I was at the Allianz Arena when we visited on Champions League duty this season. There are many reasons to like the Munich stadium (although navigating back to the bus was not one of them), but stadium lights were like nothing I had ever seen.
Not only do they illuminate the Arena to a near-daylight level, they can instantly flash on and off, creating a spectacular pre-match lightshow. Tools like this improve stadium atmosphere as well as providing a more striking event for TV viewers. Celtic Park will be transformed when we install these lights this summer.
A new hybrid pitch (part grass, part plastic) will provide the very best surface available anywhere in the world. It will be durable and bowling green-smooth.
Money will also be spent on the roof, which is the Achilles heel of the stadium. The design is prone to leaks and makes it difficult for public address and wifi systems to effectively reach spectators. A seven figure sum will be spent on the roof, but we need to realise a fundamental rethink is required.
As international tournaments reached Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine and now Russia, closing roofs were installed at stadiums. This increases attendance, game-experience, time inside the stadium and makes the game attractive to new attendees, who would never consider sitting in an exposed wind 147 steps in the air.
This technology has never been more affordable and is the norm from Kazakhstan to Cardiff. It needs to come to Celtic Park. I suspect those who sit in the South Stand do not have a full grasp on the match day experience of those in the upper sections of the rest of the stadium.
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PHILBHOY, trying to mate.hh.
Good news on Scott Bain, looks a very able goalkeeper and we have great goalkeeping coaches, he’ll grow into that jersey right intake for CG calling it a day!
Well done Scott mate you got your dream move!
MWD
“But I don’t think it is for you to decide how I view our club our how I related Tommy’s words as rose tinted.”
Of course it’s not for me to do that.
Which is why I did not do that.
What I did was to show that the trends and emphases of this club have been pretty consistent from Day One.
SFTB
`These are the good old days; just you wait and see.`
Carl Sagan (?)
This, from your 8:23 post, made me smile:
`¬ There is no record of any Aloysious Jungle writing constantly to the Celtic Supporter’s Almanac and Sporting Chronicle for the next few years berating his fellow fans for paying the Board’s shilling.`
JJ
James
You know me too well bro.
Beg, steal or borrow to renew my season ticket again. Had to beg my son last night to borrow me some of my season ticket money from his summer Ibiza Rocks savings.
See you in Paradise next season for 8 ina row attempt.
YNWA
DAVIDOPOULOS on 10TH MAY 2018 4:47 PM
“It stinks, which why I’m nearly done with the game. I’m hanging on by my finger tips naively hoping the CO report will deliver a just verdict and that the new SFA CEO will actually do some thing about it.”
*****
In that case, outside cabin or (bum) steerage?
Thanks for your recent analysis of the rules we hoped would prevail.
Like the whole Big Lie-tainted game up here, it stinks.
No clothes peg strong enough, even double-treble ones.
Missed, “as you say” before referring to the malodorous.
BRTH.
You have a message on e-mail.
Soon be time to ‘sleep on it’…. Genuinely conflicted.
Hot Smoked
Delaney’s Dunky junior was taken by your wit and intelligence at dinner last night. He says to tell you, “Respect to a wise older Tim from a learning younger Tim.”
YNWA
Jobo
Renew…why not
I renewed on Tuesday
MIT, to me, personally, what Tommy Burns meant in that quote will be openly displayed next Tuesday (May 15th) at 7:00PM in St Mary’s in Abercromby St when Canon Tom White celebrates Holy Mass to celebrate Tommy’s life and remember his death 10 years ago. The Mass is being held in St Mary’s at the request of Tommy’s widow, Rosemary, and her family.
There will, I predict, be many hundreds of people at that Mass. I sincerely hope we have to open the balcony and still have standing room only.
There will be: family and friends of Tommy, Rosemary and their family; parishioners of St Mary’s who still see Tommy as one of their own; members of the wider Celtic support who only knew Tommy Burns as a player and a manager; Celtic supporters who never saw him play or manage, but know of his contribution to the Club; team mates and colleagues from his times at Celtic; current representatives of the Club; they, along with their forefathers, are the people and the cause who Tommy represented in his time as supporter, player and manager of the Club.
How well he articulated this people and their cause through his faith and professional life will also see people from Kilmarnock and other clubs whom he touched over the years; those from the East End (Catholic and non-Catholic) who knew the man and saw him around; ex-schoolfriends (some of who have contacted Celtic Day One to speak of their memories); people who he helped as a man and as a representative of Celtic.
I hope everyone who can makes the effort to come along and celebrate and commemorate alongside the people and their cause.
Go along to https://www.celticdayone.com and read “From Soho Street to Paradise: Remembering The Calton Bhoy who lived the dream” by Canon White in which he sums up in his last paragraph what representing the people and the cause may very well be about!
KTF
Jobo, I’ve renewed and, IMHO, so should you (and everyone else who is able to). It’s may be an imperfect Club, but it’s MY imperfect Club!
We are all entitled to say that!
KTF
Listening to Liam Gallagher’s new album now. Think Richard Ashcroft is writing for him. Brilliant tunes and lyrics.
Liam and Richard touring together in Ireland. Will need to catch them.
Know the Score.
DD
I thank that fine young man for the compliments but his view of my intelligence was perhaps erroneously arrived at owing to the fact I was sitting next to ACGR.
See you Sunday.
Cheerio for now.
JJ
PS Jobo,
I , too, was conflicted but decided I could cope better with the internal battle were I still visiting Celtic Park. I renewed a few days ago.
`¬ There is no record of any Aloysious Jungle writing constantly to the Celtic Supporter’s Almanac and Sporting Chronicle for the next few years berating his fellow fans for paying the Board’s shilling.`
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oh yes there was. mr quillan.
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/page/Quillan%2C+James
VFR. 9.38
Great post, thank you.
A good friend of Dallas and myself, is the editor of The Killie Fanzine, The Hippo. He loves T.B.
Hail Hail
VFR
See you next Tuesday night in Saint Mary’s Calton.
YNWA
Last week I posted about daughter J getting her pocket dipped after Sevco game and wallet, season tickets, cash etc taken. I was wakened yesterday mid morning by a phone call ( in midst of post Night Duty sleep) from Security guy at Celtic park newly returned from his holidays to find said wallet on his desk, fully intact including season tickets and cash which had been handed in, no details of how and by whom. So thank you Jamie Church at Celtic and to the truly honest decent person who handed the wallet into the club. Restores ones faith in the goodness of people.
HH
What is the stars.
The big read in the Racing Post on Sunday was Rebecca Curtis.
I’m assuming you purchased several copies. :-)
Hail Hail
Night all
Enjoy.
never came across this before, quite wonderful piece of work
hope it works, zoom in on a place
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1YNVc4gUlxrqy13wBP55Lr0uaFzw&ll=55.93405978661359%2C-4.534585475921631&z=11
JIMMYNOTPAUL on 10TH MAY 2018 9:44 PM
May I ask you to speak to him and ask him to put the message out on The Hippo about next Tuesday evening? And if you can manage it, it would be great to see you next Tuesday!
And that’s not the euphemism!
KTF
John Knox Street, Clydebank
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John Knox Street, Clydebank
description
There are few players in the history of Celtic so fondly recalled as the great Patsy Gallacher.
The Donegal-born forward is commonly regarded as one of the most gifted footballers to ever wear the famous green and white Hoops and some would argue that he was the most talented Bhoy of them all. On arrival in Scotland in the 1890s the Gallacher family made their home at 32 John Knox Street, Clydebank. Much changed since those days, the street was once home to many Irish Catholic families.
DELANEYS DUNKY on 10TH MAY 2018 9:45 PM
G, get that Dalmuir young team along as well!
KTF
tommys legacy ?
and look at the talent it produces today.
Lennoxtown – Celtic Training Centre
description
Celtic’s Lennoxtown Training Centre was officially opened on October 9th 2007.
The £8m complex includes an indoor training hall, a fitness centre, physio and medical facilities, sauna and steam room and hydrotherapy pool, Sports science/sports development facility, education facilities, media facilities, three full-sized UEFA standard natural grass training and match pitches, with undersoil heating to the main pitch and an artificial grass pitch.
Jimmynotpaul
Rebecca Curtis ??❤❤❤?
Site of Soho Street
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Countless thousands of Celtic supporters have dreamed of playing for their club or of taking charge as manager. Tommy Burns was one of a very select few who was able to turn that dream into a reality.Tommy was born in December 1956 at 43 Soho Street, a now demolished street in the Calton area. A great footballer and a wonderful man, few people personified the values of Celtic quite like the much loved and missed Tommy Burns.
St Mary’s Church
description
Celtic FC was formally constituted at a meeting at the Church hall of St.Mary’s on East Rose Street (now Forbes Street), Calton, Glasgow, by Brother Walfrid on 6th November 1887. While the church hall has now been demolished the actual church still stands proudly on Abercromby Street and in May 2008 was the venue for the funeral of local lad and Celtic legend Tommy Burns. In November 2012 it also hosted a celebratory mass to mark the 125th anniversary of Celtic’s foundation. The foyer of the church now features a beautiful mosaic floor celebrating the formation of Celtic. In September 2017 it was announced that land adjacent to the church would become the location for Glasgow’s long overdue memorial to the victims of the Irish famine.
76 Abercromby Street
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The former home of original Celtic committee member Pat Welsh. In 1867 Pat Welsh was a young Fenian activist looking to escape capture from the British by escaping through Dublin docks. At the Pigeon House Fort on the Liffey he was discovered by a Sergeant Maley, an Irishman in the British Army. Welsh promised the soldier that if he was allowed to escape to Scotland he would give up his revolutionary activities – and was set free.
In Glasgow he quickly got to work and established himself as a master tailor with premises in Buchanan Street who also became a leading light in St. Mary’s parish. He didn’t forget Sergeant Maley’s kindness and in 1870, when Willie and Tom’s father was retiring from the army, he accepted Welsh’s invitation to move to Glasgow. It was Welsh who led Brother Walfrid and John Glass to the Maley family home in Cathcart in December 1887. Pat died at his home in Abercromby Street in 1899 aged 54.
Savoy Street Bridgeton- Site of first ‘Penny Dinner’ kitchen
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Brother Walfrid – with support from the St Vincent de Paul Society – rented a shop premises in Savoy Street to establish the first kitchen for the Poor Children’s Dinner Tables. More than 250 local children would benefit from this pioneering scheme which allowed the very poorest of children to receive a substantial meal
BRTH.
Another mail sent.
Saint Stivs
Pronounced as Janox Street Whitecrook, it was a Republican stronghold in my youth, during the hunger strike and troubles. The graffiti on the gable end said, “You are now entering Republican Whitecrook.” The street was demolished, and the rebels dispersed throughout Clydebank. John Knox Street was fenian Republican. Lovely dichotomy.
SAINT STIVS on 10TH MAY 2018 9:57 PM
It looks very much like An Gorta Mor will have it’s memorial in the grounds of St Mary’s.
I see that beautiful mosaic most days; it reads “To the greater glory of God and in honour of our Blessed Mother commemorating the foundation of The Celtic Football Club in this parish of St Marys Calton”
It’s worth a visit to St Mary’s just to see the mosaic and the portrait of Brother Walfrid.
KTF
Jobo…@ 9.29…one more sleep on it… :-)
Scott Bain fell out with Neil McCann
That’s good enough for me.
Welcome.
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS on 10TH MAY 2018 10:05 PM
Jobo…@ 9.29…one more sleep on it… :-)
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Brilliant; very, very funny!
KTF
Goooooood Evening CQN- still Champions ?
Jobo, renewed my 2 season tickets yesterday, even paying for potentially 2 home games I will not attend
Still – will get to see the Celtic another 19 times at least ??
Hail Hail
VFR
Dalmuir Young Team will be present in Saint Mary’s next week, along wi a few of the Dalmuir Bertie Auld Team.
Tommy Burns was a friend of our Parish Priest. Loved by all in Clydebank was Tam fae the Calton. He visited my mate Tosh McKinlay in his house in Partick, on the night that Tosh signed for Dundee. TB was there to offer him support and advice. Their paths would cross again in Paradise. God bless the soul of Tommy Burns.
YNWA