Several years ago, long before CQN, I was fortunate enough to be in the company of 10 of the 11 Lions who took the field in Lisbon. It was a great to see them interact with each other. A grinning Jinky walked in late, “Am I in trouble again?”, bringing a playful shout from all the others.
I’ve since met the rest of the squad who didn’t make the field, but Willie Wallace remained an unknown quantity, until this week. I occasionally wondered what role Celtic played in the life of a man who left for Australia circa 40 years ago.
As anyone who read Willie on the blog this morning will realise, he was cut from the same wood as the rest of the team, with a deeply set Celtic grain. When I met him on Saturday he had all the playfulness and spirit the other Lions had, but there was no hiding his sharp competitive edge when talk go around to matters on, and sometimes, off, the field.
Many thanks for chatting this morning, Willie.
If you can make it to Waterstones in Stirling tomorrow evening (late night shopping), I’ll be there with Willie, who will be signing copies of Heart of a Lion. See you there.
I missed out on the preparations and commemorations yesterday by Celtic Graves and so many Celtic fans. Caught up with it late in the day online. Things about this club blow you away sometimes. I know there is some traceable linage from Celtic Graves, though Jungle Bhoys and all the way back to Celts for Change. With supporters like this, your club is in incredibly good hands.
At any other club these events would be remarkable. At Celtic, they are just another chapter in a very special story.
Which takes me onto the next point………
All of these great things are underpinned by you, me and thousands of others buying season tickets each year, no matter who survives long enough to compete in the league, no matter how many times newspapers try to tell you Everton want (and will get) Neil Lennon, no matter if we win, lose or draw.
The Jungle Drums tell me sales are up on the equivalent period last year, which is great news, but it is absolutely necessary. I want to see Celtic back in the Champions League next season, competing as effectively as they did last season. I want to see us mature the development strategy which is already delivering such bounty.
This is your club, claim your seat and make it happen.
Stunning response to our ebay raffle and auction. Sincere thanks to those who bought tickets and bid. You have two days to buy a ticket for the framed Celtic top signed by the Seville squad, and a few days more for the signed and framed Messi top……..
Heart of a Lion available below, or see you at Waterstones, Stirling tomorrow evening (times will be confirmed tomorrow).
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We have had the former Deputy Governor of the BoE and a former Senior cabinet minister as Chairman….they install a football coach.
Couldnae make it up.
C4 reporter alex thomson will end up with a right sore neck as he continually shakes his head at these shenanigans.
tallybhoy- I didn’t know until the other night- and only because I passed through the railway station- the Gaelic for Kilwinning is Cill Fhennian.
Something the natives take literally?
HomeBhoys #91 – Double? No trouble. 28 May130:23
a very good listen, if you get a chance.
http://www.spreaker.com/page#!/show/hail_hail_media
the update on the Kano Foundation from Joe Mackem is fantastic. 62 kids seats for next season fully funded, well done you bhoys in green.
and the Jock Stein CSC in Melbourne.
After an independent inquiry carried out by myself,i can now rule myself out of any involvement in the disappearance of 2 coffee buns from the kitchen yesterday
Can I put in my tuppence worth re. Aiden. There’s no doubting his ability, but, for all his trickery etc., there was rarely an end product, i.e., a goal, shot or chance set up for a team-mate. I would draw a comparison with Cristiano Ronaldo. When he first arrived on the scene with Man U, he was all style and no substance, but, somewhere down the line, he turned that around, and became the player he is today. Aiden, sadly, for me anyway, hasn’t!
He still flatters to decieve, and I still believe that was a brilliant piece of business from Celtic to get £8,000,000 for him. I said at the time that he was the most over-rated player in Scotland, after Barry Ferguson left!
Tin hat on!
HH
Guys,
I ordered Mr Wallaces’s book online a few weeks ago.
I’m loving the stories and insight into what went on behind the scenes and can’t wait to read it in full.
Do you have any idea when a delivery can be expected?
Hail Hail
Dancingbhoy
The books are on their way out– we had to buy Willie another pen to get through signing them all!!
BRTH
Gregory Ioannidis @LawTop20 1m Won’t be long before a Scottish grievance reaches UEFA. I am told there are powerful words to be used such as ‘transparency’ and ‘justice’.
so correct me if i am wrong bhoys
wattie has been promoted from
non ececutive director to non executive chairman ?
( i wonder what becames of mr cartmell?)
me thinks its going to be a busy month of june over ipox way
when are the audited accounts due…..ha ha ha
just as the marching season starts
can see a few marches heading to save the big hoose
and as the exiled tim said eariler
Sometimes the spivs are not given the credit they are due.
jam67
Football coach – chairman
Porn film maker – accountant
Failed businessman – owner
Asset stripper – next Owner
Quiz show contestant – manager…
Who does their pies? The window cleaner…?
from rm,sad really.
FUDGIE52, on 30 May 2013 – 06:25 AM, said:
Tommy Burns pallbearers have taken over Ibrox [Smith and McCoist]
I feckin give up……………..thats me finished with Rangers 50 years feckin wasted.
HH
BRTH
thanks for the quick reply.
Looking forward to reading it and passing on to my old da who will love it.
What a lovely collection of suitcases i have in the loft
yorkbhoy
11:29 on
30 May, 2013
I just stole that for twitter. Hope you don’t mind ! :-)
goldstar10
Yes indeed.
I have often wondered – sometimes out loud – as the train has pulled into Kilwinning station if that is actually the Scots Gaelic name for the town!
I need to find out!
HH!!
Henrik…
No problem….
yorkbhoy- Football coach – chairman
Porn film maker – accountant
Failed businessman – owner
Asset stripper – next Owner
Quiz show contestant – manager…
Who does their pies? The window cleaner…?
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Tenuous link from “Who Ate All the Pies?” website.
Walturd has a lot of good examples to follow (follow).
Like this one below at no4.
4. Luciano Gaucci, Perugia: You’re looking at the man who once ‘signed’ Colonel Qaddafi’s son, Saadi Qaddafi, who was absolutely bloody awful and therefore never actually played for Perugia before testing positive for banned substances and being banned for three years after sitting on the bench for the first time. The rumour is that the Libyan despot actually paid Gaucci to let his son muck in.
During his tenure, Gaucci also tried to sign the captain of the Swedish women’s team, cancelled an imminent signing’s contract over rumours he was gay and even attempted to bribe a referee with a racehorse. His piece de resistance came in 2002, when he terminated the contract of South Korean striker Ahn Jung-Hwan after his golden goal knocked Italy out of the World Cup semi-finals, saying, ”I have no intention of paying a salary to someone who has ruined Italian football.”
After Perugia went bust in 2005, Big Luke was sentenced to three years in jail for tax fraud, but only after he fled to the Dominican Republic and hid from the authorities for four years.
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Hacked off that there is no mention of Minty Monnbeams in the top 10.
Full link below.
http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/lists/146224/top-10-insane-football-club-chairman-owners-presidents.html
HH
weet weet weet 11:30 on 30 May, 2013
from rm,sad really.
FUDGIE52, on 30 May 2013 – 06:25 AM, said:
Tommy Burns pallbearers have taken over Ibrox
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Surely Sevco are thinking ahead by having pallbarers in place?
#ReadyforthedeathofSevco
…shirley the former “Big Wig” will now throw his….ahemmmm…..’hat’ in the ring….?
I mean he is just as ‘qualified’ furra position!
;)
Its quite clear no matter what is levelled at them , they have an answer . Stupld, stupid huns ,i know who is stupid , All the other clubs and club fans for just accepting everything that has gone on . All this has been to keep a corrupt organisation afloat . Next exercise is to make sure the door to europe and the wealth that goes with it is open wide for them . Sickening state of affairs .
TALLYBHOY,GOLDSTAR10
It is,lads.
The Scots Gaelic name for the town-real or contrived-is present at most Scotrail stations.
BRTH – best o’ luck with the Clydebank gig……….!
HH
BMCUW
Thanks for that!
Will mail you soon!
HH!!
TALLYBHOY
You will have more pressing matters to attend-is the house tidy for the Royal Visit?
Bmcuw
Think they’re being harsh on your hometown, we all know Kilwinning has always been a town of natural beauty, with a diversity of cultures and a welcoming hand to visitors.
Just dropped back in again to say….
To hell wi the huns !!!
Who cares – who their chairman is ?
Who cares – who their manager is ?
Let the bassas rot in hell !!!
Now….time for the IMPORTANT stuff
Get Johnny Russell in !
Get Alexi Eremenko in!
Is John Sutton any – worse / better than Lassad ? Miku ?
Get the treble won !
Get to the last 8 in the CL or the Final of Europa League !
Let them see the Celtic fans walking tall again – instead of
having to be made sit through a yawning chasm every second
week and then try to dress it up by saying – “Isn’t this a competitive league withoot the huns ?”
What a load of BS. imo
Press home our advantage by putting some decent players on the pitch.
Don’t fill the team wi all of these nobodies from – nowhere !
The Fergus rallying call this morning urging the fans to come out every week is from the same emotional blackmail book that the huns are now trapped in. imo
We have the opportunity to do to the huns what they did to us in the 90’s.
Only this time – we do it LEGALLY !
Get stronger – they get weaker.
That’s how it works in these parts. imo
Oh, and by the way – it must have been just me who booed Fergus when he put up the league flag wi Tom Boyd – well….I seem to be the only one who has ever admitted it :)
Oh, and I must have been the only one who also booed – Chairman Brian Quinn when – with his publicity rating at – zero – after his needless petty bickering with then manager MO’N – BQ came onto the pitch to try to scrape up some praise from the fans during the presentation from the Villa Real rep who was handing over the award from Uefa to the CSA rep – The ENTIRE stadium ended up booing the event – ruining what should have been a memorable moment for the club but, more importantly about the fans.
The Celtic fans waited 9 years to get a manager who could take the flag back off the huns. Wim Jansen was that man – only to be sacked by Fergus in preference to the retention of the despised – CEO Jock Brown ?!?1 What an own goal !!!
The new logo – BE CELTIC – maybe that message should start being adhered to – upstairs. imo
Hail Hail
Has hateley commented on the myths appointment yet ?
gordy64
Its hardly independent if you did it ursel. But i like the way ur thinking!! <;0)
CHE
Naw,they’re right enough….
.
Maybe today at Last Australia has woken up to Racisim..
Summa
borgo67 12:04 on 30 May, 2013
Has hateley commented on the myths appointment yet ?
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he said it’s like a, ahem … new signing…
Kev jungle
I’ve changed my mind,don’t bother going back to Paradise….yir
heid is still wasted by the MSM.HH
I hope Russell is top of Neils signing list and he’s not listening to Baldie & Tonev bumming themselves up. At least we know what Russell can do.
Srs
No again??
voguepunter
12:11 on 30 May, 2013
Aye – Comical Ally CSC :)
HH
Kevjungle 12.04
Get stronger you say.
An increase in season ticket sales would help us achieve that.
Buy a season ticket and help Celtic get stronger.
You’re either with us or agin us.
Celtic.
Always have been
Always will be.
TT
jude2005,
it was indeed independent,when I interviewed myself I was completely impartial and only sought to find evidence and truth