We are no longer suffering the emotional trauma from the 90s, that decade has been more than compensated for since the dawning of the new century, but old wounds are still there. Back then, it was difficult to live with that ‘loser’ feeling. We knew that our wins were fragile and our ‘greatest’ triumphs often came when it didn’t matter. Expectations were low and regularly unachieved.
A straightforward defeat was bad enough, but the heaviest toll was when we were given some encouragement. We were almost always behind in the race for the league and needing to make up ground, so when Rangers played first and dropped points, we knew our precarious grip on a challenge could be strengthened.
So often during that dark decade, Rangers would drop points, then we would do the same in the later kick-off. We carried around this Mark of Losers, which although invisible, it was as clear as the CR Smith lettering across the front of the Celtic jersey.
You need to have lived with this Mark to be able to recognise it when you see it. It is usually subtle, only a couple of points dropped, but the effect is always to reinforce your Loser status. Why did this come to mind today? If you look around you will see it in others. Still Losers, no matter what they try. Enjoy your Monday.
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so we now have 2 additional tactics when playing thems,
1. dont stand in front of their goalie at corners or free kicks as he will only barge into you and get a free kick as you blocked him getting to the ball
2. stay well away from goldson at corners and free kicks as he will go to ground screaming for a pen to thems.
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 27TH NOVEMBER 2023 3:05 PM
Never said they were better than us!
But we would be foolish to write them off, especially with them having of their own VAR set of standards.
Mothers had one attack in the second half and they scored, now that’s a great strike rate.
Either that or we’ve a return of the ole tremblin mince Aberdeen showed them how you don’t play at Parkhead.
Funny ole game CSC
Tom McLaughlin
Spoiled indeed, should win every game.
A home draw is nothing, compared to some supporters angst, because they couldn’t get on CQN properly for a wee while?
Same ole Celtic supporters always moaning. 👍
If I were a player in the opposition box lining up for a corner or a wide free-kick and felt a defender pulling my jersey as the ball came in, I’d hit the deck without a second thought. If my opponent was stupid enough to risk a penalty, I’d be more than happy to oblige as would any player.
Goldson was clever. Giakoumakis was ultra clever when it came to asking a question of the referee.
OMG how can Celtic supporters think its ok to come on a blog and say other supporters that have genuine concerns are ripping their knitting or words to tgat effect.
BSR if supporters have concerns/issues then we should be talking to each other in a dignified manner otherwise say nothing it sounds very stuck uppish to not realise concerns of other posters.
I am sure we could all pick faults in each others comments if we really wanted to.
We need all to be understanding of each others concerns.
Oh and remember sack the board.
D :)
You have got to ask yourself why we would choose to play the Motherwells of this world 3 or 4 or even 5 or 6 times a season as opposed to playing Dundee United, Partick Thistle, Dunfermline, Ayr United and Raith Rovers once home and away. Would help improve the players of those teams and it wouldn’t weaken us playing the Well only once at home a season. Cannot think of one good reason why that would not make a more interesting league.
Oh wait a minute…….
not sure if they still do the NYE show.
Shirley that gurnin’ nugget Tav’s penalty haul is ripe for a piss-take?
Won’t hold ma breath tho’
HHH
Just watched the highlights again an hour ago.
If they did not score from the corner they would have got a penalty anyway, Taylor’s arms wrapped right round the big Centre forwards waist….. total mismatch anyway , smallest guy in our team against one of their biggest …just don’t get it!
Still happy with weekend outcome though.
As I understand it, a bit of jersey pulling is part and parcel of football these days and is tolerated by refs. Ambiguity arises around the time a jersey is held, and the impact that might have on the attacking player affecting the outcome of the play in question. Mikey’s shirt was pulled briefly, but he was hampered getting to the ball and could possibly have scored. So correct decision. Goldman’s shirt was pulled briefly and let go without having any impact on the play in question. You can also throw in the blatant obstruction on the Aberdeen defender, and the theatrical fall to the ground by Goldman. This was a play to win a penalty by manipulating VAR, and not a play to score a goal. I don’t think a penalty should have been given.
Not a great display be the bhoys Saturday. I would chalk this down to the International break and the disruption it caused to the squad. We’ll be back on it next week and maybe as early as tomorrow.
ERATIC
No idea why they don’t stick him at the post for corners 🤔
We should concentrate on improving our own house .
TT
PB. Yes think Peter Grant more or less said same thing..
Bsr
I was one that complained can’t get passed first page on my chrome book but OK on phone with Google.
Now if you want my opinion on the game we were very poor to light and to small and no idea from set plays and don’t start me on no player at the post and keeper can’t defend his six yard box.
Retiredtim.
Celtic had Saturday’s opponents on the run for the entire game but kept firing blancs. In addition when we thought Luis Palma had arrived as the spot kick messiah to replace Jouro – he goes and misses one ? The much criticised David Turnbull saves our blushes and calmy taps his into the back of the net.
Motherwell though were not finished with us and were out the gate with a point at the death and as Barry McGuigan used say ‘Thank You Very Much Mr Eastwood’.
It’s Five Nations Cup action tomorrow night and without our star attackers Palma and Maeda. Interestinng to see who BR will pick from his big squad against Lazio who lost at the weekend. The Hoops can get a result in this game.
As for losers………………….
While we take care of our own business we should all be very aware that that the huns are miraculously deemed “winners” in games that they shoulda drawn and get draws in games they shoulda lost.
Fix fitba: Empty Hampden.( Its a Hunned-Up Varce)
shudders-
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SUNDAY 27 NOVEMBER 1994 – One of Celtic’s worst ever days as they lose the Scottish League Cup Final to an incredulous Raith Rovers before 45,384 fans at Ibrox. Andy Walker had equalized Raith Rovers’ opening counter, and then Charlie Nicholas scores what looks like a late winner. But Gordon Marshall cannot hold a Jason Dair shot, and Gordon Dalziel is there to head home the equalizer. No goals are scored in extra time, and then Paul McStay, by some distance the best player on the park, has the misfortune to have his penalty saved by Scott Thomson in the penalty shoot-out.
STV spend much of their sports section on the Aberdeen v sevco game. They show the goals from our game; mention 2 others and interview the St Mirren manager. When the deid team were winning the league they had the policy of concentrating on the champions. Wonder why that policy has changed so much…..
CELTIC MAC on 27TH NOVEMBER 2023 1:34 PM
saint stivs
“The 1950s was a decade when all trophies were won with regularity” What exactly is that statement supposed to mean? If anything.
*probaly means that all the trophies were shared equally
1913-04-29: Buckie Thistle 2-3 Celtic, Friendly
Match Pictures | Matches: 1912 – 1913 | 1912 pics – 1913 pics
Trivia
Tour of the highlands.
SAINT STIVS on 27TH NOVEMBER 2023 6:25 PM
shudders-
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SUNDAY 27 NOVEMBER 1994 – One of Celtic’s worst ever days as they lose the Scottish League Cup Final to an incredulous Raith Rovers before 45,384 fans at Ibrox. Andy Walker had equalized Raith Rovers’ opening counter, and then Charlie Nicholas scores what looks like a late winner. But Gordon Marshall cannot hold a Jason Dair shot, and Gordon Dalziel is there to head home the equalizer.
*IMHO didnae try tae save it and dived over all the penalties in the shoot out, oh he did win a medal in the following SC Final and then promptly gave it away tae Brian O’Neill, nice guy eh
the real old-firm, 1913 – just before the bigots moved in.
a friendly played at inverness
great colourization
https://www.thecelticwiki.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/FJtPZ4BWYAADmkl1.jpg
BACK TO BASICS – GLASS HALF FULL on 27TH NOVEMBER 2023 2:49 PM
Clearly a bit of psychological warfare in Paul’s headline. Nothing wrong with that.
April 1996 lives long in my memory. While Oldco were losing away to Hearts the door opened for us at home to Kilmarnock. A Celtic fan scored for them then ran yapping to where his pals sat. (I never understood what point this Celtic fan was trying to make).
*I knew his da fae high school massive Tims fae Westcliff in Dumbarton and he was wavin up at his pals as he thought this would be the goal that earned him a transfer tae us as he had played for TB at kilmasonic, not so it now seems
tontine tim
Funnily enough that was my first thought, though Stivs subsequently expand on the Buckie Thistle theme.
Anyways had a wee look back to 1950s (think a Back To The Future Scottish style) and low and behold those were more democratic times. True, from 1950 – 1959, the old Rangers did win a total of 5 league titles, but they were spread throughout the decade, and Hibs, Celtic, Aberdeen and Hearts were all Champions. The Ibrox side also won two Scottish Cups, but so did we, and so did Clyde, whilst the other winners were Motherwell, Hearts, Falkirk and St Mirren. In the League Cup, if I’ve got this right, the Huns never won it at all, we won two, as did Dundee, Hearts and East Fife, and Aberdeen and Motherwell won the others. The 1990s were a Bank of Scotland fuelled aberration, not to be compared with our football led success 1965-75. The 50s, 1960-66, and the 1980s all more egalitarian. How many titles did Rangers win from 1964 till Murray and the Bank arrived? Answer not many.
celticmac,
ta for getting me interested in this – piqued as they say.
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History
St Peter’s, Buckie, as seen from offshore between Cluny and Buckpool harbours
In 1850, the Catholic bishop of Aberdeen James Kyle, eager to build a church to accommodate the growing Catholic congregation in Buckie, asked Sir William Gordon, the Baronet of Letterfourie and a prominent local Catholic, to donate land within the town on which to build a new church. An agreement was reached whereby Gordon would provide a plot of land sufficient for the church, a house for the priest and a school, and Gordon and his brother would be interred within the church upon their deaths.[7]
With the land secured, construction of the building started in 1851, according to designs drawn up by Kyle himself, with assistance from A & W Reid,[3] an architectural firm from Elgin.[8] The imposing west front of the building was based on the derelict Elgin Cathedral, and was intended to symbolise the respectability attained by Catholics following their recent emancipation in Scotland.[3][5] The building was completed in 1857,[1] heralded by the following announcement carried in the local Banffshire Journal:
“Opening of New Catholic Cathedral”. The new Catholic Cathedral at Buckie was opened by the Rt Rev Bishop Kyle assisted by Rev Wm Clapperton who was the first missionary therein.[7]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Peter%27s_Roman_Catholic_Church,_Buckie
Tontine Tim – cheers.
Clearly Jim McIntyre got mixed up between Walter Smith’s signing policy
(Anyone foreign based or anyone who plays well against us – sign him)
… and ours.
I know who I would score against to endear myself to the Celtic fans and management.
And, toward the end of “a long, difficult season” I know who I’d play slightly off full throttle against (with a view to saving my body for next season of course).
More Dunfermline
Less Scott MacDonald
hello
saint stivs
It is a great story no doubt about it.
CELTIC MAC on 27TH NOVEMBER 2023 7:17 PM
tontine tim Funnily enough that was my first thought, though Stivs subsequently expand on the Buckie Thistle theme.
How many titles did Rangers win from 1964 till Murray and the Bank arrived? Answer not many.
*in the early 80 I worked with a young Canadian/Italian out here it was a summer job for him in between High School/Uni, his family come fae Friuli and were huge Udinese fans and that summer in particular he was so enthusiastic about Zico.
When he heard my accent, he went on about us, the arabs and the sheep, this big bluenose working there shouted out about the deid team, he had no idea who they were.
Unfortunately, after we had Albert Kidd day, john lawrence’s nephew set out tae rebuild them, almost bankrupted them in the process by bring in the beast, as I said he almost put them in the grubber so set out tae entice bader who was actually rejected by the honest men, that in itself says enough as both him and his acolyte ruined the great game that Scottish Football once was.
Evening all.
BIGRAILROADBLUES on 27TH NOVEMBER 2023 9:17 AM
Big Jimmy
Buckfast is so bad even I won’t drink it.🤮
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Are yo TicTok in disguise :)
Yours, embarrassed from Coatbridge.
Any press conference today from Brendan ?
tontine tim
And, according to some accounts involving a bribe in a New York Hotel
Near Buckie is the hamlet of Tynet. The Catholic church of St Ninian was built there in 1755. It is designed to resemble a sheep barn, so as not to bring attention to it. I think it was the first Catholic church to be built after the Reformation.
Timhorton @ 6.00pm
Maybe the CQN technical glitch was a new ‘live updates calm doon’ trick of Paul67’s to fend off comments because Celtic didn’t win?
Whatever, we weren’t at our best on Saturday. I posted after the Kilmarnock cup defeat, that winning the league wouldn’t be a breeze, I’m delighted we’re 8 points clear and unbeaten.
Why are we not playing St Johnstone until Sunday this weekend?
Hot smoked
The answer as alway is TV – live on Sky
Rangers won 74/5 after we blew it. 75/6 when we really were poor. 77/8 we were injury hit and minus Kenny the talisman. They won as we imploded in Souness first season 86/7.
They won 4 leagues in 23 seasons.
We won 14 with 1 each for Killie Dundee U and 3 for the Dons.
Since MON arrived and through WGS and The EBT era up until today they have won 6 in 23.
We won 17.
So aside for their Murray induced 11 wins in 12 years pre MON They had periods winning just 10 in 46 seasons vs Celtic with 31.
Brendan’s Presser