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Scottish Prem 18/19

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Lord Tyrion said:
The knighthood for sports people is largely a recent fashion, not even cricketers got them a back in the day. Now................ Pile of old cobblers in my view
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Just have a look at the list of cricketing knights.

Bradman, Hobbs, Hutton, Cowdrey, Bedser, Botham, Sobers,Richards, Hadlee etc;

Now compare that with the number of footballers similarly recognised.

If a cricketer had a similar career to those of McNeil or Moore we can only speculate what honours might have been bestowed.

And I say all of this as a massive cricket fan.
 
Alf Ramsey
Tom Finney
Stanley Matthews
Geoffrey Hurst
Matt Busby
Bobby Robson
Bobby Charlton
Alex Ferguson
Kenny Dalglish
Trevor Brooking

Relatively comparable I would say.
 
McNeil is a proper legend of his field, not a “Sky Sports News legend” for one good season in the EPL as is mostly the case these days.

Incredible playing career and achievements, 2 successful spells as manager of Celtic and also laid the foundations at Aberdeen before Fergie came in.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
Not many now. Lennox, Clark and Auld that I know off.
Not any of that team received a knighthood, sad reflection when the seem to be handed out to any Tom, Dick or Harry now.
Finalists in 1971 if I remember correctly, generally forgotten.
I played a couple of games of golf with the goalie Ronnie Simpson in the 1960's. He was a 2/3 handicap at the time.
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Jim Craig, Willie Wallace and Stevie Chalmers are still with us.

A very sad day indeed. The first Scottish Cup Final I went to was big Billy’s last game for us. A total legend.
 
Strange that McNeil only got 29 Scots caps.
Trying to think of the players who were picked before him, John Greig, Ian Ure, Ron Yeats ?

I always laugh at Shankly inviting the press to 'have a walk round' Yeats when he was introduced to them when signing on for Liverpool.
 
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Doon frae Troon said:
Strange that McNeil only got 29 Scots caps.
Trying to think of the players who were picked before him, Ian Ure, Ron Yeats ?

I always laugh at Shankly inviting the press to 'have a walk round' Yeats when he was introduced to them when signing on for Liverpool.
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Yeats only got 2 caps and seen plenty of reports and interviews that it was a crime that Yeats didn’t get picked. Yeats was outstanding for Liverpool being key to winning multiple titles

Maybe the small number of caps for McNeil was due to teams really only playing qualifying comps and not as many friendlies
 
I stupidly missed out John Greig on my first post. At the time their was always a big debate as to who was the best CH, Greig got more calls.

Ahhhh the days when teams played with 5 forwards...…….now they play with 5 defenders.:(
 
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rudebhoy said:
Jim Craig, Willie Wallace and Stevie Chalmers are still with us.

A very sad day indeed. The first Scottish Cup Final I went to was big Billy’s last game for us. A total legend.
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Bobby Lennox, Bertie Auld and John Clark are also still going as is the substitute goalkeeper John Fallon who was the only sub allowed on the bench in those days.
 
Celtic clinched the championship today with a fine 3-0 victory away to Aberdeen. A magnificent diving header from Mikael Lustig opened the scoring late in the first hall from a delightful cross from Callum McGregor. Jozo Šimunović doubled the lead early in the second half with another towering header for the second consecutive week. Odsonne Edouard got in on the act in the final 10 minutes cashing in a quick counter attack taking the pass from Tom Rogic, working the space and cooly slotting it into the net from the edge of the box. A fine way to seal the title and a more convincing display from the Neil Lennon led Celtic team. This takes a lot of the pressure off Celtic prior to the match against Rangers at Ibrox next Sunday. Neil Lennon will be looking for another three big performances in the remaining games this season to underline his credentials for taking the job on full time next season.
 
What a pathetic shower Rangers are, refusing to give SPFL Champions Celtic the traditional guard of honour in today's match.

Aberdeen and Hearts set new Scottish record......…41 fouls in a game.:LOL:
 
What a pathetic shower Rangers are, refusing to give SPFL Champions Celtic the traditional guard of honour in today's match.
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Well there would be absolute no sincerity in the guard of honour if Rangers did provide one for Celtic. Unfortunately, the respect levels between the players is much lower than it was in previous years and the guard of honour is perhaps a relic from a bygone era. I remember Hearts provided Celtic a guard of honour and they might as well have not had bothered such was the lack of sincerity and respect displayed by some of the players involved.

Celtic can perhaps use it as an added impetus to show why they are Champions and send a message to Rangers for next season. The perfomance of Celtic in December at Ibrox was one of the worst performances from a Celtic side at Ibrox in many years. Most Celtic fans would have thought it wasn't possible for a Brendan Rodgers led Celtic side to have performed so poorly at Ibrox. The huge change in the ticket allocation has changed the crowd dynamic massively at these games and makes it a much more hostile environment for the visiting side giving an added home advantage which can also influence the refereeing.

Celtic will possibly rest some of their key players next week for their final league match against Hearts prior to the Cup final. The result against Rangers and more importantly the Cup Final result will be a big factor in determining if Celtic do offer the job to Neil Lennon permanently. Either way, there is going to be a lot of work to do in the summer for whatever manager leads Celtic into the new season with so many loan players on the books and still a lot of dead wood in the squad.
 
Doon frae Troon said:
What a pathetic shower Rangers are, refusing to give SPFL Champions Celtic the traditional guard of honour in today's match.

Aberdeen and Hearts set new Scottish record......…41 fouls in a game.:LOL:
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Why should they have given them a guard of honour ?

Celtic supporters don’t know the meaning Guard of Honour, just look at the flags they fly, get a grip ......
 
Another shocking display from Celtic at Ibrox. However, for the second time this season, the referee has bottled the big decisions. For both matches, there is no way that Rangers should have ended with 11 men on the pitch. A deliberate elbow from Flanagan into the face of Scott Brown was deemed only worthy of a yellow card for some inexplicable reason by the referee.
 
Captainron said:
Tried and tested in the premier league and the Scottish Prem is undoubtedly slower and less demanding than what he has been playing in for the past 15 odd years. I think he will score 10 before the end of the season if he plays every game.
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He’s on 8 goals with one game left. Not too bad a return thus far.

I would say he has been a very decent loan signing.
 
Lyle77 said:
Another shocking display from Celtic at Ibrox. However, for the second time this season, the referee has bottled the big decisions. For both matches, there is no way that Rangers should have ended with 11 men on the pitch. A deliberate elbow from Flanagan into the face of Scott Brown was deemed only worthy of a yellow card for some inexplicable reason by the referee.
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I think Brown was trying to bite Flanagan's elbow :ROFLMAO:
 
Staggering decision by the disciplinary committee to not sanction Flanagan.
Elbow smashes off the ball are now seemingly only yellow card offences in Scottish football.
 
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