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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zimmerman,
I agree – don’t know whether to go for sad or happy smiley.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njG7p6CSbCU
Hail Hail amigo.
Genuine Celtic Supporter and good heart.
A song for zimmerman.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fPYyoY49Bc
Petec,
excellent track.
David & Terry
Time for bed,
FFM & Petec,
it’s been a pleasure,
Live long and prosper ; )))
re saint martin.
imho stayed a year or so to long with us and left us with no one coming through the ranks.
still will always love him for seville.
and the one thing we should all thank him for is of course
NEIL FRANCIS LENNON.
saint martin brought him 2 us and for that i will be forever greatfull.
but still dont want him back as a helper.
H.H.
HH
In Lenny we trust. MON had his time.. Legend..
Now- it’s Lenny time..
HH
also will never forget the faces and the noise of the celtic fans leaving the north stand after the 6 v 2 game.
i think we could all sense that “the times they are a changing”.
bobdylancsc.
Great Howlin Night…
Most Tims can all see it…At one (or more) levels
What the particularly fascinating fact is…?
Is those who cannot.
PublicRelationsMustNotSupercedeTruth csc
PS
21st Century Micky Finn culture is lacking authenticity
MON, Bless him, will continue to grow independent of us.
Another era….
I always think of my late father watching the TV as my mother passed him his tea and asking him something…
“Sshhh Maureen…. Martins speaking”
The reply of a happy man…
We have a Man in charge.
A very happy Easter to all cqner’s……may
the love and peace the risen Christ bring’s
to the world be with you and your loved
one’s today and everyday.
Happy Easter to all CQNers.
MON gave me a glimpse of what we could achieve at Celtic with a bit of investment.
Never thought I would see the hoops in a Euro final. Martin provided that .
I feel it us apt at Easter time to add MON gave me the most spiritual experiences of my life, a time where it seemed anything was possible .
God bless MON, I will forever be in your debt
A very happy Easter to all on here!
Sorry to hear about MON – a Celtic legend in my book. He WAS just what we needed after the Dalglish/Barnes debacle. I will always be grateful for this.
When the board decided that they could no longer provide him with the financial backing they had in the past, a parting of the ways was inevitable imo.
Thanks for the memories, but a return to CP is not on the cards – NFL is our manager and is doing a very fine job.
Best of luck Martin – the ROI job will probably be yours next year.
To all those going to the game today – safe there and back, and enjoy.
HH!!
Sad to hear of young Marcus Fraser getting a cruciate ligament injury. The poor lad is out for 9 months.
Best wishes on a speedy recovery young man.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/education/islamic-high-school-to-open-in-glasgow-1-2868668
Check the comments at end of article
SPL’s Neil Doncaster says change can only happen this summer
League reconstruction must take place this summer, says Scottish Premier League chief executive Neil Doncaster.
It comes in response to the suggestion any revamp could be put back a year.
“It’s not acceptable to start saying ‘well, let’s just push it back a year because we can’,” Doncaster said.
“The deal agreed back in January was about a package of measures and one of those measures was implementation this summer. I think we should focus on delivery of the deal for this summer.”
SPL clubs are due to vote on the proposed 12-12-18 set-up on 15 April.
And Doncaster believes if it does not get the green light, then plans for any league reconstruction whatsoever could be shelved.
“What I expect to happen is that the 12 SPL clubs will meet on 15 April at 10:00 GMT and they will decide whether they wish to see the package of measures go forward or not,” he said.
“If 11 clubs put their hand in the air and say ‘yes’, then it’s in the court of the Scottish Football League to decide.
“If less than 11 [SPL] clubs are in favour, the game’s a bogey and that’s that.”
Were 11 SPL clubs to give 12-12-18 the thumbs up on 15 April, the SFL clubs would convene later that week and vote on whether they supported it.
It would require three quarters of the SFL clubs to support the idea for the whole plan to be sealed.
Doncaster rejected the idea that it is too tight a timescale to make changes in time for the new season beginning on 3 August.
Rather, he wants those involved to appreciate the benefits the 12-12-18 system will bring.
“We need to go forward to 15 April with confidence, with enthusiasm, with momentum and try to deliver something which is going to deliver so many things that everyone wants, and I include supporters within that,” Doncaster said.
“Otherwise we don’t get the play-offs, we don’t get the single league, we don’t get the pyramid and we don’t get much more money going to the First Division clubs.
“All of those things, which I think we would unanimously agree are the way forward, are delivered as part of these proposals.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9x6fG3QrBE
A song for the post number
Shocking number of posts !!!
Rise and shine sleepy bhoys
From todays Hootsman
They need 2 Lee McCullochs…hahahahahahahaha
Bereft, belittled and booed off. A fitting day really for Rangers to bag the title in this season of such regular rottenness.
A second successive scoreless draw means their attempts to do so are draining whatever life – and this was minuscule – there ever was in the first step of the reincarnated club’s journey to the top. To some, waterboarding might seem less torturous.
The Ibrox club’s manager, Ally McCoist, chose to “start with the positives” in his post-match assessment. He even managed to find one, pointing to the fact that his side yesterday clocked up their third consecutive clean sheet. An achievement hardly likely to set the bugles blowing, and on the flipside Rangers have now gone 500 minutes without scoring from open play. In Scottish football’s lowest tier. While playing against part-timers with wage bills on average a 28th of the £7 million with which Rangers are operating.
The figures with which Rangers can be flailed for their impoverished efforts may be familiar, but that makes them no less stunning. All the more so when yesterday McCoist’s side escaped with a point. A Montrose side that produced the more considered and crafted play in the second period had a goal wrongly disallowed by referee Kevin Clancy. A 66th-minute shot from Terry Mason was pushed upwards by Neil Alexander and as the keeper sought to collect it, he was barged by Lee Wallace before Martin Boyle thumped the loose ball into an empty net. Clancy appeared to mistakenly believe a home player had impeded Alexander, and cut the Ibrox men a mighty break.
Montrose didn’t moan about this ill-fortune, but McCoist certainly doesn’t feel like a man who has been blessed with much in the way of luck. He wasn’t oblivious to the disgruntlement from his own support. That centred not only on the dismal nature of the display, but also on his decision to play Kane Hemmings on his own up front, in a
4-1-4-1 formation. Without the injured Dean Shiels and Andy Little, or the suspended (by the club) Francisco Sandaza, McCoist offered a plea in mitigation for his formation. But with Lee McCulloch in the Rangers starting line-up as a defender,his argument appeared somewhat weak.
“We need players, it’s as simple as that. We need players in all areas for next season,” he said. “We can all see there is no real zip or probing – or class, actually – in the forward areas, and I think that’s evident for everybody to see. Hopefully we can get over the line sooner rather than later.
“Of course we [thought of playing McCulloch] up front but we had to balance it out. It would definitely have left us more open at the back, there is no doubt about that. Lee has made us look more solid at the back and the fact we’ve got another clean sheet would certainly back that up. There is the possibility of putting Lee up front, it was an option, but it was an option that we decided not to take.”
How damning is that? Rangers are struggling to both put the ball in their opponents’ net, or stop their opponents scoring because they do not have two Lee McCullochs. It seemed as if they might have been able to do without him in forward areas when David Templeton tested John Gibson with a well-struck effort and then Wallace scrapped the crossbar with a drive earlier on. Save for Gibson pulling of a fine block from Hemmings effort on the turn early in the second period, that was it from Rangers as an attacking force.
Montrose – off the back of a 6-0 defeat – became the third Third Division team in four matches to take points off the Ibrox behemoths as, after finding their feet, they out-passed and out-created their visitors.
Boyle should have made a header count at the back post and Alan Campbell was similarly wasteful. The hosts became firmly the team most likely to score as the encounter entered its closing stages and Alexander was forced to beat away a booming free-kick from Jamie Winter with ten minutes remaining. What remains of Rangers’ credibility in an otherwise part-time set-up wherein only three clubs have yet to take points off them is debatable.
And their title win, confirmed when Elgin City beat Queen’s Park a couple of hours later, won’t close down that discussion.
Morning all Happy Easter! Well done to the oldest young manager of the newest club in Scotland on achieving the impossible on the never-never!
A star on the jersey!
In other news:
Chuckles is blowing the dust off the paperwork looking for non-existant ‘get out’ clauses in players contracts, no wonder he’s miffed with that chief scout!
Jabba’s busy blowing up balloons for the party, no jelly & ice-cream, and the players are looking forward to their win bonus. This will go some way to supplement their meagre salaries and, in some cases, their good fortune at the turf accountants!
lionsroar67….
Worthy of repeating….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR0CjBtsG8I
On many levels so Very Apt…
Happy Easter Y’All
HAMILTON chief Les Gray last night promised to lead a First Division revolt if clubs veto league reconstruction plans for next season.
The Accies chairman has warned teams at the bottom end of the SFL they could be cut adrift if they refuse to back an immediate revamp to create a 12-12-18 format.
Record Sport revealed yesterday that second tier teams are ready to join with the SPL after 14 clubs refused to back a revolutionary shake-up of our game.
Gray is adamant the First Division isn’t prepared to wait any longer for change and after talks with SPL boss Neil Doncaster, they are ready to go it alone.
He said: “If the SPL vote ‘Yes’ on April 15 and the SFL followed that with a ‘No’ vote on immediate reconstruction there would be a queue of clubs saying this isn’t good enough for us.
“I’d be at the front of that queue to approach the SPL to ask what our options are.
“I’m not prepared to wait another 10 years for the chance to change to come around again.
“That queue will be led by the majority of First Division clubs, if not all of them.
“If we are left with a ‘status quo’ I am not prepared to do nothing about it.
“I led a delegation of clubs which approached the SPL on Thursday as a measure to ask if this cannot be fixed then what are our options?
“We have given these clubs the opportunity to try and achieve change and they are saying ‘no’. As a result, First Division clubs are not prepared to accept that.
“Nobody wants to use the words SPL2 as we have had our SFL hats on and are working for the betterment of Scottish football.
“But we cannot have a ?situation where second tier clubs have no protection where every time you are relegated then your business model is bust.”
If SPL2 was to get off the ground clubs would need to find a solution around the two year notice period required to quit the SFL.
But Gray hopes lower league sides will put the good of the game before their own interests to avoid triggering such drastic action.
He said: “The SPL and SFL agreed the core principles in January so I don’t understand why some clubs feel it’s happening too quickly.
“It’s taken time to get the rule book rewritten and get the lawyers involved and that has happened. There is time to complete the process.
“On the table is a fairer financial distribution model. The clubs at the top end such as Celtic are prepared to give away considerable amounts of money to support the rest of the leagues.
“The SPL have shown a willingness to change which may not be there next year, as I think they’ll fix their own body rather than trying to fix all of Scottish football.”
lionroars67 07:32
The anti Catholic school bigots dont like this one bit judging by the comments
Liar liar Sallys pants on fire
He said: “We were listening to the Queen’s game on the bus back.
“The second-biggest roar of the day came when they were awarded a penalty — and the biggest came when they scored it.
“I couldn’t hear who scored the penalty for the cheering but I wish him all the best!
“We were just passing Auchterarder when the final whistle went at Hampden and I was happy to see the guys on the bus hugging one another and just celebrating.
thindimebhoy
its nice to see wee diddy teams enjoying their moment…. o))
happy Easter one and all..
lionroars67
07:38 on
31 March, 2013
Brill……..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can’t beleve the criticism of MON ….
Caltontongues ….. Sanity check ?
Happy Easter!
Has the blog ever had 2k comments?
SPF
http://scotslawthoughts.wordpress.com/2013/03/31/compare-and-contrast-administration-for-dunfermline-13-and-rangers-12-a-quick-solution/
Paul67 must have got a big Easter Egg this year…..He he ……Happy Easter everyone….!!!!!!!!
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/columnists/the-poor-suffer-cuts-our-leaders-coin-it-in-society-is-torn-apart-a-society-torn-apart.20653246
A thought for those at the sharp end of cuts, its Easter
Like every manager in the game MON had his faults.
What should never be forgotten is what he did for this club.
It should also be remembered that he was denied a further 2 titles, at least 1 SC + 1 LC by RFC’s cheating over the period of his tenure at CP.
67Heaven @ 08:50
Sadly, I can…
There are distinct parallels to be drawn between the criticism of both MON and Fergus. It wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest to see a correlation between those booing Fergus in 98 and those wanting rid of O’Neill when he wanted to move doon south in 03/04 and 04/05.
Both stated their desires to walk away, and for many that rubbed them up the wrong way, as for these fans, for someone with an Irish-Catholic background, Celtic is the ultimate place in the football world to go and why would they go anywhere else when nirvana had already been reached.
IMHO it bursts the bubble for some that being from a particular area in the world that some other football team might also be in their horizons.
Even though I share that ancestral background I couldn’t give a toss about final destinations as I share the same ambitious streak that both Fergus and MON had and can well see what they wanted to do and why.
I’d be the first to say that MON wanted to manage either a big team in the EPL or become manager of England, and that he had those opinions while he was managing Celtic at the time. Dare I say it, but that’s just the pro-British culture that many on here espouse and want to continue.
Didn’t realise the Sevvies got a big decision go their way again yesterday.
Doesn’t surprise me either as after having watched the first half MIB Clancy was giving them every 50/50 or 40/60 decision- e.g. the Montrose penalty claim would have definitely been given if it happened in the other box.
If you deducted the points from the favours they have got this league would be very tight.
Listened to the Sportsound discussion, outstanding contribution from Stuart Cosgrove, Graham Spiers sadly is in the Guidi, Keevins, BFDJ camp of rehabilitation of Sevco at whatever cost to the integrity of the game. Disgusting and shameful.
My team for today:
:::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Forster ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::
Ambrose :::::::::::::: Wilson ::::::::::::: Mulgrew ::::::::::: Izaguirre
::::::::::::::: Kayal ::::::::::::: Wanyana ::::::::::::: Ledley :::::::::::::
:::::::::::::: Lassad ::::::::::::: Hooper :::::::::::::: Samaras :::::::::::
Attempt #149.
May the curse be lifted.
Booed off the park by their own fans on the day they win their very first honour…..
How fitting
How ignominious
How hun – like
Happy Easter Bhoys and Ghirls. The Celts are nearly here, can’t wait for the match today. Sad to see MON getting sacked, such is the madness of the EPL. Steve McLaren is the bookies favourite and so the crazy merry-go-round continues.
Martin gave us some unforgettable times that I wouldn’t have thought possible in the years preceding him. He also contributed greatly to the death of thems as they upped their spend to try and contain us.
Celtic 6-2 Rangers says it all for me.