The first time I met Tommy Gemmell was back in the 90s. I made a comment that some recent goal was “a great goal”. Tommy replied, “Every goal is a great goal.
“It didn’t matter who I scored against or how inconsequential the goal was, every time I put the ball in the net was a great moment.”
Tommy couldn’t hide the joy he got from doing what he did.
Some tremendous photos surfaced online yesterday, including this one (above), taken 49 years and 11 months ago, a moment after Celtic’s 0-0 draw away to Dukla Prague in the second leg of the European Cup semi-final, a result that saw Celtic progress to the final 3-1 on aggregate.
This photo took pride of place on Tommy’s memento wall at his Dunblane home. It was framed but had clearly fallen, as there was a crack in the glass. But still, its prominence outranked images from Lisbon.
For Tommy, this image captured some of the things he treasured most. His face displays sheer joy; the team have already achieved more than any other British side in reaching the final of the Continent’s top tournament.
He’s carrying his great pal, Jimmy Johnstone, like a child, on his hip. It defines their achievement, friendship and an unfettered happiness. If you ever had a photo like this of yourself, it would be on your wall too.
I’m pleased our next game is at Celtic Park. Many of us want to be there.
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I think Garner is suspended for next week.
PAUL .
WINNING CAPTAINS.
Please can you get rid of the LG advert
I have to navigate through it before I can get on to the site.
IT IS REALLY REALLY ANNOYING.
Sorry for the shouting .
‘When in trouble, cheat your way out’
The Hun Philosophy.
DANSO_1888
Hamilton coach can’t speak up.
The sfa will fine him and club and press will ridicule as a sore loser.Fora small club every penny is needed.
Levein was pilloried for daring to speak out about McCurry’s blatant cheating at ibrox when the huns needed a win.Only wanker of cardigan was allowed to criticize officials aided and abetted by the msssm.
Cheats like Beaton.Thomson.McLean etc only get away with it due to msssm collusion and distortion of facts.
5 minutes extra time in Old Trafford does that sound familiar or is it justified.Haven’t followed the game so don’t know.
Let’s see Myth defend that challenge.
Paul67 et al
The IFAB met at Wembley yesterday coming up with a few more bizarre ideas. Individual Scots, amongst others, deserve great credit for helping spread the football game around the World, but it is a travesty that the SFA is involved at any level where the laws of the game are involved. And travesty does not come close.
FAN-A-TIC, i dont care if you have any self respect you should speak up as its so blatant
Pogba has just put in one of the worst displays i have ever seen. £89 million quid. Astonishing.
Happy they won, they are an average team, scoreline flatters them but aided by the press this will be hailed as the “real Rangers” and “we are back” etc etc. No amount of cheating by referees and officials will stop us either next week against them or in the weeks to come. Brendan knows the score with these cheats and will send our boys out do deal with them accordingly.
A draw at Old Trafford. Well done The Holy Goalie, God Bless The Original Holy Goalie.
having said that i dont want celtic to play in this league as its just an orange mans league personally iwould do with out football than give creedence
The ref did what he was told.
Get sevco through at any cost.
Some joker played their joker on the jokers.
Probably go top of the table.
ONENIGHTINLISBON on 4TH MARCH 2017 2:26 PM
Very important point made. Brendan and our boys know the score. Prepare for it and as Jock said, take the cheating referee out of the game.
i cannot fathom celtic supporters if they know they are being cheated then why?
Garner we’re just happy with the 3 points.
ITS A CUP GAME IDIOT.
So this week’s Goals For Shay games didn’t quite turn out the way I thought. Commisserations to the 34 who expected Man Utd to score more than 1. And well done (through gritted teeth!) to the 3 who foresaw the goalfest at Ibrox – particularly the one who also played a joker!!
Aff oot……
Danso 1888
Celtic is now a plc and will continue to play football to make money, integrity has gone if it ever existed in this corrupt backwater.
DANSO_1888
I can’t speak for the Hamilton coach but he will understand the Draconian punishment that he and club will receive plus the distorted revisionism of the game by msssm.
His rightful anger will be portrayed as disrespectful and sour grapes.
why should you have to take anyone out of a game if its fair it should be ok if not then why would you wanna play
Danso, That is nonsense there is absolutely no way that Celtic are suddenly going to announce they are quitting football.There is no other League they can go to and you writing posts like that are a waste of your time typing and our time reading.
We are miles better than any Club in Scotland, they may cheat us out of a Cup if they get lucky but they can’t cheat us out of a League.
Tell all the Huns you know, it’s going to be ten in a row.
DESSYBHOY@2-30PM
Agreed.
‘m sure Brendan will have the bhoys prepared for any ‘Meekings’ type incident the MIB can throw at us.
We will be expecting it and be ready to react by scoring a few.
DESSYBHOy, iagree we are a corrupt club thats how sevco got away with it.
Stop being a bunch of big girls blouses! The mind will cheat us out of the Treble?? No they won’t. They’ll certainly try but Brendan’s Celtic will remove the mins from the equation by burying the opposition in an avalanche of Goooaaals!
Huns cheat like feck and posters queue up to hammer Celtic. The mind truly boggles.
G Murty, the challenge was ‘clumsy’ . Yeh right, even the Myth said it was a sending off.
Celtic are miles better than any cheating ref + Sevco combination, calm down, the good guys will triumph!
Danso1888
Do you know that for certain? Please share it with us all, especialy those who have suspicions that this might be the case.
Afternoon all.
Techie help please, laptop screen lighting up but remaining blank. HH
Fan-a-tic
“Hamilton coach can’t speak up.
The sfa will fine him and club and press will ridicule as a sore loser.Fora small club every penny is needed.”
*****
Maybe so, but the supporters can speak up, and when the favouritism and sheer injustice of it all led to serious threats of non-renewal of season tickets back in 2012, they forced the clubs to stand up and do the right thing.
The outcome of BDO’s appeal in the BTC, and the reaction to it,may bring a similar scenario.
Everyone has their tipping point.
Brendan has the measure of the refs as well as the rest of Spl
DBBIA
Terrific news, hope all are doing great
As for the Goals For Shay Sevconian joker pick, well done
As for next week am gutted Joe Swash Garner is out, and hope big Kiernan wins his appeal, they are mince
Weefra
Unplug it then give it a few minutes then restart , sounds like it has not loaded properly.
hes a hun Take a look at @gibbygibbo1’s Tweet: https://twitter.com/gibbygibbo1/status/837789033468203009?s=01
DESSYBHOY
Cheers buddy, away to try it. HH
Cundy,hairy front bottom.
We’re on the cusp of a double, have an excellent chance of winning a treble, won our last game 4-0 away from home, have won every league game but one (which we drew), didn’t play today and yet a Celtic supporter, who says he doesn’t understand Celtic supporters (?????) wants us to walk away from the SPFL when we don’t have another league to go to because of what happened at Ibrox today, Jesus wept.