It’s one of those obscure football facts which appears more likely to be an urban myth, but when he jogs out onto Celtic Park on Sunday the proof will be there for all to see: Chelsea captain John Terry is a Celtic fan. I’ve heard many wide ranging reasons why people become attached to the club, not everyone was born into it as an accident of paternal heritage, some of us made our own way there.
I know one Ulsterman, from the loyalist tradition, who has lived in Scotland for decades, and, along with his friends, is a Celtic supporter. One season ticket holder told me he started shouting for Celtic as an infant, to tease his Rangers supporting father, but one day the teasing developed into the acquisition of a green jumper, an unusual occurrence in the family home. A bridge had been crossed, soon posters were on the bedroom wall, a Celtic Subbutteo team was bought and after a few years, a Celtic top made its appearance.
There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of great stories like these.
Sunday’s #19 Legenda’ game will be a chance for some of us to reminisce about the days when Pierre, Lubo, Jorge, Bobo, Tommy Boyd, the man himself, Stiliyan Petrov and, of course, the Swede, graced Celtic Park every week. It will be a rare chance to see Martin O’Neill on the on the touchline, perhaps without bouncing up and down. Well done to Carlos Cuellar for pitching up, even if he has to play the inevitable pantomime villain.
Monies raised will go towards Stiliyan’s Foundation and to stock a food bank, which will open in Glasgow this month with the aim of alleviating food poverty. Which takes us back to where we started.
Enjoy your day.
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Delaneys Dunky
Have a great day tomorrow
We are looking forward to it
Have a good day
MT
BT
Its all a bit off … women going to the fitba to watch good looking bhoys in shorts.
Should it have been a 6 way agreement then?
SFA
SPL
SFL
Sevco
Rangers plc (holding company)
Rangers FC (the club)
But it ain’t cos 5 & 6 were one and the same. They know it. We know it.
Bankiebhoy
Sevco have complained to the bbc ….again
There was a complaint some time ago that was upheld about bbc referring to them as Newco
I can’t understand the rational behind that decision …however ….I think those at the bbc should speak to their legal dept for some guidance
The Hun insistence on this may cause the matter to be considered fully ……hoist by their own petard ….hopefully …
The facade created by the MSM re the continuity of Oldco irks me intensely …it’s just plain lies
TBJ Praying for Oscar Knox
09:06 on 7 September, 2013
Square sausage .. stornoway black pudding.. bacon. . Tattie scone .. egg … beans and mushrooms. .. crispy mortons roll and a cuppa.
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You sure know how to get someone up and oot to the roll shop,
wont come anywhere near that feast but crispy rolls on sausage& black pudding(they poor lookin wee things wae a sclaff of black pudding in the middle) and tattie scone.
enjoy the game tomorrow,I didn’t think I would make it but No2 dauters man is not keen on the teeny boppers:)) so a Da has to do what a Da has to do.
isittimeyetcsc
Delaneys dunky
I lit the green touch paper in bts hoose… I had a feeling I might be removed from minis christmas card list :(
Mrs BT and mini goibg to Dublin next May to see nae direction.
Hopefully I’ll be in Lisbon the same weekend. ..
Big Nan
Alea iacta est …indeed
Good effort …keep her lit
Lefty
I know the sqwerr you mean. . Theres a wee butchers does them with black pudding or haggis inserts.
I have to admit I often post a pic of a full scottish breakfast onto fb.. for estadio nacional and summa… I know how much they enjoy looking at it as I savour the delights
Biggest problem is Regan can resolve this at a stroke by telling the truth but he is utterly spineless- “let’s move on” being his oft quoted mantra.
BT
Dublin will be a screen fest….
You could always go over and visit rocco… anyone heard from him btw
Big Nan
10:08 on
7 September, 2013
Signed.
Can anyone tell me what the deal is with Kirkintilloch and Orange parades?
BT, if not Lisbon, could be another visit to the Celtic Bar :-) this time you can enjoya and join in with the other roasters
By the way that mothers pride outsider was that good , I opened the other end and had that one as well
Hail Hail
Goldstar 10
Despite their perceived sense of injustice Scottish football continues to appease them
TBJ
Young Miss Delaney is astounded of forehead too :-)
Cowiebhoy.
Sounds good. Might get a chance to partake in more beers and acgr whisky next time…
We call them thickies in tyre.. Just like most of the population. ..o)
Tbj.
The bent eyed bun was on about the petition to rid thems of their five fag burns…all moralistic on how it’s their history.
Yep said I…that’s all you are history.
Ended up in shawlands last night, it was dead,always thought it was a Hun enclave anyway.
PF
…………….correct.
Me too.
We just need to keep on, keepin’ on…………………..
Thems don’t like it and there’s an honest reason for that.
:)
HH
Delaneys dunky
The wee yins are very protective of the nae direction boys … easy to wind up :)
saltires en sevilla supporting wee Oscar:
If Celtic were drawn at home against The Rangers in a cup game this season, do you think the Parkhead would be full?
Sipsini
Clarence is a blow hard of the highest order.
You should ask him who he played for as a kid…. couldn’t get a game on the grass outside his hoose.
We would rather play 4 against 5 than give that balloon a game
Wonder what the guy who broke into buck house was after ….
Mibbees a zombie… looking for their history
Tbj
Was he not in daktari?
I’m bleedin’ starvin’ now.
Can’t eat that sort of thing just now.
Athlete in training!
JealousCSC
Aff oot fur a run.
BT
Yup… Clarence the cross eyed lion
And as the zombie in question is always lying…and has one eye going for the messages and the other coming back with the change ….Clarence is a fitting name
Cowiebhoy in support of Fearless Oscar & Family
10:17 on 7 September, 2013
By the way that mothers pride outsider was that good , I opened the other end and had that one as well
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I do exactly the same when i get the chance..missus not impressed when she picks up and all falls out the other end!!
Summa
Just heard a British born man will be ozzie PM …
Shirley no :)
TBJ
Louis playing at Paradise tomorrow, has become a badge of honour for the Timettes. 1D posters are being ripped from the walls of Sevcoettes throughout the country :-)
well the one b4 the last was a welsh wumman…
Chris Sutton speaks:
Straight from the heart.
Chris Sutton:
THE strongest emotion I’m going to experience when I see Stilian Petrov at Celtic Park tomorrow is how precious life can be.
I was always close to Stan when we played for Celtic under Martin O’Neill, and the most important thing is he’s still with us for this special match to launch the Petrov family’s charitable foundation.
When Stilian was first diagnosed with leukaemia, I wouldn’t say I feared for him and that’s because he’s as tough as they come.
But it was a reminder to me that footballers can sometimes assume ill-health is what happens to other people.
Yet at Celtic we had former players like Stan, then John Hartson, with life-threatening illness, as well as Alan Stubbs and his battle with testicular cancer.
Stan’s difficulties came as a tremendous shock to me and we spoke a lot at the time, as well as meeting in London when he was receiving hospital treatment there.
He told me he’d played for Aston Villa against Arsenal and felt fatigued afterwards, only more so than normal.
Stan’s good fortune was that the club made sure he was put through the appropriate tests straight away and the diagnosis, however distressing, was quickly arrived at.
All you can do then is show your support for him and his wife Paulina. And I know from personal experience the way the Celtic fans, and supporters of other clubs, rallied round him will have been of great assistance to Stan.
My son James was born in Glasgow when I was at Celtic and he was a premature baby who suffered a virus that left my wife and I grateful he pulled through.
James was left with hearing problems but we’re lucky he’s still around. While I’m in Glasgow I’m going to take him back to Yorkhill Hospital to thank the medical staff there for all they did for us as a family.
That’s another reason why I’m so glad Stan’s special match has given me the chance to return to Celtic Park and play on the pitch there for the first time in seven years. I really miss Celtic and I wish I was still playing for them.
It’s nature’s way that we all get older and life moves on, but to be reunited with Stan, Henrik Larsson, Lubo Moravcik and Neil Lennon, as well as all the other guys, will be very special for me.
I didn’t want to go from Celtic Park but I was left with no choice and this will be a highly nostalgic return in the company of my old gaffer, Martin O’Neill.
I wasn’t sure about leaving Chelsea and signing for Celtic because my perception of Glasgow was it was a troubled, and not very pretty, city. Then I signed and found my perceptions were 100 per cent inaccurate.
Instead I found a place where people rally round you if your son’s ill. It’s also a city that pulled together when Big John launched a foundation to provide for the less fortunate.
I saw Stan on TV last Sunday morning and was delighted to see him look so well and have that mischievous look back in his eyes. Then I read in Record Sport that he’d made a joke about my last television appearance being memorable because I was wearing a pair of shoes he remembered from 12 years ago.
That’s when I knew he was back to normal and I had to get myself a brand new pair of shoes in honour of this weekend’s reunion.
But I’ll have to apologise in advance to the 60,000 fans who’ve bought tickets to see Stan’s select face Celtic. I’m not in the kind of shape I was in the last time I shared the home dressing room at Celtic Park with my mates, and my biggest fear is muscle and co-ordination problems.
But when I bundled the kids into the car on Thursday night for the long drive to Glasgow I knew I wouldn’t have missed this special day for the world.
Stan and Henrik had a way of playing that suited my sometimes limited game perfectly, and the understanding we developed gave me the happiest phase of my entire career.
I now consider Glasgow to be my favourite city in the whole of Britain. I loved every morning I went into training and sat among men who weren’t reluctant to give you their opinion on anything, and that was doubly the case on match days.
There was a togetherness and a bond among that group of mature professionals that was never fully replicated for me anywhere else.
And there was a mental strength shown by players like Johan Mjallby which made us a team of silent assassins.
But, above all, there was Martin. The manager had an aura about him, as well as a drive and a passion which carried Celtic forward in the right direction.
The fans bought into him and Martin gave every one of his players supreme confidence.
You always felt that you wanted to impress Martin and do more for him on the park because he was such a fair man where his players were concerned.
Neil is, was and always will be his own man, but he fell under the manager’s spell nevertheless.
Those were the times that moulded him into the manager he has become for Celtic, and helped shape the club he’s now taken into the Champions League over successive seasons.
Martin was charismatic and always knew which buttons to press in the dressing room before matches.
Systems are a big thing in football but the game is essentially about players.
The manager made sure Celtic’s players went out confident in ourselves and full of passion for the club we represented.
When that dressing room door closes behind me tomorrow, and I start to get ready for a match in the company of my old friends, time will stand still and the past will become the present.
Playing is the bit you miss most and when you have been fortunate to have been at a club like Celtic then you know, with the benefit of hindsight, that you should feel doubly blessed.
Cowiebhoy in support of Fearless Oscar & Family..
did ye ca’ yer new wee dug “shafter”??
Bhoys/Ghirls a shameless plug:
Cardinal Newman High school in Bellshill are running a pilgrimage to Lourdes at the end of this month. Their final fundraiser is on Tuesday night at 7pm in the school theatre. It’s an evening with some Celtic greats: clips, chat, stories and a q and a.
We previously ran one with John Hartson and it was a great success.
This time it’s for the ‘grey brigade’. Confirmed so far are Charlie Gallagher, Dixie Deans, Tommy Callaghan and someone who needs no introduction on here-John Fallon. Still hopeful on Bertie Auld confirming.
Tickets £5 at the door.
Hail Hail
Delaneys dunky
At least the sevcoettes still have nae directions history tucked away
Desertbhoy
It was Lennybhoy, but now “Hugo” the Boss
Incidentally, I now have 7 tickets for tomorrow, 5 kids, hope they know its the Celtic we are going to see
Hail Hail
Roy croppie.
I might tag along…
Roy
I will try to make it over on Tuesday. .. is it pay at the door
Morning all. Haven’t checked previous posts I have two nephews who’s mum didn’t get them tickets for tomorrow. Anyone know of any spare? Will pay for anywhere in the ground?? Cheers HH
BT/TBJ
Pay at the door guys and it will be good to see you.
HH