Armin_Bhoy hat geschrieben:heute vor 45 Jahren... IN THE HEAT OF LISBON THE FANS CAME IN THEIR THOUSANDS TO SEE THE BHOYS BECOME CHAM-P-IONS 67
und das nächstjährige CL-Finale findet zwar nicht in Lisbon sondern in London statt - aber zumindest der Termin würde wieder passen (25. Mai 2013 !!) - träumen wird man ja wohl noch dürfen.
Rangers: Weltrekord für ein Spiel der 4. Liga: 49.118
Celtic: Weltrekord für ein nationales Cupfinale: 147.365 (1937 gegen Aberdeen) Höchste Zuschauerzahl aller Zeiten in einem Europacupspiel: 136.505 (1970 gegen Leeds)
McCeltic hat geschrieben:In Brasilien gab es anscheinend ein Spiel in der 4. Liga vor über 59000 Zuschauer.
Ach Quatsch, dass hist bestimmt nur eine weitere Lüge der rangersfeindlichen Presse, und am Ende steckt doch auch Celtic hinter so einer Behauptung, man kennt das doch!
ON the Sunday morning of October 20, 1957, both sides of the Glasgow divide awoke with a hangover to beat them all. The blue half of the city suffered the self-induced torment of sorrows far too colossal to be drowned by mere alcohol while those of a green persuasion cursed the Draconian licensing laws that curtailed, temporarily at least, their thirst to celebrate 90 minutes of unforgettable football from the previous day. The Celtic history books don´t necessarily record what the weather was like on that late Autumn Sabbath but we do know that conditions 24 hours earlier were very clement indeed - and not just meteorologically. The very refrain of ´Oh, Hampden in the Sun´, a pastiche of Harry Belafonte´s contemporaneous chart hit Island In The Sun - a parody which is still sung to this day, continually reminds us of the glorious sunshine that beamed down upon Glasgow that day. Other tracks from the ´hit parade´ of the time could just have well been appropriated for the satirical spoof treatment. A popular crooner of the era who went by the name of Elvis Presley was hogging the charts with five entries and from these Party, Paralysed and All Shook Up summed up the day. Equally there was Glasgow´s Lonnie Donnegan with Puttin´ On The Style, not to mention Whole Lotta Shakin´ Goin On´ by Jerry Lee Lewis. But perhaps the incredulity of what took place on October 19 was best encapsulated the Buddy Holly and the Crickets song that nestled at No.2 that week, That´ll Be The Day. However, the quirks of Rock ´n´ Roll and Skiffle were dismissed in favour of Belafonte´s Calypso capers and "Oh, Hampden in the Sun, Celtic seven Rangers one" became the enduring soundbite of one of the most remarkable days in Scottish football history. Today, October 19, marks the 55th anniversary of the biggest winning margin ever recorded in a top-grade British cup final and the heroes from the October Revolution of 1957 have been acclaimed in book and in song but can those of us who were not around in 1957 fully appreciate what was achieved by the men in the hoops that day? These days it´s reasonable to assume that no side performing as champions or champions-elect should succumb to such a humiliating defeat by any of their domestic peers. What makes the accomplishment of 1957 even more astonishing is that the previous season, Rangers as title-winners had finished 17 points above fifth-placed Celtic - that would be a 28-point difference under today´s three-points-a-win situation. And even with Hearts setting the early pace in ´57/58 before romping away with the title, it was inconceivable that Celtic would embarrass their oldest rivals in such convincing fashion. Those of us who grew up in the late 1960s and early ‘70s heard the songs and saw the 7-1 graffiti that was still freshly touched up each year but we wondered what all the fuss was about. After all, the Celtic we knew could beat ANY team 7-1. But things were different in the ´50s and only the lean years of the ´90s could be used as a parallel to the lack of success and the small expectation of beating Rangers at all, never mind 7-1 in a cup final. Sammy Wilson opened the scoring in the 23rd minute but amazingly Celtic could have been four up by that time and hit the woodwork three times in the first half before Neilly Mochan scored the second just before the break. The half-time score of 2-0 warned no-one of what was to come and eight minutes after the break Billy McPhail hit the first of his hat-trick before Simpson pulled one back for the Ibrox side. There was no stopping the Celtic torrent on the Rangers goal, though. McPhail got his second, Mochan did likewise five minutes later and McPhail completed his trio before Willie Fernie finished the rout with a penalty in the last minute. Those who witnessed the demolition paid 2/- (10p) for entry to the terracing and 9d (4p) for the Boys´ Gate but it´s doubtful if a 13-year-old Jimmy Johnstone paid in. His father took him to his first big game that day from Uddingston on a Celtic supporters´ bus and it´s a pound to a penny he got a lift-over (even as a Lisbon Lion 10 years later he would probably have got a lift-over). And what was future Lisbon Lion captain Billy McNeill doing that day? Amazingly, there was still a full professional card on that day and the minor leagues were no different. The 17-year-old McNeill was on duty having been farmed out to Blantyre Vics and he didn´t know the score until he bought an evening paper at Motherwell bus station! So although, like McNeill, the vast majority of the crowd who turn up at Paradise every other week will not have seen the 7-1 game (especially since it mysteriously disappeared from the TV screens that night) we still have the opportunity to hail them in song.
THE ROAD TO THE FINAL Sectional Games Aug 10 Airdrie (h) 3-2 McPhail, Mochan, Peacock Aug 14 East Fife (a) 4-1 McPhail 3, Collins Aug 17 Hibernian (a) 1-3 Collins Aug 24 Airdrie (a) 2-1 Smith, Fernie Aug 28 East Fife (h) 6-1 McPhail 2, Wilson 2, Auld, Collins Aug 31 Hibernian (h) 2-0 Wilson, McPhail
Quarter-final, first leg Sep 11 Third Lanark (h) 6-1 McPhail 2, Collins 2, Wilson, Auld Quarter-final, second leg Sep 14 Third Lanark (a) 3-0 Collins, McPhail, Wilson
Scottish League Cup final Saturday, October 19, 1957 Hampden Park Celtic 7 Rangers 1 Wilson 23 Simpson 59 McPhail 53, 59 & 81 Mochan 44 & 74 Fernie 90 pen
THERE are many significant dates surrounding the formation of Celtic Football Club from February 12, 1887 when Hibernian beat Dumbarton 2-1 in the Scottish Cup final until August 21, 1888 when the fledgling club were officially registered with the SFA. Falling between these dates in the intervening 555 days are a number of historical events that were crucial in the Celtic calendar – not least being May 28, 1888 when the new club, resplendent in their white shirts with green collars and a Celtic Cross on the breast supplied by Penman Bros of Bridgeton, took to the field for the very first time and defeated Rangers 5-2 with Neil McCallum scoring the first ever Celtic goal. Other prominent dates were:
APRIL, 1887 This was when Clyde played Dundee Harp at Barrowfield Park, Bridgeton and a crowd of 4,000 raised money for the Poor Children’s Dinner Table at Sacred Heart School. The match, arranged by Brother Walfrid, would no doubt have had the priest recalling John McFadden’s rallying call of February 12 (see below).
MAY 1887 Glasgow Charity Cup holders Renton played Scottish Cup holders Hibs for the one-off East End Charity Cup when a massive 12,000 paid in at Barrowfield. The match ended in a draw and the replay was staged in August.
NOVEMBER 13, 1887 The committee leased six acres of land on Dalmarnock Street (Springfield Road, where new apartments are) and work immediately started on what would become one of the most state-of-the-art stadia in the country at the time.
JANUARY 19, 1888 The first general monthly meeting was held before a lively attendance at St Mary’s where it was reported that the pitch was finished and that work was due to commence on the stand that week.
MAY 8, 1888 This was the date of the very first game played at Celtic Park when a crowd of 5,000 turned up for a game between Hibernian and Cowlairs.
Even before all this, in September 1886, Hibs had come to Glasgow to play St Peter’s of Partick in a match at Glengarry Park in Bridgeton. The park had been named after the area in which Catholic Highlanders settled and, indeed, was the home pitch of Columba, the first youth team formed by Brother Walfrid. A thousand paying customers boosted the coffers of St Mary’s Poor Children’s Dinner Table. But the crucial date in all this was Sunday, November 6, 1887, exactly 125 years ago today, for it was then that representatives from the upper echelons of the Irish community in Glasgow, most of whom who had witnessed John McFadden’s speech back in February, gathered at St Mary’s Hall. Bodies such as the St Vincent de Paul Society, the Catholic Union, the Irish Foresters, the Home Government Branch of the United Irish League, the St Aloysius Association and the Irish National League as well as local Penny Savings Bank and a Total Abstinence Society were present in some manner but the main objective was the formation of a football team to raise money for the Soup Kitchens of the East End. It was at the February 12 post-match celebrations at St Mary’s Hall in East Rose Street in the Calton, organised for the Edinburgh side by the Glasgow Irish, that Hibernian secretary John McFadden urged his West of Scotland compatriots to start their own team. They, along with Brother Walfrid and his assistant Brother Dorotheus, had been inspired by John McFadden’s urgings and the Marist priest in particular envisaged the benefits of having a team to represent the community AND raise money for the poor. Aside from Hibernian and the aforementioned St Peter’s and Dundee Harp, four other clubs with Irish affiliations took part in that season’s Scottish Cup - Erin Rovers, Carfin Shamrock, Broxburn Shamrock and Vale of Leven Hibs. The Edinburgh side stood head and shoulders above all others, though, and seemed untouchable so McFadden could little have imagined that his suggestion would result in the formation of a team that would become the biggest of them all. It was John Glass who chaired the meeting 125 years ago this week and the Celtic Football and Athletic Club was formally constituted.
From that historic meeting the first ever Celtic committee was formed with the following members: Honorary President, Dr John Conway President, John Glass Secretary, John O’Hara Treasurer, Hugh Darnoch Match Secretary, Willie Maley Committee: Joseph Nelis, Tom Maley, Michael Cairns, Joe Shaughnessy, Pat Welsh, Daniel Molloy, David Meikleham, John McDonald, William McKillop, John McLaughlin and Joseph McGrory.
Following somewhat tempestuous meetings between the parishes of St Mary, St Andrew and St Alphonsus during the months prior to the historic November 6 gathering, the baton held by John McFadden was finally taken up and - mainly thanks to the foresight and reasoning of committee member John McLaughlin who, on the club becoming a limited liability company in 1897, became Celtic’s first ever Chairman – Scottish football would never be the same again.
CELTIC´S recent victories over Spartak Moscow and Arbroath have guaranteed that Neil Lennon and his squad are set to make a little piece of history when the new year dawns. This will be the first season in over 40 years that the Hoops have gone beyond Christmas and still been involved in all four major competitions that they entered at the start of the season. In fact, you have to go back to the heady days of Jock Stein and season 1968/69 to register a campaign when this actually occurred. Naturally, the Celts were actively engaged in a tussle at the top of the league and by the end of 1968, they led the table from Dundee United by two points. The Scottish Cup ´Road to Hampden´ would get underway on January 25 and Stein´s men had a quarter-final tie in the European Cup against AC Milan to look forward to in February, courtesy of a 6-2 aggregate victory over Red Star Belgrade. What made this season unique at the time was the issue with the Scottish League Cup. Celtic had reached the final and were due to play Hibernian in a game that was always booked in for an Autumn date, but a fire at Hampden in October that completely destroyed the offices and one of the dressing rooms forced a postponement until the Spring. It meant that the Bhoys literally had everything to play for at the start of 1969. Many historians will point to season 2002/03 as a time when Martin O´Neill´s Celtic were still involved in the League, Scottish Cup, League Cup and the UEFA Cup, but the crucial difference is that Celtic had not entered the latter tournament at the outset of the season. O´Neill´s men were ultimately Seville-bound because they had failed to get past FC Basel in the UEFA Champions League qualifier in August. For the record, the Celts lost out narrowly to AC Milan in 1969 but went on to complete a domestic treble, a feat that would not be repeated by any Celtic side until Martin O´Neill´s first season of 2000/01.
SEVILLE 10 YEARS ON: Rising from embers of a Europe final defeat, this was the night a club was reborn THE Uefa Cup final in Seville 10 years ago next week was the end of Celtic's European journey for that memorable season. More importantly, it was the beginning of the road which has brought them to the point they currently find themselves today.
IT was 10 years ago today, on May 21, 2003, that Celtic took on Porto in the UEFA Cup final at the Estadio Olimpico in Seville. It was the club’s first European final in 33 years. It had been an incredible European campaign for Martin O’Neill’s side, from the disappointment of being knocked out at the qualifying stage of the UEFA Champions League by FC Basel, right through to the dramatic final against Porto. In between there were victories over FK Suduva, Blackburn Rovers, Celta Vigo, VfB Stuttgart, Liverpool and Boavista. Every step of the way the Celtic support backed the team, home and away, and this culminated in the most extraordinary occasion that European football has ever seen, when over 80,000 Celtic supporters descended on Seville for the UEFA Cup final. They partied in the Spanish sunshine, they made many new friends in Seville and further enhanced the good name of Celtic Football Club. The final itself ultimately ended in heartache for Celtic. Twice, Jose Mourinho’s side took the lead. Twice Celtic equalised through the inspirational Henrik Larsson. The game went into extra-time and Celtic were reduced to 10 men when Bobo Balde was sent off. Still, the Hoops fought bravely, but with the game heading towards a penalty shoot-out, the Portuguese side grabbed a third goal and with it, the UEFA Cup trophy. It was a cruel way to end a final that Celtic didn’t deserve to lose. The players and management were shattered, having given everything in the searing Spanish heat. The fans, too, were disappointed but they were also proud… proud of the players, proud of the club and, as always, proud to be Celtic supporters. And the behaviour of the Celtic fans in Seville provided the football world with the perfect example of how to support your team regardless of the result. That was later recognised by both FIFA and UEFA, who awarded the Celtic fans their respective Fair Play Awards. So on this day, exactly 10 years after Seville, we remember an unforgettable Celtic experience, both on and off the park.
Wer sich das Spiel in voller Länge nochmal anschauen möchte:
Nicht in Vergessenheit geraten neben all dem Trubel um das Champions League Finale heute, heute vor 46 Jahren fand ein wesentlich wichtigeres Finale statt:
Final May 25, 1967 Estadio Nacional, Lisbon, Portugal CELTIC 2 Gemmell 63, Chalmers 85 INTERNAZIONALE MILAN 1 Mazzola 7 pen Att: 55,000 Referee: Tschescher (West Germany) Celtic: Simpson; Craig, Gemmell; Murdoch, McNeill, Clark; Johnstone, Wallace, Chalmers, Auld, Lennox. Inter Milan: Sarti; Burgnich, Facchetti; Bedin, Guarneri, Picchi; Domenghini, Cappellini, Mazzola, Bicicli, Corso.
Dazu mal ne schöne Geschichte die vielleicht noch nicht jeder kennt:
von McCeltic » Fr 25. Mai 2012, 21:05 
