‘Gorgeous Weather and Gorgeous Giorgios,’ David Potter’s post match thoughts

As far as I can ascertain, the original “Gorgeous Georges” was a French heavyweight boxer of 100 years ago called Georges Carpentier, and I did try to apply that nickname to Georgios Samaras of ten years ago. He did indeed have his moments, but not really enough of them, and I am wondering whether I am being premature in talking about Giorgios Giakoumakis in such terms?

Certainly GG had a fine day yesterday. His first goal reminded me of the famous phrase much used of Jimmy McGrory as he “rose like a bird” to connect Jota’s cross.

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The second goal was a rare double header, and the third was an atonement or an expiation perhaps of that hideous penalty miss against Livingston last autumn. And how nice it was that all his team mates allowed him the penalty kick and joined in the celebration of that hat-trick. So, well done Georgios! Let’s have more of them.

But yesterday was really a marvellous day. The weather was good, the Green Brigade were in fine fettle, due tribute was paid to Frank Connor and Michael Davitt, and that is before we begin to talk about the way Celtic played, sweeping aside a team who are not the worst in the League by any means, and now looking as if they WANT to be Champions.

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The final score could have been at least doubled. Several good shouts for handball in the penalty box were missed by the referee, and our forwards could have put away several other chances.

But there was a surprising and rare unanimity among Celtic supporters last night on the way out of the park and on buses. No-one moaned. And when someone talked about superb football and how this team could really go places, no-one disagreed.

Oh, and full marks to the supporters as well! I didn’t hear any of the rubbish about “Soon there will be no…” or “Oh! It’s good to be a …” Such moronic lyrics are the opposite of what Celtic is all about!

So nine games to go, seven in the League and two in the Cup. Let’s win all nine games. That way, we will win a treble! We all know who our next fixture is against.

Rise to it, Celtic!

David Potter

About Author

David was a distinguished Celtic author and historian and writer for The Celtic Star. He lived in Kirkcaldy and followed Celtic all my life, having seen them first at Dundee in March 1958. He was a retired teacher and his other interests were cricket, drama and the poetry of Robert Burns. David Potter passed away on 29 July 2023 after a short illness. He was posthumously awarded a Special Recognition award by Celtic FC at the club's Player of the Year awards in May 2024. David's widow Rosemary accepted the award to huge applause from the Celtic Supporters in the Hydro.

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