Tomorrow’s Scottish Cup final is Celtic’s biggest game since Seville. Having banked our 100th trophy, and an invincible league title, the opportunity to achieve a clean sweep of domestic trophies without loss of a single game is wholly without precedent. Even the Lions didn’t achieve this.
We are in an incredibly special season, an incredibly special time, for the club. When anything seems possible, it is hard to properly evaluate just how well things are going. We have had many title winning seasons, but the club’s trajectory, not to mention the sheer enjoyment of what we’re watching, has seldom come close to this season.
We face the club who have pushed us most in recent years at Hampden. They will arrive rightly believing they can win the trophy. It will be a huge task for Aberdeen, , but the odds on them taking the cup back north with them will be considerably less than those against Celtic completing an undefeated season a year ago.
Congratulations to the Celtic FC Foundation and everyone at the club who contributed to the incredible event at The Hyrdro last night. The scale and sheer professionalism of the night belied the fact that everyone involved were miles out of their comfort zone.
It was an incredible Celtic event. Thanks also to the performers who donated their time to the Foundation for free.
See you later at Greenock!
The final word from Wee Bertie tonight @CQNMagazine @GreenockCeltic “Say a wee prayer for Billy & Stevie.” pic.twitter.com/icFeSOMEi3
— Paul John Dykes ⭐️ (@PaulDykes) May 26, 2017
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Belated Big Cup anniversary wishes to Celtic F.C. and the magnificent Lions.
Just recovering from an emotional day yesterday. Spent most of the day thinking of my late father and his journey to Lisbon and the legacy he has left me and my children in supporting Celtic.
Then it was off to the Georgian hotel last night for a celebration of all things Celtic/1967 and in true Celtic supporter fashion we raised over £700 for the Kano foundation.
This is what it’s like to be Celtic!!
Hail! hail! And thanks Dad.
Fantastic to have Moussa available.Cant have too many Superstars.I think,only think,BR will go with Griff,and have Moussa on the bench.No matter,its a huge boost to us.Thought we might have got the news ,in this feel good,week,that Armstrong had signed.Getting a wee bit worried on this one now.On the other hand,if true,the story about Man City wanting Silva can only be good for us.
Beautiful BarbQ set up for tonight with the family,then one sleep to go.
BIG JIMMY on 26TH MAY 2017 4:03 PM
I’ve already posted this but one last try…can anyone put the link for BT Sport ” the Iron Man” about sean Fallon last night ?
I fell asleep just before it started and missed the whole lot.
HH
The Hurtin Hun from the Chippy couldn’t have HUNg around long enough to watch Celtic’s 42 attempts AT iNTERS GOAL ?
what a Saddo…and there are others.
More than”Others”Jimmy.As it says in the Bible,mentioning the demons of Hell,”They are Legion”
Celtic FC – Hydro pre-show interviews
Hydro – Grace – The Sisterhood
BIG JIMMY on 26TH MAY 2017 4:03 PM
Just done a wee search for you and it will be shown again on BT Sport 2 at 22.00 tomorrow Saturday.
Celebrate 67 Finale
Last afternoon in Lisbon before heading home early tomorrow morning. 40 minute connection time in Amsterdam to make it home in time to watch the last, and hopefully best, game of a truly meorable season. Have met so many nice people here, and for sure will catch up with many again next season.
Wee bit of fun on the way back to our hotel after spending an afternoon jumping from tram to tram, just to avoid the hills. Popped into Starbucks for a coffee. Ordered two Grande Latte’s. Assistant at the counter say’s ” your name ?”
Me: Celtic
Assistant: Obrigado
Move away from counter after paying and leaving some smush as a tip.
Wait
Barista ( loud voice ): CELTIC !
Me: ………….
Barista ( louder voice ): CELTIC !!
Me: Come on you bhoys in Green !
Mrs Bateen Bhoy thinks I’m mad. She’s probably right :-)
BATEEN BHOY on 26TH MAY 2017 4:29 PM
Brilliant mate PMSL at that one.
COYBIG.
H.H
Bateen Bhoy
Watching a re-run of Lisbon on STV last night…..every time the bhoys at the game shouted, ‘CELTIC’, i added, COME ON YOU BHOYS IN GREEN….fitted perfectly:)
HH
Could someone put up that show in the Hydro last night? My Dad will love it. He is too frail to go to such a show these days.
ParkheadcumSalford
Saw a bit of it live online last night.
Should be online somewhere…FB or Twitter, You Tube etc.
HH
The Green Man,
Many thanks. I’ll do some searching
A Stor
Thanks for the links. Awesome!!
HH
PCS
Use A Stor links there are several excellent you tube videos, just spent 40 minutes watching them. Enjoy
HH
Our Lisbon Lions raffle has now closed.
The draw will take place this evening at Greenock and we will let the winner know straight away.
There will be ten runners up prizes going out too.
The in the Heat of Lisbon / Jock Stein t-shirt promotion has also ended. We still have around 40 copies of the book left but the remaining t-shirts are going t Greenock tonight. I have one set aside for Moonbeams.
Thank you to everyone who has supported this promotion, Paul was thrilled at the number of these t-shirts he saw at the Hydro last night.
If you are going to Greenock tonight, see you there!
http://celticbynumberscom.ipage.com/between-rock-paper-scissors-and-a-hard-place/
How do Aberdeen solve a problem like Celtic? Cup Final preview on Celtic By Numbers.
Of course they have a swinging punchers chance, but performances this season point to just one winner – Celtic have the better 11, the better 16, the better manager. I’m really nervous now!
HH
TIMGREEN on 26TH MAY 2017 4:27 PM
BIG JIMMY on 26TH MAY 2017 4:03 PM
Just done a wee search for you and it will be shown again on BT Sport 2 at 22.00 tomorrow Saturday.
…………………
Magic mate.
HH
I’ve been absolutely loving this blog this famous week. Wonderful posts and memories.
It’s taken me right back to being a 6-year-old, watching the legend unfold on a flickery black and white telly in our house in The Drum. It was my birthday two days later, on the 27th (still is, strangely).
I wasn’t old enough to get the full impact of what the Lions did, but what I do remember is that it was as if we – Irish Catholic Glaswegians – had come out from under a shadow.
Thanks to all for a great blog this week. I will be watching the Final in Oslo tomorrow with the Bhoys and Ghirls of Norway CSC. Hoping for the crowning moment on an amazing season.
But if not what the hell. What a season, what a week, what a club. What a time to be a Celt.
HH
GREENINBINGLEYINOSLO
Hail! Hail! You do learn things on here, I know you from previous blogs and always assumed you were older than I . Perhaps you have a gravitas I lack?
I was 8 years and 2 months on our greatest day and remember bits from it however I always remember my uncle , whose house we were, in being carted off to hospital for an emergency appendectomy before half time. That was the end of that.
I do remember the sheer joy amongst my family in the following days.
I e ho your feelings in your last paragraph and posted to that effect earlier. I am sure you will have a great day tomorrow. Win , lose or draw as we like to sing. HH
GREENINBINGLEYINOSLO on 26TH MAY 2017 5:31 PM
I am a bhoy fae the Drum as well. 1 year older than you (well 361 days to be precise as I was born on 23rd May).
Brought up in Invercanny Drive. St Sixtus and St Pius.
KTF
I was 6n’hawf when we won the European cup.
What age am I now?,
only kidden , I still recall things in that game that happened as I watched it, like it was yesterday, but if someone was to ask me who scored our first league goal this season I would have to ask mr Google .
But I suppose I was sober when we won the big cup, not so much when we scored the first goal this season.
P.s who did score it :-)
H.H
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER
Having met you, I knew you were of my vintage. You weren’t walking up to Celtic Park past the Forge Retail Park yesterday about 11am?
Will be watching the Cup Final tomorrow in my adopted home – Paris.
I was at Hampden in 67 when Willie Wallace’s brace secured the cup in that famous season.
I similar score tomorrow will have me over the moon (again !!!).
Hoping to update my “nom de plume” … it’s an omen i tells yah !!!
ha ha
BIG JIMMY-3:30pm,my dad reminds me of how many times they tried to win it aw the time:-))
Jmcc
One more day of being 56. Tomorrow my mental age will increase to 17.
Did you used to post on Maleys on etims?
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VFR 800
I was Sunnyside Drive, went to St Ninian’s. St Benedicts was our church, though my auntie Betty used to clean in St Lawrence’s.
How the deid club never managed to win the Big Cup is a mystery.
In 1960 for example they only lost 12-4 on aggregate to Eintracht Frankfurt in the semi.
…who were then pumped 7-3 in the final by that Royal Madrid mob.
HH!!
3 is the magic number
Yes it is
It’s the magic number
Somewhere in this Celtic soul community
Was born 3
League and both cups
And that’s the magic number
Go to it bhoys,bring it home.
HH
E-Tims have a item and photos from last night at the hydro
http://etims.net/?p=11423
GREENINBINGLEYINOSLO
Yes, a FP of Maleys. Guilty as charged. In my defence I openly admit to not growing up until 35 years of age. Have a good weekend.
A couple of Celtic supporters from separate parts of deepest darkest Lanarkshire hooked up again in Lisbon just like we did on our first day at Holy Cross high school. We were without a word of Portuguese on that day, but luckily ole Eurochamps67 picked up one word in fifty odd years ‘Obrigado’ and it was all we needed for the trip.
Bruno our self appointed Portuguese ‘tour guide’ started out as taxi driver but the good shepherd was a scholar of his city, and although way too young, also a sage of 67′. On reflection, he may have saw these two bhoys coming and was happy to snooze in his Mercedes till we had seen all the sights then returned us home before collecting his signing on fee.
It was a magical few days the highlight of which was sittiing in Estadio Nacional just outside paradise along with the songs and the souls of the modern as well as dearly departed Celts, at a place they call Jamor.
The whole amphitheatre is untouched by time in the baking heat of Lisbon the Celtic spirits are all still there, and you’ll find it exactly as you imagined it all of your life very much alive and bristling with your history.
A truely tree lined jewel etched in a hill above Lisbon magnificent in all its gladiatorial poise. When we sat down under the granite stage where the colossus McNeill greeted us with that gift from his Lions the atmosphere was still sheer Celtic.
Retracing footsteps of Celtic fans who had gone before in the days of BBC’s black and white TV, with its grainy pictures when we caught worldwide attention as the first ever Kings of Europe from any cold country.
I hope they never ever alter the stadium where the beautiful game was made to be watched and if you ever get the chance to go, you’ll never feel closer to Celtic this side of paradise, than I did on Thursday 25th May 2017.
Holy Cross CSC
Tomorrow’s team
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Invincible~~~~~~Invincible~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Invincible~~~~~~~Invincible
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Invincible~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Invincible~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Invincible
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38 34 4 0 106
HH
BOURNESOUPRECIPE
That’s a greta piece of Celtic Writing BSR..
HolyCross CSC
Babas
that’s a code for;
Gordon
Lustig
Simunovic
Boyata
Tierney
Brown
Armstrong
MacGregor
Roberts
Griffiths
Sinclair
Thanks Starry
BSR
10/10.
BSR- Sounded a fabulous trip, should have booked it ages ago…..:(
BOURNE…
Can’t argue with that bit of code cracking.
HH