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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Had the pleasure of the company of Tom McLaughlin yesterday afternoon. A few beers in Surfers Paradise, Gold Coast, Australia, good to meet & thank the mhan at last.
Happy Easter all.
Young Tony Watt I want to see him play today quick and direct.
The last time out in the cup at Saint Mirren park.
James Forrest was the difference setting up the two goals with his skill speed & sharpness.
Come on Celtic.
Happy and Blessed Easter to everyone
Lumen Christi
Kayal33
Good looking team…
C’mon You Bhoys In Green..
Why can’t the socialist simpletons see/
big rock candy mountain a song made popular by Burl Ives a closet freemason is what it is.
martin O’neill used his wife’s supposed sickness as a get out clause.
Is she dead or still alive? you tell me cos i don’t give a shit about MON.
Socialist simpletons become very aggresive when faced by the Truth.
Did MON attend a Nottingham Football Club 25 year anniversary on the wednesday before we got humped by Motherwell?
Is his wife still alive?
Was Burl Ives a Freemason?
Work it out simpletons.
Top of the morning to you all from the Kingdom of Fife on this fine bright Easter morn.
Don’t like the talk of banning the hunnish one. Best ignored or dealt with a la Ernie.
I prefer the John Hartford version of the Big Rock Candy Mountain. Much better than Burl in my opinion.
Here it is with some interruptions.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97LJ9DrvEq4
Apologies if posted before ,not read back.
North Korea and Sevco.
One -a dangerous regime run by an overweight pie munching madman,with milions of brainwashed followers.
The other is in Asia :)
Easter, 1916
By William Butler Yeats
I have met them at close of day
Coming with vivid faces
From counter or desk among grey
Eighteenth-century houses.
I have passed with a nod of the head
Or polite meaningless words,
Or have lingered awhile and said
Polite meaningless words,
And thought before I had done
Of a mocking tale or a gibe
To please a companion
Around the fire at the club,
Being certain that they and I
But lived where motley is worn:
All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
That woman’s days were spent
In ignorant good-will,
Her nights in argument
Until her voice grew shrill.
What voice more sweet than hers
When, young and beautiful,
She rode to harriers?
This man had kept a school
And rode our wingèd horse;
This other his helper and friend
Was coming into his force;
He might have won fame in the end,
So sensitive his nature seemed,
So daring and sweet his thought.
This other man I had dreamed
A drunken, vainglorious lout.
He had done most bitter wrong
To some who are near my heart,
Yet I number him in the song;
He, too, has resigned his part
In the casual comedy;
He, too, has been changed in his turn,
Transformed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
Hearts with one purpose alone
Through summer and winter seem
Enchanted to a stone
To trouble the living stream.
The horse that comes from the road,
The rider, the birds that range
From cloud to tumbling cloud,
Minute by minute they change;
A shadow of cloud on the stream
Changes minute by minute;
A horse-hoof slides on the brim,
And a horse plashes within it;
The long-legged moor-hens dive,
And hens to moor-cocks call;
Minute by minute they live:
The stone’s in the midst of all.
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
O when may it suffice?
That is Heaven’s part, our part
To murmur name upon name,
As a mother names her child
When sleep at last has come
On limbs that had run wild.
What is it but nightfall?
No, no, not night but death;
Was it needless death after all?
For England may keep faith
For all that is done and said.
We know their dream; enough
To know they dreamed and are dead;
And what if excess of love
Bewildered them till they died?
I write it out in a verse—
MacDonagh and MacBride
And Connolly and Pearse
Now and in time to be,
Wherever green is worn,
Are changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.
A very Happy Easter to all,
Looking forward to the game, it is ages since we were involved in the real name of the game, fitba. Enjoyed a real great sporting weekend I expect Efe to be there on time and him to give us one of his fantastic celebrations.
What a history to have SFL league champions 2013, nae luck.
Have a great day…….
I moved , did not like where I was sitting, got a better view now.
CYBIG
Hail Hail
chris torey
10:50 on
31 March, 2013
You would shame all the devil’s in hell……a base knuckle-dragger …… You have my sympathy….what a sad life you lead…
The sun is shining.
The hoops are playing today.
It’s great to be part of the Celtic family.
Happy Easter Sunday to you all.
ignore the troll bhoys and ghirls
he will vanish like a certain third division team playing ipox
jam67
The Pope has conveyed his first Easter message to his followers in Blantyre. “Dear holy brethren, go forth now in the light of the Lord and take down your Christmas decorations…..
Sevco become the second team in Scotland to win their league this season – three days after Queen of the South clinched the Second Division with a 6-0 victory at Brechin.
While we find this very amusing, (and we do) Zombies are absolutely raging that the club with the second biggest wage bill in Scottish football did not secure the title before any other team this season.
They are also extremely peeved that they have been unable to beat Gretna’s points record in the bottom league (as well as East Fife’s) – but like Gretna and Livingston they did win the bottom division in their debut season.
So, well done Sevco and well done Queen of the South.
Meanwhile, in the’ uncompetitive’ Scottish Premier League the title has still to be won – and today Celtic will paying tribute to the first team to win a domestic prize this season.
Re Chris Torey – starve him of the attention he obviously craves, he’ll go away eventually. Don’t feed the troll.
Just asked my wee ma if she remembered to put her clock forward, she said………’aye and it fell aff the mantelpiece.
Off to watch us beat St. Mirren.
It’s a fine bright day for football
Chris torey
What an embarrasment you are to your family and your new third div team.
Take your poisonous drivel elsewhere man, preferably back under the stone you crawled out of.
Martins wife is alive by the grace of god and the skill of surgeons. She suffered terribly.
How dare you.
HH
Chris Torey
10:13 on 31 March, 2013
Big Rock Candy Mountain was written by Harry McClintock.
Don’t know if he was a Mason or a closet queen.
But I do know he was a Wobbly.
Reckon that’s more relevant in deciding what the song was about.
Seems to me the song is socialist.
To be fair the syntax of your posts suggest that English might not be your first language so perhaps that explains why you find it difficult to understand the lyrics.
A wobbly?
Is that an IWW or the The International Socialist Party member? you don’t know what the song is about? Why it is about that old dream that the socialists are still selling, that all will be well when everyobody with honestly earned money and possessions shares it with the deadheads.
Note I said honestly earned, not like the financiers who earn from other people’s sweat, who finance the simpletons people who have never done a days work in their life, like Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Che, Jamie Dimond, Barack Obama, Alan Greenspan, Bernie Bernanke. Good socialists all. That’s what they tell you, but one can tell cattle anything.
Wake up socialist simpleton.
BBC had a discussion yesterday about hoe Queen of the South had won their division with ease and concluded that it was lucky for The Rangers that they wouldn’t need to face such a good team next season.
Afraid of the mighty Queen Of The South? Not got much faith in Super Sally, have they?
To be fair, it’s been a while since we had a pet troll on the blog.
Maybe it’s one of the regular troll’s using a new name.
But we should never underestimate the damage Martin O’Neill inflicted on our former rivals – his success was the catalyst of their downfall as Moonbeams literally broke the bank to try and keep up with Celtic.
Pádraic Mac Piarais (1879–1916)
Mise Éire:
Sine mé ná an Chailleach* Bhéarra
Mór mo ghlóir:
Mé a rug Cú Chulainn cróga.
Mór mo náir:
Mo chlann féin a dhíol a máthair.
Mór mo phian:
Bithnaimhde do mo shíorchiapadh.
Mór mo bhrón:
D’éag an dream inar chuireas dóchas.
Mise Éire:
Uaigní mé ná an Chailleach* Bhéarra.
Bhoy67
11:04 on 31 March, 2013
Chris torey
What an embarrasment you are to your family and your new third div team.
Take your poisonous drivel elsewhere man, preferably back under the stone you crawled out of.
Martins wife is alive by the grace of god and the skill of surgeons. She suffered terribly.
How dare you.
I am pleased for Martin’s wife.
Was she sick when Martin attended the Nottingham do?
Fortunes Favours Mibbes
reading back and caught your post to me.
First of all nothing was directed at you.You have totally misread my intentions.
Secondly I’m very much pro Green Brigade (politics and lateral movement)
and thirdly i’m also pro the demo and wish I could be there myself.
Because lets face it who wouldn’t want to be.Even if someone didn’t agree with the demo they would have the chance of meeting up with one of the largest gatherings of CQNers yet.
I’m also pretty confident that the numbers will grow even more.
I’ve only had the chance to meet a few fellow posters even though I have been on here
for years.And they were all good ghuys.I don’t know why anyone would give up that opportunity if they could fulfill it.
My original post was meant more as a gentle dig than anything else.
More on the lines of.
How come the North American supporters clubs hold all these conventions in Vegas year after year, yet no one has ever seen Kojo.
I have obviously narked some posters on here which was not my intention.
I will therefore not ask anything of those who I think are being hypocrites and will
try to just ignore them in future.
Try
HH
haveyouorhaveyoueverbeencsc
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
10:54 on 31 March, 2013
chris torey
10:50 on
31 March, 2013
You would shame all the devil’s in hell……a base knuckle-dragger …… You have my sympathy….what a sad life you lead
Does the truth bother you?
It shouldn’t.
The truth is true.
Chris Torey
Winning the European Cup a magnificent achievement ,the way you come across your club has never experienced it !
Martin O’Neill attending the anniversary with his former team mates had no bearing on the losing on the title,the officiating of Hugh Dallas and Andrew Davis was more culpable.
Incidentally ,I have learned from personal experience that not every individual who has the mis-fortune to contract the same horrible disease as Mrs O’Neill succumbs to it.
As for Burl Ives etc,I couldn’t care less.
No right minded Celtic supporter would select Easter Sunday to spout your ill-informed views.
Good Luck
Have any of the reports in the MSM of yesterday’s discussion on Radio Scotland included a reference to Neil Doncaster’s blog?
One thing about that. Stuart Cosgrove said a few times that Neil Doncaster had only just written it. This is not the case. I first noticed it in the week following the LNS commission decision was announced on February 28. I have written to Neil Doncaster about it seven times, but received no reply. In the first email I sent him, I said I thought from the context that he had written that blog before the LNS decision was announced.
It doesn’t matter too much when he wrote it, I suppose, because while he said nothing yesterday to put Stuart Cosgrove right on the assumption that he, Doncaster, had only just written it, at least he stood by the main message, that a team that spends money it cannot afford automatically gains a sporting advantage.
The SPL’s immediate response to LNS contained a promise to give the detail of the decision further consideration at its next meeting. I suppose we have to wait for that. But if the MSM could bring itself to acknowledge that the SPL’s chief executive is fundamentally at odds with the bizarre conclusion LNS reached, we could at least have a modicum of confidence that someone will ask Neil Doncaster a question about it at the time of the next SPL meeting, along the lines of, ‘what next?’
LNS, let us remind ourselves, confirmed that Rangers broke the rules for years and, as a result of that rule-breaking found a way of putting an extra £47 million it otherwise could not have afforded into its player budgets, but gained no sporting advantage. Aye, right.
Malc
11:01 on 31 March, 2013
Re Chris Torey – starve him of the attention he obviously craves, he’ll go away eventually. Don’t feed the troll.
Malc, I don’t give a tinkers cuss what you say. I have been in this site much longer than most of you, check Paul67, its just that sometimes I get sick of the socialist crap that is posted here that I react. I have a family in Glasgow and they are socialists. They would make you quake in your boots, shoes, wellies, whatever, not me and I despair of the sh!t they talk.
theBHOYfromU.N.C.L.E
11.01
LOL
HH
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
10:54 on 31 March, 2013
chris torey
10:50 on
31 March, 2013
You would shame all the devil’s in hell……a base knuckle-dragger …… You have my sympathy….what a sad life you lead…
And a Happy Easter to you too.
Do you know what Easter means?
I am a very happy man. Can fight too.
Many guises ….constant nonsense
Happy Easter to all my fellow Catholics.
Socialists can wait for May Day.
I am bored and shall retire.
I guess we cant stop uneducated morons use of computers.
HH
3 points today will bring us closer to our 44th title as the most successful football club in Scotland.
COYBIG.
….PFayr
11:20 on
31 March, 2013
The joKo one?
HH
CRC
Hoopy Easter Bhoys & Ghirls
I hope your day is filled with chocolate and hoopy goals
HH
CRC
I often wonder what it must be like to have a multi-poster personality, how does it impact your family life, do the kids know who they are talking to? Does the wife know who she is kissing, does the dug know who’s stick he is chasing, does the wummin in the shop know who she is serving, do you have different clothes for different characters??Different accents etcetcetc…
RandomStarryThoughts…
Happy Easter
Very surprised to see none of the papers running with the 55 titles pash on their front or back pages today .
Is it finally getting through ?
Come the Celtic today .
HH