Old Firm Fitbaw

Monday, March 13, 2006

Jinky: Death Of The Legend

Jinky Johnstone is the Greatest player Scotland has every produced. His skillful ability on the football field is second to none and the off-field humour associated with his career will be sorely missed.

Jinky was one of those whom the older generation call "irreplacable." We've all seen players we think are "greats" but Johnstone was a Great amongst the Greats.

His finest hour coming when Celtic swept Europe aside to become the first British (and only Scottish) to win the European Champions Cup back when the Champions in the tournament name meant just that.

The winner of a pitiful number of Scotland caps meant that the footballing world only got a glimpse of the genius of the wee man, but this was never something that got in his way.

His Legend will never be forgotten and his brilliant skills were suitably saluted by Europe's Greats when they wanted a picture of themselves along side Jinky the night he showed Real Madrid what real skill was all about, in the di Stefano testimonal.

God Bless you wee man.

Tuesday, March 07, 2006

Big Eck - Rangers Most Successful Manager For A Generation

Younger readers probably are not familiar with the special place in the hearts of the Spanish police that the supporters of Rangers F.C. have after that special evening in 1972. So any return to the Spanish mainland is greeted with a tear in the eye and a baton to the head. Do the neds never learn?

Anyway, so we had Rangers continuing their European Adventure in the memory of supreme effort which took a leaf from the Book of Martin O'Neill in true celtic spirit to follow proudly in the north of Ireland's favourite son.

This adventure has seen some major heights as Rangers have performed the herculean task of going where no tim has gone before by getting beyond the group stages and remaining undefeated. What a wonderful effort to only rack up one loss in the last 8 games in Europe.

A superb effort which proves that Big Eck is one of Europe's premier manager, especially when you consider he's the poorest manager financially, with Rangers F.C. refusing to giving him funds for player transfers which could have won Gers the Champions League, and ungrateful fans who fail to appreciate how good a manager he is.

Still, Rangers can use this as a building block for next season's Champions League where you welcome Paul Le Guen in your European quest amongst the big teams. That's something to look forward to and your team has certainly evened out any incompetence that Gordon Strachan has caused in blowing the co-efficient out of the water earlier this season.

It's a good job you will get into the CL next year after all your hard work of winning that only one game out of the last eight. Nobody deserves it more and you will be rewarded.

Oh...err...no you won't as you lot are too far away from Hertz.

Never mind. Enjoy the UEFA Cup!

Friday, March 03, 2006

Sheep: Ewe Must Be Joking!

Since when have Aberdeen ever cared about Celtic fans? Is it a new found caring side from the northernly club which has suddenly having them asking the SFA to postpone tomorrow's game?

Why would they do that as it doesn't give their fans target practice to reign Celtic players with missiles. How else are the sheep yobs meant to practice their so-called sport?

If a Rangers ned can be found guilty and charged for assaulting Stilian Petrov with a paper cup then maybe the SFA should listen to the Aberdeen board, before all their fans are locked up where they belong, because a dusting of snow brings out the worst in an already dubious bunch of nutters.