After writing a piece on our European season for the forthcoming CQN Magazine I read the excellent contribution from SFTB this morning. It is only natural that we live in the moment but for the last 70 years of the 20th century Celtic fans, more than anyone else, viewed each day in its historical context.
Older generations would have had little choice but to keep their history alive during the lost decades between the mid-20s and mid-60s. 7-1 and the Coronation Cup, each magnificent and modest in their own way, were the highlights, while the legend of Jimmy McGrory more than anyone established what was known as the Celtic Way.
Then came Lisbon. In an instant, all that history was eclipsed. New heroes, one of whom recalled to me he was told Celtic would amount to nothing with him in the team by a ‘fan’ a few years earlier, changed everything, but for this most historical of clubs, the inheritance was not all positive.
If Jimmy McGrory established Celtic as a remarkable goal-scoring team, the incessant attacking that afternoon in Lisbon cast an unattainable shadow. It proved Celtic could win the European Cup by playing fabulous football but set a template we were cursed to attempt to follow.
The rules of the off-field game have changed often since those days, no more so than this season, when Celtic grew from a team who were penned into their own penalty box by HJK Helsinki, who needed a goal to knock us out of Europe in August, from a team the Turin media were joyous when Juventus beat home and away. Thoughts of ‘Maybe we could win this” have since emerged in Turin.
I’ve loved every minute of this season, from the last minute header in Moscow to the last minute header in Dingwall. Adding context to it is a joy for one of our tomorrows.
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Juve supporting ex friend…”Milan will go through no problem. Barcelona aren’t that good. Celtic beat them.”
Googybhoy
And 4 runners-up as well.
Only Madric, 9 wins and 3 losses have been in more finals.
SPF
clashcitybhoy , why not just have the 2nd team in a different league in a different country ?
The only way the colts idea will be considered is if it’s 12-12-10-10 – you can’t have Sevco and Sevco juniors in the same league .
assuming we go up and secco don’t , do we want to expose our youngsters to the delights of elbows and vincent next season ?
Sanna
Jude2005,
How he never put the free kick into the box god knows, his team mates must be raging with him
Oops
Madrid, 9 wins and 3 losses in the EC/CL.
Milan, 7 wins and 4 losses.
Bayern, 5 wins and 4 losses
SPF
3-2 Galatasaray, that’s them through
Galatasaray score in last minute to win 3-2
Anyone know about Harry Walker, played for Belfast Celtic?
anyone seen brth ? been trying to get in touch for a few days .
Sanna
My Dear Kojo…
It Appears That The GA May Struggle At Elgin This Weekend….
Shiels Was Injured At The Weekend,And Is Feared To Have A Cruciate Injury….
Templeton Missed The Last Game With An Achilles Injury….
And Is Doubtful For The Weekend…..
With Both Of Their Playmakers Missing…
They’ll Surely Require SuperWullie Collum To ‘Play A Blinder’….
Why are the commentator’s no sittin doon ?….are Barca on an economy drive.?
scotpatsfan
21:40 on 12 March, 2013
Googybhoy
And 4 runners-up as well.
Only Madric, 9 wins and 3 losses have been in more finals.
SPF
………………
Went to Milan for Celtic match in last 16 and they just expected to win the CL. It was never arrogance. It was expectation. They did go on to win it.
Verily, that was one enjoyable game of football.
Wouldn’t it be great to support a team who reach the last 16 of the best club football tournament in the worl….oh hang on… We do!
jonny the tim
20:26 on
12 March, 2013
WHY DID YE HIFF TAE TELL ME ?…. hahahahahahahahahahaha
googybhoy
I was in Milan as well for the game.
Lost my ticket.
A very long story.
Saw nothing of the game.
Walked around the stadium for 90mins.
Not my greatest night.
SPF
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
21:46 on
12 March, 2013
Why are the commentator’s no sittin doon ?….are Barca on an economy drive.?
I wondered that as well looked very strange
Thomthetim
Yes- Jim Craig to big Billy- ball bounces over Billy’s thigh and on to Prati- the rest is misery!
I was right behind it in the ole Cellic End- oor Holy Goalie narrowed the angle but Plati finished clinically – one if our many self inflicted wounds- but the good memories outweigh the bad a hundredfold
Hail hail
Jobo Baldy
Thanks ,pal. ye are some kinda.. Statistician.. so ye ur..
So.. Nutsy,wiz right.. As usual..
Wiz that You.. Ah met in… where wuz that again?
Carluke..
My .. Ye ur an Splendid and Generous Fellow.. especially.. when ye wur kind enuff.. tae
Swap.. Yer… Jar o’ Colman’s “Picnic” Mustard… fae Ma.. Jaur of “Grey Poupon”
which Ah hid Tired of….
when.. Baith o’ oor Rolls Royce’s..happened tae be held up… by that Flock of Sheep..oan the Road.
Thanks fur the Reply, kiddo.. ye ur a Mensch.
Kojo
Still..Laughin’
scotpatsfan
21:50 on
12 March, 2013
When you were born, did ye try tae stay in ……
Jonny the tim.
Does=results.
There isn’t a team to touch barca when they tic.
Thomthetim
Yes- Jim Craig to big Billy- ball bounces over Billy’s thigh and on to Prati- the rest is misery!
I was right behind it in the ole Cellic End- oor Holy Goalie narrowed the angle but Plati finished clinically – one if our many self inflicted wounds- but the good memories outweigh the bad a hundredfold
Hail hail
My first EC final that I saw on tele was Real v Milan, Real won 3-2 in extra time.
Milan’s first victory was at Wembley and my pals and I plunked school to watch Milan won 2-1, the rson we went tae my hoose was because I has working parents and as Wembley had nae floodlights it was an afternoon game.
BTW Reals win over Milan was at the Heysel and they had lights so it was a night game.
geriatric CSC
Just seen that guy’s bet on facebook, Dortmund 3-0 Real 2-1 PSG 1-1 and Barca 4-0 £49,432.50 for a £5 roll up, even better news he is a Tim as well :)
Just watched the Barca game.Pure dead brilliant so they are,a joy to watch.Did we really beat them
Timjim.
TSD @21.32
My vote? I am surprised you deign to bother with such a socialistic fig leaf as a vote?
Anyways after we accept that Mandela should hang for daring to oppose the whiter-than-white SA regime, can we vote on Pastor Niemoller and Claus Von Stauffenberg? How about any member of the Maquis or partisans in Italy, Czechoslovakia and Poland? How about Solzhenitsyn (that might conflict you but state laws, however illegal, need to be obeyed in your craven morality, it seems)? Will we draw the line at any Irish rebel? Martin McGuinness? Bobby Sands? Kevin Barry? Dev? Big Mick? Wolfe Tone? Parnell??
Outside the comfort of Matron’s bosom and, latterly, the Fox newsroom liars, this morality business gets a bit tricky.
Best to stick to the Bufton Tufton character that Ampleforth will have been proud to have shaped and yell “Hang ’em High!” and “Short sharp shock!” for every oik and non-pink faced member of your species.
Get that wee fleg oot and you’ll feel a wee man again, just like Matron used to make you feel.
Cant stop thinking about the guy who’s won (I hope) £49k. Well done whoever you are!
Are you on here?
P.S. also thinking about miki67 and Quizking. YNWA guys!
HH
sipsini
What
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie
21:32 on
12 March, 2013
The tragedy is that the anti apartheid movement felt that the release of Mandela and subsequent overthrowing of the white regime was ” job done.”
The lack of universal condemnation of the recent killing of some thirty miners or so
underlines their hypocrisy.
Did they ever really genuinely care about the lot of South Africans?
Currently,no-one seems to give a damn about the ongoing Chinese colonisation of Africa.
Regarding Milan in CL finals.
At 3-3 v Liverpool, in the last minute, Andriy Schevchenko misses a sitter from 2yds to win the game.
SPF
Timjim.
Oops.
Not according to our! Press:-((((
Who’s gonnae be runners up in the CL…….and we beat the team who are going to with the CL this year……and nearly beat themtwice….and we’re going to beat them in the final next year …….we should bombard the LL with this achievement for the next month, just to wind them up with a fact ..their not used to ‘facts’….l
sipsini
What are they saying now,I do not buy or read any of their shite
How many tackles does it take before an italian player is booked, 19 fouls (14 cycnical) 3 bookings, is this an additional law which only applies to Italian team players.
Wee joke I posted earlier this morning for you night riders…….
Why isAlly McCoist is known as the snowman?
Because youalwayswish he still there in the morning!
Brill from the wee guy fae Wishy…….49k…get in….
Kikinthenakas
Macjay
The performance of Robespierre and his crew were also extremely disappointing but France would never have voted to reintroduce monarchy.
The USA threw off Britain;’s yolk and not only preserved, but protected and institutionalised slavery and racism.
De Valera and crew were a dead hand on Irish progress from the 30s to the 60s and many were closer to being pro-Nazi than neutral, but no one voted to reverse the country’s hard won independence.
The ANC government have been very disappointing. I would exempt the 94 year old figurehead from much of the blame
Is it not a joy to watch Barca in full flow? (Except when it is us they are flowing at). Great game of heart in the mouth football any time Milan attacked. I bet Tony Watt would have tucked away that first half chance for Milan though.
On an unrelated subject acting on Terry O’s message FIFA have been conatcted via their Whistleblower web site to ask questions about the impact of the LNS judgement on registration and eligibility rules and the way the enquiry was conducted.
http://scottishfootballmonitor.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/fair-play-at-fifa/#comments
Others may want to make their own views known in their own way.
tigertim
They are just very good at it.
We need a course in how-to-foul-betta :)