By now, even the most red, white and orange tinted glasses wearers must be coming around to thinking there’s something off about Newco’s dossier of evidence of bullying and unfair sporting advantage which should have seen Neil Doncaster and Rod McKenzie suspended three weeks ago.
At a Premiership club meeting on Friday, Newco chief exec Stewart Robertson promised to release their evidence today, creating a genuine sense of anticipation among a support who have had little substantial to cheer for many years. Instead, they awoke to news that information would not be released until Thursday.
There are 41 other clubs in the SPFL, they have all discussed the issue between them and none know who was allegedly bullied. Newco have given themselves another two days to convince someone they were subject to a grievous offence.
It reminds me of Ricky Fulton’s sketch from the 1980s (below). You can imagine Stewart Robertson phoning round, “Have you ever been nearly bullied?” Good luck, Stewart, all of CQN is rooting for you.
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Happy Birthday, Paul 67. Hope you have a good day with your family even in these difficult times. Thanks also for giving us this place to come to and to feel we are not alone but surrounded by a wonderful family of fellow Celtic supporters. God bless, Paul.
CELTIC have snapped up prolific 16-year-old Aussie youngster Stefan Nikolic, according to reports from Down Under.
The World Game website claims that the teenager – who comes from the same management company as established Parkhead star Rom Rogic – will jet over to Glasgow as soon as travel restrictions are lifted after the coronavirus crisis.
Hi Paul67
Happy birthday you’re still just a bhoy. 🥳🥳🥳🥳
KEEP THE FAITH
PAUL67
Time for an amnesty?
You know what I mean!
Sorry I missed you out Corkcelt
Happy birthday T ☘️☘️
!!BADA BING!!
Is “snapped up” as good as “have swooped”?
HOOPY Birthday Paul 67
HOOPY Birthday to CORKCELT
Corkcelt has more birthdays than the queen, he’s the 9th January day before mine😱😵😀
Philbhoy- he is still to ‘jet in…’ so best to keep our powder dry…..
!!BADA BING!!
Forgot about that!
“Snapped up” and “jetting in” – has Jabba joined the Celtic PR team?
Mornin all – very best wishes Paul.
Welcome back Big J
Any white smoke from Ibrox – habemus dossierum!
Happy birthday Paul67. You share your birthday with Corkcelt (dont we all).
My life improved for the better as a result of discovering the people on this fine site. The daily interactions and then the old quiz nights, golf days, anniversary dinners, etc. Thank you for keeping it going (even with the daily access challenges!)
Happy Birthday to Corkcelt, my the time flies when you are in lockdown.😉😷
For those who missed it yesterday.
Irish Downfall (* couple of visual swearies).
https://streamable.com/27ljkr
Very H888py Birthday 🎂
Paul67
And to my nephew Kevin in Toronto ( who will be looking in ) 😂
Hail Hail
Happy Name Day…………………. Paul 67
Longmayyourlumbreeeeeeeeeeek
Happy birthday Paul67
Stay safe and healthy
Not long till we celebrate our 9th title in a row. In isolation of course
Back to lurking….
“Health Secretary Matt Hancock has told Sky News he was “speechless” after it emerged one of the government’s key scientific advisers had broken the UK’s lockdown rules.
Mr Hancock described the actions of Professor Neil Ferguson as “extraordinary”, after it emerged he allowed Antonia Staats, who is reported to be his lover, to visit him at home – in breach of official social distancing rules.”
Hancock’s only jealous because he’s not getting his jam roll.
CATMAN,
What’s the news on the transfer front? 😉😂
new article posted.
Just reading through the lovely messages. Will respond on the new article. Thank you…….
Good Morning.
First of all a very Happy Birthday to Paul67.
If things were different, I would have been out of bed at very early o’clock this morning to fly to London and then on to Milan to take part in a celebration commemorating the fact that today a Celtic team made up entirely of 11 homegrown players had reached a European Cup Final for the second time.
While we rightly focus upon the heady heights scaled by the club on a May night in Lisbon, that triumph overshadows and banishes to the corner the influence that Celtic had on European Football for the next number of years.
Apart from demonstrating that Cattenaccio could and should be beaten, 1967 saw Celtic declare their intent on the European stage under Stein.
However, in the following years Celtic showed a true and prolonged European pedigree that with a little tinkering and a smattering of luck could have seen the club land the big cup more than just the once.
During a recent twitter debate the question was asked what one thing, be it a result or a signing or a policy, would you change if you could rewrite the entire history of Celtic.
Many, like myself, went for the result in the San Siro spouting the mantra that had we won against Feyenoord then that would have enhanced our history still further.
When writing the book on Willie Wallace for CQN, Willie told me that we beat ourselves that night. Things were not right between the players and Stein and that there were arguments behind the scenes over win bonuses and the likes. Big Jock also told the team that Feyenoord couldn’t really play and that yon guy Van Henegam was a haddy and that they shouldn’t be too worried about him!
Willie was also adamant that had the game gone to a replay then there would have been only one winner and that Celtic would have had a totally different attitude. He was certain they would win.
But such is the nature of football at this level that if you don’t bring your best then you won’t get the result.
Debate still rages as to whether or not a place should have been found at the start for the brilliant George Connelly who had been so influential against Leeds, but who could have argued with the team of Williams, Hay, Gemmell, Murdoch, McNeill, Brogan, Johnstone, Wallace, Hughes, Auld and Lennox?
Perhaps George could have started instead of Jim Briogan but Jim was one of our best players that night and a mention must go to Evan Williams who was outstanding.
However, Jim’s forte was as a hard tackling defensive cover, whereas George, who was no soft touch, could read the game and was able to hold the ball and create. Maybe we would have been on the back foot less with George in the team? Who knows?
However, back on Twitter I was taken with those who argued that they favoured another result to change.
One very strong argument was that had big Billy not slipped to allow Pierino Prati to score at Celtic Park in the quarter final of 12th March 1969 and we had beaten Milan in that match, then there was absolutely no doubt that we would have gone on to beat Manchester Utd in the semis (Milan won 2-1) and then won against the emerging Ajax side in the Bernabau final where the Italian team, who scraped by us, cuffed the Dutch side by four goals to one.
Had that season played out in that way, then by the time you came to 1970 then Celtic would have been twice winners, undoubted and undisputed kings of Europe and would have been far better prepared to meet a second Dutch side in the final in Italy.
Had that happened just think of the pull and allure of Celtic in the transfer and recruitment market? Would Stevie Highway have ever gone to Liverpool? Would others who found their way to other big clubs have been attracted to Celtic Park?
Would players have stayed longer at Celtic Park instead of heading to England and what would our standing and branding have been like across Europe?
Another argument was that had Dixie not missed the penalty and we had beaten Inter in the first ever penalty shoot out and gone on to face Cruyff’s Ajax in the final in Rotterdam then we would have been far more determined than Inter who more or less lay down to the Dutch champions.
However, it was not to be, but the fact remains that had there been a little bit of luck, a rub of the green or even a wee bit more professionalism at Celtic Park or in the San Siro then big cup would have been lifted more than once.
AC Milan said that we were by far the toughest and best side they played in 1969 and in terms of European competition we were there or there abouts throughout the era.
And ALL with Scottish players.
So today we should remember Evan Williams, Davie Hay, Jim Brogan, John Hughes and George Connelly because they took to the field in a Celtic shirt in a European Cup Final and many brilliant players from our past will never be able to say they achieved that.
Finally, two other short tales from this day should be borne in mind.
Immediately after the game at the San Siro, many fans made their way to Malpensa Airport to fly back to Glasgow where they were met with a lightning Air Traffic Controllers strike and thousands of celebrating Feyenoord fans. My dad had to rush to the British Consulate in Milan to try and get help as thousands of football fans were crammed into the airport.
At the airport, my mother pleaded with the groundstaff to let her take control of the airport tannoy , just as she had done in Lisbon 3 years before, so that she could at least load up the planes, partially empty the airport and so avoid a potential calamity involving Hillsborough like overcrowding and a potential riot.
They eventually saw sense and gave her the microphone.
There are many days in Celtic’s history spoken about in our house — cup finals, league wins, great games and all the history.
However, my mum says that the post match events in Malpensa Airport should be celebrated as THE greatest ever tribute to the fans of Celtic Football Club.
Despite the strike, despite the overcrowding, despite the very friendly and enthusiastic Feyenoord fans rightly celebrating their heads off in and around the Celtic fans — Malpensa airport saw not so much as a broken window, an overturned ashtray or a heated word. There was no police intervention, no arrests, no detentions, nothing — despite the great disappointment of losing and the frustration of being crammed into that airport with the supporters of the winning team.
THAT is a truly magnificent testament to the fans of the club — and to the fans of Feyenoord FC!
Lastly, not too long after losing that final, Big Jock sought out the services of a stocky centre forward from Motherwell called John Deans.
As mentioned above a few years later he would miss a penalty in a European Tie.
The Scottish press hounded him for that. They camped on his doorstep, chased him down the street, approached his relatives and generally made the man’s life a total misery for just over a fortnight.
My mum and dad would have made a fortune had Celtic made the final in Rotterdam as my old man had reserved every hotel bed in the city months before because he was certain that Celtic would feature in the final.
However, when he was dying my dad revealed the one incident in his lifetime that he would have loved to have changed was not the result but the way Dixie was hounded by the press as their treatment of him was criminal in his eyes. Some journalists had even approached my dad, knowing what the penalty miss had cost him, and asked for his comments on Dixie, that miss and what it had cost our family.
My old man hunted them, refused to co-operate and literally chased them out of his office.
And when he was dying he said that if he could go back and change something that was what he would change – the way that Dixie Deans was treated by the Scottish Press.
But why mention that incident here?
Because it was on this day that Celtic played Hibs in the Scottish Cup Final of 1972 — just 16 days after that penalty miss.
The story goes that before the cup final big Jock took a somewhat downcast Dixie aside and talked to him about how he had been treated by the press since the semi final against Inter.
Dixie was told to go out and “stick it to the press, shut them up, make them eat their own words!”
And by God didn’t he do just that against a very good Hibs side!
Today is a day to remember just how good Celtic were POST Lisbon and to celebrate the players who are sometimes overshadowed by the Lions but who were amongst the mighty in Europe.
Today is a day just to Celebrate the players and the fans.
If you know the History ……………………
BRTH
Everybody sitting in the sun ?
BOGNORBHOY on 6TH MAY 2020 2:22 PM
Everybody sitting in the sun ?
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Get your sombrero on there’s a new article.
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