There was a wee fella called Fergus – he saw off Jim Farry with ease.
If he’d been around when the cheating was found, they’d’ve probably rued EBTs.
“If that’s Moving On … then he’s Moving Out” (with apologies to Billy Joel)
LIKE MANY OTHERS, I suspect, I have become increasingly disillusioned with the passing of time and the growing impression that the “Moving On” so brazenly promoted and engineered by a cynical Scottish Football establishment, a complicit SMSM … and most incredibly of all, by many clubs that were disadvantaged by the shenanigans surrounding the liquidation…
A WORD ABOUT PENALTIES …
PENALTIES, apart from the rare, genuinely indisputable “stonewaller”, are ALWAYS contentious. Those who welcome the award tend to defend it to the hilt, while those who resent it, are outraged and tend to condemn it out-of-hand, often even when it is fairly conclusive. It’s in the nature of things. Just like legitimate “banter”, it is…
“UNCLE PHIL”
TODAY is a very special occasion. Not only a Cup Final … but a Cup Final that will be played against a highly emotional backdrop. Phil O’Donnell has a special place in the hearts and minds of both finalists and their respective fans. Hopefully, today’s spectacle will be played in a true spirit of mutual…
ONLY SAYING, LIKE …
IN COMMON with all Timdom, I rejoiced heartily over the proclamation, post our 4-0 victory at McDiarmid Park on Saturday 4 November, that Celtic had broken our own 100-year-old record of 62 consecutive domestic matches undefeated. In the prevailing euphoria at the time, it never for one minute occurred to me that the claim might…
Right Back To 67 THE LISBON LION DIARY
TODAY, we present a preview of a fascinating NEW book by Jim Craig, Celtic’s right-back on that breathtaking day in 1967 when, in Lisbon, Portugal, Jock Stein’s Celtic stunned the football world by becoming the first Scottish, British, North-European and non-Latin club to win what was then known in the English-speaking world simply as – The…
THE PARADISE PAPERS
HAVING viewed Mark Daly’s sensationalised would-be “public interest” documentary a few times now, I have to say that, on the face of it, our largest shareholder, Dermot Desmond and his ops don’t exactly come up smelling of roses (albeit his alleged transgression is very small beer, indeed, viewed against the overall backdrop of dodgy dealing,…
“WALFRID’S BOON”
ON the 130th Anniversary of the founding of Celtic Football Club and hard upon the breaking of our own hundred-year-old British domestic run of unbeaten games, we are proud to present our verse tribute to the club that was founded to relieve the social deprivation then rife in the East End of Glasgow. To quote…
IS IT REALLY ONLY CELTIC, MR REGAN?
STEWART REGAN is today claiming that only Celtic are concerned enough about Scottish football governance issues over the past six years to want an official independent review of those issues, which are now well, truly and … latterly … publicly documented. If that is true, the inescapable conclusion is that all those other clubs that…
“THE BOWHILL BHOY”
AS HAS become our custom on the anniversary of what many consider the greatest individual tragedy in Celtic’s history, here is a link to our verse tribute to the great Johnny Thomson: http://www.25thmay1967.com/blog/?p=4122 Johnbhoy
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