I never met Jimmy McGrory, who died an elderly man when I was 15. I don’t if he was around Celtic Park much in the years immediately beforehand, but I never even saw him. We have many genuine greats but he is one of a handful of those who could put a claim on being our greatest ever.
I was fortunate enough to meet Jinky several times and have yet to meet Kenny Dalglish or Henrik but the Tier-1 Celtic great I’ve met most is Billy McNeill. Billy’s achievements as a player are legendary, his managerial achievements were none too shabby either, but the way he has represented himself, his family and our clu,b for over half a century, is incredible He must have shared thoughts and memories with well over 100,000 Celtic fans on a one-to-one basis.
Like many of the Lions, and unlike to many less decorated heroes, they never make you feel like you are imposing on them when you’re soaking up the rays of history which flow from them.
The renovations outside Celtic Park are nearing completion and the area will be opened by Billy at 13:00 this Saturday, before the Aberdeen game. While the façade of the stadium has changed greatly since Billy first stood out front as a fan, the school, car park and Kerrydale Street changed only by aging gradually, and the occasional resurfacing.
This renovation will change the way future Celtic fans view the ground in the decades ahead. As a club, we are privileged to have someone of the calibre of Billy McNeill there to celebrate our present and future.
Get along early to support him – and bring a camera.
We are holding a Four Lions CQN Night at the Greenock Celtic Supporters’ Club on Friday 6 June. Willie Wallace is back from Australia for the Lisbon final so we’ve nabbed him for a night, to join Bertie Auld, John Hughes and the one and only Tommy Gemmell. Tickets are genuinely scarce after a lot of local update, if you want to be there, this will be your first and last day to respond…..
The 70th Anniversary Supporters Association Dinner is THIS Friday at the Kerrydale Suite. Dinner, music (step away from the mic. Anthony) and entertainment among hundreds of friends. Tickets cost a mere £30. With the event being on Friday, and Fridays being synonimous with statements these days, I wonder if we’ll have another jelly and ice cream sweet. What a memorable CSA Rally that would be. See you there.
If you would like to attend either event, email me, celticquicknews@gmail.com
FYI, with the Big Cup final returning to Lisbon this month, CQN will be wallowing in unapologetic nostalgia for the next 31 days and beyond. We forget how lucky we are sometimes. Billy, Willie, John, Bertie and Big Tam, celebrate the way only Celtic fans can. Fill your boots.
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I used to enjoy crossing swords with Pablo and noel90. They are both missed.
Ok guys, an early night at last, and I’m making the most of it. Night Night Timland. :-)))
Weefra HH supporting and praying for Wee Oscar.
Been a great May Day holiday -way down south . Perfectly rounded off by the watching of Rubentus failing to reach a Final which will be played in their stadium ..
It is not possible to buy ice cream in Scotland .
With our history of success and glory on the field.. with our world changing charity foundation.. with our past players and managers bringing so much to the game.. with our current board, management and playing staff carrying the game in Scotland on their shoulders and with the future of our club built on honesty, integrity and ethics.. Does it make you feel proud to be in the Celtic Family?
TTTT as you know I am a miserable got. What’s bobby’s night oot. Where is it etc. will someone try and hit me etc etc……
Friesdorfer
left there about 1965.
Was sany still there? As In;- Ca Ne fait rien.?Or was he still to busy taking in the dinner tickets?
I have very mixed feelings about that place. a few nutters among the schoolteachers, but have to qualify that just in case TD67 is lurking. Some fab guys too!
I am proud to say I am one up on our host as I did meet Jimmy McGrory in probably 1972. Our wee primary school in rural galloway had a school trip to Glasgow, organised by our excellent head teacher. A former missionary and C of S preacher and a great head mistress. I am not sure how our visit that included a tour of the docks, Calderpark zoo came to include a tour of paradise. But we were met by Mr McGrory and given a tour of the stadium including the trophy room where a replica of the big cup took centre stage. I recall a small man, immaculately turned out in club blazer who made us very welcome.
As one of the very few hoops fans on the trip it was a day that remains in my memory.
We also all got signed photos of the first team squad to take away.
Friesdorfer.
You staying till the wee get together on the 10th?
Was the naughty cafe “Chez Suzette” Still there in your day?
Re Equis in Hamilton
Used to go there on a Friday with my bhoy and there was always a Lisbon Lion in with his missus…spoke to him recently and we have both moved….brilliant grounded ghuy…
Equis in Motherwell…very dear for a pokey hat…robbed at knifepoint (Swiss army knife according to Motherwell Times)… On opening night…sprinkles ran oot!
Kikinthenakas
NegAnon
I fully agree that the article by Muirhead in Scotzine is a snidey piece of bigotry.
That doesn’t make Scotland a horrible, dark and backward place. It shows Muirhead to be a snidey bigot.
TSD posts links on here to articles which are more racist and more offensive than Muirhead’s. They don’t make USA a horrible, dark and backward place although it has among its population many horrible, backward people.
I am Scottish and Muirhead doesn’t speak for me, nor most decent folk in Scotland. Why do you let these tubes set your agenda?
minx1888 praying for wee oscar
22:54 on 1 May, 2014
Where did I finish?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
South of Tunis.
In defense of the super city of Bellshill, we were brought up on a diet of fab Italian ice cream ;-long live Vericcias, Zamboninis ( the 13A) and cafe Ferri. Except , I think they are all long gone!!!
NegAnon2
23:13 on 1 May, 2014
Miserable git, aye right! I saw the constant smiles at the CQteN
Drop me an email at celticrollercoaster@yahoo.co.uk and I will keep you up to date with the details
HH
CRC
Re Big Billy
One spring Saturday morning circa 1976 -77 , the school team are thrashing some no-hopers from Hamilton or Motherwell on the red gravel pitch at Whitemoss (the one near the roundabout). Second half starts and the Big Man turns up , obviously on a scouting mission, at that point the poor forwards (me included) were squealing for the ball as the defence and midfield decided to hold onto the ball and show-off , could have been Dalzeill HS (they were rubbish at our age group) we were playing so your mother could have done likewise …..
Anyway the big man was impressed and then left to catch up with his daughters gymnastics at the John Wrights Sports Centre …. fitba career downhill after that!!
HH
I used to work in unthank road
Ger57 firstly l love the phrase snidely bigot. I will be using that one :).
They don’t set my agenda. But the fact that a national newspaper thinks it’s okay to publish a story implying that Fenians shouldn’t be allowed to visit NI says it all.
Look there are loads of fabulous people in Scotland. Just like there are in England and indeed everywhere.
But Scotland can’t see straight when it comes to Irish and catholic.
It’s pathetic.
SoT
At least we don’t put it in a roll !!!!
CRC/HT
If I had only converted one of the 5 “one on ones” I had tonight, It could have been so very different. Thx for the predictor, look forward for something similar for the WC !!!!
Hi celticrollercoaster. Look stop blowing my cover dude!!! Will email.
Never mind Equis in Hamilton..
What about Chez Suzette of a lunch time?
Stories best not shared maybe..
Been out all day and I’ve had our friend Pablo on my mind for most of it. Hard to believe that he has been gone for three years alteady.
TBJ
So, have you figured out why I use that name? You might be a bit too young!!
RWE
Share them , share them!!!LOL
marspapa
23:03 on 1 May, 2014
It was like dodgems tonight at times.
Bath your bruises in Stella. Works for me :-)
HH
CRC
RWE from earlier,
Doing fine sir. Thanks for asking. How about your good self?
Cannae believe it’s been three years.
For Pablophanque
Hail Hail.
On the train home, had a great night in the company of fellow CQN’rs, here’s the list :
Me
BMCUWP’s
MickTT
Ayrshire Tim
Catman ( 50 ) happy birthday ramorra
Saltires in Seville
His lovely missus ( drunk, canny remember her name, but she wis at school wi wee Stevie and maybe ma brother ACGR ) sorry
His mate ( drunk, canny remember his name either, but a lovely guy, who hated people that canny remember names…..shit )
Nizzies faither, I don’t remember seeing a smile that wide…he was just beeming fur his grandson.
The wee lassie that phoned us a taxi and her boyfriend.
The guys at shimlas.
And last but not least the taxi driver wi the strawberry smelling middle finger………u know who u are.
TAL
HH PC67
NegAnon
Scotland and indeed the UK is institutionally biased against the Irish and Catholics. It is slowly and surely changing. The Queen laid a wreath in Dublin, the Irish President was accorded a state visit last month and there have been two papal visits to Scotland. Look at the difference in attitude by civic Scotland to the visits in 1982 and 2010.
We are no longer at the back of the bus. The fact that the Sun and the DR pander to the lowest common denominator in Scottish society says more about the calibre of their readership than about what most decent folk think.
CRC
I think I’ll try the Stella suggestion before the game , ha ha , couldn’t play any worse
There’s always next week ;))
Here’s one to slip to the angry ones. Tell them after the council games Celtic have permission to turn the Emirates into a hotel and casino. There is planning permission for a hovering pitch on the roof. Also there is planning permission to turn Lennoxtown into an Irish theme park.
the unthank road
You’ll only be disappointed as it sounds far more alluring than it was.
I was at Holy Cross in Hamilton and by the time I reached 3rd/4th year you could go to this place at lunchtime. A wee café just south of Hamilton Cross on the Motherwell Road. It had a downstairs section which was just an old cellar, but schoolkids from Hamilton Academy, Holy Cross and I forget the other one used to go there. You’d buy a coke and a bag a crisps and stand around looking cool/pathetic as the loudest music was played from the jukebox.
Tales of what went on were urban myths as I only ever got a coke and a cold sore in there. :o)
HH
lennybhoy…supporting the dam 5, neil lennon, wee oscar knox, and cfc until i die
23:22 on 1 May, 2014
minx1888 praying for wee oscar
22:54 on 1 May, 2014
Where did I finish?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
—
Above Voguepunter :-)
Largest ever win at Football
… friendly game against St Columkilmes (Rutherglen) 1974, they were mouthing off in the changing rooms in Rutherglen that no-one could play football in EK. Anyway 35 goals with no reply later , the ref blew up 20 minutes before the final whistle.
They wanted a re-match!!
Happy days
Marspapa
I couldn’t believe we went 5 up so quickly! The sight of yours and Jeez I Thought Blinker was Pants’ faces was enough to keep these oul legs going :-)
jeez_I_thought_blinker_was_pants
23:27 on 1 May, 2014
Aye, if only. 3 weeks holiday taking the toll, ha ,ha :-)
WC predictor in planning mode…watch this space.
NegAnon
Sorry, making you look good. Emailed back :-)
HH
CRC
Just read that Scotzine piece. So many holes it’s laughable – as was pointed out in the comments section below by someone with the moniker “Celtic”, who forensically tore apart every bullshit statement in the article in a style reminiscent of our own NegAnon2.
What is it other than yet another desperate attempt by some two-bit website to get traffic? Same M.O. as the DR, Clyde and the rest – say something controversial to get hits to generate money. Who cares? Who is Andy Muirhead? Just another media twat trying to create a name for himself in an industry overloaded with mediocre intellectual pygmies. No doubt he’ll get a job at the DR soon and join the death march with the rest of Scotland’s untalented. If he had any genuine talent he’d already be working for a credible organisation – he’s been at it long enough.
Great CQN night in Johnstone as Pedro has mentioned but in a bit more detail
Saltires in Seville and his lovely partner Maureen ( who it turns out I went to school with)
Pedro
BMCUWP
MickTT
AyrshireTim
and Alan who is now going to join CQN
Also in for a quick pint was Aiden Nisbetts (who scored the winner on Tuesday) his grandfather.
Great company
Hail Hail
Sadly the famous Holy Cross is no longer where it once stood.
RWE
RWE you’re right, but don’t admit it to anyone. It was a place of wild debauchery, loose wummin, nut case hard men, and full of the evils of the demon drink. I remember getting a lecture from “Wee Gall” on the evils of Vodka. I had never touched the stuff till then , I was about 15/16, couldn’t wait till I got stuck into it after his lecture!