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.
JOCK STEIN LISBON 1967 T-SHIRTS SELLING FAST! ORDER AT WWW.CQNBOOKSTORE.COM
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Canamalar
Due to ‘The Big Bang’ creating the Sun I believe atheist celebrate Sun Creation Day with a jammie day. So no, atheist deserve their Sun Creation Day off just as much as much as any believer. In fact considering ‘The Big Bang’ and evolution of planetary, universal and galati all life took hunners of millions of years I reckon atheist should never need to work again but be paid quadruple time for not working at a base rate of £100 per hour.
MWD
Nazareth
https://youtu.be/NRJUr-iP-8o
Whit wis Jesus hiv dun:))
A Stor Mha Chroi on 18th May 2017 8:58 am
Can bilbe thumpers please have 7 days of every week of their lives… off.
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That’s called retirement mate. Only 39 years away for me. Woooo!
DAVIDOPOULOS
That’s called retirement mate. Only 39 years away for me. Woooo!
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I was just saying the same thing only yesterday …….. and now I am nearly 67
It will come around quicker than you think
enjoythetimeyouareinCSC
Gene
Oh don’t worry, I am! I don’t ever expect to be able to retire :)
David
God wiling ( am I allowed to say that ) you will but probably not till you’re 75 :))
wiling = willing
GENE
75? Jesus! (is that also allowed?)
I was calculating 39 years based on a retirement age of 70.
OK, so just another 44 years to go :)
Retired I may be but chores to do
DELANEYS DUNKY on 17TH MAY 2017 11:55 PM
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.
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This time last year, the week after I retired, my wife took me to Portugal- Villamoura- as much for a reccy before the Big Lisbon Adventure as a relief from working in social work for more than 30 years. I found Portugal and its people exactly how you describe and now I can’t wait to get back. Both excited and nervous in equal measure. Roll on next week!
David
well they stole 7 years pension from my wife – so who knows
must go
On train to Hexham and reading back comments from the crumbling palace of fun last night. Genuine laugh out loud moments. Best train journey ever.
If you are going to steal a football at a match, surely you just stick in under your seat and hope for the best. Legging it out of the stadium is pure comedy. And his team were 1-0 down at the time too. Could only happen at the Doomdome.
GENE on 18TH MAY 2017 9:41 AM
when i retired if your birthday was on monday or tuesday of that week you got a part payment ,for the rest you got nothing.so that meant 5 out of 7 people got stiffed for their cash.but hey ho you can buy a
lot of TRIDENT MISSILES with that sort of cash.
keepingussafecsc.
One wee comment on last night’s match. It confirmed (as if any more confirmation was required) that James Tavernier really cannot defend at all. The second goal for the Dons, there is no way that McGinn should have been allowed to cross that ball.
The match also confirmed that the Dons are still rubbish at passing.
When us tims talk amongst ourselves about former games against both ibrox clubs the 7-1game is instantly recognisable ,that is we all know what game it was same with the 6-2game
4-2 etc Now if someone mentions the 5-1game we can say I’m not sure which one that was ,the tanking at paradise or the pulverising at poundland ?
Or 1998
Good Morning Bhoys from a warm sunny Central Scotland today the garden beckons we were away for two weeks and it is now a wilderness . I am looking forward to the thistle game tonight im sure it will be a tight affair I will go for 1-2 to the Bhoys. H.H.
Big Jimmy, are you about?
KTF
The ba’ thief.
Maybe he had seen the writing on the wall, and knew that this was going to be an historic night for the Ovine Lovers.
Oil rich Dandies supporter, uber Hun hater – Would probably pay handsomely, for that match ball.
Keep an eye out on ebay
Sometimes a photograph is more effective than words.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DAGLVWlV0AE5sQ-.jpg
ERNIE LYNCH on 18TH MAY 2017 10:12 AM
That made me laugh!
KTF
Ernie at 10:12
Oh, that is very good. Another laugh out loud moment.
DAVIDOPOULOS on 18TH MAY 2017 8:37 AM
Hmmm. Jordan Rossiter’s injury problem is a back problem now is it?
What happened to him having a calf problem? Was the Magic Hat talking crap?
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“Was the Magic Hat talking crap?”
Only when he spoke mate.
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER 821 on 18TH MAY 2017 10:03 AM
Big Jimmy, are you about?
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Is that a new way of saying Are You a Hun?
P.S. Don’t tell Big Jimmy I said this!
NatKnow
LOL!
The very best of The Rangers TV
Cup Final tickets dropping through letterboxes today….
A Stor Mha Chroi on 18th May 2017 10:42 am
The very best of The Rangers TV
Post of the Day, love to hear that hun rat Tom Miller squealing
A Pride Of Lions
I kid you not folks, this is a real post from Hun Media; I had to read it a couple of times to make sure I wasn’t hallucinating!
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Re: What does Pedro need to bridge the gap?
He needs the taigs to fail. He needs them to make some disastrous signings and, ideally, for Rodgers to head back down south. I was a teenage boxer and started training about 12 months after this other boy of similar age, height and build. I felt that he was always ahead of me and I rarely got the better of him in sparring. Then he got tonsilitis and didnt train for what seemed like ages. This coincided with the summer holidays and I upped my training considerably while he was eating jelly and ice cream and speaking hoarsely. When he came back he never got the better of me again. A convoluted analogy I concede but we need the bheasts to get tonsilitis ASAP.
This is what we are up against!
KTF
FOR A PEOPLE AND A CAUSE on 18TH MAY 2017 9:56 AM
When us tims talk amongst ourselves about former games against both ibrox clubs the 7-1game is instantly recognisable ,that is we all know what game it was same with the 6-2game
4-2 etc Now if someone mentions the 5-1game we can say I’m not sure which one that was ,the tanking at paradise or the pulverising at poundland ?
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Pretty sure we won 5-1 under Dr Joe and Blessed Martin as well
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER 821 on 18TH MAY 2017 10:54 AM
The jelly and ice cream bit makes me suspect a Timposter.
VFR- if The Fast Show ever comes back, he could write some sketches….
ERNIE LYNCH
Superb Street:))
A STOR MHA CHROI on 18TH MAY 2017 10:50 AM
I dipped into that for 5 minutes or so. Magical. I will watch it all later today.
KTF
Ernie, I thought so at first but he has a fair few posts and wasn’t called out by them (as is their usual modus operandi) so I think he’s genuine.
Funny, but genuine!
Bada Bing, it is comedy gold!
KTF
Gordon
Ralston
Jozo
Boyata
Izzy
Roberts
Brown
Mcgregor
Rogic
Sinclair
Griff
Team apparently for tonight