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Celtic Diary Monday May 21: All Done

Celtic won the cup.

That was the sixth consecutive trophy in two years. The second consecutive treble.

We might consider that the season just ended was not as good as the previous ones, and perhaps the team didn;t have as many good performances as the year before, but the fact remains….

It was another treble winning year.

 

Two first half goals, from Calum MacGregor and Olivier Ntcham secured a win at Hampden, and both were goals worthy of the occasion. MacGregor contolled and half volleyed forst, and a measure effort from Ntcham from around 25 yards put the seal on another great performance which gives us something to remember and something to look forward to.

The manager seemed happy enough, but then he would.

You could never imagine it could go as well as it has,’ 

From the first day I walked in to the club it’s been amazing.

‘It’s always complex, it’s never as easy as it seems when you win, a lot of stuff goes on behind the scenes, a lot of work.

‘The brilliant staff and the club has really supported me in my time here, strategically.

‘All the interests are aligned at the club and that allows me to work in confidence.

‘But to think we’d be standing here two years later having created history, no, I’d be lying if I thought that.’ 

Looking ahead, he outlined his plan..

‘I need to push even harder now next year in relation to developing the players here first and foremost.

‘And then bringing in players who can make a difference.

‘It’s a constant need to improve.

‘We have a really young group that are improving and developing, but to make a difference at that level needs greater quality.’

Tom Boyd mentioned on the Celtic TV coverage that Oddsone Edouard has signed , but we still await official confirmation.

Another who seems to want to be at Celtic, judging by his efforts in yesterdays Scott Brown  testimonial is James McLean, who has never hidden his love for the club, and all things , er, related.

Will he be at Celtic ?

Unfortunately that’s not up to me. If it was up to me it would have happened a long time ago.

Who knows? Fingers crossed. Maybe one day.”

You never know, I suppose, especially with Patrick Roberts saying his goodbyes, at least for now.

An unforgettable 2 and a half years spent at a very special club. The love and support you have shown me will stay with me forever, you have treated me like one of your own and for that I’m truly grateful! It’s been an absolute honour to wear the shirt! Thank you 🍀💚

Has anyone seen Nir Biton ?

And what on earth has happened to Martin O’Neill ? all he wants to talk about is “rangers “…

“I think getting to a European final can be done again,”  “I don’t think it’s impossible.

“Brendan is dominating Scottish football just now and Celtic have been very strong.

“The next step now is to try to achieve success in Europe.

“Hopefully those days are not gone and it would be nice, imagine me saying this, if Rangers could get stronger.

“That seems as if it might be on the cards and a good, strong Rangers is good for the league.

“And actually, it will benefit Celtic to get stronger in Europe.

“Why? Well, Celtic don’t rest on their laurels in Scotland but if the competition gets stronger, they will rise to it.

“If Rangers are in a position to delve into the transfer market and get some decent players, it will be a reminder to Celtic.

“They are dominating the league and are very strong. In Brendan’s time, they have not been casual at all.

“They have won six competitions but I think he would welcome it too.

“Personally, I think Steven Gerrard is a really good appointment,

“There is always a viewpoint in terms of inexperience but he is bringing Gary McAllister along, who has lots of experience.

“The combination should be good and I think he will be really good for Rangers.

“Steven was a brilliant player and that doesn’t always materialise into being a brilliant manager.

“But he has all the attributes and he wants to have a go. And why not?” 

Sure, it was a desperate press desperate to talk about their club, on a weekend where Celtic had just won back to back trebles, but he could have been more like Brendan Rodgers, who didn’t fall for it when he was asked about the “threat ” from Gerrard and “rangers “..

“It’s not a conversation, talk about Aberdeen,”

 “Aberdeen were second. Derek has done a brilliant job. Talk about them.” 

The threat from Ibrox now includes another joining their “summer of stars ” ( Daily Record ) … Conor Goldman of Brighton.

Supposedly. Whoever he is. google him if you want to, I can’t be arsed.

The hordes are in uproar after one of their players, Michael O’Halloran, was at the Cyp final in the Celtic end..

Some of the comments from their support were not entirely unexpected, but should make interesting reading for the catholic Steve Gerrard…

get this taig cunt out pronto !! 

Here’s Stevie G at school, Cardinal Heenan high..

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Are they questioning his loyalty yet ?

Or is he questioning theirs ?

Why has no one in the press asked him how he feels about a support that says things like this ?

Some of them have had enough.. the road back is taking too long…

 

One of them has a solution…

But enough of them !

We’ve a whole summer of laughter ahead.

For now, lets just be thankful we live in these great days.

We are still a work in progress, we have a long way to go, but each and every trophy brings as much satisfaction as the previous one.

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On Saturday we showed this..

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Daziekanowski’s nightclub child May 19, 2018 at 10:01 am · Edit · Reply →

Caption: hope you get them all to sign before showing them the training gear boss 

Today…

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Cartvale88
5 years ago

Caption
You thought you played in a great team?

A great two years, can only get better, even the Huns in the middle could not affect the result.
The Broonie on Sunday was a brilliant afternoon, even Henke looked the part. Only downside is when the ducks/journos mention Sevco to anyone connected with Celtuc, they should state that they have no interest in that entity.

Monti
5 years ago

Caption: God -” Brendan the ” rangers are coming ”
Son of god – ” Mahahaha “

Monti
5 years ago

Saturday was just fucking incredible, amazing day, long will live in the memory!
I still feel pished lol

What a beautiful club we have!

Celtic Symphony
5 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Unique history,pal.
Still not convinced by Ajer,Monti ?
At his age,his height,good on the ball,he’s got it all to be a top CB for us.
He needs guidance on and off the park.A top quality CB needs to be brought to bring him on further.
HH,bud.

Daziekanowski's nightclub child
5 years ago

Caption: King of Kings ‘£11M for Morelos hahahaha’

Monti
5 years ago

……..his name is Jimmy bell

Monti
5 years ago
Reply to  Monti

🙂

Celtic Symphony
5 years ago

Comment lost ! Like the Huns !

5 years ago

Caption:
Henke tells Brendan about his Celtic debut and the only bad pass he ever made – “I knew I`d got away with it, cos the ball went straight to Chic Charnley…..”

henkesdreadlocks
5 years ago
Reply to  Doc1888

Naw a didnae.

Juancerveza
5 years ago

They want Madonna to invest.Is she not from an Italian Catholic family ? What would she say about all the crap from the terracing and websites?
They don’t think things through. Another drink? Sure make mine a treble.

Michael
5 years ago

Nice pic of “Stevie G” at school. Maybe someone should tell him a pen works better with the lid off.

The real Anton Rogan
5 years ago

Henke- then that fat fuck Hendry pushes me so I decide to chip the ball over their goalie from a hunner yards…..

Noel Skytrot
5 years ago

Caption….Did you see Michael O’Hallaran, Henrik, What’s he doing?

First thing, I bet ye there’s a power of hangovers been suffered by the Etims here.

Well what can we say about Saturday? It was fucking fantastic. All the pain and misery of the 90’s totally exorcised from our psyches. Keeping William in his place, though they seem to do a great job doing that themselves. Some of the stuff coming from them and the 4th estate has been brilliant. I love their pain, every single last bit, fucking love it. That mob are fucking terrified that we do 10 in a row. Onto the serious matters, please Celtic, spend on some quality that’s within our means. We need to try and do better in Europe as it’s clear we run the show here.

Monti
5 years ago
Reply to  Noel Skytrot

Noel,
I had a hangover yesterday & was still fucked going to work this morning, big smile on my pus tho!
Happy days!

Noel Skytrot
5 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Mate, I had you soon as a stick on for a right sore wan. Lol

5 years ago

Caption..
And then there was the time a sevco site said they were signing Jordan..
aye she’s just like Sevco wae fake tits upfront anaw

Monti
5 years ago
Reply to  Only3Togo

🙂

5 years ago

Wim had you to stop the 10 henke theyve got fuckin Andy Halliday.

Andy Borland
5 years ago

Caption :

Henrik : “Hey Brendan, just had a text from Michael O’Halloran. He’s asking if he can sit on the bench with us?!”

Brendan : “”

5 years ago

Big Nir i feel sorry for. I think he is a very tidy player for us and helped us secure European football playing out of position.
He never hid and did his best. He lost his place in the israeli team mainly due to playing for us.
Im sure his folks and his friends dont appreciate our supporters flying the flags of palestine
I think he has had a hard time over it.
Injury of course has kept him out recently, but he will be moved on im sure in the summer.

Doc
5 years ago
Reply to  jimmybee

He has done a job when needed to and, even though he was more of a utility player recently, he has improved a lot. He has become better and more confidant at using both feet, has improved in the air and is more adept at finding space further up the field and down the lines.

Sad to see him go.

5 years ago

I`d like someone far more literate than me to actually write a piece about this O`Halloran furore.
There is a bigger message here than “the sevco fans are revolting” (see what I did there?).
Can any of you imagine a current or previous Celtic player even being ABLE to sit in amongst the ex-rangers fans safely? Without being verbally abused, spat on or even assaulted? No, me neither, and yet this guy is sitting quite happily amongst us, chatting to people and enjoying watching a real football club win a treble.
The simple explanation for this (and I think some of the sevco fans are starting to get this message), Is that they are completely irrelevant to us! It might as well have been a Brechin City player, as they have been as much of a challenge to us as the ibrox tribute act.
They see themselves as our rivals – we see them as a laughing stock. They hate us – we mock them.
Glasgow truly is Green & White 🙂

5 years ago
Reply to  Doc1888

Think you put it well enough doc, i was actually at the game when we got barred from ibrokes.
I got a ticket from a relation of john collins and we sat in the main stand. We left after john scored the goal as the hoardes realised we werent knuckle draggers. It was the worst sectarian bile i have ever heard in my life as we made our way from the seats we were indeed spat upon and had to get a police escort out. A hateful bigoted bunch of scum.

Noel Skytrot
5 years ago
Reply to  Doc1888

Doc, the hordes are in pain, deep pain. They know that they’re nowhere near us and it hurts. The hurt brings out anger and who better to turn it on? the fenian, the scapegoat. They knew fine well what his background was, just like Murty. Some of the comments on Sevco Media were an affrontery to human decency, but sadly that’s what you get from certain sections of the Bearmacht. This is 2018 not the Reformation years. What it certainly is, is the banter years…

Doc
5 years ago
Reply to  Doc1888

That’s the only way a sevco player will go to a cup final.

Noel Skytrot
5 years ago
Reply to  Doc1888

Charlie, the difference being they were winning then.

Noel Skytrot
5 years ago
Reply to  Noel Skytrot

Apologies, I thought you meant when he sold his soul, his arse and everything else to Murray. Since then I’ve no idea what the quisling has done or where he’s been.

Noel Skytrot
5 years ago
Reply to  Noel Skytrot

I hope the prick stays there.

Iancelt67
5 years ago

Caption
A dollop of “just for men” and you’d be starting henke

5 years ago

Dunno whots happening on the bus but all our coloured players are at the back good job wee rosa wasnt getting on at bridgeton. 🙂

Nick66
5 years ago

Caption.
BR- What you doing after this Henny?
King- Off home now Brendan. I’ll be sitting by the phone waiting for a call from Stevie G.

5 years ago

“So Brendan ,now you
know how it feels becoming a legend “

5 years ago

Well done Boyata on making the squad for the world cup.

Gerry
5 years ago

Caption:
Henke – “You don’t really think you’re as popular as me do you?”
Legends both, love them both! What a great time to be a Tim!!

Celtic Symphony
5 years ago

Comment lost in the abyss !
Must be down where the Huns are !

5 years ago

Back to back trebles champions league qualification europe after christmas and the winner of the scottish writers manager of the year is Stevie Clarke
PFA managers award went to Jack Ross
Wtf only in this wee country eh

Doc
5 years ago

Hangover level – Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds

Next seasons tickets should have a warning on them about overcelebrating. We might not have played better than last season and dropped more points but we’ve had another three trophies and numerous hunskelpings to celebrate. What a time to be alive.

Its going to be a beautiful summer.

Caption: “Know how to cure a hangover?”

Monti
5 years ago
Reply to  Doc

His name is Jimmy bell ….:)

Monti
5 years ago
Reply to  Monti

In the jungle his name is Jimmy bell 🙂

Doc
5 years ago
Reply to  Monti

Sides now split

Steve Naive
5 years ago

Good level of competition yesterday and the ROI weren’t messing about. Best I’ve seen from Miller, Kouassi, and Paddy was superb. McClean can fair move and they were all big units but Celts continued to play football(apart from Chas Mulgrew)Soldiers Song and YNWA brought a tear to my fathers eye as did the suggestion of where to stick your royal wedding. Celts third choice keeper was excellent with the ball at his feet. Great crowd, atmosphere and causes.

Steve Naive
5 years ago

Development squad keeper is Doohan. We could have a real player here.

5 years ago

Beautiful.

from The gers(pressure). Worded either? They`ve no to the welcome of the game, once and for all.

Praise.

5 years ago

A poond needs spent if an Euro an Euro.

broxburnbhoy
5 years ago

Yes Ralph St. Martin was suckered into talking about “Rangers”. The insult to the rest of the clubs in the SPL is obvious and I’m happy Brendan shifted the topic to Aberdeen when he was asked about the “rangers”. We have proven over the last 5 or 6 years that we do not need any kind of “rangers” and the rest of the clubs have proven that too. We can all live happily with a version of “rangers”. The real question is why have them at all, what are they bringing to the table except debt and trouble? The narrative should indeed be about Aberdeen, Hibs and others who are playing by the rules and managing their clubs financially well. Well done Brendan for stopping the discussion in its tracks.

broxburnbhoy
5 years ago

I mean WITHOUT!!

puggy67
5 years ago

Martin suckered or slightly pissed that Brendan’s achieved something he didn’t….

Caption: The King of Kings and the Boss of Bosses.

Kris
5 years ago

I really think we might have a great team on our hands, already good but a European final and 10 iar?
That would make them great.

As others said SG went to catholic schools more because the links to the Liverpool academy. He’s no catholic.

Not say that ll help him any, I give him a year afore a “Real Rangurz Man whit went to a non caffluck school “is required

5 years ago
Reply to  Kris

How far is the limit for a Football Player`s life from those runnin` the game?

Wisnae me
5 years ago

Sevco are doing a reverse Ghandi: First they cheated, then they won, then we fought them, now we laughed at them and soon we’ll ignore them.

Caption: So they said Boyd was the best ever SPL striker because he’s scored most goals.

Anton Declan
5 years ago

CAPTION:
Henrik The Hustler “I’m not very good but if you fancy a game of pool later……?”!

5 years ago

Confucius say… saw chin if in for free at Hampden Park reporter.

5 years ago

Was I the only one who fell asleep half way through the Pommy poofter FA cup Final?

Rob O'Keeffe
5 years ago
Reply to  portpower

It was Pish personified…..no passion…just business….

Monti
5 years ago

..his name is Jimmy bell…:)

Noel Skytrot
5 years ago
Reply to  Monti

and he’s an orange bastard

jpm 88
5 years ago

This “”Celtic need a strong rangers ” is a lazy quip which should have been addressed by now : FACTS – O’Neill had a “strong” rangers , and how did that work out for him ? Martin NEVER got us out of the CL group stages ( yes there was Seville but only because we failed to get past Basel in the qualifiers .
That was on the pitch , off of it by 2005 we were circa 40m in debt !

Strachan faced a weak rangers – and TWICE got us to the CL lat 16 ;
Lennon got us to the CL last 16 with NO rangers !

Off the pitch our turnover is now 90m with circa 30m at bank .
This financial position ,the best in our history has been reached with NO rangers .

The facts show the polar opposite to what O’Neill , McLeish et al espouse , that Celtic suffer on and off the pitch when in the “arms race” that Martin seems to want back ; and that we flourish without it .

Rob O'Keeffe
5 years ago
Reply to  jpm 88

Caption: Henke,that O’Neill keeps mentioning the club WorldClass at doing liquidation…
Henke-Are you sure it’s not that Ralph the Rocket man,caption fixer and posh stained cell dweller?….

Rob O'Keeffe
5 years ago
Reply to  Rob O'Keeffe

Pish…..see what I deliberately did there….

jpm 88
5 years ago

I suppose it’s nice of all these folk to be so concerned with our welfare ( O’Neill ,McLeish , the SMSM ETC ) but having just completed a DOUBLE TREBLE 😉 and qualified 2 yrs running for CL group stage , knocking out a team who then knocked out the EL finalists ; knocking out 2 teams who were of sufficient calibre to still be playing European football in February (Astana and Rosenborg ), then I recon Celtic and Brendan can do without outside advice from these “sages”.

Yes we had a heavy defeat in Paris , but so did Barca .
Yes we had a heavy defeat in Barca , but so did PSG.
Yes we lost 5-1 agg to Bayern , but Arsenal lost 10-2 to the same Bayern.
Man City lost 5-1 on agg to Liverpool .
So some perspective needed re our Euro results of late ,some terrible , but some excellent yet underestimated .
As stated above even the “giants” have suffered terrible results .

5 years ago
Reply to  jpm 88

Good points made there jpm

jpm 88
5 years ago
Reply to  jpm 88

CS – by the comments attributed to him in the article above he seems to be advocating , even hoping for a return to that suicidal arms race mentality . ( Can you imagine PL and DD’s thoughts if reading his comments 🙂

Was he on Mars in the summer of 2012 , or did he get his insight on those events and their causes straight from Sky Sports ffs

Your figures are quite interesting as , even with a squad costing ,as you say 80-100m by today’s standards , he still couldn’t get us out the CL group stages or even into them in the “Seville” season . So much for the advantage of a strong rangers , pure delusion .
Time I think to see some perspective and show adequate respect for BR and Celtic’s achievements both domestic and in Europe .

5 years ago
Reply to  jpm 88

Although Martin never got us out the champions league pot i think he continually got 9 points which was good enough in most other groups.
That team was a proper champions league side hence the reason we got to seville.
Only some poor decisions by the men in black halted our progress proper.Especially in italy.

Wisnae me
5 years ago
Reply to  jimmybee

A decent keeper would have made all the difference to that team. Imagine a Forster or Gordon back then…

jpm 88
5 years ago
Reply to  jimmybee

My point was his Euro exploits were NOT aided by a “strong ” rangers .

jpm 88
5 years ago
Reply to  jimmybee

Very possibly CS yet their CL exploits fall short of both Strachan’s and Lennon’s sides , MAYBE 😉 , due to the fact they were having to fight for their lives domestically versus a ” strong” rangers .

SIMPLY , the stats PROVE that Celtic’s exploits in Europe are hindered NOT helped by a so called strong rangers

jpm 88
5 years ago
Reply to  jimmybee

I get your point jimmybee yet – “That team was a proper champions league side hence the reason we got to Seville ” – it could be argued that if they were a ” proper ” CL side then there wouldn’t have been Seville since we’d have been playing in the CL and not the UEFA cup ( we lost the CL qualifier to Basel ).
My full point is that O’Neill’s sides did not benefit in Europe from a strong rangers , but quite the opposite as they were having to fight tooth and nail domestically .
Far inferior sides under Strachan and Lennon had greater CL success partly because they were NOT having to fight tooth and nail domestically.

jpm 88
5 years ago
Reply to  jpm 88

We aren’t spending like we were under Martin O’Neill , because we aren’t in a suicidal ” arms race ” , and we’re doing perfectly well without one , thanks all the same Martin 😉 in fact we’re doing perfectly well without EITHER an arms race or a “strong” rangers 🙂

jpm 88
5 years ago
Reply to  jpm 88

Very possibly CS yet their CL exploits fall short of both Strachan’s and Lennon’s sides , MAYBE 😉 , due to the fact they were having to fight for their lives domestically versus a ” strong ” rangers .

SIMPLY , the stats PROVE that Celtic’s exploits in Europe are hindered NOT helped by a so called strong rangers .

BJF
5 years ago

Great day Saturday, a double treble legends all.
It was a real team performance, the back 4 looked comfortable and Dembelle was unlucky with the header. Other teams can have one good result against us but most of our results are good.
Martin should have known better than getting sucked into debating the new club but in his day there was a Rangers. I suppose, the key thing he said, of course, was if they had money to delve into the transfer market, if Livingston spend £25 million on players they will give us a good run.Meantime
a treble/treble beckons. Jimmybee agree great achievement of Boyata to make Belgium Work Cup squad.

Rob O'Keeffe
5 years ago

Nice to see Boyata growing in confidence and obviously been told to simply put the ball out and get back and cover a player for the throw ins.
Just a thought,but could Celtics’ coaches work on different approaches at corners,we get plenty but certainly don’t capitalise.GF8

Rob O'Keeffe
5 years ago

D.Mond? Please sort out WordPress for me and other WorldClass contributors.There must be something you can do.I feel like Compper and Bitton,around somewhere but frustrated at not being part of something “special”,except for R and his fixation with “r”……
P.S.Please find all my R.St.Parsley level contributions,many months worth that never saw the light of day…..

5 years ago

Got to say even with lustig slowing down over the years we are far better when we have him in the team. He gives us the right balance and i think brings the best out in jamesy.

5 years ago

Going to work today
https://youtu.be/YYOKMUTTDdA

Southside Bhoy
5 years ago

Caption “Broony said the smell of drink in the Huddle was unbelievable “

Cortes
5 years ago
Reply to  Southside Bhoy

Hahaha!
That has to be the winner, Shirley!

Monti
5 years ago

His name is Jimmy Bell

Monti
5 years ago
Reply to  Monti
Noel Skytrot
5 years ago
Reply to  Monti

and he’s an ugly bastard

Desmond and the Dekkers
5 years ago

Forget about mcginn and Mclean, the shirt doesn’t shrink to fit inferior players as a wise man once said.

Brendan is no fan of the former and I think that’s correct as he just doesn’t turn up in the big games for Hibs. I accept that He’s been decent against Broony but better players should be available in the summer.

As for the latter- he’s abysmal, I just don’t see how he would improve the team and signing a MON identikit player would be a step backwards.Would be more suited to The Rangers….oh the irony of ironies.

Noel Skytrot
5 years ago

James McLean is a Celtic fan. James McLean has every right to take the position that he does over his refusal to wear the poppy on his shirt. From what I’ve read a lot of this is fuelled by those who have never lived in the Creggan, never spoken to the people who’s families and community were torn apart by the actions of the British state. I think it would be unlikely that BR would sign James McLean due to all the bullshit over this. Can you imagine the hordes up here? they do love British jingoism and he would get a hard time during that particular time. There’s an excellent documentary on YouTube were he talks about why he does so.

BondiBrian
5 years ago

Well done Glasgow Celtic.

True Champions.

A club open to all.

HAIL HAIL. .

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