After I mentioned the Overseas Season Ticket holders last week, Auldheid (an overseas supporter) pulled some thoughts together on what his relationship with our club is all about. Here it is, well worth kicking back for five minutes and reading:
“The phrase “BeCeltic” intrigued me somewhat as we all have different ideas of what that might mean. For me there is something about being a Celtic supporter that goes way beyond football. Every Celtic supporter everywhere feels it to some degree or other and every Celtic supporter demonstrates it to some degree or other according to their circumstances and their life experience.
You meet a stranger in a pub and if he is a fellow Tim he is no longer a stranger. If he is a fellow CQNer he was already your pal even though you had never met before. This feeling of belonging to something greater than self… it ranges from a distant almost spiritual connection to the club and what it stands for, to attendance with fellow supporters at every game the team plays, home and away.
I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to BeCeltic (as I saw it) last season when I signed up for an Overseas Season Ticket. You can read more about the genesis (and CQN’s part in it) here on Celtic Underground.
The concept on which the OST is based for me anyway reflects the Celtic ethos which manifests itself in the way we support not only the team but each other both in the official charitable work carried out by the Celtic Foundation and as everyday supporters doing mad stuff like a huddle on top of Ben Nevis for heavens sake!!! In support of our own deserving causes, like the Kano Foundation, which is but just one great example of the caring heart of the support.
The impact such work can have on people’s lives can never be fully appreciated until you meet someone, as I did whilst sitting outside a pub in Spain, overwhelmed by the difference it made to their wellbeing.
Buying an Overseas Season Ticket was almost an act of faith in that I did not know if I had internet connectivity at my Spanish destination to watch Celtic TV. Initially I did not, but “God works” etc and a charitable neighbour gave me WiFi access that enabled me to watch ALL games home and away on TV, via connecting HDMI cable to the laptop, from the comfort of my flat overlooking the beach. (Hence the term life is a beach).
Even better, I had the option of watching games not televised by Sky or ESPN in local bars via WiFi on my mobile phone if the wife dragged me out for lunch in game time. (Bad stuff happens to good guys too you know).
Not all performances were great but both 4-3 victories over Aberdeen and Dundee Utd in the Scottish Cup were truly memorable. Luckily I returned home in time to attend the title winning game v ICT using one of my 4 OST match day tickets, which this season has become FIVE along with a £50 price reduction.
I was also very pleased to get a letter from the Celtic Foundation saying that my seat had been used in my absence by local organisations and as a Calton man I was delighted to see folk from organisations in my old stomping ground amongst the beneficiaries.
Personally I see last season’s OST initiative as simply another indication, along with the recent appointment of a Supporter Liaison and Service Officer, that progress is being made in an ongoing process of bringing the Celtic support even closer together using the wonderful communication tools we now have. I find that something to be excited about as a force for spreading good in a world where ethics (which is derived from ethos) seem to have been forgotten.
But lofty thoughts apart J : At a very practical level the OST is a very good value for money way, especially at £250 for a Season Ticket with the ability to view all games on Celtic TV and attend up to five games when at home, given due notice, of not only being a Celtic supporter but of sharing the load of supporting Celtic across the full spectrum of the support wherever we are. From the Auldheids with grey or no hair to the younger gentlemen with too much and the Celtic ladies of all ages whom I find are even more passionate in their support (if you met my sister you would know what I mean).
So I have already renewed and if you are fortunate enough to be able to afford as well as able to make full or partial use of an OST, I would encourage you to do so via BeCeltic overseas season ticket.”
With fans like Auldheid, we’re in good hands. Trying hard to insist I’m not worried about preseason games……
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clunks,
Hullo again
My Dear Petec….
Here Is A Decent Youtube Video…..
Which Will Send You Down The Path Of True Enlightenment…..
No Masons….No Tap-Dancin’ Goats….
And No Contribution….From David Icke !
Just An Exposure…..Of The Malignant Designs Of The Communists….
And Their Objective To Destroy The Christian Family Unit….
http://www.redstate.com/2013/02/28/agenda-how-marxists-are-grinding-america-down/
~~~~~~
“Agenda : Grinding Down America”. (2010)
(93Min Documentary By Former Idaho State Representative,Curtis Bowers )
http://youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&client=mv-google&gl=GB&v=GEHEOPpTNsw&fulldescription=1
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Ah Can Hear The Screams Of Horror Fae The Swindon Swinger …
An’ His Pal,The Cambuslang Confabulist..
Alreadys….
[ Like Dracula Bein’ Hosed Doon Wi’ Lourdes Water ?…..Ed ]
Maggie McGill…. I think that’s his Handel posted about Mozart earlier. Now petec has mentioned Bach. I was wondering where everyone was Haydn tonight. Realise they were too Bizet in Hamilton. The Lizzt could go on but once Britten.
I’ll get my coat.
petec
very well thanks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOsm1TzqHII
Night night Timland. Poultry to attend to in the mo. :))
Weefra HH
Everyone, spare a thought for a top CQN’r, TET. We were supposed to be playing golf today at Hacienda Del Alamo but TET had a bit of a dodgy engine and shat himself while packing his golf clubs into his beemer, leading to a last minute cancellation.
The rematch is planned in September.
TET, get well soon bruv, I’ll see you in September.
Hail Hail Imodium……………………………..:-(
Matt McGlone was out in the town with him tonight and persuaded him to sign up to Twitter.
It had to happen: https://twitter.com/MattMcGlone9/status/356160687279587330/photo/1
Paulosboots
I’m sorry to see him go but Monet(wee ref to Morrisey 23rd) talks.
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie
00:14 on 14 July, 2013
My Dear Petec….
Here Is A Decent Youtube Video…..
Which Will Send You Down The Path Of True Enlightenment…..
No Masons….No Tap-Dancin’ Goats….
And No Contribution….From David Icke !
Just An Exposure…..Of The Malignant Designs Of The Communists….
And Their Objective To Destroy The Christian Family Unit….
http://www.redstate.com/2013/02/28/agenda-how-marxists-are-grinding-america-down/
~~~~~~
“Agenda : Grinding Down America”. (2010)
(93Min Documentary By Former Idaho State Representative,Curtis Bowers )
http://youtube.com/watch?hl=en-GB&client=mv-google&gl=GB&v=GEHEOPpTNsw&fulldescription=1
~~~~~~~
Ah Can Hear The Screams Of Horror Fae The Swindon Swinger …
An’ His Pal,The Cambuslang Confabulist..
Alreadys….
[ Like Dracula Bein’ Hosed Doon Wi’ Lourdes Water ?…..Ed ]
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It is Terry Waite on a Saturday night at the movies.
I hope you never leave this site. That Rick O’shea rocket that is16 roads, a big bad Sinner, has a lot of time for you, Scooby Doo, and Scrappy too.
Keep posting. :D
My Dear Maggie….
Heartbroken Tae Hear Ye Never Got Tae Watch Jackanory…..
As A Bairn Growin’ Up In The West Lothian Gulag…..
By Way Of Compensation…..
Here’s An Early Episode Of “Bill & Ben”
And The “Bouncy Cabbages”…..
Who Could Remember…..
That The Gable End Of The Wee Farm
Cottage….
Had A Smiley FACE…..?
Proper Drama….From The Golden Years Of BBC….
When The Map Was ….Still Reassuringly Pink….
“Bill & Ben (With Little Weed) ” – And The Bouncy Cabbages…
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ozp8uwUWtBY&desktop_uri=/watch?v=Ozp8uwUWtBY
NotKitalbaTV
And if a Double Decker bus, crashes into us
petec @ 00:31
The Parrot @machrie72 10 Jul
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
Cos Malcolm’s about.
TSD
I used to listen,so I’m told by my mother, to Listen with Mother. One day at the end of the programme the lady presenter thought her mike was dead, She came out with something like, “That’ll do the wee b…….s for the day.” Sacked immediately.
Cue much laughter from the mothers listening.
Poor old TET, shitting through the eye of a needle and not one Celtic minded person seems to care!!!
Ach well, he’d have got pumped at the golf today anyway, if he hadn’t bouldered his huggies.
Morrissey the 23rd
00:38 on 14 July, 2013
petec @ 00:31
The Parrot @machrie72 10 Jul
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
There Is A Light And It Never Goes Out
Cos Malcolm’s about.
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You will never believe that I read the above as the music was playing the Precise lyrics.
Spooky
Petec, our mutual friend and fellow moonhowler has confirmed he’s up for the next hootenanny at the end of September. As long as he doesn’t dress like Bono again I’m willing to take him out in fun city……………………what say you Pete?
I thank the timing of the school holidays and Mrs ACGR’s foresight for not being anywhere near the sectarian scum marches of the past couple of days.
Peace and love to all the Celtic people, the scum will be scum.
Hail Hail Celtic men and wummin.
petec @ 00:45
Morrissey’s Dad and Roy Keane’s Grandad were cousins. During has short career at Celtic. Possibly Morrissey’s worse ever song was played on the tannoys. I did enjoy that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMwwh2RZ4CY
Off to Bed.
Aidan has a 5 hour training session later today, I’m not watching all of that. ;))
Looking forward to gibbering on CQN, although the slots are still open for the first CQN Clan for online gaming. Counterstrike: Global Offensive is the game and on PC format.
I know a few Brilliant players who could make us very good straight away. That is not what it is all about. It is about getting Dads, Mums and anyone who likes online gaming and their kids playing under a banner that is Good.
When we get beat, we give a lot of respect to the opponent, when we win, we encourage the other side as much as possible.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust
Aidans footie is relegated this time. I’m out all night,next time.
16 Roads needs a wingman to go and sample Glasgow Trance Sonics. ;)))
oleskoolclassico’s.csc
Re the chat earlier about the almost daily revelations – the whole saga is impossible to keep up with for laymen like myself sadly, so am very grateful that there are genuine internet bampots who are following it closely and analysing it all.
One thing that I take from all of this that is aside fromt the football, is that the whole saga should be a warning to how controlled the media is in the whole of the UK in regards to what messages they put out there, and how they do it.
This episode of Young Persons’ Question Time is curious – Richard Bacon put in the chair as the closest in age to relate the young audience, yet rather than acting as chair, is actively putting out misinformation on the UK’s war activities.
Thankfully, the BBC fails again to underestimate the power of internet bampottery and the intelligence of the audience they set to throw poorly thought out propaganda at.
The internet, despite it’s faults, could prove to be the thing that sets this planet free – but of course, you need to pay attention to continuing court hearings and processes coming from western “democracies” and corporations in their attempts to bring it under control, by removing your and my freedom to discuss such things as…corruption in Scottish football.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og47CDEUiso
TSD,
Your fears of Islam equate to the same pish spouted by the EDL. And they also equate to the fears that street pirate huns have of Catholicism.
Woohoohoo, we’re all out to get you !
PS ACGR,
Take it you’re back from hols? Sorry to hear of TET’s wee problems.
Re your boat parking space location – we are then on 10th Aug for a big day oot (Highland Games) if you’re around. It seems that we might even be playing outside weather permitting :)) Some of that Arbroath specialised midge deterrent might be welcome :))
Pedro,
5 hours??? Is that what it is now????
Never did footie training for more than 2 hours when young, ever !!
No reference to Aidan’s abilities here, but that puts the feckin SFA and their hun rescue campaigns even more into perspective. That increase in training yet the quality of football in this country has STILL deteriorated into utter ruin ! FFS.
By the sounds of it, you may well have to find the means to get Aidan training with a N. England team within the forthcoming years, if not our heroes, just to get that little bit more quality in the training.
Turkeybhoy
23:00 on 13 July, 2013
ASonOfDan
20:16 on
13 July, 2013
We’ll worth a punt.
Sky sources have revealed that Queens Park
Rangers are looking to send Adel Taarabt out
on loan this season.
The recently relegated club have no plans to
sell their talented Moroccan midfielder but are
happy for him to spend time away from Loftus
Road.
The only reason I watched QPR games on telly last year.An absolute joy to watch.Outrageous skill,If you dont like watching guys like this,somethings wrong.
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Yes, and fifty times yes.
Skill like that boy possesses is enough to win a CL game at the flick of a foot.
If we could snaffle such ability on a season-loan with room to negotiate a future, it’d be a second-Lubo steal.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes @ 01:13
Hear, hear!
Exactly why they are regulating it.
http://www.internetsociety.org/regulation?gclid=COqfysHbrbgCFZIPtAod03IArA
I’m also grateful for those who do what they can to give us the truth.
Meant to include this link: https://www.eff.org/
A song my wee Mammy sings Religiously
Morrissey the 23rd
Good links, will take at look at them agmio, thanks.
We were well warned by great thinkers about this – not just George Orwell.
FFS, even Muriel Spark ( I say “even” as she is local to many of us, NOT in any disparaging sense) wrote about it in her works. She actually worked for the British propaganda machine during the 2nd World War, and despite the importance of that against a particularly powerful evil, she made her misgivings clear about how it would develop in the UK afterwards.
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
01:21 on 14 July, 2013
Pedro,
5 hours??? Is that what it is now????
Never did footie training for more than 2 hours when young, ever !!
No reference to Aidan’s abilities here, but that puts the feckin SFA and their hun rescue campaigns even more into perspective. That increase in training yet the quality of football in this country has STILL deteriorated into utter ruin ! FFS.
By the sounds of it, you may well have to find the means to get Aidan training with a N. England team within the forthcoming years, if not our heroes, just to get that little bit more quality in the training.
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The wee guy is Loving it, he is getting muscles and it won’t be long before he is stronger than his Dad, physically. ;)
If he stays away from girls n drink he has a heightened chance to make a career out of football.
petec
An important song at it’s time! But I remember it most from the lovely Lena Martell singing it when I was a toddler – one of the earliest songs I remember.
I would rather chuck the gowf than play with someone who was willing to rip me asunder online :O(…
Night Bhoys.
Good evening from an extremely hot Las Vegas!
~SPF~
Fred C. Dobbs
I love all your fantastic contributions to this site.
It is , as a Celt, aWonderful life. ;))
petec @ 01:33
“If he stays away from girls n drink he has a heightened chance to make a career out of football.”
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In my experience, girls and drink don’t go together anyway – it’s always one that leads to the other :)) He’s clearly comitted and loves his football. That’s the important thing, and will over-ride the others.
I talk from experience as I was a 1st team regular for a well-known youth club team and prominent school team. We didn’t win medals, but finishing bottom of the 6th division every year with an average of 10 goals conceded per game made me realise, as a right back, that I would need to depend on other people in adult life. Goalkeepers will let you down.. :))
Fred C @ 01:36
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More to the point, play golf!? DON’T DO IT. A game for middle-class well to does who don’t now how to express themselves with a screw driver :))
Petec,
Keep the chin up amigo :(
Oh dear ghod let the close season end soon and someone pls have the cojones in Scottish fitba to punt thon tribute act into touch ( my bairns Had to see that fat steak bake Botherer on the telly tonight…, therapy will be required)…. That is all…..:-)
MHARK67
Whit, the ole meeja whore cheeky chappie still at it? :))
If you haven’t seen this, it will help you make sense of it all !!! :))
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KOof3eKOw
Those two fat slugs have to answer for their role in the zombie violence outbreaks this weekend over the water, and whatever worse comes of it.
But they’ve shown no shame for similar incidents in the past, so not holding my breath.
There are plenty picking up where they left off.
The ole UK malicious agents department must be laughing themselves silly at Bawface Salmond doing their job for them in undermining the possibility of Scottish independence. Divide & Conquer. Despite being proven as a short term solution with long-term damaging effects, still a major tactic in the UK. Muppets.