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.
Seville – The Celtic Movement:
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Guy in Apple Store going baldy with
ponytail is trying to preserve
some sort of Status Quo?
WhatEverYouWant CSC
THE BATTERED BUNNET
I thought you fed them on mice!
some staggering figure in here copied from David Conn.a club by club breakdown of debt
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/01/premier-league-accounts-club-by-club-david-conn?CMP=twt_gu
TBB
Ole Munn and Dunning think the Braes are the jungle, don’t worry about the tits, they’ll bounce back.
within the EPL
BMCUW
Of course, that’s the staple, but they need some variety in their diet.
I don’t worry about the tits. It’s the thrush that’s the problem.
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Rioskorrie at 15.50,
For anyone who hasn’t seen it, there’s an excellent documentary about Senna on after the football on ITV4 tonight.
The politics and rivalries of F1 racing are covered well enough to keep non-aficionados interested too.
I’ve just become all agitated and itchy at the mention of cats. Thanks TBB!
#EvilCSC
sky sports page
no place for Fraser Forster
if danny mills was picking goalkeepers for world cup
hail hail
Cadizzy
Good stuff, today. I’m still pretty sure that you’re the guy who,in that same cafeteria you mentioned, tried to order a various omelette!
BMCUW
You forgot Kilwinning!
Having a night oot in Johnstone I see?
Troon next week!
HH!!
There’s a big sign on the front of CP that says BECAUSE
Looking forward to the Greenock shindig on the 6th June but one fly in the ointment, the last stagecoach leaves town at early o’clock at by which time I may be on the second verse of Four Green Fields !
Are there any fellow travellers who fancy sharing a taxi back to the Paisley area with myself and my compadre ? Promise we won’t do a runner even though we are from the meanest town in Scotland.
I will of course have an opt out if I pull any of Greenock’s finest young ladies and I’m invited to stay over !
the battered bunnet
16:23 on 1 May, 2014
Ahh The Dumb and Numbing report
Tell me ? Do you think Scotland will ever recover? Thrush and tits besides?
Winning Captains,
Yogi book delivered today, complete with lovely personal dedication…….which I composed myself!
Many thanks.
Guy walks into the butcher’s and says to the assistant behind the counter:
“Can a huv a mince round?”
Assistant replies – “Aye, but hurry up before the boss gets back.”
HH!!
Beatbhoy
not me. I would never order an omelette ahead of a roll n slice.
Woman goes into a bar and asks for a double entendre so the barman gives her one
Mags
Good question. All the young talent in the country skyed the park to the US as I recall.
itscalledthemalvinas
16:37 on 1 May, 2014
“I will of course have an opt out if I pull any of Greenock’s finest young ladies and I’m invited to stay over !”
you do know it’s Greenock, Renfrewshire where the do is taking place? Not any other Greenock elsewhere in, say, Australia or the US.
On the plis side, “heavy breestit” is de rigeur state for wummin. Keira Knightley types are stopped at the Port border
the battered bunnet
16:44 on 1 May, 2014
Indeed’ but not all. :)
Best wishes to you and your better half if I remember correctly.
Parkheadcumsalford
12:24 on
1 May, 2014
He then went on to say that, while the Portugese were lovely and helped make it the occasion it was, the Italians weren’t interested, when we played in Milan
*absolutely correct, it was between them and Rome, sorry it wisnae Rome. BTW I believe it was many years before they got another Final.
Mags
Let us know next time you’re over.
the battered bunnet
16:51 on 1 May, 2014
I’ll be in Glasgow 2 weeks in November
Keep in touch
Boscobhoy- if you are driving check out Adamton House hotel- reasonable prices and handy for most of Ayrshire- good breakfast and a carvery for the evening meal- nice wee bar as well
Right, enough of the sly digs about Greenock my home town!
Lovely people, but not to be trifled with – and that’s the women!
Almost married one, but had to settle for one from Paisley!
HH!!
thomthethim for Oscar OK
Glad that your copy arrived safely.
We have an ever decreasing pile of signed copies available of Yogi Bare by John Hughes. Email david@CQNMagazine.com if you want one – it is Fathers Day next month! Can also sort a copy of SEVILLE – The Celtic Movement for those who haven’t got a copy yet. Hundreds of CQNers have their Seville stories in here so it is a collectors item if you are quoted!
Tontine Tim,
I had thought that too and said as much. Actually, I do remember a very kind act by the folk who ran the airport check in in the middle of the City. It closed around 11 o’clock but there were a couple of us standing outside; so, they opened it up and let us lie on the couches and get a wee bit of sleep before it reopened in the early hours and we could get a bus out to the airport.
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/may/01/premier-league-accounts-club-by-club-david-conn?CMP=twt_gu
Not sure who posted the EPL finances but you can see why the English teams don’t take the FA Cup too seriously these days. Wigan won the FA cup last season and made £4m from cup competitions and they made £44m from EPL TV revenues.
It’s a no brainer to finish even 1 place higher in the league which will provide more cash than winning the FA Cup.
I’m sure most clubs fans would prefer a trophy to say finishing 11th instead of 12th in the league but the money men won;t see it that way.
Incredible stuff!
LB
WINNING CAPTAINS
Yogi’s book arrived this morning,mate.
Thanks,my Dad is fair looking forward to it!
Winning Captains, is the new Magazine out tonight?
If its funny story time, one that had great credence in Ireland a few years back, concerns this mad thick looking politician called Mark Killilea. This man hailed from Galway and got himself elected to the European Parliament. If you saw the guy you wouldn’t have him in charge of a s**t-house. Anyhow the story is Mark arrived in Brussels and was invited to a posh dinner and was sitting next to a French Politician. As the meal was served the Frenchman looked at Mark and said ” bon appetit” at which the bold Mark stuck out his hand. shook hands with the Frenchman and said “Mark Killilea, pleased to meet you”.
Noticed the aul’ ginger stories…
As a lad jist come to England my first day at school…
Got off the train at High Wycombe with my big sister and new sundry friends that were alien to me (she’d started a few weeks earlier) and walked round the corner to the newsagent.
Assistant behind the counter: What would you like
Me: Ginger
Assistant: Pudding
Me: Pudding?
Assistant: I did not understand you.
Me: (Thinks, ah! pardon, was told to talk slow) Gin_ger ple_ase
Assistant: We do not have any ginger
Me: Yes you do, right there (pointing) ….. …. there …. right there.
Shopkeeper: (noticing my agitation comes over) What would you like
Me: A asked for ginger and he said dinae have any.
Shopkeeper: We do not
Me: It’s right there…
Shopkeeper looks bewildered at the Assistant – both look at me as if I’m some kind of simpleton.
Storms out the shop to be advised by my sister that I needed to ask for Pop. I decided I wasn’t thirsty after all.
40 years ago now, sort of getting the hang of it.
As a somewhat relative aside, I found out where the names Irn Bru and Coca Cola come from this month.
Livibhoy
Your story brought back an embarrassing memory for me.
While in Berwick for a weekend with my ex-wife, we decided to go for a Chinese meal.
I cannot remember exactly what we ordered for a starter but the waitress brought a nice little bowl with pieces of lemon floating in the water and placed it in the centre of the table along with our starters.
My wife and i were puzzled by the bowl and the only thing we could think of was that the lemon was for squeezing onto our starters and we did.
It was only when we noticed some other diners dipping their fingers in their little bowls that we realised its purpose.
cadizzy
Yup, fully aware its the gem of Inverclyde. Had many a happy and interesting night in its city limits but having encountered that taxi rank outside Legends bar where the behaviour at Celtic Park on Monday night was comparable I thought it wise to make forward plans to get home in the one piece !
I wouldn’t be bothered about the size of my prospective landlady as long as her husband’s release date wasn’t until 2015 !
Morning folks from sunny Belize – had the good fortune yesterday evening to meet up with 2 Athletico supporters – they were the toast of a seaside bar singing songs, buying drinks for all and sundry – good fortune in that when I got chatting to them and they found out I was a Celtic fan they immediately apologised for “that” game at Parkhead – they were obviously not very proud of that but we agreed it was a long time ago and now they could proud of a team that has left that sort of stuff well behind
They were also telling me they were avid Scottish rugby fans …. No idea why but there you go !
All round good guys and a pleasure to meet up and chat to. I really hope they get to go to the final and win (I can watch the game now given it’s not Chelsea v Real… Not sure who I would have wanted to lose most ! )
Me and the Mrs were in Brussels for a city break, we were sitting in the grand place and were about to have a wee afternoon snifter, being a lovely day we sat out side. The waiter came over to take our order and was up his ain erse….I ordered leffe blonde (lager), Mrs says “dry white wine”…waiter eyeballs us and then wanders away. He comes back 5 minutes later with a beer and 3 white wines….thought we were German bevvy merchants…and had ordered in German….
Kikinthenakas