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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NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
On returning to ML4 one weekend after spending some time in ML5,
On arranging what we were getting for oor cairry oot
I requested a BOTTLE of Buckie instead of a Boatle,
My how I was mocked :(
I can still see them now BOTTLE WAHHHHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
CATMAN
Was that Fullarton’s perchance?
My Dad’s mate was over there for a while too,about 2003 I think.
Kittoch
He was maybe from the Johnstone Riviera ( corseford….the river cart ran by it ).
I remember standing at the lights in Union Street, Glasgow, waiting to cross the road.
In front of me was a well dressed young man, arm in arm with an attractive young lady.
He was approached by another young man who addressed him,
“Howsitgawn”?
The well dressed young man replied “Great! This is the burd am gawn oot wi’ the noo”
And turning to the young lady on his arm he declared “an this is a guy fey the wurk”
I often wondered if they made it home safely.
Wonder if they post on here.
You never know.
Catman
Greenville – what a place for a Celt to work in. :o)
As for the name of the game, it sounds more like “saccer” when folks over here say it.
HH
Walfrid 88
14:06 on
1 May, 2014
God bless James McGrory, The Garngad Lad: –
http://www.footballpoets.org/p.asp?Id=17216
Was James the mhan whose goal initiated the Hampden Roar?!
Shared a cell in the Crum with a man from Derry who was a photograph colourist which in those days (1970’s) was still done by hand.
THE MIRACLE OF THE BURD AND THE FISHES (by Tom Leonard )
ach sun
jiss keepyir chin up
dizny day gonabootlika hawf shut knife
inaw jiss cozzy a burd
luvur day yi
ach well
gee it a wee while sun
thirz a loat merr fish in thi sea
Oops! That post was in response to LCC
leftclicktic We are all Neil Lennon
14:16 on
1 May, 2014
Talking of Jimmy McGrory
From the clever Barry McGonigle
https://twitter.com/BarryMcGonigle/status/459387982445678592/photo/
RWE
Some of the beer looks powerful, 12% abv!
Wow!
I wouldn’t need many of them to have a good/bad night!
leftclicktic We are all Neil Lennon
14:23 on 1 May, 2014
NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
On returning to ML4 one weekend after spending some time in ML5,
On arranging what we were getting for oor cairry oot
I requested a BOTTLE of Buckie instead of a Boatle,
My how I was mocked :(
I can still see them now BOTTLE WAHHHHAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA
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Sitting here chuckling! Reminds me of a mate of ours Big Tam. Met him in the street one Saturday and he asked me if I was going to the game. I replied “No, I’m actually going to work today”. He took exception to the use of the word “actually”. “Oh are you ACTUALLY? Are you ACTUALLY going to your ACTUAL work? This was 30 years ago and he’s still at it. :-)
Jonny the Tim
14:22 on 1 May, 2014
A neighbour of ours, when shopping for her weekly provisions, has a tendency to loudly proclaim, “Ah’m gaun doonty the big Asda’s tae get ma messages”. Inferring that Asda is a family name, and not, in fact an acronym.
Huh!
HH
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For years I thought ASDA in Coatbridge was called “That ASDAs” – as in “That ASDAs is pure mobbed”
A friend of mine was on a bus in Greenock in front of two guys talking.
1st guy “He went lik ‘on tae me so I went like ‘at nen he went lik ‘on so I went like ‘on n he went lik ‘at so I kinna goes lik ‘on”
2nd guy ” At’s terrible ‘at. ‘Magine him sayin’ at tae you. A good job you wurr fit fur ‘im n didney let him aff wi it”
Being in front of them, my friend couldn’t see so possibly there were lots of hand (and possibly head) gestures but (frighteningly) quite possibly not
Talking about ginger, I remember when working in EK, was on a training course down south with some other warehouse personnel, when at dinner time in the hotel, a waiter came round and asked us at our table if we wanted ginger with our meal. Like a flash, one of the lads replied naw, wan o the guys is up getting pints. Class.
Weefra HH supporting and praying for Wee Oscar.
I was on a course in Ipswich, years ago, and after the first days work we were back at the hotel and about 10 of us sitting at the table being served dinner.
I picked up a roundish looking receptacle which I thought was the salt and started to sprinkle it over my cabbage.
The guy sitting next to me stopped me almost immediately, saying it was sugar!!!
I then told the lie that in Scotland we always put sugar on our cabbage.
Just about everyone at the table tried it…..and ate all their cabbage.
I left mine.
BMCUWP
No not Fullartons – NACCO or Hyster to most people
RWE
You are right I can still hear the drone of “Saccer”
CATMAN
IIRC,Hyster shut shop in Irvine a coupla years back.
We still use their trucks at my work down sarf.
Weefrathe Tim at 14.38
I remember hearing that story about a Rangers player saying that but he wasn’t joking.
A mate of mine worked as an engineer in the merchant navy. Often, he would be flown out to places to join a ship. On one such occasion, he was flown out to Lisbon and was put up in a fancy hotel for the night with a view to joining the ship the next day.
He was a wee bit out of his depth when he went to the restaurant and looked at the menu. Thankfully, they were doing a halibut steak so he was okay. Fortified by a few glasses of various types of bevvy, he was fairly vociferous when the waiter brought him his meal
Jim “Haw, pal. ‘Mon back here a minute”
Waiter “Yes sir. Is everything okay”
Jim “Naw it isny awright. Ah asked you for a halibut steak and you brought me fish”
long pause………………..
Waiter “Halibut is a fish sir”
I took my American boss and her soccer playing daughter to Celtic Park for the Saint Mirren game a few weeks ago, really good day out ant the lassie was knowlegable about the football, maybe more than me actually.
So we were in the padded seats, and I fore warned them, even though this is lounge access there might be some sweary words, as its a passionate game, and some people just dont care what they say or what they do.
All going swimmingly,
then the disallowed Griffiths goal
“referee your a useless &*%$% , stupid $%^&* ,learn the f&*%$S rules , ya cheating bas%%% ”
then i sat down again.
Cadizzy- re the Bob Hoskins story,it was The Untouchables he screen tested for,De Niro got the role.A few weeks later a cheque for 200k (not 20) came crashing thru the letterbox.He phoned the director,Brian de Palma and said “if there’s any other movies you don’t want me to be in,just let me know”
Bada bing
200k. I could live with that level of rejection.
BMCUWP
They closed the plant about 6 yers ago but moved the office staff to a new building on the outskirts of the town. I decided to move on shortly afterwards
I remember a smart-arse English woman asking me how long I had lived in England,and if I had any plans to learn the language.
I told her to eff off.
She understood that nae bother!
Saint Stivs
14:47 on
1 May, 2014
I took my American boss and her soccer playing daughter to Celtic Park for the Saint Mirren game a few weeks ago, really good day out ant the lassie was knowlegable about the football, maybe more than me actually.
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As most peope are…..
Left the goal gaping there..:-))
Bada bing
A cracker. :-))
Weefra HH supporting and praying for Wee Oscar.
An inspection at a Fire Station in Glasgow years ago by the top man.After a few ladder drills,it’s Q&A time.The guys are lined up and the boss proceeds down the line asking basic fire brigade questions.Near the end of the line ,he asks a guy a question to a guy he has never got on with over the years.Fireman says he doesn’t know the answer,the boss always carried a wee black leather stick,which he prodded in to the fireman’s chest”there’s an idiot at the end of this stick” proclaimed the boss.” I can assure you Mr Leitch,it’s not at this end” was the reply
Paul67
Looking forward to the Greenock Celtic do and meeting up with my auld Greenock Friends and family, and of course my amigos on Your amazingly brilliant website.
Travelling up with a car load from Blackpool, see you there Paul.
It’s back to the pool and another Prosseco for me ✊
HH
Philbhoy
14:44 on 1 May, 2014
…the things that people believe! When I lived in Spain, I shared a flat with a French girl (the only deeply unattractive French young woman I have ever met).
One day, I made a pot of tea and poured a wee drop into the sink to see if it was strong enough. She saw me and asked what I was doing.
“Ah well, ye see. In Scotland we have this tradition….well, I suppose more of a superstition…that you have to give the first drink from the teapot to the Tea God of the Sink ’cause if you don’t you could end up with years of bad luck. I also said the more you give the Tea God, the luckier you will be in love.
I don’t think that I ever told her that I had just made that up so there is probably a middle aged woman called Odile who is regarded as the Crazy Lady of her village by her neighbours because she makes tea then pours it all away
Ole parish priest cycling home along a country road and comes across a dead pig. He phones the police to inform them when the officer on the other end asks, sarcastically if he had given the pig the last rites. No, replies the priest, I thought I would inform next of kin first. :-))
Weefra Hh supporting and praying for Wee Oscar.
Moving to Calgary soon, anyone suggest a venue to watch games, and mix with fellow Celtic supporters?
I remember in the late 80’s talking to one of the fairer sex in the common room at Bell College.
“So were do you come from”
Poasil.
Oh right Possil
NAWWWW. POASSSILLL.
Oh right….no bother.
Get the coffee/tea on, and watch it again, wow, wow, wow.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ILzN-ZEctaU&feature=youtu.be
Friend of a friend (actually, the ridiculously wealthy brother of a friend) was in a snoshy French restaurant in London a few years ago, entertaining some city type clients.
As he’s reading the menu, all the filets de… and volailles au… and what not, he asks the (somewhat impatient) waiter:
“Tell me, what’s the ‘cuckoo’ that’s being served with the lamb?”
Waiter looks at him perplexed, picks up the menu and reads it for himself.
“That’s couscous sir.” came the mortifying reply.
Catman, happy birthday to you ya auld bassa. Keep a close eye on that brother of mine. He’s a tricky one.
Any chance of you making it along to the hootenanny next saturday?
I caught this live last night
https://soundcloud.com/frozensmoke/blair-footy
Thank you for all your thoughts and prayers.candles and prayers will be offered for your kind sentiments.
Taurangabhoy
Prayers offered up for Marlene Ryan(r.i.p.)
Hail Hail.ktf.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………Praying for our WEE HERO!
14:52 on 1 May, 2014
I remember another smart arse English French teacher (you know what I mean) asking me what it was like to speak Spanish with a Scottish accent. I told her I didn’t know and asked her what it was like to speak French with an English accent.
She told me I was very rude. An argument ensued,pretty much spoiling for everybody the 25th wedding anniversary party of my ex wife’s uncle and aunt (in Tattenham Corner, no less). My share of the blame was as close to 100% as you can get without rounding down.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ILzN-ZEctaU&feature=youtu.be
The Battered Bunnet
15:06 on 1 May, 2014
Friend of a friend (actually, the ridiculously wealthy brother of a friend) was in a snoshy French restaurant in London a few years ago, entertaining some city type clients.
As he’s reading the menu, all the filets de… and volailles au… and what not, he asks the (somewhat impatient) waiter:
“Tell me, what’s the ‘cuckoo’ that’s being served with the lamb?”
Waiter looks at him perplexed, picks up the menu and reads it for himself.
“That’s couscous sir.” came the mortifying reply.
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I remember a funny situation in a Glasgow guitar shop when someone came in asking for a “Les Paul”. Musta thought it was a French brand. Guy in the shop could’t tune his G-string for laughter…
True story .Standing talking to my brother in law at the back gate when all of a sudden he shouts “Hey Billy no mates” I turned round only to see some guy riding a tandem bike on his own.
Hadtobetherecsc