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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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  2. Tallybhoy on

    BMCUW

     

     

    Howdy buddy.

     

     

    Thanks for the mention in dispatches.

     

     

    My dad may be coming out of hospital tomorrow, or possibly Monday.

     

     

    Yes it was a colonoscopy he had! Fat fingers strike again – or it could have been the beer and wine!

     

     

    They did find something, so they may need to operate.

     

     

    We shall see.

     

     

    HH!!

  3. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS forza Oscar and Mackenzie on

    MONAGHAN 1900

     

     

    Official Secrets Act?

     

     

    WTF?

     

     

    Too many choobs on FF etc who need to engage brain or pay for someone who can.

  4. The Token Tim in support and praying for Wee Oscar on

    BMCUWP @ 1338,

     

     

    haha I wish! Put it this way was that indeed the case, id certainly be choosing some nicer places than the ones I find myself in at times!

     

     

    Im sure you Bhoys will all have great time, our esteemed presences missing notwithstanding :-)

     

     

    HAIL! HAIL!

     

    Token

  7. ....PFayr supports WeeOscar on

    BMCUWP

     

     

    Engaging brain requires a brain to engage ….a fundamental difficulty for some on FF etc

  9. Mike Bhoyle on

    I had a quiet smile at the headline….

     

    From a green jumper to a Season Ticket…..

     

     

    As a pensioner now…. My headline would be…..

     

    From a Season Ticket….to a green jumper..( knitted by the good lady from re-claimed wool)….

     

    Ach well….:0)…

  10. Geordie Munro on

    Just a wee joke Bobby pal;)

     

     

     

    The honest mistake @ 1255,

     

     

    What’s wrong with ‘oor lance’?

     

     

    I’d pay good money to watch a doped up Olympics. Javelins being tossed outside the stadium and 100m being done in 6 seconds!!!!

     

     

    Whoooosh

  11. Geordie Munro on

    Tallybhoy

     

     

     

    I shuddered there. ‘fat fingers’ & ‘colonoscopy’ should not be in the same sentence.

  12. weet weet weet(GBWO) on

    Can I ask for your prayers guys for my partners 4year old nephew Blake who has just diagnosed with brain cancer and is in bad way.

     

    Thanks in advance

     

     

    HH

  13. Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on

    Starry,

     

     

    Haste Ye back !

     

     

    Looking forward to seeing Celtic play this weekend. It will be my last weekend game

     

    watching Celtic until the CL final.

     

     

    Hope the weather is glorious this weekend and that Morrisey23rd behaves himself.

     

     

    HH

  14. !!Bada Bing!! on

    boscobhoy02-BFSDJ used to get pin money from the huns for stuff he scrawled in their weekly rag.He has been begging various Poundland Directors for years for a Testimonial game for himself.Someone should phone SSB and ask him….

  15. tigertim on

    “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.”

     

     

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    The year is 2013 and the need for foodbanks is still required in a non 3rd world country who have not been ravaged by civil war, shocking.

  18. Tallybhoy on

    Geordie Munro

     

     

    I sent BMCUW an email a couple of days ago where I informed him that my dad was due to have a colonoctomy, instead of a colonoscopy!

     

     

    My mistake!

     

     

    Fat fingers strike again, ‘tho mine are actually quite slender!

     

     

    On second thoughts it was actually the old brain which had not fully entered into awake mode!

     

     

    HH!!

  19. GerryBhoy on

    Weet weet weet (gbwo).

     

     

    That is terrible news, especially for such a young child.

     

    Thoughts and prayers that he will come through this.

     

     

    Gerry

  22. ernie lynch on

    tigertim

     

     

    14:00 on 6 September, 2013

     

     

     

    ”The year is 2013 and the need for foodbanks is still required in a non 3rd world country who have not been ravaged by civil war, shocking.”

     

     

     

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    Suggests that food banks aren’t really the solution if we still need them.

  23. The Token Tim in support and praying for Wee Oscar on

    weet weet weet,

     

     

    horrible news!

     

    It’s always so much harder to take when these horrible illnesses strike young kids.

     

    Thoughts and prayers with your partner and family.

     

     

    HAIL! HAIL!

     

    Token

  24. Steinreignedsupreme on

    “Je voudrais absolument deux bifteck-bakes et quatre gateau de Francais. Absolument grand, gros home. Bon”

     

     

    Ally absolutely impresses his new French superstar.

  25. No Bobby Does It Petta on

    Any booing on Sunday will be a red neck for the club and all decent fans. But I guess there’s no stopping the brain dead element of the support.

     

     

    The guy is giving up his weekend, and let’s not forget risking injury, to support a charitable event. He deserves the same respect as every other man on the park.

     

     

    Welcome to Celtic Park big JT.

  26. Neustadt-Braw on

    Found the answer,the huns are coprophagic…..what a beautiful beautiful word…braw braw braw ….

  29. The Battered Bunnet on

    Auldheid

     

     

    From the last thread, there’s no mystery, no uncertainty:

     

     

    We now know that the SFA member referred to for a century or more as Rangers FC, was indeed The Rangers Football Club plc (formerly Ltd) now in Liquidation.

     

     

    The club’s SFA membership and licence to play professional were forfeited when it was consigned to be dissolved and could no longer fulfil match fixtures.

  31. Celtic_First on

    The Battered Bunnet

     

    14:36

     

     

    If only Jim Spence had had your form of words to hand, he would have had a much easier week.

  33. petec - Oscar BraveO - God Bless. on

    weet weet weet(GBWO)

     

     

    13:58 on 6 September, 2013

     

     

    Can I ask for your prayers guys for my partners 4year old nephew Blake who has just diagnosed with brain cancer and is in bad way.

     

    Thanks in advance

     

     

    HH

     

    ____________________

     

     

    These things are happening too frequent.

     

     

    Get kids to drink Water constantly.

     

     

    All the best wishes to Blake.

  34. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS forza Oscar and Mackenzie on

    GEORDIE MUNRO 1355

     

     

    I got it,but too early for word plays-I was still on my first pint,brain in sleep mode!

     

     

    Quite a clever one,tbh. Small wonder I missed it,haha!!!

  37. Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar on

    Awe Naw

     

     

    I owe you a huge debt of gratitude. Yesterday I received a picture of you as part of a ‘Linked In’ update.

     

     

    I’ve been able to share it with the weans in my class as part of a ‘this man will get ye’ type thing.

     

     

    They’re now suitably in fear and promise never to misbehave again.

     

     

    Many thanks :-)

  38. BOBBY MURDOCH'S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS forza Oscar and Mackenzie on

    weet weet weet(gbwo)

     

     

    13:58 on 6 September, 2013

     

    Can I ask for your prayers guys for my partners 4year old nephew Blake who has just diagnosed with brain cancer and is in bad way.

     

    Thanks in advance

     

     

    HH

     

     

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    Oh,bud,that is simply dreadful news.

     

     

    I hope Blake can pull through this. Oscar has fought it time and again,I hope Blake has a better time of it.

     

     

    Horrible illness,all the worse for afflicting children.

  40. South Of Tunis on

    This blog can be dangerous .!.

     

     

    Talk of coprophagia has reminded me of something I’d forgotten .

     

     

    A Pier Paolo Pasolini movie called Salo .. It’s many horrors include a coprophagic banquet .

     

     

    Thanks for the memory !

  42. Neustadt-Braw on

    Celtic First…..and so say all of us ! braw!!…………….

     

     

    has a certain ring to it ….ring to it …(see what a did there ) ….and its not from the rev …in the Quiet Man ….:)))

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