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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Steve Clarke (rightly) getting praised. But in every other similar change of manager the previous one gets absolutely hammered (Ronny, Cathro, Butcher). Not on this occasion though, funnily enough…..
How in the name of the wee man is that ever a lead story on the Scottish National news flagship programme.
Mr Desmond is not Scottish, or even British. No Impact whatsoever on UK taxpayers as rhe company would have been liable for SWISS tax, and worst of all, the vast majority of Scots people would not have a clue who Mr Desmond is.
The only intention here is to smear Celtic FC.
Appalling. Truly appalling.
Dear God, the embarrassment of BBC Scotland.
Dermot Desmond – the CELTIC major shareholder once had an interest in a company that used a – perfectly LEGAL – option to avoid paying SWISS tax by using an offshore loop.
‘Experts’ rolled out to speculate that the SWISs authorities MAY look at changing their legislation IF anyone over there – Switzerland, that third-world hellhole, lol – gives the square root of one f### about some billionaire LEGALLY avoiding approx. £1.3 million of POSSIBLE tax liability. In SWITZERLAND.
LMAO.
A new low level of utterly tragic fanny-ness from the BBC Huns.
How desperate are these amateurs? Issue the ban now, pleas eceltic.
Mark Daly. Marked Daly. Ambushing the boss, tut-tut – that’ll be yer last mugging around the environs of paradise I would imagine. Ridiculous behaviour for a journo chasing a non-story.
Still, thanks for the laugh at dinner-time, ya hapless, guile-less imbecilic clowns.
Stephbhoy- the huns were the only team not to have ‘Show Racism the Red Card’ (i know i know), on their strips a couple of weeks ago, probably as they only have the one set of strips, nothing in the rags about that
Oh, I scanned the Herald sports section at lunchtime. Thought our history making might rate a wee mention. Front and back pages devoted to the deid team. I presume the record making was mentioned in their report of the match but I didn’t bother reading that.
Well, if yer renowned for accepting boots in the baws, why the surprised outrage ?
If ye happily clappily take yer seat at the back ae the bus, you’ll jist hiv tae git used tae it!
The PLC Snowmen huv been, fun oot CSC
lol ;
……oot.
TrebleWinningCaptains: There is a slight improvement in loading the site via Safari on my Iphone5 and four year old iPad.
Levein getting rinsed on Shortbread
Daly I look forward to tomorrows piece on a major Scottish company and a well known building, no illegality from Mr Desmond they say then badger him to answer questions.
Where is the investigation into David Murray and his use of EBT s found by the Court of Session and upheld by the Supreme Court that the way RFC [liquidation] used these was illegal and tax and NIC should have been paid. Daly that is cut and dried an open goal and no inclination from you to hold him to account, doorstep Murray.
DresdenCSC: The John Lemon pub is a great pub to watch Celtic matches in. Just bear in mind that it is not down at the sea front but up the hill near the Arroya de Miel.
Auldheid might post a direction link when he sees your post.
Glasstwothirds
Could you elaborate further on your Steve Clark point?
Thanks
Best fans in the world, invincible domestically & 130 years of unbroken history…….
Breithlá Sona, Celtic.
Furthermore, the Bigoted Broadcasting Corporation stated at the start of the News that they would have ALL the BAFTA winners later. What they should have said was ALL the BAFTA winners except the documentary about Celtic!
It’s time someone in authority took them to task for the way they use the Licence payers’ money!
Mark Daly makes Andy Wa*ker appear interesting…..
Hi Bhoys
Aye they make jokes about “the thick irish” and two bob countries but never look at their own doorstep.
Maybe DD should show Murray the right way to do it and charge him £500,000 a year.
Was that BBC SCOTLAND I just watched there telling us there are Scots and scots companies named in these papers when they named an Englishman an Irishman and showing pictures of 3 irish actors.
Must need to find a mason to find out if the scots names are a secret. If it wasn’t so stupid I could get angry.
Speaking of angry are they that thick that they don’t remember what happened the last time they made DD ANGRY.
KEEP THE FAITH
P.S. No offence to any nationality mentioned in this post.
so my joke at 5-34 doesnt even get a snigger okay bhoys i know when im not wanted. hh.
Bada bing, we have access to all the news and information in the world yet millions of folk stick their heed in the sand, spent no time reading or trying to understand anything before forming the strangest of positions and opinions based on what some clown on TV tells them. Thank fuck I am a celtic mhan,
HH
https://mobile.twitter.com/Scarytoes/status/927617227037257728/photo/1
so my joke at 5-34 is offensive .okay it got deleted sorry thought this was a site open to a.ll hh.
“Only the little people pay taxes.” The words of New York heiress Leona Helmsley three decades ago still stands.
DD on the warpath.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DN-JfB3WsAECxe2?format=jpg&name=medium
Celtic are insulated from Hun financial shenanigans…
However every other team in the spfl are not.
At what point do SPFL intervene in stopping Huns gaining sporting advantage by fielding a team that is beyond their means?
I appreciate Hun sugar daddy madness does not constitute illegal behaviour.
It will good to see the first Hun sugar daddy go bankrupt…only a matter of time.
Big Packy.
your post at 5,34 is still there,
loads of people post stuff that never get a reply,
dont take it personally
GORDYBHOY64. thanks mate im probably still hungover from the weekend. hh.
I hope DD rogers both the BBC and Mark Daly and trephines both of them a new one.
why the fees ?
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Anyone else beginning to think that all these revelations about billionaires avoiding tax etc are merely a smokescreen deflecting from the real issues that the government should be cracking down upon.
Like unmarried mothers,benefits cheats,immigrants and the plumber who pays tax on his weekly wage but does a cash job on a Saturday.
No ???
G67- i wish the Club would go after certain detractors and their lies, with the same venom
Saint they want to stiv you
donalda mckinnon
wtf
WITS
Do you know a plumber who’ll work on a Saturday please post his number.
KEEP THE FAITH
Is that letter from Desmond real ?
I find it strange that he would start the letter with ” are you a Rangers supporter “
WITS
Yes, Daly confirmed on Sportsound
WITS – I agree looks a bit dodgy with that opening
Mark Daly says the BBC Schottland investigative (ahem) team have had 6 months to look at this material and choose an Irishman operaring a legal tax scheme in Switzerland to get the ball rolling.
There are bad decisions and there are rank ones. I think he will regret this one.
Meanwhile it has probably taken them those 6 months to redact the name of a certain ‘Sir’ from the docs.
Ctrl and find and replace would’ve saved the license payer a fortune.
Tonyrome
I can organise a plumber for Saturday.
However I need a 10% finders fee payable into the following Cayman Island account
1690R1916OR1888LISBN67
thanks
Mark Daly –
There are plenty EBT recipients on the beeb every week – you don’t even have to doorstep them – look forward to your expose
The letter is from Daly’s website. Probably trying to play the victim card – an old sevco trait.