\u201cYou\u2019ve made today special for me, my family and for all these players. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n
\u201cI said I wouldn\u2019t cry but I couldn\u2019t hold it. It was an absolute privilege.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just happy to see my family every day.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is just great. I nearly started crying but I held it. I was in a dark place a year-and-a-half ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey have always been brilliant to me. It\u2019s been amazing. Today I\u2019m here with all these friends and the Celtic family. It\u2019s incredible.\u201d<\/p>\n
It would have been a very , very hard man indeed who was not moved by Stilian Petrovs words and tears at the end of yesterdays charity match between his select and a team of Celtic legends.<\/p>\n
60,000 people turned up to show their support for Stilian, his family and the charity he has given his name to, and after the game, the crowd singing You’ll Never Walk Alone was too much for the Bulgarian, and, \u00a0 as he hugged his youngest son, the tears came. Though they weren’t too far away at the start of the game either.<\/p>\n
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Who could blame him ? Yesterday was a celebration of life itself. For Stan, for his wife and for his kids, and if the charity he has started helps just one person with this awful condition then it was all worth it.<\/p>\n
The crowd turned up in such numbers not only to raise money, but also to see one or two heroes from the past. Some of them took it in their stride, such as Lubomir Moravcik, who made the bus wait for him \u00a0at the shop on the way to the ground.<\/p>\n
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Henrik Larsson scored a penalty, and when the Magnificent Seven theme echoed around the ground, thousands of people \u00a0hurriedly donned their sunglasses, just as they did when he came back out to say cheerio after that game against Dundee Utd all those years ago.<\/p>\n
Bobo Balde played the game like he was after a new contract, and Robert Pires will be looking over his shoulder for a while yet- and when Eastenders finishes and that drum beat starts my bet is he’ll sprint out of the living room and off down the street. Johann Mjallby wasn’t to be outdone either, and he showed the youth of today how to make a tackle count.<\/p>\n
Tommy Boyd did his bit too, and \u00a0he conceded a \u00a0penalty in the second half. John Bishop, another example of the great Liverpool comic dynasty, milked the booing from the crowd, before striking a piss poor penalty which was \u00a0saved by Rab Douglas.<\/p>\n
Piss poor and John Bishop in the same sentence. Thats me applying for a job as a tv critic. ( Note, if you are ever tempted to investigate the great Liverpudlian comedian myth, don’t bother. There are no funny Liverpudlians, except possibly Ken Dodd. )<\/p>\n
John Bishop is a bloke who goes to the Red Admiral in Runcorn, and then stands and listens to witty Scottish chaps telling a hilarious story about his son being born, before re-telling it on a tv show years later, word for bloody word. \u00a0( If you were to search the words Liverpool and theft, however, theres hundreds of examples. Strangely, though, not this one. )<\/p>\n
Louis Tomlinson, a member of boy band 1 direction, offered to sing after the match.<\/p>\n
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Then , when someone played him a tape of his band, he decided not to sing after all.<\/p>\n
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However, as was evident during the games when he got the ball- the high pitched cheers which meant a blind man would have known he was in possession-he has a lot of fans, and probably put a few thousand on the ticket sales. So, fair play to the wee fellow, but he needs to keep his fans in check..<\/p>\n
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No doubt Agbonlahor has woken up to threats crayonned all over his car this morning.<\/p>\n
Who’d have thought it though, in this cynical , greedy word that a manufactured pop star hogs the headlines after a charity match….<\/p>\n
Surely not, and hell mend me for even thinking it.<\/p>\n
Something else that should not even be thought about is the story of Lee Tomlin, the guy who Celtic made three bids for on the last day of the transfer window, and amazingly, Celtic are going to bid again in the summer, according to the Express.<\/p>\n
Even the player doesn’t seem happy about it.<\/p>\n
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Actually, thats not what he was thinking at all. The game he is playing in was a cup tie, and it went to extra time, which meant the chippy would be shut by the time he was on his on his way home.<\/p>\n
Serious stuff over at the BBC, where the old adage of my auntie having baws and being my uncle may in fact be re written to ” if my auntie had baws it would once again be a well respected broadcasting \u00a0institution rightly feared and respected throughout the world. ”<\/p>\n
We may well be about to see Auntie Beebs baws as the London hq has been alerted to the masonic Glasgow branch and its somewhat distorted view on events in Govan over the last year. Jim Spence, the reporter who broke ranks to do some accurate reporting on Firat and Second Rangers , is clearly unhappy that the BBC have not given him one hundred per cent support, and there is a wee bit to run on this story.<\/p>\n
It could, as they say, go either way. Spence has told the truth about Sevco\/ Rangers \/ Second Rangers and their new club status was inferred when he called John McLelland a director of the old club.<\/p>\n
Second Rangers fans , still in denial over the death of their club, and still pouring their pennies into the one owned by the \u00a0faceless asset strippers, have complained about Spences words.<\/p>\n
Then \u00a0BBC Scotland sort of apologised, then the hordes said it wasn’t enough.<\/p>\n
Actually , it may be enough. BBC London has stayed out of all the shennannigans in Glasgow, but intervention now would be interesting.<\/p>\n
We shall wait and see.<\/p>\n
Bobby ( a policeman ) Petta ( petter engine ) was yesterdays answer, and today we have these..<\/p>\n
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