On the day we celebrate Fergus McCann…heres some of our tributes over the years…
The Bunnet – The Rebel Fergus Story in 3 Parts
The Story of Fergus and Dempsey defeating the evil Old Board..but told through the prism of Tolkien
Read HERE
Fergus McCann is Celtics Tom Cruise! (aka A Few Good Men)
Fergus McCann and his counsel colleagues Elspeth and Matt are engaged in a trial to ascertain what happened to an ill fated transfer request.
Read HERE
The Boy with the Oil Can
Fergus, the Bhoy from Croy, plays a round and then takes the message that we have all been waiting for…
Read HERE
Then and Now..( aka The Green Pound Bankers)
A wee piece remembering how life changed for the Celtic fan when Fergus arrived, and what its like now, so many years later
Read HERE
Feel free to leave your tributes to Fergus below in the Comments…
Many booed him at the flag raising.
I didn’t.
He stood alone at Central Station once
I went up to him and said
“ Thanks for all you’ve done for the club”
He blanked me.
Still didn’t boo him
There once was a bespectacled man,
who came up with a grand master plan.
A great team and fine stands,
bills paid on demand,
God bless you,
dear Fergus McCann.
He saved the club-Thank you!
He didn’t understand the importance of stopping 10!
He hindered the manager & failed the manager!
He put 9m in & left with 45m, at the same time refusing to negotiate/improve the contracts of our best players?
Thank you Fergus for all you did, you will also be remembered for what you didn’t do & how much you left with!
Celtic first & Celtic last & Celtic overall!
Agree, thanks for saving the club and having a vision to save it. At the same time it was a lucrative endeavor for him and it all worked out. I think that the Jock Brown appointment was daft and showed that he was a bit out of touch with supporter sentiment.
I think so Weered. Heres something provocative If we replaced the word Fergus with Lawell and the notion that prudence and hard headedness was needed I wonder what the reaction would be. Again I Think thank God for Fergus and he did very well from his investment.
If we replace the word Fergus with Lawwell. Chalk and Cheese, One put his money where his mouth was and risked his fortune and the other risked nothing. Fergus fought the SFA, Farry etc. Lawwell has aided the SFA. and “Rangers” to the detriment of his own club and sporting integrity. The 5 Way agreement that he and Riley was party to did not include title or trophy stripping. Res.12 that he knows all about, he did nothing about and Celtic lost millions in lost C.L. revenue. Provocative, yes, but chalk and cheese. Fergus served Celtic’s best interest, the other, not so much.
There was no risk!
I disagree, there is always a risk when you are trying to build something. It was said that he got his season ticket idea from the sport of ice-hockey. I have no doubt that he would have done his market research, but as you know in life nothing is guaranteed.
Mike,
When i say there was no risk, Fergus knew the support was there ( ok maybe not Charlie Saiz ) but he knew the numbers were there.
Listen, i’m forever grateful for Fergus doing what he did, it’s wrong to paint him as a saint though, he got things wrong as well.
I hear you Mike again controversially but in fact we could easily say outside of the Big Cup this is the most successful period in our history both on and off the park at least domestically. I do think Fergus did a good job and Dermot Stepped in to buy lots of his shares. Hard headed and fan sentiment is a difficult balance. Our current Board is poor at the latter.
B B… I try to stay clear of provocative 🙂 high flying capitalism is a scourge but the saviour of Celtic can be exempted from some of the criticism because the magnitude of what was achieved and retrieved from the abyss Hail Hail
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He is a Saint, Desi says it 😉 Oh the Huns they are sh!te, the Huns they are sh!ite, but they are that thick that they canny see it.
disagree with this Fergus put prudence first and stopped us going the way Rangers did, they died and we didn’t. Thank you, Fergus
What he did with Farry? Worth every red dime. I’d have that attitude back any day. Lawwell will take a fare chunk of £45 million out of the club and contribute a damn site less.
Thank God we had Fergus and Dempsey, they had a plan. IDIOTS THAT DO NOT GET THAT ARE NOT SUPPORTERS. A shame he is not here now fighting the corner for CFC.
I’ll decide how i feel about Fergus,not you.
That doesn’t make someone an idiot btw.
Agreed comrade 😉
We didn’t boo him either, why would we?
No Fergus, no Celtic, the way that we know today, there might be some semblance of the club somewhere, there might even be a plaque on the wall on London road saying “Celtic F.C. used to play here”. Perhaps even Tommy Burns would never have managed Celtic because no-one else was willing to risk their fortune to save the club.
No Celtic, no Tommy as manager, no 10, no Wim, no Henke, no MON. no Seville. No big Celtic stadium, no walk-way, no statues of Cesar, Jinky. no treble- treble.
We sit in his stadium, his legacy, safe in the knowledge that Celtic has an unbroken history because Celtic men like Fergus and John Keane shared a passion and love for our great club. Celtic 131 years of unbroken history.
Thank you Fergus, we willingly bought into your dream.
Fergus McCann and John Keane. 131 years of unbroken Celtic history. No Celtic, no Tommy Burns as Celtic manager, no Wim, no Henke, no Seville, no treble treble.
No Celtic stadium, no Celtic way, no statues of Cesar or Jinky, perhaps just a plaque on the wall along London road saying “Celtic F.C. once played here”. Just the headlines on Administration Day. “Today Celtic join Third Lanark in going out of business”.
Thank you Fergus and you too John, the men who saved Celtic, your legacy lives on.
Imagine then what TB would have built, with some help of course, not hindrance.
Tommy of course would have built a great Celtic side, playing in his image, the Celtic way. But this is Scotland and to give him the platform that he needed demanded cash and plenty of it. We are not Huns that are profligate and spend money to feed our notion of superiority. No, the club and its safety is paramount, everything else is secondary. If we had follow followed the money-Murray route, well we know what happened to them.
Mike,
I wouldn’t have wanted the club to spend on a scale that would be reckless, just enough to improve the defence or midfield.
Doesn’t really matter what any of us thought or think about the man, the fact is, no Fergus, no Celtic, at least not in the way we know it.
Month why do you take things so personally?
It’s his time of the Monti.
Ha!Ha!Ha!, fuckin’ brilliant Puggy!
🙂
Sorry should read Monti
It certainly is a happy Fergus day with the huns getting pumped at home fae Hamilton, as for Celtic, more than enough chances to win the game tonight, but I refuse to criticise anyone having to play on that awful pitch!! HH
What,s up with big aussie Tom he didn,t look very happy after his goal,then walked straight off the pitch at the final whistle?
Think he knows hes better than most of them out there but cant get a game.
Inspired photo caption competition , follow follow is in meltdown about the elephant in the room..
Up the bunnet
Anyone else having issues getting to the diary?
http ://etims.nethttp/etims.net/?p=15333 the link keeps coming up like this. I’m suspecting it’s misconfigured or some sort of DNS poisoning is going on.
Its a red wall, Coronavirus and I’m self isolating.
That should be us finished with plastic pitches for the season, but what odds the SPFL/SFA put us back there after the split!!
mikey a went tae the doctors office yesterday thinkin a had corona virus it wis only a cauld a decided tae self isolate anyway it saved me going shoppin wae mrs charlie he he
after an hour ae yon self isolation a felt like c saiz in his loft he he a decided tae drown it doon the boozer feeling grand this mornin ha ha
That’s ma excuse tae. Ain’t Coronavirus a great excuse to dae SFA. 😉
yip you got it in wan ha ha
aye me and aw
god bless um
The Hun collapse can only be because of pressure, the pressure to win. They are a team who has never won anything. A rookie manager who has failed to instil confidence in his players. There wins in the Europa can be explained by the lack of pressure because they are not expected to win any of their Europa games, most of all its because they are sh!te.
a concur
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