On Saturday 8 September 1888, across the north of England, league football got underway. Since then leagues have spread to every corner of the globe where a remotely green patch of grass can survive. Thousands of national titles have been decided in that time, some, as we know to our cost, by the slenderest of margins.
The record winning margin, since 1888, across the globe, is shared by two teams, Paris St Germain and Cairo’s finest, Al Ahly, who both won their national titles by 31 points, PSG last year, Al Ahly in 2005.
Your team and mine are currently 30 points ahead of second placed Aberdeen with two games remaining. If we win away to Partick Thistle tomorrow, and against Hearts on Sunday, and Aberdeen drop fail to win both their remaining games, in Glasgow, against Newco tonight and Partick on Sunday, world football’s record books will be rewritten.
You don’t need the record books to tell you this is a special season, one you will remember fondly for the rest of your life, but in future, many the world over will learn about what Celtic achieved this season by reading their name either immediately below, or above, PSG and Al Ahly.
I remember the old days, when we hoped Aberdeen would drop points at Ibrox. Rangers were a basket case of a football club (nothing on today’s Ibrox incarnation, of course), while Aberdeen were one of the top clubs in Europe, and formidable competition for Celtic.
We can be more circumspect now with our sentiment, but – wait for it, I hope Brother Pedro gets a result tonight. He’s working on our place in history.
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Genuinely dreading next season already before this one ends.
Oh dear
Josh Windass shooshed (index finger over mouth) the Copland road after Waggy’s goal. Oh dear.
WHAT IS THE STARS on 17TH MAY 2017 10:39 PM
Hun Media
Genuinely dreading next season already before this one ends.
Oh dear
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Just read some of it. They’re already scared. One of them pointed out that this is their new normal. Only one of them, mind….
Starry plough.aw naw !!!funny
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Unacceptable shitebaggery
Kenny Misser’s sad wee face at the final whistle…tears welling up. ..that was the icing on the cake
thetimreaper on 17th May 2017 10:33 pm
Just watched Sheff Weds v Huddersfield, amazing lack of quality, both teams utter mince, if Huddersfield go up they’ll come crashing back down. Roll on tomorrow night.
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Fulham were the best team in the playoffs and even they wouldve struggled against us. We really need to find an out from the SPL and into the English leagues.
WHAT IS THE STARS on 17TH MAY 2017 10:31 PM
HAVE THEY NOT SUFFERED ENOUGH !!!!!
Do you mind if I rephrase that?
THEY HAVE NOT SUFFERED ENOUGH !!!!!
Hope you don’t mind.
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The playing of Kenny Miller in the Zurab Khizanishvili role is a monumental headscratching abomination
don’t go on to hun media much but thought it might be worthwhile tonight, loved this in relation to Windass
Never got the hype surrounding him. Whatever we paid Accrington in the end was too much
Oh if anything tells you their level it’s this :-)
Oíche mhaith, a chairde.
Looking forward to tomorrow night’s match. Really hoping for a win but will settle for a draw.
In Brendan we trust.
FAIRHILL BHOY
They’re over on Orc media still talking about Pedro getting his own warriors and closing the financial gap with Celtic:)))
Incontinence pants needed if you go over there:))
HH
The Timereaper
Awe naw no Zurab Khizanishvili oan anaw noo…..
After all this time, the footballing world have been referring to it as the ‘Makalele’ role when in fact it is the Zurab Khizanishvili role.
My goodness.
TTR: I think Nelster is engrossed in the exuberance of his own verbosity.
this is from Ibrox Noise which seems to be the thinking huns blog
I feel like we’re on a ship with 52,000 passengers, and instead of sailing towards the Caribbean (as we’d paid tickets for) we find out we’re actually heading towards the Arctic and it’s December. On top of that, the ship’s navigation system is down, we have a broken rudder and no Captain (we thought he was a Captain, but turns out his papers were forged). We try to get into the bridge, but the door is locked; we can see a guy in there who looks like a Bearsden accountant – he’s sporting a cheesy smile and has just put an unknown Portugese entertainer in charge of somehow piloting the ship. “He speaks good English,” says the accountant, “I find him really impressive.” And all the passengers are realising that if the situation doesn’t change, our cherished ship is eventually going to hit something (again)…
WHAT IS THE STARS on 17TH MAY 2017 10:55 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Tuz5CaxCko
WITS
A bit similar to Fargo or Breaking Bad:)
Never rains but it pours eh.
Lucky White Heather.
HH
Timreaper
Is there such a thing as acceptable shitebaggery
WITS
When heading directly towards an iceberg, yes.
I hope Pedro stays for ever, he is feckin hilarious, his reaction after the game tonight
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kgWQYCVrbWA&feature=youtu.be
TET
never mind Pedro
Davey Bhoy King is the real hero…here is one guys views on what could happen when the Takeover Panel win their case.
Worst case scenario for club and fans is extinction…if we can not use banking, can not process payments in electronic format we cant trade properly….if we cant trade properly how are we going to survive? The law is sometimes not fair to those who have done nothing wrong, but are caught up in it, like we the honest fans are…we are caught up in something we are not privy to and will suffer.
What can be done? Get rid of King and hope above hope those sentencing us will see our intentions are honourable and we are trying to move away from King and co, we need re-listed and trading to attract investment, for that you need a NOMAD, something we will never attain while King is anywhere near our club.
starry plough on 17th May 2017 10:53 pm
The Timereaper
Awe naw no Zurab Khizanishvili oan anaw noo…..
VG:))
https://twitter.com/clydessb/status/864957298585853954
Pedro getting tough with pesky hun McInnes….ye couldnae make the Poundland stuff up…..it’s magic…
16 mins ago / Neil Cameron
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PEDRO CAIXINA, the Rangers manager, last night described Derek McInnes as “disrespectful” for snubbing him at Aberdeen last month as the war of words between the two showed no signings of stopping.
The Portuguese and Aberdeen managers shook hands before the 2-1 win for the visitors at Ibrox but argued during the game and at the final whistle voices were raised as Caixinha disappeared up the tunnel.
For his part, McInnes insisted the accusation was wrong and no matter what was said nothing could take away from an important win for his team,
Goals from Graeme Shinnie and Ryan Christie gave Aberdeen their first victory at Ibrox for 26 years with Martyn Waghorn replying for the home side.
When asked what happened at the end of the match, Caixinha said: “I was just saluting him and saying I didn’t understand the reason why he invited me to be received in his office and didn’t show up at the previous match.
“So I said that if you didn’t show up in the previous match, you are definitely not welcome to come to my office. It is a question of respect. If I am not being respected then, please, don’t show up. If he didn’t show up and I waited more than 15 minutes, what do you call that? What do you call that?
“I am a guy who came here to do my job. I know I am maybe the only foreigner but I have already passed through this situation in Mexico so I am used to it. But I am here to win and here to defend this club.”
McInnes also said Rangers should be embarrassed at finishing third behind his own team with the financial disparity which exists between the two.
Caixinha replied: “No, Rangers need to feel very proud. Because this is a club that has travelled all the way from the bottom to the Europa League. They should be proud of what they have done along these five years.”
As for the supposed bad manners at Pittodrie after the 3-0 Rangers win, McInnes said: “He’s wrong. I was doing my media duties as I normally do and there is absolutely no way I would be like that with any manager and I never will.
“Every manager is welcome in my office and I always make the point.
“It’s not something you can aim at me. He’s wrong, he’s mistaken. If he thinks that then maybe he should have said to me be before – I don’t know.
“Tony Docherty (coach) and my staff were there at the time and told me they came in, had a quick glass or red wine and shot away.
“They made their apologies for having to leave so soon. I was still doing my media work and it was no longer than any other time. I would never disrespect any manager in terms of after the game.
“Will I go into his office? I might try.”
The two did have some things to say to one another during the match.
McInnes said: “That was just about decisions. Managers and benches can get passionate on the touchline. There was a couple of calls, one or two things, and I argued with him as he did with me.”
McInnes was perplexed why Caixinha spoke so much about his own team in his pre-match press-conference, which provoked his own criticism of Rangers as a club, and the Portuguese himself.
But Caixinha said: “I am not focused on Aberdeen next season. The focus at this club is always to be number one. We don’t have a misunderstanding here. I am in this chair so I know what it means to represent this club. Many others would like to be here but they aren’t. That is the situation we need to deal with. I know what the job represents.”
Huns are ready to throw the buckfast oot ra pram.
Although that penny still hasnt dropped yet, which im sure would totally Flummox Galileo:)
They are a bit slow on the uptake,….similar to a man who is standing on a railway line, and can see the train coming, but refuses to move out of the way….splat:)
However, its fun watching:)
HH
Pedro and Brendan drank all the red wine after the 5-1 game, that’s why McIness isn’t getting into Pedro’s den.
Cant wait to see their Europa League Squad:)
Now, that will be fun.
It will be interesting to see what kind of player Pedro can attract:)
HH
Pedro’s diary,
Tuesday: tell Aberdeen their cycle is coming to an end, declare and interest in signing one of their players and tell them the Rangers are coming for 2nd place next season.
Wednesday: accuses McIness of disrespecting him.
Comedy Gold.
Arrived at Faro airport this morning for the start of a 10 day Portuguese festival of Celtic.
First time I have set foot on Portuguese soil in my life. First impression. Beautiful country, beautiful climate and beautiful, very friendly people.
Lest all you smug Tims forget…
https://www.facebook.com/staaandfree/videos/1676231106007670/?hc_ref=NEWSFEED
DD
Beautiful music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPjmBt6d4GE
Macjay
Hope you and your beautiful family are as well as me and mine.
Portuguese folk love the Celtic badge on my polo shirt. It makes them smile and say “Ah Celtica Glasgow!”
Fassreifen,
Probably the easiest way to find a copy of James Connolly’s essay in a book format is to mail Carlton Books at….
‘For general enquiries please contact us at: shop@calton-books.co.uk‘
The article is called ‘July the 12th’. Published in 1913 (The Dublin Lockouts commenced August 26th 1913).
Thanks to everyone for the kind comments. Tontine Tim, maybe see you in these parts some day and continue our chat in person.
HH & Nite all
Not Motherwell anyway!
TET
that interview, Pedro says this is the last game at Ibrox…….
Is that a coded message??!!! :-)
DD
Enjoy Lisbon. I was there was a day stop on a cruise last summer, beautiful city.
Just translated a request from a Hun on dieder media
Foda-se de volta ao Qatar
MWD