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The "Where should I put this?" Thread;; Strange stories from the crazy world of football.
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Topic Started: 25 Sep 2012, 05:56 PM (238,135 Views)
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18 Jul 2016, 09:15 PM
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According to this, we were once nicknamed the pacers due to that rather sickly sweet you could get in the late 70s, early 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacers_(confectionery) I remember the sweet having a rather corny advert that finished, "Atkins come out and bring your pacers with you", but never have I heard Celtic's name being mentioned with it. Did I miss something or is it just wiki tosh ? Never heard that before either.
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18 Jul 2016, 09:20 PM
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According to this, we were once nicknamed the pacers due to that rather sickly sweet you could get in the late 70s, early 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacers_(confectionery) I remember the sweet having a rather corny advert that finished, "Atkins come out and bring your pacers with you", but never have I heard Celtic's name being mentioned with it. Did I miss something or is it just wiki tosh ?
Never heard that before either. somebody's at it, never happened.
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18 Jul 2016, 09:22 PM
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- 18 Jul 2016, 09:08 PM
According to this, we were once nicknamed the pacers due to that rather sickly sweet you could get in the late 70s, early 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacers_(confectionery) I remember the sweet having a rather corny advert that finished, "Atkins come out and bring your pacers with you", but never have I heard Celtic's name being mentioned with it. Did I miss something or is it just wiki tosh ? They had a green & white striped wrapper did they not?
Edit. Sorry - just clicked the link!!! Never heard us called The Pacers.
Edited by davebhoy, 18 Jul 2016, 09:26 PM.
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18 Jul 2016, 09:37 PM
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- 18 Jul 2016, 09:08 PM
According to this, we were once nicknamed the pacers due to that rather sickly sweet you could get in the late 70s, early 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacers_(confectionery) I remember the sweet having a rather corny advert that finished, "Atkins come out and bring your pacers with you", but never have I heard Celtic's name being mentioned with it. Did I miss something or is it just wiki tosh ? The last Nike kit for us was always referred to as the Pacers kit but I've never heard of it as a nickname for Celtic. Quite like it though, sounds like something off an old scarf patch.
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19 Jul 2016, 06:58 AM
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Would be nice if the club bought this.
Celtic fans get chance to own club's first EVER winners medal worn by James McLaughlin
By RYAN McDONALD
CELTIC'S first EVER winner's medal will go under the hammer at a Glasgow auction next month.
The gong was presented to ex-Celt James McLaughlin after the Hoops won the Glasgow North-Eastern Cup on May 11 1889 before it was later passed on to grandson Bill.
Parkhead legend McLaughlin played a key role for Willie Maley's side in the 6-1 against Cowlairs to help the club scoop their first ever trophy.
And experts are predicting the memento - regarded as one of the most important football medals in existence - could be sold for between £10-20k.
McLaughlin played for Celtic for two seasons as a full-back and then a goalkeeper.
The Scot made his debut in the first ever Old Firm game against Rangers on May 28 1888, which the Hoops won 5-2.
The medal will be the star attraction in McTear's Work of Art Auction on August 12.
http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/7213814/Celtic-fans-handed-unique-chance-to-own-clubs-first-EVER-winners-medal.html
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19 Jul 2016, 09:11 AM
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- 19 Jul 2016, 06:58 AM
Would be nice if the club bought this. Celtic fans get chance to own club's first EVER winners medal worn by James McLaughlinBy RYAN McDONALD CELTIC'S first EVER winner's medal will go under the hammer at a Glasgow auction next month. The gong was presented to ex-Celt James McLaughlin after the Hoops won the Glasgow North-Eastern Cup on May 11 1889 before it was later passed on to grandson Bill. Parkhead legend McLaughlin played a key role for Willie Maley's side in the 6-1 against Cowlairs to help the club scoop their first ever trophy. And experts are predicting the memento - regarded as one of the most important football medals in existence - could be sold for between £10-20k. McLaughlin played for Celtic for two seasons as a full-back and then a goalkeeper. The Scot made his debut in the first ever Old Firm game against Rangers on May 28 1888, which the Hoops won 5-2. The medal will be the star attraction in McTear's Work of Art Auction on August 12. http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/7213814/Celtic-fans-handed-unique-chance-to-own-clubs-first-EVER-winners-medal.html Yeah id imagine they will.
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19 Jul 2016, 03:24 PM
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19 Jul 2016, 03:40 PM
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- 19 Jul 2016, 06:58 AM
Would be nice if the club bought this. Celtic fans get chance to own club's first EVER winners medal worn by James McLaughlinBy RYAN McDONALD CELTIC'S first EVER winner's medal will go under the hammer at a Glasgow auction next month. The gong was presented to ex-Celt James McLaughlin after the Hoops won the Glasgow North-Eastern Cup on May 11 1889 before it was later passed on to grandson Bill. Parkhead legend McLaughlin played a key role for Willie Maley's side in the 6-1 against Cowlairs to help the club scoop their first ever trophy. And experts are predicting the memento - regarded as one of the most important football medals in existence - could be sold for between £10-20k. McLaughlin played for Celtic for two seasons as a full-back and then a goalkeeper. The Scot made his debut in the first ever Old Firm game against Rangers on May 28 1888, which the Hoops won 5-2. The medal will be the star attraction in McTear's Work of Art Auction on August 12. http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/7213814/Celtic-fans-handed-unique-chance-to-own-clubs-first-EVER-winners-medal.html
Yeah id imagine they will. I predict that Haughey will buy it.
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19 Jul 2016, 08:33 PM
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This thread on Twitter is worth a look. Hilarious corruption at Chesterfield 😂
https://twitter.com/jonnot/status/755436867055673344
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Lawlerm
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19 Jul 2016, 08:39 PM
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Off treasure hunting in Holland
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- 19 Jul 2016, 08:33 PM
Pretty sure the one fan who did go posts on a Facebook group (European Football Weekends) I'm a member of
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19 Jul 2016, 11:07 PM
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Lazio have sold a total of 11 season tickets thus far....
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19 Jul 2016, 11:09 PM
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- 19 Jul 2016, 11:07 PM
Lazio have sold a total of 11 season tickets thus far.... World record ?
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Shuggie Edvaldsson
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20 Jul 2016, 04:37 AM
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- 18 Jul 2016, 09:08 PM
According to this, we were once nicknamed the pacers due to that rather sickly sweet you could get in the late 70s, early 80s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacers_(confectionery) I remember the sweet having a rather corny advert that finished, "Atkins come out and bring your pacers with you", but never have I heard Celtic's name being mentioned with it. Did I miss something or is it just wiki tosh ?
They had a green & white striped wrapper did they not? Edit. Sorry - just clicked the link!!! Never heard us called The Pacers. Never heard us called that, and they sweeties were feckin revoltin.
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20 Jul 2016, 04:11 PM
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Interesting summary of an interview with Agger here on why he stopped playing football when he did. He has some words on Brendan as well...
https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2016/jul/20/daniel-agger-liverpool-story-athletes-pills
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21 Jul 2016, 08:59 AM
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Lots of 'lets wait and see'. Would like to think that behind closed doors they have a plan, but it is Doncaster.
Scottish game ‘will be damaged if UCL path is made harder’
Spoiler: click to toggle ANDREW SMITH The Scottish football future that Neil Doncaster sought to present yesterday was so bright the SPFL chief executive really should have donned shades. No doubt repeating to the press the spiel he had told the governing body’s agm
earlier, Doncaster related how revenues for the 42 senior clubs had risen 20 per cent in the past three years. Moreover, with a Rangers presence in the top flight again ensuring four box office Glasgow derbies against Celtic, the Englishman guaranteed that the television contracts that will come onstream when the current deals expire in 2020 will be more lucrative. Doncaster was, though, willing to acknowledge what could not so much be a blot on the landscape but blot the entire landscape of a Scottish game he says is being talked about once more for all the right reasons beyond these borders. In an unusual move for a man ordinarily the model of decorum, Doncaster went public earlier this year with fears over moves to restrict Scottish clubs’ access to the Champions League. Essentially, the bigger leagues are seeking bigger representation in the competition. A move that would inevitably lead to the smaller nations with modest coefficients scrabbling over a much-reduced number of qualifying slots – and perhaps having to overcome the fifth-placed sides from the elite domestic set-ups to earn them. In recent years, Celtic haven’t even been able to negotiate a route to the blue riband competition’s group stages with a format that spares them from facing any side from the top-ranked 13 nations. Doncaster cannot countenance a more arduous path for the Scottish champions to snare a place among the European game’s glitterati. “[This issue is] certainly very high up on our agenda because they are fundamental to the game in this country,” he said. “Part of the attraction of
winning the domestic trophy is that it gives you access to that European competition. That’s important in terms of prestige and money and you’re standing in the game. “If that route is closed off or becomes much more difficult then it damages the very fabric of the game in this country and in other leagues around Europe.” Doncaster has been seeking support from other leagues in a bid to ward off this clear and present danger to make Uefa buckle to the demands of its heavyweight members. The Champions League is midway through the three-year cycle that is the standard timescale for adhering to a competitive structure. The SPFL chief executive therefore believes that by the end of the year the proposal for the next cycle will be agreed upon. Months of lobbying on this front lie ahead. However, he rejected the notion that the appointment of Celtic’s chief executive Peter Lawwell yesterday to the SPFL board – which has resulted in him stepping down from the SFA professional game board – was related to the need to have a strong voice making Scotland’s case in continental circles. Lawwell currently is an executive board member of the European Club Association, which is an organisation entirely distinct from Uefa. “Conversations are
ongoing. We’ve had a lot of
dialogue below the radar,” Doncaster said. “The ECA and the EPFL have had extensive dialogue with those who will be making the decision and it’s important that we do what we can to avoid that damage occurring to the game. “I can’t say much more than that but I can certainly assure you that it remains a priority.”
The chief executive offered a “let’s wait and see” when asked if the risks of “change” had receded when he raised the alarm. “It’s important that we continue to fight the fight and ensure we do all we can to
minimise the risks and they would be significant risks if that were to occur,” he added. Doncaster, meanwhile, sees no risks of the SPFL being forced to provide compensation demanded by Partick Thistle and Motherwell over the fact both clubs only have two home games pre-split that involve either Celtic or
Rangers – the league’s two most sizeable away supports. “The issue you have is that with a split league – and 33 games before the split – you have inherent imbalances,” Doncaster said. “You can have a new system if you wish but you will have different imbalances. Whilst you have the split, that is what you have. “We have a mirroring of the fixture list year in year out. So those clubs who have been sent twice each before the split up the road to Inverness and Dingwall last season, will go once before the split this
season. So there is fairness over two seasons.” http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/scottish-game-will-be-damaged-if-ucl-path-is-made-harder-1-4182621
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21 Jul 2016, 09:22 PM
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Hilarious OG
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21 Jul 2016, 09:24 PM
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Its that bad, questions should be asked
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21 Jul 2016, 09:33 PM
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Its that bad, questions should be asked The striker pissin himself laughing made me
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21 Jul 2016, 10:44 PM
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Its that bad, questions should be asked
The striker pissin himself laughing made me I saw Denis Connaghan (I think) do the same at Airdrie
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22 Jul 2016, 07:15 AM
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Good article. Not anything we didn't know but nice to read about style, substance and a great manager rather than all the Warburton crap that is printed daily.
The Old Firm story: Jock Stein becomes Celtic’s saviour
Spoiler: click to toggle ANDREW SMITH Jock Stein’s ability to wrest control from an interfering chairman laid the foundations for a golden era at Parkhead, writes Andrew Smith By the beginning of 1965 there was a common perception of Celtic. It was considered a club with a great past, but no great future. As yet another season prepared to slip by without Celtic making a serious challenge for the championship, it condemned the club to endure 11 seasons without a title success. Never before – and not since, indeed – has the club been separated for so long from Scotland’s most coveted prize. When it came to the sparring of the Old Firm, Celtic had become heavyweight Rangers’ punchbag. The Parkhead club were still capable of producing outstanding players. A raft of prodigious young talents – headed up by Billy McNeill, Jimmy Johnstone, Bobby Lennox and Bobby Murdoch – were on their books. These players were also capable of outstanding results, with the last weekend in January bringing an 8-0 hammering of Aberdeen. What the club was not capable of doing, as a consequence of an autocratic chairman, Robert Kelly, imposing some inexplicable team selections on mild-mannered manager Jimmy McGrory, was winning trophies. The day after the mauling of Aberdeen, an announcement was made that would change everything for Celtic, and indeed Scottish football. It came in confirmation that Jock Stein, the former double-winning Celtic captain and reserve coach at the club, would be leaving the Hibernian post he had held only for months to become Celtic manager that summer. As it transpired, Stein made the move in the March. His last game in charge of the Easter Road side ousted the country’s dominant Rangers side from the Scottish Cup. The outcome proved to have huge significance. It helped smooth the way for the newly arrived Stein to snare Celtic their first major trophy in 11 years, courtesy of a 3-2 victory over Dunfermline. The symmetry was unmistakable: three years earlier he had helmed the East End Park side as they outfoxed Celtic in the competition decider. The 1962 triumph spoke of the scent for silverware and the sense for seizing in Stein. His feats for Celtic shouted these talents from the rooftops. All this would have happened earlier than 1965 had Kelly be able to relinquish powers that never ought to have been his. The Celtic chairman did so as the option of last resort, and hid behind the claim that he was worried about Celtic supporters not accepting a Protestant as manager. Stein had left Celtic for Dunfermline as he felt he had “gone as far” as he could as Celtic’s three managers were all Catholic. He forced Kelly’s hand when telling him of an offer from Wolves. Even then he was initially offered assistant to Sean Fallon, and joint managership with the Irishman before Kelly had to acquiesce to Stein’s bottom line of full control on all football matters. McNeill has talked of Stein’s third coming at the club – and it was very much that for the players he coached and crafted in the younger ranks – as being akin to the switching on of a light. In reality, his impact on Celtic was equivalent to removing the club from a permanent eclipse and allowing them to bask, for an age, in a summertime midday sun. Stein’s brilliance brought a blinding illumination to the Scottish game it will never again be cast in. Stein was shrink and sergeant major, sage and sorcerer to his players. The former miner from the same Bellshill area that produced Matt Busby and Bill and Bob Shankly could extract the fuel that fired these talents as once he hewed coal – his tactical nous and technical expertise his principal tools in a kitbag bursting with them. Using his imposing frame, he could also be as brutal to players, referees and media as was his former life at the coal face. It hardly does justice to talk of his 13 years in charge as yielding a European Cup, a then record run of nine consecutive titles, one more championship thereafter, eight Scottish Cups and six League Cups (a meagre return from that tournament considering that Celtic contested every single final of his 13 years). It wasn’t simply about the winning, which in the late 1960s was sometimes with slender margins from an excellent Rangers side. It was the swashbuckling style in which this was achieved that makes Stein both The Big Man and Celtic’s giant to dwarf all others for feats achieved while based in this country. All roads inevitably lead to Lisbon when setting out Stein’s magisterial management abilities. The 1967 European Cup final victory over Internazionale that made Celtic the first non-Latin side to win the prized club tournament then more then a decade old,and being held hostage by suffocating defensive play, has few equals in its history. Never before or since has the European Cup/Champions League been won by a team producing more than 40 goal attempts. The fact that all Celtic’s players were born within a 30-mile radius, is also without parallel among winners. For the most stirring evocation of the 2-1 win in the Portuguese capital on 25 May, 1967, the words attributed to Stein are impossible to better. “There is not a prouder man on God’s Earth than me at this moment. Winning was important, but it was the way that we won that has filled me with satisfaction. We did it by playing football; pure, beautiful, inventive football. There was not a negative thought in our heads.” Some negatives though do arise when assessing Stein’s Celtic years. He allowed complacency to develop among the squad after they had beaten Leeds United to set up a European Cup final against Feyenoord in 1970, a loss of that prevented his Celtic team truly cementing their greatness. Yet, with one win, one other final, two semi-finals, and two quarter-finals in the European Cup over an eight-year period, Celtic equalled Bayern Munich’s current standing in club football’s most prestigious tournament. It was not nature but a car crash in 1975 in which he almost died that robbed Stein of his edge. In three of his last four seasons, Rangers were champions. Trebles the Ibrox side claimed in 1976 and 1978 helped shatter the aura around Stein. These landmarks sat alongside the Cup Winners’ Cup triumph of 1972 as successes to savour from the decade. Celtic’s failure even to earn a European place in 1978 – one year after Kenny Dalglish’s last acts as a player at the club were to spearhead a double success – persuaded Stein to step down. He did so believing that as well as choosing successor Billy McNeill he would be appointed to the board of directors and given a football-related role. Instead, he was offered the insulting position of director within the club’s pools operation. He could only refuse, moving to Leeds United before leaving inside seven weeks to become Scotland manager. His death in the dug-out as Scotland played out the final seconds of the September 1985 win in Cardiff that secured them a place in the World Cup finals gives cause to reflect on one of Stein’s many profundities. “We all end up yesterday’s men in this business. You are very quickly forgotten,” he said. Stein wasn’t wrong about much, but he indubitably was about that. Stein, who he was, and the wonders he worked, will always be projected into our tomorrows. http://www.scotsman.com/sport/football/competitions/premiership/the-old-firm-story-jock-stein-becomes-celtic-s-saviour-1-4183496
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