CelticRollerCoaster and the Walk With Shay team kindly wrote this piece to update you how your efforts thus far have progressed. I read stuff like this in genuine awe of the people I call friends. Well done to each and everyone one of you.
I posted a more detailed (and excellent) read on the subject a moment ago, which you can view here. Here’s CelticRollerCoaster:
As you know by now as part of our incredible journey to date, we managed to obtain the signatories of the last 11 Club Captains of Celtic on two tops; one home and one away. Two very special and unique tops covering 53 years of unbroken history. The professionally designed and framed Away Club Captains top is First Prize in our Walkwithshay raffle along with many other amazing Celtic prizes, with the draw being made on May 25th at Celtic Park so only 20 days left. The Celtic FC Foundation will also benefit in the share of proceeds.
To date, we’ve had an incredible response from all over the country and indeed worldwide (as far as Australia and Bermuda believe it or not) with just over 2,000 tickets already out there being sold by our amazing Green Raffle Army and directly by ourselves, but don’t worry we’ve kept some back just for you!
So, if you have still not bought your tickets, to win some of the incredible prizes on offer and also help these two great causes, please get in touch now.
Remember you can buy tickets by contacting the campaign team directly via the usual methods such as email walkwithshay@yahoo.com, Facebook and Twitter @walkwithshay or from one of our many Green Raffle Army sellers.
We will also be at outside the pools office at the start of the concourse (CQN corner) from 1:30pm prior to the game on Saturday if you wish to pick up tickets from us then.
As well, as the Club Captains Away top, our other amazing prizes include:
A full list of the prizes can be obtained by emailing us at: walkwithshay@yahoo.com
Part 1 of our incredible journey to obtain these incredible pieces of Celtic History can be read here (Attach link).
Thank you for Walking With Shay.
The link again, for more on the story, is here.
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ERNIE LYNCH
A couple of questions, if you don’t mind: When did the boon start ( significant revenue) and who was in power ?
Did Tony Benn come up with the idea just at the time of Callaghan’s demise ?
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 5TH MAY 2017 2:39 PM
OK
So you agree that the SNP and the Tories acted together to bring down the Callaghan government.
And presumably you agree that the outcome of that was Thatcher?
(I’m taking this slowly so as not to confuse you).
David Henderson @DJSHenderson 14m14 minutes ago
Meeting held in London – bain, king. Johnston….we expected Dave king to make an offer to start buying club but he could not progress it
But it did not happen as we learned his assets in the U.K Had been frozen
David Henderson @DJSHenderson 12m12 minutes ago
DF when did you find out about need to spend money on stadium on health and safety grounds? Mike Mcgill- end 2010
DF: does it mean work should have been done but wasn’t done? Yes that work didn’t arise overnight. Responsibly of board of directors
BIG-CUP-WINNERS on 5TH MAY 2017 2:43 PM
I would have to go and check the detail.
Hardly worth the effort for an argument about counter factual history, which, by definition is hypothetical.
What isn’t hypothetical, ie it did actually happen is that the SNP joined forces with the Tories to bring down the Callaghan Government, which led to Thatcher, which led to the de industrialisation of Britain, which was a disaster for Scotland and the working class but bloody brilliant for the SNP.
By the way, are you a member of the SNP?
James Doleman @jamesdoleman 8m8 minutes ago
McGill agrees neither the group or the club could have paid
Findlay “that would be the end of Rangers?”
McGill “If they came out if insolvency that would have preserved the old club.”
Findlay “Let’s not go into all that”
End of the club?
The Norwegian (True) Blue?
Tim29
Armstrong no signed a new contract! Wtf.
Rodgers oot!!!.
Ernie Lynch
My point was about the McCrone report and how Labour buried it.
SNP never knew about it.
But id imagine in that period 1970-79, industrial strife, power cuts ,three day week etc, might have played a part in Callaghans downfall, no?
Widen your perspective a bit from your standardized Labour understanding of society.
HH
Findlay “Let’s not go into all that”
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That’s a door we don’t open.
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 5TH MAY 2017 2:51 PM
It all panned out well for the SNP, didn’t it?
No wonder you didn’t mind the economic side of Thatcher.
Cowie … saw your response to EL’s post … hope you and the kids are doing okay, pal.
TIMMY7NOTED
Depressing disnae come close-I daren’t even talk to my Dad for a few days!
Cot time for nightshift,have fun y’all!
Ernie Lynch
For the last time…Im not a Nat.
Im looking at the bigger picture in political terms…..not solely in Labour terms, like you.
What i say is true….Labour buried the McCrone report, which revealed that Scotland would be a rich nation if in control of our own oil .
You chose the Hun Union, over the future welfare of the people of Scotland.
Your party facilitated the theft of Scottish resources, which were then diverted to London, to be swallowed by Tory sharks.
HH
https://twitter.com/talkingbaws/status/860463747860746240
Jozo’s gonny get ye…
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 5TH MAY 2017 2:59 PM
You’re a nat.
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‘our own oil’
‘the people of Scotland.’
‘the theft of Scottish resources’
Interesting that anyone who offers the opinion that Scotland as an independent country would be a financial basket case (which is true) gets called a Hun on here.
till later all
Can this get any more farcical?
From James Doleman 2 mins ago:
McGill agrees only “very limited due diligence on Mr Whyte”
Findlay “who did you hire to do it”
McGill “We didn’t”
Followed by:
McGill says Whyte’s name was in the public domain and “the press” would be investigating him.
BADA BING 3.01
Superbly Funny mate.
HH
Ernie Lynch
Rest assured, i wont be voting for wee nicola.
But you are the reason why Labour are fecked, your complacency and Kezia are the reason that Tories can win Shettleston.
Ive got more sense than to put faith in any mob of political morons, of whatever stripe.
You are stuck in a time-warp.
The Labour Party sold their souls may years ago….Im not responsible for that, you are:)
HH
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 5TH MAY 2017 3:11 PM
You see the world from a nationalist perspective.
That much is obvious from your posts.
Which means you are a nat.
Ernie Lynch
Im sorry to say this, but you have no understanding of politics whatsoever.
In my view, parliamentary politics is a sham, im above petty ideological nonsense, i dont vote.
So why would i have a ‘nationalist’ perspective?
Nationalism is just another scam….just like the Labour Party.
The system needs destroyed…..Social revolution not bs Labour and SNP stupidities.
Am i still a nationalist?:)
Have i made myself clearer?
HH
Just prior to the 1974 General Election I was in a pub in Alexandria, a neutral venue but more than its fair share of Tims, it was allegedly the pub that Celtic bought apprentice joiner James Kelly when he signed for them, it was at one time run by his brother Joe and was known by the oul timers as “Kellys”.
Anyway, this is in an era when there’s plenty of work and the average worker was earning around 25 county downs a week, with a bit of overtime it would rise tae 30.
We are all discussing the election and Labour’s chances now that Mick McGahey had dethroned sailor boy teddy’s government when one of the punters at the bar told all and sundry in an area once known as “Little Moscow” that he was voting tory as he was an orangeman. There was a stunned silence.
When he finished his solitary pint and left one of the barmen said he could only afford the one pint as he was working in a bakery getting 13 pound a week.
Ernie Lynch
How would the ‘Paris Commune’ of 1871 suit?
HH
So 5 days after humiliating their team at Poundland, the Laptop Loyal say the trouble last week was all our fault? Don’t buy the rags…….
I am not a member of any Political Party, never have been never will be.
I voted Labour for ALL of my adult life at every local and/or General Election
I voted “YES” at Indy vote, and I was disgusted to see Labour jumping into bed with the Tories etc, and wanting the “Status Quo”…which obviously suited the Labour agenda. ( Unionist party).
What I am rather baffled by is that as Celtic supporters MOST of us sing about “Freedom” for ALL countries and ” How The Empire is Finished” at one time or other etc etc. Before I get jumped on..I said MOST Celtic fans…not ALL.
However, when it comes to the possibility of an Independent Scotland ( Free of any Brit Empire that may still remain…feckin Falklands, Gibraltor etc), some on here are strongly opposed ?
Now, each to their own opinion….but why is independence okay for other countries but as long as it’s not Scotland ?
I just don’t get it.
Anyway, it’s fair to say that this rise in the Tory’s/UKIP support in Scotland with these local elections, have certainly made this Celtic’s mind up.
Never thought I’d see the day…….
HH
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS:
You mention the Norweigan Oil Fund, it gets more interesting, more distressing, the more you read about it. I would encourage you to dig deeper than Wiki, but I know you know that.
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 5TH MAY 2017 3:20 PM
The problem with your analysis is that there could be countless generations of people who will have their three score years and ten on this earth before your revolution happens.
So, unless you just want to wallow in self righteousness , the job at hand is to make the best of it in the here and now.
That entails embracing, or at least reaching an accommodation with, reformism. You don’t have to abandon your long term ambitions by doing so. Small things can make people’s lives better for people who might not live long enough to see your promised land. Small things like the NHS or tax credits or whatever, introduced by reformists.
But, believe me, you are a nationalist.
BIG JIMMY on 5TH MAY 2017 3:25 PM
Ireland was an oppressed nation.
Scotland isn’t.
Big difference.
Been in the garden all day and thought I would have a break and see what the crac was on the blog. Page upon page of politics, every bhoy to his own….there is a game on tomorrow???
Back aff oot to the garden…….
Ernie Lynch
Id say it rather depends on your definition of ‘revolution’, doesnt it:)
You say im a nationalist, id reply by saying i view the state as ‘an organ of class rule’….hardly nationalist:)
You think socialism within a rigged system can work, i say thats fantasy.
The State…is the problem, therefore, i believe it should be smashed:)
You want to play the old, old, parliamentary game….I dont believe in such nonsense, but each to their own.
HH
THE GREEN MAN SAYS SACK THE BOARD on 5TH MAY 2017 3:38 PM
‘You think socialism within a rigged system can work, i say thats fantasy.’
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I haven’t said that, and I don’t believe it.
What I said was that reforms can be achieved within the current system which make peoples lives better.
That doesn’t seem to interest you.
Fair enough. But that looks to me like self indulgent purism which benefits no one and achieves nothing.
ERNIE LYNCH on 5TH MAY 2017 2:49 PM
BIG-CUP-WINNERS on 5TH MAY 2017 2:43 PM
I would have to go and check the detail.
You’ll find Labour were in charge for long periods in the 1970’s when the Sovereign fund should have been set-up.
Sort of blows your polarised views out the water.
In actual fact Ernie Bhoy both Labour and the Tories have screwed the workers for decades.
Guys like Corbyn, Tony Benn should be aspirational figures. Not here, they are recognised for what they are a threat. to the establishment and side-tracked. Their own party thwarts them.
Ernie, here’s something to chew on. During the Indy referendum your hostility and nonsense played a fair part in swaying me to vote Yes. True, for a Labour man you seldom vent at the Conservatives that’s telling. Your angst on here, too often (like your thoughtless assertion about those wee dogs) cause me to recoil.
Me, a member of the SNP ? No. I’m actually a socialist who is desperate to have that type of government. Too often in the 80’s and recently, my vote has been nullified by other’s aims and politics.
Nowadays, Labour seem un-electable, like Shettleston today ?
Prestonpans Bhoy good idea think I,ll join you, any chance of some football posts breaking out??? H H Hebcelt
Ernie Lynch
I think of ‘revolution’ in terms of people throwing off their ridiculous faith in a rigged system.
A transformation in political thinking, not the Storming of the Bastille, although that would be fun:)
You cannot convince me, that the bogus monstrosity of parliamentary politics has any value or merit whatsoever.
Reform only comes from obvious suffering, and its merely crumbs from the table.
Your vote is the very thing that allows the small political elite control….you play to their rules.
This is so old, that its creaking and ready to fall.
It only needs a push, and not a violent one.
HH
Would be nice to see a couple of youngsters get some game time tomorrow, Anthony Ralston maybe at right back with Michael Johnston getting some game time later, he was excellent in the game against the deed clubs weans.
Quite a list of players who could be shown the door in the summer or who’s contracts expire.
Izzy, Toure, Sviatchenko, Commons, Ambrose, GMS, Janko, O’Connell, Allan and Ciftci.
Toure may be kept on as a coach it seems, Sviatchenko needs to buck up his ideas and Ajer will come back from Kilmarnock. If Brendan buys a centre half, a full back and a striker I would expect Erik the Viking to be moved on.
Should be great weather in Glasgow tomorrow perfect for watching the Hoops!
I used to have a Garden until……………..Labour controlled Council, Councillors and some MP’s made sure it was taken from me when my home was repossessed due to being unfairly dismissed >
Serious !
HH
Just back from the Library. Whilst there, I had a quick look at the DR. The ` whataboutery` re Scott Sinclair and Mark Walters , even for that `paper, was truly remarkable. I think most people are very easily led so I won`t say it surprises me that many Celtic supporters still read these `papers . It does, however, sadden and frustrate me.
JJ