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| Jinty | Oct 17 2008, 08:42 PM Post #1 |
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Link Larsson on the Celtic years by Brian Etherson Former Celtic striker Henrik Larsson has spoken exclusively to Inside the SPL and admitted that the club signed him when no one else wanted him, especially Feyenoord for whom he was playing for at the time. Now back in his homeland and playing for his first club Helsingborg, Larsson admits he loved every minute of his time with the current SPL champions, even when the going got tough. “The club took me when nobody else really wanted me,” Larsson said. “I had seven fantastic years there even when it wasn’t that great. “But I still enjoyed my life in Scotland and my family enjoyed the life as well. “So it’s my club without a doubt.” Larsson helped The Hoops win four league titles, and the most important one according to the Swedish hit-man was stopping Rangers winning 10 on the spin, although he was oblivious to the real meaning of it at the time. “Obviously stopping Rangers getting ten in a row and it’s always going to be up there because it was so important," added the Swede. “I didn’t realise that, but during the season you found out how important it was for the fans and obviously for the players as well. “We were a lot of new players who wanted to do something, but now afterwards I still get goose bumps when I think about what would’ve happened if we didn’t win that league [title]. “Because that would not have been good for Celtic, so that’s always going to be up there and the year when we won the treble as well.” Two years ago, Larsson won the Champions League with Barcelona and five years ago with Celtic he lost to Porto in the final of the Uefa Cup, but the pain of ‘that’ night in Seville will live with him forever, because he believes Celtic could have beaten the side led by Jose Mourinho. “There is no beauty in losing a final," rued Larsson. "“I still hate it when I talk about that evening. "I don’t enjoy it all, I think we should have won that, we were capable of doing that against a very good side that went on the year after to win the Champions League.” Larsson is the only ‘foreign’ player to be voted into Celtic’s greatest team and even now, he still finds the honour difficult to comprehend. “It’s a great honour, maybe I don’t understand it now because I’m still young in terms of life, so I think it’s something I’m going to appreciate even more when I get older. “It’s fantastic, but it just shows the mutual respect the fans and I have for each other. “We had a great relationship over the years and I still hear it when I play here [Helsingborg] I still hear the songs over here and sometimes the Celtic jersey is going to be somewhere in the stand and I always smile when I see it because it’s just fantastic.” still miss him
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| groucho bhoy | Oct 17 2008, 09:12 PM Post #2 |
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i have never really gotten over that. larsson and o'neill leaving, and i'm not joking here, were defining points in my life, lines in the sand that i'll always look back to and think, 'my life was one thing then, and it's another now'.that's how much they meant to me. |
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| Henke | Oct 17 2008, 09:34 PM Post #3 |
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Feel exactly the same. It was an epoch. And it was the end of an era at the club and in my own life too. It's hard to describe and I am as faithful a Celtic supporter now as I have been at any time during my life, but I haven't really felt the same as a Celtic supporter since they two left. Perhaps that is also why I have struggled to take to ginger baws to a certain extent. That and the fact that he is a shite manager. With Martin you always knew he would fight our corner, whether it be the press or whoever. And of course when he spoke you didn't listen with your hands covering your eyes, like you do with the4 present incumbent. It will go away eventually I know, but it's like when you get yer Nat King off a really hot bird that you fancy the arse off and she breaks it off!! I love Henrik Larsson and I always will. I live in hope though, that one day, hopefully soon, Martin O'Neill will return to the club he loves as Manager. I mean, what the feck is he doing at Aston fecking Villa???? |
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| Henke | Oct 17 2008, 09:40 PM Post #4 |
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In every hick town in Caledonia Across this pseudo nation You can see the most fucked up scum that was ever shat into creation Where a blue McEwan's lager top equals no imagination You're hunbelievable If you're having cash problems I feel bad for you hun I've got 99 problems but tax ain't one | |
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| groucho bhoy | Oct 17 2008, 09:44 PM Post #5 |
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leona lewis is magic, eh!
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| Jinty | Oct 17 2008, 09:44 PM Post #6 |
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oooft!
......she'd have to be a right sadistic bassa! ![]() edit - my ooft was for henrik btw!
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| Henke | Oct 17 2008, 09:49 PM Post #7 |
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Way-hey!! I feel a bit strange now. Jints, I never read it that way when I was typing, but ouchy!!
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In every hick town in Caledonia Across this pseudo nation You can see the most fucked up scum that was ever shat into creation Where a blue McEwan's lager top equals no imagination You're hunbelievable If you're having cash problems I feel bad for you hun I've got 99 problems but tax ain't one | |
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