Brand new look to Celtic Park
The link from Brother Walfrid to Neil Lennon is highlighted in massive banners hanging from either side of the main entrance to the stadium.
Lennon is a keen student of Celtic’s history and narrated a documentary about Walfrid that was produced at the time his statue was unveiled at Celtic Park.
The documentary highlighted the journey from Sligo to Glasgow that the then Andrew Kerins made where he started off a football club that is celebrated throughout the world 125 years later.
In the book to commemorate the unveiling of the statue in 2005 Lennon wrote: “As a Celtic supporter as well as a Celtic player I know just how important the history of the Club is to people.
“When Brother Walfrid proposed starting a football club to help feed the Irish immigrant community in Glashow he never envisaged the club growing to the size it is now, when 60,000 come to Celtic Park for every game, when over 80,000 travelled to Seville to cheer on the team in the UEFA Cup Final and where there were Celtic supporters from all over the world.
“I think it is fitting that the supporters associations have got together to raise money for a statue of Brother Walfrid outside Celtic Park and it’s something that, as a Celtic supporter, I fully back.”
Celtic’s first home game of the season is on Tuesday July 24 against Norwich City but it’s next Saturday’s friendly against Inter Milan that is most eagerly anticipated.
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