John Greig said his biggest regret in football was being handed the European Cup Winners’ Cup trophy in a dressing room and not in front of fans. What should have been an iconic moment, with images forever displayed on walls, was little more than an afterthought.
Chances are, at some point today, you, me, Neil Lennon, Scott Brown and the rest of the players will receive a text message, “9 in a row, official”, we will do our best to celebrate the moment, but it should not have been like this. The occasion had the making of our most endearing memories as Celtic supporters, and for that, there is regret, we missed out. For once only, Scott Brown will know how John Greig felt.
Nine-in-a-row has been filled with fabulous memories created by some of the greatest ever Celtic teams. For me, it started as we followed the live within our means strategy I always held dear, while ominously acknowledging the threat of four-in-a-row from the spendaholics.
When we were three goals down at Rugby Park in October 2011 that threat felt all too real. Without a double from Anthony Stokes and a third from Charlie Mulgrew, or even Paul Heffernan’s open goal chance to win the game for the home side on 88 minutes, so much of what followed could have been different.
It took over eight years for that feeling of doom to return. Our domination was never in threat, but history was. 29 December 2019 will remain in Celtic fans’ memory for longer than it probably deserves. That was the date a feeling that we might be in trouble returned. We have every chance of winning our fourth consecutive treble and you would not be against us doing the same again next season, but although we didn’t know it at the time, the title destiny was out of our hands after the players left Celtic Park on the end of a 1-2 defeat.
A lot of CQN’ers who were here for the start of this run are no longer with us. I made an offhand comment to one of that number in 2012, saying, ‘Celtic will never lose another league title in your lifetime’. I regretted this, as it was meant as a flippant take on our comparative position in Scottish football, not on our own mortality. But here we are, growing older with Celtic’s dominance, if anything, more secure than ever. That flippant comment remains valid for an untold number of us.
You, your parents or your grandparents may have celebrated a European Cup win and nine-in-a-row first time around, but Celtic’s position in 1974, when we first won nine, was significantly weaker than it is today. Today, it feels like we are ready to kick on to another level.
When the news comes, remember the struggles of getting here, not just the hard years during the 90s, but the years of loss under ‘prudent’ [solvent]spending plans. As a Celtic supporter, you suffered the defeats, the lost trophies and their divisive consequences. You deserve your chance to celebrate nine-in-a-row and a crack at 10 next season.
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Wine o’clock…………..
Moussa Dembélé
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@MDembele_10
Looks like its ANOTHER title celebration for @CelticFC 😊! CONGRATULATIONS Bhoys this is well deserved 🙌🏿! CHAMPI9NS again! Amazing job done this season & history made again 🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆 #9InARow #OnceACeltAlwaysACelt #CHAMPIONS @dembelition
so how did that work out
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52710194
That German team that pumped thems are back playing and winning 3-1. Oh dear, oh dearie, dearie me. Just can’t get enough.
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chick young bitter OB
These bhoys tweeted there congratulatins to the Celtic
https://youtu.be/Z3ZCZjhjguA
Growing up through their 9 was hard to take, dont give a monkeys how it was won, just that it was won, delighted. It’s actually more impressive when you think of the changes we are forced to make year on year with the turn over of our top players.
Even now we face losing ajer, ntcham and eduard. The other likely loss is foster who has been massive for us this year. I hope the guys who replacement them are as good as those leaving.
Reckon we will need a new gk, centeback, rightback ( if we sell boli), left winger and forward. Although I suspect Klimala is eduard’s replacement and if we are gonna play wingbacks a lot we may not want another winger on the left. Guess with all the stuff that’s happening at the minute we will not be going to hard into the transfer market regardless, it would be reckless and risky unless you were sure you had income incoming beyond the transfer fees generated.
HH
We’re flying the flag down here in what is definitely not a hun free valley ©️TET. Some creep seemed to take offence and looked like he was trying to pull it down( it’s high on top of a telegraph pole) then Mrs S went out to challenge him and he squirmed away. No doubt it will be away by tomorrow, but darn the hair do we care. And for all lurkin huns , GIRFUY. ©️TD67
Really hope that SOT and TET are keeping well and enjoying the 9.
SAINT STIVS on 18TH MAY 2020 8:55 PM
good wee read
https://thefitbanomad.wordpress.com/2019/08/26/pilgrimage-to-paradise/
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I’d second this – especially the first half or so
Test
I think all Celtic supporters should show a bit of magnanimity, generosity and charitableness to our nearest but distant rivals for the SPFL title and dedicate this song to them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=25&v=Jg2oR91_r5I&feature=emb_logo
Scaniel
Do you have any motor oil? Then put it on the pole👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
I went most of the time when Rangers were on their journey to 9 in a row. The night they achieved it at Tannadice I was in an upstairs classroom in St Charles’ primary school. It was parent’s night and because I was doing support for learning work nobody came to see me. When Laudrop scored and I heard it through my small radio I sat and wept.
Throughout the last 9 years I’ve hardly missed a domestic game home or away.
Tonight is sweet revenge for how they cheated their way to a genuinely tainted 10 and I remember that night in that classroom.
Get it right up every single one of them!!
GREENGRAY1967 on 18TH MAY 2020 8:45 PM
Life does change people of course and the older you get, like me. The easier the “now” comes to being accepted. To quote from Rob Roy the Movie ” May you live so long” :)
SHILTRUM
EMERALDBEE\0/ STILL PROUD TO BE AN INTERNET BAMPOT.
HAIL HAIL My friend there were of course some other events that took place through that period of time
1951-? so here’s hoping I will be here in 2029 to celebrate once again.
KTF COYBIN
Congratulations Celtic…and congratulations to every man, woman and child out there who were ‘there and always will be there’. God bless Tommy Burns. God bless every one of you!
Congratulations to the players, management and club staff.
Thanks for making this great day.
Today we remember those who travelled with us by bus, boat and plane to stand beside us as we watched our heroes.
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS on 18TH MAY 2020 9:02 PM
Fireworks going off at 9.00 here in the foothills of the Cathkin Braes…
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Aye ,I can hear them in Drumsagard :O)
Like many on here this is my second nine. In many ways it is sweeter than the first. We were so imperious then (in a good way), especially in Europe that domestically we were just so good that we expected to win titles…. which was a long way off the place we were in when I first saw the hoops play in ‘61. Only now can we really appreciate how hard the first 9 was- we’ll, not only now but it does put it into perspective. What makes this sweeter, however, is the bitterness of the huns and their friends in the smsm. Loving it!
Now all we need is Old Tim coming on to celebrate the Nine. That would be the icing on my cake.
Gary MacKay – spoke like aa football fan.. Get down do talking on pitch and come back stronger
It would’ve cost less, and left the previous owners with nothing, to go into liquidation. But it would also be humiliating for Celtic. So we paid …
Thank you Fergus McCann …
very well said, well balanced and girfuyed by lennie
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/52706917
Hail
Hail
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Hail
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Hail to the Champions.
Good things about lockdown
No huns stay within 100 feet
Bad thing about lockdown (especially today)
No huns stay within 100 feet
I got no one to laugh at
Going into the winter shutdown in a strong position, they had more home games than us to play and a much easier run of fixtures against bottom half teams to look forward to while we went away to Aberdeen, Motherwell & livi. It was there for them or so they thought…
That disappointment has been replaced by a 21st century football version of Germany’s stab in the back of 1918. It’s a coping mechanism that they can have, I don’t care. 9 in a row is history now. Unbroken history.
We’ll enjoy the next few days. Come June 10th we’re back in training and preparing for the biggest season of our lives.
In Lenny I trust.
Hamiltontim, I have had the pleasure of meeting you at Celtic Trust AGM’s.
I cannot imagine the anguish you and your family are suffering.
I bumped into you at our ticket office a few days after my dad passed away. Your words of condolence that day were very much appreciated as was the post you made the same night about my dad passing away.
My dad had been in a care home for 3 years before he met his maker. Like many of us , his support of Celtic passed onto me. He passed away the day after we set the new Unbeaten record when we beat St Johnstone . We were glad he lived long enough to see that. Like some on here and our fathers , he endured our less successful times between 1946 to 1965 but his support for our team never wavered despite poor health preventing him going to more games. It was really pleasing the last game he attended was during our invincible season , a 2 nil win against Motherwell . The care home had organised taking him and two other residents to the game.
I would like to dedicate our latest league championship to my dad , Joe , Helen and all our relatives and friends no longer with us but would have cherished our second nine in a row.
Our team have been terrific overall this season and our board have been as good with their conduct since the lockdown.
AULDHEID on 18TH MAY 2020 8:10 PM
Paul 67
You mention the Motherwell game when we were 3 down.
I well remember the rancor of that day on CQN. Tim against Tim, nastily so. It brought out the worst in us.
It was typical of that period with our support split between the patient and the impatient, but as I have said a few times “infinite patience produces immediate result” and the proof of that is now manifest.
I’m a forgiving chap by choice, but I’ve never forgotten the negative impact on the Celtic support and club caused by at least ten years of now proven cheating by Rangers (regardless of the subsequent official cover up attempts), where they brought out the worst in us and take a bit of satisfaction in seeing that pain being repaid bit by bit.
Tainted titles? They don’t know the meaning of the word.
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I know how hard you and others have worked towards pushing Celtic and the governing bodies to hold them accountable for the cheating years and to restore confidence in football governance. You done so very diligently and you deserved better. Around the time of the AGM last year i was totally scunnered with the way Celtic were and had handled it, imo it was shady, deceitful and arrogant. But i found a way to bury myself in the football and move past it because in all honesty there was no alternative. I still strongly disagree with how it played out and even today when reading so many different words and messages, it has been at the back of my mind.
Whether todays words by Peter Lawwell were written by him or by someone else we will never know. Either way, the message was a masterclass in leadership and humility. It really hit home with me. As a club we are doing things correctly and reaping much deserved success.
Mistakes have been made in the past but in truth most of us are flawed individuals both personally and professionally. For me it’s time to forgive and to be thankful for what we have today.
Goodnight all.Thank you for being here,especially on special days like today.so that I could share it with fellow Tims.
LOCKDOWN csc.
Dallas Dallas 10:07
Impressive
Shudda been part of the 9 goals
4.09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_zSZZIkmTQ
Auldheid 9.33
Your a bad man (lol).
David17 10.11
Having given up my ST a number of years ago because of our non-action I am now thinking as you do but still not entirely comfortable with it.
HH
Celtic. It’s all about you.
Celtic your victories earned it.
Celtic worked for it and got what Celtic merited.
Dallas ‘to them that gave us Celtic.hh
HH all 2020 99’r s champi
S hwg10iar
Scaniel , thank you.
Hopefully the flag is still there in the morning.
No Iron Horse.
No Paradise.
Still feels like Heaven :-)
Hail Hail.
An Tearmann , my dad and his four brothers before World War Two went together to as many of our home games as possible . This changed after the war when they met their eventual wives.
Like you and many others , we will be forever grateful to our fathers and forefathers for introducing us to Celtic allowing us to celebrate days like today.
night night y’all
I was 14 in 1974.
Oh my days.
HH Celtic.