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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blantyretim
23:02 on 12 March, 2013
Ouch …!!!!!
MWD
29th mrs BT birthday so we can meet up then.. o))
not…..
Re the bedroom tax..
How many homes are 1 bedroom?
Of these how many are over occupied?
How many 2 bedroom homes are under occupied?
No wonder joined up thinking is discouraged in this country, basic arithmetic will prove the bedroom tax a sham if anyone goes to the bother of collating the stats.
By the way, that free kick Milan had just before Barca’s fourth!!
If that was Celtic some of us would have spontainiously combusted, amateurish is not the word.
googybhoy ♥ Celtic & BT,
Re: Bedroom Tax,
Have only read bits about it but, I understand it’s only people on benefits it affects.
How long before it then affects people on Minimum Wage, £10k, £15k, £20k etc. etc.?
As for IDS, well, he was welcomed into the Parkhead area when the Tories were in opposition and, he was full of SHITE even then but, the locals loved him :-(((
What to do?
KneecappingstoogoodCSC
jude2005 is neil lennon \o/
23:07 on 12 March, 2013
I knew a Sevconian named lucifer
SFTB
Sorry. Off to the toilet to piss myself with laughter now!!!
MWD cap doffed at your grasp of the psych and English.
Thats a rough one BT, broke my own leg a couple of years ago while playing Golf (Don’t laugh, its true). Must say apart from initial accident the entire process & recovery was completely painless but its a crazy way to put down a couple of months. I became a Killer Sudoku expert and re-read about 10 of my old Celtic Books whilst waiting to get my plaster removed.
67heaven
nothing compared to what Oscar, miki and quizking are going through..
setting free the bears
23:07 on 12 March, 2013
That is one of the funniest things I have ever read on CQN!!!
MWD too … you guys!
bt
I get probs with an old cup final injury now and again. Fell down the chairs.
GoogyBhoy, absolute Tory bas….
Early start tomorrow.
‘Mon the good ghuys!
SFTB…
I Am A Proud Neanderthal Hybrid…As Are All The Best People…
Cornflower Blue Eyes,Lustrous Golden Locks That Would Make The Young Robert Plant Jealous….
Mongrels…..That’s You,Eddie Izzard….
And Maggie McGill……
Living On ‘Planet Lithium’…..
Where The Skies Are Not Cloudy,All Day..
caltontongues
23:08 on 12 March, 2013
It’s pathetically frightening….the bankers ruin the economy, and the politicians, who didn’t do anything about it since they were enjoying their expenses perks, hammer the poor to get the books balanced ……same old…nothing changes….feck them all
tigertim
They are good at getting the ref to give them the benefit of the doubt, if that makes sense. Canny or perhaps rather sleekit. Although tonight, and in a certain other game recently, the envelope was pushed so far it ceased to be an envelope!
Not the sort of football I want to see so doubly pleased Barca went through.
Another bonus is that there will be no repeat of the Milan Juve final which was so bad I’m sure der cardigan was managing both teams!
CT
nothing compared to when Universal credit comes in …
the fun really starts then
blantyretim
23:09 on 12 March, 2013
Oh, I know …… But you look after yourself also
Googybhoy-Country getting worse be the day ffs
BT,
Have read a bit on that as well but, next time we meet I’ll tell you about IDS & his eh, tour of Parkhead.
achitwassostupiditdoesntevendesrevea
sftb.
wonderful .
but does anyone know a handsome hundred
SFTB
Special commendation to you sir. You have been ON FIRE the last few days.
Hail Hail and an extra Hail cos you deserve it.
CT
we can have a good chat in between the tunes… o))
CorkCelt
remember yon big large English golfer doing something similar..
off to kip meds kicking in..
Fit to be tied when I read gazzys pals paid his 100k bill for him. I thot of wee Oscar and how brave he is. Ten times them man that pratt will ever be!!
67 heaven
I will do mate.. cheers..
Them =then.
sftb
See since you are as smart as eggs, can you tell me who eddie izzard is ???
I assume it’s no the bloke on the tele, but being rather inibriated, I probably can’t as usual see the woods for the trees.
HH
Chairs = Stairs
i know the independance debate is high just now.
was a guest at a dinner in canary wharf last week. some fancy berni inn up to one hundred pounds a steak.
guy i met was a Tory Tory .
i can’t explain how far apart his thinking was from my own.
vote for indepence .
Forgot the >]
jude
thought you had been standing cheering… o))
Imagine being a Milan fan….3-0 down, deep into injury time, score and your through….ye get a free kick deep in the Barca half….watch what the big Milan centre half does…….
If that was us……ye would kill him!
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie
22:15 on
12 March, 2013
Agreed.
And that`s without mentioning Angola.
Guess what? African resentment at Chinese immigrants.
Whisky kickin in. night all. H H
bt
Thatll be funny sumdae. o)
Much Like The Ludicrous Anthropogenic Global Warming Theory….
The “Out Of Africa II” Theory Is NOT Settled Science…..
Other Than In The View Of Al-Beeb Documentary Producers…..
Scarcly Five Years Ago,They Still Scoffed At The Idea That The Neanderthals Had Interbred With Homo Sapiens…..
And Left A Genetic Trace In Modern Populations….
Now We Know That Modern Humans (Other Than Those In Sub-Saharan Africa)
Have 2-5% Of Their Genetic Code From Neanderthal Humans*….
Who Had Red Hair,Bigger Brains…..
And May Well Have Been More Intelligent Than H.Sapien…..
And,Of Course….It Is The Irish And The Scottish ….
That Have The Highest Genetic contribution From Our Wise Neanderthal Forebears…
Of All The Peoples On The Planet….
Small Wonder That The Scots Were Such Inventors And Innovators……
Before They Became Deranged With Taliban Protestantism…
* Asiatics Derive 2-5% Of Their Genetic Make-Up From Denisovian Man….A Closely Related Variant Of The Western Neanderthal Man…
Pinkety..?
Home-Time Now…
TET
Eddie izzard is a funny comedian who pretends to be quite scatter brained. He shares half of TSD’s own background in that he is from boarding school and expresses himself as a transvestite.
He probably comes onto TSDs radar because he is a strange form of Englishmen who thinks it was worthwhile to learn French in order to tell his jokes in the language of his audience, rather than merely shout the jokes out loudly and slowly.
Don’t know what Maggie McGill did to get sent to the naughty corner with me and Eddie.
BT- if you still about….the Universal Credit trial has bombed and deadlines etc.. have, shall we say, been extended for it’s intro. IDS …SKIDS…
blantyretim
23:07 on
12 March, 2013
googybhoy
I know how you feel, I have nearly 200 to help for bedroom tax alone
How are Houaing Associations going to cope with the lack of rent.
It is a not so subtle killer blow to all social housing.
Can’t help drawing parallels with today’s SFL counter proposals after much deliberation and the fabulous “Speed 3” Father Ted episode. After months/ years of “blah blah old firm bad for Scottish football, blah blah strangling local family clubs, blah blah wish they would just go to England” the concept of we’ll include 2 colt teams seems a bit like thwarting Pat Mustard’s dastardly plan to blow up Father Dougal by “saying another mass!”