I think that it is beautifully karmic that the man who was once sent bullets and bombs by the klan and had to adapt to a world of bodyguards and panic buttons at home gets to savour this historic moment.
Neil Francis Lennon from Lurgan doesn’t have to pretend that he was “born into Celtic”.
A year ago he stepped up when 8IAR was in jeopardy.
You know the rest.
Anyone who thinks that Celtic are not worthy champions for season 2019-2020 is suffering from Unsurpassed Dignity virus.
Privately the chaps in the Blue Room had conceded this league title after they had been bested by Accies on March 5th this year.
I’m told that at a conference call thingy on Friday the Sevco representative asked that the league announcement be held off until, today.
A cynic might conclude that this was to get the…ahem… good news out about the Castore retail deal on Sunday morning.
I, of course, couldn’t possibly comment.
My take is that much of this performance art from the Sevco High Command has been directed at the Ibrox klanbase.
Without a sizeable chunk of season ticket renewals then the financial outlook on Edmiston Drive is bleak.
It has been important for the Sevco High Command to keep the Ibrox klanbase at boiling point about “SPFL corruption”.
With the succulent obedience of their shills in the Stenography in Corps, it has been largely successful.
However, the facts on the ground remain extant and Celtic are now in preeminent position on Planet Fitba.
The post-2012 paradigm is one where there is an epoch of unipolarity in Scottish football.
Jim Spence is a rare creature in Scottish sports journalism.
Thankfully the klan failed to silence him some years back.
Today he made this very apposite observation on Twitter.
The community that gave birth to Celtic were at the back of the bus for generations in Fair Caledonia.
You humble correspondent was born there in the 1950s so I don’t need to consult sociology journals about it.
No one gifted them what they achieved in life just as Celtic earned this title on merit.
If you are of the Hoops persuasion, then enjoy this moment wherever you are.
Some of us are old enough to remember the first 9IAR.
The natural urge now is to gather for a party, but that isn’t on.
Not today.
Not for a while.
There will be a time to do the Huddle in Paradise again.
When that day comes, we can remember this title and the strange times when the world stood still and Broony had hair!
Full disclosure, when Celtic last did 9IAR I had an Action Man with the very same barnet.
Note the gripping hands for holding onto trophies.
Stay safe folks.
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Action Broony brought me happy memories of the 60’s there , not just Lisbon and 9 in a row ! I had several Action Broonies , some with “lifelike “ hair like our main man . I’ve just googled a pic of one but can’t attach it here. Maybe you’d be so kind as to post one for younger viewers please Phil . Great work as ever ☘️
Those comics at Ibrox Noise have surpassed themselves this morning as they rage over Celtic’s 9 IAR title win.
The funniest bit is where they say that they were cheated out of the title, really, how so?
Following the cup exit to Hearts and defeat at home to Accies the noises were all of ‘ the season’s over and Gerrard’s job is on the line.’
What’s changed? Has a few weeks of no football suddenly made Rangers a better team bearing no resemblance to the outfit who collapsed after the winter break?
Poor Hearts, they must be wishing that they were playing Rangers every week which would have solved their relegation issue.
How do the Klan feel “cheated”….because their title winning tactic was to lull Celtic into a sense of complacency by dropping of the pace and then by allowing Celtic to become lax and thus drop points in the final phase. while the Klan team would then up the pace to capitalise and close in on their first title ever. Sadly those treacherous title addicts just followed their spoiling tactic by amassing the largest number of points they could in the matches they played. So the Klan felt
entitled as ever they are entitled to say they were cheated because they are the peepil and were entitled to win.
HH
That clown McCoist and the asterisk to be put beside Celtic’s 9 IAR title!
Where was he and his ilk as Murray cheated the rest of Scottish football throughout the golden EBT years as millions of pounds were paid free of tax via an illegal tax scam scheme with side letters issued to the fortunate beneficiaries to give them some comfort if HMRC asked questions of them.
Payments that miraculously never found their way into their contracts lodged with the SFA at Hampden. Side letters hidden from HMRC and the SFA, though there was an ex Rangers employee hired by the old boys club SFA who knew much more than he let on.
Still waiting on Bryson, or anyone at the SFA, to reply to my numerous letters asking where in the rule book does it state that players can be ‘imperfectly’ registered but ok to play?
Was George Cadete ‘imperfectly’ registered but.not ok to play?
The titles and trophies won during the EBT years should all have been stripped from Rangers with an asterisk placed in the history books and a narrative of how Murray and Rangers cheated Scottish football for nigh on a decade.
Perhaps then we can move on.
Congratulations to Celtic and everyone who supports them ! ! ! !
Meanwhile, I feel a glacial chill of reality swirling around the feet of Scottish football’s great and good. Has any accountant at Sky run a tape measure over Rangers’ finances and estimated the probability of them surviving to play “old firm” games next season? Given the Edinburgh derbies are already gone, what exactly will Sky be paying millions for next year. Ten in a row seems a glorious certainty, but it’s not a big TV draw outside the hoops community.
And Barry Ferguson’s article today must be the icing on the cake for any hoops fan – it is just priceless; “Someone ought to spend tens of millions of their hard earned fortune to serve my pride and prejudice”. Well they have been Barry, for the past eight years, but your leaders are not good enough, your players are not good enough, your technical staff are not good enough and your fans (you) are too gullible and too unworldly for words. Close to £50m has been pissed up the wall and won nothing worthy of an open top bus ride. Your crown jewels and financial saviour – More or Less – is not ready for a step up to a top league – he’s had more red cards against Celtic than goals scored – which is zero if you remember – and he’s getting fatter by the day – is Kim Jong Un looking for a double in the transfer window ?
Enjoy safely hoops everywhere !
TV has lost the Dundee derby too.
Good grounds for reconstruction, maybe?
Can Scotland afford to not have two of its biggest derbies?
“No one gifted them what they achieved in life”
My grandfather, who was born in Glasgow as first generation Irish diaspora, would staunchly disagree.
Because he chose to be an atheist due to strong Marxist leanings he had to move from his home to achieve anything. Had he chosen his parents faith he would have found unionised work easily enough, but because he chose not to go to chapel he was looked upon as ‘one of them’ and could not find gainful employment. Yes there is entrenched bigotry in the sevco klanbase, yes it exists in the rest of Scotland to a degree, but to assume no bigotry existed amongst the Irish diaspora or indeed that bigotry throughout the rest of Scotland is as ingrained and entrenched as in Glasgow where it has practically become an industry is ignorance, wilful or otherwise.
I note also that, once again, you have chosen to draw comparison between the plight of hyphen Irish in Scotland and the plight of black people on the US. As someone with family in both east Donegal and the south of Cork I’m disgusted by this sort of false equivalence, and it is the sort of racist micro aggression which reeks of white privilege.
If this comment upsets you, once again I’d recommend reading Robin DiAngelo’s superb book White Fragility.
Normally I would be as Happy as any other Bhoy. Life has a way of getting in the way sometimes. I have a friend who is fighting for his life with Bowel and Liver cancer, He is just 43. So Bhoys, when that poop test drops thru the door use it.
Hail Hail
Celtic signed a dud Czech and won the League
Rangers signed a dud cheque and lost a Club
GBNL
🍀🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🏆🍀
So Celtic get the tainted title. They are forever shouting about supporting the underdog but fail to address the blatant injustice ending the league like this has caused. Hearts, Thistle and Stranraer will be financial hit by being expelled ( not relegated ) from the respective leagues. Celtic have been very quiet on the corruption and bullying as all they wanted was a tainted title.
Perhaps Celtic fans can make amends by waving a flag when football returns, as this seems to be their way of supporting the hardest hit, forgive me is I am underwhelmed.
Be warned it will not end here, Hearts will take legal action ( as hopefully will Thistle ) and even if it only takes money from the other clubs, then perhaps they will reflect on how they went about treating a member club. The SPFL had a duty to look out for all member clubs but refused to entertain the obvious way of resolving the issue. These are unprecedented times and an unprecedented solution was required. However they will only reap the whirlwind and only have themselves to blame.
Away an’ take yer face furra shite!!
Alas poor James, like Hearts, you don’t understand the rules.
In sport there are winners and losers, both Hearts and Thistle spent more money than most of their rivals and spectacularly underperformed. Stranraer were a distant ten points adrift.
The rules stipulate the end of the season is when the last match is played as deemed by the SPFL. All 42 clubs signed up to these rules. It doesn’t suit three of them now as they see a way out for being rubbish. Why should Hamilton lose money to appease a team paying some players £7500.00 per week gross?
Finally, I see you still have symptoms of sevCovid-1690, tainted title indeed. Very good James. Very good.
Had Hearts not been so disappointing for the bulk of their Season they would never have found themselves in this position in the first place.
I wonder if the likes of Budge would have been so voCal if they had swapped places with one of the wee teams in the League?
It’s Partick I feel for as they were in a position to be out of the relegation zone with a game in hand.
Dundee Utd were 14 pts ahead of ICT who also had a game in hand and yet no one blinked an eyelid at them being crowned rightful Champions given how big the gap was and how well they have performed.
Celtic have a GD of +25
Dundee Utd a GD of +23
No one was catching either of us and certainly not Celtic who have won the last 8 League Titles CONVINCINGLY
GIUARY’s
&
God Bless Albert Kidd
They have been treated as per the rules, but in SFA parlance…..”imperfectly relegated” that makes it legal, remember those “imperfectly registered” Rangers players
Thats a belter of a story in the DR this morning.
Apparently Rangers are locked in talks with Gent to make Hagi’s move to Glasgow permanent but how the transfer fee is structured is holding up the move.
Perhaps Genk’s starting position is the £4.5m reported fee up front whereas the Rangers starting option is a minimal deposit with the balance being paid over the length of Hagi’s new contract.
With rumoured other suitors Genk should be in a strong negotiating position on this one.
The player has talents that will bring something different to Stevie G’s squad but he couldn’t hold down a place at Fiorentina and often found himself on the bench at Genk, so not quite the super star that might see Real Madrid or Juventus swoop for the player.
Will be interesting to see how this plays out over the next few days as there will be a cut off date for Rangers to make the move permanent otherwise having the first option on the player will no longer be in play.
You read the DR?…
Hey Phil,
There’s currently an interview with Neil Lennon on the BBC Scotland website with subtitles, but the subtitles do not appear on the BBC1 News round-up. Patronising or what ?
At least the subtitles don’t mention how disappointed he was that Alfredo received racist abuse from the Celtic supporters during his last visit to Celtic Park !
Hail and Hail again !
What a guy Neil Francis Lennon is, a true Celtic Icon of the Age. I really hope we get to play 2 Scottish Cup matches to achieve the 4th Treble, and when this era is over and for a while, we have taken every record, they hold dear.
They’ve an even bigger problem, a season without fans, or a delayed season, will result in administration, and minus 15 points. Celtic in the words of the manager today, should go all out to drive this message home. Eddy, Olly and Kirstopher for one more season, big Fraser too, if they can do something…… and 10, 11, and 12 are on their way.
That though is a for another day………Neil Francis Lennon deserves it all…..He wasn’t just born into Celtic. He is Celtic.
HH, 9IAR BHOYS.
Celtic will not get a fourth treble this season. It’s impossible to play the remaining games. Where will the players come from? Hearts forced exile will mean players will leave so how will they manage to play their game against Hibs? There is even a chance the Championship won’t start at all so Hearts wouldn’t have any players and would be in mothballs. Hearts have already been shafted and now they would do it again by forcing them to play with players of lower quality ( or no players at all on the books ) . There is a strong possibility that Hearts could refuse to play, allowing Hibs a free pass to the next game, but that would only make the cup more tainted than this fake title. No matter how Celtic players and fans celebrate this title oe cup would be no more valid than the Sevco EBT years.
Yea, there would logistical problems,
However 2 matches, 14 day quarantine around the games over 4 weeks in total, behind closed doors in July or August, no problem. The Bundesliga are doing it, and if Hearts, have no first team players, then that is hearts problem, because they have financially mismanaged their own position and only won 4 out of 30 league games, it’s just tough, maybe a little unfair, but that is life They wouldn’t be crowing about it if it was Hibs in their situation.
As for any title, cup win or otherwise we have gained it is nothing like the illegal, financially doped EBT years of the OldCo Rangers…..
To deliver nine titles in a row, a treble treble, perhaps quadruple and have an excellent financially healthy club takes enduring good governance.
It doesn’t just fall into place.
From a corporate viewpoint, there has to be an excellent board with excellent leadership and excellent decision making over nine years.
The Celtic Board carries no passengers, each guy there brings excellence, experience, Intelligence, good judgement, competence and a cool head….. long may it continue.
Finally, nine in a row deserves a well done to Mr Peter Lawwell.
Excellent comment I see next season going off like a cracker..ten the unimaginable season to come, and I won’t miss it for the world hh10 🍀
Thats a belter from Barry Ferguson, one of the biggest recipients of EBT largesse, as he encourages poor Mr Park to get the cheque book out to challenge Celtic.
Is it any surprise that someone who declared himself bankrupt, unable to pay HMRC the tax due on his EBT payments, has got the brass neck to encourage his former club to spend their way into the same oblivion as the former club?
Is he so unaware that in addition to the forecast £10m shortfall noted by the auditors that Sports Direct, Close Bros, Memorial Walls, deferred staff wages, transfer fee instalments, King’s loan, and day to day bills all have to be serviced?
Perhaps as a former captain he could call a meeting of the EBT recipients and get them to pool together to provide Stevie G with the warchest that Ferguson demands of Park?
I do feel sorry for the Donald as the timing of King’s departure has left him holding the baby and no doubt Celtic being crowned Champions again today will only ramp up the pressure from the fan base. Park of course will have seen motor car sales fall off a cliff with little sign of any immediate improvement, so Rangers is not his only problem.
I wonder how long Genk are prepared to wait for Hagi’s move to be made permanent and £4.5m from Rangers to pop up in the Belgium club’s bank account?
The loan contract between Genk/Rangers will make interesting reading. We are told that Rangers have first dibs on the player but what if the player refuses to move to Glasgow and prefers a sunnier climb?
No one can force him to sign on the dotted line, so what then?
No wealthy individuals could ever touch them with a bargepole. They turn on you, like a pet dog contracting rabies, in a heart beat.
Fergusson calling out Park for what needs to be tens of millions.
Cardigan Walter Smith was the same, McCoist too…. get your money in there. Both those guys creamed money out of the old club for decades and didn’t put a shekel in.
McCoist has millions how much does he put in?
Buy into that as an Owner and they curse you for more and more money until you leave broken and weeping.
Scaring away owners. Irrational people.
The money IS there. Over on rangers banter they’re talking about signing Ibrahimovic. How I chuckled.
I think they actually meant Father Abraham and his wee blue Smurfs.
You wouldn’t even touch them with someone else’s barge pole.
Well done to Neil Lennon. Many were sceptical about his reappointment but he has proven his doubters wrong. Most successful Celtic manager since Mr Stein. Well done Celtic.
Quadruple treble in sight. Still waiting for statement o’ clock from Ibrox congratulating the Champions.
FC Dignitas didn’t get that moniker for behaving in an undignifed manner now did they?
Still patiently waiting for Gerrard to be popped the question on todays outcome then popped the same question about the EPL if they are ubable to play out the remaining games,
Surely Stevie G can rise above the vile hatred emanating from the Ibrox fanbase and ring Lenny up to say well done?
After all he did wear the Hoops in 2003 in sunny Seville.
Congratulations to the players, staff and everyone associated with Celtic FC.
Nine in a row is outstanding. I also think it’s 15 or 16 trophies in a row.
Clubs could not play on. The average points per game solution, agreed by all clubs, is indeed precise sporting integrity. Celtic have been DECLARED SPFL Premiership Champions as they have won it.
Every season, SPFL Champions have to be DECLARED. Normally having the highest number of points over all games qualifies a club for being DECLARED Champions. Celtic won the last eight seasons this way.
If the SPFL DECLARE you Champions then you are the bona fide legal champions. All clubs declared Celtic their Champions. There are no doubts to this title. It was won fair and square.
11 in a row. 15 of the last 20 league titles. Five lost to EBT United. All I think on the last day of the season.
Neil Francis Lennon we remember when you said “this is just the beginning”….hopefully we are not near the end. At least the “rangers” rep prevented us from celebrating on Friday.
Magic i love a Monday night swally.
Cheers to all the Celtic family.
It’s sad that we can’t get to celebrate this properly and we must remember the poor souls who have gone before their time during this pandemic.
It is just a game after all, but a game and a club that brings us together to sing, laugh and cry as we experience the ups and downs of the beautiful game.
For the youngsters on here you perhaps have grown up only knowing victory. For us oldies we have witnessed the bad times too.
I wish my father was still here. He would have loved another 9 with more to come.
To all the mothers and fathers who introduced us to football the Celtic way, to those who can’t be with us as we celebrate once again.
Serva Fidem!
Our day has come……………………
Neil Lennon’s comment: ‘Tainted suggests some form of cheating or illegality going on. We did nothing wrong.” Neil, Neil, are you fucking stupid or what? Of course we did something wrong! We won the second nine-in-row for fuck’s sake!!! You cannot do much more ‘wrong’ than that in this land! Hail fucking Hail !I’ve now seen two nines, and so fuck you all, you egregious cheating c-u–t-s who can’t stand it!
ps Asterisk? I’ll take that, as long as you take yours for all honours won during the cheating years!
Is this site not moderated no need for the swearing words being imputed, only those who cant articulate in a proper manner behave like this not the Celtic way.
Articulating in a proper manner implies the use of correct spelling, punctuation and grammar.
Before being so critical of others, perhaps you should take a wee look at your own post.
Thank you Charger, saved me from commenting 🙂
Look at Castore on Companies House. Both brothers removed as persons of significant control back in January. What if there was a Sports Retail Billionaire behind the scenes pulling the strings…
This title was won on sporting integrity and sporting merit.
No asterisks or mention of them.
My action man had eagle eyes!
I am old enough to remember being at Parkhead standing in the jungle, well sat on a crush bar at the half way line where my Dad stood. I wasn’t about for all the first 9
I was also around when the huns won their 9 and when it was said it would never be done again.
Now here we are 9 in a row, double 9 in a row, that will certainly never be done and done with dignity.
Hail hail
Roll on the T10cfaidh ár lá
We all said it would never be done again after the huns were stopped doing ten, how wrong we were, onward to ten and even further, God bless the Glasgow Celtic and those of goodwill everywhere in the world
I well remember Celtic achieving 9 in a row but that number did not really have the same significance then as it does now. For we were totting them up with no end target, as such, in sight. What I do remember is not getting the 10, for as I left Celtic Park with my young brother William, 12 years old, on the day we could no longer win it, he innocently said to me ” What’s going on John, I thought we won the League every year”
LOL, but not at the time.
I had a similar situation with my youngest brother who was born at the start of season1. I was 10 years older. When at the age of 8 he asked me if anyone else had ever won the league. I burst out laughing. Then it occurred to me that it wasn’t such a stupid question. No one else had won it in his lifetime.
You’re right about the target thing. We had nothing to aim for after we beat our own record of 6. We have TWO targets now. Ten first of all. Then 55 before they win ANYTHING. They will walk in droves if we do that and their kids will follow us because kids follow winners.
I just wish we could have done it on the pitch. It would have been a helluva lot more than 13. WE know it, THEY know it though they will NEVER admit it. Wee Pedro’s dogs following the caravan know it. This early finish has saved them from complete embarrassment.
Well done, Celtic. Today is the day that Celtic are pronounced Premier league champions – nine in a row – meanwhile, the lead article today in the ‘Football’ section of the Daily Record is an article by Barry Ferguson, ex-rangers, who ‘issues Rangers cheque book cry as he insists Douglas Park must push spending limits to stop Celtic’. This says it all really, doesn’t it? Dearie me..
If sevco survive until next season, i have no doubt they will spend beyond their means again. 10 in a row will kill them off for good. In some ways i want them to be there when Celtic do it.
Wee Barry Brain-dead is advocating exactly that on the Deadly Rectum website right now. 😂
It’s not the way we would have preferred, nothing like celebrating another title at a packed Celtic Park.
Just back to the Castore thingy which is being hailed as a £20m, 5 year minimum deal, as if there is a guaranteed £4m per annum up front.
Then I’ve read something else that points to payments to Rangers will be based on volume sales, so in effect there is no £4m up front cash. So what is the deal?
It’s a big leap from providing top range tennis gear to providing high volume football merchandising for a tiny company with the two brothers taking on several roles each, roles that would normally require specialists in specific posts.
Best of luck to them but you can’t help think that they will be stretching themselves to breaking point.
Of course there is an assumption that Sports Direct has now left the building and that Castore has had legal guidance throughout the contract negotiations.
Some bitter people on Talksport today . Jim White and Danny Murphy and Natalie Sawyer not one of them congratulated Celtic on being champions even though they had a number of guests and Celtic fans the hosts could not bring themselves to say it . Murphy went on to talk about Slippy closing the gap on Celtic and getting closer each season and feels his mate Slippy can do it next season so does White .
Don’t worry about them. Please accept my congratulations. Bloody well done. I do miss the on-field action.
Get up to date mate. Defoe saye it’s only a matter of time before Rangers win a trophy.
He may well be right and they will deliver in his lifetime but not before his contract is up.
Only a matter of time now till Tavernier comes out with his annual ‘ we are going for the treble next season’ cry.
The Ibrox club has thrown everything at stopping 9 IAR and failed miserably as they crumbled after the break and Celtic ran away with the title.
Can you imagine the pressure that stopping 10 IAR will put on Tavernier and his fellow bottlers particularly when it becomes clear that adding ‘quality’ to the squad can only be achieved by selling their current best players.
If Gerrard thinks he was getting it tight from the fans last season that will seem like nothing after a couple of bad results and Celtic pulling clear next season. Who knows, someone might even find a photo of him in Seville showing off his Celtic top?
Another treble next season, to follow on from a quadruple treble if we add the Scottish Cup to this season’s haul, will have the Rangers board shitting themselves as their claim to be the most successful club in the world is overtaken by the bhoys in green.
No doubt that ‘ most successful club in the world’ claim will not carry the same weight as it does when attached to the Ibrox club?
It’s difficult to see Gerrard hanging around for long as his current top performers, who failed to topple Celtic, are moved on to be replaced with cheaper options.
Who knows how things will look after the pandemic but the Corporate Governance employed at Celtic Park will ensure the Hoops will emerge in a stronger position than the Ibrox club and Tavernier’s treble hopes will once again be reduced to pulp.
Unsurpassed dignity virus.
Sounds nasty!!!!
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I was 19 when we first achieved it. So so sweeet to achieve it again 46 years later. Celtic fans all over the world will raise a glass tonight to toast our deserved winners. On the points per game algorhythm we would have finished 13 points ahead on 101 points. So much for the game in hand!
No doubt when plans are made for the Scottish cup semi finals and final dates we will hear the Sevco fans howling at the moon.
Congratulations to Neil Lennon, players and staff.
Have a great night Celtic fans everywhere.
☘️🍾☘️
Well deserved!
This time next year will be something special.
We will be celebrating 9 & 10
Let’s hope the Scottish Cup can be eon to complete a legendary 4th consecutive treble.
Onwards..
Congratulations to the following League Champions:
Paris St-Germain-France
Club Brugge-Belgium
Celtic FC-Scotland
All worthy winners
The great thing is that neither of our two Nine In A Row achievements were tainted. What irks the zombies is that they know their Nine ultimately cost their club their life.
Exactly, won fair and square without any cheating, the way God intended. Always a plus when discussing or debating with those who would have it otherwise
Bang on Steven…..all said and done we did it straight