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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Sectarianism row Tory councillor axed from role after 48 hours
Tom Gordon Scottish Political Editor The Herald
A CONTROVERSIAL Tory councillor in Renfrewshire has been removed from one of his first posts after just 48 hours following a threatened boycott by trade unions.
Neill Graham, who last month apologised for circulating material from Protestant pride groups on Facebook, was axed from authority’s main staff liaison forum.
Mr Graham, 26, was appointed to the Joint Consultative Board for non-teaching staff, which handles workforce complaints and equality issues, as the sole Tory member on Tuesday.
However Unison, Unite and GMB, which represent around 5000 of the council’s non-teaching staff, yesterday told the council they would boycott the forum unless Mr Graham was replaced.
Mr Graham, who represents Paisley Northeast and Ralston, was out by the end of the day.
In 2014, he asked people to ‘like’ a photograph on Facebook of the Parachute Regiment on Bloody Sunday, when soldiers shot 13 people dead on a civil march in Derry in 1972.
The image was from the “Proud to be a Protestant banter group” and Mr Graham’s post said: “How many likes for the Paras?”
The 2010 Saville inquiry concluded the killings were both “unjustified” and “unjustifiable”.
In 2013, Mr Graham also shared posts from the “Protestant coalition” Facebook group critical of former South African president Nelson Mandela, and joked about attending a conference of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party while on a holiday in Greece.
Mr Graham’s former address and current phone number appear in a leaked database of British National Party members from 2008, although he strongly denies BNP membership.
Mark Ferguson of Unison Renfrewshire branch, which led the effort to have Mr Graham replaced, welcomed the decision, but said the councillor remained contentious.
He said: “It was the right decision to take for that particular board, but there’s a wider issue for the council with someone who has expressed these views.
“They should be reminded of the council’s policies on equality, diversity and respect.”
A council spokesman said: “Nominations for membership of Council boards and committees is a matter for the parties and is currently being finalised. It is our understanding the appointment of Councillor Graham to the Joint Consultative Board (Non-Teaching) has been changed.”
Morning,looking forward to winning the treble today, Griffiths 3.0 hopefully, but should we lose would still say thanks Brendan and Celtic for a brilliant season. Jogi Hughes prayers with you lionsroar good luck with your recovery
Sorry should say yogi Hughes
Self centred as we ALL are.
Press Play – it is 3+ Hours long
GOOD MORNING FRIENDS FROM A BRIGHT, DRY, BEAUTIFUL AND SUNNY-THROUGH-BROKEN-CLOUDS EAST KILBRIDE.
NO APOLOGIES FOR SHOUTING AS I’M SIMPLY GETTING INTO PRACTISE FOR THE DAY AHEAD, A DAY WHEN WE WILL REHOICE AND BE GLAD IN IT.
Oops, I believe that’s how the Portugese pronounce i…. ;-)t
Having watched Celtic for over fifty years, I still get exited on cup final day. My first final was 1965 when Billy scored the winner and set us on course for a period of greatness.This season we could again be at the beginning of something very special, I know that sounds a bit odd, having just won title number six but it really could get better under the current manager. Roll on kick off time and more history being added to the club like no other. Hail Hail
On a slightly damp note on a beautiful day which I hope becomes even beautifuller , I feel this will be the last time we see a truly happy Patrick Roberts in a Celtic shirt. Even if the Wee Wizard were to stay, I feel he would feel a sense of `failure` that Man City no longer wanted him and we would have a slightly less enthusiastic Paddy on our hands. I am sure he would remain committed but a little of the sparkle might disappear.
I hope I am wrong. Young Paddy is a pleasure to watch.
JJ
Good news of Lionsroar67 recovery,take care B.
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Sad news of Yogihughes Sister in law hope and pray she can get better.
Gooooood Morning CQN :-)
Will soon be Celtic time.
BRTH, brilliant words again Jim.
Think I might have a beer today :-)
Yogi Hughes – keep the faith.
Paradiseghirl – will hopefully see lionsroar ( Billy) today
Goood luck to the World Famous Glasgow Celtic today now
Hail Hail
JIMMYNOTPAUL on 27TH MAY 2017 7:19 AM
Cheers mate for your good wishes.
I don’t think I’l be selling any Telly today, it’s too feckin heavy for me to carry ( I’ve got slight disabilities) to a feckin bus stop ?
I’ve already got a couple of wee correct score bets on with the Bookies for Celtic today…maybe one of those bets will come up…God willing ?
If not ……but Celtic still win the Treble, I’ll settle for a Big Cup of Tea to celebrate ?
HH
BROGAN ROGAN TREVINO AND HOGAN on 27TH MAY 2017 5:51 AM
Some people over-sing a song, over-act a scene in a movie, over-write a chapter in a book, over-tell a story from their soapbox… in Part IV you cannot be accused of any of the above, you took a simple story (?), you told it in plain English, you sprinkled a little heart and a little Celtic mutual emotion and it came across as simply CLASS.
” Intelligence officers have identified 23,000 jihadist extremists living in Britain as potential terrorist attackers, it emerged yesterday.” From The Times.
Can you imagine how the `Britain for the British `mob will respond to this unsubstantiated piece of `news`.
Sorry for the politic but an email with that `information` appeared in my Inbox and I wanted to release a little annoyance.
Off to the golf now to release some more,
Cheerio for now,
JJ
PS Possibly tough game today but also possible that we run up a biggish score.
YOGI,
Sorry to read of your sad news.
Lionsroar…c’mon on home son and see the Celts.
HH
Incidentally
I’ve not heard the scores from the CQN Lisboa Masters yesterday :-)
Must still be celebrating with the ACGR prizes
Good Morning Timland.
No ticket as I never went to the semi,probably just as well my first
final was in 1970 and the sheep beat us so this jinx will watch it on
the telly.
If we win I doubt we will ever see the likes of a invincible treble ever
again.
Off too my chores,win or lose it’s be a fantastic season,have a great
day everyone.
PETEC:
I think only a fool seeking peril would underestimate Aberdeen FC today. They are a good team and it is a cup final. Lest we ever dare be Imps to forget.
HOT SMOKED on27TH MAY 2017 7:43 AM
On a slightly damp note on a beautiful day which I hope becomes even beautifuller , I feel this will be the last time we see a truly happy Patrick Roberts in a Celtic shirt. Even if the Wee Wizard were to stay, I feel he would feel a sense of `failure` that Man City no longer wanted him and we would have a slightly less enthusiastic Paddy on our hands. I am sure he would remain committed but a little of the sparkle might disappear.
I hope I am wrong. Young Paddy is a pleasure to watch.
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Well thanks for that…!
Anyway, was in a box of tricks yesterday and pulled out my original 1988 jersey, it still fits, like a glove!
Fired it in the washing and it’s all ready to go. I haven’t worn a Celtic jersey to a cup final since Airdrie 1995, but today just feels even more special than normal.
So that’ll be me, Centenary top, scarf, blue jeans and green trainer’s. I really should act my age….
Ayrshire is Green and White
Today is a chance to bring a truly memorable week to a fantastic conclusion.
Any win will do, given our recent Hampden ‘misfortunes’, but if anyone offered me the approved 5 nil just now I’d bite their hand off.
Leeds are joint favourites to sign Celtic striker Leigh Griffiths this summer, according to the latest bookmakers’ odds.
Bet Victor have priced the Yorkshire giants to sign the Scotland international at 6/1 but Championship rivals Wolves have also been backed at 6/1 to secure a move that would see Griffiths return to the Molineux.
Griffiths, 26, has played second fiddle for much of the season to French wonderkid Moussa Dembele, but still managed to find the back of the net 18 times in 37 league and cup encounters.
Leeds and Wolves are not alone in being credited with a price, with Hibernian at 12/1 while seven teams are at 14/1 to land Celtic’s number nine including Newcastle, Brighton and Nottingham Forest.
As well as scoring 18 times, Griffiths has also laid on another 15 assists but could now leave with Brendan Rodgers set to be busy in the summer in order to bolster his side’s chances in the Champions League.
It remains to be seen how much managerless Leeds would have to pay to secure the signature of Griffiths, with more than four years still remaining on the 12-time international’s current contract.
However, there have been reports that the Yorkshire giants could start the bidding for the proven goal-getter at £3million.
Leeds have been in the market for a striker since January and are likely to reignite that interest in the summer, as they look to give New Zealand international Chris Wood support in the final third.
However, a move for Griffiths could spell the end for Marcus Antonsson’s disappointing spell at Elland Road, after scoring just three goals all season for Leeds.
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I appreciate that the above is guff and it is just milking the gullible, but after the solicitation of punters to bet on a hypothetical event such as reported, will the bookies refund all bets if the touted event does not happen?
Anyways, fair dos to the ole Shortbread for the way they have covered the golden anniversary of the Lions.
‘Blue Peter’ Thompson will be birlin ‘ in his grave.
Jobo Baldie on 27th May 2017 7:32AM
I see clear evidence you were Yosemite Sam in a past life – “when I say whoa, I mean WHOA!”
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Good luck to the Celts today. Won’t matter to me should we stumble, it’s been terrific fun following the team this season.
We’re on our way to Hampden, we shall not be vinced.
Contemplating a possible return to ParkRun having had a break from that since 22 April. Would need to be Polloc as Strathy Park closed for some otehr event. Hmmmm decisions…….
Borrowed from SeanFallonCelt.wordpress
Tomorrow, Celtic face Aberdeen in the Scottish Cup final knowing that victory will secure the club’s first treble since 2001. When the two sides met in the same fixture in 1954, the Bhoys were chasing their first double in fully four decades. The goalscorer who secured it for them was Sean Fallon.
It was a fairy tale end to a turbulent season for Fallon, who had been ruled out for the remainder of the campaign after sustaining a broken collarbone in a match against Hearts. His refusal to leave the field after sustaining the injury – these being the days before substitutions – earned him his ‘Iron Man’ nickname. Sean’s response at the time? “Ach, it wasn’t as if it was a broken leg.”
Sent home to recuperate in Sligo, Fallon returned to Scotland in the spring to watch Celtic play Hamilton – and saw first-choice striker John McPhail pick up a season-ending injury of his own. “It left the club struggling for players,” Sean recalled. “Just as I was due to leave to go to the airport, Bob Kelly called me over and asked if I would be willing to stay and try to play. I knew the doctor wouldn’t have been happy about it. But there was no way I was going to refuse.”
So it was that Fallon, inactive for five months and seemingly out for the season, was back in the starting line-up four days later. But there was one key difference: his position. Having been injured at left-back, he was restored to the team at centre-forward. “I was very limited as a striker,” he told me. “I was good for a bit of shock value at first but, once defenders realised I didn’t have any real pace or skill to get past them, the goals would always start drying up.”
Not that season they didn’t. Celtic, eight points behind leaders Hearts in the era of two points for a win, pipped the Edinburgh side to the title with run of seven successive wins. That remarkable run was underpinned by an equally unlikely scoring streak by the Bhoys’ makeshift centre-forward. And, for Fallon at least, the best had yet to come.
A crowd of 130,060, including Sean’s beloved father, packed into Hampden to witness the concluding act. That colossal crowd saw the Iron Man from Sligo score a goal described by Bertie Auld as “the most important of that era”: the winner as Aberdeen were beaten 2-1. The mere mention of it never failed to raise a smile in the man responsible.
“It’s not every day you score the winning goal in a cup final. I never expected it to happen to me and it was something very, very special, especially with my dad there to see it. Celtic hadn’t won the double for 40 years, so it was a bit of history.
“But I must thank Willie Fernie for that goal because he did all the hard work for me. He’d set off on one of those great runs of his, beating man after man, and I just tried to keep up, get into space and hope that he’d see me. When he cut it back, I was eight yards out and couldn’t really miss. I say that, but there was a moment just after I hit it when I thought I might have got it wrong. But then Hampden just exploded and I kept on running, soaking it up.
“Willie was a good friend and we’d often laugh about it over the years. ‘My name should have been on that goal rather than yours,’ he’d tell me. ‘A blind man could have put it in from there.’ He wasn’t far wrong. But I was proud all the same. And I’m sure my dad was too. I think we both could have died happy that afternoon.”
Those were the days in which men tended not so share such emotions, and certainly not with each other. Sean, though, learned the full extent of his father’s pride in an unorthodox way, when Sligo’s town council staged a celebratory dinner in the wake of the cup final. John Fallon had been asked to deliver a toast and spoke of his son’s Hampden winner as one of the happiest moments of his life, adding “there is no prouder father than I”.
Sean attended the event with Jimmy McGrory and, for someone with a soft heart – in contrast to his Iron Man image – he did well to hold back the tears. Described by McGrory at the same dinner as “a credit to Sligo on and off the field”, Fallon used his speech to thank Celtic for exceeding his wildest dreams. “It is the greatest club in the world,” he enthused. “And more than a club, it is a home and an institution.”
Interview: Sir Alex Ferguson on Sean Fallon
seanfalloncelt.wordpress.com
It is a book that might never have happened without Sir Alex Ferguson. Sean Fallon had made it to 89 without telling his amazing life story and saw no reason to begin accepting offers he had continually turned down. That he performed such a late U-turn was due, his family said, to Ferguson’s continued insistence that he must; that it would be a waste not to.
The fruits of this pestering were recently revealed to Ferguson when he read ‘Sean Fallon: Celtic’s Iron Man’. Having done so, he proved as generous with his praise as he had been with his time in being interviewed for the book. After immediately phoning Fallon’s son, Sean Jnr, to rave about the story, Ferguson wrote two letters – first to the family, then to the author, Stephen Sullivan – to express his admiration for the book and, more importantly, for Fallon himself.
And for anyone wondering why Sean was so important to Ferguson, this interview helps explain.
Sir Alex Ferguson has long been seen as a Godfather-type figure within football, and his advice and assistance are still sought as eagerly and frequently as ever. “Retired? Who’s retired?” he said recently. “I’m busier than ever.”
But if Ferguson never turns a deaf ear to the under-pressure managers seeking his counsel, it is for good reason: he well remembers being on the other end of such calls. “They were very important for me,” he said. “When I was starting out – even when I went on to Aberdeen – I needed to be able to ask advice of people whose opinion I trusted. Jock and Sean were always willing to pick up the phone.”
The Jock and Sean referred to are, of course, Stein and Fallon: one of the most successful and well-matched management pairings ever seen. Confidants and close friends, the Celtic duo had a well-established routine of taking their wives for dinner at the Beechwood restaurant in Kings Park. Over time, it became clear that a fellow diner was paying them particularly close attention.
“I was earwigging on their conversations,” Ferguson recalled with a laugh. “Eventually they just gave up and invited me over! I was inquisitive, that’s for sure. I used to thrive on being at the next table to them at the Beechwood, and I was very lucky to have them there, ready and willing to answer my questions. That’s where I started gleaning a lot of things about football management, trying to eke little nuggets out of Sean and Jock.”
Sir Alex’s subsequent association with the latter is well documented, and Stein’s role as his mentor much-discussed. But Ferguson recalled that, initially at least, it was Fallon who provided the greatest assistance.
“Sean was a bit more forthcoming,” he said. “Jock’s personality meant he was a more secretive and sort of kept you down there a little bit, even as a young man. Sean was brilliant with me, and we were always close after that.
“He was always a crutch. There are people you depend on for advice and Sean was one of those. He would always lift the phone to you. I’m sure Myra (Fallon’s wife) will tell you the number of times I used to call him. Countless!”
Ferguson had known and been in awe of Fallon as a player. In a fine eulogy at the Irishman’s funeral, he chuckled at the memory of a legendary battle that Sean had fought – and won – with the Rangers hard man of the same era, Sammy Baird. “Sean was tough – my God, he was tough. But he played in the same honest way he lived his life.”
The former Manchester United manager also rated Fallon’s football intellect, and his powers of persuasion. It was no accident, he knew, that the Irishman had been charged not only with identifying players like McGrain, Macari and Dalglish, but with convincing them to sign. “Sean could charm the birds off the trees,” he said, laughing. “He’d have talked anyone into submission.”
Like many who admired Fallon’s wisdom, work ethic and ability to spot and sign outstanding players, Ferguson was convinced that he need not have remained an assistant. But there was huge respect for the fact that not only was he willing to reject offers elsewhere, but to acknowledge Stein’s pre-eminence and accept his place in the great man’s shadow.
“I know Sean was meant to have been promised the Celtic job, but he was never bitchy about Jock getting it. Never,” said Ferguson. “He always looked at what was best for Celtic. He had a tremendous attitude and was always positive, and that’s why I think he was one of life’s wonders; a truly great guy. He was a rock of a man.
“I imagine a lot of people didn’t appreciate all that he did for Celtic. But Sean wasn’t the kind of man to push himself forward and boast about what he’d done. He was always happy just to get on with his life. Being appreciated by the people who worked with him was enough.”
The esteem of his old friend from the Beechwood also meant a great deal. Indeed, it was only Ferguson’s continued urging that finally convinced Fallon – then one year short of his 90th birthday – to commit his life story to print.
“Alec? He’s up there with Jock as one of the best there’s ever been,” the Irishman would say. “A good lad too.” When Ferguson was discussed, it did tend to be his character traits – rather than his obvious managerial attributes – that were stressed. And this was reciprocated. While Sir Alex respected Fallon the footballer and admired Fallon the deputy and scout, it was the man who earned his enduring affection.
“I appreciated being his friend,” he said. “I’ll never forget that at my mother’s funeral, the first football person I saw at the chapel was Sean. I couldn’t believe it, and I knew then that this was someone I could totally depend on. We’d been friends, but not hugely close – it was mainly football-related.
“But that showed he really cared for me. It confirmed I was dealing with a special man.”
A good cup final morning to you all, time to make history!
A bit of unhealthy breakfast then off to Glesga for opening time , then the game……..:0)
Sorry to hear the news from Yogi Hughes. I hope that you savour the time remaining that your sister has.
Off to 5s now- missing lionsroars from the line up todday but will be thinking of him
seanfalloncelt.wordpress.com
Sean Fallon was halfway through his 91st year when he passed away in January 2013.
Having lived a rich and eventful life, he had found it impossible – sifting through a multitude of professional triumphs and personal joys – to pick out his greatest day. But there was no hesitation in identifying his worst. Today marks its 44th anniversary.
Few will need reminded of what January 2, 1971 represents, or that 66 people lost their lives, crushed to death as they made their way from a football match. Those who attended that infamous Old Firm derby will never forget. For the rest of us, images of horribly twisted guide rails are vivid enough hints of the horror that unfolded.
Fallon merely witnessed the aftermath, and that was appalling enough. Celtic’s assistant manager watched as, throughout Ibrox – in dressing rooms, on tables and on the turf itself – the dead and dying were laid out alongside the badly injured. He had shepherded the players out of the stadium to make room for the casualties, and alongside Jock Stein, Neilly Mochan, Bob Rooney and the Rangers backroom staff, remained behind to help wherever he could.
What he remembered – he was speaking just a few weeks before his death, tears welling in his eyes – were the young faces. The dead had, after all, included five school-friends from the same Fife village, and 31 teenagers in total. The youngest victim was just nine. Hence the certainty with which Fallon reflected on the Ibrox Disaster over four decades later.
“That was the worst day of my life,” he declared unequivocally. “Seeing all those kids lying there and having to carry their bodies, I’ll never forget it. For a young boy to go to watch his team and never come home, it should never have been allowed to happen. It was just heart-breaking. I shed more than a few tears, and I’m not ashamed to admit that I still get emotional thinking about it.
“What happened that day was more important than all the football in the world. At a time like that, you’d gladly forget about trophies and winning Old Firm matches if those people could be back with their families. I think everyone who had been there that day would have gone home and just thanked God their own family was safe. And you never forget about it. How could you? I can still see those poor boys now. It breaks my heart just thinking about it.”
At Fallon’s side amid the chaos had been an old playing adversary and long-time friend, Willie Waddell. The then Rangers manager likened the initial scene to Belsen, saying that the tangled corpses reminded him immediately of the images from the Nazi concentration camp. “My God, it was hellish,” Waddell recalled. “My own training staff and the Celtic training staff were working at the job of resuscitation, and we were all trying everything possible to bring breath back to those crushed limbs.”
As someone qualified in first aid, having trained as a lifeguard during his days as a champion swimmer in Sligo, Fallon was especially busy. And his efforts were not in vain. Indeed, while researching the Irishman’s biography, I learned of a youngster – seemingly left for dead – who owed his life to Celtic’s assistant manager. The boy in question had stopped breathing, and with paramedics overwhelmed and focusing on those with the best chance of survival, his frantic father had pleaded with Stein’s deputy to do what he could.
“I was trained to give the kiss of life, so naturally I tried my best to save him,” Fallon recalled. “After a while, we thought we could see some movement. So we kept at it and eventually, thank God, the lad started breathing again. He survived, I know that. That was one good story to come out of that day; I just wish there had been more like it. All I know is that it wasn’t for the lack of trying, and it wasn’t just me. Bob Rooney [Celtic’s trainer] and the Rangers physio – anyone who knew what they were doing, in fact – were going round, looking to help whoever they could.”
Though instinct had kicked in those crucial early hours, Fallon returned home to the full, devastating realisation of what he had witnessed. “That was a dreadful night,” remembered his wife, Myra. “Sean just sat there, sobbing. We couldn’t get anything out of him. All he kept saying was that these poor boys had been lying there without a mark on them.”
Billy McNeill wrote in his autobiography that it was with “the look of haunted men” that Fallon and Stein returned to work the following week. Both attended several of the ensuing funerals, while Fallon led the offertory procession at a special St Andrew’s Cathedral service attended by players, staff and supporters from both sides. A few days later, he watched approvingly from the touchline as Celtic Park observed a sombre and flawless minute’s silence.
Amid the desolation, hope did flicker briefly that the disaster would prove a watershed not only in stadium safety, but in relations between Glasgow’s warring football tribes. “This terrible tragedy must help to curb the bigotry and bitterness of Old Firm matches,” was the wish expressed by Stein on the front page of the following week’s Celtic View. It would be a forlorn hope. The resumption of hostilities, and the return to business as usual, was swift.
Yet Stein’s description of the bitterness in that same article as “sordid and little” was a view long held by the manager and his deputy. “We had no time for all that sectarian stuff,” said Fallon. “All the division and hatred – it was a load of nonsense. The players, certainly when Jock and I were playing, wanted nothing at all to do with it. We played hard against each other, but we were great friends. I often wished the supporters could have seen that.
“We would go out socialising, and I got on very well with the likes of George Young – big Corky we called him – and Willie Thornton. Deedle [Waddell] would be there too; he and I were great pals right up until he died. He was one of the best players I ever came up against. He was big for a winger and, naturally, I’d try to cut him down to size a bit.
“We always got on very well. He even proposed me for Pollok Golf Club, which was very tough to get into at the time. He told me: ‘I’ll get you in, Sean. But no kicking me when we’re out on the course.’ I told him I was making no promises.”
This Rangers legend was someone of whom Fallon spoke often. “Deedle felt the same way about his team as I did about mine,” he would say admiringly. To the Irishman, this devotion to a rival club established Waddell not as an enemy, but as a kindred spirit.
Fallon never lost sight of the fact that they were united by a great deal more than that which divided them. And he never forgot the day they were united in grief.
Decision made – if only to take my mind off this afternoon’s events for the next hour and a bit…
Must run ;-)
BRTH at 5:51 a.m. Words fail me….but, thankfully, not you. Both of your parents, but I’m guessing especially your father, would be immensely proud of you these last few days. Thank you for everything.
Have to go and dry my eyes now before brekkies.
Morning all.
Nervous as ever about today. Obviously hoping we win but too used to “honest mistakes” cheating us, to take anything for granted.
Win or lose, my thanks to our manager and the whole team for providing us with a wonderful season.
I made my first post about three weeks ago about my dad and uncle Tommys trip to Lisbon to support Celtic, and here 50 years on with thousands of other Celtic supporters, we have paid homage to both all those supporters who made that famous journey and to the Lisbon Lions themselves.
The past few days have been unforgettable, brilliant, brilliant memories to treasure forever.Will need to get back home, take stock of it all and try write down what actually happened here. This was a social phenomenon.
Many many thanks to BRTH for, well, everything. Unfortunately bags to be packed now, but can still catch the final. Need to be on best behaviour though! Flight at 8.00 pm
Thanks to every Celtic supporter that I have met here and who helped make this trip so fantastic.
HH somanyemotionscsc
Lovely morning here in darkest Lanarkshire. Resigned to the fact that my ticket will not appear out of the blue.
So , off to boxing training then the parents and some gardening before the big event. Take care everyone. HH
Winning Captains at 2:44 a.m. “CRC coming back over to drive Billy home”. Is there nothing this man can’t do. Marc, you’re a star from the brightest galaxy.
Cowiebhoy – Good morning from Cascaise, a great day was had by all at the CQN Open (to Tims) de Golf yesterday. The 19th hole proved to be the toughest as is often the case. I’ll leave it to the maestro ACGR to report on the prize winners…. when he wakes up.
Thanks for posting the venue for us Lisbon Tims to watch today’s game AND if you really are having a beer; wait till I get there cause I’d love to enjoy one with you.
BRTH – your an extremely gifted gentleman. Thanks again for you stories and your songs and all your organising. Let the people sing!
Slainte
Tony
CQN Saturday Naps Competition
Lads, for those in the CQN Naps Competition, please post your final week selection here :
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All the best, fleagle1888
–NZ Auckland CSC–
Happy Cup Final day to everyone.
We showcased the new CQN banner at Greenock last night. It’s in Latin and the intention is the recognise the achievements of the side 50 years ago at the same time as today’s team.
The banner will be on display at Hampden today although the Green Brigade seem to be having problems with theirs. Aberdeen’ s is all set up and ready to go but the Green Brigade had some issues with approval yesterday. Hope it is resolved.
If anyone can get a picture of the new CQN banner that would be great.
The history makers
Gordon
Lustig Simunovic Boyata Tierney
McGregor Brown Armstrong
Roberts Griffiths Sinclair
Subs Dembele Rogic Forrest Sviatchenko Gamboa DeVries Bitton
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