Celtic duly secured an eighth successive title at Pittodrie, the home of their most consistent rivals, yesterday.
In the end, it was a lot more comfortable than the media and a section of the support feared.
When Mikael Lustig dived to head home the opener shortly before half time, the outcome was never in doubt, and after goals from the much improved Jozo Simunovic and Oddsone Edoaurd put the game beyond doubt, the celebrations could begin.
Neil Lennon, brought in to steady the ship and now finish off the run to ten, was visibly relieved that it didn’t all fall apart when Brendan Rodgers rocked the boat when his boyhood heroes Leicester came in for him.
I’m very proud,”
“This is my second spell managing this club, and it is a privilege.
“I’m so proud of the players, the way they handled the occasion.
“It’s been the toughest piece of management I’ve had in my ten years of management.
“That’s just with the scrutiny and agitation and the discontent surrounding the club. We had to keep calm.
“I feel you need the hide of a rhinoceros but luckily I’ve got that!
“OK, some of the performance weren’t great, but they are unbeaten in eleven games so the standard is very high and the expectation is very, very high.
“We need – even the supporters – to take stock. This is eight titles. This hasn’t been done for a very, very long time.”
It’s eight in a row twice…something that someone should point out to Sky Sports, who claimed that Celtic were now in a position to equal the original rangers run of nine in a row back when David Murray had lamb on the menu.
Should Celtic win the league again next season, they’ll be setting the pace again with a second nine in a row.
As for “rangers “, they’ll be trying to get to 55 again, when the reality is my children will get to 55 before they do.
And probably my grandchildren.
This season was tough. It was apparent as far back as last summer that the previous manager couldn’t wait to get out of here, and he played on the fans admiration to try to upset the way things are done at Celtic, as his own ego caused confrontation and disagreement with those who ran the club.
This became evident as Celtic crashed out of the champions League to a below par AEK Athens side, and that set the tone for what turned out to be a less than inspiring season, and perhaps allowed opponents, especially those back by the fat controller and his media lackeys, to proclaim that the Celts were about to fall apart.
But then the League cup was won, which seemed to settle the side down for a while, but as injuries and suspensions took hold, a 1-0 defeat at Ibrox in December has the media proclaiming that the “rangers ” were back.
Even at the time, the realists aiming us knew that a badly weakened and apparently less than 100% fit Celtic side would struggle in that game, but for those who want the old days back it was the turning point…
Except, of course, it wasn’t, and despite Rodgers hurtling down the M74 in February without even telling the players, the side went on an unbeaten domestic run that now has them sitting on the edge of an unprecendented treble treble..
It might not have been pretty, and there is certainly room for improvement, but the board found the right man to take the helm at the right time.
Don;t kid yourself, no one else would have touched the job with so much pressure around it.
Lennon isn;t getting anywhere near the credit he deserves for taking us over the line, so imagine of another manager, who didn’t bleed green had taken over.
Stevie Clarke ?
Great coach, but lacking in the mental strength to take on a such a job.
Rafael Benitez..Slaven Bilic or any of the other names mentioned ?
Lacking in committment, they’d do a Brendan as soon as their reputation was restored as well.
Davie Moyes ?
Just lacking…
Lennon will be handed the reins to guide us to ten. He’ll be given the funds that Lawwell refused to give Rodgers, not only because he wasn’t very good in the transfer market, but because he was rather reckless in his purchases and valuations.
Lennon won’t desert Celtic in the way that Rodgers did.
Whilst the PLC perhaps don’t get how important the ten is, he does.
In a week when we remembered our last great side who wrote their name in history, the present squad have a chance to do the same.
Which seems to have caused a great deal of bitterness in the media, not least from Davie Provan, who seems to have it in for Scott Brown..
No one is comparing Brown to Auld or Murdoch.
Indeed, no one compared Provan in his hey day -and it was one day, a free kick in a cup final- to Johnstone or Lennox.
And I doubt that anyone would.
And serious opposition being absent ?
Oddly enough, no one regarded the Murray years at Ibrox as being any less of an achievement because their main rivals were seriously weakened by their own hand.
It appears a financial advantage isn’t a sporting advantage , it seems, when it’s entirely legal.
Whilst Celtic fans are rightfully enjoying the moment, and looking ahead to nine, ten and even more, the opposition support may be losing a little faith.
Or this one, from their own Nostradamus..
Oops..
All over the media there is a bitterness.
I must have missed the eight in a row pull outs…the praise for Lennon. The admiration for Brown and Forrest who have pledged to stay in Scotland for their entire careers ?
Apparently, as Provan claims, thats because they have no ambition.
Yet had they worn blue shirts, from a club in what was latterly revealed to operate in a tax havem they’d have been heroes, lauded for helping to improve our game…
There’s no praise, no recognition of any sort of achievement.
It annoys them. It annoys them even more that one of our own has two trophies to display and a possible third.
After all, the signings of Gerrard and latterly Defoe and Davis were supposed to alter the balance of power. It was in all the papers.
The defeat at Ibrox had rocked the foundations of Lawwells empire. Rodgers leaving was another sign that the old times were coming back.
Like everything else in the papers, they were wrong.
And they’ll be wrong again next season.
Meanwhile, enjoy this, it puts things into perspective..from Bill Leckie, who took time out to remove his tongue from David Murrays arse to type this..
Well, we’re back out now. And we have been for a while.
Here’s why..
Today we celebrate eight in a row, a difficult season now looks as though it will be a glorious season.
Thanks to the manager, thanks to the captain and thanks to the senior players.
The bhoys done good, here’s to the treble and beyond…
Good to have you back on top form Ralph.
He must have been one of those quality journalists operating in Scotland that some nut job mentioned on here yesterday!
Much better the idea for everyone with a ticket next week to take a box of After Eights for synchronised munching… beach balls and sombrero’ optional.
C’mon Celts, three games to go… win them.
A long long time ago
I can still remember how the taxman made the Peepul cry
And I knew if he had the chance
Dave King would lead them on a dance
And maybe they’d be happy for a while
But dodgy Dave soon made them shiver
With every signing he delivered
Each dud brought tae Ibrox
Gave every Hun the dry boak
I can’t remember if they cried
When they found he’d took them for a ride
But something made me split my sides
The day their title hopes died.
I started singing
Bye bye ‘going for 55′
Drove the Sevvies to the bevvy
Falling for Davie’s lies
The Billy Boys were all pished and pie-eyed
Shouting this is still the same club that died
This is still the same club that died.
I met some Huns who had the blues
And asked them for some happy news
But they just scowled and turned away
So I went down to their megastore
Where I’d seen Huns gathering before
But the Huns there said this new squad couldn’t play
Inside Ibrox the roofs were leakin’
The stands were full of sad Huns greetin’
Not a word was spoken
But the lavvies all were broken
So I blessed my poor unhappy hosts
By Father, Son and Holy Ghost
Then just before my arse was toast
I kissed that cesspit goodbye
But I was singing…
Genius!
RStP, I’ve read much of your brilliant, side-splitting poetry over the years but this is just supreme (as it takes the ‘piss’ out of, er, em ‘supremacists’)
Brilliant Pal, absolutely FN brilliant.
HH
Brilliant!
Superb , absolutely superb.
God bless the Pope!
See that Neil Lennon he refuses to make it easy on those who wonder if someone other than him should be manager. I think the Cup Final is pretty irrelevant to this debate, we will almost certainly win but it’s a one off game so an unlikely outcome is sir of possible. Lennon’s biggest task was to LEAD the team and the club through a tricky finale to the league and he has done that. Tell me how come the most appropriate person to come to Celtic in the February crisis? What combination of factors conspired to have Neil Lennon ready and waiting not encumbered by any Hibs requirements so he could walk straight in, incredible when you think about it, scary almost! Anyway congratulations Neil and the Bhoys,8 in a row.
The Almighty had seen the greed, lies and other sins of the great pretender and moved to return the Prodical Son to Celtic Park. Let us rejoice and Slaughter our prize bull, rib eyes and Merlot all round!
This was one helluva roller coaster of a season.
The results were far more important than the way we played. We weren’t allowed to play simple as thugs acting as opposition players been shown that it was ok to injure and maim our players anti football with teams afraid to come out of their 18 yard box.
A manager spitting the dummy out and walking out it looked bleak. But step forward Neil Francis Lennon step forward Broony. Steadied the ship remained unbeaten and got us home.
The victory at tynecastle with French eddy hitting the winner probably the most important victory of the season for me.
It’s a beautiful Sunday come on over to our place Hey hun were having a party.
HH
Even yesterday should have been 2 straight red cards only yellow given
Well done to the team in getting over the line with a bit of a show. If you were told that BR was leaving at the end of the season in January who would have picked NL as his successor? Not may I’d wager. Good job as caretaker but time to move up.
I’m all over the place on this one CS. I love the guy, his Celtic credentials are unquestionable and we need a steady hand to take us to 9 and 10. But there’s an undoubted complacency in the way we are being run as a club. They see Sevco serially self-harming and think that that will do. It’s not enough. We need to push on and NL doesn’t bring that. But 10 will come under his reign and who better (as a man) to unfurl that flag? No one.
8 IN A ROW-all tax and national insurance paid! Huns,take note….Celtic have asked the cooncil for a Treble Treble Victory Procession,so you know what’s coming! Glasgow is Green and White and don’t you forget it!…..
Ha, Rob, will the “Procession” be allowed to start at that pillar of The Church of Scotland, Glasgow Cathedral, AKA Saint Kentigern’s (Mungo), originally a Catholic Cathedral as it pre-dates the Protestant ‘faith’, and then loudly march past every C of S place of worship in Glasgow? Aye, hell slap it intae them.
Don’t misunderstand me here. I’ve nothing against Protestants, no more than I have against any other, er, offshoot, religion, thingy it’s just that I rather like the Truth. If stealing a Cathedral and then claiming it as your own is okay, and denying the death of a football club is okay, and encapsulating the filth of orangeism is okay then lies are okay too.
I doubt anyone with a modicum of decency would, indeed could, follow (follow) that, but some deluded ‘souls’ do. There isn’t really any hope for them.
Of course I may be wrong here, but I’d like to see the proof of that………
What’s the date of that “Procession”? Starting on the 25th of May (that’ll FN hurt) this year and carrying on Ad Infinitum? Aye, that’ll do for me, Pal. 🙂
HH
See before I even read today’s Diary I URGE all of you to look at the eTims Twitter feed and pass it on if you’re on Twitter. I’m not. It’s by Li’l Ze showing Mika Lustig and it’s essential viewing, IMHO. Enjoy!
HH
Congrats to the bhoys. 8IAR two to go to the magical 10. The youngsters don’t get the importance of the mythical 10. They never lived thro the lean years and suffered the bile and hatred from the ‘peepul’ The next two seasons will see the Huns nd establishment desperately trying to derail our hopes and dreams. It’s gonna be a rough ride my only concern is Lennies temperament will he handle the pressure ? Who else would take the job knowing what’s coming at then Moyes my arse.
I can see clearly now the Treble`s on.
Dressed to suit.
sevco are selling Scratching Posts.
Best.
All said, our 8 in a row bhoys are still a work in progress!!!
9IAR… rhinoceros fingernail chewin` time.
You forgot to mention the sevco supporting referees and the SFA masons that employ them while having a pop at sections of the Celtic support
Ahmed(?) Khan, Charles Green’s wee friend and sevco BOARD member told us that sevco AND the SFA are run by the OO.
how about lee wallace to celtic as back-up
for kt. any thoughts
I think not
Thought not! 🙂
I’d sooner have Willie Wallace myself!
HH
touché tic toc that was funny. I’m enjoying 8 in a row today hope you are too
Nine in a row will be harder than eight that’s for sure but that for next season. At the beginning of this season Dembele was criticised for leaving because he felt Brendan Rodgers wasn’t to be trusted, interesting. Like everyone else I don’t know what transpired over the Boyata issue, was he promised a move to Fulham and then Rodger’s scuppered it at the last minute because the centre back we were in for was lost as we were out bid at the last minute by another club. Whatever happened Rodgers accepted Boyata back in, as did the players, because at that time he was the nest centre half at the club and the country and we needed him. Neil Lennon and Scott Brown still feel positive about Rodgers achievements, maybe we should too.
I had to laugh out loud hearing Slippy G say that he’s disappointed with Scottish football. Apparently it’s not as good as he imagined. No doubt that’s right because he manages “Rangers” who are pish!
Leckie’s absurd assertion that Laudrup was the finest player he had ever seen in Scottish football is merely evidence that he is a clueless fuckwit.
He wasn’t even the best foreign player to have played in Scotland.
Laudrup couldn’t lace Henrik’s boots.
The true measure of their relative merits was shown after they left Scottish football: Laudrup diasappeared without trace and did fuck all against better quality teams and in games refereed by impartial officials,and as for Henrik Larsson the King of Kings, the rest as they say is history.
He excelled in a world class Barcelona team and won a European Cup winners medal with them as well as gracing the English Premier League with Man Utd.
As I’ve always maintained, huns know fuck all about football and Leckie is a prime example.
Stupid stupid huns!
My full agreement with this post. Well said Tony B
The truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth
On a whim Neil Lennon walked out on Celtic the last time he was manager.
Quite enjoyed yesterday’s game, it must be very difficult for the players to run past lumps of wid as their jersey’s are being pulled back, immense credit to them. We have an excellent keeper of the goal in Scott Bain and some really good players, but how we toiled in the first half, our midfield in particular looked like toffee pudding. Its fair to say that Lenny looked red eyed and stressed before the game, but fair play to yeh Lenny you took all the responsibility on the chin as you usually do and came out once again on top. The time to talk about new players and or not manager is for later, the time to enjoy 😉 <8 is now. The doing SFA have a history and a recent history too of favouring just the one club, we all know where their allegiances lye, masonic or just corrupt who knows but they are no friends of Celtic…
Lennon never managed Caldwell or McManus they were before Neil was manager. So he certainly never walked for that reason. If your point is Lawwell is an interfering negative influence in team matters then I agree, however posting rubbish just makes you look uniformed and stupid.
Cult, I need new glesses I thought you said summit else. BTW theirs fuckall wrong with sheep, mine are happy, hooped and celebratory.
“When Gareth Crooks speaks about Scottish football” the whole wide world pishes itself laughing. Pumped up precocious fuckwit, talking through his Erchie. “Celtic need to get rid of Neil Lennon, because Steevie Gee is a winner”, is that right fatso, because has he won the SPFL or the League cup, can he win the Scottish cup? No he hasn’t and no he cannot. There’s more shite talked about fitbaw, then, well anything, but a lotta fuds make a great living out of it, so next year our licence might get chucked.
Its Brotherly love as Bobby Mad-Hun leads out his troops! He’s wearing a silver embroidered apron with lots of sex toys emblazoned beadwork stitched into his knickers. Either that or mechanical masonic emblems. He carries himself well with his Monti style hairstyle, with the word “Fud” tattooed on his napper. His assistants are having to wear designer sun glasses to keep the glare from interfering with their blue hued specsaver decisions. Tavnier Penalty leads out the Huns who are forced to duck, when some infiltrator lets wan rip. WTF is that smell they yell, its Tavnier penalty says one of the younger players, he’s keeched himself because its his football ritual, some of our players shag goats, but he prefers another onerous method… WTF its been 30 minutes and no penalty shouts a fan..ee, this game is Donald Ducked
Green Fields of France (No Huns Land).
Oh how do you do parents of Craigie Whyte
I want to say thanks that you stayed in that night,
A bottle of wine & a meal set for two, your child conceived his eyes bulging blue.
As Craig grew from child & into bhoy, the world all over Tims did rejoice,
A gift sent from heaven, our prince we had found, the damage he caused & all for a pound.
Craig beat the drum slowly
Craig played the Fife lowly
Craigie played the death march as he lowered them down,
Craigie Whyte played their last post & chorus, then sent a card & a wreath from the florist.
Craig did you leave a sweetheart behind, to any young maiden you’d be such a find,
On Valentines day my heart thinks of you & the damage you done, to the Huns wearing blue,
Jim White on Sky Sports delivered the news, i pished myself laughing, could hardly stand in my shoes.
The rangers in admin on Valentines day, i reached for my Whippy & Lime rowntrees jelly,
Jim looked in despair as he read us the news, oh what will they do when they don’t have their blues.
Craig beat the drum slowly
Craig played the Fife lowly
Craigie played the death march as he lowered them down,
Craig Whyte played their last post & chorus, then sent a card & a wreath from the florists.
🙂
Weered,
🙂
Poet Laureate Monti… great song
Steve,
Why thank you kind sir
Nurse Ratched? Please ^
I do (offer the same advice to your “protagonists”) and to myself too!
This is a wonderful site, IMHO the best Tim site there is and by some margin.
When we fall out it gets ugly and we ALL suffer.
The written word is a fucking mine-field and some take every opportunity of mis-interpreting it and using it to throw shite. Okay. We don’t NEED to respond to shite, but it can be hugely difficult not to. It takes a lot more to sometimes walk away, and in my own experience, it’s always been worthwhile. A bit like supporting the ‘Tic. I’ve seriously hurt people on more than one occasion, but not once have I derived any joy or benefit from doing so, other than the short-lived ‘euphoria’ of winning.
Anyway, Cesar led by example; maybe we can all learn from that. Hopefully.
HH
TicToc,
” i’ve seriously hurt people on more than one occasion “?
Did you deflate your bouncy castle too quickly?
I think a lot of people want a manager who oozes sex appeal just because slippy g is looked as some sort of calvin klein y fronts model. Fair enough Neil Lennon might not have been born with the looks of Brad Pitt, but he’s a good manager with the club’s best interests at heart. The crux of it is look at Rudd Gullit came across as a cool dutch hipster with good looks and dreadlocks, but in the end he talk a good game of sexy football thats it, his teams looked more like a can of pedigree chum. Ya know that old saying don’t judge a book by its cover, well we have book on the table that’s been tried and tested with success written in its spine. All im saying to fellow supporters be careful what you wish for. On we go to 10 in a row
Mm, not sure about the good looks but I think most (or, at least, a sizeable minority) want a forward thinking coach, who can vastly improve players and smash the opposition domestically.
We had that under Rodgers but Neil Lennon, not on the evidence so far.
In the 9 games in charge, we’ve gained 1 more point than the Huns and have a worse goal difference.
Given that most people expect that the “honest mistakes” will ratchet up over the next 2 seasons, can we really afford to go into them with this slender advantage?
No, in 7 league games in 2019 we extended our lead by 8 points and to only extend that by a solitary point in 9 games is very disappointing, to put it mildly.
If Rodgers had still been in charge that would likely be 15-20 by now, as the team was playing so well.
There was likely to be a drop off after the upheaval but he’s got a wafer-thin advantage over Gerrard and to go into a fresh season with that would be the height of recklessness.
Not so sure about that Cha the zombies have been beating the rest and the rest have been playing their heads off against Celtic. Lennon was hired to bring the league home and maybe the treble treble. He has the league and a good chance of managing us to the treble treble. I’m unsure if we’d be twenty points clear unless “Rangers” started to loose to other teams apart from Celtic. Let’s see how we do at Ibrox with Lenny at the helm. A good drubbing of the zombies would help him a lot in terms of the job.
I think if we’d kept up our invincible run then the Huns would’ve cracked under the pressure but our draws let them off the hook.
Perhaps 12-15 but its all academic now.
Agree that a win and big performance next week would be a great statement.
Also being a fortnight before the Cup Final there’s no excuse for players saving themselves for that.
Una,
If it was based on looks & godlike physique….i’d be in with a chance.
🙂
I’ll ses for myself on the 25th
If it’s going to come down to sex appeal I’d just give the job to big Judith aff the weather.
Stevie,
I prefer Carol, the weather wench on ‘ breakfast ‘.
Some pair of tits on the milf.
Ha!
For the day that it is.
Our revenge will be the laughter of our children.
They have nothing in their whole imperial arsenal that can break the spirit of one Irishman who doesn’t want to be broken.
Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something.
Bobby Sands MP
Stupidest footballer in the planet Allan McGregor, we won’t miss him!Well done Bobby.
BJF,
He’s a thug, pure & simple.
Well done Madden!
Congrats to all at Celtic. I agree Una, great players very rarely make great managers. I would be happy if Neil Lennon took the job on full time permanently.
Enjoy the moment! 8 in a row!
SC Stevie Chalmers
“ on the planet”
Do you think they realised we would win next Sunday and want no McGregor as an excuse?
Where’s the money gone,
where’s the money gone,
Where’s the money gone,
Where’s the money gone,
Far, far away,
Far, far away.
Last night I realised that the money was gone,
I searched for it diligently but knew that something was wrong,
The money was missing from the Celtic accounts,
But then It dawned on me that it was a huge discount,
So where’s the money gone,
Where’s the money gone,
Where’s the money gone,
Where’s the money gone,
Far far away,
Far far away. Chirpy cheap cheap, its Peter, pickled pipers money, anyway.. Open the tin and let the managers fingers in.
Mike,
🙂
Bill Leckie, what a cunt.
Arse of a man who wrote a piece on paedophillia in the church on the 12th July. A total current bun.
I can’t hear the sound of buzzing….someone must have opened the windae.
Grand so 🙂
Oh our Celtic Da,
To us you are so wonderful,
Oh our Celtic Da. to us your never rude,
No-one could be so humble, yet so loveable,
Oh Celtic Da you always understood.
Gone are the days, when he would take us on his knees, cough
and with a smile, he’d change our tears, to laughter.
Oh Celtic Da. so funny are Ralph’s chronicles,
never make us sad, so amusing are your cough articles,
Oh Celtic Da. Thanks just thanks… and mind the T shirt.
🙂
Mourinho…anyone ?
Aye a pathologist. He’s a fucking cheat.
Puggy,
No he’s no, Deco was!
Yes please…..ALEXA….XBOX ON
PISH
Well done James Forrest. Player of the year 2019.
Beat me to it! So yes congratulations to James Forrest and Steve Clarke named as PFA Scotland’s Premiership player and manager of the year. Very well deserved…
Lovely!!!
James a true professional
Alfredo a true bellend
Thats what the fellow professionals think
No way Jose!
CHAMPIONS AGAIN OLE OLE
CHAMPIONS AGAIN OLE OLE
CHAMPIONS AGAIN
CHAMPIONS AGAIN
CHAMPIONS AGAIN OLE OLE ×8
YA FUCKING BEEEEEAAAAUUUUTTTYYYYY!
GIRFUYDOB
OOH AAH
JOSE MOURINHO?
I’d have the stauner of stauners if this be true 🙂
I think it’s hype Monti and that said I didn’t believe Slippy G would go to “Rangers”.
Is Ryan Kent not 23 years old?
How Is that in the ‘ young player ‘ category?
It’s Scotland Monti anything goes, like er 17 pens in one season
Una,
Very true..
Una,
” anything goes “?
I have a 18 year old step daughter….i hope she fucks off soon 🙂
We’ve got Mourinho
Gerrard’s got our stereo
We’ve got Mourinho
Gerrard’s got our stereo
Why is 8IAR so important , more satisfying than the other 7? It is because that it was achieved in extraordinary circumstances and pressure. The shock of a much respected manager, who was held in the highest esteem by the supporters and especially by the players. By the recent passing of not one but two legendary players, hero worshipped by all and who’s deaths have left a space that will never be filled. The currant players who have worked their balls of for club and country, with hardly any break both mental as well as physical, performing every single week, sometimes twice a week under enormous pressure. We give them all massive praise for all their efforts in season 2018-19 and ask that they go back to the “well” of success three times more this season before they enjoy a much needed and well earned rest. Next year and through the closed season, the rumours are of big changes, the truth being that if we want the success to continue, that we need those changes. I hope the rumours are true, but only time will tell… 😉 <8
I’m gonny tell you what’s plain to see, The Celts always winning, its so e-a-s-ee. Beating them all both night and day,
Then win some more both home and away,
Win some more both home and away,
Win some more both home and away.
Win some more both home and away,
Win some more both home and away,
Win some more not home and away…
Hi bhoys. Help an auld Fenian here. I have old computer software and my emojies are going haywire.
On your sytems do any of these ’emoticons’ show up as anything other than question marks in a box!!?
Feedback advice appreciated. I once sent successfully emojies but forgot how I did it. Still high after Saturday…on Werthers and After Eights. Here’s to After Nine mints next year.
Hail, hail…
Do what I do mate: ask your weans/grandweans. Good luck.
Devoy,
Put your keyboard in a sink full of hot soapy water, half an hour later, take it out & smash it three times with a hammer.
You’ve worked in IT haven’t you Monti?
🙂
Ha!
Devoy, If this helps: ; button, – button, ) button all together 😉
; – ) = 😉
(*) = Mike 🙂
( * ) = Charlie Saiz 🙂