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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Good luck on the run Paul. A wee reminder of why our club is so special. I would like to echo the sentiments expressed about St John Doyle, a real Celtic gent by all accounts, may he Rest in Peace.
I was at a CST meeting a month ago. At the end a guy whom I had seen and spoken to before came over and re-introduced himself as St John Doyle on CQN.
No names, no pack drill just another CQN blogger, but I know a gentleman when I meet one.
So I’m having a bit of difficulty accepting it was the same guy whose passing I read on CQN late last night, but on realising it is then the news and timing of his death must be devastating for his family and all who knew him well.
There is a bit in the poem “Joy and Sorrow” that if reversed, says it all given the joy George must have brought to many.
“The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.
Is not the cup that holds your wine the very cup that was burned in the potter’s oven?
And is not the lute that soothes your spirit, the very wood that was hollowed with knives?”
Although the poet does not say it, the opposite is also true that when a joy bringer leaves those left behind feel deep deep sorrow for quite a time, so I wish them the strength to endure it.
http://www.katsandogz.com/onjoy.html
TMWTL
We seem to be very accepting if other teams kicking us about
Lenny seems to be very generous with his comment …..Mcculloch on Kayal
Saw the video of Lasley’s tackle on Matthew’s last night – he only got the ball by going through the man first. A definite penalty and a yellow card.
The humility can be overwhelming on the occasions when I get the opportunity to explain to people that Celtic began as an excersize in feeding the poor and destitute in Glasgow and not to make money from mass entertainment like the rest of the “football industry”.
We can consider ourselves fortunate that we remain basking in the glow created by Brother Walfrid 125 years ago.
I never knew or met Councillor George Ryan but he put his head above the parapet and addressed our problems to to the SNP Executive………did our DearLeader ever have the generosity to reply to his letter or was it dismissed as “whataboutery and move along theres nothing to see here”?
May he rest in peace.
On footballing matters……all of the money signings and projects should be getting at least 30 minutes game time each game. Out starting eleven should be good enough to be two and three up by half time then everyone gets the game time they need.
Good result yesterday……..top of the table, solid, controlled football most of the time and a clean sheet. Its all good.
The CL points will take care of themselves.
“Theres no good time to be a Tim………..its always good”
Matthews will be a big loss. Apart from Forrest, do we have anyone in the reserves who might do a job until he recovers?
Big Chris Sutton doesn’t speak for me!
http://www1.skysports.com/football/news/11668/8957882
sydneytim
11:23 on 6 October, 2013
51 years old omg He seemed to be a guy who stood up for us
Good luck to the bhoys on the charity run today
Seems a shame now that our club publishes Balances sheets results as if it matter to the fans
In my young days supporting the hoops it as strikers that we went to see
Mcgarvey
Mccluskey
Charlie
McClair
Macca
McGee
Sutton
Hartson
Henke
McDonald
Hooper
Now ?? A team with no top goal scorers. Money in the bank and millions upon millions Wasted by scouts on players upfront on trying to find bargains against the managers wishes. Indeed our club has changed
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Your talking kack. Again. The thing is, you deliberately ignore reality. The type of reality tat saw the young guy we tried to sign from the Bundesliga state categorically he wouldn’t move to Scotland.
The club publish results as a legal requirement, BTW.
You’ve also chosen 11 players from a 32 (approx) time period to make a point. Not sure that works.
AnthonyStokes will score 20+ league goals this season. He might dispute your assertion re top goal scorers.
Your anger is clouding your view of reality.
Amazing pace by the front three runners in the marathon as they pass the 10k at 29mins!!lighning fast pace
any links to that video Gordon J?
Watching Ajax v Utrecht…….0.0 but Ajax under all sorts of pressure…Utrecht are chasing them all over , I guess we have personnel at the game ? ….braw
More pash from Spew Heevins if your stomach can stand it this Sunday morning.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/ally-mccoist-rangers-must-substantially-2343701
Good (huff puff huff) afternoon friends (huff puff)….
Managed to fly round the 10K course today in an unofficial time of just under 43 minutes. My thankgs go to my good friend and (ahem) St Mirren fan Gary Mann who encouraged me all the way and finished alongside me.
I understand that I was the first of the Celtic Charity runners home and beat Neil Francis by a few minutes.
The time was far less important than the fact that my friends and family, including many on here, made very generous donations (last check £440 plus gift aid) to the ole 1254125 campaign.
Could be beer and Rioja later!
Yesterday on the way up in the car, big Murphy my mate said, someone will have to take on that Lasley today, kicks us all over the park… he had a free run at it in my opinion. The tackle he made on Matthews was needles, the ball I thought was running out of play, he took the man dirty wee.. I’ll leave it at that today, for obvious reasons..
Ayrshire is Green and White, and saddened by the passing of our friend St John Doyle.
R.I.P
HH
Jobo that,s very quick…..wisitadoonhillCSC…..braw!
EmeraldBee\o/ proud to be an internet bampot
Get the sick bag out
Someone had to write a puff piece about sally and Keevins his mate duly obliged
This hacker Lasley has previous with us, this is the guy who is reported missing every time they played Oldco, and even now when they play Sevco, but he doesent hold the the sole rights to that statement, there are many in our league (crept. Maybe Hibs And Aberdeen players) Lenny I am sure has duly noticed what happened yesterday and made the right noises to the media about the tackle (everyone knows it was a shocking tackle, that’s why they asked the Q) best not to say how you feel with a knee jerk reaction, BUT? I will be watching the next game against them closely, there is unfinished business there that has to be delt with, and even then questions are being asked to refs. To give players protection it’s not happening, PARANOID? Naaaaaaa it’s just that I notice these things.
jobo baldie
12:00 on 6 October, 2013
JB well done, not to blow my trumpet but to see how well you done, I run to keep fit, not as much now… getting older. I ran a 10k some years ago in Largs, time 42mins came in 9th of 60 beating guys from running clubs, I get out of breath thinking of that day. Your achievement and time is superb, very well done, fantastic.
Couldn’t blow a trumpet after running noo!
HH
Hi bhoys any of you know the postcode for the brazen head ive to pick my mates up . Any help appreciated
There’s a place in Glasgow, a special place, I think if any of us have never been there, we all know at least somebody who has, or if not, then maybe we know somebody who came from there. Every city in the world has a place just like it, as sacred as any chapel or church, or mosque, or place of worship or devotion, regardless of its title, but it is a place of adoration.
It’s populated by men and women who wear their chosen vocation as nonchalantly as they wear their only cloths; dedicated men and women with but one mission in life… to grant life and to protect life. Magic and miracles happen every day in that place, hearts melt, grown men cry and unsigned but lifelong unbreakable bonds are – by the minute – forged.
Yorkhill Hospital, Glasgow, it’s where babies come from. Many of us know the doctors and the nurses, many of us know their pride and their sacrifices. Many of us have shared their joy and their very humble sufferings.
The magic is a product of all who staff the hospital. The magic, if you want to, you’ll see every waken minute, and again, if you want to, you’ll appreciate it in humility and proud awe that it is ever so deserving of.
The miracles, well there is the obvious one, the birth, others… well they’re a wee bit harder to see. I can’t, in all honesty, claim to have ever witnessed one in particular with my own eyes, but I just know, without doubt or reservation, that every time a child is born, regardless of the child’s skin colour, or his parents religion or none, a God above puts a pristine soul into that tiny being.
That soul doesn’t belong to the being, it’s on loan to record just how special that child was… until that child grows old and eventually passes on. Then that soul, having absorbed the life, the passion, the compassion, the generosity, the good, the bad, the all that it graced and guarded… then that soul is set free, not only from its earthly duties and burdens, but from all earthly pains; it’ll leave the mortal remains and make it’s immortal way back to from whence it came.
And spiritual souls like earthly birds they’ll flock together of a kind. Nobody ever told me that, I just know it.
I know there is a soul today that has been set free on its journey home, and I know it travels that last road in the company of kind and caring souls. There’ll be no feast or fuss made when they eventually reach their destination, there’s no need for either, because when they get there, they’ll glow, they’ll be home, and safe, and together with their pasts, forever.
And tomorrow in Yorkhill Hospital, the doctors and nurses will work their magic until it is time to put on their worn coats and brave the unpredictable weather… and God… he’ll just be doing his miracles and we’ll put another of our own in the ground.
And well mourn their passing, or well celebrate their life and their freedom.
Jobo
Well done fella
Have you done a drugs test :))
HH
keep running paul
Jobo Baldie
Well Done
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Re; Over 2 Minutes to replace Mathews..
Subs would at the Very Least need 1 Minute to warm up again after being on the Bench..
Also as it ended up a broken Collarbone..This would not have been know 100% at first and could have been a Dislocated shoulder..Jockeys often ride on with a broken Collarbone..
l think 2 Minutes for this type of Injury is correct given he is a Player we would prefer on the Park Not off..
Summa
Jimtim
G42 7be
HH
” Ally’s good nature came to the fore again when he told that story against himself.”
LMFAO
aye that was coming …Utrecht stopped chasing …Ajax score just before half time …100 per cent concentration needed…and not yer Robinson,s rubbish …Tree-Top required ….braw!
Caught the headlines this morning re Supper Sally and his wages
The press seem very content that if someone offered them £800k a year they would sign it without thinking.
Personally, if I was Supper Sally and I was offered that cash , a couple of alarm bells would be going off about , how sustainable is it for my employers who have just been liquidated to pay me nearly 100 times more than the competition?
It looks like Supper Sally’s ego, sense of self worth, and vigilance is almost as inflated as his waist line.
Weet.weet.weet .
Many thanks .mate
The highlights video of yesterday is on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10202175183446233
The tackle on Matthews is pretty early on.
gordon_j backing neil lennon
12:19 on 6 October, 2013
Yep that’s how I saw it, agree with NFL that’s a penalty.
HH
Stringer Bell
11:54 on
6 October, 2013
sydneytim
The only clouding of reality is coming from you.Sidnet Tim is talking facts.YOU bring up one guy who knocked us back to back up your point,yet you dismiss his point.
You state “Stokes will get 20 + goals this season.Thats a big jump from 12 in the past two seasons.His contract talks have also broken down.No matter how much you try to spin it,we have not replaced Gary Hooper.60 goals in his last 2 seasons.
We continually look in the bargain basements for strikers.Once in a blue moon you will find one.We do not have that luxury to wait.We have had a continuous array of dross being foisted upon us masquerading as “Strikers”.You know the names.One is coming back to haunt us in January,Bangura,unless we can get some other mugs to take him.
The money we have squandered on useless strikers is a disgrace.The old line”Nobody will join us”is rubbish.We pay more than most clubs in Europe,we win things,we should be in the CL most seasons,and our past record for players moving to the EPL does no harm.
We can play all the passing game we like,but if we do not have a striker who does his job we will continue to have results like Morton,and Milan,who we outplayed for 75 minutes.
The list of strikers Sidney Tim mentions,are what we were brought up with.Predators.We always had good strikers.Now we have money,more coming next year,and we scrimp on the most important position on the park.Its not good enough,no matter what the head in the sand division say.
On the train home after running 10K of Great Scottish Run for 1254125. Hope to raise £1,025 if any Sevcovians I sent link to get round to sponsoring me! Not one has yet. :-) They cannae bring themselves to even support Celtic Charity. Sad people!
Can anyone re-post link to cheap textbooks again? Just been told I need to buy one at £93 !!!
Stringer I think you are right about stokes. If he plays all season he will indeed score over 20 goals
But he needs help. Indeed the guy From Germany said no and you can see his point But it is reported we did not try and ask finbogason the same question as we were scared away with a 5m asking price. Indeed it might have taken 7m to get him but why do the board lovers think that is beyond us. We will be back in the market again for another 2 million striker the next transfer windows. But why are we paying 1.6 then 2.9 then maybe another 2 for players who are not goal scorers If Balde or pukki don’t work out. Do u think we will get our 5m back. Or will it go in the same way Murphy and bangura ie money down the drain
Indeed goalie and defenders and midfield players have worked out for us with our transfer policy. But millions down the drain upfront have balanced those profits
Change of policy for upfront before millions more wasted
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Andy Walker in the studio for the hun game.Started by going on about the hun finances,saying they are heading for Admin.Tanner nearly going apoplectic.Cut him off saying”Lets get back to talking about football”.
Keevins today has put me off my dinner.
“@1254125: First runner in. Joe Bovill, 42 minutes. http://t.co/Lw062IBcOS“
Turkey bhoy last season we needed one goal scorer to join us before an emergency happened upfront
Now we need 2
Indeed millions squandered on poor Europeans. We never had a striker in top 4 spl last year
Billy McKay and Russell would have cost us just over a million for 2 players. Not saying that is our best option. But far Better than 5m for 2 players who have never been goal scorers