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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AC Milano must be shhhhhhaaaatttttteeeeerrrreeeedddd……..all that hard graft in the first leg to be so unceremoniously dismissed tonight by thr imperiium of mighty Barça,and El Messi in particular.
Reminiscent of Rome in all its Classical Mediterranean Period.
OoooohGetHim! CSC
Dead and Loving it
00:48 on
13 March, 2013
In quoting him,I thought you would be interested.
dead and loving it
>>>>>>
A wee boy says it even more succinctly at the start of ” What’s Goin’ On? ” when he turns and says, ” Daddy? What is racism? Is it some kind of disease? ”
HH!
I give you the BRITISH EMPIRE.
Thousands of documents detailing some of the most shameful acts and crimes committed during the final years of the British empire were systematically destroyed to prevent them falling into the hands of post-independence governments, an official review has concluded.
Those papers that survived the purge were flown discreetly to Britain where they were hidden for 50 years in a secret Foreign Office archive, beyond the reach of historians and members of the public, and in breach of legal obligations for them to be transferred into the public domain.
The archive came to light last year when a group of Kenyans detained and allegedly tortured during the Mau Mau rebellion won the right to sue the British government. The Foreign Office promised to release the 8,800 files from 37 former colonies held at the highly-secure government communications centre at Hanslope Park in Buckinghamshire
miki67
Through a child’s eye
YNWA
Ghandi was really grateful to the old empire.
macjay1 for neil lennon
00:53 on 13 March, 2013
No really
the singing detective demands the resignation of campbell ogilvie
23:10 on 12 March, 2013
>>>>>>>>>$€¥£
Get gone, you racist pigsnout cretinous oik of a fart wind. You repulsive alien virus.
You make me feel even more deathly sick than I already do.
ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.
It’s those scary Muslims again.
Them gallant redcoats got there just in time to save those poor befuddled natives.
And all they asked for in return was a cup of tea and maybe a wee piece of nan
bread.
God bless those fine gentlemen.
What would India have done without them
miki67
Stay strong mate, don’t let them annoy you.
As soon as I get a tiny break from all this latest round of chemo i’m off to the auld sod for a look at God’s own country : Ireland.
We may be skint but we do beauty and poetry like the dance of terpsichory.
My spiritual home : Eire.
The home of millions of us had it not been fort the rapacious Anglos and their twisted ‘gentry’.
“Ooh Ahh Up The ‘Ra….Samaras.”
Get it up yez polis.
How you bravely slew
each one
With your sixteen pounder gun
Why do cretins like tsd and kojo snake their way unabated on here? They are patent huns.
Hmmmm…..
What Would India Have Done Without Them….?
http://www.danielpipes.org/comments/32812
Try and have a pain free night Miki
YNWA
Is it safe yet?
That seems like a very balanced and unobjectionable site.
They don’t seem to have any agendas there. No siree.
………
Maybe I should give it another look.
……….
Yipe. As white as the driven snow
gerald766
fascist free, by the looks of things.
Miki
hope you have an easy night.
Don’t let the feckers get under your skin.
They really are an irrelevance.
More something to laugh at than get annoyed at.
Oíche mhaith
I’m going to say it again……I really have said it before: just participating in this site has improved my humanity: for that alone, I thank you.
And yes, tonight is a bit more pain free……I can thank Lionel Messi in part for that.
We are lucky to have lived through a time when a player like he and Barça are strutting their stuff.
I am not all gloom and doom, you know!
The universe is infinite, and we are here for but a flash of that.
I just wish we behaved better to each other for that simple knowledge.
HH!
miki67
00:57 on 13 March, 2013
I could not find the one you are on about but I know it just had to listen to any version as you reminded me of it… A Classic
Hope you are keeping as well as can be… thoughts are with ya man YNWA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-5c5o85SGo – Marvin Gaye What’s goin on
Dead and Loving it
00:52 on 13 March, 2013
Don’t know if you know or have heard this tune but it is one of my all time favs – Enjoy – hits the nail on the head from what both you and the good man Miki are discussing…
Tom Clay – What the world needs now – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uqNLnEzDLA
And I never feel alone here. That is one of the reasons I live here so much in my days of decline.
And maybe just being here will work that most of curious words – miracle..
Never give up ………. Never say I am alone……….never say die.
Our souls are eternal. Sometimes this is forgotten.
I think the words were published on the original run of the singles. Then, ole Hooover woke up, got out of his dress and set about censorship.
I’m off to bed now ghuys – just logged on quickly to se “what was goin on?” ha ha think you will like that one Miki ma mhan
Stay strong
gngb
Looked in on the blog hoping to read a balanced objective analysis of Barca’s demolition of AC Milan tonight.
Instead I parachute into the middle of a race dispute.
How do we end up in a rammy every so often?
I blame the drink.
I know you don’t need or want my view but that has never bothered me in the past, and probably, no definitely, won’t make an iota of difference in the future.
I don’t give a toss about what the British Empire did or didn’t do in the past.
I don’t care whether they enslaved nations and with the help of Muslim, Hindu, Jewish, or heathen hordes sucked the lifeblood from countries to prop up Victoria, Albert, Disraeli, Gladstone and sundry others who were brought to our unwilling by John Oates in his always illuminating history lessons.
What I do care about is how we behave now.
How we need to be welcoming charitable individuals helping to civilise not colonise communities at home and abroad.
And as for Barca? What a team. Inventive, exciting and endearing.
It would take some team to beat them
Miki
I don’t think I’ve been on CQN at the same time since I found out about your illness.
I hope and pray you can stand up and bear your cross with forebearance and a strong spirit.
I know a wee bit about the feelings of hopelessness when diagnosed with a serious illness.
I got my strength to get through it from my family and prayer.
I’ve been thinking of you while doing the weekly Stations of the Cross Fridays during Lent.
The power of the mind, strong medicine and family love can’t do any harm and definitely will do a lot of good.
gg:
In defence of myself one of my posts tonight demolished the hard work Barça wrought on AC Milano tonight.
There us a time and place for everything on this blog, but when football of such magnificence and flair is being witnessed , little else matters, as it enlightens, enlivens and enriches our lives.
You are right, my good mhan and let no one tell you different.
I find it more than coincidental that it is at times like these it is always the likes of tsd and kojo who surface to muddy the waters.
Whatever…..I’m with you on this reading of the situation.
Fair play tae ye!
HH!
Dead and Loving it
01:02 on
13 March, 2013
I give you the BRITISH EMPIRE.
And I give you the BRITISH AND IRISH EMPIRE.
Family and the power of the mind could make a major difference..not too struck on prayer and modern medicine though…imho.
Barcelona’s defence isnt better than Celtic’s. However the rest of the team do such an amazing job possession wise they dont get exposed so much. The midfield possession of Iniesta, Xavi and Messi with peripheral players that would be an ace in any team such as Villa, Pedro and Alba I think we are witnessing history these last 2 years or so
http://ukjohnd.com/aa-words-of-wisdom/prayer-of-st-francis-of-assis/
One day, Jesus is walking around Heaven. He’s just kind of wandering around, conversing with people here and there, catching up on Heavenly gossip when an old man sitting by himself catches his eye. There’s something strangely familiar about him and Jesus can’t shake the feeling that he knows him. He decides he must talk to him. He walks up and shyly says “Excuse me, sir…I must ask…are you a carpenter?” The old man looks up slowly and says “Why yes, I am…Why?” Jesus just smiles, replying that he was just curious, and moves off into the crowd.
A day goes by and Jesus can’t stop thinking about the old man. Could it be? The kind face, the fact he was a carpenter…. could it be Joseph, his father!?!He decides to track him down , finding him once again relaxing by himself. “Excuse me sir, I’m sorry to bother you again but I must ask….Did you have a son?” The old man gets a far off look in his eyes and replies. “Ahh yes, I did have a son once…. He traveled the world spreading love and teaching people to be kind to one another, to lead a good life….People still tell stories about my son.” The old man smiles warmly and Jesus’ heart starts pounding as he’s overcome by happiness. It must be!! He takes the old man by the hands, looks into his eyes and says “Father?…..” The old man’s face breaks into a big smile as he replies…..
“Pinocchio?….”
Wanted in 14 counties of this state
The condemned are sound and guilty for the crimes of murder
Armed robbery of Citizens, state banks and post offices
The theft of sacred objects
Arson in state prison
Perjury
Bigamy
Deserting his wife and children
Siding prostitution
Kidnapping
Extortion
Receiving stolen goods
Selling stolen goods
Passing counterfeit money and contrary to the laws of this state, the condemned is guilty of using marked cards
And therefore, according with powers invested in us we sentence the accused here before us
To call Benidicto Specifico
One Maria Ramirez (Known as “The Rat”)
And any other aliases he may have to hang by the neck until death
May god have mercy on your soul?
Proceed
Duck you suckers!
I don’t have to show you any stinking badges
margaret mcgill 03:29 on 13 March, 2013
Wonderfully irreverent and funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6thuiB_Kl7E
later doods!
All praise to Pinocchio.
“Democracy don’t rule this world
You’d bettere get that in your head
This wotld is ruled by violence
But I guess that’s better left unsaid.”
[ Robert Zimmerman,called himself Bob Dylan after his eponymous hero. I guess we all gotta start somewhere.
; > ) ]