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Was it really almost 15 years since the only time Celtic beat reigning European champions?  A late goal from Scott McDonald in October 2007 was enough to secure a 2-1 win over Milan in the Champions League.  Two other Scottish clubs had already achieved this (Rangers and Dunfermline, both who beat the 1967 European champions), recording a mark the great Stein sides never did.

The reason I mention this to you is that in the days that followed we were glowing in our new European status.  Then we visited Fir Park.  It wasn’t even Motherwell we faced, it was Gretna, a team from 90 miles south of ML1 who did not have the facilities to compete in the top flight, so travelled the M74 for home games.

Gretna were leading until 85 minutes, when goals from Chris Killen and another late McDonald winner calmed our nerves.

We are now glowing at our great win and performance on Wednesday night.  ‘We shall not be moved’ from the top of the league is the claim.  I heard the same chant from Dingwall on Saturday when Newco took a 2-3 lead; chants don’t win points.  The next game is always the biggest one and for Celtic, the next two, both on the road, are crucially important.

Players are not machines, they cannot climb the mountain every time.  There will be an inevitable fall off in adrenalin at Fir Park.  There are 14 games remaining, seven away from home, every one a cup final in itself.  An acre of Lanarkshire is the stage for our next trophy.  Win and keep belief alive that not by the Hearts, the Hibs or the The Rangers, we shall not be moved!

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  4. Martim1980 on

    Rugby refs huh?

     

     

    Immediately working on the decision, team working together, everyone mike’d, clear questions, answers, relaying of rules, deliver sound decision whilst relaying the rules applied.

     

     

    As expected Ireland make a little more distance against Wales after a low scoring first half.

     

     

    17-0

  5. DeniaBhoy on

    Unlike Boyd, I thought McCoist was fine on Wednesday night, he was absolutely honest about the game and the battering his side was given. Made no excuses.

     

    Some of us cannot get past his infamous spat with NL. In the real world, the two of them get on well and even play Fives in the same team.

     

    A few weeks back Thommo revealed what went on between them that night when they were pulled apart. And it was nothing like what we all presumed.

     

    Boyd, on the other hand, truly is sleekit. Wants to be seen as a cheerleader of the worst kind. You know he hates us. McCoist does not.

  8. DeniaBhoy on

    BankieBhoy – it is in his book:

     

     

    I was stood so close that I clearly heard Ally tell Lenny, ‘And don’t you be speaking to my f***ing players like that’, only for Lenny to tell him, ‘They’re not your f***ing players, they’re Walter’s.

     

     

    “It’s never been disclosed what was actually said in over a decade now — but I’m telling you that was the spark that lit the fire and Hell was hot.

     

     

    “Lenny was right because Walter was the gaffer and Ally was only the No 2 at that time. Ally didn’t take well to that.

  9. RobertTressell on

    McCoist as a pundit is OK.

     

     

    As a person, unless he’s changed, I wouldn’t be a big fan of how je lived his life, but he has no effect in my life whatsoever, so, big deal.

  10. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    The Times article is moderately interesting and informative but hardly surprising.

     

     

    Sevco, and R@ngers before them, contaminate everything they touch.

     

     

    White trash fans holding on to values which are a century out of date.

     

     

    Organised gangs of louts attacking Celtic fans on the street.

     

     

    Bigoted police who break the law and who think of us as puddle drinkers.

     

     

    SFA blazers, Referees, Judges, Sheriffs, Court clerks, journalists, media executives and, of course, politicians.

     

     

    Track records suggest they simply cannot be trusted to exercise authority impartially.

     

     

    Augean stables needing cleaned out.

  11. DeniaBhoy on

    More perspective from Thommo about that night:

     

     

    ALAN THOMPSON has revealed what was said between Ally McCoist and Neil Lennon during their touchline rammy back in 2011.

     

     

    The shame game between Celtic and Rangers was full of controversy before the full-time whistle and had three red cards, 13 cautions and 34 fans were arrested by police.

     

     

    Upon the full-time whistle Gers assistant McCoist clashed with Lennon on the touchline and to this day fans have wondered what was said between the two.

     

     

    Thompson was alongside Lennon on the touchline that day and discussing the moment, he told The Sun: “One of the main talking points of that season was the Lenny v McCoist battle.

     

    The first game at Ibrox was a classic which ended 2-2.

     

     

    “It was a great result for us because we finished the game with ten men with big Fraser Forster getting sent off.

     

     

    “That game was also the birth of ‘The Broony’ which became a very iconic celebration as Scott Brown scored and stood with his hands in the air directly in front of El Hadji Diouf, almost face to face.

     

     

    “Scotty said afterwards that it was the best yellow card he had ever received in his whole career!

     

     

    “The Scottish Cup fifth round replay was back at ours and if the first had been ill-tempered, then this was to be known as ‘the shame game’ — with players almost getting locked up by the police off the pitch and a few red cards thrown in for good measure.

     

     

    “Rangers defenders Madjid Bougherra and Steven Whittaker both saw red with Diouf getting up to his old tricks and he saw red also.

     

     

    “The game from start to finish was absolute mayhem. It’s not as if these games are normally good-tempered but this was extra spiteful.

     

     

    “McCoist at the time pointed the finger at Lenny regarding what happened between them.

     

     

    “He said Lenny acted over-aggressively, which wasn’t the case in my opinion, and I broke them up.

     

     

    “What really started it off was Diouf gave our physiotherapist a hard shoulder and it escalated from there.

     

    “Brown took a few kicks and Kris Commons got clattered in front of our dugout, which sent our emotions sky high.

     

     

    “All the way through the game Diouf was dishing out verbals on everyone in a hooped shirt and even directed a few to myself and Lenny on the sidelines.

     

     

    “Don’t forget it was Lenny and me opposing him exactly eight years previously when Celtic played against Liverpool in the Uefa Cup match at Parkhead — and he infamously spat at Celtic fans.

     

     

    “You look at Diouf and he was pretty decent.

     

     

    “The guy had been with some good clubs but in my opinion the only reason Rangers brought him in on loan was to wind the Celtic fans up.

     

     

    “He was brought in by Rangers for the shock value.

     

     

    “Diouf was ‘on one’ that night and I told him many times to ‘do one’ away from our area as he was constantly trying to sneak in closer to our area to noise us up.

     

     

    “When the final whistle blew, and we had won the game, all the staff went over to shake hands with the opposing team as you do, and Lenny went to shake Coisty’s hand.

     

     

    “I was stood so close that I clearly heard Ally tell Lenny, ‘And don’t you be speaking to my f***ing players like that’, only for Lenny to tell him, ‘They’re not your f***ing players, they’re Walter’s.

     

     

    “It’s never been disclosed what was actually said in over a decade now — but I’m telling you that was the spark that lit the fire and Hell was hot.

     

     

    “Lenny was right because Walter was the gaffer and Ally was only the No 2 at that time. Ally didn’t take well to that.

     

    The Rangers boys were all trying to say it was our fault but any team who receives three red cards in one match need to have a long hard look at themselves.”

  12. JHB on

    DENIABHOY @ 3.33

     

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    Agree with all you write. Boyd is trying to make a name for himself as a ‘shock-jock’. Sky are employing him to be controversial, the Sun likewise. He is not the most erudite and camouflages with edgy rhetoric.

     

     

    Such is the diversity in the current squads at Celtic Park & Ibrox, there can no West of Scotland hatred between the respective players – just like your reading of the Lennon/McCoist thing – it suits some to make mischief to satisfy their own narrow agenda.

  13. bognorbhoy on

    it suits some to make mischief to satisfy their own narrow agenda.

     

     

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  15. BillyBhoy1967 on

    McCoist has gone back up in my estimation after watching the banter every Friday night with Chris Sutton on BT Sports excellent preview show. The pair of them have me in stitches every week.

     

     

    He has been fullsome in his praise of Ange and his signings over the past few months, none more so than last night.

  18. bankiebhoy1 on

    Thanks Deniabhoy – very interesting.

     

    I’d always thought that wee sleekit keech had dropped in something incendiary.

  33. ernie lynch on

    MARTIN O’SEVILLE on 5TH FEBRUARY 2022 4:35 PM

     

     

     

    Yeah, absolutely definitely not the same guy. Just a series of coincidences.

     

     

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    November 8, 2017

     

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    Sheriff Lindsay Wood

     

    Sheriff Lindsay Wood was born in Hamilton and was educated in Motherwell and Arbroath. He graduated LLB from Dundee University in 1977. He was appointed a Sheriff in Glasgow in 2003, having previously been a court solicitor for over 20 years. He was a partner and then managing partner of Thornton’s Solicitors, before he moved to the Bench.’

     

     

     

    https://justiceinnovation.org/articles/qa-sheriff-lindsay-wood

     

     

     

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    https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC043151/officers

     

     

     

     

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  34. Rock Tree Bhoy on

    JHB on 5TH FEBRUARY 2022 11:39 AM

     

     

    Totally agree with your observation, absolutely shocked at some of the ‘replies’ you have received (previously) from fellow Celtic supporters, some of whom have been well and truly exposed for their narrow minded views. A wee bit surprised by you not defending yourself, but in hindsight yeah agree nothing to gain by joining in.

  35. Rock Tree Bhoy on

    Wonderful news that GVB thinks therangers took over the match on Wed night after 25 minutes, if he genuinely thinks that they are in far bigger trouble than they think they are.

  37. petec on

    In 401 so couldnae hear the East sides sonics.

     

     

    Wednesday was a Magical Evening.

     

     

    Regarding Boyd. He sums up Skys coverage of Scottish fitba. Pityful.

  38. bankiebhoy1 on

    Such multiple nut-baggery in one basket o’ sleekitry.

     

     

    Hates Celtic Quick News

     

     

    Despises Celtic fans

  40. BillyBhoy1967 on

    Petec

     

     

    Having spent the last two years as our in house Anti Vax correspondent I’m surprised to hear that you were in attendance on Wednesday.

     

     

    Have you had a Damascian conversion?

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