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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John Barnes’s finest hour???
Just a wee reminder for anyone wishing to visit Fatima next week. This looks like a walk-on service though you can book in advance.
http://www.algarvebus.info/rede-expressos.htm#mozTocId22097
This is a link from the Daily Record so if you don’t want to follow it, don’t but don’t complain either.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/watch-how-celtic-boss-jock-10442582
Watch the video at the top (less than 5 minutes); it gives you the match stats for May 25th 1967 and they are astonishing!
KTF
ERNIE LYNCH on 18TH MAY 2017 10:58 AM
VFR800 IS NOW A MONSTER 821 on 18TH MAY 2017 10:54 AM
The jelly and ice cream bit makes me suspect a Timposter.
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Also the date he first started posting- just before the valentine liquidation. Maybe Phil having fun with thems. Either way, very funny and very brave of you to visit the dark side.
Hey! Feck yir record, show me the money :)) easy easy easy
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Rangers v Aberdeen – 90 Minutes
Aberdeen @ 15/8 Won
9 – 0 It was a tight game
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
I shouldn’t watch any more of that, because I now think that Tebily and Berkovic were amazing…
And that Larsson fella missed a lot of chances didn’t he…
;)
It’s ok, I watched on a bit more and I am reassured that Tebily was in fact useless and that Larsson fella was awrite after all…
Utter bedlam over on Munter Media.Pedro getting it laldy.In everything though,there is always a ray of sunshine to brighten up your day.Mines anyway.I dont think using Ibrox for a Bollywood Movie really took off,for a way to raise money over there,but one budding entrepreneur has come up with this beauty,
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Just thinking what the club could do again to make more money and increase fans experience in the stadium.
I think this one could kick off really well and I don’t believe any other club has approved a plan…
Have different vehicles around the pitch between the grass and where the stands are. Fans can pay extra to sit in cars and watch the game for the live experience. Audio of RTV coming from the stereos. Have blue corsas, dukes of hazzard cars even del boy 3 wheel van for some fun and even a tank to represent our soldiers. Imagine watching the game in a tank. Like that wacky races character serg. Can fire some balloons at half time into the crowd. Charge 50-150 a ticket depending on the car you choose. 3 guys in the back of the dukes of hazzard car doing the bouncy as it flips up.
Roars of engines as we score getting the atmosphere going.
First of a kind. What else can we do?
I wonder if he would let me put Ice Cream and Jelly vans there?.
Right ,who is next to watch the game through the wee Tank windae?.
Turkeybhoy
Tanks for that
One hell of a rollercoaster ride over in the Highway to hell
HAVE THEY NOT SUFFERED ENOUGH
A sweet moment in my life…
a bowl of double cream Devon ice cream with a double malt poured over the top whilst watching this:
ONE
Turkeybhoy
Tanks have thermal imaging sights. Fans at Ibrox would be able to determine when their team has the ball as steaming piles of sh*te would have a distinctive heat signature…
ANOTHER sweet moment in my life…
a bigger bowl of double cream Devon ice cream with a bigger double malt poured over the top whilst watching this:TWO
Tanks ffs.
Sherman tanks the f’n lot of them.
H.H
Yet one more sweet moment in my life…
a bucket of double cream Devon ice cream with a bottle of double malt poured over the top whilst watching this
THREE
The Monty Python team in their pomp couldnae write some of the hun stuff…
Catching up on COURT case this morning
this one screamed goats/nipples/rolled up trouser ALERT
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Findlay “It would seem a little difficult to square a high degree of confidentiality with a conversation on a golf course”
James Doleman is still on the case
Proceedings resumed with defence counsel Donald Findlay QC continuing his cross-examination of Crown witness Ross Bryan
Bryan told the court yesterday that in 2010 he was an investment manager at Ticketus
Bryan confirms that it was Ticketus who wanted “third party funding” mentioned in the agreement between Whyte and Murray group
Witness says Ticketus wanted “the club to perform” so it continued to sell season tickets
Findlay notes normal process with 3rd party funding is to put money in an “escrow” account until deal is completed.
Findlay “It’s not going to be someone handing over £20m in a suitcase?”
Bryan “No”
Findlay before Whyte did you know Andrew Ellis and Chris Akers were interested in buying Rangers?
Bryan “Yes”
Findlay “Did a member of the Investment committee make inquiries about Akers and Ellis?
“He said he would speak to contacts in Scotland”
Findlay “Do you remember telephone call from William Murdoch about people buying Rangers?”
Findlay “It would seem a little difficult to square a high degree of confidentiality with a conversation on a golf course”
Bryan asked if he knows a Paul Hassal?
“Yes”
Do you remember email exchange?
Yes”
Bryan says Hassal “Made an inquiry about doing a deal with Ticketus?”
Did he know about the Craig Whyte deal with Rangers?
Bryan “Yes”
Findlay Two people outside the deal knew about it?
Bryan “Unfortunately, yes”
Bryan “I got cold called once by someone who knew about the deal with Rangers and asked if interested in another Scottish club”
Findlay uses a hypothetical company “Micky Mouse ltd” to suggest Wavetower guarantee was “worthless” as it had no assets
Findlay to witness “Do try and help me, I know it’s all very tedious”
Findlay “orginally Murray wanted £5m for shares, eventually given away for nothing”
Bryan “This coincided with discussion of the tax case
Findlay asks about tax cases “when did Ticketus get wind of them?”
Bryan: Didn’t come up in due diligence, found out in April/May
Bryan “Normally you would expect these things to be disclosed, should have been in initial data room.”
Court shown email, 5 April 2011, from witness to Phil Betts, David Grier and others titled “Tax case hurdle info”
Bryan confirms Grier was assisting Whyte with the tax cases . His company later became Duff and Phelps, administrators of Rangers
Findlay ‘If Grier said later he didn’t know about Ticketus that would be an absolute lie?”
Bryan “Would be hard to believe”
A very worrying bit on last nights news.Trump on a podium with Taip Erdogan,Turkish ,President,Emperor,King,whatever,saying how good a friend he was in the fight against terror !!!!! FFS.
How far removed from reality can Trump get.As bonkers as Pedro,methinks.
Oh! what a wicked web we weave….
new article posted.