Martin O’Neill interview in FourFourTwo magazine

RangersForever said:
O'Neill's team were big and strong and played old fashioned British style football, but they certainly weren't a great football team to watch in terms of style.
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Tell that to a Celtic fan of that era though… they genuinely think they had a team that played beautiful football.
Brutes winning the ball, running fast with it and then knocking the ball down for Larsson would be more accurate.
 
Craigie said:
He was in goal for Falkirk when they beat Celtc 2-1 to allow us to win the title at Pittodrie in 1987.

Then in both 2003 & 2005 he played against them when they lost on the last day.
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I was there that day.
Glorious to say the least.
We went 1-0 up first minute in the first half.
2nd half Roy Aitken decided that a handball outside the box was a penalty.
Couple of minutes left.... wee Jimmy Gilmour ( Jimmy Johnstones nephew ) ... hits a trundler from over 20 yards and it bobbles over Bonner into the net.
They were raging at the final whistle.... got called all sorts of the usual stuff... got worse when my mate asked them how Rangers got on.
Back to my local ( Grangemouth Rangers Club... 25p a drink ) packed out and party time for all.
The next week ironically we were up at Aberdeen for the last game of the season.
 
Ataturk said:
In the new issue of FFT there’s a Q & A with MON (lot of acronyms). Someone asks about Helicopter Sunday and the answer is pleasing.




11 out of 10!

Here’s an old quote from John Hartson:



They will never ever get over it.

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In the 5 years we coulda shoulda won 5, let me think you poisonous little prick you never, hope it hurts you for as long as you infect this world.
 
The Goalie said:
Gordon Marshall was also in goals for Falkirk in May 1986 when they won at the Piggery, meaning our 1-1 draw at Pittodrie the same day was eenough to win the league with a game to spare.
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He also played for Rangers at the start of his career.
 
bluewonder said:
Everything from Souness signing Mo Johnston, 9iar in the 90's, winning the league at their midden in 99 plus the two helicopter sundays has scarred them for life.

They seen 2012 as payback for this but the thing is it still happened and we on the other hand have come out the other end still not perfect but still here.
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I was a child of the 90's and whilst 2012 was awful, and what followed in our return to the top league and regular batterings was just as bad, it's not scarred me mentally. It hasn't affected who I am as a person day to day. I remember after the 2019 league cup final it seemed different, I was in an almighty huff and whilst lasted a few days it didn't affect my outlook on life or who I am for any longer than that.

Meanwhile, a substantial majority of Celtic fans I know that are a similar age are deranged and have been affected big time. Don't get me wrong it's not all of them, but I know a lot of Celtic fans who will take an almighty chip on their shoulder due to our 9iar, their coca cola cup defeat, helicopter Sunday, Arteta's penalty and so on to their grave.

I think it's partly due to not only their footballing failures, but their completely odd club supporter mentality of virtue signalling, a weird obsession with needing to be loved by the 99% of other football fans who genuinely couldn't give a shit about Celtic. And their need to be seen as some socialist haven of a soup kitchen football club when in reality their just a money driven PLC.

It would make a cracking case study for someone who has the required expertise. I'm just glad I'm not one of them as carrying that chip and constantly harbouring a victim mentality looks genuinely exhausting, I pity a lot of their too far gone fans.
 
Commander Bjorklund said:
I was a child of the 90's and whilst 2012 was awful, and what followed in our return to the top league and regular batterings was just as bad, it's not scarred me mentally. It hasn't affected who I am as a person day to day. I remember after the 2019 league cup final it seemed different, I was in an almighty huff and whilst lasted a few days it didn't affect my outlook on life or who I am for any longer than that.

Meanwhile, a substantial majority of Celtic fans I know that are a similar age are deranged and have been affected big time. Don't get me wrong it's not all of them, but I know a lot of Celtic fans who will take an almighty chip on their shoulder due to our 9iar, their coca cola cup defeat, helicopter Sunday, Arteta's penalty and so on to their grave.

I think it's partly due to not only their footballing failures, but their completely odd club supporter mentality of virtue signalling, a weird obsession with needing to be loved by the 99% of other football fans who genuinely couldn't give a shit about Celtic. And their need to be seen as some socialist haven of a soup kitchen football club when in reality their just a money driven PLC.

It would make a cracking case study for someone who has the required expertise. I'm just glad I'm not one of them as carrying that chip and constantly harbouring a victim mentality looks genuinely exhausting, I pity a lot of their too far gone fans.
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Been thinking this for quite some time. The scope is huge but probably boils down to inferiority complex of some nature. As you say, best left to the experts as they would be able to articulate all kinds of tasty findings.
 
He was on that 'sacked in the morning' tv show with the lovely Ms Irons...called us a 'fantastic football club' - I wasn't expecting that.

He's still a whank though.
 
RabSpackman said:
Tell that to a Celtic fan of that era though… they genuinely think they had a team that played beautiful football.
Brutes winning the ball, running fast with it and then knocking the ball down for Larsson would be more accurate.
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They got it to Larsson wide on the halfway line and he drew the foul.
Long diagonal free kick into the box to Hartson, Sutton, Balde, mjallby Valharan? to fight for. Horrible football.
 
Best comment must be when he was interviewed after they went out to Juventus . And he was asked about the penalty awarded to Juventus where he said " It might have been a penalty given , I've not seen it but it wasn't a penalty "
 
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