Roy Keane
Given that this is a charitable occasion, I fully suspect that all players/celebrities and whoever is playing on the night will be given a good reception but Roy Keane is one who I am expecting to be particularly well received by the supporters.
I would guess that he will play all of the match for the United side as he can hardly be deemed a Celtic legend but with a trophy cabinet that must be about the same size as my living room, he has achieved a lot more than what most could ever dream of.
That cabinet must have some pretty strong shelves too as it holds nine league titles (eight with United and one from Celtic), four F.A cup and Community Shield winners medals, one Scottish League Cup winners medal, a UEFA Champions League winners medal and the Intercontinental Cup (world club championship) winners medal not to mention numerous individual awards, such as man-of-the-match awards and player-of-the-year awards etc.
As usual with these type of charity matches, there are numerous celebrities rumoured to be playing. One of which is Paolo Nutini who is a hoops fan and Richard Ashcroft (singer from The Verve who I’d guess must be turning out for United).
I’m hoping we can maybe get a wee song from Richard instead of a game of football but maybe that’s too much to ask? With the players on show I’m expecting lots of goals, almost all of Celtic’s confirmed players are attack minded.
In addition to the players that I have mentioned above for Celtic, United will field Teddy Sherringham, Ole Gunnar Soljskaer and Dwight Yorke-between them they played 434 times and scored 169 goals.
A few other well known people that are due to appear on the night are Patrick Kielty the comedian and TV presenter. Ricky Hatton, former world champion boxer, Nigel Benn who is in the same bracket as Hatton, Angus Deayton another TV presenter.
The last few well known names that I have been able to find that have lent their names to the match is Wayne Rooney, as of yet, I don’t know if he will be making an appearance on the pitch. Rod Stewart, Sharleen Spiteri and Eddie Jordan are all expected to be there and my personal favourite, Billy Connolly.
Finally, to go back to the start of the piece when I was saying about this being for charity, most of us will have saw the plight of the famine hit East African countries and I think you’d struggle not to be moved by what those poor folk are going through so even a small contribution from me while I get to see some of our former stars play football is a good thing – we all gain out of it.
Hopefully, we can get the ground full because lets face it there are few football arenas better than Parkhead when they are at full capacity.
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JK is the youngest player ever to play a competative game for us.
JFK was the youngest to play for Celtic, later in that season under Dalglish Mark Fozzy Fotheringham took the honour.