The Battle To Save Celtic: Part 1 - Matt McGlone, Celts For Change
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- 30 years ago this very month Scots-Canadian businessman Fergus McCann swept into Celtic Park and secured the clubs very existence with an eleventh hour investment that would alter the course of Celtic’s history for ever.
A move such as that however can’t be engineered by just one man and many figures played a key role in what eventually took place on that day back on the 4th of March 1994.
In this special new series by The Celtic Exchange we speak to some of those individuals as we bring you the inside stories of what unfolded during that incredible time in Celtic history.
We’re looking at the story from all angles and first up is Matt McGlone, one of five individuals who formed the “Celts For Change” pressure group in a bid to mobilise supporters in their battle to wrestle back control of the club from those who had run it perilously close to extinction.
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Noone should underestimate the impact Celts for Change had in saving our unbroken history. Hail Hail to Matt and the other lads involved.
A huge impact Michael. Credit too to Save Our Celts before them 🍀
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Spastic hun …. No wonder your club died
We are totally and utterly indebted to Matt and all involved back then. Thank you. Superb interview Tino. 🍀💚👏
100% Ryan! Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed.
Strong ppl came out of the 90s. Regarding CELTIC FOOTBALL CLUB. Well done Matt. People with a vision.
Thanks Francis, and cheers for watching 👍🏻🍀
Brilliant interview, Tino. Matt is a living legend HH 💚
Cheers TFH, thanks for watching 👍🏻🍀
Great stuff Tino having Matt on discussing the momentous events in late 1993 and early 1994 re Celts For Change.I remember it all so well,i attended most meetings with my late brother,gave out leaflets(to a lot of abuse) from some fans&boycotted that game referred to. I was just a foot soldier helping in the cause.Matt and the other 4 guys are to this day owed a huge amount of gratitude from Celtic fans old and young all over the world. This was all done because we cared so much about our club.I still care so much even as a 64 year old Celtic Grandad retired and living far away now in the Philippines.Thank the good lord for the internet and i can still watch and support my beloved Celtic..🍀🍀
Well done to you Gerald for getting involved, if you handed out leaflets near the Jungle, I probably took one off you. I attended a few of the meetings too, I was in total despair at that time, like many Celtic fans. You and others were key to the success of Celtic today, well done.
I supported the change too, but never boycotted any games, particularly the Dundee game that CfC claimed less than 10,000 entered CP.
The team needed a lot of support at this time, not empty stands.
Total respect to Matt
100% Monti
This is by far the most interesting and informative presentation put out by any Celtic platform in the recent history of CFC.
When I now watch Celtic playing at my home in Canada and the fans are singing "and if you know the history '
in my mind will flash the Celtic Exchange Timo and Matt McGlone presentation. HH
I’m about tthe same age as Mat or round about it, Tino Matt mc McGlone and the Save Our Celts where the guys I looked up and I can’t believe it’s 30 years gone bye, I would like to thank Matt for undoing the old Board, Cheers Matt HH 👍🍀🍀
This man is a massive part of Celtic history as are all the men who stood up at the time.. no less Fergus!! I’d love to be able to thank them all in person 🍀
Kind words Foy and sure Matt and others will see them here.
Well I must admit,that was one of if not the best podcast I’ve ever listened to. An incredible insight from Matt and what a debt of gratitude we owe these guys!! Must admit I have become really disillusioned with our club lately and how the people at the top run it. This season has been a slog and I’ve found it hard to get up for the games and believe in this team or manager. Watchin this really struck a chord with me, and was actually pretty emotional thinkin about what the club means to so many people. Matt and so many fans actions back then have shaped the club to what we see now. The standards that we hold this club and team to are in a large part due to Fergus and fans like matts sacrifices! In a funny wae this has galvanised me for the run in this season! Great job guys 👍🏼👍🏼
I was at the very meeting in The Imperial Hotel in Dundalk back in 1993 & on the Ferry on New Years Day. Both days I remember well I was only 15 then. Great to hear Matt talking about it!
Great stuff JD! 🍀 Some crazy times for Celtic back then.
Really liked hearing Matt’s memories of that time I’m 60 so it resonates with me.There was a lot of frustration n anger at the board.Matt n rest of guys from Save our Celts n then Celts for change started it,at personal cost,putting themselves up there,with all the underhandedness & scrutiny.Matt said it at end,” ask yourself what you can do for your club”🍀
Matt speaks so much sense and we could do with his experience and know how on the board, us fans are indebted to him and the other guys for what they did for Celtic football club
Was at both Candleriggs & Airdrie town hall meetings. Us Celtic fans have a lot to thank these guys for.
Brilliant stuff Scotia, the fans really stepped up at that time
I was a young 19 year old when the 90's started, corner of Jane field Street bought my NTV & ZAn Phoblacht, paid into the jungle and stood under the TV gantry. Hard days but was always great seeing the team from my position in the Jungle
Great memories Monti 🙌🍀 Hope you enjoyed the episode with Matt
Great podcast with Matt , thanks Tino 🍀👍
Thanks Geo, cheers for watching 👍🏻🍀
Fabulous content, very good indeed. Matt, and I'm sure his colleagues, humble, committed, passionate and honest. The best of the Celtic support.
Thanks Patrick, yeh some really dedicated supporters from that time 🍀
Came via the Huddleboard too. This was class looking forward to giving the rest a listen.
Thanks for checking it out Liam, glad you’re enjoying it 🍀
Amazing interview....!!! 💚👏👏👏
Cheers JJ, appreciate it 🍀
Brilliant podcast Tino I could listen to Matt all night what a man☘️
He's a great talker SoS and some great stories of those days.
Was at most of the meetings, in Govan town hall and candleriggs.Thanks Matt & the Bhoys. 👏👏🙏🍀
Brilliant stuff @john - interesting times back then!
Tremendous pod. Love listening to Matt about that period in our history 👍🏼🍀
Ps all yer pods are a great listen 😉🍀
Cheers for the kind words Kevin 🍀 Really appreciated
Remember the campaign very well, Came from the same village as Davy Cunningham,everyone was in full support of the group.
Great stuff James. The Celts For Change guys played a massive part in the outcome
Keep knocking these out the park tino
Cheers FS, thanks for watching 👍🏻🍀
Excellent podcast series. Matt mcGlone is a living legend who helped push for the changes which were desperately needed.
Some of the stories, i think this would make for a captivating TV drama! Particularly the evening times, michael kelly smear campaign, or going into the BOS.
The Huddleboard brought me here, this looks tremendous
Cheers Tommy, thanks for checking it out 🍀
That intro was class.
Cheers for watching Ok
Another brilliant interview from Matt well done Tino 👏
Cheers fir watching Gerry 👍🏻🍀
Great movement, great people power,great business input by Fergus etc but just wonder what will happen when Dermot and son get an offer that's bigger than Celtic to them?
Its always going to be a concern Emerald 🍀
Matt McGlone, an absolute legend
Fantastic episode. HH
Thanks Hanmy, appreciate it 👍🏻🍀
Was 12 at the time. I remember it well. Matt’s book is a great read, ‘emotionally Celtic’ I believe it’s called.
Yes, Emotionally Celtic Joe. I read it not long before we spoke to Matt, some really good detail there.
@@TheCelticExchangeI have a signed copy from the great man ! Took me ages to finally getting round to reading it 😂
My favorite quote from a Scottish comedy series at the time, a reporter (actor) says to Michael Kelly (actor) " so Mr Kelly, Glasgow Celtic FC was set up to help poor families in Glasgows east end, do you think that still holds true today"? Kelly puffs on a cigar & says "Well, it`s certainly helped mine"!
As much a hero as Fergus 🙏💚🍀
Thanks Wendy. As Matt himself will
say, so many played their part at that time 🙌🍀
Great interview. Alot i didnt know...
I can remember matt and the guys from save our celts adressing all the fans on the ferry as we were traveling over for a rangers game at new year. Real people power.
That's a great part of the story Michael. Sounds like quite the journey! :-)
Journey we.ve been making as over 30 years up at 4am back home at 11 pm.
Matt and the Celts For Change guys deserve a helluva lot of credit or we'd have ended up like our mutant enemies across the Clyde and could've been liquidated, but as Fergus said that would've been embarrassing for Celtic so we paid our debts. The club from Ibrox want to claim the trophies and titles from a dead club but don't want to pay the debts accrued, now that is embarrassing on so many levels just like that club and their support they're an embarrassment.
That was really excellent . I remember these dark days as a 17 year old and all the off the park stuff the fitba was total shite as well as. Fine fella Matt is .
Thanks for the kind comments Jimmy
What a great listen. Was aware of most of the events at the time. It was pre internet so communication not so good by today’s standard, so really good to hear some of the background information. Micheal Kelly a Rat 🐀.
Cheers Lewis, thanks for watching!
I’m sorry to burst the bubble but saving Celtic will still be there for a long long time.My opinion of the situation is that they have to find a way of getting a system that is honest and fair to the Scottish game and the chances of establishing an honest and open set up would require a major enquiry into the present system where they all sit comfortably within their own wee circle.
Cheers for the comments Michael. I dont see any sort of open enquiry happening here any time soon unfortunately
HH Brilliant from u & MATT YES Matt it needs to do all again u know how to avoid. any pit falls go a different way straight to the point fans love the club not board members managers club us fans support we here for ever fans are board members managers players move on so think time for fight change again lived through the last fight Matt FERGUS & REST DONE god Bless HH KTF
These guys are the unsung heroes that helped Fergus overthrow the old board 💚🤍💛
Tino great watch mate 👍
Cheers Prophet 🍀 Appreciate it
Remember it well and the negativity these guys had to put up with due to the media and the board, the media's motive has never changed they were desperate for Celtic to fail nothing changed there
Lots of similarities between then and now Stephen!
Has the club gone full circle to be in the hands of a family dynasty once again.
We’re maybe not quite there James..
Club died 94
Explain that to us Jim…
BR praises his players performance against Hearts. They were pitifully POOR.
Sending off changed everything
Then they threw it all away in 2002 by just starting a new club. Shame
He (Ruaraidh) with the incredibly f*cked-up name, stalking Celtic content, AGAIN!🤭
Drugs
Haha ya 🤡 That must have been a very hard interview to watch @ruaraidhmorrison5879. If only your club had supporters like Matt in 2012 and before.
Tell us that story Ruaraidh…
Poor Sevco fan. Just can't get over that liquidation can you?
Matt you are a Celtic Legend. Great story 🍀🍀🍀
Cheers for watching MRC 🍀
We all love the club. Wish the club loved the fans
Can feel that way at times Patrick 👍🏻
They do love the fans because of one bad season don't mean it's the end of the world
Totally agree. We are the club as the great Paul Mcstay once said. We deserve to be treated better and hopefully one day we'll have a bigger say on how it is run. Hall Hail
A really enjoyable watch. Very informative and very interesting. Listening to Mr McGlone was enthralling. A top Bhoy indeed.
Nice one!!!
Great stuff, cheers for watching Vincey 👍🏻🍀
Remember it well i was in my late 20's,God bless men like this along with Fergus McCann . The people involved in Celts for change are MASSIVE in the history of our beloved club . HUGE respect and gratitude from every Celtic fan.
Thanks Michael, so many people played a part in what eventually happened and all deserve our thanks.
T ino Matt absolutely brilliant listening to this hh. Joe Coatbridge little Ireland 🇨🇮🇨🇮🇨🇮🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🙏👍😎
Cheers Joe, thanks for tuning in 🙌🍀
Amazing interview !
The dark days were horrible being a Tim .
You wouldn’t change it for the world Francis!
Brilliant interview Tino. Thanks to Matt and the guys for stepping up and helping to save our club 30 years ago 👏💚
Thanks Stephen, and absolutely. Huge thanks due to Matt and others like him.
get Fergus a statue built at parkhead, he saved the club. respect the man for what he did for us💪
His importance to what's now modern day Celtic is immeasurable! 🙌
I always understood it was John Keane who put up the £1m. Excellent interview btw, looking forward to seeing part 2 with David Lowe. 👏👏👏💚🍀💚
Cheers IronBhoy, thanks for watching
David Murray was t spending a tenner though was he ?
No he was borrowing a tenner and then borrowing from the bank via MIM to pay back the first tenner.
Same impact though. They found a way to strengthen at that time while we were short of ideas.
Always liked Matt - a decent guy
He was great Martym, thanks for watching 🍀
Excellent interview
Cheers Paddy 🙌🍀 thanks for watching
This part docu/interview is phenomenal
I was one those in my early 20’s when this was all happening so been very interested in what was being said back then that was never reported. Looking forward to all the other parts.
Cheers Steve, hope you’re enjoying it and that its bringing back (mostly!) good memories! 👍🏻🍀
1:21:17 I'd say it would be a bit easier to do today using the internet to get the word out.
100% Chico. Shows just how much effort all the guys put in at that time 💪
It is over?
What do you mean?
Us Celtic fans owe guys like Matt and a lot of others one big debt of gratitude, every question ever asked was always for the good and better of Celtic football club never about personal financial gain unlike the board members prior to Fergus McCanns takeover, the money lost to the club over those years to these parasites was mind blowing. As a diehard Tim never missing a home game I would always get the sunday papers and check the official attendances at games and new early on what these so called custodians of the club were all about, for any of them to call themselves Celtic supporters would be a real kick in the teeth to any real Celtic fan. And it is high time something was in place at Celtic Park to thank Mr Fergus McCann for what he did for Glasgow Celtic Football Club.
Brilliant interview. Thank you very much for all your efforts and the very important part you and your 4 compatriots played, Matt 👏👏🍀💚
Excellent 👌
Cheers Fran 👍🏻🍀
Ceøtic need to address their current slide into obscurity.
Season after season the squad gets worse and worse, yet you still keep supporting blindly.
First thing you need to do is use your influence to reform the league.
'Slide into obscurity?!' - I know things can always improve @sanderson and in Europe particularly but think your comment's a bit OTT
Celtic have won 37 trophies since the year 2000. Its hardly obscurity.
@@TheCelticExchange You cannot deny that the decline of the squad standard since Martin O Neill is obvious.
Besides counting tinpot trophies in the least competitive football country in history is hardly a reason to delude yourself all is hunky dory. Its An indictment rather than an achievement.
No one is banging down the door to sign and the club has slowly become a very low step on the career and a feeder club to the likes of Southampton, but what you should be worried about is that there is no reason and no impetus for this to improve.
The board, the Celtic business model, the stature, state and reputation of the Scottish league as well as it's standing on the European stage has taken a massive kick in the balls.
In all honesty, where do you see Celtic and Scottish league in five years, it's not going to be better is it?, especially if you don't use your influence as a club to improve the league.
Managed decline, and you still buy your season tickets without criticism or complaint.