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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!!bada bing!!
:-)
Can any of mods or P67 send me TinyTim’s email addy please,thanks.
Anything that’s done in Scottish football is to help 1 team and 1 team only never forget it.
Longmuir & Ballantyne wanted Sevco in the first division, I will never trust any blazer again.
Why does league reconstruction need to involve that lot again.
Brother Longmuir has had plenty if time to include Sevco in his league reconstruction plans.
Never forget a lot of SFL chairmen and owners had shares in old rangers.
Never trust a blazer.
Normally a bottle’s half empty type, but am I the only one seeing an extra Champions League qualifying round as good preparation for the more difficult qualifiers? I don’t need the one obvious potential flaw in my logic pointed out, but we would never have been eliminated by Artmedia if such a crucial match had not been our 1st competitive fixture. I’m assuming that the calibre of team we would be up against in the extra round is not strong.
From MrMacFunn via twitter.
So this “colt” solution is to force through a 12-12-10-10 set up at the behest of TRFC & ESFC.
For the wrong reasons again.
So the sfa cant afford goaline technology
would love to see the sfa wages and expenses bill
since 1967-fat cats robbing the fans all that time
jim farry,george peat ,hugh dallas-all vicious liars
payed by us-its a sad day-been watching perfect rugby
technology for years-very entertaining too-
Tear Down The Wall!!!
!!bada bing!!
18:29 on 12 March, 2013
Has Challs told us who got the charity money from the DU Cup thrashing?
>>>>>>>>>>>
Supposedly he paid £16,000 to a hospice that was named and another undisclosed one, adding up to a£30,000.
Now giving it was £25 a ticket approximately with a crowd of minimum 10,000 that’s £250,000 of which huns would get 40%., that’s not inclusive of the sky money.
Msm where are you
Corckceltic…did i get that right, not seen ye posting. Hail Hail
They stole someone else’s place in the football league and now they want another one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sipsipi-He truly is Peckham’s Finest.HH
@TomEnglish via twitter.
Might be wrong but David Longmuir looks to me like a man auditioning for a job at Rangers.
DJBEE
19:11 on
12 March, 2013
They stole someone else’s place in the football league and now they want another one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and they are currently losing £250k per week running one !
Longmuir was on SevcoTV (Black & Whyte probably) a few weeks ago that he had a house full of Sevco fans…………more impartiality .
Bryce curdy.
Agreed. The extra qualifying riund is a blessing in disguise.
I dont think we would have done so well this year without the benefit of the qualifiers.
Interesting spectacle at Queen Street Station last nite…
A drunk Spiderman (full costume) getting his ‘details’ taken by the local constabulary. Meanwhile his BMI-challenged partner/wife/sister is wailing(whaling;-) along with the wean, saying he’s “no dun anythin’ wrang”.
The question is, has Spidey fallen on hard times? He must have as he was wearing Puma trainers……..
True story, not spinning a yarn, just thought I’d put it on the web! :-)
Tallybhoy
17:12 on 12 March, 2013
BMCUW
Celtic players whose careers were ended by horrendous tackles.
Do you remember Stevie Murray who joined us from Nottm Forest in the late 1980s?
His career was ended after a horrendous tackle from a Murderwell player – cant remember who – in a reserve game. Never played a first team game.
He received financial compensation for his injuries.
Comes from Symington – drinks in the Lonsdale. Will introduce you to him if I get the chance!
Was a smashin young player.
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STEVIE MURRAY
Jamie dolan executed a ‘tackle’ on Stevie Murray during a reserve game in a fit of revenge becasue Stevie Murray’s class had left the Motherwell midfield looking like toddlers chasing a beachball.
Dolan’s ‘tackle’ was so brutal Stevie’s achilles and calf muscle were torn from the bone. He was lucky to even walk again after numerous operations.
Stevie Murray was hands down the best young player I ever played against (when I was 13 and 14) or saw to this day and the best Scotland ever produced in a generation – good enough for Brian Clough to have him on the bench for a major European Cup game when Stevie was just 17.
Celtic were lucky to have him as a lifelong bhoy, get him back from Forest, and he was hailed as ‘the new Dalglish’ as we prepped him for first team action.
I’ve no doubt he would have been the best Scottish Celtic and Scotland player we’ve seen – up there with Dalglish, etc.
His natural ability was sensational – I was detailed to mark him in a scottish cup final at 13 (after numerous scouting trips to watch him with Springside boyys’ club in Kilmarnock), and we won the cup but Stevie had me collapsed with exhaustion – more mentally, just attempting to second-guess him over 80 minutes.
And he also broke my toe second-half with a sly dig years beyond our guile just to show his appreciation of my Italian-influenced man-marking job… He had as they say, ‘an old head on young shoulders’. Despite our triumph that day, it was eye-opening – I knew I wasn’t going to make it to the level of footballing class he displayed.
I met him years later when I had a nightclub and he came in for a drink with friends. Bizarrely, Dolan and some of the Motherwell players were in, too. We made sure they were apart. Stevie still vaguely remembered our childhood matches – was actually able to recall the score in the cup final my side won and had a chuckle about my toe.
He was quieter, understandably, than the galklus kid who had the world at his feet. Had a bookies in hurlford, I think, at the time – invested from the cash Celtic fans had raised for him (saw him presented with a check on the park back in the day).
It always fills me with sadness when his name is brought up. He really was destined for greatness that kid, a once-in-a-lifetime natural who should have been developed into one of the greatest ever, not felled by a hammer-throwing sh*tehawk like Dolan in a brutal assault designed only for the result it achieved.
Dolan died a few years back, young. I doubt Stevie Murray would have shed a tear. I didn’t.
Bryce Curdy
Hope you’re well. What is it they say about to assume:o)
Longmuir get your coat.
Take Mr O with you as that is what he brings to football, O or -O.
:O)
I come on here some days and wonder what is going on. Then I read posts by Miki67 and QUIZKING and I am full of admiration for their courage and perseverance.
Lads you have my thoughts and prayers. I will send a petition to Lourdes to night for you both.
Noting that so many on here are praying for you assures me that the high standards set by Bro Walfrid and the founding Fathers lives on. May it ever be so. We are more than just a football team. We are the Glasgow Celtic.
Right, let me see if I have this correct –
Sevco’s current team will stay in Div 3. They will build another team around Messi, Ronaldo and McCulloch, managed by The Special One, using a mere one pound donation from each of their 500,000,000 fans. They will then rule the world, winning a record 10 Champion’s League titles on the spin, and making Chucky a ratners leg-end in the process.
Seems fair enough to me.
Ulryc
If you ignore for the moment that Sevco don’t have full membership for one team, never mind two, the proposal appears to acknowledge that we will be leaving Scottish football.
The Colt business is to ensure that we leave a team behind in the Scottish Leagues.
Fair enough, maybe.
Fans can watch the first team one week and instead of travelling all over Europe the next week, can support the Colts.
Mmmmmm.
I may be less suspicious if, for instance, they included us and, perhaps, another SPL team, or, a club like Spartans, who have all the criteria for league entry.
They have no just claim to run another League club, when it is questionable if they can afford to run one.
Longmuir is contaminated.
Bryce Curdy-Very good point,never looked at it like that.
Villa starts for Barca,big game from him required if Barca to win.
The ‘colt’ teams thing.
Just more nonsense in the campaign to keep The Rangers relevant.
TET
The “cancelled” race will be classed as a postponement, meaning, you SHOULD get paid out if all other picks won. Placepots are being paid on the first 5 races today.
HH
Sandman – quite a story – very well told.
Couldn’t believe Longmuir had the gall to actually put that plan about the colts to the other clubs and claim we wanted to be part of it. It has one purpose and one purpose only: to assist thon deid team. He seems to be claiming that this is all to compensate for when we and thon deid team leave Scottish football. That may well happen, when we get the chance. Thon deid will have died the death again well before then. (And I haven’t for one second forgotten Celtic_First’s dictum about the current lot not being the original, with which I fully concur, of course.)
It’s finally dawning on the hoardes that their tribute act are shoite …… Greengo has also been quieter than usual lately……. I think the bubble is going to burst soon ….. and certainly before they are going to be forced to produce AUDITED accounts …!!?? (£22m share issue, my erse …..LOL …..!!!!)
Jonny the Tim
They have paid out, I sent them a message asking the state of play, money was in the account 10 mins later.
Off oot to see the Barca.
HH
ITV Studio in Nou Camp is spectacular.
parkheadcumsalford
19:30 on 12 March, 2013
How does any Colt team scenario benefit the tribute act…..incidentally, they don’t even have a first team….!!
67 Heaven
Audited accounts that will be the thing you need for three years to qualify for entry to either the EPL or Europe. Alas the deid ones have none and therefore will go nowhere for years to come, if they survive that long………..
Celtic & Sevco colts = “Old Firm return” for MSM, and legitimising reasons to elevate Sevco. Nothing to do with either of us leaving.
Don’t know what sally’s complaining about …… We don’t get promotion either
Thoughts?
Have clubs cottoned onto barca’s style of play?
For me a yes.
prestonpans bhoys
19:35 on 12 March, 2013
SILLY BILLYS….
The sevconians are starting to get upset about their team, hope it’s not to soon, hope the sleekit whisperer gets another season in the job. Before anyone says lets talk about Celtic I would like to say the car crash that continues 24 hours a day around the zombies is just too funny to pass up. My hope is that the we get a nod as to when the Rankgurs are officially gone, a date. Than we can paint the town green, celebrate like we have never done before and then let them say that they are the same team/club.
Sorry in advance for speaking of thems to much I am going for a bath, BDO LETS GO!
Mon Barca
League reconstruction is a load of ballochs. :-) Would prefer extended
SPL or status quo. Reconstruction is the last throw of the dice, msm
propaganda shows how important it is to them.
Barca v Milan could be a classic.
Hail Hail