HARALD BRATTBAKK ON TEN IN A ROW
“The last two weeks before the last game of the season, I realised this was really, really big. But before that, I didn’t really take the pressure in too much. The local guys were thinking about that more than me.
“I was a foreigner and didn’t really know Celtic’s history that well. I didn’t really know how big the club was. I had to be told by everyone all the time that this was really what mattered that year.
“Is the pressure on the current team not to let the ten slip even greater than what we faced? Definitely. I think the pressure of winning ten-in-a-row is bigger than stopping it. When you have to win ten titles, you have to be good every season. If you have to stop it you only have to be good for one.
“So the pressure is on but Celtic have been winning for so long and have experience.
“All of a sudden (the) Rangers are coming and are only two points behind with an extra game. There are a lot of points to play for so it will be a really exciting run-in.
“Winning the title with Celtic was the most important thing for me. But for the rest of the green part of the city it was about stopping ten in a row.
“I’m still baffled by how big it was to stop 10 in a row. But then when you know the rivalry in Glasgow, it’s obvious Celtic stopping it is a huge part of the club’s history.
“For me to be part of that day, playing and scoring, was enormous. Everywhere I go I meet Celtic supporters – and it’s literally everywhere – that is what they mention.
“I joined in the December and was thrown straight into the title race. By May we were Champions. It all happened so quick but it still is my best footballing memory.”
The first comment below that article is worth noting because it sums up the reason why the former Celtic striker has got it wrong this time around.
“There are those who wish to pretend that Rangers Plc is not being liquidated. A private company, which derived its income from football activities, consistently expended more than it earned over a period from 1988 to 2011.
“This private company engaged so mendaciously and aggressively in tax evasion that 75% of the creditors by quantum, including HMRC, were not prepared to accept the pennies in the pound offered by Charles Green. At which point Rangers Plc could not be salvaged.
“The company law is clear and incontrovertible. Rangers Plc, renamed to obfuscate as Rangers 2012 Ltd, is being liquidated.
“Note that I did not mention ‘club’ in my prosaic facts. A club was formed in 1872. In 1899 this club changed to limit the exposure of the directors by guarantee. The club no longer existed. A personal undertaking of four friends became a professional enterprise with a unique registration number at Companies House.”
Oh how the truth hurts.
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