When this publishes, I should be a few kilometres into the Great Scottish Run. These events can be humbling. You see people there with messages on their shirts. ‘The big C’ gets a lot of mentions, in many of its forms, as does heart disease and conditions most of us will, fortunately, be less familiar with. Some simply have a loved one’s smiling photograph on their back. Their former feeling of helplessness matured into purposeful action.
I’m running for Celtic Charity’s 1254125 campaign. This is not something controlled or even organised by the club, but it is fundamental to what Celtic Football Club is. The Celtic Movement was called together in a church hall in November 1887 to alleviate the distress of poverty in those unable to feed themselves. It is different from other clubs because it started differently and has since walked unfamiliar roads.
The spirit to help others has been increasingly self-evident in recent years but I am sure the commitment has become more embedded as a result of 1254125. It is now part of our routine, what we know to expect from ourselves.
We will only stay different if you and I continue to insist we walk (or run) unfamiliar roads. We all worry about where our club is going. There is little we can do about many potential dangers but we can make sure Celtic remains anchored to the spirit which founded it. You can support 1254125 through the MyDonate page I setup to convince me I shouldn’t give up halfway through this run. Your support is appreciated.
Yesterday we lost Cllr George Ryan, or St John Doyle, as he was known on these pages. George touched the lives of hundreds of people but unless you were in direct contact, you would not know what he did for the people of Glasgow, for Celtic supporters in difficulty, or even for the Thai Tims. He was an exceptional Celtic man who lived the way exceptional Celtic people have ever since that meeting in St Mary’s Hall.
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LennyBhoy, when collecting, never limit donation, 50 x £5 or 5x£200.
Every donation needed.
Minx
Great shout …..
I was saying earlier a donation to a cause close to georges heart …. maybe an east end charity
And if you need a hand give me a shout.
HT
EuroChamp67 will be picking me up ;-)
Night Night
R.I.P
St John Doyle 51 years
Lennybhoy-put me down for £20 mate,i was at St Gregory’s in Cranhill with George,lovely guy.Maybe JP Taylor can help?
Ah well only 365 days to Oktoberfest. Loved it. Can remember going but never coming back about 6 times. Then lecturing myself on the way there again about not doing it again. Then doing it again…but not tonight .wao…song dance beer food flirting revellry….boobs by the barra load ..it gets tiresome ..wastes beer time…intoxicating truly
OktoberfestAddictCSC
Cowiebhoy – I couldn’t clip anyone’s wings chief,fed up getting my own wings clipped! :)
Goodnight and good luck to all Celtic supporters.
Awe_Naw, saw the photos, looked like you very much enjoyed it.
Speaking of the mob who we are seemingly just as bad as, if you are to believe around 80% of the Scottish msm…I posed this question about 6 months ago on here..
Can anyone name a European club with a worse reputation than Rangers FC 1872?
Consider the criteria..
Exclusive employment policy for 100 years.
Fan anthems of hate and racism.
Club fostering and pandering to extreme (at times) right wing ideology.
Fans offensive singing, violence and riotous behaviour over five decades eventually leading to Uefa punishments.
Involved in the two worst outbreaks of violence post showpiece Uefa finals..1972 and 2008.
Died in shame 2012, guilty of cheating and defrauding over 350 companies including HMRC.
So who’s worse?. Juve? Lazio? Millwall? Feyenoord?
And we are judged with this poisonous establishment and called part of the ‘Old Firm’.
Makes me sick.
CRC
Fantastic work by St John Doyle for bucket day is that why he got prime location
and I got the boondocks?
Awe naw
I hope you are ashamed of your behaviour. Then again, was it brilliant? I would luuuuv to attend that. Maybe before the ole ground demands me. :))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Would someone please answer this question….If the Zombies die again (a real possibility) and go comletely out of business: and no chance forever of recovery
Where would their supporters go?
corkcelt
Sorry, nearly missed that.
We are haemorrhaging ST holders whether it’s you or me, doesn’t matter.
I can see the floodlights from my kitchen and I know Barca are training, you live in another part of the big Celtic world, and I commend respect and admire your moniker – we are the same.
Celtic must make a a line in the sand, when the sad day comes.
That is all I’m saying, if we had men of reverie we’d never see their support in Paradise.
Billy Bhoy 05
To Hell
HH
Weefrathetim
Just do it.
HH
To the lads organising the collection to pay for the tickets. Why not scroll back, make a list of the pledges to date and put them on a list and post it. Others who are interested in contributing can then copy & paste and add their name. Pretty soon the target will be reached and then it only remains how to physically collect the cash.
billy bhoy 05
22:12 on 6 October, 2013
Would someone please answer this question….If the Zombies die again (a real possibility) and go comletely out of business: and no chance forever of recovery
Where would their supporters go?
…”……………………………………….
For walks?
billy bhoy 05
They will always be there one way or another. Glasgow will not allow them to disappear as they would have allowed us to. They are ra peepul whether we like it or not.. But, we live in hope.
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
Weefrathetim
Btw comparitively with just,about everyone my behaviour was pretty good….but its a big ask as Andy Gray would say ;-)
HH
Serie A .
Wacko debate on the radio re whether a joke tifo and a few chants re there being an outbreak of cholera in Napoli (implying that Napoli is the Thirld World) should be classed as offensive and discriminatory.
Italian media reporting that a teenage spectator has been injured by a firework which exploded in his hand during Lazio v Fiorentina.
lovely transatlantic session on now
Awe naw
GREAT ANSWER. Do you really expect me to believe that??? Hehehe. Hope you had a great time. Would really love to witness that spectacle. :))
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
billy bhoy 05
22:12 on 6 October, 2013
Would someone please answer this question….If the Zombies die again (a real possibility) and go comletely out of business: and no chance forever of recovery
Where would their supporters go?
Who cares…; )
HH
Picture this. You are on a contracted wage. It’s high, but nevertheless you’re entitled to it. You suddenly announce that you’re taking a big cut. Why would you do that?
I can think of only two reasons (well one really, with two routes).
1) Your company is running out of money and have asked you (and others) to take a cut so they can keep going until a critical date.
2) There’s been a bit of an outcry from your fan base about you very high wage, the company feel that they may stop buying tickets unless some kind of public gesture is made, and this reduced income would put the company out of business before the critical date.
Either way, there’s a date and the company is worried about not reaching it.
Billy Bhoy 05, I don’t know where they will go, but their GrandChildren will be Tims.
Sunday night Serie A highlights prog is grilling Allegri re why AC Milan are so poor. Poor man looks like he is going to start greeting
Billy bhoy5……………….the marching season would probably be extended for them……with no winter shut down
Billy bhoy 05
This is as good as it gets mate. In actual fact its heaven. For the rest of your life you can cast up whatever you like, cheats..deidco..zombies.newclub..tax evaders…etc etc.
Its a 100 year stigma and it kills them to know it.
Parkheadcumsalford
I am glad there are others out there that feel the same, there will be plenty I’m sure.
Problem I have is, they are in our face every day, be it through their referees, the sfa, the media etc, etc.
In their own way, they are still running the game we are part of, whether we like it or not, that saddens me, and it saddens me even more that the club are seemingly happy to go along with it.
HH
Count me in for any donation in George’s memory. An absolute gentle giant of a man. Will be sadly missed and I am really gutted we have lost George to this blog, our club and our fine city.
RIP my friend.
MWD
This says it all for me. And I was one of many, in the 70s and 80s, who let myself be poisoned by their hate, and hated them straight back.
The air these days is cleaner without that toxic, vile presence. Why on earth would we ever want to go back to that? Our future is playing Barcelona, AC Milan, Bayern, Ajax and the like regularly.
Leave the cancer to eat itself. They define themselves by hating us. Let’s not reciprocate.
Whitedoghunch, 11.17
I never used my seat when we played them not only because of the filth that they brought but it would bring out the worst in our support and I could not sit with my mum and listen to that never mind the cheating.
VP KO’d by fearless Oscar Knox
Fantastic work by St John Doyle for bucket day is that why he got prime location
and I got the boondocks?
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Naw big chap, its cos you look like quasimodos’ sister, albeit a tall version:-)
Bhoys and Ghirls,
Just been speaking to hamiltontim, he is almost certain he can get 4 tickets together, £49 each but will not know for sure until W/C 14th Oct.. He suggests if he gets them, he will meet anybody on the night who wants to make a donation, he’ll pay in advance. And it wouldn’t be as much as the tickets CRC mentioned.
It would save the hassle of transferring monies to a Bank Account. However, if anybody still wants to make a donation I will e-mail you with my Bank details.
I have replied to those who have already e-mailed me.
Thank you so much to one and all, especially to Minx1888, she knows why, a special Lhday.
I will e-mail anybody who has contacted me with my Bank details at some point tomorrow.
I will not be saying anything to Linda just yet.
God Bless you all, God Bless St. John Doyle and his family.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Thanks to all for responses: some of them funny.. Others true but sad
Lennybhoy…Supporting Neil Lennon, Wee Oscar Knox and CFC until I die
22:26 on 6 October, 2013
I’ll email you tomorrow
Over the last 10 years one of the most despicable wee scumbags to wear the dead teams jersey in my eyes was nacho novo.
He was doin charity work the day for wee oscar and other charities!
Fair play to him I wud never a called that!
RE donation for St John Doyle, i will happily donate to that.
I think i may have known George in my younger days, does anyone know if he has a younger brother callef Marcus?
LennyBhoy, will reimburse HT, to the amount promised.
HT, well done, ya big Tim.