04 NEILLENNON
09 WELCOME AJAX
10 THE OPPOSITION
16 AJAX'S DANISH CONNECTIONS
18 CELTIC FC (DUTCH)
24 PREVIOUS MEETINGS
26 DERKBOERRIGTER
38 RETRO PROGRAMME
40 CELTIC'S DUTCH
CONNECTIONS
43 JOHAN CRUYFF
44 DAVIE HAY
50 GEORGE McCLUSKEY
54 ON THIS DAY
58 BOBBY PETTA
62 UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE
FIXTURES
64 CELTIC FIXTURES
66 QUIZ
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Summary
Celtic is a club for everyone who
believes in football as a medium for
healthy pleasure, entertainment and
social integration, The Club always has
been and always will simply aim to be
the team of the people.
SOCIAL MISSION STATEMENT
Introduction
Celtic Football Club is legendary and
as with most legends as much myth
as fact surrounds its history and what
the Club stands for today The Social
Mission Statement aims to simply
define what the Club stands for and
seeks to promote within society
History
Celtic Football Club was founded in
1888, Its principal founder was a
Marist Brother named Walfrid. The
Club had two principal aims: The first
aim was to raise funds to provide
food for the poor of the East End of
Glasgow, an area of the City that was
greatly impoverished and had a high
rate of infant mortality. Within the
East End was a large Irish community
and friction was growing between
the native Glaswegians and the new
influx of Irish, Brother Walfrid saw
the need for social integration and his
vision was a football club that Scottish
and Irish, Protestants and Catholics
alike could support, A new football
club would be a vehicle to bring the
communities together and this was
the second aim, The Marist brother
sought for the Club to have both a
Scottish and Irish identity and hence,
the Club's name "Celtic" came about,
representing a bridge of cultures
across the Irish Sea,
Current Positioning of Celtic
Football Club
Celtic Football Club is a Scottish
football club with proud Irish links,
The primary business of Celtic is as a
football club, It is run on a professional
business basis with no political
agenda, However, the Club has a wider
role and the responsibility of being
a major Scottish social institution
promoting health, well-being and
social integration,
Who is Celtic Football Club for?
Celtic Football Club is for people
who want to support a football
club that strives for excellence in
Scotland and in Europe, is proud of
its history, supportive of its local
community and seeks to support
the following aims: 'To maximise all
opportunities to disassociate the Club
from sectarianism and bigotry of any
kind, To promote Celtic as a Club for
all people, regardless of gender, age,
religion, race or ability,"
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