Legends, history, £6k and tens of thousands of Celtic fans

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Congratulations to everyone who participated in the 9-in-a-row CQN Charity Golf Day at Aberdour in Fife, yesterday.  The event, auctions and raffles leading up to it raised £6000, the bulk of which will go to the 1254125 appeal, while some will go to Clic Sargent, who help families with children with that dreadful disease.

Lisbon Lion, Willie Wallace, and his wife Olive, were fantastic guests, who enjoyed spending a day with 70 or so friends.  It doesn’t matter how far away Lisbon Lions live, you always find them the same way.

My sincere thanks to everyone who came along, bid of the auctions or bought a raffle ticket, all in aid of people you will never know. Thank you from all of us to John, Kevin and John, for their stressful work in pulling the event together, for the ninth year!

125 years ago a handful of people, living in a community devastated by hunger, destitution and TB, but who could make a difference, decided they would make a difference.  As a result, Celtic was born.  Celtic is not just something to brighten up your weekends, it’s not purely there to build friendships or to create common-interests across the generations, it is a movement you are required participate in.

The clarion call to all Celtic fans this year is to do more than just put your hand in your pocket, the spirit which gave birth to the concept of Celtic will only survive if those who can get involved, inspire a fresh generation by doing so.

Go register for 1254125, and commit to doing something to raise £125.  It can be anything.  You can walk a 1888 meters, go to the barbers and get a baldy to celebrate the signing of Amido Balde, it doesn’t need to be as ambitious as the 150 brave souls who right this very moment are atop Ben Nevis about to undertake the world’s highest huddle.

If you believe in this club, don’t leave it to someone else to take care of what’s important.  The same goes for your season ticket.  It has been over a century since we have been as close to the founding spirit of our club, but the sporting dramas which inspire us all are not achieved by new strikers, they are the fruits of tens of thousands fans buying season tickets.

Go stake your claim on Celtic.

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  1. @CTTurnbull: Palermo president Zamparini said: “He [Lafferty] is someone who can lead the attack by himself, similar to Luca Toni.”

     

     

     

    Nearly dropped my pint when I read this.

  2. @Kieran_Celtic: Gattuso is the manager of Palermo. Played with Lafferty at Sion – where the fans called him their worst ever signing.

     

     

     

    The Masonic Brotherhood stretches to Italy.

  3. The Boy Jinky on

    Googy

     

    Maybe lost in translation

     

     

    Think zamparini was commenting on lafferty then saw Boris johnston and said .. look – a tory.

  4. Twisty, currently doing time in the second biggest open prison in the gulf, Qatar it’s called :oD

     

    No back till august

  5. Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on

    Twists

     

     

    Take the disk out and put a bigger One in

     

     

    Or

     

     

    You can copy using the SCART cable to a DVD player that has a SCART connection and an internal disk

     

     

    Recordinternational are composite which means you have to play the stuff that you want to copy. It also means reduced qaulity.

     

     

    HH

  6. Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo on

    Twists

     

     

    Take the disk out and put a bigger One in

     

     

    Or

     

     

    You can copy using the SCART cable to a DVD player that has a SCART connection and an internal disk

     

     

    Recordings are composite which means you have to play the stuff that you want to copy. It also means reduced qaulity.

     

     

    HH

  7. The only thing Toni and Yon Git have in common is, for a pair of ugly bar stewards they managed to wed a couple of stunners.

  8. Gene's a Bhoy's name on

    Che

     

    When peter crouch was asked what he’d be if he wasn’t a footballer he said “a virgin”

  9. The Boy Jinky on

    Che

     

     

    Sure luca toni goal celebration was him playing the decks

     

     

    While laffin boys well known for hitting the decks

  10. The Boy Jinky on

    Pf

     

     

    Sure craigy whyte said he was like luca toni.

     

     

    Naw …. hold it… he said he was fn pony

  11. Always surprised that so many of the people on here who lament the treatment that CFC get from the footballing establishment and the MSM then go on and believe that somehow things would go swimmingly in an independent Scotland!

     

     

    Do they really think that if the buck stopped with Wee Eck and the Mickey Mouse talking shop in Edinburgh – that any of the Hun debacle would ever have seen the light of day?

     

     

    Now the Hun mess is but a tiny part of a much bigger web of corruption that involves far more money and people than Minty – shocking as it is!

     

     

    Anyone who really believes that somehow Scotland would emerge from independence as A Scotia Cuba must be smoking some serious drugs!

     

     

    The old 7:84 theatre company was called that for a very good reason

     

    Things have not changed much in the last 20 years

     

    All those parts of Scotland which now votes SNP and LibDem outside of the Central Belt and cities – how do you think they will vote after independence?

     

    I’m guessing not for a Tommy Sheridan type socialist state

     

     

    In Scotland then RCs will be in a very small minority

     

     

    If you put together the naturally conservative parts of Scotland and the old Orange Card in the lowlands then RCs would be in avert difficult spot

     

    Don’t forget that until the 1950s the Tories won a majority of Scottish seats at Westminster

     

    Who would RCs have to back them up?

     

    Many secular liberals like Kirsty Wark and the chattering classes would quite happily close every RC school in the country – they already call for it – so it’s not scaremongering

     

     

    I’m no fan of GG but on this he’s absolutely spot on

     

     

    The problem the Labour Party has is that the leadership is so far out of touch with ordinary people both north and south of the border

     

    However it is still the best that ordinary people have

     

     

    HH

  12. twists n turns on

    Awe naw

     

    Much obliged amigo.

     

     

    Canamalar

     

    Ah, just a little more outside Hamilton than I figured.

  13. The Spirit of Arthur Lee on

    If anybody finds a pair of Working Legs last seen in the Gallowgate area about 11.30pm

     

     

    Give me a bell

     

     

    Thanks

  14. Che

     

     

    Now I know quite a lot of women (related by blood mainly!) and I doubt I’ve heard one of them describe Luca Toni as an Ugly Bar Steward. Couldn’t Hit a Coo’s Erse with a Banjo during Euro 2008 maybe. Kyle Lafferty on the other hand…

     

     

     

    Jimbo

  15. Gene's a Bhoy's name on

    What he said was lafferty had a lucky toenail

     

     

    lostintranslationCSC

  16. Phyllis Dietrichson on

    Twists n Turns – it’s a bad idea to have a tipsters invitation during Royal Ascot. Every horse has been laid out for every race.

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Pearl Secret is an absolute certainty to win the 15.05 on Tuesday though.

  17. Evening bhoys from a very warm hun free mountain valley.

     

     

    Some things never change when it comes to the hun hoards……..

     

     

    “On the terracing at the Dalmornock end on Saturday there was congregated a gang, thousands strong, including the dregs and scourings of filthy slumdom, unwashed yahoos, jailbirds, night hawks, won’t-works, ‘burroo barnacles’, and pavement pirates, all, or nearly all, in the scarecrow stage of verminous trampdom. This ragged army of insantitary pests was lavishly provided with orange and blue remnants, and these were flaunted in challenge as the football tide flowed this way or that. Practically with out cessation for ninety minutes or more, the vagabond scum kept up a strident howl of the ‘Boyne Water’ chorus. Nothing so designedly provoking, so maliciously insulting, or so beastially ignorant has ever been witnessed even in the wildest exhibitions of Glasgow Orange bigotry…..Blatantly filthy language of the lowest criminal type assailed the shocked ears of decent onlookers. There was no getting away from it, chanted as it was by thousands of voices in bedlamite yells. The stentorian use of filthy language is a crime against the law of the land. Policemen lined the track and listened to the hooligan uproar, yet nothing was done to stop it. The scandal was renewed with increased violence in London Road after the match. Is it possible the blue mob can do just anything and get away with it? Prompt official steps were taken to suppress and prosecute the green brake-club lads who dared to sing ‘The Dear Little Shamrock’ in Paisley Road. Yet thousands of foul-mouthed and blasphemous Orange ruffians are free to run amok over the East End of Glasgow. How do you account for it?”

  18. That’s good that your chilled Canamalar must be the nag talk wot done it.

     

     

    The suns gone so enough magners for today, adios muchachos!

     

     

    V

  19. greenyinfurrafenian on

    Best thing about watchin the italians is their national anthem its a crackin tune, pure gallus

  20. Ellboy - I am Neil Lennon, YNWA. on

    Looking at this Dutch kid he looks the business, hope the rumours are true.

     

     

    However if he does sign, would that meean we’d have VD at the back with A Balde T Watt up front? :)

     

     

    HH!

  21. Ok, I have held my silence long enough and can’t take it any more. If you toast your cheese under a grill it is toast n cheese, or cheese on toast, whatever. If you roast your your cheese then you do it in an oven and not under the grill and you are a roaster.

     

     

    Ovens are for roasting, do you make toast n cheese in an oven?

  22. Djbee

     

     

    Aye but for toasted cheese do you grill both sides of the bread?

     

     

    Jimbo

  23. A Ceiler Gonof Rust on

    hebcelt 16:00 on 16 June, 2013

     

     

    ACGR you have mail Hail Hail Hecelt

     

    ………………………..

     

     

     

    Hebcelt, just back in from the golf and seen your post at 16.00. I don’t have any mail from you. Try sending it again to.

     

     

    acgr@hotmail.co.uk

     

     

     

    Hail Hail

  24. greenyinfurrafenian on

    Not dusputing the ovens are for roasting tho i believe chestnuts can be roasted on an open fire but can you actually toast cheese? The baker family were born to toast, bread, scones, crumpet (who doesn’t like a bit of crumpet fnarr fnarr) bagels etc. im a roasted (under the grill) cheese man with a smidgeon of pepper

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