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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2011 4:47:56 GMT 1
Thanks Tollcross for the heads up about the cycling track photo's. I have now credited them accordingly. I am usually wary of the Mitchell photos, but I have seen those CP photos on numerous football sites and didn't realize their origin, no offense intended mr Mitchell ;D Paul.
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Post by tollcross on May 9, 2011 16:56:23 GMT 1
It was me that found it looking through a collection of photos in the Mitchell a while back, even they dont know its Celtic Park as it was under something like Cycling Sports ground, as soon as i seen the pavillion i knew it was CP2, cost me £14 to get a large copy of it done, the one you posted Paul was mine only it was cropped, i do post on quite a few Celtic Forums looking for and giving info on Celtics early history.
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Post by tollcross on May 9, 2011 17:34:43 GMT 1
Nice one Charlie if you get the charitable status and the permission you need fae the Mitchell.
Not been slinging the Glesga Keelies Celtic forum a dinghy Charlie and should be able to do a bit more typing and adding photos soon, i recently bought a large collection of never seen Scottish Motorsport photos and have been busy trying to do research on the photographer, through my research i have found out he lost a arm in WWII (from the shoulder down just before the DD landings) my research also revealed that his brother was a top racing driver from Irvine and was a great pal of Jimmy Neilson (Largs) who got killed at the Isle of Man races in the 1950s.
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Post by tollcross on May 16, 2011 12:32:08 GMT 1
Based on the information gathered this is roughly were CP1 was situated, this is a full size pitch taken from google map measurements, right hand NE corner shows Ivy Cottage. Mr Robertson the supervisor of Janey lived here, just wondering if he ever wrote his memoirs. Thanks to Steve for doing this image. From the Scottish Referee, May 2nd 1892. CP1 ran N/S as i first thought, always good to see the evidence.
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Post by tollcross on May 16, 2011 15:19:41 GMT 1
The Celtic historians have been looking for years, thats not to say we wont find it, not many people alive have seen as many early pics of the area of Parkhead as you Charlie and i was hoping you would come up with it, i think if a photo exists it will be found not in the Mitchell or old newspapers but in some locals family album or lying in a old drawer, meanwhile my search for that elusive photo continues.
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Post by tollcross on May 16, 2011 15:25:57 GMT 1
1894-95 edition of what we now know as the wee green book.
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Post by tollcross on May 18, 2011 0:50:05 GMT 1
Had a look through my archives GG and thought this maybe the pic you mention, this one is a bit earlier than the Lions, more like the mid 1950s, pic shows Collins, Peacock, McPhail & Mochan and the of course the groundsman, any stories would be appreciated.
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Post by tollcross on May 18, 2011 16:21:20 GMT 1
I never knew that Charlie but it does not suprise me, what i have read about him he loved coaching which he did not get much of at Celtic Park, infact he played in a poor Celtic team with some great individuals, he came over fae Glentoran, Nothern Ireland to play for Celtic in 1949 and left in 1961, Bertie went on to manage Northern Ireland introducing young players the likes of Pat Jennings and Georgie Best, he was also instrumental in starting the Milk Cup tournament which developed into one of youth football’s most prestigious competitions in the country, i dont remember him myself as i was a bit young but i was brought up oan stories of Peacock, McPhail and Mochan as they were part of the team that beat the Rangers 7-1
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Post by tollcross on May 21, 2011 0:47:02 GMT 1
Brief History of Celtic F.C
November 6, 1887
Celtic Football Club is formally constituted in St Mary's Church Hall in East Rose Street (now Forbes Street), Calton. The purpose is stated as being to alleviate poverty in Glasgow's East End parishes.
May 28, 1888
Celtic beat Rangers 5-2 in a "friendly". It is the new club's first match and is played on the first Celtic Park.
1889
Celtic reach the final of the Scottish Cup in their first full season of competition, but they lose 2-1 to the well-established Third Lanark. However, the club wins its first trophy, the North-Eastern Cup (a local competition), beating Cowlairs 6-1 in the final.
1892
Celtic win the Scottish Cup for the first time in their history by defeating Queen's Park 5-2 in the final at Ibrox Park. A few months later, the club moves to its present ground.
1893
Celtic win their first Scottish League Championship.
1905-1910
Celtic win the League Championship for six successive seasons.
1907
Celtic achieve the "double" by winning the Scottish Cup and the League Championship in the same season, the first time the feat has been achieved in the history of the national sport. The team repeats the achievement the following season.
1914-1917
Celtic win the championship four times in a row.
1937
Celtic beat Aberdeen in a Scottish Cup final, watched by a record crowd of 146,433 at Hampden Park. The attendance (sometimes reported as 147,365) remains a record for a club match in Europe.
1938
Celtic win the Empire Exhibition Trophy by defeating Everton 1-0 at Ibrox after extra time in the final.
1953
Celtic defeat Hibernian 2-0 in the final of the Coronation Cup, held to celebrate the crowning of Queen Elizabeth II. The invited teams included the best in Scotland and England, and the final attracted a crowd of 117,000 at Hampden Park.
1956
Celtic win the League Cup for the first time - after a decade of striving - by beating Partick Thistle 3-0 in a replay.
1957
Celtic retain the League Cup in memorable style by thrashing Rangers 7-1 in the final.
1964
Celtic reach the semi-final of the European Cup-Winners' Cup in only their second campaign in European competition, but lose 4-3 on aggregate to MTK Budapest.
1965
Jock Stein succeeds Jimmy McGrory as manager in March 1965, and guides the team to the first victory in a Scottish Cup final in 11 years. Billy McNeill's dramatic header seals a 3-2 win over Dunfermline Athletic.
1966
Celtic win the championship for the first time in 12 seasons, and reach the semi-final of the Cup-Winners' Cup again before losing 2-1 on aggregate to Liverpool.
1967
Celtic complete their most glorious season by winning every competition entered: Scottish League, Scottish Cup, League Cup, Glasgow Cup and the European Cup. The climax of the season is the 2-1 victory over Inter Milan in the European Cup final played at the Estadio Nacional in Lisbon on May 25, 1967. Celtic thus become the first British (and non-Latin) club to win Europe's most coveted trophy.
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Post by tollcross on May 23, 2011 20:37:05 GMT 1
Willie Maley once reckoned he'd travelled 300,000 miles in the course of a football life that saw him lead Celtic to 30 major trophies in 43 years. That makes him the most successful manager in Scottish football history, but the one thing for which all his players remember him is not tactics or team talks. Instead, it is for his hat. 'He was always immaculately dressed, always with a soft hat on,' recalls Jackie Watters, a Celtic forward in the late 1930s. The great Willie Buchan, scorer of Celtic's winning goal in the 1937 Scottish Cup final, also remembers Maley showing his stature through his choice of headgear. 'You always expected to see him well-dressed, with the soft hat, you know.' The ability to project the right image was as essential to football managers a century ago as it is today and Maley, as the best in the business, was alive to that. A soft hat and a hard stare took him a long way. Maley never worked with his players in training and they would see nothing of him for days on end. He watched games in stony silence from the directors' box. He never indulged in team talks or spoke to his players at half-time or post-match. Instead, the craggy-featured Maley would stand silently in the dressing-room, observing his charges 'like a statue', according to Buchan. Maley would not even announce the team: players learned if they were in or out through reading the line-up in the newspaper. It is one of the great paradoxes of Scottish football that it was Maley, this cold, remote figure, who drew up the managerial blueprint for Celtic as a team who would win -- and win consistently -- with wit, verve and style. It was a blueprint that would serve Celtic well and create great Celts such as Patsy Gallacher and Jimmy McGrory in Maley's time, through to Jimmy Johnstone and Kenny Dalglish long after his passing. As Willie Buchan puts it: 'To me, Willie Maley was Celtic.' It was in 1897 that the first board of Celtic directors appointed Willie Maley, at just 29 years of age, as the first manager of Celtic, on an annual salary of £150. Maley won the Scottish League title for the club in his first full season as manager, but he realised that his ageing side urgently required reconstruction. The new manager had been a midfielder in Celtic's first team, in 1888, and he was fortunate in that two of his team-mates from the early days of the club, James Kelly and Michael Dunbar, became, in 1897, members of the first Celtic board of directors. Maley had also played alongside Kelly for Scotland -- although born in Newry, Ireland, Maley, as a naturalised Scot, was proud to represent the land where he had lived since childhood. Maley could trust Kelly and Dunbar, his two chief allies on the board, to back his judgement and he would need their support over the next seven years, when he would gamble heavily with the entire future of Celtic Football Club. Had he failed, there would almost certainly have been no Lisbon Lions, no nine-in-a-row and a good deal fewer of the great Hooped entertainers. Celtic had been a buying club in their opening decade, spending heavily to bring highly-paid, established professionals to the club. Maley decided to scrap all that and, instead, rely almost entirely on recruiting youngsters fresh from junior football. It was a massive risk and had it failed, Celtic might never have recovered. Instead, after half a decade of painstaking work and worry for Maley, he created a young team who would win six league titles in a row between 1905 and 1910 and the first Scottish League and Cup doubles. It was the finest team in world football, and that six-in-a-row record would remain unbroken until the 1970s. When the stars of that side, such as the great centre-forward Jimmy Quinn, began to falter and fail, Maley simply used his formula to build a second team in the image of the first. This one housed the skills of the magnificent Patsy Gallacher and won four titles in succession between 1914 and 1917 and two more in 1919 and 1922. The recruitment of hungry, young players meant they could be cowed, disciplined and moulded into a team. Celtic continued to gather trophies throughout the 1920s and in the mid-1930s Maley built his third great team -- featuring such prize entertainers as Jimmy Delaney, McGrory and Buchan -- a stylish side who won the league title in 1936 and 1938 and the cup in 1937. By then, Maley was approaching 70, but he was as gruff and tough as ever. 'He was law, he was the boss, an iron-fisted man,' recalls Johnnie Wilson, another Celt from the 1930s who also remembers Maley for his soft hat. 'He could make people afraid of him just by looking at them.' On one occasion, winger Frank Murphy knocked on the manager's door to ask Maley for a pay rise. The manager rattled out the greeting: 'What do you want?' Murphy, quailing in his manager's presence, was too terrified to request a wage increase. Instead, he asked for some complimentary match tickets for friends. Maley gave him them, but said it would be the last time, telling Murphy: 'If your own friends won't pay to see you play, how can you expect other people to do so?' Murphy never did get round to asking for that pay rise. Maley was forging new ground in management with every step he took and could not lean on any predecessor for advice or encouragement. He created three homespun teams who played in a style that would become feared the world over. Maley's template for success would serve the club superbly throughout the 20th century until Celtic changed tack in the mid-1990s and became a buying club again. No other manager ever stamped his identity on Scottish football so distinctively. His mastery was in finding the right players, finding the right position for them in his team, blending them and replacing them when the time was right. His record stands comparison with any other and he created the platform for success that would lead to Celtic's 1967 European Cup win. Maley's achievements should not be demeaned because they belong in the pre-television era and for too long his successes have been shrouded in the mists of time. In creating three world-class teams from scratch, making them play in a highly entertaining fashion, and forging a rich identity for his club that would last a century, Maley's management is unparalleled; not just in Scotland but worldwide. Source: Sunday Herald 2003
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Post by tollcross on May 23, 2011 20:55:25 GMT 1
Took my wife to the "Greatest Ever Celt" event at the Auditorium a few years back and went with the intention of voting for Willie Maley, had read that much about him and thought there might no have been a Celtic without him, on the way in we met Jinky & Bertie in the car park and had a blether on the way in, Jimmy was not looking great and i let my heart rule my head and changed my mind and voted for Jinky, looking back now im sure i made the right choice. The medal below is from my collection and is one of my favourites.
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Post by Waverley on May 23, 2011 23:16:50 GMT 1
Willie Maley once reckoned he'd travelled 300,000 miles in the course of a football life that saw him lead Celtic to 30 major trophies in 43 years.
So what was his record then Jamie...as I am sure Struth won more than thirty in his time as manager. Mind you the Rangers went 25 years without winning the Scottish Cup.
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Post by tollcross on May 24, 2011 0:18:37 GMT 1
Willie Maley once reckoned he'd travelled 300,000 miles in the course of a football life that saw him lead Celtic to 30 major trophies in 43 years. So what was his record then Jamie...as I am sure Struth won more than thirty in his time as manager. Mind you the Rangers went 25 years without winning the Scottish Cup. Answers on a postcard to the Herald I think he probably did Charlie.
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Post by Waverley on May 24, 2011 8:53:53 GMT 1
I wasn't trying to be funny Jamie I just wanted something clarified seeing as it said in the article that Maley was the most succesful manager in Scotland...for the record here is Struth's Roll of Honour.
Bill Struth (1875–1956) was the second manager of Rangers Football Club, leading the Club for 34 years between 1920 and 1954, as well as the holder of a number of other positions, including director. Struth is one of the most successful managers in Scottish football history, amassing 18 league championships, 10 Scottish Cup, 2 League Cups, 7 war-time championships, 19 Glasgow Cups, 17 Glasgow Merchant Charity Cups.
The seven war time championships , the Second World War , aren't included in Rangers 54 League Championships . The six league titles won by Celtic from the period prior to and during and immediatedly after the First World War do count amongst their total league titles.
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Post by tollcross on May 24, 2011 12:52:14 GMT 1
The Journo i quoted appears to me to be talking about Major Trophys, according to my calculations Maley won 16 leagues & 14 Scottish Cups, Struth won 18 leagues, 10 Scottish Cups, Maley = 30 Struth = 28.
League 1898 Willie Maley Celtic 1905 Willie Maley Celtic 1906 Willie Maley Celtic 1907 Willie Maley Celtic 1908 Willie Maley Celtic 1909 Willie Maley Celtic 1910 Willie Maley Celtic 1914 Willie Maley Celtic 1915 Willie Maley Celtic 1916 Willie Maley Celtic 1917 Willie Maley Celtic 1919 Willie Maley Celtic 1921 Bill Struth Rangers 1922 Willie Maley Celtic 1923 Bill Struth Rangers 1924 Bill Struth Rangers 1925 Bill Struth Rangers 1926 Willie Maley Celtic 1927 Bill Struth Rangers 1928 Bill Struth Rangers 1929 Bill Struth Rangers 1930 Bill Struth Rangers 1931 Bill Struth Rangers 1933 Bill Struth Rangers 1934 Bill Struth Rangers 1935 Bill Struth Rangers 1936 Willie Maley Celtic 1937 Bill Struth Rangers 1938 Willie Maley Celtic 1939 Bill Struth Rangers 1947 Bill Struth Rangers 1949 Bill Struth Rangers 1950 Bill Struth Rangers 1953 Bill Struth Rangers
Scottish Cup 1899 Willie Maley Celtic 1900 Willie Maley Celtic 1904 Willie Maley Celtic 1907 Willie Maley Celtic 1908 Willie Maley Celtic 1911 Willie Maley Celtic 1912 Willie Maley Celtic 1914 Willie Maley Celtic 1923 Willie Maley Celtic 1925 Willie Maley Celtic 1927 Willie Maley Celtic 1928 Bill Struth Rangers 1930 Bill Struth Rangers 1931 Willie Maley Celtic 1932 Bill Struth Rangers 1933 Willie Maley Celtic 1934 Bill Struth Rangers 1935 Bill Struth Rangers 1936 Bill Struth Rangers 1937 Willie Maley Celtic 1948 Bill Struth Rangers 1949 Bill Struth Rangers 1950 Bill Struth Rangers
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Post by Waverley on May 24, 2011 13:37:08 GMT 1
I get your point Jamie. However, Struth did go on to win the League Cup several times but it wasn't introduced until after Maley had retired. Struth never became a manager of Rangers until 1920 which meant that Maley had a head start on him. Anyway there is enough to go on with to give both manager's a special board of their own achievements whenever we do the definitive Rangers and Celtic boards.
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Post by tollcross on May 24, 2011 13:46:46 GMT 1
No problem Charlie, did not want to turn this into a debate about Maley v Struth as im sure we could both throw muck till the cows came hame Never noticed your edit Charlie as i was replying to you, i would also like to add: Struth took over at the right time as Celtic were waning and spent 40 odd years in the wilderness, off the top of my head Celtic won only 4 League titles between 1922 and 1965, Maley built Celtic from scratch and made us. He established us. Without Maley we may never have taken off as a successful club he was certainly the benchmark, Struth took over an already established relatively successful club who were already massive.
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Post by tollcross on May 25, 2011 13:25:21 GMT 1
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Post by tollcross on May 26, 2011 21:21:45 GMT 1
Source: Glasgow Herald Newspaper report dated Monday, February 25, 1889. 50 runners from the Harriers set off from CP1 at halftime for a 10 mile race which ended back at CP1, after going twice round the enclosure they left the ground on the north side of the stand, re-entered the enclosure at the south-west corner and finished at the south-east corner of the grandstand. Out of interest Charlie, maybe someone on here with good local knowledge would know the 10 mile route the runners took.
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Post by tollcross on Jun 5, 2011 0:38:14 GMT 1
Was at the John O Hara ceremony in Dalbeath along with approx 150 of his descendants on Sunday, JOH was a committee man from the outset and played a important part in the founding of Celtic along with others, He died on 29th May 1905 of cardiac failure at 351 Gallowgate and was married to Sarah McDonald, His GG Grandson led a excellent ceremony with Lisbon Lions Bertie Auld and Joe McBride in attendance, after the ceremony it was onto Celtic Park for a meal and a bevvy in the No7 restuarant with the Scottish Cup on display, John O Hara was in a unmarked grave but as the pic shows he now has a lovely Celtic Cross headstone.
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Post by Waverley on Jun 5, 2011 10:16:22 GMT 1
Seems to be the in thing at the moment Jamie. I have been to the graves of two of the four founder members of Rangers in the last nine months William MacBeath and Moses McNeil, MacBeath was buried in a pauper's grave in Lincoln and a group of us got together and have leased the grave for fifty years and recently erested a beautiful headstone at the grave. Moses McNeil is buried in Roseneath besides his two sisters and his brother in law but his name does not appear on the gravestone. Rangers were suppossed to get it all squared up and a new stone erected but that was several years ago and we are still waiting on them to do something. Peter McNeil has a stone over his family grave in Craigton Cemetery but Peter Campbell has no known grave as he was drowned at sea off the coast of France when the ship he was travelling on sank in the Bay of Biscay. I believe there are a few ex-Celtic players buried in Dalbeth...Big Andrews knows where they all are I will need to get him to show me them so I can photograph them.
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Post by tollcross on Jun 5, 2011 11:07:07 GMT 1
Well in Charlie and if the supporters dont do it nobody will, problem is you need the lair owners permission before you can do anything, im involved with a Charity that has found almost all of the founders and past players of Celtic, its amazing how many are lying in Dalbeath in unmarked graves, we as a group have held 3 Ceremonies so far and have marked the graves of Dan Doyle, David Hamilton and Sandy McMahon in the past year, we have located the Graves of the very first Celtic side, had photographs taken of them and aim to make sure they are all up to scratch, our motto is "THEY NEVER DIE WHO LIVE IN THE HEARTS THEY LEAVE BEHIND" which is the words written on John Thomsons grave. i will add pics of the graves we have marked so far and if you want i will pick you up sometime and give you a wee tour of Dalbeath.
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Post by tollcross on Jun 5, 2011 12:06:45 GMT 1
The Dan Doyle Ceremony which was well attended despite the very bad weather, Celtic FC were represented by Peter Lawell and Jim Craig (our patron) The David Hamilton Ceremony which was also well attended despite the weather, Celtic FC were represented by Bobby Lennox and Jim Craig, as you can see many of his descendants attended. The Sandy McMahon Ceremony was another that was well attended (many of his descendants) Stevie Chalmers & Jim Craig represented Celtic FC for this one, pic shows the grave unmarked
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Post by tollcross on Jun 5, 2011 14:57:17 GMT 1
No problem Charlie, im normally available on a Tuesday & Wednesday
Within Dalbeth we have so far discovered John Glass, one of the main driving forces behind our creation as well as early Committee members and Board members including Dr John Conway, John H McLaughlin, John O’Hara, John & William McKillop, David Meikleham and Hugh Murphy along with Tom White who was Celtic Chairman for many years.
On the playing side three of Celtic's greatest ever strikers lie in Dalbeth: Jimmy McGrory, Sandy McMahon and Jimmy McMenemy. In addition other names from the club's glorious history include Johnny Campbell, Jerry Reynolds, David Hamilton, Barney Battles, Mick McKeown and Dan Doyle from the early days, as well as John Bonnar, the Coronation Cup goalkeeper and John McAlindon.
I couldnt imagine how many past Celtic Supporters lie in Dalbeath, i do know that well over a dozen of my immediate family are buried in Dalbeath, my Uncle Willie who after coming back from a Celtic away game with the Bairds bar bus sadly never woke up, he is buried alongside my Mother whose grave i go to visit every Xmas day with my Daughter and whenever im in the graveyard.
"THEY NEVER DIE WHO LIVE IN THE HEARTS THEY LEAVE BEHIND"
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Post by tollcross on Jun 5, 2011 17:04:44 GMT 1
Celtic Brake Clubs.Tally Ho Brake Club Hamilton. The earliest form of organised supporters groups sprung up very soon after the club’s birth and were known as ‘Brake Clubs’ – so called because of the large horse drawn wagons they travelled in, these large wagons could hold 25 supporters and brakes would make their way from across Glasgow to Parkhead and beyond to cheer on their favourites, with virtually all Celtic Brake Clubs being born from Catholic Parishes in Glasgow it was no surprise to find that faith too had a strong influence on the opinions of the members, this was best illustrated in 1897 when certain of the Brakes called for Celtic to ditch their non-discriminatory traditions and field an all Catholic team, the club comprehensively dismissed that idea. Each and every Brake Club would proudly display their own unique banner with a picture of their favourite player The very first showed Tom Maley and was the St Marys League Celtic Brake Club Banner which can be seen in Bairds today The one below shows the Sarsfield. the story goes that it was acquired from a skirmish with the Orange Walk in the Gorbals in the First World War period, the banner was then repainted and two huge paintings of Celtic favourites imposed on it. (not sure if thats true) The pics below show a St Andrews Celtic Brake Club Banner with a pic of Charlie Shaw and Andy McAtee, During World War One Andy McAtee worked in the mines before spending the last year of the conflict in uniform, he retired in 1925 after scoring close on 80 goals in over 450 games for Celtic and in that year he moved to the USA where he played for the New Bedford FC. Charlie Shaw a Goalkeeper was born in Twechar and moved from QPR to Celtic in May 1913, in his first full season he only conceded 14 goals in 38 league games, a record that i dont think will be broken, he played 492 games for Celtic which is another record he holds for a goalkeeper, He had won six league titles 1914-1917, 1919 and 1922 and two Scottish Cups 1914 and 1923. He owned a Tobacconist at Bridgeton Cross and went on loan to Clyde and remained at Shawfield until the end of the season 1924-25, In the summer of 1925 aged 40 he went as player manager to New Bedford Whalers, the USA"s leading Soccer Team, he took a few Celtic players with him and funnily enough one of them was Andy McAtee whose on the reverse of the Brake Club Banner.
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Post by tollcross on Jun 6, 2011 14:04:58 GMT 1
Through our research the Archdiocese confirmed the last known lair owner of Dan Doyle's resting place was Celtic/Maley, he died on the 8th April and Celtic purchased the lair on the 10th April 1918, not sure but it may have been marked with a wooden cross or similar, we know Celtic/Maley purchased many of the lairs in Dalbeath, one good example of Celtic looking after ex players is Michael McKeown, he left Celtic in 1891 and was a bit of a trouble maker who had many fall outs with key players and officials, he actuall struck the secretary John O Hara because he was not happy with a deal that was offered, anyway when he was found dead in 1901 of asphyxation in a lime kiln in Camlachie, a paupers grave awaited him until Celtic stepped in and arranged his funeral with a honourable burial in Dalbeath. Aye Charlie the same dinner, the Professor spoke eloquently for half a hour mostly about Irish migrants and if you check back with your Celtic Park mole i think he actually said Glasgow and not Scotland Both Ex-Celts i mention above probably died penniless and were basically drunkards, Celtic did the right thing and gave both a decent burial and resting place, below is the final resting place of Mick McKeown under the headstone of Patrick Quillan Celtics Vice President.
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Post by Waverley on Jun 6, 2011 19:01:31 GMT 1
Oh we all know what spin he put on it Jamie as it is already common knowledge on the internet. Strange how he seems to be the spokesman...and only spokesman... for the BBC whenever it comes to religion , sectarianism or bigotry...surely out of all the Universities in Jockland there must be more than one Professor who can give a comment on these so called problems that afflict Scottish society. Or is it a case of BBC are living up to their name as they are known by the majority of the indigenous people of Scotland...BBC - Broadcasted By Catholics. Anyway getting back to the topic...I have too much on at work this week so maybe the following week for the visit to Dalbeth. Oh and by the way I am off to the Somme soon and if you want me to lay a poppy wreath at the grave of any of the Celtic players who paid the ultimate sacrifice then please get it to me by the end of the month. Me laying a bouquet of poppies at the grave of James Stokes VC's grave in the Reichwald Forest War Cemetery several years ago...I am sure he would have appreciated the official Rangers club tie I was wearing.
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Post by tollcross on Jul 1, 2011 14:53:36 GMT 1
A Celtic Great sadly passed away today Rest in Peace Willie Fernie my Dad told me all about you.
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Post by Waverley on Aug 18, 2011 13:04:21 GMT 1
Jamie I came across this in a poster site and it claims it was taken at Celtic Park during a Scotland v England game...I have checked it out with a spy glass and the buildings in the background aren't anything that I can recognise.
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