Brendan Rodgers and his players have made history for the second season in a row.
Last year it was the Invincible Treble.
Now twelve months later it is the Double Treble.
It is further evidence that we are now in an epoch of unipolarity in Scottish football.
Moreover, it isn’t over.
Undoubtedly the Parkhead side will strengthen this summer.
Indeed, in a post-match interview at Hampden on Saturday Rodgers spoke of the need to push his players further next season.
As the Celtic way was engulfed in a happy family atmosphere the klan was not taking it well.
I put the following question out to my Twitter followers last night:
They are on the wrong side of history and their response seems to be that if they just hate harder then it will all be better.
Two years after Rangers died in 2012 a majority of people in the Dear Green Place voted to leave the United Kingdom
Whatever else you can say about that “Quintessentially British” it aint!
I have written here before that the club formed in 2012 by Charles of Normandy is not a viable vehicle for the ethno-religious supremacism of the klan.
The Sevco High Command dared to believe in April 2016 when the Admirable Warburton’s charges did the business at the national stadium.
However, that was the last time that Heated Driveway Productions would play a role.
Since then Brendan Rodgers has been in total control of all football matters.
You know the rest.
Now with the season over The People are now in their happy phase.
This will be the case until football matches have to be played again.
This time last year Senhor Pedro Miguel Faria Caixinha and his men were going to achieve great things at the basket of assets.
Then in the first competitive match, he met with little Progrès.
You know the rest…
Then after much zip chewing young Master Murts was shown the door.
Now it is Mr Gerrard.
His appointment is undoubtedly a brilliant PR coup for the convict chairman.
In a stroke, it dealt with the concerns in the Blue Room over season ticket renewals.
There is also the hope that the Gerrard brand will attract further commercial sponsorship and access to the best of the Liverpool academy.
The hiring of Mr Gerrard can be best seen as an impulse purchase by an under pressure chairman.
Mr King is renowned for his capriciousness.
With Mr Gerrard at the helm, they may have been able to get a more high profile kit supplier than Hummel.
As I have already reported the move for the Liverpool legend came as huge surprise to the rest of the Sevco High Command.
You may recall that the Admirable Warburton turned on the TV to find out that he had resigned.
It came as quite a shock to the ex-City trader…
The only unknowable is the managerial abilities of Mr Gerrard.
What is not in doubt is the paucity of resources currently at his disposal.
I am sure that he believes the promises made to him by Mr King about a transfer budget of £20m.
Believes the promises made to him by Mr King…
Good grief.
Meanwhile, as the klan fantasises about great things over the summer the Celtic family are enjoying the reality.
Indeed, fantasy is all that the customers of Pariah FC have to keep them warm at night.
Across the city the reality of the Rodgers regime has the Celtic family smiling broadly.
Obessed drivell being spoon fed by the ultimate con artist…enjoy bhoys we will be back long before you get near 10
Do u all remember stevie g brung his young team to play at the Huns at their training ground some months back , next day he was plastered all over the daily retard , shouting about the wonderful set up and great people, he was well and truly given the false tour of the circus ( something wicked this way comes)
Who’d want to be one of The Three Bears today – maxed out on soft loans, used and abused as DavieG’s media punks – now with their balls in a vice – will they shovel more cash into the Ibrox furnace – or will they dare let Pretendie Rangers bleed out before the StevieG revolution even gets started – and the peepul are so excited.
As Sir Humphrey would say, “That would be ‘courageous’, Minister”.
That DavieG is a sly wee bugger when it comes to extracting OMP for the peepul – and no mistake.
Let’s Get the Old Band Back Together
Martin Bain gets the chop as CEO of Sunderland AFC after seeing them relegated twice in two seasons. Shirley there’s a place for such talent on the board at Ibrox in preparation for the StevieG revolution. Shirley!
Celtic will start the season with firm targets in mind.
A treble treble
CL Group Stage qualification
European football after Xmas and an improvement on performances in Europe.
Over the river the target will be to stop 10 IAR at all costs.
Soon we will have a rehash of Alves coming to take away our title and Tavernier repeating his aim to achieve the treble.
It’s all just noise. Talking of which those guys over at IN make Lindsay and Jack at the ET look sane. If nothing else and you want a laugh then have a read.
Today they are predicting the team that Gerrard will have at his disposal come new season kick off.
Albeit slightly biased as I am their strongest selection had Celtic 5-0 written all over it, though if Defoe’s not injured perhaps he might sneak a consolation goal!
Any defence with Tavernier, Alves and John in it will ship goals, as they have this season.
Given that they will be paying decent money to the newbies, Skrtel in particular, the wage bill doesn’t need trimming, it needs slashed.
You have to feel sorry for the poor guy whose trying to balance the books as expenditure outstrips income.
Last year’s loss of £6m will look healthy compared to where the current year is heading, unless some significant transfer fees for the likes of Morelos or Tavernier is incoming.
Still no kit available for sale, what is going on with their supply chain.
All’s gone quiet on the COS/TOP issue which is probably the precursor to some very bad news coming down the pike for King and the club.
Those legal wheels really do turn mighty slow.
Martin and Goss have returned to their clubs, Cummings move is in the wind, so Murphy is the only one of Mark Allen’s transfer master strokes being kept on. If his displays against Celtic are anything to go by then Lustig won’t be losing any sleep.
Arfield and McGregor on board as Bosmans and Docherty’s fee still being paid up, another one who has split opinion amongst the fans.
It can’t be easy for the DOF trying to attract quality whilst ducking and dodging around extended payment terms and unrealistic add ons.
Sure, things can change quickly in football but it’s impossible to see Gerrard turn things around unless he brings in 5 or 6 players of a higher standard than those plying their trade at Celtic Park.
Celtic face 4 qualifying rounds in the CL but will be seeded throughout. 8 games through July and August to claim the Group Stage financial bonanza.
Hopefully with a couple of additions qualification can be achieved for the 3rd consecutive year.
Best of luck to Paddy as he departs, hopefully young Morgan can do the business.
Onwards and upwards.
I take immense pleasure in witnessing the pain and suffering of the DeLooDeid on a Daily Basis.Some of there sites are just unbelievably hilarious.They really do believe They are the Only (Clubs)Club that can halt the Green n White Juggernaut as it Steam Rolls all before It,In Scotland.Sevco is a Poison Chalice,There support is soo caught up in its own Self Entitlement that there very being is Questionable at Best.Liquidation = Death.I us to enjoy the football between the (OldFirm) Before Rangers died and Put an End to The Biggest Rivalry in World Football.Now Aberdeen are our biggest rivals and rightly So.They have earned it,As long as we mention Sevco,Them in there idiotic thought process somehow believe We are Obsessed with Them lololololololol.The mind Boggles
Sevco,Cmon Noo,nae laughing at the back.The Gift that keeps on Given.Are we even thinking Sevco will put up a better challenge this next season,Will they Even survive till the End of Next Season.I reckon Stevie(Blunder) is there last throw of the Dice,All or Nothing!!!!!We must savour these moments in Time Bhoys We may not have them to savour for much longer.HH.
“This has to be said about Rangers, as a Scottish Football club they are a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace. This country would be a better place if Rangers did not exist.” Ian Archer
Whilst Rangers thankfully no longer exist their fans remain.
Quintessentially Rancid.
Well said…….
Rangers / Sevco fans actually make me embarrassed to be Scottish.
Honduras and elSalvador fought the 100 your war ignited by a football match. Not quite genocide but close
What from 1969 to 2069?
Alan Shearer, the biggest bore in football dipped his toe into management at Newcastle. Albeit it was the end of the season, and without proper resources etc, he could not save them from relegation. With SGs questionable resources, at Ibrox I doubt there will be much improvement. He will have jumped ship by Xmas, and like Shearer will end up back in that cosy world of TV punditry repeating the same boring cliches every week. Great player’s rarely make great managers. Thats a fact, particularly with “limited”
gestural resources. Great picture of Stephen Whitaker on social media with his wee boy in the Hoops. Thats what its all about. As Phil repeats regularly, they will always be the wrong side of history. The fair minded are catching on.
Do you think Mr G is paying close attention to the sectarian flaying one of his players is currently receiving from the peepul and planning an exit strategy? Could it all be part of GASLs Machiavellian machinations now that the moonbeams have sold sufficient STs?
Jeremy Corbin castigated, and Labour activists berated for daring to call out Israel’s crimes. Tut tut don’t you know.
Yet zero acknowledgement of the bile that seeps from the Ibrox sores. It would be easy to stoop to racism and sectarianism.
I have followed the Celts for 58 years through thick and thin.
Yes I refer to the Klan and the Hun. At times I feel like being a lot more forthright in my comments about Sevco.
But I remember my parents and my old neighbour Geordie who introduced me to the Hoops when I was 4 years old.
There’s a right way and a wrong way. Thank god the Celtic way is the right way.
Besides it’s easier to see on the top of the pond, just breathe in the fresh air and wonder at the beauty of nature.
But spare a thought for the inhabitants of the bottom of the pond. They are denied daylight and can only become some grotesque, bitter foul-smelling thingymajigs.
HH
Barabas
What has Israel got to do with Celtic?
The funny thing is that you think you are at the top of the pond which shows your self righteous arrogance.
Oh sorry I forgot I’m you may be a Labour activist you could not surely be called a racist.
Am going to Israel on Thursday to visit our capital Jerusalem Can’t wait.
You will also be glad to hear that after supporting celtic for 40 years I have decided not to renew my season book as our club is too political and not about football.
Ironic that its a bit like listening to Rangers political songs on Northern Ireland with respect of Celtic fans left wing views on matters outside football.
Who had the idea first of signing Gerrard ? Who put the idea into Glib’s head ?
Gerrard ‘s advisors?
Pissed off because Brendan only offered him the No 3 slot they approached King .. not vice Versa?
I could give you 43,000 reasons.
Gerrard will fail miserably. even £20m would not be enough over 38 matches to topple celtic.
Sevco fans are the most horrible in the whole world.
Hey Phil,
Unlike your good self, I’m suffering from a bit of “writers block” and wondered if your regular readers could help me out.
I’m writing a wee ditty to the tune of David Bowie’s 1974 toe-tapper and need a bit of help:
Treble Treble you’re in distress
Treble Treble your place is a mess
Treble Treble Hector said NO
Scott Brown I love you so!
You’ve got your Lodge in a whirl
They’re not sure if you’re long for this world
Dave King you’re such a liar
Dave King your pants are on fire
Sevco you’ve lost your fight
Sevco we’re so out of sight
class
Im having the problem with
Ohh slippy what a pity you dont understand when Glibby took you by the hand
Fill in the rest
Chorus
You got to run slippy run slippy run like F slippy
There was a wee team called sevco
Whose season had ended in woe
They were in a mess
causing their fans much distress
while Celtic won ten in a row.
Double treble I`m really impressed.
Brendan and bhoys now need a rest.
Treble treble ..then nine and ten in a row.
Glasgow Celtic I love You So.
Hi Phil…
I don’t know if you highlighted this already…( apologies if so)….but…
WTF was EBT McLeish on about… when he complained of it not being a level playing field on BBC Hun Scotland on Cup Final day ?
Was he being serious…?
This guy is a cheat who presided over a bunch of cheats…and between them, they produced the biggest “unlevel” playing fields in Scotland’s football history.
Feckin’ unbelievable statement…from a total fanny.
You couldnae mark his neck wi’ a blowtorch…!!
Hail hail.
I think SG might get a couple of loanees thru contacts and even a big name journeyman or two. But BR said the magic phrase a few days back. ‘Celtic will improve’ next season. That’s enough for me.
I can’t see SG getting the better of Lennie, Clarke or McInnes over the course of the season, he may get a couple of early wins for the Klan to cling onto but it will inevitably be short lived. Hard to see how they can get any of the dreck off the books cheaply. I cannot see SG bringing in big money in corporate interest. A £30-35m company they will remain.
McInnes will do his duty next season, as he did this.
“If they just hate harder then it will all be better …” So true.
I was just wondering if anyone had communicated to Stevie Ger that Sevco are not a part time club ????
DavieG signing up StevieG was indeed an inspired move – requiring low-cunning genius and a deft nuance to the financial realities.
Check out News Now Rangers any day since the announcement and note the number of ridiculous transfer rumours taken as gospel by the hard-of-thinking because of StevieG’s magical powers – £10m here, £8m there, 2 x £5m everywhere.
Or rather, blow away the chaf and see what seed corn remains – oh dear.
The StevieG Revolution will be televised – and it will be comedy gold, gold, gold.
and The Fat Controller is now on the Nordic Trak 24/7 getting in shape for the hardest year of his “working” life – explaining to the numpties why the A-list, B-list and C-list stars did’t come to StevieG’s party.
So much to look forward to 🙂
Am a being cynical to suggest that with Sevvie GERards appointment having aided operation Season Ticket…
… it would now be mutually beneficial to both parties to announce a mutual annulment if the relationship.
Sevvies mind will be on things ‘CL’ for now and in gaining a sixth star for the red shirt of Liverpool. Like Celtic a club with true European heritage. When it’s over he might seriously question why he is gong to a team with a star for every 10 EBTs that were employed in gaining 14 iffy trophies.
I still think he may not start the new season.
I have been saying that all along
Bookies won’t give odds on him not even starting.
Just a wonderful day on Saturday, Still celebrating today! Love Celtic! HH
Sevco have been in the SPL for the làst two seasons ( note I did not say back in the SPL). We have won two trebles in those two seasons. Say no more nutch nutch.
Success breeds success and there’s no reason why we can’t look forward to the treble treble as long as PL opens the purse and allows Brendan to spend a little bit to make us unbeatable in the league and less easily beaten in Europe.
The weekend wasn’t all bad for the klan from fantasia, they had a lovely wedding to watch. HH
Did Warburton and Weir ever get paid the money they were due?
Yep, weekend was amazing. Actually, when was the last time Hampden has hosted the same team lifting both the League Cup and Scottish Cup 2 seasons in a row?
Regrettably, marching in the “dear green place” in support of independence brought out the worst in Scotland’s Sunday Herald which vastly overstated a small unionist/loyalist opposition that turned up (on their way to the Killie match?).
The mainstream print and broadcast media turn a blind eye to the annual marching season with its anti-Irish, anti-Catholic and increasingly anti-immigrant themes. Mainstream politicians, in fear of that unionist/loyalist vote, avoid the topic, or worse, make political cause with the DUP or “Glasgow’s Miles Better” whitewash.
It’s time my dear green place found a way to accept the truth about itself.
Spot on
“Treble, Treble, Rebel”,
We’re still.. walking in the air,
We’re floating in the moonlit sky,
The peepil far below us are.. crying as we fly.
The cups we’ve won, we’re holding very tight,
We have another Treble in our sight,
We’re having another party. .tonight. Brilliant Phil, keep up your great works.
“Happy to mix”
Maybe the message will get through eventually.
Brendan Rodgers does fill me with hope. Seems to be nurturing ‘oor Hoops along nicely. Be good if the Coach and the Corporate sides align. Sure we’ll see us aim slightly higher in Europe.
The buzz at Parkheid sells more books than an ex England International ever could.
Cheers
Hi Phil
Great weekend, double treble achieved, \o/ Broonys testimonial, off to Lanzarote tomorrow then back to Gaoth Dobhair.
Glasgow is definitely Green and White.
Keep up the good work.
HH
Thanks Phil,
Appreciate your time and knowledge HHx3x2?
The klan are hurting today. Long may it continue .Brendan Rodgers here for 10 in a row.