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Post by gallowgategal on May 22, 2011 10:09:05 GMT 1
you just have to listen to genuine fans who think he is an embarrassment just like the Barnes/Dalglish double act & not the plastic paddy"s who dwell on the paddygate & have their own agenda What a lot of crap you talk. There may be some fans who are not 100% behind Neil Lennon, the same who are never happy, but are you trying to say out of the thousands of fans who chant his name at matches, hundreds who gave him a standing ovation at the Celtic Rally, and many who I keep company with are not "genuine" fans You also seem obsessed with "paddygate" why on earth can't you be happy with your own team's achievements and stop going on about your hatred of "plastic paddies" etc....... Oh, and hail, hail
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Post by tollcross on May 22, 2011 12:47:35 GMT 1
Well said Gallowgategal ive yet tae meet a Celtic fan whose no happy wae Neil Lennon.
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Post by Waverley on May 22, 2011 12:53:28 GMT 1
Well said Gallowgategal ive yet tae meet a Celtic fan whose no happy wae Neil Lennon. Strange that...I have met and know dozens of them who are definitely hoping he isn't given a contract.
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Post by tollcross on May 22, 2011 12:59:21 GMT 1
Ok Charlie, Dowling and Clark were on loan from hibs and the pavillion in the background is the Kennington Oval London, Celtic played the Corinthians in a friendly. So can we date the photo then Jamie... Aye Charlie Corinthians v Celtic 16th February 1889 it was a return match after they played us first at CP1.
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Post by tollcross on May 22, 2011 13:04:04 GMT 1
Oh well unlucky for them, just seen it oan sky hes getting a contract and a long one according to Dermot Desmond.
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Post by tollcross on May 22, 2011 13:46:06 GMT 1
It may be of interest to recall what John H.McLaughlin, the Celtic Chairman, said when receiving the Scottish Cup in the 1899-99 final after defeating Rangers two nil. 'If," he said "they looked back to the history of The Rangers, there was no club in Great Britain who could boast of a record like theirs. They struggled on till they became, four years ago, certainly the premier club in Scotland, and from that time to this day they have been about the best team in the British Isles." This was the opinion of one of the most outstanding personalities that ever adorned the S.F.A. chair. No narrow parochialism here but the voice of the football statesmen. Was that the same John H McLaughlin that played piano with the Rangers Glee Club? IMO he was a great Celtic Chairman in one of the most successful terms in our history, It was noted at the time, he was virtually unique among the Celtic pioneers in having no public involvement or profile in Irish political affairs (at the time of the Boer War he was a vocal supporter of the British, very much out of step with many others on the Celtic Board and moves were made to have him unseated.
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Post by gallowgategal on May 22, 2011 14:40:53 GMT 1
Well said Gallowgategal ive yet tae meet a Celtic fan whose no happy wae Neil Lennon. Strange that...I have met and know dozens of them who are definitely hoping he isn't given a contract. Oh well unlucky for them, just seen it oan sky hes getting a contract and a long one according to Dermot Desmond. ;D ;D ;D I am led to believe the above was arranged by Rod Stewart, probably not a "genuine" fan but certainly not a "plastic paddy"
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Post by Waverley on May 22, 2011 15:45:05 GMT 1
Oh well unlucky for them, just seen it oan sky hes getting a contract and a long one according to Dermot Desmond. Yyyyyeeesssssssss....best news I have heard all day. ;D
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Post by Waverley on May 22, 2011 15:57:38 GMT 1
I am led to believe the above was arranged by Rod Stewart, probably not a "genuine" fan but certainly not a "plastic paddy" Rod Stewart is that the Cockney who thinks he's a Jolly Jacobite who would love to be Oirish...what a crazy mixed up fecker he is - I remember years ago reading a story in one of the music papers of how he grew up above a newsagent shop in Highgate and he and his brother had their bedroom walls covered in Rangers photos back in the 1950's.
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Post by gallowgategal on May 22, 2011 16:03:27 GMT 1
I remember years ago reading a story in one of the music papers of how he grew up above a newsagent shop in Highgate and he and his brother had their bedroom walls covered in Rangers photos back in the 1950's. We all did daft things when we were young Charlie, didn't we But Rod and I grew out of them ;D
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Post by robertcockburn1 on May 22, 2011 17:32:51 GMT 1
I remember years ago reading a story in one of the music papers of how he grew up above a newsagent shop in Highgate and he and his brother had their bedroom walls covered in Rangers photos back in the 1950's. We all did daft things when we were young Charlie, didn't we But Rod and I grew out of them ;D as rod said...... every picture tells a story...... ;D
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Post by Waverley on May 22, 2011 18:59:54 GMT 1
Now that the fitba season is officially over I will be erasing the vast majority of posts listed on here as they are becoming rather predictable and heading down the same route as the similar postings re the Old Firm on the GP's and GG's board...
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Post by gallowgategal on May 22, 2011 19:41:10 GMT 1
Now that the fitba season is officially over I will be erasing the vast majority of posts listed on here as they are becoming rather predictable and heading down the same route as the similar postings re the Old Firm on the GP's and GG's board... I agree Charlie, it does become rather tedious however you cannot expect to slag off one of the Glasgow teams and for it to go unchallenged Motherwell 0-3 Celtic a record 35th Scottish cup win for CELTIC. Oh , whoopee doo! Are you sure you aren't the Border Collie in disguise as you are certainly beginning to act like him. The latest tirade seems to have started after an innocuous remark by Patrick which was then followed by you and your buddy giving it the usual "plastic paddy" and "we hate Neil Lennon" insults. You are your own worst enemy for these threads going off tangent ;D
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Post by Waverley on May 22, 2011 20:03:05 GMT 1
Now that the fitba season is officially over I will be erasing the vast majority of posts listed on here as they are becoming rather predictable and heading down the same route as the similar postings re the Old Firm on the GP's and GG's board... I agree Charlie, it does become rather tedious however you cannot expect to slag off one of the Glasgow teams and for it to go unchallenged Motherwell 0-3 Celtic a record 35th Scottish cup win for CELTIC. Oh , whoopee doo! Are you sure you aren't the Border Collie in disguise as you are certainly beginning to act like him. The latest tirade seems to have started after an innocuous remark by Patrick which was then followed by you and your buddy giving it the usual "plastic paddy" and "we hate Neil Lennon" insults. You are your own worst enemy for these threads going off tangent ;D I agree Anne and from now on unless the post is of some historic interest I will not reply to them I will just delete them immediately as it is obvious to me that some people have no sense of humour when it comes to any form of criticism re the Celtic by the indigenous people of this country. And Patrick contrary to common belief in Engerlund we do have TV's in Scotland and we don't need to click on here to find out the score whenever the 'dummy Irish' play.
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Post by gallowgategal on May 22, 2011 20:46:07 GMT 1
"Dummy irish", you just can't help yourself can you I would say a record 35th Scottish Cup win for Celtic does have historic interest and should quite rightly be on this thread. Just as a world record 54th league win by Rangers also has great historic interest.
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Post by Waverley on May 22, 2011 21:30:36 GMT 1
"Dummy irish", you just can't help yourself can you I would say a record 35th Scottish Cup win for Celtic does have historic interest and should quite rightly be on this thread. Just as a world record 54th league win by Rangers also has great historic interest. I will decide what format these boards take on Anne and the format currently in use does not pay tribute to the records or history of either club.I hope to meet up with Tollcross over the summer months to build a history of the club and also the Calton Defender to work on our 'Up A Wee Close Doon By Brigton Cross' Rangers site. Yes you are right I cannot help myself re the 'plastic paddies' and 'dummy Irish'...seeing as I am now part of a rather large well to do Irish family based in Dublin I have the right to talk about real Irish people and those from here who think they are Irish. ;D They are still sending me comments on my wedding speech which included such references to the Irish diaspora , the Irish and the Scots , my daughter's Ulster roots , my nickname for my son in law 'the Big Fella' , the Irish bank crisis and how they owed us big time plus an offer from me to bring them back into the Commonwealth. ;D Had I made the same speech here in Glesga I have no doubt some 'plastic paddy' would've been bumping their gums about it. Remember both my maternal great granda's were Irish and both only died several years before my birth but I do not see myself as Irish albeit I am proud of my Ulster Irish roots...I am first and foremost a Glesga Keelie Jock of Irish/Ulster and Highland stock. Anyway getting back to the topic I have just had a phone call from the Calton Defender and he has located a newspaper reporting on the death of John Thomson which he is going to loan me...well done Andy
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Post by gallowgategal on May 22, 2011 22:17:31 GMT 1
Anyway getting back to the topic I have just had a phone call from the Calton Defender and he has located a newspaper reporting on the death of John Thomson which he is going to loan me...well done Andy Got this from another board:
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Post by tollcross on May 23, 2011 9:54:28 GMT 1
2 Glass plates from my Collection John Thomson is carried off the pitch on a stretcher after the tragic accident that resulted in his death at the age of 22
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Post by tollcross on May 23, 2011 10:37:45 GMT 1
Johnny Thomsons Grave which i first visited over 40 yrs ago.
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Post by tollcross on May 23, 2011 10:48:32 GMT 1
Willie Maley and the Celtic players lead the funeral procession of John Thomson. 30,000 AT FUNERAL - JOHN THOMSON, LAST GREAT TRIBUTE John Thomson has had a funeral worthy of such a Prince of Sportsmen. Amid banks of wonderful wreaths and through dense lanes of 30,000 people, the Celtic players carried him from his home in Balgreggie Road to Bowhill Cemetery, almost half-a-mile away. The only sound which disturbed the slow tramping of thousands was the mournful tunes of the pipe band heading the procession. On his oak coffin there was a wreath shaped in the fashion of goalposts and a crossbar, the gift of the Bowhill Football Club, and immediately behind another wreath of lilles and heather on top of which proudly lay his international caps. From the early morning, people had poured into this village from all over Scotland. Most of them were the humble folk of football. The miners of Fife, among whom Thomson worked as a boy of fourteen, were there in their hindreds squatting as miners do, by the roadside talking in subdued tones and now and then proudly picking out famous footballers as they walked past to the Thomson home, and there from the road they looked like senitels of sorrow silhouetted against the skyline. The funeral service was due to start at three o'clock, but an hour before that the narrow streets of Cardenden, were a seething mass of sympathisers. Many of the younger men climbed the roofs of houses or on to the high walls and hedge rows which lined the road. People converged on Cardenden from every point of the compass. When I cam up from Dunfermline, seven mles away, the road was black with silent mourners walking to the scene. Then when three special trains came in from Glasgow and motor-cars by the score unloaded their passengers there was hardly room to move. The surrounding pits were idle for the day. Neighbouring villages were deserted. Every man, woman, and child for miles around came to Cardenden to pay their simple tribute. The scene at the Thomson home was magnificent in its simple grandeur. They had bought the oak casket out to the little garden in front of the house. There it rested, with a background of rambling roses waving in the sunshine, as if bidding sad farewell to their young master. There were generous wreaths everywhere. They lined the top of the privet hedges, lay along the garden paths, peeped out of every little corner, while dozens of mourners continued to arrive carrying more floral tributes. They filled two huge motor lorries with them and even then there were more. Celtic players preceded the coffin carrying masses of floral beauty, and half a mile behind the cortege were mourners bearing their tributes, patiently waiting to lay them on the grave. Mr Duncan Adamson, an elder of the Church of Christ, conducted the service in the garden. The players and officials of the Celtic clublined up on one side, on the other were the leading legislators of the Scottish Football Association and the Scotiish football League, while at the head of the coffin stood Mr Thomson, the father of the dead intenational, and hsi brother and sisters. The service was as simple as the homage of the village folk. Mr Adamson conducted the ceremony after the fashion of his church. He read a chapte from the Bible, thendelievered a brief address. Women sobbed and eyes of many men glistened in tears as he finished by saying: 'Good night, dear brother, good night!' Then when they had driven a lane through the obident crowd the Celtic players hoiseted the coffin on their shoulders and the pathetic procession moved off. High up on the crags the senitels stood like statues loking don on an unprecedented scene. I joined the procession along with John McMenemy and George Stevenson, of Motherwell, and Mr William McCartney, the manager of Hearts. All the famous players of Scotland were there. I noticed Alec McNair and Joe Dodds, the famous Celtic full backs of a decade ago, marching side by side. As the procession crawled along, a man in front of me, overcome by the heat, fell to the ground in a faint. He was carried to a near-by shop for attention. Then, when the coffin passed into the main road, an old man overcome with emotion fell on his knees crying 'Oh, John Thomson, we will never see your likes again.' I had fallen in some twenty yards behind the bier, but as the procession had reached the cemetery I was far behind. Meanwhile the police had thought it wise to close the cemetery gates. Thousands of mourners stood outsidewhile the service at the graveside proceeded. The Rangers players and some of the officals were among those caught in the dense crowd which jammed the roadway. Finally, however, a way was made through the crowd and, led by Mr W. Roger Simpson, the secretary, the Ibrox players pushed and squeezed their way through to the cemetery gates. Here again Rangers were held up. One of the officers on duty doubted the identity of Alan Morton, and it was not until Morton had been vouched for by a colleague inside the gate that he and his collegues were allowed to pass. Inside a service was conducted at the grave by Mr John Howie, another elder of the Church of Christ. The grave was just inside the boundary wall, which was lined by hundreds of villagers. Now and thena crackling of twigs at the roadside wall indicated that another impatient mourner had climbed the railings from the outside and burst through the subbery. On the far side of the cemetery, bank upon bank of wreaths streched for yards and yards along the foot of the wall. John Thomson is buried in flowers. When the service had concluded people filed past the open grave and threw their floral tributes on top of the coffin. After Mr Howie had paid a long tribute to the dead international, Mr Tom White, the Celtic chairman, associated himself and the club with all that had been said by Mr Howie. Not till the service was over were hunders of mourners able to enter the cemetery and look into the grave. They are still filing past as I write - people of all stations in life paying their silent tribute to the greatest boy Scottish football has ever known. (Daily Express report taken at the time. Source: 'Celtic - A century with Honour by Brian Wilson)
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Post by tollcross on May 23, 2011 11:39:59 GMT 1
Another of my glass negatives with Celtic Team including Johnny Thomson.
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