Celtic F.C passion

[thebhoymalone]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfYWM...eature=related

Just stumbled across this Celtic video on youtube, brilliant speech in the background (Al Pachino out of Any Given Sunday film apparently). If Gordon Strachan uses a speech like that before the Barca match we'll beat them 4-0

[darryl]

doubt it cause naka wouldnt have a clue and apparently when nakas shite we are all shite!

[topbhoy1967]

Brilliant speech - almost battered my cat after hearing that!

[BenedictineMonk]

Great vid, was posted on here a while back. Inspirational.

[Ricardinho]

I remember they had a Scottish version of this before the Scotland game, this great speech but with Scotland squad pics instead, got me really pumped up for the game that day

[meehan32]

thats some speach

[thebhoymalone]

I changed it a little to be about Celtic V Barca

Gordon Strachan' Inch By Inch speech before Celtic V Barcelona match on February 20th

Gordon Strachan:

We are in hell right now, gentlemen
believe me and
we can stay here
and get the shit kicked out of us by the Barca players
or we can fight our way
back into the light.
We can climb out of hell.
One inch, at a time.

Now I can't do it for you.
I'm too old.
I look around and I see these young faces of McGeady, Brown etc..

You know when you get old in life
things get taken from you.
That's, that's part of life.
But, you only learn that when you start losing stuff.
You find out that life is just a game of inches.
So is football.
Because in either game
life or football
the margin for error is so small.
I mean
one half step too late or too early
you don't quite make it.
One half second too slow or too fast
and you don't quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They are in ever break of the game
every minute, every second.

In this Celtic team, we fight for that inch
On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us
to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know
when we add up all those inches
that's going to make the FUCKING DIFFERENCE
between WINNING and LOSING
between LIVING and DYING.

I'll tell you this
in any fight
it is the guy who is willing to die
who is going to win that inch.
And I know
if I am going to have any life anymore
it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch
because that is what LIVING is.
The six inches in front of your face.

Now I can't make you do it.
You gotta look at the guy next to you.
Look into his eyes.
Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you.
You are going to see a guy
who will sacrifice himself for this Celtic team
because he knows when it comes down to it,
you are gonna do the same thing for him.

That's a team, gentlemen
and either we heal now, as a team,
or we will die as individuals.
That's football bhoys.
That's all it is.
Now, whattaya gonna do?

[topbhoy1967]