Something remarkable starts today. A few hours ago, members of the Tyneside No. 1 Celtic Supporters’ Club, and others, started walking in Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales. They plan to walk all the way to Celtic Park between now and 22 October.
The day they are scheduled to arrive at Paradise will be the first anniversary of the passing of Jonathan Thomas (above), a former member of the Tyneside CSC who died aged 30, after a battle with that most indiscriminate of illnesses.
Jonathan arrived in Newcastle 10 years ago from his native Wales, where he had been coached by a Celtic fan from Belfast. He joined the club and started making the pilgrimage north each home game to see Celtic.
While we all do the odd thing to mark the founding spirit of our club, Jonathan did far more than most. Alongside other Tyneside No. 1 CSC members, he walked from Newcastle to Celtic Park, then cycled from Swansea to the same destination, and completed the West Highland Way, all for Celtic charities.
Then he was taken from his family, friends and wife Sian, who he married a day before he lost his battle.
I don’t fancy walking from Merthyr Tydfil to Celtic Park, there are easier things to do in life, but when you learn what Jonathan did to raise money to help others, it seems like a reasonable undertaking in his name.
Sian, Iain McGovern (a good friend of mine), and the others will have left Merthyr already. They face an incredible journey, but two weeks from now they will walk up the Celtic Way and know they’ve lived up to the spirit of Jonathan, as well as our common 128-year heritage.
Money raised is going to the Celtic FC Foundation and Crohn’s & Colitis UK (despite what he did for our good causes, Jonathan also suffered from Colitis, a debilitating condition). This is a great Celtic supporters’ story. We’re so lucky to have people like this stand with us each week. If you can help their efforts, here, please do so.
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Kayal seems to be back to his best form at Brighton now.
I would say the biggest clubs are Man U and Arsenal in England. I base that on time spent in London where it was nearly impossible to go to a Gunners game even with a 60k stadium (I have to say it is a super ground). Chelsea wasn’t too difficult even with a smaller arena- I would say Spurs would be hard as well.
My son’s pal is at Uni in Manchester and has often gone to see Man City as it’s really easy to get in but Old Trafford is really awkward.
As for bigger, unfortunately the word richer comes to mind. I guess more profit is made at tescos than haarrods, but which has the bigger worldwide appeal? Just different markets that would be soon changed if markets were merged. Hail!
Armenia v Romania.
Amenian red-carded 3 minutes.
Romania 3-0 up after 12 minutes.
Gonna be a long night for tge Armenians.
BMCUWP – Safe and speedy trip back south my friend.
GFTB – caught your late night horse tip post, always nice to sleep a little later ;)
HH
My point re Victor was thus:
If we bought a player from, say, Morton, it would seem rather pointless of him to say ` Celtic are a bigger Club than Morton`. As the EPL is often referred to as massively the biggest League in the World and the SPFL as a backwater, it would be assumed, in England and elsewhere, that every club in the EPL was bigger than Celti never mind one of the very top ones.
Cheerio for now,
JJ
Biger club smaller club…
http://youtu.be/eJZfTNB8NkA
;)))
*bigger
Babasonic@5:03
If God would smite you for thinking about the maestro while you are at mass, I hate to think what He’d do to the rest of us…
Besides, being That, as we all know, God is a Tim, he was also probably a bit star struck at seeing the Maestro! :)
MIKEINTORONTO
The Good Lord was raging at the perfection of The Maestro as he had lost the recipe.
So he just enjoyed the one-off that he was.
HH
Babasonicos71
The maestro was my hero, I loved the fact he played his whole career when weren’t so good, a lot of people forget how much of a goal scoring midfielder he was when he first broke through, think he scored at both pittodrie and ibrox on his first games there…..
Paul McStay = Celtic for me, I would love to meet him, glad he didn’t dissapoint when you did
OneMalloy – back to my normal losing nap, think I overstayed my welcome on the blog last night, sometimes it’s better “hauding my wheest”
So size does matter?
Aw naw!
So just imagine Xavi decides he wants to come back to Europe and BR persuades him the East End of Glasgow is his destination. After a couple of successful CL nights in Glasgow, Keech Jackson gets and interview and asks “Xavi, who are the bigger club, Celtic or Barca? I would guess that, irrespective of his deep-seated belief, he would answer Celtic anyway, as we would be his current club.
The only player I think can give an opinion of the biggest club in the world is our own Henke: he played for Celtic, Barcelona and Manchester United. He would have an opinion on that I would imagine!
FAC the Act
KTF
I f**#ing hate Glenn Hoddle !
He was a very good player BUT as a manager,commentary pundit etc etc he has talked continual pash ever since he was allowed back into TV football.
IMO, he should NEVER have been allowed anywhere near the media after his disgraceful comments years ago about people with illness and disabilities .
I just caught a few minutes if the game on ITV just now, england v Malta.
After about 20 minutes or so Hoddle says, ” that’s what I call a LOLLIPOP pass” ??????
This is not the first time I heard this crank make up wee sayings and descriptions during his so called punditry.
At England’s first goal ( a simple straightforward header that my granny would have netted),
He describes how Sturridge didn’t move his leg, and it was a beautiful header ?????
To think this cranky Muppet is getting megabucks for his pash !ii
Did I mention how much I hate him ?
MIT…
God is,indeed,a tim.He was spotted regularly between 1997 and 2004 in various football stadiums donning a range of Celtic strips.He also had dreadlocks for a time so was easily identifiable. ;)))
Only Clive Tildsley could make England scoring against Malta a big feckin deal, arse of a man!
Moussa Dembele, can someone please provide the link again to vote for Moussa, as it appears that he is now tied with the Italian goalie on 10% for the prize .
I’ve already voted, can I do it again or is that cheating ?
If it is cheating, I’ll just pretend I’m wan if they ugly Huns, cos cheating comes naturally !
Mrs HJ and I are sitting outside the chiquest wine bar in Porec listening to our very own Frankie Miller.
Magic.
GERRYFAETHEBRIG
The blog is an open forum,bud. Overstaying your welcome is like the initiation ceremony. Then you’ve got to do it again and again,to be sure,to be sure(!)
The real bummer is that yer words of wisdom are there for all eternity for everyone to pash themselves at,not that I’m talking about you here.
My two lurking sisters give me hell at times,they reckon it works like a breathalyser!
Moral-panic not,unless you have two sisters like mine…
Listening to the commentators in the England game is just like listening to super scoreboard …. they both try their best to ‘talk up’ utter shoite …..superscoreboard just edge it, though, since trying to ‘talk up’ sevco is a REAL shoitie challenge ……
VFR800A8
Disagree. Barcelona would be the answer.
But the reply would be
“Don’t be safiken styooopit!”
IMO, the vicious deliberate assault on Beram Kayak by that ugly f*##kpig Hun bassa sh#tbag McCulloch was totally ” over the top” !
McCulloch knew exactly what he was doing, and again as some have already posted Beram was never quite the same after that assault.
McCulloch deliberately went out to “do” Kayak, and succeeded.
I remember arguing with a Hun about it in work the next day, and despite admitting that he had watched it on several occasions, he was obviously saying it was accidental in that typical Hun manner !
Immediately after the assault when the ref stopped playing,McCulloch did his usual by feigning injury, putting his arms around the ref, greetins how he was hurt !
A dirty cheating, thug Hun bassa !
Did I mention I also hate him ?
BIG JIMMY…
Canoe please spell Beram’s surname correctly please? ;)))
Big Jimmy
Apologies I think Beram left it open for the Hun thug to do him, ball & man is a gimmie, a wee bit like what Barry Robson & Hartley done in most games against the old mob in 2007/08
BIG JIMMY
That post at 5:58 PM is spot on by the way.
HH
You say McStay, I see the wondrous pass to Chrissy Morris to set up Macca’s first goal in the ‘Happy Birthday, dear Celtic’ game, 2/1/1988 v Deidclub.
Such perfect weight, such panoramic vision, such grace and élan.
When I first heard about Hoddles beliefs and statement about people with disabilities etc and how they must have been a ” bad person” in a previous life and this ” illness/condition” was God punishing them”, My first thought was ” My f##k, I MUST HAVE BEEN A HUN in a previous life”!
Has there ever been a player who has made a living from the game with so few touches of the ball than Elbows?Wonder what his earnings to touch ratio would be?
BIGJIMMY
The ball was within range,there to be won. Not doubt McThug done Kayal,but a fraction either way could have seen him done instead.
That’s why few players would have made the tackle. McThug didnae care.
And there is your answer,bud. Reckless disregard both for himself and his opponent. Red mist,Hoops,get him.
BB, so sorry Kayak=Kayal.
I enjoyed your wee play on words. Well done.
HH
BEATBHOY
I had three tickets for that game! And all mine!!
Wish I had four. Just how it goes. Listened to it in the car. Couldnae even go to the pub as I was the driver as well as ticket provider.
Each recipient has done far more for me than that,btw. But it was a sair yin nevertheless.
Bobby 5.54pm
Cqn does far too much good stuff than bad, I could argue with the best face to face, I annoy myself arguing or even disagreeing while typing, by the time you finish a sentence you need to hit the delete button :-)
Hope your on Engurlund in LMS, for all my crazy gambling LMS is my favourite bet, Jobo & CRC while doing great work for wee Shay, do a grand job
BMCUWP,
For once my friend I disagree with you.
If you were to watch it again, in slow motion just look at were McCulloch is looking immediately prior to ” going in for the kill” !
No intention of going for the ball IMO !
His pleadin the innocent with the ref just really summed up that reptile Hun bassa.
He was always at whenever an opponent challenged him in the air, and maybe just brushed against him, as he would claim he had been elbowed ?
Watch this wee tosser Garner, as he has done nothing but attempt to get opponents into trouble with his feigning injury and imaginary ring elbowed and/or stamped on !
Thank God I’m one of the good guys, as I couldn’t live with myself if I had been born a Hun.
I would probably have taken up watching women’s beach volleyball instead of football ?
BURGAS, ta very much mate.
HH
All four Celtic players on the bench for Scotland. Strachan goes for non scoring striker (Martin) as usual. Fletcher also on bench.
BIG JIMMY…
You don’t watch women’s beach volleyball,you ogle it.Well I do anyway. ;))
Ok,12 inches…sorry,aff oot.Laters timland.
HH
A wee football quiz question….
In the time before floodlights were invented, when it came to midweek winter matches dark early nights etc), how did the clubs get around this problem ?
Answer in 10 minutes, unless someone gets it
HH
Sweet Jesus it’s Malta.Is everyone aware,well according to tyldesley there is 80,000 at the ‘match and an attendance unlikely to be surpassed this weekend maybe because there ain’t any other stadia that can hold 80,000.Has Clive boy mentioned the fact that Neverland won the world cup in 1966 and could be winners in the ’18 in Russia…..maybe hoddle will entertain us with that nugget.B*******!!!!!
Marshall
Paterson R.Martin Hanley Robertson
D. Fletcher Bannan
Burke Snodgrass Ritchie
C. Martin