The exceptional Celtic Movement

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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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  1. Why dae sportscene muffle the atmospheres. Its bad enough production

     

    Lets hear it properly .lasleys no that type a player apparently, whit? Stevie may wid be no bad if he loast 5 stane.reminds me when a played under 16 fur gartcosh against salsburgh n hawf their team wur

     

    Aboot 35 wae pony tails n beer bellys.

  2. Who were the hun pundits who said it was a fair tackle ?

     

     

    They obviously don’t know the rules of the game.

     

     

    No matter if a players gets the ball fisrt, which lasley didn’t, if he then takes out the player, it’s a foul.

     

     

    HH

  3. ACGR Supporting Big Nan's Reveal the Masonic Judge Petition on

    Maggie doll, where were you last Saturday? I wore the four leafed clover and sprig of heather………………………….you never showed up. I thought we had a deal, a pact, an understanding that we were disappearing into the sunset on my overly stocked boat, sunshine here we come and all that………………………………dashed:-((

     

     

    FFS, I had to spend the night wi yer young bro instead.

     

     

    BTW, he’s a whiskyheid noo:-_)

     

     

     

    Glasgow’s Green and White.

  4. Phyllis Dietrichson on

    I’ve got a contrarian view about Sevco playing us again. I feel that all you guys who say you never want to play them are being a wee bit elitist, a wee bit dinner party fans, and dare I say it, a wee bit pseudo-intellectual?

     

    I want to play them;

     

    I want to beat them by a record score – whatever you think of our team we are light years ahead of that mob;

     

    I want to grind their noses in the dust;

     

    I want my children and grand-children to remember the days when I boozilly regaled them of our 10-0 victory.

     

    I know that makes me a bad person, but deep in the marrow of my bones, that’s how I feel.

  5. CRC,

     

    Off to Tenerife for a couple of weeks.no taking VP,i couldn’t keep up with a Rutherglen bhoy on the swally

  6. #Fearless Wee Oscar is on a Celticrollercoaster on

    what were the zombie slogans that they briefly mentioned on Sportscene?

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  7. #fearless wee oscar is on a celticrollercoaster

     

     

    23:06 on 6 October, 2013

     

    estorilbhoy

     

     

    22:56 on 6 October, 2013

     

     

    Hoop u r well? Celtfish eventually sent me a copy of the pic from the first ever Thursday CQN 5s. Will send you a pic as an inspiration for a comeback :-)

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

     

     

     

     

    Hail! Hail! Good mhan. Yes please send it on thanks. You looking for a keeper yet ;)) glad 5′ s thriving, good bunch. You still missing the sitters?

  8. Bed time and low battery life has beckoned me. Night Night Timland.

     

     

    Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.

  9. ACGR Supporting Big Nan's Reveal the Masonic Judge Petition on

    TET, call me on the moby number you have for me. My attmpts to call you are resulting in some Spanish tart telling me blahh blahhhh.

  10. leftclicktic oscar in our thoughts on

    Just in and catching up with things

     

     

    Hamiltontim & Lennybhoy your actions tonight amongst many is why I am proud to call yous friends and be part of the CQN family.

     

     

    Nothing on here suprises me when it comes to one of our own in need.

     

    so each and every one of yous be proud of yourselves.

     

     

    Lennybhoy for donation text me when your heading to your whifflet office :)) and I will call in.

     

     

    Good night all

  11. Margaret McGill on

    ACGR Supporting Big Nan’s Reveal the Masonic Judge Petition

     

     

    23:10 on 6 October, 2013

     

    My profuse apologies. Sometimes CQN can be too cryptic. Morrissey 23rd pointed out that I had made a mistake. I will be back home for the AC Milan game. I thought that was what you were talking about.

  12. #Fearless Wee Oscar is on a Celticrollercoaster on

    gordybhoy64

     

     

    23:11 on 6 October, 2013

     

     

    Hope you enjoy. Off to Alcudia on October schools week for a wee sneaky holiday.

     

     

    Doc will be in charge of the predictor, don’t think he knows yet :-)

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  13. TBJ Praying for Oscar Knox on

    Estoril

     

     

     

    Woulda liked to have seen the beeb compare the scott brown.. assassination of neymar with lasleys fair tackle on Adam matthews.

     

     

    We should sign an out of contract clogger just to set him loose on that wee runt.

     

     

    He went in late on stokesy just before his goal… then had a tug at commons when he nut megged mcmanus

     

     

    On both occasions the ball was in the murderwell net within seconds so suppose that’s the biggest girfuy for the f@nny

  14. The exiled Tim 23:10

     

     

    The son of William: Steven Thompson & the cousin of William: Michael Stewart… Neither had a red face

  15. TBJ.

     

     

    Still think poor journo and that is what really shouts out. Any decent journo worth his/her salt would have asked the question, ‘would you accept a tackle on you like that?’, even if the two ‘guests’ thought tackle was faiir.

     

     

    The guy that looks like a rabbit caught in the headlights needs to be watched.

  16. 67Heaven ... I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors on

    Pundits on Sportscene calling lasley’s tackle a good one…..he went right through Adam, throwing him into the air ……I don’t know why i still get angry at these barstewards, after all these years of the same old bigoted shoite from them, but I do….

  17. #Fearless Wee Oscar is on a Celticrollercoaster on

    Doc is supporting Oscar and McKenzie.

     

     

    23:26 on 6 October, 2013

     

     

    Aye sounds good. Dont tell Cowiebhoy, he will be jealous :-)

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC

  18. Doc,no problem

     

     

    Jude 2005.

     

    I am off to golf du sur on the 4.15 flight,will be in the skylounge from quarter past 1,

     

    pop in and you can have a free beer on me :-)))

  19. TBJ Praying for Oscar Knox on

    Estoril

     

     

    Dya mean wee jonathan sutherland with the irritating accent on bbc …. he used to read the tweets and e mails out. Then deacon blues drummer left and he got promoted

  20. jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/ on

    Ive watched Dawson the Spurs CH for years. My wee grandson (6) wd skin him all day long!!

  21. Morrissey the 23rd on

    Phyllis Dietrichson @ 23:11

     

    Beating them 1-0 will be a record score. We have never played them before and the previous club no longer exist..

  22. Spurs are pleased to announce that Michael Dawson has signed a new 3 year contract (most likely on around £80k a week)

  23. #Fearless Wee Oscar is on a Celticrollercoaster on

    Some of the Zombie slogans

     

     

    “Action not apathy”, “Mather out”, “Stockbridge out”, “Mather liar”

     

     

    and “Sack the board”

     

     

    I wonder where they got the last one from? :-)

     

     

    HH

     

     

    CRC