The Old Celtic Park

On a completely unrelated matter ma auld granda was chairman of the Bonnybridge supporters club. One rangers game on the way home their bus got re-routed on the up Duke Street beside the hun pubs. They were out bricking the windows of all the Celtic buses.

They opened the door and grabbed one of them and held him pinned doon on the bus. Bug nobody was to hurt him. Then they let him off at Cumbernauld and telt him to walk home.

Rough times

 

Getting a stone cold pie from the lads and lassies walking around the track with plastic bin coated in tinfoil

 

And the guys selling macaroon and tablet walking amongst the fans.

 

Apparently they had collections for the Ra' in and around the old park. I don't remember this. I've just been told

 

I just remember them selling not the view and heard that money went to them but never knew if that was true or not

 

I once bit into a Parkhead Pie and half of it squirted on my shirt and it hurt My mate and my big cousin were on the floor laughing.

 

Tony Cascarino, Lee Martin, Gary Gillespie and the 2nd coming of The Frankie boy McAvennie.

Not the View Celtic fanzine

 

PS Any one remember the General Wolf Pub So close to the ground , I first went there with my big cousin and his best mate as a 14 year old and had a couple of pints.
I learned my new date of birth off by heart.

 

I also mind ma da taking the car for some games. Parked in the streets opposite the Celtic supporters club on London road. We had to walk through the rangers fans a few times to get to the Celtic End..

I was just wee. Grown men hissing with venom actually screaming at me that I was a * * outside the Springfield Vaults and i was like 14. It was * scary. That was before they segregated the crowds on the way in and out. It was scary memories I'll tell ye

 

Winning the league in the centenary year, must have rammed an extra 10000 above capacity in. Getting impaled on the end of barriers in the jungle. * loved those days. Realise we are way more successful than we were then but just felt fans and the team were more invested in it then. Sack the board demonstrations round the main stand before every game.

 

I used to love the old programs. Oh I used to go in the Celtic end but loved seeing the Jungle in full pelt.

 

U2 done a concert too, in the old Celtic Park. Right in the middle of a season and severely * the playing surface.....that was the old board at its best....not giving a * as long as it made them money and they didn't have to spend any

 

That would have been one of the Kellys or Whites

 

"Errs yer macaroon bars n spearmint chewin gum"

Guys with cardboard boxes with cheese rolls and cold ham rolls

 

I always remember this post from @johnboy19 from an old thread about the Jungle.

 

Mocked this up which I thought would be cool...

On the left that's me running off the park, 2 May 1992, billed as the Maestro's last game... compared to now

 

Remember the guys with the macaroon and chewing gum. Don't ever remember the one selling rolls though

 

They looked bogging, guys selling them usually had a * hanging out their mouths and generally looked manky. No H&S in the good old days

 

Early memories:
*Asking for a 'lift over' the turnstile to get in for free if i wasnt with my dad.
*Vendors selling big glossy black n white team photos.
*Honking toilets between the Celtic end and the Jungle
*Singing in the Jungle under the TV gantry.
*"Get yer macaroon,tablet and speeeeearmint chewing gum" guys

 

Don't think l paid to get till l was 16, even got into the 1976 European cup final for nothing.

Did the toilets (if that's what they can be called) not stretch the full length of the Jungle or was there kiosks down there as well? Not an area l frequented if l could help it