23 Apr 2021 14:57:08
Seen a wee piece there on redevelopment of barrowfield.
23 Apr 2021 15:38:13
I played against Celtic boys club at Barrowfield but the pitch was away down the bottom end and round the corner. The place is bigger than it looks.
The Celtic first team trained at Barrowfield for 48 years before Lennoxtown opened.
23 Apr 2021 16:08:33
@Buzz Bomb another story about Barrowfield I heard was Big Jock instructed all the staff NOT to take any potential new signing to Barrowfield as it was so run down in those days that Stein was fearful a potential signing would baulk at training there every day (it got upgraded eventually)
23 Apr 2021 16:10:38
Had the luck to sit beside tommy burns once in main stand awile after he was manager . we got talking about that during the paradise windfall . "I raised a wry smile in him when I said . was this not brought out to get you a training / development complex". . he said the land they had their was more than big enough for a first class training complex . never went into detail if it was just first team or all levels . got a few laughs out of him when telling him how we should be playing. he politely answered its not just as easy as that . Great memory.
23 Apr 2021 16:25:53
And you wonder why players and managers don't want to come to Celtic.
23 Apr 2021 18:53:01
My lad trained a few times with celtic development, the grass park was immaculate and at the bottom was astro patches, it's a bigger area than people think, great idea and on our doorstep win win.
23 Apr 2021 21:54:24
Tommy burns kept signings away from Barrowfield until after they had signed. One of the reasons he was so passionate about Lennoxtown.
We should have named the training facilities after him by now.
24 Apr 2021 09:44:54
Kev,
The Celtic training complex should’ve been named after Tommy Burns years ago.
Tommy’s Heavenly 65th Birthday is in December and it would be great for his family if Lennoxtown was named The Tommy Burns Training Centre in his memory.
24 Apr 2021 11:19:08
There you go buzz you have just started the petition!
I couldn’t agree more! TB what a gentleman and what a legend.
24 Apr 2021 11:50:25
There's a guy on youtube called Hamish. A Real celtic supporter. A nice guy He was asking why Griffiths doesn't get the abuse that Eduardo gets. That's easy. Griffiths is 'Wan ay us'. He ties scarves round goalposts, he waves tricolours at matches, sings rebel songs at fans do's. that's why.
Like Andy Halliday at rangers, he could be pish But he's 'Wan ay us'. Seen a fan wanting Keane as manager cause he's Irish and he's a Catholic. West of Scotland at its worst.