how damn sick.......

Exclusive: Fury as sick thieves steal banner tribute to Tommy Burns

May 2 2009 Steve Smith
SICK thieves have stolen a fans' memorial to Celtic legend Tommy Burns, a fortnight before the first anniversary of his death.
The "* Bless Tommy Burns" banner has been torn down from outside the Glasgow church where his funeral was held.
We can reveal that the green and white sign - put up by fans after the 51-year-old lost his battle with cancer on May 15 last year - is being hawked around east end pubs.
The poignant tribute had been fitted to a billboard next to St Mary's RC church in Abercromby Street in Calton, where thousands of fans joined football heroes at Burns's funeral.
It's understood it was paid for by a local supporters' group. All that remains now are the severed ropes used to hang it and a tattered corner from where it was ripped down.
The Record has been passed a photograph of it being shown off in a Gallowgate bar.
An underworld source who watched it being passed around one pub said: "The guys who nicked the sign have been parading it around several bars over the last few days as some kind of trophy.
"But it's not going down well with the fans.
To see the sign being hawked around pubs is heartbreaking. Anyone with a shred of decency would put the sign back where it belongs, at the chapel.
"Apparently, some people in the Blackpool area wanted it but it looks like the deal has fallen through because of the bad reaction." Burns had a lifelong connection to the Calton area and regularly attended St Mary's.
To mark the first anniversary of his death, the club have just launched a tribute DVD, Faithful Through And Through, featuring footage of the star's glittering career and his life as a dedicated family man.
And on May 31, a team of former Parkhead stars will take on the current first team in a benefit match to celebrate Burns's life.
It will feature ex-players such as Pierre Van Hooijdonk, Stilian Petrov, Paul McStay, Murdo MacLeod, George McCluskey, Neil Lennon, John Hartson, Paul Lambert and Alan Stubbs, with more to be confirmed.
On the day of the match, Burns's widow Rosemary will unveil a bronze statue of him outside Celtic Park.


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Disgusting,anyone who knows of these thieves needs to have a serious word

 

Scum, total * scum.

 

if anyone finds or knows the person thats done this i recomend you kick his * in

 

Lowlife scummy *, unbelievable.

 

They have no * shame whatsoever, they truly are the scum of the earth

 

sick white trash!!

 

Some how Alsy ,this doesnt surprise me ,its expected of these * now ,they allways find another low.

 

just no respect what so ever for the dead! and it makes me sick!!

 

thats low real low, i can remember when my cousin died, someone put at the time, the new rangers top down, and it got stole, its just sicking,

 

, i hope you don't mean that i a racist way

 

* scumbags, That really is low.

 

have you never heard this expression before?


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* shocking.lowest of the low.hope it gets returned.

 

Lowlife scumbag *

 

* filth!!That is one truly sick act...Sickening.

 

It was being paraded down the Gallowgate?

*, how would you get away with that exactly?

 

sick huns

 

people who did this are nothing more than lowlifes that will get their comeuppance one day

 

what a horrible thing to happen, what sort of * world is it when a tribute banner cant be * left alone!!