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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See a large Hearts/Glentoran flag in Oval tonight. Do they have a link like Sevco/Linfield?
For all the msm are anti Celtic-Irish bigoted scumbags, they still are the ones in possession of the megaphone, the new media can scream to it hearts content but nobody apart from those who want to will listen.
For all the huns are huns, they employ a slug in jaba who does his job very well, he keeps the bad hun news out of the msm and feeds them anti Celtic stuff.
Paul 67 has told us a few times that the BBC is full of Tims, they must be making the T then, cos none are in a position of power by the looks of it.
Celtic fc & BR Success from an English perspective by Mathew Syed The Times
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/brendan-rodgers-deserves-his-place-in-history-jth6p8g2l?shareToken=4f4893f6d8d42bbef28b7c3e1927975a
Was interesting who Dermot Desmond cc’ his letter to Mark Daly.
His Scottish and UK BBC bosses.
Pretty sure Motherwell played at Dingwall without a poppy on their shirts.
TONYROME
Pity,that. It would have been good to meet two more of that rare breed,the Ayrshire Tim. I still class myself as one,despite 16 years in Swindon.
You can take the Bhoy outa Kilwinning,but…
Head Tim of the BBC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDvJyGRpozY
I’m delighted they are pouring over Dermot Desmond’s affairs.
The more they dig then the more they ignore the tsunami coming down across the city.
This is the beauty of this; the more they ignore then they are not helping the situation. They are actually damaging the thing the love the most.
They run about throwing rubbish at everyone and everything in a desperate attempt to ingratiate themselves with the people the love, or are scared of, the most.
Meanwhile they ignore tax fraud, illegally registered players, liquidation, secret agreements between the new club and the footballing authorities, the return of the very same directors who crashed the last club, the return to the SFA structures of the very same people who lied to the authorities before, the re-writing of liquidation law. The casual acceptance of any statement made by the footballing officials without any form of questioning.
If you now look at the state of affairs across the city try this on for size; when the entered Administration in 2012 they carried approximately £18M in debt excluding the HMRC but they had players of quality on their books who could have been sold; MacGregor, Davies, Naismith, Whittaker etc.
Today they now have the same level of debt, with a crumbling stadium, and no assets to sell on. That is reality. Throwing crap at our major shareholder does not alter facts regardless of how much they want it to. Reality always wins out in the end.
Someone else made a very good point earlier: Mark Daly if you are really interested in illegal tax affairs take a walk along your corridor and doorstep Alex Rae, Barry Ferguson, Stephen Thompson, Neil McCann. My goodness it must churn his stomach having to share a workplace with such ‘people’.
The Wally wi’ nae lolly.
TWC
Wotherspoon played against us on Saturday without a poppy. The hun poppy fascists are on his and Anthony Stokes case. Heard Paul McGinn was the only player at Ibrox without one too. Sad poppy fascists.
TWC
No they did wear it as is their right – and ours not to
MURDOCHAULDANDHAY
Thank you for that link really enjoyed it.
Mathew Syed take a bow.
Some of the comments though are defo hun like.
KEEP THE FAITH
Justshatered
I think that was why Dermot opened his letter to Mark Daly with, “Are you a Rangers supporter?” DD knows the tsunami that is about to skud Ibrox. He knows they will mud rake him to deflect attention fae the real issue unfolding. Admin in Ibrox soon.
Anyone remember the Panama Papers? Aye!…for how long was that in the news? Did the exposure change anything? These Paradise Papers prove not…the rich will continue to get richer and the rest of us? Well, you know the answer to that…
BMCWP
Sorry if I misled you i’m not from ayrshire though my pal is.
I live in Linwood.
KEEP THE FAITH
So DD didn’t make the main panorama program – but Mrs Brown’s boys did – shame
TONYROME
Linwood? Shoulda said-could have given you a wave earlier today!
BMCWP
Meant to say I am close enough to ayrshire to appreciate how hard it is to be a tim down there.
I actually got a job once in that whisky bond near Glengarnock. I turned up on the first day and nailed my colours to the mast. Knew by the end of the day I wasn’t welcome and told the monkey gaffer to stick his job up his xxxx and never went back.
I would rather be unemployed than share air with that shower. I got barred fae the broo for 6 weeks too.
KEEP THE FAITH
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS
“The rich will keep getting richer,and the rest of us?…”
Will keep paying our PAYE?
TONYROME
The locals know which team my family and I support. They gave up trying to stick it to us a long time ago.
Like taking sweeties from a wean,winning an argument wi them. Good lads though-mainly!!!
Evening Tims.
I bumped into a CQNer this afternoon at the ticket office. I’ve only met him briefly before but he’s one of my most favoured posters. Anyway, he’s very recently suffered a terrible loss and I’m pretty sure he’d appreciate a kind thought, a prayer or a candle.
I think there’s every good reason for Dermot Desmond to start his letter to Mark Daly with : “Are you a Rangers supporter?” – because there is no other reasonable explanation of why Mark Daly would link information illegally obtained from a legal firm to Celtic when it has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with Celtic.
Some BBC staff should be losing their jobs over this charade.
I would have preferred DD not to have mentioned Rangers* in his letter. I understand he wants to discredit Daly by associating him and the BBC with a defunct and discredited brand. I understand DD has seen through the agenda to link Celtic with any form of tax issue, trying to make the tax issues a tit for tat thing. It’s tragic and pathetic but the moonhowlers will lap it up. Regardless, i would prefer it if our Club and anyone associated with it didn’t give them any relevance whatsoever.
As for DD’s tax affairs, legal but morally questionable. Personally i don’t have a problem with companies or individuals avoiding tax, If it’s within the law then it’s acceptable. If it’s evasion and outwith the law it’s a different matter. Daly knew DD has acted legally but he and his organisation chose to ambush him anyway. I think that is disgraceful and not journalism, it’s grandstanding. I’m surprised at Daly but realise he may be being operated from behind.
Call of Juarez (from earlier)
Apologies – just back on and saw your post.
Normally when a new manager comes into a club and results improve they hammer the previous manager and say how useless he must have been.
On shortbread earlier they were praising Clarke but not a word on McCulloch.
HT
On your say, I will pray for our friend on CQN and all our devotions. God bless my friend.
Where’s the BBC’s investigation into The Queen’s offshore tax affairs and her shareholding in Bright House which, according to The Times, rips off ordinary people by “…exploiting the poor and vulnerable.” ???
Naw – it’s the actress from Mrs. Brown’s Boys that is the big story apparently – which might amount to £10k or so.
Strikes me that Mark Daly, despite his doorstepping of Desmond, is an utter coward.
TTR
Not surprised by Daly in the slightest. Wee clown has bitten off more than he can chew this time.
Natknow
If you don’t pay your Brighthouse debt in Glasgow, some well known gangsters will chap your door and take payment. Betty Windsor likes her money on time.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 6TH NOVEMBER 2017 10:23 PM
Natknow
If you don’t pay your Brighthouse debt in Glasgow, some well known gangsters will chap your door and take payment. Betty Windsor likes her money on time.
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Not surprised to hear that mate – but apparently the big story is that some company with nothing to do with Celtic is involved in something perfectly legal, but the BBC seem to think they should make it their top story and link Celtic to it?? It’s the most tenuous Celtic-related story I’ve ever seen I think?
Tax avoiders, who can easily afford to pay their taxes – no matter what team they support- are every bit as bad as tax evaders.
FullytaxcompliantCSC
G@9.33
No formal link between the Minis and East Belfast hun team. Like Linfield, their poison of choice, would be the deadybears.
HH
ALMORE
Government’s which encourage tax avoidance by refusing to alter the tax regulations,and cutting HMRC budget and personnel by over a third,are every bit as culpable.
One might be forgiven for wondering if it is deliberate.
BBC Norn Irn about to run with the Dermot Desmond story….this should be interesting
iPad at it again…
Bloody aberrant apostrophe. Bad enough ruining my spelling,but I draw the line at having my grammar wrecked!
Gearoid
Met Glens supporters on Calais to Dover ferry coming back from Bremen. My big mate Lou fae Andytown warned me that these guys in Green and Red were not Celtic friendly Irishmen. The big man was correct. Hun scum who attacked us though well outnumbered.
Natknow
I am convinced that Sevco are hitting administration. This Mark Daly is working to deflect shit onto Celtic in a congruous link. Shameful
Just tuned into BBC NI, News leading with DD story, FFS. Careful to stress DD did nothing illegal mind you.
Nat @10:17
Panorama led last night with auld Lizzies tax avoidance along with the russian oligarch who seems to be both the owner of Arsenal and Everton You didn’t need a crystal ball yesterday to predict that Mr Desmond’s name was going to figure somewhere along the line when these paradise papers saw the light of day.