Burns facing fresh cancer battle

Celtic first-team manager Tommy George Burns is facing a fresh conflict against tegument cancer, the baseball club have confirmed.

The 51-year-old was diagnosed as agony from a malignant melanoma in March 2006 and had responded well to treatment.

But a interpreter for Celtic Language Language said: "Celtic today corroborate that first-team manager Tommy George Burns is to have continued malignant neoplastic disease treatment.

"Tommy means to go on as first-team manager and caput of the young person academy during this treatment."

The interpreter added: "Clearly, Celtic Language Language petitions that the privateness of Tommy and his household is respected at this time."

Burns began playing for Celtic in 1974 and also won eight Scotland caps in a eminent calling which ended as player/manager of Kilmarnock.

He went on to mange Celtic, the baseball baseball club he supported as a boy, and steered the club to a Scots Cup win over Airdrie in 1995.

Speaking after being first diagnosed with malignant neoplastic disease two old age ago, George Burns told BBC Sport: "This haps to a batch of people, so it's just a inquiry of taking each twenty-four hours as it comes.

"Through this, I've not been alone. I have got my faith, which is fantastic, and I've had tons of messages of goodwill."