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………
1,828 Comments- Pages:
- «
- 1
- ...
- 38
- 39
- 40
- 41
- 42
- 43
- 44
- ...
- 49
- »
croppybhoy
22:55 on
30 March, 2013
MON
Absolute Celtic legend
Remember where we were just before he arrived?
************************************+
Nail hit I’m 46 missed the best of big jock and lived through the horrible nineties paying money I could il afford home and away then the bunnet arrived and MON gave me some of the best weekends into life I hope NFL gives us all more to enjoy but I will always remember tying the MSM IN KNOTS easily .. And me pissing myself at them … For me always a legend … Only my opinion
FGF
Feliz Cumplianos
Believe it or not, I have gained a year, I honestly was under the impression I was 59 last birthday, I was talking on the phone to daughter last week and telling her that being 60 this year was scary, the wife overheard me and never let on for a few days, so another year of my shite to suffer on the blog for yous all >}}}
HH
Resurrexit sicut dixit – happy Easter
TET
Ask your Mrs to call me and work out how old I am before the clocks go forward and mess up my heid entirely!
Kikinthenakas
Richie
23:01 on
30 March, 2013
NatKnow – “We welcome the paper-chase…”
22:53 on
30 March, 2013
True he was shouted down at times, but I think he did the right thing by making the point eloquently, goading Speirs into raising the decibels and making him seem desperate.
IMHO of course :-)
If Spiers seemed desperate…it’s because he was! You’re right that SC called him out and he failed to explain his reasons why Sevco should receive an invite to any new league. My view is that he knew that the reasons he could give have all been discussed and dismissed over the many months of this saga. And so he would have looked like a pratt. Hence his focus on calling Cosgrove and anti-Sevcovian.
WG – is that officially Easter or are you just out the pub?!
Enjoy the game tomorrow.
T4
Disappointed to hear about MoN.
I will go against the grain, and say I would be delighted to to see Martin as a non exec at CP.
Martin is an extremely bright individual with a very strong track record, and, a woderful knowledge of football.
At our core, we are a football club.
Ignore the politics and the side shoes, our performance as a business is ultimately driven by results on the park, and we have a major gap in our board, in that we don’t have someone who is an expert in our core business – football.
Inviting Martin to join the board isn’t an invitation to run the club day to day, it is an invitation to tap into his knowledge and insight on progressing to a higher level, and I think Martin’s intellect and inquisitiveness would be an asset.
zimmerman,
you got a link to to it?
kikinthenakas
Funny thing is, for a few days, both wife and daughter were taking the pash, and I never twigged.
When I was 40, she arranged a surprise bash for me in our local at the time, I asked the owner why the bar was closed for a party, never twigged is was for me, and I nearly never made it, she wisny happy, ffs, all she had to do was tell me >}
NatKnow – “We welcome the paper-chase…”
23:09 on
30 March, 2013
In any case, as predicted by many, SC is getting it tight on FF. One of the more mild comments is that he is the Anti-Christ ffs!
Only the seriously lovelorn would want MON back.
He made it as clear as he could that he was dumping you in 2005 and he told you it was you not him.
And you have not changed.
Neil would quite rightly resign if MON comes back in any capacity. Celtic is not a refuge for former stars who chose to leave us.
Richie
23:15 on
30 March, 2013
NatKnow – “We welcome the paper-chase…”
23:09 on
30 March, 2013
In any case, as predicted by many, SC is getting it tight on FF. One of the more mild comments is that he is the Anti-Christ ffs!
He clearly said something sensible then! :-)
Sftb
To clarify. .. not for you then ;)
Reading back, I see Martin O’Neill has got the the sack from Sunderland. I am ambivalent about whether we should invite him to return to Parkhead. He gave us a lot of joy, especially the Road to Seville but I don’t think he would be better than our manager at handling the MSM. Henrik, I think, thought he was inspirational in talking to the players. Maybe he could still work his magic in the dressing room, especially on European nights. But, I would leave that to our manager to decide. He would know better than anyone about that.
TET
Brilliant, love someone as daft as me!
SFTB
Correct re MON, like all great loves, in our minds they still look the same but when you bump into them you are shocked by the change…..great at the time…..Lennys our new hot chick…
Kikinthenakas
tet.
A blink of the eye and you will be seventy.
You still of the nails?
SFTB – tell me you don’t buy into the nonsense that MON left for other reasons than his wife was seriously ill !
T4
the exiled tim
23:06 on
30 March, 2013
FGF
Feliz Cumplianos
Thank you
HH
Anyone watching Fight Night. Good contest just ended there in a draw. One of the boxers involved a Liverpool lad called Derry Matthews had what looked like a Celtic Jersey draped around him whilst the boxers were waiting for the result. May have not been a Celtic one but it was certainly Green & White Hoops.
Cosgrove (imho) is a fitba man and calls it as he sees it. I haven’t agreed with him in a lot of things but at the core of what he says is a genuine love of the game and the integrity that should be adhered to.
His sidekick Cowan, is a different matter. He supports a team that bowed to the hun under McCall, that threw games (imo) for the benefit of a dead club. 21-0 goals from memory. Does he decry the manager for this? Naw a gentle ribbing of being unable to take points of Thems.
Will look out the podcast – unless anyone can provide a linky – to see how Cos performed tonight.
sipsini
I had a glass or two more than I should have of the vino tinto the other night and had a sly puff, but that was as much as it got, can’t remember if the truth be told, I was warned against having a glass too much again, lessons learned…..
be wary of blaming longmuir for this reconstruction farce, remember the same spl, sfa tried to get sevco in to the spl then division 1, these same men need some one to blame
for maybe setting up an spl 2 and longmuir is only to willing to oblige, for me this has always been the real plan as it would look like it was not their fault that it failed and some sort of change was needed and they tried to get an agreement, listen from the start they tried to get the fix for sevco and were thwarted by the fans and they attempting to do the same only in a more sleekit way as their first choice was rejected leaving spl 2 as the way to go forward for change and securing finances.
tttt
Of course his wife being ill was a factor in his decision but, she could have had just as good health care in Scotland but they made a family decision to return to England to obtain it. And he was quite entitled to decide so. I remain grateful for his work with us but fear many of my fellow supporters attribute magic powers to him.
If he had wished to come back at any point in the intervening 8 years he would merely have to flutter his eyelids and our support would have got wet for him. MON preferred Villa and then Sunderland, his boyhood team, as they were better stepping stones to a job with Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal or as the manager of England. I sometimes feel our support never listen to what Martin is saying because they are too busy gazing into his eyes. He told us all this quite clearly.
MON liked Celtic and did a great job of galvanising our lost potential. He would have wrecked us, if he had stayed, in the same way that Harry Redknapp, another great manager, wrecked Bournemouth, Portsmouth, Southhampton, and, soon, Spurs. Thankfully, we had an astute board that recognised we could not afford MONs methods.
Danso
Longmuir is a Hun plant ….it’s glaringly obvious
Not long in from watching my first ice hockey game with the family, and then catching up on Dr Who and then MoD and saw that MON had been sacked. Shocked at that.
HH
CRC
Come on Tony !!!!!
setting free the bears
23:34 on
30 March, 2013
He had his faults, but he brought back our European desire and expectations. Others have built on this, but it was MON foundations they build on.
HH
CRC
setting free the bears
23:34 on
30 March, 2013
Not what the majority want to hear, but on the button IMO.
….PFayr ,
yes i know that but he is willing to be used as a blocker so that spl 2 appears as an alternative, the real deviants are spl, and sfa in my opinion.
Time for sleep, been up for far too many hours.
Take care and god bless Timland.
HH
KTF
tet.
Your doing well.
It’s looking likely the masonic cabal are pulling strings again.
The internet has become their biggest enemy and they are gunning up.
ie… bills being pushed through…beware the all seeing eye.
tommytwiststommyturns
23:23 on
30 March, 2013
He was leaving irrespective of his wife’s illness.
HH
CRC
CRC
Hope you are well.
Have you ever played ice hockey ?
I went once to ice hockey training , lesson 1 was about putting your stick into the gap between the other guys blade and his skate. Funnily enough , most of the guys were Celtic fans, but the club played in red white and blue.
people must be prepared to accept that the spl are up to their necks in this and the fact that spl clubs are the spl is very telling in all of this, i have yet to hear a spl club call out the spl on any of this including nimmo smiths farcical investigation conclusions which seen to accepted.
RRC,
Just noticed your post (my pc was fekn me about)
listening on itunes.
Happy Easter Bhoys http://youtu.be/qtn842lwU0U
crc
I am trying to accord MON his place and express my appreciation for his achievement but it was of its time and of its place.
Some people do not want to hear it but I will repeat. Celtic were not MON’s favourite team; they were merely his favourite Scottish team. His dad was more of a Celtic man than he was.
We have wasted years, as a support, pining for him, because he gave us a good time. But the girls he was really after had to speak with an English accent and had to have richer daddies than we had.
We helped MON re-launch his career in England. If we had got the golden ticket invitation to the EPL, he might even have stayed for a little longer but, if we had remained at a level of a Leicester or a Villa, his eye would still be wandering towards a Liverpool, Man U or Arsenal gig. And he is not finished in that regard just because Sunderland sacked him
Very slow in catching up on cqn.
I’m about 90 mins behind the blog, but my views on tonight’s broadcast are asfollows.
My life long view of Rangers people, from knuckle draggers to the ” sophisticates”, like Spiers, is that they all wear the Mask.
Some wear it better than others, depending on the situation they find thm selves in.
I include workmates, brothers in law, guys you would stand in the trenches with and all other good guys.
There is ALWAYS a point when that Mask slips. Sooner or later the nerve gets struck, when they react violently, not necessarily physically, to the home truth abouth their club.
It is a given, amongst anyone with a semblence of decency about them, that that club is a basically evil organisation, therefore, for anyone to have any affiliation to them, they would have to suspend their critical faculties as regards right or wrong.
That is the Mask they wear.
Spiers wears it as well as anyone in the Scottish media.