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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Clougher…,
Thanks for that
Couldn’t get TET’s link, but Got Vipbox.
Was watching for a while, until a Microsoft pop up warned about a virus attack.
this is not a flippant thing, but a topic i want to come back on.
last night i linked to an evening times article where the grandson of a celtic player who lost his life in the great war wants to have a plaque at the ground, to commemorate this and i think 3 other losses.
being the quintessential British club, why didnt the 1st rangers do this for theirs ?
One more goal and The Rangers will create another world record………..
Almore on 17th May 2017 8:58 pm
Many thanks for the tip and the kind offer, but I’m stuck here in Luther-land and only rarely make it over for games.
HH
Thom
If you have the likes of AVG, Panda etc, they will stop them, I use Panda, never let me down, it stops stuff on a daily basis.
HH
The post about Bilbao was fantastic
Ronaldo misses a sitter for his hattrick 3-1 at the moment
Watching the Huns and Sheep live stream. I assume it’s Hun TV. They are comparing Barjonas’ awareness on the ball to Xavi and Iniesta!
KTF
Re the Bilbao article, I wish I could find a really interesting Spanish article from years ago (5 plus years ago) which gave a completely opposite view of Bilbao and their signing policy.
Red card for the Reds…………
He’ll give them a penalty if he gets the chance.
Only 3 added minutes. That’s unusual.
KTF
Sheep red cerd
aye, as jason higgins would say ……………. a spanish article.
Oh the irony… But for Celtic’s Ryan Christie, Celtic would have (probably) broken a world record next week.
What was the Bhoy thinking?!
Aberdeen win at Ibrox, the first time since Oldtim was a teenager:))
Sheep win 2-1
Miller should be off. Ref played advantage but didn’t go back once ball was dead.
The fat ladies dulcet tones heard down Ibrox way.
hmmmm 90 + 4
Pedro must stay!
well done dons- 95 mins extra time , red card and no use of tax evasion
what a night,
huns of all hues defeated.
dundee mccanns turncoat
purple huns
2nd rangers zombie monkey collective
damnation, a dream bet i didnt put on
I think it was Kickinthenakas that posted earlier that none of us even knew about the points record till Paul mentioned it, I certainly never knew nor have read about it till today, so on that note, delighted the hun got humped.
glad they won, don’t want us to benefit from bias
ft report not appearing on bbc website
aberdeen close the gap,
What does that do to Pedro’s mini league?
bbc website fixated with forfar, and not an update from snake mountain
https://twitter.com/chris_sutton73/status/864943520796340225
does DONS player now miss cup final.
https://twitter.com/lilze7/status/864933952682852353
‘GG on 17TH MAY 2017 9:42 PM
What does that do to Pedro’s mini league?
he says thats them in a play off positon, top 3 for a place in the champions league
FAVOURITE UNCLE
He’s utter mince anyway…
bbc
FULL-TIME
Rangers 1-2 Aberdeen
Posted at
21:41
Aberdeen end their near 26-year wait for a win at Ibrox.
Goals from Graeme Shinnie and Ryan Christie give the Dons their first away win over Rangers since September 1991.
Martyn Waghorn replied for Rangers, but they sustain defeat in their final home match this season.
The Dons become only the second side – the other being champions Celtic – to win at Ibrox during this campaign.
‘GG, there’s another way to read the PedroFax:
When he took over they were so far behind Celtic that I didn’t have enough fingers & toes to count the points gap. Now they are even further behind than they were then, and having played an extra game.
How he can try to spin that as positive is beyond me!
Dons only threat for cup final was already suspended for tonights game. Only other significant player would be their keeper, who has been decent this season. I would love it if it had been Logan :-)
Awe Naw No The Mini League Oot The Windae As Well Noo…