And, after a century, it happened again. On Saturday, 4 November 2017, Celtic set a new British football record, 63 games undefeated, eclipsing the 62 game record set by the same team in 1917, under its first manager, Willie Maley. A million Celtic fans lived and died, and didn’t see such overwhelming command of the game in Scotland.
Many of those saw nine-in-a-row and the European Cup, but they also saw the 50s, or the 90s, or both, when humbling defeat was a staple part of the Celtic diet.
The football has been scintillating with those 63 games packed with joy: the recent 0-3 at Pittodrie, the dramatic 3-4 at Fir Park, thrashing Newco 5-1 home and away, and the joy-of-joys, winning an Invincible treble with a last minute goal.
Brendan Rodgers has only been here for one title in our run of six-in-a-row, but go speak to those who were around when Jock Stein was bearing down on seven-in-a-row in 1972. The joie de vivre of yet another title, yet another run to the European Cup semi-final, was beginning to fade. Stein struggled to replace his Lions as the crown weighed increasingly heavily on the head of a new King.
What Brendan brings to the search for seven-in-a-row, and his second treble, is a freshness denied to Stein. Jock sailed straight for the sun after joining Celtic in March 1965, winning a treble, two League Cups, two (of three) Scottish Cups and that European title. We have a manager who works as though he has a point to prove and players battling for their place right across the team.
It is fitting that we reflect on breaking our own 100-year record today, the 130th anniversary of the meeting which took place in the parish hall of St Mary’s, Calton, where it was decided to establish a football club called Celtic, to raise funds to feed the impoverished children of the city.
Despite the timeless monuments to success Celtic have achieved throughout a glittering history, without that poverty, your football club would not have come into existence. If you are a Celtic supporter, your world, your very person, is a product of 19th century deprivation. Your responsibility as a fan is to nurture the substantial heritage you were given, to make our founding mission grander than anyone could imagine on 6 November 1887.
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We’re gonna need bigger jails.
QUONNO
No argument about that.
oops -real Hard Times-Sorry
https://youtu.be/aQBVrsUPnb0
SOUTHOF
Sadly,the latest casualty in the fight for truth and justice. It’s bad enough when the criminal fraternity exact vengeance,but government agencies are no stranger to it either.
It’s an indication of how much they value their privileged above-the-law place in their own little world.
QUONNO was,indeed,correct.
My wife has no interest in football. She was brought up in the Highlands do has no interest or experience of sectarianism.
She is however a fairly respected and accomplished media academic.
I’m watching news with her last night when Mark Daly report comes on. Her response is ..’ what is ‘the story’..no illegality..no at
Even she found it an odd bit of journalism.
A billionaire ( bona fide not Craig type)..avoids £1m of tax isn’t a story. It’s like me avoiding £10…it’s very retrievable if it is proven in any way to be wrong. But as the BBC kept repeating it is not illegal.
Time Hard -early 70s style-
https://youtu.be/0lf-LUMtk3k
Some more Hard Times…
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JDMlVZIoxU0
South of Tunis
Check this choon out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0c1c0ZsTLA
KINGLubO
HT, I will say a prayer for the intention you indicated. Hope things will get better quickly for that CQNer.
can’t resist –
yet more Hard Times
https://youtu.be/dD9PYig4P4c
https://youtu.be/5qk1wBynjH4
Change of subject,the following has Cascarino trashing his former employer.
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/we-cant-give-celtic-too-much-credit-celtics-worst-ever-striker/
Personally I’m glad we signed him-we got Tommy Boyd in a one-sided trade-off. But is he Celtic’s worst-ever striker?
There are a few candidates,I reckon. But the worst in my experience is probably Jim Melrose,memorably renamed Plumrose by NTV!
Any “advances” on Plumrose?
Re the so called Paradise Paper
As morally wrong as it can be, the people cited on Panorama last night have done nothing illegal at all.Why should folks not pay something they can get out of!!
Of course, the fact that successive governments have allowed these loop holes is the question. Were the loopholes deliberate , which I personally think is the case, or were the laws just badly constructed?
This has gone on for decades with successive governments saying the law should be tightened, but, as usual, words are cheap.
With regards to DD, again, done nothing wrong or illegal, but any stick, however tenuous, which can beat Celtic with will be grasped by the saddos in Scotland
Come the revolution,eh
KINGLuBO
Hello again all you young rebels.
Glad none of you answered me about that Sottish horse
running in the Melbourne cup, obviously it had neeighhhh
chance.
Hoops on and oot.
H.H Mick
Brilliant Peter Green, you can feel the pain in the guitar solo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hm_GtZ-1Io
Kinglubo
Some of the examples of individuals were clearly aggressive tax avoidance (similar to EBT’s) and I would expect Hector knocking on some doors.
Father and son blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhDN9_DONjQ
Any “advances” on Plumrose?
Bobby how about Scepovic??????
Bring this back for the ashes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GdvFiE2R5I
BMCUW
advances on Plumrose
From the back of the car with Mrs S of T driving -( and therefore a wee bit stressed )
Killen / Bangura / Balde / Henri Camara / Cascarino and Wayne Biggins — I always refer to the latter by his full name
See awe they folk trying desperately to link Celtic to everything are obsessed???????
Oops missed oot a” they “
KINGLUBO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTvKaLW5bu8
I see the MSPs are taking evidence on the repeal of the OBAFact – thought they had already voted to repeal it
Don’t live in scotia therefor maybe completely wrong
BBC Scotland 0 v 1 Dermot Desmond. ( Daly og )
DD does not take these things lightly, like his mate O ‘ Brien.
He will have his day in court, unless there is a massive retraction.
To be honest a billionaire baron like Desmond deserves a bit of scrutiny and discomfort regarding these matters.
I’m sure the good folks of Ireland and Bermuda are extremely thankful that the BBC licence fee payer has funded an exposé on their fellow citizen for their knowledge and benefit. Awfully noble of them.
As it has been said already, it is up to the political classes across the world to put in place the appropriate rules that stop the rich being so “tax efficient”.
DAVIDOPOULOS
Agree – it is the absence of any investigative journalism by the BBC into the ipox sewer where illegality has been proven.
BMCUW
” Plumrose ”
Amazed that I forgot the 30 minute shift from Jeremie Aliadiere v Artmedia . . A disaster made even worse by him being wheeled out .I’ll go to my grave with the memory of that game in my mind
new article posted.
Jophes
Yeah, i hear ya.
But…
Surely we have seen this media pattern enough times to know that this little inferrance toward “Celtic = bad” is just a little bowl of potpourri to mask the smell of smelly stuff coming down the pipes at Ibrox.
That’s my complaint to BBC sent…
Scotland
First half of UK Postcode
AB15
Type of complaint
BBC News (TV, Radio and website)
Which news service is it about
TV News
Channel
BBC One
Programme title
BBC Scotland news
Transmission date
06/11/2017
Broadcast type
When it was actually broadcast
Incident time
22:30
Complaint category
Bias
Contacted us before
No
Complaint title
Mark Daly focus on Celtic shareholder Mr Desmond
Complaint description
Coverage given to Mark Daly doorstepping of Dermott Desmond re Paradise Papers and implications that a company he previously owned had in some way acted improperly, and by association this reflects on Celtic FC. It was tawdry journalism as it was repeated throughout ( doubtless for litigation purposes) that no illegality had been committed. Which poses the question ‘ what is the story?’. Yet an inference that by association Celtic FC had some connection to tax avoidance. For example Mr Desmond was filmed as he was doorstepped entering Celtic Park. Why? Repeated reference to Mr Dermott’s position on Celtic FC Board was made. Why? The subject under investigation has no connection to Celtic FC. The tax avoidance measure is and was common legal commercial practice carried out by a company no longer owned by Mr Desmond. I feel this constitutes an anti Celtic FC bias and reeks of desperate and salacious journalism. There is a dark and transparent agenda to somehow equate this legal commercial practice by a company unassociated with Celtic FC with the illegal tax offences carried out by Rangers FC. I find this falls below the standards expected of a public broadcasting organisation such as the BBC.
Just for clarification….
Was it not BBC Scotland which produced and broadcast “They sold the jerseys”?
I think it was.
From memory lots of bouquets on this site and lots of brickbats on the likes of FF!
HH