That was a magnificent night. I knew Covid was over then. Hatate was unreal.
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Here’s that “Fozzy” interview, as O’Neill was calling him earlier.
That’s the first statement from the Collective that I’m not sure I fully agree with.
Point 1 is semantics and I think addressed by the various statements. The Board position is that there was no disagreement and then Rodgers claimed there was one and there has been disagreement since then.
I think on Point 3 there’s some sort of perception (not by the writers of that statement admittedly) that the money in the bank is somehow lining people’s pockets. It’s very inefficient (as the Board have acknowledged) and reflects a complete lack of strategy. But I don’t think it proves the sort of implied point that money is somehow making its way out of the club like the Glazers.
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Fuck off. I’m not your mate.
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The third goal going in while the second was still being celebrated was tremendous. Think that was the peak moment of the Ange era.
I didn’t take any implication from the statement that money is making its way out of the club. More so they’re disputing Desmond’s claim that every pound earned is reinvested into the club. They’re saying that’s clearly not the case when money earned mainly from fans ends up as cash reserves on the balance sheet & not reinvested in the squad. That said, I know as chartered accountants of some renown we need to be very, very careful about conflating income/expenditure, assets/liabilities & operational/capital spending.
There’s no pain worse than the pain of a supporter of a team which loses one title in 14 years.
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Glasgow Celtic went 10 years without wining he league between 1988-98. Prior to first winning the league under Jock Stein in 1966, they hadn’t won it in 12 years.
13 of the last 14 and you are still blubbering like a baby about not winning it 5 seasons ago. That’s the snowflake generation for you.
My favourite bit was at the end when roll with it came on
Before @Jake_Stevens time & he won’t know about it unless some INTERNET poster from Tyrone he’s infatuated with mentioned it…but the Celtic support actually hounded out the then board & ownership during that barren period. Imagine where the club would have ended up without Celts for Change, Fergus McCann etc had a load of patsies tried to run interference & stop the fans from holding the board to account.
I took in a home Glasgow. Celtic game on a weekend in Glasgow back in the early 1990’s. There wasn’t
10,000 at it. Back then they were trying to chase out the Kelly family who had owned and ran the club forever. Fergus McCann was lurking in the shadows with intent.
Fergus McCann was hated by large sections of the Celtic fan base. In fact some posters here nearly ended up in fisticuffs with peelers trying to remove a banner with; McCann Out, Brits Out on it at one match.
Not only his treatment of Brian Dempsey after the takeover but during those frantic years under Tommy Burns desperate to stop the Huns doing 10 in a row it seemed he didn’t care, or didn’t understand what them doing it would mean when he put the stadium and wage restraint before stopping them cunts getting 10.
Thankfully it came good under Wim Jansen although he only lasted one year and walked.
People look back now and say how great McCann was with the stadium and legacy, had the 10 not been stopped it would be significantly different. The fucking pain and memories of those cunts nearly getting there was horrific.
That should have been the boards motivation and Lennon’s understanding to do the right thing in the final year going for 10 in a row. Sacking him or him walking should have happened in the October of that season when he couldn’t get a tune out of the players.
Some backed the board and Lennon. Others knew what that year would have meant.
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Wim Jansen was a great appointment by McCann but you’d have to say Jock Brown’s arrival in the summer of 1997 was just as important in stopping Rangers’ 10 in a row.
Jock will always be a Celtic legend for his key contribution in that historically all-important season.
Keith Andrews to take over from O’Neill perhaps?
Jock Brown was a terrific commentator. Wonderful dulcet tones.
Im still bitter about that free kick
I dont think there is any other free kick in football history that irks fans as much
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It was so unneeded and personified Maloney, glory hole, especially after Larsson’s heroics already.
Scurried out the door to Villa as well and then returned with his tail between his legs
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He scored the biggest goal of the title race when his winner beat Man Utd the year of Aguero, won an FA cup too.
Why would he take a step back in his career?
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That was after his second stint with Celtic