game I attended v them, not a bad one
Spot on-21st November 1988.In fact the last ever Derby on a Saturday at 3pm!
What a great first derby game to go to.
Unfortunately mine was a 1-0 defeat at Hampden-League Cup Final late 1975-Wee Doddie S–t scored.My Home Debut came a week later as we drew 1-1(Paul Wilson scored and George McLuskey assisted on his full debut).
At least we won my last ever Derby game against them when Gary Hooper became the last player ever to score against Rangers.