There is significant pleasure this morning that Juventus are out of the Serie A Champions League spots. As prime protagonists in the European Super League fiasco, the definitive poster boys for cheating, as well as claiming titles that are not actually theirs (cough), they deserve all the antagonism coming their way. More than all this, however, we all like to see a successful club taken down a peg.
Apart from when it is us, of course, there was nothing pleasant about going from 12 trophies in a row to an empty season. Like Juventus, Celtic looked imperious a year ago on securing nine titles in a row. I am of the view that fans of most other clubs have a milder form of dislike for Celtic than Newco/Oldco, it is certainly true of Aberdeen, Hibs, Dundee United and I suspect even Hearts fans. Those of a couple of teams from my native Lanarkshire will forever be the holdouts. Notwithstanding an occasional fondness for Celtic, every other club and set of fans in Scotland wanted our run to stop. We became the greatest scalp in Scottish football history.
Success like this was great for Celtic and Juventus, and lousy for all other clubs, but it was also great for competitions in both countries. Every cup competition in Scotland from 2016 until Ross County knocked us out of the League Cup in November had an intensity the sponsors could not dream about.
Great sport requires great champions but the greatest sport is when the greats lose. I watched the World Snooker Championship this month and noted the only finals mentioned on TV that involved six-times winner Steve Davis were the two he lost, to Dennis Taylor and Joe Johnson. The former’s win ranking in the top TV sporting moments of the decade.
Those two Davis loses were a blip, he won the next three at a canter. Great champions also know how to recover. I expect no less from Celtic.
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Prestonpans Bhoys
Aye, for the peasants, no fur the hoi polloi…
HH
Goodness me, big Judith looking in very fine form the night!
FRIESDORFER on 10TH MAY 2021 7:24 PM
TBH I would have been on the pitch too but was too pissed😂
Fold-up was oot furra quick pint…😡
FoD…….
PRESTONPANS BHOYS @ 7:20 PM
41 years ago today was the Scottish Cup final which led to the hampden riot and got drink banned from the ground😯
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PB – could you remind the younger contingent (perhaps those that can remember 2016 Cup Final) who were the losing team that day in 1980?
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 10TH MAY 2021 7:43 PM
Yes I wonder who it could possibly be, at least there was no pretence of protecting their players in 1980, through my glazed eyes I remember that white horse appearing to shouts of you know what😂😂😂😂😂
Straight from Dermotts boy……….no seriously!
gonzagga
@gonzagabd1
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Unless something materially changes Eddie Howe will be unveiled as Celtic manager on Monday and will talk to the fans for the first time. Announcement of the appointment will be before then but no earlier than Thursday. Eddie has been working with a view to next season for weeks.
I’ve been trying read between the lines about who said what to one of our players (Scott Brown it seems) at Ipox last week. Banter goes on all the time in football so this must have gone way beyond a simple “noise up”. James Forrest has posted a piece about the incident but I don’t think he was necessarily pointing the finger at their PR chief. Jackson seemed to refer to a senior official which would rule out the likes of Bell.
Anyone heard anything about what was said and by whom ? Gerrard is becoming an increasingly classless individual but I doubt it would be him.
I had to go see my doctor as I can’t stop singing rebel songs .
He asked if I could remember when and where it first happened
I said aye
It was one morning in July and I was walking through tipperary
Conor McGreggor not for me. He likes Man U. Let him invest his money there.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2009/mar/20/steven-gerrard-liverpool-assault-nightclub
SAINT STIVS on 10TH MAY 2021 8:22 PM
That’s the type of joke that will encourage BSR to do one of his belters 👏👏
TCM just took a 10 – 9 lead against Channel 5 ….
… in the head-to-head to see who can show Where Eagles Dare the most times in 2021.
BIG JIMMY on 10TH MAY 2021 4:53 PM
DAVID66 on 10TH MAY 2021 4:51 PM
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Who was it DAVID…Scott Brown ?
What was said and/or done by the Mankie Huns ?
HH.
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Big Jimmy- Our new CEO Dom was shocked with what he witnessed.
D :)
Some guy on Twitter has done an excellent tribute to Scott Brown. Icanny do the copy and paste thingy.
What a player, what a captain.
Hail Hail Broonie.
D :)
Well canny do c and p on here but Adi Dassler will testify that I’m a dab hand at the auld computer thing’y.
D :)
David 66
Is it this one… https://twitter.com/AdamLynchVideos/status/1391767278232948736
Scullybhoy posted earlier.
VP that’s it cheers.
D :)
voguepunter on 10th May 2021 9:26 pm
David 66
Is it this one… https://twitter.com/AdamLynchVideos/status/1391767278232948736
Scullybhoy posted earlier.
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TBH I don’t deserve any credit as I simply cut and pasted it from another site.
HH
Scullybhoy and VP – Cheers.
What a captain he has been.
Big Lustig’s enthusiasm as well another no nonsense average player but he had heart and desire with a bit talent but his enthusiasm along with Broonie…. oh how we miss 1 or 2 more like that.
D :)
Broony, your a legend.God Bless You.
I know we will see you back at Celtic some day in your beloved Paradise.
HAIL HAIL TO SCOTT BROWN
PP.
was at that cup final.
Me and about 8 of us on the pitch the radgies from wester hailes!!!..
My brother Mick landed a few haymakers that day i can happily report…
All for one.
And one for all it wis….
HH.
Sean T
My hat off to your brother👏👏👏👏👏WH radgies indeed😂😂
CELTIC40ME on 10TH MAY 2021 2:13 PM
QUADROPHENIAN on 10TH MAY 2021 2:06 PM
What did Klopp have to say about the Super League?
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He said he was against it in 2019, and reiterated that in 2021 but adding: “I heard I will resign. If times get tough it makes me even more sticky that I will stay,”
From that, I took it he wanted to effect change from the inside; to sort it out.
I see him as refreshingly pragmatic and straightforward on issues affecting him and his club.
Back to basics
Even ITV are wanting a piece of the Schloss Adler action
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reading back
ERNIE LYNCH on 10TH MAY 2021 1:29 PM
Is there any reason why the board would not want Celtic to be successful, on or off the park?
Something going on in the background that we’re not aware of or have overlooked?
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Lindsell Train have a % of Celtic & Juventus shares.man u too.
hh
worthy repost. Broony Thank you.
SCULLYBHOY on 10TH MAY 2021 4:12 PM
https://twitter.com/AdamLynchVideos/status/1391767278232948736
All the best and thank you for the memories!
hh
Brexit, but it’s an office party in Cork :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AMktjZthuk&t=8s
Shot/directed by Dominic MacHale
SIONNAIGH
Can i ask a big favour?
could you repost Bernadette McAliskey ?
debate with the american chap? started and fell asleep lost it
HH
AN TEARMANN on 10TH MAY 2021 11:31 PM
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Wouldn’t like to have been standing next you during a riot.
AN TEARMANN on 10TH MAY 2021 11:38 PM
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Firing Line with William F. Buckley Jr and Bernadette Devlin McAliskey.: The UK problem with a non consensual Ireland.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFUKV5_EwdA
Ave Ave mo chara
haha i wasnt on the park remember seeing the lanes of people about turning and going down to the gates.Polis messed up,relaxed and wound down then it kicked off.some no nice sights seen goin to the aunts.
hh
I mean i’d have ben right there behind you at the door :-)
Ave Ave
Ta SIONNAIGH
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hh
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night Cqn
wee prayer for patience
our Desmond,just get it done.Amen
:-)
Hail Hail
AN TEARMANN on 10TH MAY 2021 11:57 PM
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It’s a great listen. Bernadette holds her own alright. As the interview goes on the WASPS gang up against her, she faces them all down with not so much as a blink of an eye,
Ave Ave
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on 10th May 2021 2:44 pm
If Connor McGregor buys Celtic from DD, who is gonna be the first to ask a critical question at an AGM?
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I’d ask him it, but the wee scarey fly things have me Sh!tting it. Its wierd .
We were in my Middle Big Sis garden 2 weeks ago and the Biggest Bee you will ever see (at that moment) made a move for me and went for ma ear….Buzzzzzing….. they are so scarey, their movements urnae quite there with a housefly Howevaaaah. The rest of the Family just sitting there casual as it is.
Me making a mad fall and scarred on my Mark McGhee for life after an incredible dive oot the way.
Its a big overhaul – It shouldnae be but it is what it is.
We have put in Time Lasting Records but Time is Running Out if its just Digital Orgasms.