The sun shone, McStay’s Maestro’s ‘Celtic’ won from being two goals down and 25,000 people contributed to War Child, Unicef and the Rio Ferdinand Foundation. Yesterday was another defining yardstick on the Celtic journey.
Getting the balance of these games right, in order to provide an actual ‘match’, is difficult, but the two sides managed it. There were fewer Directioners there to see Louis Tomlinson than last year, but their contribution to the causes was still welcome.
Frank McAvennie scored a classic Macca goal. Hollywood A-lister James McAvoy converted a penalty kick and looked as happy as you or I would in the circumstances. We’re going to struggle when Tom Boyd retired from the Legends game. Simon Donnelly and Bobby Petta looked like they could still do a job in the pro game, but special mention has to go to Gary Tank Commander (Greg McHugh). The words “Nice, Lubo”, left my lips as I mistook Greg for someone else after a deft piece of skill. Don’t ask me to explain.
It wasn’t football as you know it, but it was Celtic supporters doing what they do best – helping those in need.
All this came a day after the Paradise to Cardenden Cycle 2014, when a group of fans cycled from Celtic Park to John Thomson’s grave for the Celtic FC Foundation.
The Foundation is not the club, it is you, me and thousands like us who believe Celtic is something greater. It works in four arenas:
Health
Equality
Learning
Poverty
There’s no obligation for Celtic fans to get involved, or to cherish any of the above, but I know many of us get a whole lot more out of Celtic by anchoring to these principles.
There’s a sense that we’ll see a new Celtic on Saturday. Looking forward to it immensely.
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If we play 2 up front on Saturday I fancy us to smash Aberdeen by 4 or 5, HH
Fitbatalk csc
O.G.Rafferty
11:14 on 9 September, 2014
Vote early, vote often
http://bgdvuboy.blogspot.co.uk/2014/09/CELTIC-vs-INDEPENDIENTE.html?m=1
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Get voting Bhoys & Ghirls
Till later all
a ceiler gonof rust
08:43 on 9 September, 2014
Happy 25th wedding anniversary to me and my beautiful girl from Dumfries.
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Congratulations old bhoy (thumbs up)
And to yir good lady innaw
Hx2
hun skelper
11:22 on 9 September, 2014
If we play 2 up front on Saturday I fancy us to smash Aberdeen by 4 or 5, HH
Fitbatalk csc
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Not if we play two Anthony Stokes
Nice article. I agree Celtic is a lot more than just a football club, but I’d love us also to put more pressure on the board to introduce the living wage at Celtic. We should always try to be more ethical than other clubs to remember where we came from, an idea that was born around a ‘poor mans’ dinner table.’
Frieserdorf
I remember that post. But I am sure I was referrring to an erlier post (perhaps not one of yours) that included an ‘English Basturts’ statement.
MWD says AYE
Philboy – only existing shareholders can buy the new (discounted) shares. We can buy 30% of our current holding for 20p, but if we sell any of our current holding it decreases the amount of discounted shares we can buy (to 30% of their new total).
Davidopopulos Think he played once against Thistle,need to check though. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Ernie
Are you categorically stating you did not make such a statement?
MWd says AYE
Probably my biggest concern,from Day One of the referendum campaign,has been the likelihood of a very bitter fall-out afterwards.
Not gonna be much fun after 20/9,I reckon.
I hope both sides shrug their shoulders and get on with the chosen will of the majority.
We may be divided ahead of the vote,but we must be united afterwards in pursuing the prosperity of our country.
No point-scoring. Game over and get on with it.
davidopoulos
11:23 on 9 September, 2014
Why ? He’s been scoring this season
Davidopoulos
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Bonnes%2C+Stephane
The Battered Bunnet
11:17 on 9 September, 2014
I just find it odd that someone who left here and lives in the USA is lecturing us about imperialism , social justice etc etc etc.
hebcelt
11:24 on 9 September, 2014
Davidopopulos Think he played once against Thistle,need to check though. Hail Hail Hebcelt
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I thought that he played a game, but all the records online show 0 appearances. I feel we need to know.
Any word on the Whyte Walkers from Govan today?
Moonbeams WD. Wee Oscar’s our Bhoy and Kano’s our mhan.
11:25 on 9 September, 2014
Find the post.
You say it’s there.
Find it and C&P it.
And don’t bother asking me to respond to anything you post until you’ve done that.
Phyllis D
Thanks for your reply!
Are you a Hun?
leftclicktic
11:25 on 9 September, 2014
Davidopoulos
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Bonnes%2C+Stephane
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Hmm, not knowing was probably the best part of that process…
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
11:25 on 9 September, 2014
‘Probably my biggest concern,from Day One of the referendum campaign,has been the likelihood of a very bitter fall-out afterwards.
Not gonna be much fun after 20/9,I reckon.’
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Sadly, you’re absolutely correct.
Nationalism is divisive, as the Pope said.
Philboy – of course I am – not a problem is it?
MWD see what you mean. The desperate one is having a “squeeky bum” time.Hail Hail Hebcelt
Phyllis D
Of course not!
Shameless repost
thanks Auldheid
http://www.tsfm.net/how-not-to-govern-scottish-football/
Ernie
I am like a dug wae a bone.
First. Before I go and take up much of my time.
Are you categorically denying you made such a statement to me?
MWD says AYE
I read back with increasing dismay at the fervour whipped up by some on the site. The jingoistic, fervent nationalism. The triumphalism.
It reminded me of other groups and other times.
Bobby Scotland will be utterly divided post the vote. And the bitterness and rancour and triumphalism won’t stop after the referendum.
Many if the yes voters are voting yes because they see a democratic deficit. Tell me how are no voters going to feel in the event of a narrow yes victory.
It will certainly seem a democratic deficit. Things will be done which I want no part of.
But it was ever thus when nationalism and patriotic fervour replace sensible thinking.
Posted as info only. Not to support a Nae or Aye divorce vote.
Oil reserves UK (excluding any potential West coast Atlantic or Gas fields) The main point being what overall reserves against deemed viable extraction a huge difference.
NORTH SEA OIL*
26.6 billion – total barrels of oil extracted to date
330 million – barrels of oil extracted in 2012
3 billion – proven remaining oil reserves – those it should definitely be viable to extract
8 billion – maximum proven, probable and possible oil reserves –all those that could potentially be extracted
SHALE OIL IN ‘WEALD’ BASIN OF SOUTHERN ENGLAND
4.4 billion – best estimate of amount of shale oil ‘resource’ – the amount physically in the ground in the Weald basin of southern England, according to BGS study
220 million – possible amount that could actually be extracted, assuming 5 per cent recovery rate
Sources: Department for Energy and Climate Change; British Geological Survey
“I just find it odd that someone who left here and lives in the USA is lecturing us about imperialism , social justice etc etc etc.”
Ernie do you find this more or less odd than someone who upped sticks and now tells us to vote no?
Or someone who lives in an independent country telling us to vote no?
Cheers.
Congratulations ACGR and your misseez
HH
And finally I find it ironic in the extreme that the other debates we have had on this site, about corruption in scottish foot ball, about the OB act, about salmonds defence of rangers etc make you so try pushing of scottish society now. All you have is evidence of the corruption and sectarianism but you want to walk into the pit anyway.
Frw,
Aye 2012 was a great year for oil.
NEGANON
Disnae matter how the vote goes,mate. Nor your opinion on how it should have gone in the first place.
If we don’t work together afterwards to ensure a successful Scotland,we will ALL have lost.
Geordie Munro
11:38 on 9 September, 2014
It’s the that the reasons he advances for voting no, broadly those of what is known as left nationalism seems (which I regard as nonsensical), to me at any rate, not to sit too happily with him choosing to live in the USA.
There’s a disconnect there.
You’re coming across as a little dissonant Ernie, if you don’t mind me saying. Almost as though you agree with much of his point of view, but can’t reconcile his conclusion with your own. Your default ad hominem is a little unbecoming tbh.
I thought you would have more to say on what is a fairly thoughtful piece, combining his personal life experience and future vision.
I was particularly taken with his reflection on his own generation (that’s me and perhaps you btw), those tethered to an old Labour dogma and who would be voting No:
“When I asked why, what kept coming back was that we should be talking about something else. That they were almost all Labour Party supporters should come as no surprise, nor should it be a shock that the ‘something else’ was usually defined as ‘kicking the Tories out.’ To what end, I would enquire. To build a fairer society, was the invariable reply. So I wondered, sometimes out loud, sometimes not, how exactly they intended to do that. Through Trident? War in Iraq? NHS trusts? Deregulation of the City, with subsequent bailouts after they f#$ked it up? Through the House of Lords? Or the continuing negation of democracy, and siphonage of the country’s resources to a transnational elite?
It struck me that we, the post-war consensus generations from hippy to punk to post punk to house, have left them, the new breed, this youth engaged and politicised at grass roots level by the independence debate, with absolutely nothing. The trade unions have been debilitated, Labour rebranded as a centre-right conservative party, the welfare state and the NHS destroyed, and with this, a massive redistribution of wealth from everybody to the super rich. And all of this took place on our watch.”
I’m not sure I agree with it all, but it does throw up some further contradictions that many people struggle to reconcile.
You might argue that many of these incongruities will not, or can not, be addressed through a Yes vote, but it seems a just little trite to dismiss the narrative as invalid simply because the writer lives abroad.
Roughly about 45 mins until Paul67’s next article, then ground hog day shall start afresh, and with renewed vigour no doubt.
Please have some juicy and salacious gossip for us Paul to lift us out of this hell!
NegAnon2
11:37
You are wrong. Yes it would be nice if 80%+ would be of the same opinion but if 51% vote a certain way then that is democratic, as much as there will be 49% that don’t like it.
What we have is a tiny % voting for a Conservative government but getting it all the same.
NegAnon2
11:39 on
9 September, 2014
That is the situation now. A No vote maintains that situation. A Yes vote puts it into flux. The way it goes, depends on the motivation of people to change it. The best thing about this process is people are motivated, questioning what they’re being told and trying to inform themselves before making a decision. Long may that continue.
Taking the OB Act, I’ve not seen a single fan forum where it’s supported, so it seems likely to me that it would be repealed (I suspect it’ll be withdrawn regardless of the referendum, neither the fans nor the police/courts like it).
NegAnon
Sectarianism born bred and nurtured under the UK for 400 years, stretching it’s tentacles into Englandshire and Ireland. But Scotland is to blame. i haven’t seen a UK government bring in laws to abolish this practice since the late 1700’s when they were established. Unlikely they ever will. But you expect a Scottish Parliament in 17 years to have done this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orange_Order
Wow! Some of the urine spouted!
MWD says AYE
The Battered Bunnet
11:47 on 9 September, 2014
Fine.
You can’t see a disconnect by a writer who is supposedly concerned about Trident, the Iraq war, the NHS, redistribution of wealth, the welfare state etc etc and lecturing us on these issues choosing to go to live in the USA (or abroad as you prefer to call it).
We’ll just have to agree to disagree.
To be honest if we’re talking about ‘celebrities’ being involved I’m more interested in Billy McNeill, Bertie Auld and Paddy Crerand. They are of more relevance to me.