The Celtic Football Club - Champions 2011/12

This is what BBC Scotland looks like on the day Celtic win the league:

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If only kevincuntthomson was still there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqmtCrgpeik

:ireland:

Well done Celtic and the Diaspera :ireland:

surely it is a day for celebration rather than paranoia?

The world renowned SPL title has been secured, rejoice

I knew he’d be seething.

I fucking knew it

GIRUY Kibby :lol: :lol: :lol:

Sydney:

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Glasgow Central Train Station:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37m1SP9bUAw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nS6kQwkcVJw

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Young Tim would fit in very well on TFK, I feel

Big days / big moments:

  • All Ireland Football final day in late September. A hapless & gutless performance at Ibrox. Bizarre team selection by Neil. Ledley, Forrest & Stokes on the bench. Badr El Kaddfuckingouri scored but was utterly inept. I worried about what was happening & the apparent hangover after losing the title so narrowly the season before. I had given up my Croke Park ticket to instead hang out with a girl later that afternoon. Ridiculous. I lacked focus. Celtic were all over the place too & we both needed to get our priorities straight.

  • October 15th. I was on vacation in NYC & woke up after an enjoyable night in the Meat Packing district, checked twitter & saw we had drawn 3-3 away to Killie in the early kick-off. Scrolled down through my twitter feed & was astounded to find that we had been 3 down at the break. But we had apparently showed heart and a few people said it could be a turning point. I was still to be convinced. Stokes x2 and Mulgrew came to the rescue. People literally wanted to beat Kayal for lack of effort - he signed a new contract the next week & bucked up after fucking up that day.

  • Not an SPL game but the late Autumn Thursday night when we defeated Rennes in the Europa League at Celtic Park restored my belief. It came after a home stalemate the weekend before against Hibs & we turned it around after going behind early. Samaras was imperious that night, Stokes scored 2 lovely goals and Wanyama & Kayal were rabid in midfield. It was clear as fucking day that our players cared. They were playing for their manager.

  • The following Sunday we went to Motherwell. The huns were so far ahead that the Scottish media built it up as a potential changing of the guard. Would Motherwell cement their place as Rangers’ main challengers? We went behind early but Stokes equalised. It didn’t look like a winner was coming but then a very late & typically mazy McCourt dribble set up Hooper for the winner. That set us off. You could sense something was happening.

  • Early December & at home to the diet huns the day after TFK’s 6th annual Christmas Party. We had a run going throughout November after the Rennes and Motherwell victories but we were bad that day. Well, I’m told we were really bad anyway - I only woke up at 4.20pm. Just as I got a match stream working on my laptop Wanyama fired one into the top corner from nothing after around 70 minutes but we never looked comfortable. Still, it took a very dubious last minute penalty award to give them a chance to level. But Forster sprung left to save it - I immediately thought it was the kind of moment title wins are built on.

  • Christmas Eve. Celtic had reduced the once 15 point gap back to 4 by then & I was certain we’d win the league. I’d said to Rocko the evening before that Celtic would be top going into 2012 but I’d factored in a huns draw at St Mirren followed by Celtic winning the Christmas derby. So I expected a 1 point lead but got 2 as a Sammy double saw off Killie while ex Celt Paul McGowan was destroying the huns. Rare for both teams to be playing at the same time and Celtic Park was buzzing as news from Paisley was coming through. Christmas revellers went home knowing we would be top if we defeated the huns on 28th December.

  • And, on a stormy festive night in Glasgow, Joe Ledley powered in the decisive match winning header from a Charlie Mulgrew corner. The huns were put in their place, Celtic went top and we never looked back.

Now Celtic have won the league and the huns are going bust. :ireland: :clap: :pint:

Ah that’s a sensational post Bandage.

A really boring and unscientific look at our goals conceded over the season tells the story of the slow start and the magnificent recovery.

In competitive games our record was:

August P 6 Conceded 5
September P6 Conceded 7
October P6 Conceded 8
November P6 Conceded 4
December P6 Conceded 2
January P5 Conceded 2
February P6 Conceded 0
March P4 Conceded 5
April P2 Conceded 0

Obviously that last huns game distorts it a little (but it’s worrying that we conceded 7 goals in 2 visits to Ibrox this season) but those five goals conceded in two successive games against Hearts and Kilmarnock illustrated just how uncertain and fragile our defence was back in autumn. I think we picked up a couple of results (particularly that Motherwell home game Bandage mentions above) before we had turned the performances around but there was a fight about the team now.

The game at home to Hearts in early December we were poor again but we had kept that fighting spirit alive since the comeback against Kilmarnock and we didn’t drop any soft points until the Aberdeen game when we had already turned the race around with a fantastic run of victories.

Coming on Goals on Sunday soon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQVUeFbd_f8

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When the huns won at Kilmarnock to win the league on the final day last season, Michael Grant wrote the below in The Scottish Herald:

Craig Whyte was in the stand to take it all in. These are intoxicating days for the new owner. He was not treated to any songs sung in his honour but he has arrived on the scene at a jubilant, triumphant time for the club and will be expected to orchestrate repeat scenes this time next year.

What a difference a year makes! Craig Whyte was treated to several songs gustily sung in his honour this season! :ireland:

Rod Stewart on stage in Las Vegas saluting the hoops. :ireland:

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Nice montage of our season that ended ESPN’s coverage on Saturday:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scxuWusHrEI

Doing the huddle when Rangers die:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWJDWXzLbJM

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