Fergus McCann

would you rather McCann not have came and saved us ??

 

The celtic fans honoring Fergus McCann!?
I believe something should, and will be done.

How long though, i wonder, until some 'journalist' reads this thread and decides to go on an 'honor fergus crusade', hinting of how he shamed celtic and their support into taking action.

I can just picture lekkie, spiers, or traynor revelling in this.
eg. traynor pulling his old one size fits all line-"thats what some of us have been saying all along"

 

Fergus is the reason we are here today, he came with a plan and worked diligently to make that plan succeed. Sure he made himself a few quid in the process.....good on him.....He came with a biscuit tin and left with a selection boax.....* Legend!

 

The day he was boo'ed was one of our darkest days in my opinion. The guy stopped us from going into administration when he could easily have done a Whyte and when there where "Celtic men" saying lots and doing nothing the wee man just did exactly what he said he would.

He was and is one of the few legends in my opinion that Celtic owe big time. The shame and indignation being heaped upon the Orcs right now was spared us by Fergus McCann simple and to hear him being booed that day was frankly disgusting, and not the sort of thing I as a Celtic fan care to be reminded of.

I remember him sorting out the SFA at the time, madonna players etc he was Celtic through and through anyone who thinks different needs to have a look at the "fans" running the mob in Govan !!!

 

Where is this Fact writing .?

Tommy Burns said Andy Goram stopped Celtic that season ,I remember it well and Tommy was'nt wrong.

 

Fergus may have walked away with 40 million good on him what people seem go forget is that the fans who took up the share issue also made a very sizeable return on their investment if they choose to sell them an initial investment of £620 rose to over £6000 at one time so not only did he save the club and put the club on the sound footing it is today he also helped the fans who helped save the club a hefty profit on their investment hail hail the bunnet

 

I'm getting a wee bit annoyed at this "darkest days" pish, and it was a "disgrace" booing him. The fact is it was totally justified, on that day, at that time. Everyone on my bus felt the same, every Celtic fan I spoke to felt the same about Fergus at the time. He was an obtuse individual who constantly rubbed people up the wrong way and treated some of our finest legends like dirt.

He is rightly getting the recognition he deserves now, but all this "disgrace" talk is a lot of nonsense.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

 

It was a disgrace no way you look at it. He had saved our club from dying and was unfurling the flag that stopped the 10; everything else should have took a back seat and we should have celebrated our first title in almost a decade.

 

Like I said mate, it's easy to say that now. But it's making supporters look like something they're not. People felt really aggrieved at the treatment of Jansen, not to mention the swipes previously at Tommy and Davie Hay and it manifested itself in the booing that day.

I can look back myself now and realise it was a mistake but at that time no one was thinking like that, certainly nobody I knew.

 

a know people who were there that day and were disgusted by the booing and gave up there season books because of it and have hardly ever been back to parkhead since it happened

 

Pish.

 

It's not saying that now, it's something I've always believed in. I know the reasons but they should have taken a back seat to the celebration of our first title in almost a decade. That's what the day was supposed to be about.

I was similarly disgusted with our treatment of Brian Quinn; I am baffled about the reasons behind that one. It's like Celtic supporters complaints about Peter Lawwell at this moment in time.

It's not making us out to be something we aren't; there is an anti-authorterian streak that in the most part I'm proud of that runs right through Celtic. It impairs our logic when we talk of members of the Celtic board.

 

no its not its a fact. you might want to blindly say that everybody thought like you at that time but that would be pish

 

It's not pish?

You say you know these people? Can you pass on a message from me?

Tell them a guy on your forum thinks they are wallopers for giving up supporting their club because one man got booed.

Absolutely ridiculous reason to give up a season book.

 

I have to agree with that, and for the most part I am ashamed at what I done with the benefit of hindsight and history being kind to these people.

It's like Strachan, his stock will rise among Celtic supporters as the years roll by.

History always paints a good picture of people and you forget the bad that went on at the time that caused it to happen.

 

I the one man that saved the club and and made the team capable of stopping the ten in a row. imo your a "walloper" for booing the man that saved the club you claim to love

 

I bought * shares in my club that I will have until the day I die and they'll be passed on to my kids and so on. Fergus came in, floated the club and left with a hefty profit. Fair do's to him for that but he didn't just save the club, the fans did as well.

I own part of my football team and I can do as I * well please.

 

yes you can and so can everybody else but your attitude has been that nobody else can share a different opinion to you with out receiving insults for disagreeing with you so grow up and realize that not everybody is entitled to their own view. also a lot of the people I know also bought shares to save the club but if fergus had never came in we were going out of business and the fans would never have had the opportunity to buy share

 

The man deserves a lasting tribute at celtic park.
I would rename the stadium "Fergus Park".
If it wasnt for him we would not be playing football at parkhead.
We would be trudging along to cambuslang,dodging mineshafts .
Wee fergus is as much part of our history as brother walfrid.
Brother Walfrid set up our great club,fergus carried on with Walfrids legacy.
I would love the bunnet to unfurl the flag,it would give those supporters who jeered him a chance to apologise.
I know for a fact he would be given a fantastic reception.
I have written to Peter Lawell and asked that Fergus unfurl the flag along with the parents of reamonn gormley,a young man,celtic to the core,who was an inspiration to many .

 

Part of the public opinion of Fergus was created by the media.

They ridiculed him yet he stood steadfast on course.

The media ridiculed the signing of Moravcik - easily the most gifted player of the last 20 years, for * sake even Larsson said "I still don't know if he was right footed or left footed".

I'm not on a witch hunt against the media but they held sway with public opinion in those days.

Fergus McCann CSC