Incredible pieces of Celtic History that you could win
As you may already know, we have 2 Celtic tops (1 home and 1 away) signed by the last 11 Club Captains of Celtic Football Club spanning the past 53 years of our unbroken history, from Billy to Broony. These items have been professionally designed and framed, containing all the players’ relevant stats. These truly are two of a kind and are a once in a lifetime opportunity to be the proud owner of. The signing of the tops took us around 18 months to achieve and the journey and story behind this was amazing. We plan to share this story with you over the coming weeks.
We are also delighted to announce that the money raised from the Captains tops (and other special prizes) will not only support Shay but also the wonderful work of the Celtic FC Foundation.
This is our plan
The WalkWithShay Campaign is now fully registered with the Licensing Board to run lotteries (raffles); and we are planning to hold our 1st raffle where the First Prize will be the Away Club Captains top, together with many other great Celtic related prizes. The draw date for this raffle will be 25th May 2017 (no need to remind you of the significance of that date). We need help to sell our raffle tickets for £5 each and spread awareness before then. Yes, that’s right, you could win the Away top for just £5!!!! The Home top will be raffled/auctioned or sold at a later date.
This is where we need your help…
We’re looking for
67 Supporters Clubs / Groups / Associations / Online Communities/Businesses/Establishments or super Individuals to each sell up to 50 (Lisboa) tickets @£5 each
This will form our Green Battalion
and
67 individuals to sell up to 10 (IAR) tickets @ £5 each
This will form our White Battalion
You are of course all welcome to sell more or indeed a smaller quantity of tickets, if you so desire. Regardless of what you sell (or buy) we really appreciate your support.
We would like to have all our sellers registered before Monday 3rd April, which is when we plan to go live with the sale of our raffle tickets. There is a bit of work here to ensure we comply with our license, so please contact us now.
Please help us recruit by sharing our story with your family, friends and colleagues.
Will you Join Wee Shay’s Green Raffle Army?
Are you able and willing to help and support this amazing initiative? If so please email us at walkwithshay@yahoo.com or if you are on Twitter send us a direct message @walkwithshay we are also on Facebook.
Thanks for taking the time to read our update and we really hope you can support Shay and his young family.
Yours forever in Celtic and thank you for Walking with Shay.
The WalkWithShay Campaign Team
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Going over 2.5 goals on the games.
Slangevar CSC
Hail Hail
Jobo 8.43am
GFS….. If no choice put them all on Hamilton, got a feeling Martin Canning has the measure of our very own Pedro Cax
Incredible
GFTB – ma choice is Hamilton.
Going back to the Future.
I always thought that Warbiola is best being in situ. He was the least likely to send out his charges to hurt Celtic players.
John Kennedy was going to be a World Class player, IMO, a Celt as well.
As things are going…. we are going to lose a potential World Class player because of the Joke of a Referee Fraternity. I know how hard the job is being a referee. It is shocking that so many don’t stand a chance to progress.
Scotland in a nutshell – really.
JJS latest misses one key element. Having demanded the heads of Regan & Doncaster he should go on to include our leading match officials. Sweep the whole place clean.
olde canamalar Nailed it when he brought in the H&S aspect of a referee.
Petec
I used my 2nd joker on Man Utd, my aim is to beat Art of War, we have told each other our picks every week up to week 8……. but agreed the last two rounds we will keep our picks to ourselves, beating AoW will be my “prize”
SettingmaselfupforafallCSC
Must run, unlike Jobo my run is more of a walk up the street with MissGFTB, I don’t do the link thing but St Patrick’s festival Coatbridge have a wee website it’s worth a wee swatch, grey & damp in ML5, will be delighted if it just stays dry
Gerryfaethebrig,
Njoi – Some people don’t have access to their kids.
Cherish every moment.
Better days??????
67 – Time for new Heroes
CELTIC
When ye read its History, It’s enough to make you so very Sad.
CELTIC
KOUASSI TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!
SFTB @8 43 .
Note that blurb from Ian Jack includes some nostalgia re the Flamingo Ballroom . I too remember it well . Went there one night for The Poets . Had to leave in consequence of a Govan Team nutter with a bayonet who didn’t like people who weren’t local..Culture !
oVER AND oVER
We will follow you.
On the topic of Gaelic language,I remember the late,God rest him,Wee Billy davidson of Coatbridge fame,tried for two years of classes to get to grips with it.Now Wee billy was a very intelligent guy,as anyone who watched him on Countdown with his many Hoops tops on,will know.He told me he had to give it up as it was just too hard to master.He reckoned it would have to be taught from a very early age.
Anyway,would love to see the appearance of Eboue today.Report from a Celtic Blog yesterday wrongly stated Rogic could feature today,but today Celtic said two weeks.Great news.Should be raring to go for the Semi.
ACGR
You should have a look at ’66 days’, a mentioned by HT yesterday. A docufilm of Bobby Sands, his early years and his fasting for justice that he knew would take his life.
It is a great record of his struggle and his motivation for it.
It portrays his bravery that captured the nationalist/republican fight against injustice.
It also demonstrates the brutality and cruelty of the British government/Margaret Thatcher and the weakness of the Irish Dáil. And how the plight of Bobby Sands was taken/not taken on by American politicians.
RIP
Bobby Sands (26)
died on 5 May 1981 after 66 days without food
Francis Hughes (25)
died on 12 May 1981 after 59 days without food
Raymond McCreesh (24)
died on 21 May 1981 after 61 days without food
Patsy O’Hara (23)
died on 21 May 1981 after 61 days without food
Joe McDonnell (30)
died on 8 July 1981 after 61 days without food
Martin Hurson
died on 13 July 1981 after 46 days without food
Kevin Lynch (25)
died on 1 August 1981 after 71 days without food
Kieran Doherty (25)
Teachta Dáil (TD; member of the Irish Parliament) died on 2 August 1981 after 73 days without food
Thomas McElwee (23)
died on 8 August 1981 after 62 days without food
Michael Devine (27)
died on 20 August 1981 after 60 days without food
SOUTH OF TUNIS on 18TH MARCH 2017 10:03 AM
SFTB @8 43 .
Note that blurb from Ian Jack includes some nostalgia re the Flamingo Ballroom . I too remember it well . Went there one night for The Poets . Had to leave in consequence of a Govan Team nutter with a bayonet who didn’t like people who weren’t local..Culture !
Royston Vasey culture.
It’s Dark and Hard as Nails. Dave Angel. Brilliant mix.
EBoueEEEE.
Brendan knows things.
Macjay,
I wish I had applied myself and learned a second language. Not the poxy teachings at school i.e. Latin and French where to pass an exam was really A memory test , rather than the ability to actually speak the lingo. ( Pretty hard to converse in Latin though, unless you have access to a time machine )
For persons whose first language is not English, the choice of another language is a no brainer. English.
For myself I keep promising I will start learning Spanish.
I think in the distant future, Spanish ( or a form of Spanish ) may even overtake English as the dominant business language. Even Catalan is getting squeezed, in this increasingly global world.
HH & buena suerte
Mea Culpa
JohnJames didn’t miss that ‘key element’ before the Sevco match, when he lambasted them for the appointment of Midden, predicting the cheating that would follow.
In his latest he also quite rightly calls for Regan’s ‘whitewash LNS commission’ to be ‘swept out the door behind him’, and says that the same fate should befall Doncaster’s ‘corrupt continuation dogma’.
I couldn’t agree more.
ANGELGABRIEL
Where were you drinking yesterday mhate ? Sounds as if it was a good day !
http://www.independent.ie/sport/horse-racing/cheltenham/robbies-been-racing-his-whole-life-i-even-met-him-in-the-yard-35542599.html
One thing I am really noticing over the years is the acknowledgment and participation of all sections of society in celebrating St Patrick’s day.
It has really changed so much from my younger days.
HH.
Anyone tell me how I can watch 66 Days.Nothing coming up on Kodi search.
SFTB
Re the Gaelic discussion.
Not sure if you were referring to me earlier or not but I would standby my assertion that the British establishment would have intentionally suppressed education of said language/culture because it would IMO be seen as a threat to their own society/doctrines.
This was lifted from BBC …
The impact of an act introduced 140 years ago on Gaelic and the culture of the Highlands and Islands are to be explored by academics.
The Education (Scotland) Act 1872 introduced compulsory schooling for children across Scotland, but excluded the teaching of Gaelic.
The move has been regarded as hugely damaging to the use and promotion of the language.
Hebridean Archives will host the conference on on 25 August.
It will be held at Balivanich Primary School on Benbecula.
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Conference speakers will include two academics from the University of the Highlands and Islands.
Prof Matthew Maciver is a native Gaelic speaker from Lewis and has held various positions on organisations involved in the promotion of the language, including the Gaelic Playgroups and Nursery Association.
Dornoch-based Dr Elizabeth Ritchie’s areas of research include education in 18th and 19th Century Scotland.
William MacDonald, of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar’s education department, will be another of the speakers.
The three will look at the extent of the damage caused to Gaelic by the act, and how successful efforts to reverse the harm have been.
Before the act was introduced, education authorities were actively discouraging Gaelic and pushed young speakers towards speaking English fluently.
The Society in Scotland for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge, set up in 1709, was said to have been “outwardly hostile” towards Gaelic in its work educating young Gaels.
It told teachers to ban its use in schools and playgrounds.
Following the act, children caught speaking Gaelic were belted and faced further corporal punishment if they did not give up the names of classmates they had been talking to.
The 1918 Education Act played a part in changing attitudes to the language.
It placed a requirement on authorities in Gaelic areas “to make adequate provision for Gaelic”.
The Inverness-shire Gaelic Education Scheme and the Western Isles Bilingual Education Project followed.
I would posit that the act of 1872 mentioned above that lasted nearly half a century was a major contributor to the decline of the Gaelic speaking population in Scotland.
Thanks for your input
I know this topic has been covered here a few times. It is not one on which I am well informed but this article suggests there has been a bit of myth making for far right purposes.
The Irish as slaves in the New World- Myth or Truth?
The olde Saltcoats Metro was Paralysed by Dave Angel. Me and ma wee Brothers pal…. we were going tonto © Tony D ©.
Dave Angel was Awesome in the Metro. Most will say No. :))))
Laughable the comments that Bobby Madden was ‘demoted’ to a Championship game this weekend.
The referee was given a game in a lower league as often happens, on this occasion to shelter him from the spotlight.
More a reward by the SFA until he’s ready to be used on another occasion.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/horse-racing/cheltenham/power-takes-glory-in-a-week-of-wonders-35542498.html
Greenpinata
Pretty sure someone on here mentioned that it is actually meant to be a quiet day for sombre reflection or something like that and not a celebration.
Bit like the minutes silence or applause thing perhaps?
It is great that it is being celebrated more now though and even now in Scotland.
Yesterday a young tim at my work mentioned the fact it was Saint Patrick’s Day to one of the female huns and that she should be celebrating!
Needless to say he got an abrupt…….ahll no be celebratin that reply!
Long way to go!
For those that just don’t care.
1:57 to get that Quote.
PeteTong.CSC
Everyones a Sinner.
http://www.independent.ie/style/celebrity/celebrity-news/from-london-to-la-how-celebrities-celebrated-st-patricks-day-35543028.html
I’d have loved to see Davie Hay. Not many vids on youtube.
Davie is a Legend.
DBHOY on 18TH MARCH 2017 10:28 AM
Is it possible that those who discouraged/suppressed the use of Gaelic within the education system were doing it for the best of motives, ie they genuinely believed that it was in the children’s best interests to be fluent in English, rather than because they regarded Gaelic culture as a threat?
DBhoy
Nowhere did I say that there was no suppression by the state (there certainly was after the two Jacobite rebellions) or that teaching did not play a part (it did but a much smaller one than is being asserted and it was not carried out for reasons of cultural suppression but to promote the utility of the “universal” language of English- to fit “the lad o’ pairts” for commerce and industry).
The only bits I countered were on how widespread Gaelic speaking was- for those who imagine the Central belt and Lowlands were louping with suppressed gaelic speakers- 23% of the population spoke Gaelic in 1755, by 1901 that had shrunk to 4.5%. Therefore your 1872 Education Act would have to have achieved all that reduction in just 29 years of operation. Just how strong was the hold of a language that was so nearly eradicated.
BTW- Education was as culturally opposed to Doric speaking, the language of Burns and Lallans as it was to Gaelic. The impulse behind that was industrial and commercial as much as it was cultural opression. But that meme does not play as well in certain circles.
and also BTW- the picture in Ireland was not and is still not that much different. Despite the revival simce 1916 and before, it remains a first language in small pockets of the country and is a secondary back up language for a majority. I do not have any negative attitude towards that position- I admire people who can pick up languages easily- but it will not easily survive the lonng term trend towards the dominance of English, Chinese and Spanish as World languages or some polyglot version of all of this as envisioned in Blade Runner. But we can go on blaming the English for all of that too.
Dbhoy
I should have said Jacobite rebellions/uprisings as I was not taking sides there.