From: dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David Morning)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.soccer
Subject: Celtic domination (Was: SSL super...don't make me laugh
Date: 12 Jan 93 16:28:14 GMT
Organization: Glasgow University Computing Science Dept.


Time the subject header was changed

J.M.Ross@man0507.wins.icl.co.uk (J.M.Ross) writes:


>In article <1993Jan12.115517.1@vaxa.strath.ac.uk> clgs11@vaxa.strath.ac.uk
>(don't any of these guys have names?) writes:

They run vaxes..what do you expect?

>>In article <MNEWS.726685667.1417@demon.co.uk>, J.M.Ross@man0507.wins.icl.co.uk 
>(
>>J.M.Ross) writes:
>>
>>> In article <C0JoID.8L3@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk> dam@dcs.glasgow.ac.uk (David
>>> Morning) writes:
>>>
>>>>mcsdc1jpb@dct.ac.uk (john bell) writes:
>>
>>>>>why are all huns so obsessed with what celtic are doing?
>>>>.because they had 9 looong years sitting in the wings a while back as Celtic
>>>>totally dominated Scottish fitba'
>>
>>> Which 9 years was that then? Not the nine years before Souness arrived -

>>THE NINE SEASONS WERE FROM 66-75 IN WHICH CELTIC WON THE LEAGUE 9 TIMES IN A
>>ROW !!!!!!!

>Well spotted!

Well spotted indeed!! Next you'll be telling us you knew all along.

> Indeed, that was nine seasons when Celtic dominated totally in
>terms of trophies, but not in terms of playing, Rangers were good enough to
>reach a couple of European finals during that era too.

Funny guy :-) Nope, Celtic dominated in playing terms too, that's why they
raced away with the league so many times.

>  I assume Dave Morning
>was referring to the years immediately before the Souness revival, 

Nope, I was deliberately unspecific because I expected someone to bleat "BUT
THAT WAS 30 YEARS AGO!!"

>which is more
>relevant than events of 20-30 years ago.

Why is it more relavent to what we were discussing..namely 'the obsession
that the huns have for what Celtic are doing"?

>Celtic's nine in a row was *66-74*, not 66-75. Rangers won the league (treble
>in fact) in 1975. Before Jock Stein arrived, Celtic had only one championship
>in the previous 19 seasons and had had frequent flirtations with the lower end
>of the table. That was a looong time waiting in the wings. 

...all of which is totally meaningless in relation to the original question
posed. Those were the days of Third Lanark and Kilmarnock winning the league
and cup. Unlike the 9 years Rangers sat in the wings watching the same team
win over and over again, that period had a whole bunch of different teams
winning the league...not the same as watching your deadly rivals run away
with it yet again....and I dare say, its envy for this period of Celtic
domination that promps Scott to put 4-in-a-row in his .signature, a phrase
coined by Celtic at that time no?

Ahhh...ye'll have to take it now Scott..ye've been rumbled!!!


>Does my name sound English? Since you ask, the answer is no, of course I'm not
>English,  I was born and bred in Thornliebank, Glasgow, a short bus ride from
>Ibrox. 

A short bus ride?????!!! Jeez!! You're probably nearer Parkhead than Ibrox!
Well, OK, Shawfield and Cathkin Park (since we mentioned the Hi Hi's)

>I've been going to Ibrox regularly since around 1972. I came down here 

So you'll have fond memories too of Celtics domination at the time eh?
Must have been a fairly miserable time for the blue noses then. What was the
average attendance like then?
Of course the misery didn't stop after Celtic's run finished, I recall Rangers
having a pretty turgid time of it in the early 80's too with the likes of
Tommy Docherty and John Greig in charge. Of course the did win a couple but
all in all it was a pretty roller-coaster ride at the time.

>for the work. Just what does my nationality have to do with it anyway?

As usual (and it wasn't me who made that comment) nothing.


Dave

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