Our enormous thanks to John Hughes for spending time on the blog this morning. He was at Celtic throughout a very special time, making his anecdotes and stories all the more valuable.
Here’s an extract from his book, Yogi Bare, which is due out soon:
“Jock Stein and I didn’t always see eye-to-eye. I recall receiving a ferocious verbal volley after a game against Hibs at Easter Road in January 1968. My offence? I went to offer my condolences to their right-back Bobby Duncan in their dressing room.
Unfortunately, Bobby had suffered a broken leg when I slid it to try to block the ball. His ankle got caught up in my outstretched leg and he collapsed to the turf in obvious pain. It was a complete accident, I hasten to add. The conditions were slippy that afternoon and we just collided with neither of us able to pull out.
Unhappily, the defender had to be stretchered off and I felt sick. I never went out to injure an opponent; not once. Frankly, I wouldn’t have known how to, but I did know some players who were well versed in the black arts. No names. No pack drills. No lawyer’s letters! It just wasn’t the right-back’s day because he had also sliced a clearance into his net to give us a second minute lead.
Bobby Lennox added a second shortly afterwards and it was game over. But Bobby Duncan’s game, unfortunately, didn’t last until the ninetieth minute and I headed for the home dressing room as soon as the referee blew for time-up. I was concerned for the player who, although he was a gritty campaigner, was never dirty.
I mixed with the Hibs players and told Bobby I genuinely hoped he would make a fast recovery. He accepted my good wishes and I thought that was the end of it.
Suddenly, though, Colin Stein, who would later join Rangers, barged through his team-mates to have a go at me. He accused me of deliberately trying to injure Bobby. I wasn’t having any of that and told him to get lost. I didn’t stop to think I was actually in the Hibs dressing room.
The usual pushing and shoving ensued before I was thrown out into the corridor. Jock wanted to know what all the commotion was about. I gave him my version of events and he blew up.
‘What do you want to do that for?’ he bellowed. ‘It’s bad enough the boy’s got a broken leg, but you’ve got to go and make it worse!’ I protested my innocence, by which time he was in full flow. ‘What a daft thing to do.’ And so on.
I thought it had been a meaningful gesture from one professional to another, but Jock, clearly, disagreed. Sometimes you couldn’t win with that man.
Please don’t get me wrong. This is not a Big Yogi versus Big Jock chapter in my life story. I just want the supporters to be aware of the facts. For a start, I think he did me an enormous favour by pushing me out from centre-forward to the left wing.
I was happy enough in the central role, but Jock thought I could be more effective when I was taking passes on the half-turn. I would be off and running within seconds of the pass arriving at my feet. In the main striker’s role, though, I would often have my back to goal. Controlling the ball in those circumstances would add vital seconds onto the manoeuvre. A centre-half could be breathing down my neck, forcing me to push the ball back for a midfielder. At outside-left, though, I could skin a right-back if he got too close. And once I was away, there was no stopping me.”
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If it’s Good Friday then fish must be on the menu.
http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/football/27072837
Think he done it just for the halibut !!
DD – ha magic! Who the feck needs to study form….?!
Right, I’m off out to do some fence painting and enjoy the sun.
Laters,
T4
The worst prime minister in UK history(even worse than Thatcher because we expected nothing else from her) claims a historic moment 16 years ago…..this very day.
Maybe we should have appointed him as a Middle East Peace Envoy after this…….now that would be perfect irony…………Murdering,lying barsteward that he is.
“A day like today is not a day for soundbites … but I feel the hand of history upon our shoulder,” declared Tony Blair 16 years ago today a comment that was as comic as it was true.
The Good Friday agreement (as nationalists call it) or the Belfast agreement (as it is known to unionists) did not bring peace to Northern Ireland, but it set in place the terms of the deal that did. It saw the leading parties from both communities (but not the Democratic Unionist party) agree to a political future based on popular consent, power-sharing and non-violence. In the end, it worked.
The extraordinary sight of Ian Paisley and Martin McGuinness joking together in power as first minister and deputy was the result. Northern Ireland today is infinitely improved on a decade ago – evidence that persistence and negotiation can overcome violence.
Jonathan Powell, the Downing Street chief of staff whose memoirs were recently published, has described the claustrophobia and uncertainty of the hours before the deal, with Northern Irish politicians, Ireland’s Bertie Ahern and Mr Blair trapped in the decaying 1970s Castle Buildings office block, battling for reassurance and advantage.
Eventually, an uneasy agreement was reached. “There was no applause, just stunned silence,” records Powell. He suggests that there are lessons from Northern Ireland for other conflicts: talk to your enemies and sometimes compromise with them. Good Friday was a compromise, imperfect and not fully implemented. But it helped bring peace.
Swaithed in sunshine lower East Kilbride
ernie lynch
09:56 on 18 April, 2014
tonydonnelly67
Yep, languages are funny things.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV1_KlLckA
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I love it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb_1UchyKqc
The ghost of General Aurelio Buendia has returned to Macondo…
Thunder Road – followed the instructions to make sure that, at the end, I didn’t have anything left over.
Maestro – sounds like you’re less than a mile away but just about to read the next chapter of the Thai Tims so you’re on your tod I’m afraid.
Pardon me boy, is that the Chahechouhe Choo Choo?
trainspotters csc
BMCUW
Thanks bud, a cheap and cheerful week in Benidorm to celebrate my son’s 21st. No long tae the Hoopenany :)
Coneybhoy
I lived just outside Monasterevin, Co Kildare for a few years, loved it, but the drive to Dublin did my head in, it was before they built the M way, ended up in Rathcoole.
HH
petec,
Sorry for lack of reply last night…had tae hit the hay.
I’m away back tae do some catching up :O).
Hail Hail.
bournesouprecipe
Swaithed in sunshine lower East Kilbride
Adorned in silks, basement flat, 7th circle of hell.
On this Good Friday.
Gethsemane: (Oil Press)
Probably a garden of olives trees that was equipped with a press for squeezing oil from olives.
Gethsemane was situated E. of Jerusalem, across the Kidron Valley (Jon18:1) on or near the Mount of Olives(Lu 22:39). Here Jesus Christ often met with his disciples.
On Passover night of 33AD He, with His faithful disciples, retired to this garden to pray.
Found and betrayed by Judas Iscariot, Jesus was there seized by an angry mob.
Mat 26:35-56.
The exact location of the garden of Gethsemane cannot be determined, because(according to the testimony of Josephus, a reliable Jewish historian of the time) all the trees around Jerusalem were cut down during the Roman siege in 70 AD.
One tradition identifies Gethsemane with the garden that was enclosed by the Franciscans in 1848. It measures about 150 by 140ft and is located at the foot of the Mount of Olives, at the fork of the road on it’s west slope.
Eight olive trees in that garden have been there for centuries.
HH
Happy you are all having good weather on Good Friday.Pissin doon here today.Hope you all have a nice Easter weekend.Trying to kid myself on I am happy with the rain.Good for the garden and flowers,aye right.
Aff oot tonight.Game tomorrow.Rerr !!!!!!!.
Turkeybhoy
12:10 on
18 April, 2014
Happy you are all having good weather on Good Friday.Pissin doon here today.
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Well, it is fine in Fethiye.
The pissin doon happened overnight.
burghbhoy
09:34 on 18 April, 2014
Mrs Burghbhoy has just advised me that our traditional Good Friday fish supper for dinner is off the agenda as she wants to loose a few pounds.
Cannae believe it’s an omelette for dinner!!!!
Burghbhoy
I feel she’d struggle to find scriptural assertion for omelettes. Stand firn Mhan – till she relents or your brave pills wear off! ;-)
HH jamesgang
Turkeybhoy
Glorious day in Clydebank (for a change) Happy Easter bud.
monaghan1900
09:50 on 18 April, 2014
Sevcomedian reaction to rumours of Minty’s return
——
“I would take him back just for his ‘if they spend a fiver we will spend a tenner’ line”
So would we ‘Hunny’, so would we…!
Thanks – as ever – Monaghan ;-)
HH jamesgang
FFin’ Mohsni’d rather be at Snake Mountain:
“Mohsni; Id rather be at Ibrox than playing in English premier leauge
BILEL MOHSNI insists even an offer from the English Premier League couldn’t lure him away from helping Rangers back to the top.
The French defender claims he has found a new family at Ibrox since arriving from Southend last summer.
Paris-born Mohsni also insisted team-mate Lee Wallace is good enough to play for Arsenal.
“I’d prefer to be at Ibrox 100 times more than playing for a club in the lower half of the English Premier League. That is despite the fact I would earn more money down south.
People have so much love for this club and I can only imagine what it is like in the Scottish Premiership and for European games.
“I am not a big name like Lee McCulloch ……As for Lee Wallace, he is good enough to play for any Premier League team, even Arsenal.
“Kieran Gibbs or Wallace? Waldo would fit into their side no problem.”
——
“French? I thought he was Israeli??”
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………Praying for our WEE HERO!
14:04 on
16 April, 2014
If they were “getting away with it” they would be playing in the SPFL 1 with a strong squad, challenging and cheating us out of titles, being perceived as having had no break in their history at all by dint of the foregoing and playing in Europe.
Instead they started in the bottom tier, shafted themselves when shafting their creditors, were shafted in turn by spivs , leaving them in a position where they face a second administration, will have to reduce their outgoings, risk not getting promoted next season, almost definitely if the start with a points penalty and are out of Europe until 2016/17 at the earliest.
If that is your perception of getting away with it would you favour the death penalty?
They are a busted flush guys. I would not give them head room other than to ensure those in power who allowed them to damage our game do not get away with it.
Have been reading back, and haven’t noticed anyone questioning Auldheid on this, though I might have missed it, so, can I ask, Auldheid, when,exactly, did Rangers(1872-2012) exit their first administration?
Monaghan
Enough you. You just make this stuff up to make me wee myself don’t you?
You employed by Tena Ladies? ;-)
HH jamesgang
And, no, I’m not!
new article posted.
No I’m Neil Lennon
10.50
braw sentiments from a master ….hope that letter is whizzed and shared in all languages throughout our wee world…..braw ….
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Lads,
CQN Saturday naps on here please…
Cheers, fleagle1888
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Cheers, fleagle1888
Lads,
working on a form line through Litigant – which won the marathon handicap at Lingfield on good Friday, my nap is :
Noble Silk (Kempton 5.05)
Good luck to all, fleagle1888
Designate 13:45 Kempton
Newton Abbot 535 Area Access
Good luck everyone
15:15 @ Haydock – Midnight Sail – NAP!
Good luck everybody.
14-20 Kempton …Piscean
All the very best today bhoys
Gonna go for
FIREBIRD FLYER 205 HAYDOCK
Usual felicitations to the bookie-bashers.
HH
Hope BMCUW doesn’t mind … but I’d finally decided on Firebird Flyer 2.05 Haydock only to see it already napped – not changing it now.
Good luck everyone, especially BMCUW.
CATHAL
Literally just been told by my mate that he has backed it as it is a PRICEWISE selection.
Might damage the price without helping the horse’s chances!
Bincombe 3:15 Haydock….happy punting.
BMCUW – you are absolutely right about the price.
Doesn’t bother me though, just the 1st leg of my Scoop 6 win :)
Haydock 14:40
NO NO MAC
good luck all