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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Great to see CQN without blood aw o’er the place :-)
eddiegreenhillsbhoy
02:22 on
1 May, 2014
Quiet tonight.
Right bhoys need your prayers for my wee wife mo, battling breast cancer (48yrs) In hospital fighting a infection. 4th dose of chemotherapy and taking it’s toll.ktf.
Heh Eddie,you and wee Mrs Egb were in my thoughts and prayers this morning.
HH
Alright Richie you toodlin ti thi tenff? lol
HH
Exclusive picture of Super Sallary’s Pedometer
Remember my brother age about 6 going to buy a cake o’ chocolate at a Youth Hostel in Scarborough.
He came back with a chocolate cake.
richie #teamoscar
17:10 on 1 May, 2014
Great to see CQN without blood aw o’er the place :-)
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What do you mean are you talking about me? Lol
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Thunder Road
Hahahaha
I’m not the only simpleton then.
In my defence apparently the lemon is already squeezed in the warm water in that place. Everyone asked how it tasted and I said I had tasted worse.
LB
Four Leaf Clover
Bobby M – If you are still about,could you check your emails please chief.
Slainte.
Googybhoy
flying from Manchester end of June, any good hotels for parking the car for the week?
Eddiegreenhills
prayers offered up for your wife..
richie-the hootenannythingmi on the 10th lol
eddiegreenhillsbhoy
Prayer offered
Livibhoy
Your story was much funnier and i dare say much more embarrassing!
As you said though, it would certainly be an ice-breaker!
What else can you do eh?
Flounce off mortified, or hold your hands up and have a laugh about it :)
Richie
Anyone ever told you you’re a dead ringer for that Paul Hollywood the baking guy?!
UncannyCSC
Ola from a very warm and well ….. Watered Vmhan!
Are we still telling stories about real life funny situations, I’m not sure if I’ve told this before on Cqn and it should have been in the Seville book. Dunky C and partner (in their 60’s) and well known amongst the Celtic support and a few LIsbon Lions as well, he was in Seville with his partner and went in to a very busy shop for some grub, it was a long que and Ella being in her 60’s and knackered in the heat stood beside the door while Dunky bhoy waited for an age to get to the front, he got there eventually and then checked out what was left, it wasn’t much as the Celtic supporters were hungry ( for food and victory), anyway as he looks at what’s left the shout goes up…….
“Dae ye want a pie Ella”……… Everyone in the shop is roaring with laughter, Dunky and Ella being a bit deaf, shouts out even louder…….
“Ella! Dae ye want a pie”, of course the whole place is in knots laughing, there’s grown men with tears of laughter running down their cheeks………. Eventually it dawned on them :>)
Pie Ella CSC
Back to the sun amigos!
BT
Manchester Airport
We booked Bewleys….including Car parking…(2 weeks).
Wife says it was a good deal…..
Paddy T
Cheers Paddy T.
will look tonight.
BT fly a lot from there and dirt cheap, if you’re looking to go straight to the airport and drop off the car it’s slightly more expensive but saves the hassle of finding the car parking, easier to go straight to the airport.
Google car drop off for Manchester airport.
Googybhoy will have some good advice innaw.
HH BT
Battery less than 5% adios ———->
Another finger bowl story
Young waitress in our hotel on her first day
Asked us if we enjoyed our meal
We said it was fine apart from the soup which was a bit thin
Ten minutes later she appeared with four steaming bowl of soup,telling us that the chef sent
His apologies ,behind her the kitchen staff where in knots
HH
Bewleys is good guys. I did that a couple. Of years ago.
Thunder Road
It was embarrassing but in a good way.
Everyone had a smile on their face anytime they seen me for the rest of my trip because of that. At least I cheered them up.
LB
Cheers vman, enjoy the beers
Another wee embarrassing moment that comes to mind was a holiday to a wee place just outside Benidorm.
I developed a cold sore and went to a chemist shop to try to get some cream?ointment for it.
I could not see anything so i joined the queue in the hope that the girl serving would be able to help me.
By the time i had got to the front of the queue there were about a dozen people behind me.
I struggle to speak english never mind any other language and so i asked her if she had any Zovirax cream but she was puzzled so i then asked for cream for a cold sore, which again puzzled her.
As i was beginning to feel a bit under pressure with all these people waiting behind me i decided to point to my cold sore in the hope that she would understand.
On doing so she then understood my problem and said…..AH…..HERPES!!!
I had no idea that that was what a cold sore was but i said NO, NO…..it is just a cold sore.
She got even louder and said NO, NO……its HERPES and called on another assistant to verify her diagnosis!
Before she even got over i had paid for the cream and flew from the shop trying not to make eye contact with those behind me in the queue.
Cheers neganon.
I was offshore many moons ago and an Eburdeen loon asked a northern englishman “furry boots dae ye bide?”
The lad looked perplexed before looking down at his boots saying, “no pal..I think it’s some kind of imitation wool”
BT
Stayed at Bewleys last October, good food & comfy rooms. If you book it, a wee tip, take your own carry oot down to bar, a bit pricey & they don’t notice, ask for wine chiller & ice, very helpful staff :-)
Kikinthenakis. That’s bizarre someone in holland told me a similar story about the dry (in this case it was sherry). Bizarre coincidence!
BT
You might be cheaper hiring a car one way rather than paying for parking for a fortnight. Avis do it from the branch on the Broomielaw. We did it last year flying out of Liverpool. About £55 for an astra sized moturr as I recall.
Just a thought.
An Tearmann
17:30 on
1 May, 2014
richie-the hootenannythingmi on the 10th lol
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It’s in the diary :-) widnae miss it
HT…haw you! (would like his bank account though)
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Great news! Hope it goes down well!
Doc – yes but later on so Paul will post tomorrow. I will post a link when ready though but as I said will be later tonight.
BT or stick it in my drive and I’ll run ye up, it’s 50 or 1 hr and 50 mins away from my ….. Shebeen, what time?
Evening, hesding oot to Johnstone.
Mind I was out in Glasgow one day, got the last train home to Stevenston and fell asleep.
Woke up as the train pulled into the station, quick half asleep glance at the signs as the train pulled in, jumped up and off I got relived I’d made it.
As the train pulls away from Johnstone.
Stevenston Johnstone, same difference… an easy mistake.
Ayrshire is Green and White
Sick of Sky News that has done it for me.
They have just announced the England cricket team v Scotland.
There is no mention of the Scotland team.
Another troo story:
A pal of mine went to the first ever KFC in Glasgow with some mates and they were sitting scoffing away and wondered at the wee sachets with a picture of a lemon.
Deciding that they were some kind of American lemon dispensers, they all ripped the corner and squeezed away. As well as moaning about the meagre protions, they also decided that KFC was rank rotten!
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.
i think you are being unbelievably and needlessly offensive towards mark killilea
there is no room on this blog for personalised attacks like this, calling anyone mad thick looking,
retract these lines corkcelt
you are better than this
googybhoy ♥ we are all Neil Lennon
17:57 on 1 May, 2014
ah but would you recognise any of the Scottish names if they did put up the Scottish team?
nonethewiserCSC
Livibhoy
Are you going out on the 10th?
I am planning to go to Charcoals so i was thinking it might be quite handy if you were there to keep us right on what was actually for eating and drinking :)