PERTH, SCOTLAND - SEPTEMBER 28: Daizen Maeda of Celtic celebrates after scoring his team's fifth goal during the SPL | Premier League match between St. Johnstone FC and Celtic FC at McDiarmid Park on September 28, 2024 in Perth, Scotland. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)
There is a moment in Christopher Nolan’s movie Oppenheimer which is troubling, both for the audience and for the protagonist. It comes when the great scientist is informing the citizens of Los Alamos that America has dropped the bomb on Japan. The celebratory scenes are incongruous with what we know today and what he feels in the moment where he makes the announcement.
What makes the scene bearable is knowing two things; that was the act that ended the Second World War and most probably the one that prevented another one from following it in short order. Victory, then, but at a cost and in a manner no-one either expected nor ever would have wanted; cities destroyed and a new balance of terror created.
If I harbour the slightest concern over how this one went today I’ll say only this; a great reversal has been averted, and a great and terrible revenge has been wrought on our enemy. To all intents and purposes, the war is over. We have removed The Survival Lie’s reason for being; no-one doubts we will win the title to go with the League Cup and so only The Scottish Cup remains, and that will either move us three trophies ahead of The lie or find them wondering how to recover it next season.
Here’s the short answer; they are dreaming if they think they can.
The implications of today are enormous, and right now, at this moment in time, I could not care less to contemplate them or whether today revealed something in our team that we need to fix somewhere down the line. To be blunt, those are the least important things in the world right now. I’m in a pub full of people singing and dancing and celebrating and very soon I want to join them. All I care about right now is that we’ve won the victory and we’ve tossed their version of the history books into the rubbish tip.
Tomorrow I might care about how it was brought about. Tomorrow I’ll worry if there’s a longer, harder future war in front of us; I doubt it, but tonight it’s really not something I care that much about anyway. My club, your club, our club just won the League Cup and did a lot more besides and I’m writing this because i have to write something in this moment and there’s a lot of swirling emotion that I’m still trying to process …. but I know this; right now the method matters less to me than the result.
Implications wise, they are too numerous for one article even if I was inclined to write that one article and, really, I’m not anyway, not right now. The pub is bouncing, the troops are happy, the celebrations are just starting and I can well imagine the shattering blow this has delivered on the metaphorical other side of the world.
The ruins, the rubble, the devastated and defeated foe trying to come to terms with it … you know, I’m not normally heartless but if I might let my genuine reaction to that peek through my attempt to write something free of emotion; YAASSSSSSS! I hope they have as bad a time as I intend to have a good one.
Brothers and sister and friends, barring something momentous I am going to leave the blogging for the night to go off and celebrate this moment and all its many effects and results which I will be discussing in full tomorrow. I wish you all a cracking night- I’m sure it will be – and I’ll catch you all tomorrow.
BANZAI!
Philipe greetin about not getting a penalty for the foul on Cerney. Worra greetin faced arse hole.
Mon the hoops hail hail
I’ve got a lot to say but in the spirit of the article I’ll enjoy winning another significant trophy and simply say well done
Absolute sectarian bile fest from their end throughout the game. Surely the sfa or uefa should act. It’s right there clear as day. And once again, clemmont didn’t deserve tae lose accordin tae him and the focus is all on their penalty claim. Incredible how this guy has NEVER deserved tae lose a game since he’s been here. Fact is, we weren’t at our best and still won it and it was anybodys game. We had it won at the end of the 90, but pure complacency let them back in it right away. That was shockin. Never mind, he trophies on its way tae the Celtic trophy room and ah would imagine, some redecoratin needed at ibrox now their myths in the bin. Nothin tae even falsely claim now. Hee haw. How good is that.
Celtic made the huns look adequate. We take the win anyway and fuck them.
Meanwhile over on the batshit loopy world of Codger Quack News, apparently the win was due to some recently dead person looking down from the sky and influencing events on the field.
So no need to buy any more players to improve the side as we are guided and assisted by the grateful dead.
Enjoy your night, James and fellow faithful Celtic fans.
Today was indeed, all about winning the cup, by whatever means, necessary.
That we did it on penalties, just makes the sweet smell of success, even sweeter tonight.
Regardless of the desperate narrative, that will emanate from all the Sevco loving hordes out there, ( that they were the better team blah, blah,) this could be another huge, and seminal moment, in their short and delusional history.
Despite not being at our best, and almost the architects of our own downfall, we were still the team that attempted to play football, rather than the blunt hoof up the park style, from Clement’s charlatans.
At 2-1 up I thought we’d go on to win by 3 or 4, but as we always say, to have to earn every victory, and by God we did. That was some penalty stop by big KS, and great penalties taken by our Bhoys. Delighted that Daizen scored the clincher!
Hearing Clement whinge about the “penalty” they never got, with a subtle dig at officialdom, is both amusing, and massively ironic. If his players had more ability, and taken their chances, then maybe the post match narrative, could have been so much different for them.
As it is, after all the ifs, buts and maybes, and on a day when we made so many stupid errors and mistakes, our wonderful club has won, yet another trophy and in the process, overtaken their fabricated trophy haul.
Hopefully, this is the first of another three, and more successes in Europe! HH
Happy with the result, but that was heart attack central. Engels was atrocious, he has a lot to do to justify that massive price we paid for him. It was a terrific final for the neutral, that much is true, but as a Celtic fan, I did not enjoy that today. The only second of that match I enjoyed was when maedas penalty went in. They are raging about a penalty they should have got, I’ll need to have a look at that. I hope it was, will make it funnier.
They had the super slow motion on it on Sportscene. I’ll be interested to hear the official VAR response to the decision made – amazed that VAR didn’t appear to review the incident. The only rationale I can think of why the penalty was given was that the foul was outside the box and it pulled his foot into the box. If it had been up the other end I would have been screaming for it – ho hum, them’s the breaks!
“wasn’t given” obviously!
I would say that Engels was poor when they scored their second goal… I don’t agree he was atrocious but respect everyone’s opinions!
Give the big guy credit for his part in our third goal and for converting his penalty. He’ll come good, I’ve no doubt about that !
In a below par team performance, we ultimately got the win, despite the stress we all underwent watching it !
Let’s focus on the desire and winning mentality throughout our club! HH
I could only listen to the game today and just watched the “highlights” on Sportscene. Common consensus is that we didn’t show up for the first 45 minutes and then for some reason stepped off the throttle at 2-1.
I note that Sevco collected 8 yellow cards – that would have a club in England cited and fined for not controlling their players. Does the same apply in Scotland?
Looking forward to the detailed analysis tomorrow. Hail Hail
Yes, their players were out of control for parts of that game and the club should be sanctioned for it.
You can clearly deduce that the game plan was to disrupt Celtic by foul means.
They deserve fuck all but opprobrium for their tactics.
They had the super slow motion on it on Sportscene. I’ll be interested to hear the official VAR response to the decision made – amazed that VAR didn’t appear to review the incident. The only rationale I can think of why the penalty was given was that the foul was outside the box and it pulled his foot into the box. If it had been up the other end I would have been screaming for it – ho hum, them’s the breaks!
Thank You My Celtic – Thank You My Celtic – Thank You My Celtic…
For ENDING THE PATHOLOGICAL SURVIVAL LIES once and for all !
We all know that it’s 119 v 3 to Celtic…
But The Scummy’s of The Scummy Scottish Football Media will be pure suicidal tonight for sure…
Get it right up youse ya Scummy’s !