Sometimes it seems there is a constant struggle underway for the heart and soul of Celtic. It is incredible that for 125 years a community has managed to retain the conviction to help the less fortunate which drove forward those who formed the club.
Scarcely a day goes by without me receiving a message from someone offering to help those in need. This week it was tables for the Wayside Club Gala Dinner (Saturday 27 April, check it out here), someone send in a box set of the Byrds, to raise money ‘for the homeless’, and a reader parted with a precious top signed by the Seville team, which I’ve to collect in Glasgow.
Much of this goes on below radar but when a call to arms is needed it goes out in impressive clarity; the Wee Oscar campaign slipped into an infrastructure established when Kano took ill a few years back (hope you are doing well, Kano and we hear from you soon). Believe me, some of the work, and many of the discrete donations, would blow you away.
None of this is random. At some point each and every person who has stepped forward did so, knowingly or not, because of the way the Celtic Movement infected them.
A number of Celtic fans, and one former treble winning captain, are helping the Celtic Charity this year with the objective of encouraging each Celtic fan to raise £125. It feels like the right thing to do and if you’ve not brought yourself up to speed with the project yet, do it this weekend (more information here).
There will be formal events throughout the year but if you want to do a sponsored run/walk/cycle/jig, this is your invitation. You are reading this stuff because of your link all the way back to that hall in the Calton; get involved and earn your place in that 125-year-old story.
The next major event is a mass huddle at the top of Ben Nevis, check it out here.
Enjoy your Easter holiday – but not before you get involved………
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stringer bell
21:36 on 30 March, 2013
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Spiers is the ‘big fish in a wee puddle’ of the MSM, not saying much, but still. Everything that happened to deidco and everything that has happened to Sevco is of their own making and happened in plain sight of the MSM. Spiers did fall out with Minty, has he ever given chapter & verse on that? As a journalist he let himself down on the day when ESPN felt the need to apologise for broadcasting sectarian bile from sevco supporters in Berwick, he managed to introduce the Green Brigade as if ‘one’s as bad as the other’.
His constant minimisation of Sevcovian misbehaviour is downright shameful. Trying to get sevco into a nonexistent league is just the tin lid.
Hail Hail!!!!
Mon was the right man at the time. GS took us further and Neil has emulated him. With the young squad, I’m looking forward to Neil taking us even further.
jimbo67
21:50 on 30 March, 2013
Game was a cracker – quite enjoy watching Napoli (and Cavani).
Like their crisp passing (always with an angle) – their pace and clever use of space on breakaways and Cavani’s lethal finishing.
Wouldn’t mind the Tic adopting their passing game – cutting out the square ball.
Sorry to hear about MON sacking.
Think he would have saved them from relegation and took them forward given time and cash.
Great manager for us, and I will always cherish his time with us. Thanks for some unforgettable memories Martin.
Can anyone remember the Citizens Theatre Company in the 70s called by the stats of pop/riches?
Wad it 7/93?
7:84
googybhoy ♥ Celtic
7.84 Theatre Group…
Echo echo…
Googybhoy
I think it was 7/84 …but could be wrong.
As you say, it was supposed to reflect that 7% of pod had 84%(?) of wealth.
7/84?
Pity about Martin, Sunderland alway looked decent on MOTD but it is results that count. :-(
starry plough
22:10 on
30 March, 2013
googybhoy ♥ Celtic
7.84 Theatre Group…
Cheers for that.
Seen a few of their productions . Great working class theatre.
googybhoy ♥ Celtic
22:08 on
30 March, 2013
Can anyone remember the Citizens Theatre Company in the 70s called by the stats of pop/riches?
Wad it 7/93?
7/84 I think mate
Acht!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wn62RPScnqo
7:84
if you want a laugh bayern v hamburg on espn for St Pauli fans :)
784
Paul67 et al
Sunderland are not the only club threatened by relegation, Newcastle and Aston Villa are also in the frame. If Wigan dig it out one of those clubs could go down. Could. Didn’t help Reading sacking their manager, might not help QPR either.
SFTB and Crushed Nuts
Absolutely on the money.
When GS was asked to stand up he
completely bottled it.
Hopefully he will reflect on his pitiful
performance on RS tonight and come back as
a better journalist.
The central question in all of the stramash about reconstruction seems to be this:
How come… David Longmuir, having negotiated on behalf of SFL clubs the agreement on the proposed new league structure with SPL and SFA, subsequently backed 27-1-1 (one abstention) by the SFL members in January, is now actively briefing against the plan?
What has changed his mind?
Inexplicable…
R.I.P. Richard Griffiths BTW.
‘It is the most shattering experience of a young man’s life when one morning he awakes and quite reasonably says to himself, “I will never play the Dane.”‘
Good night all
wont be long now till the Hoops are back.
ps Efe to score anytime in 90mins 8/1 with hills
Till tomorrow sleep well.
Think it was 7/84
I just think MON could be the eloquent public face of Celtic.
Martin can deal with the media in a way that Neil can’t.
Martin is usually always measured in what he says and would not and does not get caught out by Sevconian MSM.
I think Martins experience would be a great help to Neil.
Just my opinion but
10 years ago Martin O’Neill led us to Seville
Before any of you start i agree he should have won more titles
and trophies.
But when he was on a roll
he was magnificent.
7 % of the country own 84% of the wealth ….. Bit like the EPL
The Battered Bunnet
The good thing is there are many more people asking the same question, and m”GOT AT BY HOVIS HEID” (ALLEDGEDLY)
A lot of opinion on Graham Spiers tonight and he was a good journalist who I used to enjoy reading in the Herald years ago particularly when he wrote about his mole inside Ipox and the half-time gannets, anyone remember that? Tonight I just think he made a total fool of himself, he comments quite well on the golf but an invitational in golf is quite different from an invitational in football, that is ok for a summer kickabout but not for an actual national league. They have just won their league and see it as beneath them, if they are in the same league next year I don’t think they will survive and it seems they have been told that, the sevco media are in a panic.
Hilarious isn’t it.
MON’s style of management for me worked only while he was a ‘young’ guy. To see a 61 yo jumping up and down and running about like a maddie, sad to say but as you get older, you need to be wearing the suit and tie or the cardi and that wasn’t his style.
One of the best tracksuit managers of all time but time’s caught up with him I feel.
To get Celtic to Seville and get the best out of Henrik, he’ll always be a winner for me.
Burghbhoy…. U have made a very valid point … I agree
m= many hinting he has been. :))
Remember to put your clocks forward tonight @ 1.00 AM. :))
Weefra HH
7% own 84% of the wealth and that was in the early 70s and it’s fair to say redistribution has taken place since then…in..erm one direction to pardon the modern cultural faux pas.
Longmuir had obviously been captured by Chuck to do his bidding. There can be no other reason for his change if heart on reconstruction and his recent curve ball re colt teams.
He IMO plans to scupper reconstruction .
Why would a SFL executive work against a bigger distribution of wealth and opportunity of promotion for his members ?
Answer…. He is in the pay of one of them.
Gordon64
22:01 on 30 March, 2013
‘EL
I’m not being argumentative
but do you ever have a point to any of your posts.
Your constant sniping is not healthy.’
I thought the point was obvious.
Cosgrove is a loose canon because he is not employed as a journalist in Scotland.
If Cosgrove was a journalist employed in Scotland he would not be saying the things he’s saying.
That’s why the only two people in the mainstream media who have asked questions are
1. Alex Thomson. Journalist. Works in England.
2. Stuart Cosgrove. Employed primarily by Channel 4.
If you can’t understand the significance of the point, fair enough.
Loved Mon when he was with us, will always think back on him with great fondness. Must admit I was disappointed when he accepted an OBE but as he would say himself that was his prerogative however we now have a great Manager and I don’t see any reason to be bringing MON back in any capacity.
palacio67/leftclicktic.
Cheers for that.
Looks like the game plan is an Spl1 & spl 2, by invite.
No surprise there as it has been floated about for months.
The huns are on there knees again and anything that can be done for their corpse to be seen alive and stable, will be done.
sfa,spl,rotten to the core.
looks like north Korea is next on the hit list.
Paul67 et al
There is a story, (possibly apocryphal) that while travelling around Scotland, in Perthshire i think, in his 7:84 emblazoned vehicle, the late John McGrath was asked, by the young petrol attendant what it actually meant. On being given said explanation, young lad reacted by saying; “that’s nothing to boast about pal”.
Sad for MON. Very much a man of his time but a true Celtic legend and, along with Fergus, the architect of “the Celtic century” which began with that unforgettable 6 2…