Celtic have posted a tweet remembering the club’s founder Brother Walfrid, who was born on this day in 1840, and a lot of fans duly feel that their latest Premiership triumph has fallen on a very appropriate day.
In 1887, Walfrid helped to found Celtic as a ‘means of raising funds for the poor and deprived in the east end of Glasgow in Scotland’, as per thecelticwiki, sowing the seeds for decades of success in Scotland and a European Cup triumph in 1967.
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Some Celtic fans made the connection between his birthday and today’s news that the club have been awarded their ninth league title in a row, as per STV News, with one supporter believing that the “stars are aligned”.
With football postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the SPFL have decided to end the 2019/20 Premiership season with leaders Celtic declared as champions, as per Sky Sports.
Here is what these Hoops fans had to say about the correlation between Brother Walfrid and today’s title news:
https://twitter.com/CelticFC/status/1262269185243185153?s=20
His charitable beliefs & vision are still at the heart of today’s Celtic. We’re now a global Champion ! Fitting if 9IAR today. 😀
— Celtic Symphony (@DM8883) May 18, 2020
Perfect day for 9.
— Justin Burt (@jangusburt) May 18, 2020
And we’ll honour him today alright.#9IAR #Again pic.twitter.com/6wWDYCtvO7
— Bhoy (@Bmac1888) May 18, 2020
The stars are aligning nicely today🇳🇬🎉🏆🇳🇬
— Liz Tierney (@liztierney20_5) May 18, 2020
The #spfl don’t do birthdays, but if they did, this could just be the best birthday present ever! 😉🍀👍#9IAR
— 🍀Celtic Bratt Is Back🍀😎 (@BrattisBack) May 18, 2020
What a fantastic day
— Stephen (@sgb1313) May 18, 2020
Celtic fans, how proud do you think would Brother Walfrid be of the club right now? Comment below with your views!
