Had a great time at the Celtic Supporters Association Rally last night. It was a great celebration of all that is good about our club, with thousands of pounds raised for the John Hartson Foundation. Neil Lennon spoke warmly of John, about his courage and ability. As well as recognising the great achievements of this season, CSA Player of the Year, Kris Commons, could not hide his disappointment that we are not going for a treble next week. Hibs will have their hands full with him at Hampden next week.
I’ve never heard a footballer talk as John Hartson did. He was clearly emotional as he took the microphone from the manager but soon go into his flow. He told us about the three hours spent in the car before telling his family the diagnosis of his illness. His achievements as a footballer are remarkable and John is very proud of them. His absence through injury in Seville clearly hurt. Did it pass a crucial advantage to Porto? John thinks so.
His own failings were put out there with the disarming confidence that only someone who has climbed a few personal mountains can do. The ‘hangers-on’, who filled his days a few years ago, had their cards marked.
Reamonn Gormley’s parents, Jim and Ann, were also guests of the Association. Jim asked me to pass on a thank you from him and Ann to all Celtic fans for what they have done for them and the Thai Tims in the last two years. Their world will never be the same again but the support they have received from the Celtic Family has overwhelmed them. Your community has done very well, but there is nothing new in that.
With supporters like we have our club is in good hands. Well done to all who carry out the thankless tasks running busses, organising fundraisers and keeping the moral compass pointing in the right direction.
Have you ordered your Willie Wallace autobiography yet? Signed copies available if you do so now……
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bjmac
Good to see you took the crabbit git from Joe
Love
I Remember the Celtic View published a Seville special prior to the game, advising on the do’s and dont’s etc.
They stated that there wasn’t a bar/cafe within a 30 minute walk to the stadium.I thought they were talking rubbish……they weren’t, Spanish guy made a fortune selling cans of cheap beer from the back of his car, halfway along “that” road.
Anyone from the blog stay in Mazagon Beach/Harry Hynds trip, we had a right couple of bangers in our hotel.
No wonder she left me I only got home after Rugby park…
bjmac
00:28 on
19 May, 2013
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Heartbreaking story bjmac, glad to hear life back on track again.
Keep the happy memories close.
HH
We walked into this wee bar in Seville.
It was empty. Sorted.
Proceeded to sing our hearts out
much to the owners delight.
Soal
I’m an amateur but progressing well ;-))
bjmac
XXX
After the game in Seville we spent ages looking for our coach in the bus park but eventually gave up and walked towards the town, we didn’t realise we were going in the opposite direction to the airport. There were Tims everywhere trying to get taxis to the airport, we had almost given up and had decided to find a bar and we would worry about getting home next day. One of my mates approached a young guy in a car at a set of traffic lights and we offered him 40 euros to take us to the airport. Now I don’t know if the boy was a bit intimidated by 3 big Celtic fans but he agreed.We had a great laugh with the guy on the way to the airport and he refused the money when he dropped us off but we insisted that he took it, my last sighting of him was driving away from the airport with a Celtic scarf and hat and beeping the car horn and shouting Celtic Celtic much to the bemusement of the Spanish police. Great memories.
….PFayr
20:18 on 18 May, 2013
Taranis
Ben Lomond is a blast
*Climbed Ben Lomond with St Kessog’s BG when I was 13
Auldheid 21.38
So you are saying that The SFA won’t withdraw their license ?
That the SFA will do all that they can to help them survive?
If you are saying that, then I am in agreement with you.
TT
I remember lying on the sofa watching the Boavista game Henrik scores and the Mrs looks at me and says whats the matter wi you,your normally going mental when Celtic score.I think I was in shock.The final whistle went and I couldnt move,my wife was starting to get worried,then the phone started ringing and it sank in,The Celtic were going to Seville.
It was huge.
Palacio
I’ve nothing but happy & fond memories – my words can’t do him justice, suffice to say that run and the fact he went to every game was poetic. He raised me and brothers in Celtic and took us to hundreds of games. He couldn’t have left us with a better final football experience as Seville.
Seville demonstrated a lot of what Celtic is.
hh
b
I got stopped for speeding somewhere between Seville and Madrid as my three companions slept. Thr cop waved me on pointing to my top saying in pigeon English, Celtic unlucky.
Still feel the pain.
Tick.
Tock.
Green-Whyte team would break all rules
By TOM ENGLISH
Published on 19/05/2013 00:00
IF YOU asked the hardcore Celtic support which they’d prefer, sex or social media, some might say: “What’s the difference?” Without a doubt there was a near orgasmic glee last week when a new Twitter account started posting links to private documents and previously unheard audio featuring a cast of characters in the Rangers story.
Within a few days this account had nearly 9,000 disciples, all of them looking at the paperwork and listening to the tapes and becoming utterly convinced that a “biblical” scandal had taken place at Ibrox – or as one tweet put it, an “atomic bomb” had gone off in Govan.
What is bonkers about this latest Twitter phenomenon is that at least some of it has come from Craig Whyte, a man who Celtic people rightly viewed as a discredited chancer up until such time as he started leaking stuff that was damaging to Rangers. At that point he suddenly metamorphosed into a font of truth, a bloke you could take seriously – all because Celtic folk suddenly liked what he was saying.
Not only liked – loved. Believed. There was a bit of an online orgy when these documents started to emerge and, it would appear, an unquestioning approach to them. We’re getting to a stage now where, when anything is leaked, it is immediately branded explosive no matter what the hell it is. People see what they want to see in all of this. A document full of business technobabble is deemed an “atomic bomb” not because it necessarily is but because some people desperately want it to be.
Some have not learned the lesson of the big tax case. For two years there was certainty that Rangers would be found guilty of industrial-scale cheating, a prejudgment that was proven to be wrong.
There is a prejudgment going on right now as well and it centres around Whyte and Charles Green and the suspicion that they were in cahoots when buying the club. Let’s be clear. There is a lot of evidence that suggests they were. And, if that turns out to be the case, then the sky is going to fall in on Rangers in a way that made last summer’s implosion look like a warm-up act.
In the worst-case scenario, Green is exposed as a shameless liar who got into bed with another liar, Whyte, to buy the club from an administrator, Duff and Phelps, who might have the police knocking on their door for doing a deal that should never have been allowed. If. The doomsday picture shows Rangers having conducted a dodgy share issue as well as obtaining an SFA licence under false pretences. Every rule in every book would have been breached if it is proven that Green and Whyte were definitely and indisputably a team. If.
There is an investigation happening, headed by Deloitte and the legal firm Pinsent Masons and the suggestion is that the findings may be published this week.
The liquidator, BDO, is also going about its work quietly and will report in due course. A penny for its thoughts.
Whyte is fighting for his business life – and possibly his liberty – and has done a fine job in muddying the waters but there won’t be any fooling these investigators. Either he was involved or he wasn’t. Either Rangers will get some relief or they will be plunged into a new pit of despair.
We shouldn’t have to wait much longer to find out, but wait we should. Online documents are all very entertaining but, given that Whyte is involved in the leaking of papers and audio, then you have to be circumspect.
What is beyond any doubt is the power struggle at Rangers and what Alistair Johnston, the former chairman, calls a cancer spreading through the club. It’s a cancer that has been there quite some time, beginning, of course, in the hubristic days of David Murray and, to be precise, with his devotion to the EBT scheme.
When Murray wanted out of Ibrox it was the fear of a howitzer tax bill that kept prospective responsible owners away, a vacuum that was eventually filled by Whyte and later by Green and Imran Ahmad and now possibly the Easdale boys and any number of other mysterious characters who know little of the club but know for sure that there is money to be made from it.
Arrogance put Rangers in this hole in the first place and Whyte just kept on digging. A few weeks ago I spoke to Paul Murray, a former director at Ibrox and one who unquestionably has the best interests of Rangers at heart, a description given to so many but deserved by so few.
Murray felt that there are only two people on the current Rangers board that he trusted – Walter Smith and Malcolm Murray. Soon both might be gone. Perhaps Malcolm Murray’s apparent indiscretions warrant the desperate push to get rid of him as evidenced by the recent vote of no confidence. That’s fine, as long as you’re replacing him with another executive whose reason for being there is to ask what he can do for his club rather than what the club can do for him.
It’s a symbol of horrible neglect that this type of character is a dying breed at Ibrox.
I was propositioned by a lady of the night whilst wandering about Seville on my wn after the game.
She was a cracker.
I said no.
You figure out the rest……….
You figure
10 years previous to Seville
1993 we were in a dark place.
If you recall our last trophy
was the 1989 Scottish cup.
It took us 6 years to win a trophy.
Whilst those cheating EBT takers
cleaned up.
Notbittercsc
still got tears……if only we had won::::::::::::::!!!!!!!
tic tic
I met Danny mcgrain in Seville
I shouted “easy now, Barabas”
He bucked laughing
The whole pub ( a big one at that) the burst in o a rafter raising chorus of the old refrain…
DANNY
DANNY
DANNY MCGRAIN.
DANNY
DANNY MCGRAIN.
Marvellous.
Then Rod Stweart drove by.
He didn’t get a song of his own.
Stringer Bell
00:44 on
19 May, 2013
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There was a lot of ladies of the night out that night in Seville……
JC
Seville – so many things stick in your head – best trip of my life bar none. Me, three of my 5 brothers and two nephews – wonderful.
Does anyone else remember the big guy with the dark gren jacked, big drum, and red indian chief head-dress?? Met him 4 or 5 times over the course of 4 days – last time he was down because some eejit had burst his drum!
We stayed for a couple of days after the game, and did a bit of sightseeing. Went into the Don Alfonso big posh hotel with a couple of brothers, and the two Spanish barmen plied us with free tapas for a couple of hours – gave us a local commerative newspaper pullout. Eight page special – other than the bottom half of the back page, the remainder was all about the Celtic fans!!!
And the ladies – jeezo. After the main group of fans left during the next day, the locals let their wives and daughters out – I remmember and two brothers rolling on the ground killing ourselves laughing in the main shopping street at how ridiculous was the number of completely stunning women in the place – took about 300 photies!
A book would be a great idea – longest story ever told – 150,000 chapters.
Daniel Fergus McGrain
A living legend.
The best right back who ever played
the game.
Bjmac
Every minute I spend witb my faghef is a privilege abd an dducation..
I know where I take my crabbit streak from but without him I am and would be nothing. Those men and their fathers made us what we are as men and what we are as a club and family.
We live our lives trying to be like them giving our children guidance love and a way of being.
Take care bjmac and all.
Another night in great company…
rwe
Awesome tune
I believe the best rock intro ever
Williamburroughjs csc.
HH
Phil
Was anyone in the square with the exploding beer bottles that everyone was buying en mass from a wee cafe round the corner cos the pub had ran out.
It was that hot for about 20 min it was a constant “pop pop pop” as then all exploded.
My trip to seville was trains planes and automobiles.
still greetin…………….dirty greasey bars
robbed
tic tic
Came back on the Sunday after Seville, time to get back home just in time to watch the last game of the season against Kilmarnock. My brother had just departed at Heathrow to travel back to Plymouth and my bags were already transferred from the BA flight from BCN to the flight to Glasgow.
There was a lot of bhuns from London going to ayebrokes that day, and some must have heard me speaking to a few people about Seville, anyway they were not going to let me on the plane. They said I was drunk, probably complaints by the rotten mobs fans. I was on lager all night and no where near drunk, so I really had to keep calm and argue the point. It took about 30 mins being interviewed by security and pilots before they allowed me to fly, as long as I did not touch alcohol,they did however supply me with my own hostess who was very kind in getting me water when needed.
Made the Star Hotel in Port Glasgow 1 hr before kick off.
HH
The day before the game was to be played in seville,i decided i was going to watch the game in the back garden….i was a collector of flags ,so stretched a rope from one telegraph pole to another right across the garden about 20 ft high..there was henke flag in the middle,sweden on either side,american,brazil,argentina.saltire,italian,welsh…didnt put up the tri-colour to many huns would have been offended.In a way it was appropriate as everyone would be coming from all over to seville.For a bit of fun i then decided to get out the deck chair and seat in right on the lawn and then a massive old tv which i had never got round to taking to the tip. I think this annoyed them even more,,well at least the screen was intact days after the game……kept the flags up for a full week….the gutter rats still couldnt keep their gobs shut
Still have not watched any highlight of that game in Seville, even to this day.
HH
i sat with VP at game as per at the Killie game.
We knew the fix was in early on.
Chris Sutton told the truth.
bazzabhoy
Yeah I had some shards of glass from those bottles stuck in my leg.
Palacii.
Ditto. .
G64 see you this afternoon in KSC?
Seville
Mate and myself on the day of the game decided to take things easy go for breakfast shave then a little walk out our hotel which was a little walk away from park where Charlie and the Bhoys had played night before. We left the hotel Crowne Plaza a d started to walk into city centre the hotel was one block away from main rd into town centre we approached the road and I will never forget the sight of every car going along the road was Celtic fans on buses cars scooters bikes. We walk another 5min to a large junction, roundabout I’m not sure but it was about a mile from city centre and you could not move for green and white everywhere
We immediately went back to hotel got changed and started on one of the most amazing days of my life, so many great moments meeting my mates going to game with brother sister in law her family all mad tims having to lift A world snooker champion off his seat in a bar to get a pic taken with ourselfs as he was the worse for wear sitting with The Big Yin, Roy Keane and Rod Stewart all within yards of us All my mates getting tickets great times Thank you Martin John Steve and Henrik and the bhoys
OG
Not bad piece from English, apart from being found not Guilty in the big tax case, does n’t he know it’s progressed to the UTT?
HH
bjmac
00:41 on
19 May, 2013
Palacio
I’ve nothing but happy & fond memories – my words can’t do him justice, suffice to say that run and the fact he went to every game was poetic. He raised me and brothers in Celtic and took us to hundreds of games. He couldn’t have left us with a better final football experience as Seville.
Seville demonstrated a lot of what Celtic is.
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You are rightly proud of your Dad B and you know what? I’m pretty sure he’s proud of you.
hh buddy
it was …..death in the famliy.. naw it wasna
still greetin
back in a tic
tic
Seville was the very best of us.
A day to be proud of.
tic tic
hate the huns
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