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Paul Carlin (Dananananaykroyd)

Hello. I am Paul from Dananananaykroyd and I support Celtic. My career as a Celtic fan is one often tainted by glorious failure. Having had to sit through nine seasons of our arch-rivals winning the league during the '90s, you think Celtic fans would be used to feeling low, right? Well, on the 21st of May, 2003, I experienced my most gut-wrenching episode as a Hoops fan: The UEFA Cup Final. FC Porto, then managed by Jose Mourinho, had a pretty big reputation but had progressed to the final by beating pretty easy opposition (except for Lazio who, ironically, they absolutely pumped) whereas Celtic had defeated Blackburn (back then a mighty team), Celta Vigo, Stuttgart and, incredibly, Liverpool before edging Boavista in the semi-final. A lot of my pals travelled to Seville for the match. My dad and I did the next best thing: flew to Dublin to watch it with my die-hard Celtic-supporting uncle. Porto looked good. They had Deco, Maniche, Ferreira, Carvalho and Derlei. Didn't matter. We had Henrik Larsson. I honestly thought we could do it. So did thousands of others. The match itself was constantly on a knife edge. Porto, cheating arseholes BTW, took the lead right on half time. Unbelievable. We'd pretty much matched them thus far. Didn't matter. 2 minutes into the second half, Larsson headed us back into the game. Porto took the lead again a few minutes later, but King Henrik scored a second equaliser. It ended 2-2 and we faced extra time. I can't dwell on this because it still hurts! Our much-maligned centre back Bobo Balde recieved his marching orders which effectively killed the game. Derlei scored his second goal and Porto's winner. We couldn't pick ourselves up after that. To make matters worse, Rangers won the league that season by a single goal. Tears, misery, gloom, doom and disbelief. I'd personally like to thank Gareth for reawakening these dreadful memories.
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Susan Boyle