How Bobo Baldé Became The Most Feared Defender in Scotland 

Despite his negatives he is still a cult hero with the Celts.

In the 20 years since I’ve never watched any replays or highlights from Seville. Wasn’t ready for this I’m away for a lie down now 😂

When it was his day, he was an undoubted, unpassable colossus. When it wasn't his day, he was an accident waiting to happen. However, the good absolutely outweighs the bad. I'm surprised his outstanding performance in the 1-0 win against Manchester United in the Champion's League in 2006, having not played for ages and only being brought in because of a defensive injury crisis, didn't get a mention in this video. He was so good that night and it was a massive surprise considering how little he had been playing, as he was completely out of the picture by that point.

Bobo is an absolute legend one of the most loved players

FCKIN LOVED BIG BOBO ....was disappointed the way we treated him in his last season he deserved better the big man...HH1888 YNWA

Bobo ( the brick wall.) balde. You couldn't get round him. You couldn't go through him. And you couldn't go over him. A brilliant servant to celtic. Love bobo.

Loved the big chap one tough defender especially against that mob.

Legend right there

Love Bobo, loved the good and the bad and there was far more good..

Met him guy had a presence

Been waiting for ages for a Documentary on Big Bobo! Thanks mate and a good job

Quality video, great work! 👍

Big bobo was a legend. I remember the bad, but the good outstretched it. He was a man mountain.

I grew up in nineties and this is when I seen celtic being magic again never forget it what a ride hail hail

Was living in Glasgow at the time, had a season ticket for block 105 . Actually saw him make his debut vs Dunfermline that sunny saturday afternoon, 2001 BC

born in 74 a would sat that team by MO was best Celtic team i saw , wee Strachan was close but Bobo gonny get yeee

Bobos gony get ye!👌😂😂😂 no heard that in Years!!

Nice video. Quality stuff mate

Brilliant Mon the hoops

Great video mate 🍀🍀

There's some players on both sides that optimise the old firm. Baldie was one of them. Got to love these players that really became a part of Glasgow. "Baldie's gonnie get ye"

Classic Video love it

Can we have a annaversery for the simovich takle on kenny miller

⭐⭐⭐🍀⚽ BIG BOBO BALDE 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 LEGEND.🍀⚽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✝️🙏🏻💪🏻⚽🍻👍🏻.

Pace 10 Strength 10 Heading 10 Passing 2 Dribbling 2 Technique 2 Composure 2 An unbelievable physical specimen... Just surprised he wasn't coached more 'technically and mentally' as that's where he lacked quality or he could have been top level indeed! Ifs and buts!

Top Bhoy, cheers.

Love big bobo ✅💚☘️🍀🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Legend!!!!!!

Seville was heart -breaking, especially as I was in the Porto end!

Great assessment of a player loved by the fans. Rough around the edges, MO did manage to get the best from him and an absolute wall on his day.

Great Defender 👊

Our bhoy Bobo

Good video mate, lot of memories 😊

I absolutely loved Bobo

BOBOS GONNA GET YA 👊🍀

do you remember when fairly recently there was a friendly at celtic park with ex celtic players. and bobo went full on with his tackles :))

Always used to sign him as a free agent on FM 2010 what a brilliant no nonsense defender

I will never forget the game where he smashed into micheal mols

A true defender. A proper defender. If only such a player could find his way to Celtic nowadays........

Wouldn't have swapped big bobo with no one the guy was a tank

Martin O'Neill is just Irish mate. He would tell you as such.

He will always be one of the bhoys🍀🤟

7:48 - Hear Hear, it wasn't the big man's fault.

Big Bobo was such an intimidating centre back

Bobos gonna get ya 💪💪💪💪

Im sure bobo's produest moment was when he shattered the leg of a 17 year Leicester player in a pre-season friendly

Hero

This is random but did you do a Celtic RU-vid series on FM16? Your voice sounds familiar and I remember there being short segments covering the history of the Lisbon Lions and other famous Celtic players.

The rules are different for Old Firm players, he got away with murder. He was refereed properly in the 2003 UEFA Cup final.

He was an absolute bombscare and no surprise he cost us in the biggest game of his career

Think I was there for most of his home games… the whole crowd questioning our defence every time his name was announced… So 3 at the back but no Johan??… So is Valgaeren injured??… Would he not stick wee Jackie here and do ANYTHING else?? But he was big and novel and we were doing well, so sure, Bobo’s gonna “get ye”

Mind an away game v Livingston or Bobo v Marvin Andrews head tennis 😂 Ive never ever forgotten every UCL game were a ten yard pass was given a "ffff***ck sake Bobo". Hospital pass expert but hardy as anyone ever to wear the Hoops. Strachan couldn't wait to get him out tho and tbh, nobody wanted to pay him as much as we did. Cant blame him for Seville, he was just being Bobo. I was in my halcyon Celtic youth and BB will always be part of that. Thanks for the memories 💚

I tried to get a picture with him at the Morrison's in Anniesland yonks ago when I was wee and he patched me. Hurt me deeply but I still loved him as a player 🤣🤣

I'm a rangers supporter who was going to all the rangers games then and I can't remember the guy. Rudi skacel the hearts striker I remember him we should have signed him after his first good season with them

As a Rangers supporter i do not mind one bit giving a player his flowers when its deserved. And he more than deserves his. He was a superb defender and i cant deny just how good he and that defence was back then. Until Strachan came along and he was utter mince and get it tight from his own fans. Nothing new to them. Ask the team that won them 8 and a zoom call and Lennon 😂😂😂😂

When Rangers win I feel like commiting a crime

Heartbreaking in Seville, Bobo let his heart rule his head and got the red, big man was rough but you could guarantee he'd give his all on the pitch and us fans loved him for it,

I don’t think this guy ever lost a header.

Surely with two Scottish football videos, both being by far your most popular videos you ought to commit to researching and producing this stuff. It’s excellent, there’s enough stories, enough interest, and enough talent on your part to really become big

I was playing as a kid pro youth at motherwell and remember thinking man wtf would i do going head to head with this man .. then to think he was playing with the under 19s training must have been scary for those boys that were going up against him in a bounce game.. and he held that much muscle his physicality could lead him to make some rash challenges.. a guy like deco bobo goes to get the ball .. which they guys he idolised when they were playing in the 90s early 90s one in italy at ac milan the other in france .. they could have gotten away with challenges like that.. football was more psycal back then especially in Italy when Marcel was playing for milan he made challenges like that and if fe got contact with the ball it wouldn't have got him a yellow card problely not even given a freekick away .. he got the ball 🤷 the man aswell went right through him but got his foot on the ball full contact made a tackle poor deco now get up get on with it 😂😍 different era of football.. but in the 2000s imagine being a teenager not a man yet . And big bobo is grumpy you actually get past him have the cheek to nutmeg him 🫣 you would be shitting yourself after it knowing im going to pay for that.. and he might not even try to hurt me just win the ball out muscle me .. battling with that type of built machine your still a teenager 😮 yeah that give you nightmares going to training especially if you were a talented but young still skinny not got your man strength yet teen whos talented but small for his age .. yeah that wouldn't be fun the big man was a unit freak gentics absolute tank of a man.. theres alot of sports if you got him when he was young trained him made him love the sport.. guy could have been a French Olympic level judoka . A k1 fighter a Ruby player a boxer a body builder.. the guy had some crazy gentics and actually became technically good at football to play at a very high level thats not easy ❤big bobo

Him and big amo best cbs to ever play in Scotland

I remember when they nearly bought Rod Fanni as his centre back partner, that would have been magical in the fight against the hirsuite beaver.

Bobo, Momo and Deedee were a force at Celtic

The way you said mulhouse had me thinking it was a Scottish club 😅

Quintessential defender 🤔

I've attended a lot of football in Scotland over the last 20 years and can tell you that being the most feared defender in Scotland is like being the most feared toy in Sunnyside Daycare 😂

If the ball was in the air the guy was unbelievable. If the ball was on the ground and he had time on the ball the guy was shambolic.

Has anyone got a Bobo Balde shiny SPL sticker? I'm still after it.

Bobo and Sebo are everlasting names in the Scottish league.

Ronaldinho. Nothing else required 😂😂

Rangers fan big bobo was like drogba but in defense being 7 and seeing him on TV made me shite mysel

FairPlay for not showing ill will to balde for the sending out. I do for Aaron Ramsey tho lol

3:14 yer zooming in on Agathe, there. Ye even put daft music on it 🤭

Thought he was great

If we only Rab Douglas had stuck to fuckin bricklaying! 😒

Bobo got you

Sudden flashbacks of me as a wee guy saying this 😂😂😂

Cause he was an animal, imagine seeing this charging at you ready to 2 foot you and ending your career….

Each team we beat had a v in their names, always remember that 😂😂

What happened to the BigMan?

Did he not get 45grand to sit in the stand? 😄

That 3rd Porto goal was the fault of Neil Lennon. Miles off where he should have been at 2 points of buildup and the finish

i named my fish bobo balde when i was 4

Then Falkirk came, Russell Latapy made him look like an apprentice welder.

Cost them the U.E.F.A, cup when he was sent off, .

More Scottish football vids, there isn’t enough! A Henrik Larsson one would be greatly appreciated.

Dwight Yorke. 😂😂😂

Bobo's gonnae get ye

I can't remember him tbh though I'm a gers man

Rab douglas lost the final

God love him, he was a bombscare..... lol

Bobo's gonna get.....paid for doing hee haw

Bobo's gonnae get yi

Martin O'Neill is an Irishman - full stop. Not a "northern irishman" .

Big f g dud

Feared 😂😂😂😂 guy was a goal a game guaranteed as a rangers fan I loved when celtic had him he was a big clumsy twat always let a striker by him or committed a foul in a dangerous area

Bobo lost us the Uefa Cuo final.

He was amazing when the ball was there to be won, but wasn’t the most clever defender.

Everyone only thought he looked so big because he was black... Mjalby was near twice the size of him and a fucking monster. Balde was reckless and a liability to players on both sides

He was only the most feared defender in the minds of Celtic fans 😂