Your fave Celtic player and Why

lennono

lennono

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My fave has to be Wullie Wallace....It was because of him, that I became a Celtic fan. When I was 11 years old...My next door neighbour was a Hearts supporter and tried to get me to support them, taking me to the Hearts games etc...Thankfully I never got interested in Hearts, but I did like, Wullie Wallace, who played for them at the time....Jock Stein signed him, in 1966, and that was enough for me...I followed Wullie and have never looked back since … He was signed for 30,000, a record Celtic transfer fee at that time... I really liked this recent quote from him..

“Maybe I am looking at things the way I did when I played at Celtic. We wanted to achieve everything. We were cheeky a***holes from Scotland, not the glamour guys. “We wanted to win the European Cup - now we have a manager who says we can’t win it. As a Celtic supporter, that’s c**p. “I know it’s a dream but I want to at least see them try. When the attitude is, ‘We don’t need to win, the gaffer doesn’t expect us to win anyway’ well, that’s not for me.
“Is just being realistic? We were all realistic in 1967. We went down that tunnel in Lisbon and looked at the film stars next to us. “We could have said, ‘Why are we going out there?’ But if we thought that, we’d have been better off staying in the dressing room.”
Willie Wallace (2018)

Faithful through and through
 
Great quote and post, Lennono

I think there's something extra special about the fans and players who aren't raised in the 'traditional' way.

I was born into Celtic, I didn't have much choice, but for as much as I'm thankful for it, I believe that some lads and lassies have to be brave and buck their own traditions to support Our Club.

On the subject of favourite players, I played nets, do Packie was always my hero.

Tommy and The Maestro were my favourite outfield players, but Packie (apart from his commentary) still tops my poll.
 
lennono said:
My fave has to be Wullie Wallace....It was because of him, that I became a Celtic fan. When I was 11 years old...My next door neighbour was a Hearts supporter and tried to get me to support them, taking me to the Hearts games etc...Thankfully I never got interested in Hearts, but I did like, Wullie Wallace, who played for them at the time....Jock Stein signed him, in 1966, and that was enough for me...I followed Wullie and have never looked back since … He was signed for 30,000, a record Celtic transfer fee at that time... I really liked this recent quote from him..

“Maybe I am looking at things the way I did when I played at Celtic. We wanted to achieve everything. We were cheeky a***holes from Scotland, not the glamour guys. “We wanted to win the European Cup - now we have a manager who says we can’t win it. As a Celtic supporter, that’s c**p. “I know it’s a dream but I want to at least see them try. When the attitude is, ‘We don’t need to win, the gaffer doesn’t expect us to win anyway’ well, that’s not for me.
“Is just being realistic? We were all realistic in 1967. We went down that tunnel in Lisbon and looked at the film stars next to us. “We could have said, ‘Why are we going out there?’ But if we thought that, we’d have been better off staying in the dressing room.”
Willie Wallace (2018)

Faithful through and through
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Big Jock signed him as a replacement for Joe McBride
Joe McBride was in Killearn hospital same time as my Granda March 1967 getting his leg fixed

Remember my 1st Scottish Cup final 1967 Wispy got both goals

I'd have been 8 years old

Think that was my 2nd Celtic match

HH?
 
It has to be Henrik. He wasn't born into the Celtic family but he got it and got it in spades. I wept buckets seeing him cry at the interview after his final match. I fear we will never see the talent and skills he brought to the team, ever again. There weren't many players who could leave Paradise and move to Barcelona and Man U to end their careers.
He truly is The King Of Kings.
 
The Shamrock said:
It has to be Henrik. He wasn't born into the Celtic family but he got it and got it in spades. I wept buckets seeing him cry at the interview after his final match. I fear we will never see the talent and skills he brought to the team, ever again. There weren't many players who could leave Paradise and move to Barcelona and Man U to end their careers.
He truly is The King Of Kings.
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I have to agree. I became a Celtic fan because of him. Stayed for a hundred other reasons.
 
The Shamrock said:
It has to be Henrik. He wasn't born into the Celtic family but he got it and got it in spades. I wept buckets seeing him cry at the interview after his final match. I fear we will never see the talent and skills he brought to the team, ever again. There weren't many players who could leave Paradise and move to Barcelona and Man U to end their careers.
He truly is The King Of Kings.
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I'd get him back and give him a game now, Shammy. Watched him in Stan's benefit game and he's still got it. Might have lost a yard or three, but not the inches between the ears.
 
Simon Donnelly and Darren Jackson looked like players with Henrik. He set up enough chances for Harald Brattbakk to be a 50-goal a season player if he could hit a coo in the erse wie a banjo. Viduka would have been unstoppable with Henrik. Don't have anything to add about Sutty and BBJ.

Ibrahimovic can't be wrong, neither can the Barca boys or the Man United lads.
 
michael duffy said:
Bertie Auld,Possil Bhoy,gallus bastart, hard bastart,took no shit from anybody,referees included,if any of our players were being roughhoused, Bertie was there to sort the feckers out! Dec 29th would never have happened if we had Bertie in the team,even at his age! tweet tweet!
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Met Bertie a cpl ae times Mick & he always breaks intae a song????.."We dont care what the Animals say what the hell dae we care coz we only kno that theres gonny be a show & the GLASGOW CELTIC WILL BE THERE!!" HH☘☘☘☘
 
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