A Pantheon in Paradise
Posted: Sun Dec 14, 2008 8:51 pm
I had the great honour of attending the unveiling of the statue to Jimmy Johnstone,voted the greatest ever Celtic player,and who would argue with that,Jinky was the best player i have ever seen,and i've been watching Celtic since the middle fifties,but that in itself creates its own problems,where do we stop???,most football teams have one player from the past that they worship,and i'm talking about the top teams in England as well,for instance,Newcastle have "Wor Jackie Milburn",West Ham have Bobby Moore,Billy Bremner at Leeds Utd,even Liverpool,its "Shankley"who's the hero,the one exception could be Manchester Utd,they have Best,Law and Charlton,and obviously the players they lost in the tragic Munich air disaster.
But we are completely different,if we were to erect a statue to all our hero's,we would rival the Vatican,and would have more construction work going on than Dubai,where would you start??,and where would you finish??,the older fans would certainly pay homage to players like John Thomson,Jimmy Mc Grory,Patsy Gallacher,Charlie Tully,Bobby Collins,Bobby Evans,right through to the Lisbon Lions and up to Henrik Larsson,but as i said,we cant put statue's up to them all,my only worry is that,by paying respect to one player,we make the others feel disrespected.
I would like to make it clear to everone,all our players,both past and present are hero's to the Celtic fans,that is another thing that makes us unique,we have one big Celtic family,and everyone is equal within that family,Jimmy might still be playing his part for the team,the next time the Rangers team bus arrives at Celtic park,they might refuse to get off when they see Jinky waiting on them.
But we are completely different,if we were to erect a statue to all our hero's,we would rival the Vatican,and would have more construction work going on than Dubai,where would you start??,and where would you finish??,the older fans would certainly pay homage to players like John Thomson,Jimmy Mc Grory,Patsy Gallacher,Charlie Tully,Bobby Collins,Bobby Evans,right through to the Lisbon Lions and up to Henrik Larsson,but as i said,we cant put statue's up to them all,my only worry is that,by paying respect to one player,we make the others feel disrespected.
I would like to make it clear to everone,all our players,both past and present are hero's to the Celtic fans,that is another thing that makes us unique,we have one big Celtic family,and everyone is equal within that family,Jimmy might still be playing his part for the team,the next time the Rangers team bus arrives at Celtic park,they might refuse to get off when they see Jinky waiting on them.