Gareth McAuley blasts Celtic's 'tainted and hollow' title

Gareth would make a great sports pundit on Scottish football and the reason is he speaks the truth and talks from having top football experience . Well said Gareth ! The truth is going to hurt them severely and truth is something they hate .
 
Bonnyloyal said:
The Northern Irishman said: “I actually feel sorry for the Celtic players. They didn’t win the title on the pitch, they were handed it.

“They have officially been crowned champions, their ninth success in a row, but this triumph will always be tainted and hollow.

“All their hard work, dedication and gutsy performances when they grinded out results will be forgotten. In the record books there will always be an asterisk beside this season’s Championship

“I know Neil Lennon was on television saying that this title win was the greatest one under his management, but that was all for show and to wind up the Rangers fans watching at home.

“Deep down it will rankle him that his team weren’t able to secure the title on the pitch.

“Of course, it wasn’t their fault. The Covid-19 pandemic sadly intervened.

“But, as a result, history will not look too kindly on this Celtic nine-in-a-row team and that will hurt the current crop of players.

“They’ll never be revered in the same light as the great Celtic sides that won nine-in-a row between 1966 and 1974, or the Rangers teams between 1989 and 1997.

“Those players are Old Firm royalty. They won Championships after titanic and terrific battles against top sides.

“Yet, the Celtic sides of the last nine years, while successful, will be remembered for winning titles when Rangers weren’t in the league and then being handed the title.

“That must be so frustrating for players who thrive on competition. I say this as a former professional footballer and a competitor, not as a former Rangers player.

“I would feel exactly the same way if it were the blue half of Glasgow in this position.

“I certainly wouldn’t be celebrating because, as a professional sportsperson, you crave competition, the thrill of the win after a hard-fought battle and knowing you have given everything possible to beat your opponent on a level playing field.

“Scott Brown is a great player in Scottish football and I know he would love to be regarded in the same way as the nine-in-a row Celtic players of the past, but that’s not going to happen.

“He’ll be held in high esteem, but not on the same level as a Bobby Lennox or Stevie Chalmers.

“If a season cannot be finished on the pitch, then for the integrity of the league, it should be voided.”

Speaking in the Sunday Life newspaper, McAuley also took a bat to the SPFL over their treatment of Hearts and continued: “There were 24 points left to play for. I’m convinced they would have come on strong in the closing stages and avoided the trap door.

“If we take the SPFL’s logic, Leicester City would never have won the Premier League.

“A year before they were crowned champions, Leicester were bottom of the league and in serious danger of going down. But they rallied hard in the remaining weeks of the season and avoided the drop. The next year they were champions.

“But if a pandemic had struck in 2015, going by Scottish rules, Leicester would have been relegated and there would have been no Championship the following year.

“Championship success, relegation and promotion cannot be decided in a boardroom. Otherwise you are questioning sporting integrity and it is horrible.

“Hearts should not have to go to court over a football decision. It’s a shambles and really sums up Scottish football recently. The washing of dirty linen in public was particularly unedifying.

“The biggest problem I can see is that important decisions are being made by people who have never really been involved in the game from a playing point of view.”
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It seems someone has pointed out the emperor has no clothes !
 
My advice to the filth is make sure you keep a tight grip on this most advantageous era ever in the history of the Scottish game and the rivalry as sole beneficiaries of a situation you were instrumental in creating back in 2012...grip it for as long as possible because this latest low life move is going to be good ammunition forevermore and feel utterly intolerable when asterisk free football resumes and the chocolate medals go back into the fridge!
 
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AzorIbrox said:
Well in, Big G. Telling it how it is.

I can assure you that the crash barriers rate this run of trophies as highly as anything else in their history. They don't care who they beat or how they do it.
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That is simply because they ate not normal people.they celebrate stopping us winning 10 in a row despite only beating us once in 5 games that season .kind of tells you what type of people you are dealing with.
 
He knows. We know. They know.

They are trying to tell people otherwise, but they know it's an irrelevance.
 
Kirbys House said:
Already got Sutton & other rats biting on Twitter.
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Bonnyloyal said:
The Northern Irishman said: “I actually feel sorry for the Celtic players. They didn’t win the title on the pitch, they were handed it.

“They have officially been crowned champions, their ninth success in a row, but this triumph will always be tainted and hollow.

“All their hard work, dedication and gutsy performances when they grinded out results will be forgotten. In the record books there will always be an asterisk beside this season’s Championship

“I know Neil Lennon was on television saying that this title win was the greatest one under his management, but that was all for show and to wind up the Rangers fans watching at home.

“Deep down it will rankle him that his team weren’t able to secure the title on the pitch.

“Of course, it wasn’t their fault. The Covid-19 pandemic sadly intervened.

“But, as a result, history will not look too kindly on this Celtic nine-in-a-row team and that will hurt the current crop of players.

“They’ll never be revered in the same light as the great Celtic sides that won nine-in-a row between 1966 and 1974, or the Rangers teams between 1989 and 1997.

“Those players are Old Firm royalty. They won Championships after titanic and terrific battles against top sides.

“Yet, the Celtic sides of the last nine years, while successful, will be remembered for winning titles when Rangers weren’t in the league and then being handed the title.

“That must be so frustrating for players who thrive on competition. I say this as a former professional footballer and a competitor, not as a former Rangers player.

“I would feel exactly the same way if it were the blue half of Glasgow in this position.

“I certainly wouldn’t be celebrating because, as a professional sportsperson, you crave competition, the thrill of the win after a hard-fought battle and knowing you have given everything possible to beat your opponent on a level playing field.

“Scott Brown is a great player in Scottish football and I know he would love to be regarded in the same way as the nine-in-a row Celtic players of the past, but that’s not going to happen.

“He’ll be held in high esteem, but not on the same level as a Bobby Lennox or Stevie Chalmers.

“If a season cannot be finished on the pitch, then for the integrity of the league, it should be voided.”

Speaking in the Sunday Life newspaper, McAuley also took a bat to the SPFL over their treatment of Hearts and continued: “There were 24 points left to play for. I’m convinced they would have come on strong in the closing stages and avoided the trap door.

“If we take the SPFL’s logic, Leicester City would never have won the Premier League.

“A year before they were crowned champions, Leicester were bottom of the league and in serious danger of going down. But they rallied hard in the remaining weeks of the season and avoided the drop. The next year they were champions.

“But if a pandemic had struck in 2015, going by Scottish rules, Leicester would have been relegated and there would have been no Championship the following year.

“Championship success, relegation and promotion cannot be decided in a boardroom. Otherwise you are questioning sporting integrity and it is horrible.

“Hearts should not have to go to court over a football decision. It’s a shambles and really sums up Scottish football recently. The washing of dirty linen in public was particularly unedifying.

“The biggest problem I can see is that important decisions are being made by people who have never really been involved in the game from a playing point of view.”
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FFS...What is Kennedy going off on one for? The title is tainted. It's as plain as the massive beak in the middle of his mentally challenged coupon. Odd that this is the only news to come out of Cesspit Park.
Reported in the Sun about a month ago about a young black player Had the hots for an eight year old. (she's peng). Since then,no comment on the issue. Paedo in the making. Due a wage increase/new contract,
 
He won’t be the last to speak out like this. This will eat away at their 9 (possibly 10) for years to come. It’s only a matter of time before some of their own fans start admitting it too.

They didn’t actually win it. They still had work to do to secure the title. That fact will be a thorn in their sides for years to come.
 
This season should have been deemed null and void.

They should go into champs league qualifiers due to being in front when the league's shut down.

I would have expected us to do the same if we were ahead and the season finished same should have applied for us.

They have won fuuk all premier league.
 
As other posters have noted, it's a crying shame that big Gareth didn't sign for Rangers a few years ago, unfortunately we only got to see him in a llight blue jersey when he was past his prime.

Reading his forceful and not inaccurate assessment of the travesty that saw the yahoos being awarded a tainted title, I was reminded of those quotes attributed to Rangers player who claimed, preposterously, that the reason the team's form slumped after the winter break was because of the intensity of the 'pressure' they were under. Had we more players with the mindset of a Gareth McAuley, any talk of 'pressure' would have been given short shrift.
 
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