The Celtic FC Foundation are holding a golf day in April to raise funds for autism in Scotland, the first such day the Foundation have organised. When planning for the event, Leftybhoy, Brogan Rogan, Harry Brady, Tyneside No.1, me, Thomas and Jane from the Foundation, and Foundation chief exec, Tony Hamilton, wondered if and how we would be able to get winning Ryder Cup player, Stephen Gallacher, to help out.
Over two meetings we discussed strategy on how to get to Stephen, how to hone our pitch, explain the autism work, so that we might be able to get a pin flag signed, or something like that. Two meetings!
Tony Hamilton was a Firhill last night when a Celtic fan spoke to him:
Celtic fan: “Are you the guy organising the golf day?”
Tony (thinking he’s about to sell a ticket): “Aye”.
Celtic fan: “I’m a golf pro, I might be able to help out with auction stuff.”
Tony (now worried about that ticket sale): “Great. Which course are you pro at?”
Celtic fan: “No course, I’m on the European tour. I’ll leave stuff with Stevie.”
Tony (confused what that means and wondering why this guy doesn’t have a regular job in a golf shop): “That’s very kind of you.”
After the game Tony checks his phone and sees a message from Tyneside No.1:
“Ryder Cup winner Stephen Gallacher in stand tonight. Have you rugby tackled him re our Golf Day yet?”
Tony’s been staring at a wall ever since.
Information on the golf day, complete with gratefully received supporting items from Stephen Gallacher, available here.
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16(or is it 6…!) Roads/DD/Petec,
Was not aware of the Flybe check in machines at the airport, just remembering previous episodes of being charged extra. That should be you sorted – enjoy.
HH
pauloantony
07:01 on 13 February, 2015
I believe we can pull off a shock and turn over inter…..
Well………a shock to some
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If we REALLY ‘make ourselves heard’ against Inter Milan, we will win the Home Game ….. MON THE HOOPS…..getting excited already …..fantastic that the game is sold out… can still clearly remember sitting in front of the black & white telly with my mother, father, 3 brothers and sister cheering the BHOYS IN GREEN on to victory …. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paulanthony
If you have read out Italian correspondent South of Tunis …he suggests Inter are poor verging on disarray
We are playing as well as any CFC team has played for some time
We have a chance..hope we take it
The Milan game will be as good an indication as any as to whether Ronny’s tactics can help us improve in Europe.
We’ve been dominating possession in games, as we have done earlier in the season against SPL sides. We’re pressing teams high up the park, forcing mistakes, creating uncertainty – will any of this make the transition to a higher level?
hen1rik
Watching your Paul McBride link, posted earlier – I think he was on track, recognising that the SFA are a big problem with the challenges facing a certain section of our society – but are only doing the bidding of their masters.
He was allowed IMO to have a wee skirmish with them.
An excerpt from a piece in todays Scotsman by David Torrance……………….
In the last year of his life, McBride said prominent Scots had “stuck their head in the sand for too long when it comes to sectarianism and religious bigotry”. He explained: “We need to tackle the issue head on by educating people and if people aren’t prepared to accept that, then we need to criminalise them.”
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That escalated things!
Now, If I was a conspiracy theorist…………
hen1rik – You’re a good man, I’ve watched you dig – keep digging
God bless
goal
08:14 on 13 February, 2015
Think we need to ‘live in hope and pray’ as opposed to judging our new (to Europe) manager on whether we win or not …..as usual, we (LISBON LION) The Bhoys to victory….
One of the things I like about Ronnie is that he is his own, very focussed / manager, who doesn’t allow external influences to deflect him from his course….
teuchter ár lá
08:30 on 13 February, 2015
Now, If I also was a conspiracy theorist…………
up_over-goal
I must admit I worry about going into games like this against big teams in supposedly poor form with us in apparently great form. For most of the last 40 years we have not really done ourselves justice against teams of this type and have often ‘frozen’ on the night. Inter on paper have better players than not just us but Salzburg who were quite a bit better than us over the two games.
I do not go into the games with the Nerazurri with great expectations of going through – if anything their season will be defined by these games more than ours and I would expect them to be right up for it. What I am looking for is an improvement in our performance from the humbling experiences we have had in home matches this season and against Milan last- and in terms of result not losing both games would be a sign of improvement. I am coming round to Ronny and think long term the system he is bringing to our play will make us more competitive than we have been since the end of 2012 ( at least) but Inter might be a step too far.
And yet if we get an early goal and they are in as much disarray as we are led to believe then who knows?
Mon the Hoops
Jimbo67
67 Heaven
If you smell it in Stirlin’ and I smell it in Canada then summin’ really stinks.
something from “todays” Scotsman :-)
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CELTIC are set to forge a partnership with Guinean champions AS Kaloum – thanks in part to ex-Rangers defender Basile Boli.
Celtic manager Ronny Deila will also give trials next month to two of the west African club’s top players, midfielder Mandala Konte and Congolese striker Kabongo Kassongo.
Kaloum president Bouba Sampil has recently returned home from Scotland, where he met Parkhead officials for talks. The businessman was advised by former France defender Boli, who spent the 1994-95 season at Ibrox and now acts as Kaloum’s ambassador in Europe.
Ivory Coast-born Boli, 48, pictured, recently helped the ambitious club recruit former Ivorian national coach Francois Zahoui as their new boss. Kaloum won the Guinean league last year, and currently lie fourth. They have lifted the title 13 times.
Kassongo and Konte are due to fly in on 9 March to begin two-week trials at Parkhead.
jimbo67
08:39 on 13 February, 2015
Will you make your mind up …. Hahahahahahaha …. HH
67 heaven
Point taken! I am very much from the mibbes aye, mibbes naw school of philosophy
Jimbo67
I’m glad Kassongo is coming over and not Momo Sylla….
Could you Imagine the headlines :-)
jimbo67
08:39 on 13 February, 2015
Let’s have a ‘fun’ session of everyone who can remember LISBON telling us where they were, and what they were doing, ‘on the day’………I stated the ball rolling with my post at 07.01….
Inter are 6 points of 4th spot.
Parma at the foot of the table would wipe the floor with the 2nd best in Scotland.
I’m not thinking of them as the best we have faced in Europe ever but I won’t be trivialising them into making this a no win game for us.
HH
Oh and enjoy yer weekend everybody :)
Good fenian session in belfast.. well jealous.
Stay safe and enjoy
67 Heaven
Is this for today or the day of the game?
Anyway in the morning my dad’s paper had colour pictures of both teams and I had them on my wall for years though I do not have them any more alas. I was at primary school trying to learn my Catechism- that was all we ever seemed to do in Sister Mary Bernadette’s class and all discussion of the match was in whispered tones as she disapproved of football. She gave us homework – which for trhe first time ( I was a swot until I was bout 13) I never did it.Even the next day we were hardly allowed to be happy ( though we were).
When I got home we had mince and tatties for tea – it was absolutely terrible as was acknowledged by my mum who admitted her mind was elsewhere.
The game was really early in the evening and there was like no build up in the studio – I think the teams were coming on the park as the broadcast started. And then Inter scored which cast us into terrible gloom especially as Celtic kept nearly equalising.
A confession. At the start of the second half I could stand it no longer and went out the back to play football with my wee sister . She seemed to have turned into Sarti. And then my mum ( God rest her soul) ran to the window and shouted that we had scored. And of course we scored again.
And I remember big Tam running about after the game in an Inter strip with a Celtic tammie on his nut and my mum thinking he was a disgrace ( or so I thought I was not aware of irony at that age!). I never saw my mum and dad as happy ever again. That really is what I remember the best
And three years later on the sixty of May my mum made us mince and tatties deliberately badly. But they turned out great. I knew we were doomed that night!
Jimbo67
Morning all.
I see the ole BBC and the DR are misquoting our manager, as saying he finds the EPL boring. If I heard him right, he said he often finds the atmosphere at matches there boring compared to Celtic games. Totally different.
I hope nobody is getting carried away about Inter’s apparent disarray. They are playing in a league of a far higher standard than ours. Let’s hope we make a game of it. It will be great to win the tie but I will not be surprised if we don’t.
Well it looks like we will need to find two Centre backs for next season as VVD and JD will be leaving us at the end of this season.We could go with Ambrose and Mulgrew but that doesnt fill me with confidence and we may use some of our youngsters. My main concern is for the Champions league qualifyers . H.H.
jimbo67
09:13 on 13 February, 2015
67 Heaven
Fantastic recollection……….!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
geordie munro @ 09 .05.
” Parma at the foot of the table would wipe the floor with the 2nd best in Scotland”.
Indeed !
Inter
Play Atalanta in Bergamo on Sunday.The team selection ( ie who doesn’ play ) will be a guide to who will play in Glasgow.
NCC:
Our great and inglorious leader strikes again.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-02-13/barns-abbotts-terror-comments-could-prejudice-trial/6091644
The word ‘buffoon’ doesn’t even begin to describe him.
My friends in Celtic,
So what if Inter are in a better league than us. This is not a new concept, it has always been so.
It is how we play on the two nights that matter.
HH.
Understandable excitement about the Inter game, but we’ve got a vital game first at Perth in terms of the Title.
Not only the chance to extend our lead to 6 points, but also to apply some real pressure on the sheep before their game at Hamilton.
If we win, they really can afford no slip ups, and they will know it.
So, let’s get it done, Bhoys!
Mea Culpa
Sorry, different topic from your last post, but was it you who was posting about the ‘dirtiest ever tackles’ the other day?
BEATBHOY
I posted a wee montage from The Guardian-I think-but we concluded there weren’t enough from Souness for it to be definitive!
Yeah, Bobby, i remember posting the infamous tackle from him v Steaua Bucharest.
I just wanted to add a new contender. .
Javier Etxeitha, Athletic Bilbao, on Suarez at the weekend.
Saw red, could’ve been career-ending, as he tried to do his knee, with the ball nowhere near.
Do all Spanish sides with Athletic in the title play like thugs?
Re Inter – they have the better players but we must hope we have the better team.
Ronny will stand toe to toe with them. If it goes wrong then so be it. Give me that over winning against a better side with 20% possession and 2 shots on goal! Now, I know the Barca night was great but if we are honest with ourselves it was not good to watch and a strategy unlikely to get us long term success.
Re next season – If we lose VVD and JD then we have a massive hole to fill. They start most of our attacks and are, in effect, playmakers. They allow Broonie to push 10 yards further up the pitch. They both can pass, have excellent first touches and great recovery speed.
Replacing them will be a nightmare. As it happens, Charlie, Mikeal or Efe may end up being better than we can source in our budget as they all have some of the qualities required – but not all.
Efe has great pace, Charlie can pass and Mikeal has a little of each attribute.
The days of no nonsense defenders are in the past. Few teams lump high balls all day instead favouring quick passing play.
Be gutted to lose both centre halfs at end of season.. we should have splashed out in january for decent centre half.. im sure lawell knows the chances of virgil staying are very slim.
Now we have to draft in at least 1 and straight into big games.
Id let ambrose go tomorrow.. mulgrew decent enough for cover but neither him or ambrose should be 1st choice centre halfs.
I was in Car pool and turned around to my sevcovian co driver.
He was just shaking his head….Saying
Thats not what he said….
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Parkheadcumsalford
09:19 on
13 February, 2015
Morning all.
I see the ole BBC and the DR are misquoting our manager, as saying he finds the EPL boring. If I heard him right, he said he often finds the atmosphere at matches there boring compared to Celtic games. Totally different.
67Heaven,
we were all sitting in the house 81/73u kelvindale rd in the barracks in maryhill
the excitment was high, even the sisters were a wee bit into it and they didn’t get football and still dont. old petesy (da) had got time off work to watch but at the final whistle
had to go and do a shift. the next day a remember better, school then up to parkhead to see the bhoys bring back the cup,the dad wasn’t allowed time off to see that so i was on my own 11 yr old .well not on my own it seemed like half of glasgow made their way to
the park that afternoon/evening .
anybody from maryhill might find this sight of interest : unlocking maryhill.
HH
GMS or James Forest?
Guernica
I quite like the substance of your post but sorry having lived with Celtic going toe-to-toe with quality teams I’ll take a game like the Barca one we won 100 times out of a hundred
Jimbo67
Whilst what Jason Denayer says is understandable, the reality is he, and any other promising Man City youngster, won’t get anywhere near the first team squad let alone team. Denayer will be shipped out on loan again next season, and then when his contract is up next summer he will move on.
Will he want to return to us for another season on loan or move to somewhere else, possibly in England? Probably the latter.
I’m sure there’s plenty of young centre backs in the Scandanavian leagues that RD will have the scouts watching plus I’m also sure that the scouts will be looking in Holland & Belgium for another VVD or JD.
Gary67
If I were the Man City coach I would buy VVD an play him and Denyaer together for the next decade.
Thankfully I am not the City coach and hope we can get Denayer on a permanent deal in the summer or another year loan. The Bhoy looks a superstar in the making. Frightening ability and composure for a 19 year old CB.
LB
BEATBHOY
Bloody hell!
http://www.joe.ie/sport/vine-luis-suarez-forced-off-the-pitch-after-this-horror-tackle/484180
Understandable that Deneyer wants to play for Man City but realistically he’s not going to go into their team for at least another 2 or 3 seasons if at all. Man city will splash the cash if they don’t win the league and he will go further down the pecking line.
He’ll probably end up at Sunderland or such if the EPL is his ambition, probably with VVD along side him…