Both the Association Members and the Celtic Directorate expressed admiration for the Bonnybridge bus plaque. The Directors indicated that they would like to adopt it for their own. After due consultation and consideration, Celtic supporters either at club or association level responded to this ‘request’ and the plaque design was gifted to Celtic F.C. without any thought of 1% of any future royalties.

This Friday ESPORTE FINO blog discloses the ten best looking football team badges in the world. On Monday positions 50 to 41 were revealed and today we reveal the top ten football badges in the world as voted by the blog over the last few months. Burns Night is a celebration of Scottish culture, so it's only fitting to decorate your house or garden (or wherever you're celebrating) with some Scottish flag bunting. Celtic is one of the oldest and one of the most popular clubs in the world. In November 1887, at St. Mary’s Church in the Calton neighborhood of East Rose Street, now called Forbes Street. It was on that day that an Irish priest, Brother Wilfrid, gathered his fellow believers there and suggested that they organize a soccer club. It took him six months to form a team and play his first match. It’s a nice story but unfortunately Celtic first used the 4 leaf in 1938, six years before the birth of the CSA and nine years before Desmond White joined the Board.

Through the years there have been many Celtic supporters clubs, some have come and gone, some have merged with other, old ones have disappeared, new ones have started but through all this one thing remains constant. They make the perfect accompaniment to a traditional Burns Night supper – and you can display the finished poems around the room as decoration or even as a table centre-piece. During the amendment, there was even speculative consideration by Fergus McCann (the then Chief Executive) of possibly changing the crest at one short point, but thankfully was never taken any further see article. Bridget’s father, Ned, arrived in the East End of Glasgow around the 1880’s. He was from Derry and he was only 16 years old. Ned must have had the equivalent of a front seat when they staged the first Celtic Show in 1888. Celtic surely touched his heart. Among the many immigrant Irish in the East End was a girl – Elizabeth New from Tullamore, Co. Offaly. She definitely touched his heart.

Green and white have remained the colours of Celtic’s badge ever since to convey two colours of the Irish flag. While the club introduced a 100th-anniversary design in 1988 that reintroduced the Celtic cross. The four-leaf clover remained on the crest but was at the base of the circle. I saw a reference in The Celt fanzine some time ago to there being an earlier four leaf clover emblem used by the club. In a book about the legendary Celtic defender James 'Dun' Hay (by his grandson Roy Hay –'The Story of a Footballer' 2004) the above photo appears confirming that this was the design used on medals issued by the club to the players who won every major trophy available in Scotland that year, the first time this had been done. The original medal is in Roy Hay's possession. This may not have been an official club crest at the time. At the time of the Club's Golden Jubilee in 1938 the four leaf clover featured on the front of the official menu: It’s an important emblem of the club and the support, and one of the world’s most recognisable symbols. A classic of all sport. An original Glasgow Celtic embroidered blazer badge, formerly owned by Alec McNair. Not know if officially used badge or in what context it was used. Noted the very rarely used initials of “G.C.F.C.” for the club. The 1977 logo introduced a green circle with a white core. That’s where they put a green clover with white veins – their new symbol. Along the top of the resulting green frame, they’ve written the club’s name – ‘the Celtic Football Club’ – in white letters. The founding year was written in the very bottom, by contrast. 1987 – 1989In more recent years the Centenary season was marked with the return of the Celtic Cross in a very popular move. Probably the most comprehensive list and catalogue of Celtic Supporters Club badges ( CSC badges) on the internet is www.celtic-badges.com, they have over 1300 badges listed with photos in country categories and information on Celtic supporters club (CSC’s) from all over the world.

The old traditional Celtic Cross badge made a re-appearance in the ‘Centenary Season’ (1987-88), and again in 2003 to celebrate 100 years of the Hoops top. Obviously the club’s symbols and colours are Irish befitting of our humble beginnings but many probably don’t know that we only started using the hoops in 1903 after wearing green and white stripes before then and of course the original white top with green collar and Celtic cross on the right breast for the first season only.May perpetual light shine upon my Auntie Bridget and my Dad and Canon McCabe, and all deceased members of Celtic Supporters Clubs throughout the world. May they rest in peace. It was not until 1938 in fact that the 4 leaf was used instead of the 3 leaf. The Celtic Handbook from 1938 has the new badge on the front cover for the first time instead of advertising and the logo was the same on the 50th year Jubilee Dinner in the Grosvenor Hotel.