Celtic FC Foundation

[laughs] So let's hope she went west, then, uh, as she gets here, right? But no, seriously, it's a, a fantastic, a fantastic achievement.

I can't believe, you know, someone with, um, with not, you know, not, not a particularly strong link to Celtic to, to do this for, for the Celtic Foundation and to do such a, a Celtic-related journey like that.

It, it's just incredible and, you know, more power to her.

I, I'm, I'm in awe of the effort she's put in.

Fergus McC- McCann implemented the Celtic Charitable Trust.

It's now the Celtic Foundation, right? He implemented these things.

He implemented various things that he introduced to the football club.

He didn't take them over from someone else and just run with it and claim his dividend.

Celtic fans away from home, for example, have donated all sorts, like to local, uh, schools, to local nurseries that may be in developing countries that they didn't have the facilities and the resources and the infrastructure that we've got over here.

And even Celtic Foundation's work relies heavily on the supporters, like donating, fundraising and volunteering, so you can't pretend that the supporters aren't part of the enormous success story regarding the positive reputation we've got as a fan base.

So it was just that when I read that the protest brought shame, I thought, no, shame for me is how the club actually acted, preparing, and then in the aftermath of the result in Austria.

Shame would be the week that we had there, the performance that we put on the pitch against Rangers at Ibrox, the even worse performance we had against them at Celtic Park.

I know this sounds a bit twee, but you know, I am a history teacher, I do genuinely want to give people an opportunity to learn about, you know, history about the, in particular, in this case, Celtics history.

So quite often, what will happen is if people say they do want to pay anything then I've got various links to different charities and so on the Celtic Foundation is an obvious one but you know there's various other suggestions if people want to do that so the idea is again people can find out about Celtic people can it's actually quite a good community element a lot of people who've come on these walks say it's been great to come along and meet other Celtic supporters that you probably wouldn't you know necessarily ever have any sort of connection with yeah but they've been going for about three and a half years, basically the same as since the book came out.

I think so far, I think about 600 and odd people have been.

I think yesterday they actually took me just over the 600 mark of people who've come along to take part in the various tours.

They're just a nice little distraction.

Even when Celtic are doing well, I think it's sometimes good to do something that isn't necessarily just sitting and watching the football.

Yeah, and when you talk about raising funds for Celtic Foundation or suggesting people make donations, well, first of all, that's amazing because you can't get anything these days for free, really, unless we're talking illegal fire sticks and the like.

But I mean, very few people give up their time without the sort of the dollar incentive.

Two final stories before I head away and enjoy my weekend.

The Celtic FC Foundation's 8th annual London Gala Dinner.

Wouldn't like to say that when I'm steaming.

And I think a fair few people would have been steaming last night.

It means so much that you just wanna talk to me and so that I can share my story and reach out to people.

I'm so grateful for all the donations going to the fantastic work of the Celtic Foundation.

Um, yeah, it's...

I can't even describe how, how grateful I am.