When someone writes the Celtic Story on our 200th anniversary there will be a page about when The Thai Tims came to Glasgow. It’s a part of the Celtic Story which reaches from 1888 to the present day, and, if we do our job as Celtic fans well, will ensure the character of the club retains a distinct and generous flavour.
The Thai Tims, formally the Good Child Foundation, arrive from Thailand next month and will perform at the Royal Concert Hall, Glasgow, on Thursday 10 May, tickets are £12 and £6 for kids. If you have enjoyed them on YouTube, and I know you have…. buy a couple of tickets here or call 08444 77 1000 and get along before they’ve sold out.
You can also support the Good Child Foundation by contributing to the fundraising exercise via their Everyclick page.
Sorry I didn’t get back to you yesterday on the question about whether not registering players correctly was cheating. Busy, busy. Will get to it as soon as I can – no answering this question early, that’s cheating.
Issue 7 of CQN Magazine is out now! Go to the dedicated magazine site here to read it properly (which you’ll not be able to do below).
Thanks to everyone who has bought a hard copies of the magazine, it looks like the sold out sign will go up again. Order your copy for delivery by clicking on the link below for news and views from Celtic supporters.
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Bobby Evans
;) your a mhan of good taste.
Partizan on 22 March, 2012 at 13:49 said:
Doesn’t help that a regular contributor on here got support when he said he’d sack all the “proddys” at Celtic Park
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Well that would probably leave about 3 of the 1st team squad with Lenny on his own in the management team.
Strange comment indeed – made in jest perhaps?
ASonOfDan on 22 March, 2012 at 13:50 said:
Declan
Are you celtictaxcase? :0)
share
You could be right.
Cmon Declan it has to be you.
celticinthesun on 22 March, 2012 at 13:52 said:
Partizan
I would be horrified if that was true. Having read here for years I doubt it though.
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Original post has been deleted, quite rightly. But the same person justifying it wrote
“Ah widnae Miss Sich an opportunity, that Ah wid be Presented wi’”
in trying to defend it.
Subsequently some poster defended him.
http://www.celticquicknews.co.uk/?p=8073&cpage=3#comments
Im celtic tax case
Should be
some posters defended him
I hope there’s an exit strategy! I do not support the SPL or any other Scottish team, it’s Celtic or nothing . Let them meet and publicise they’re findings and we can then implement exit strategy.
Don’t let them walk over us Celtic, we can beat them at this game.
A Worldwide television audience for every game, proceeds going to CFC, that’ll do nicely.
V
Awe Naw,
Where it says ‘recent posts’ in the top right corner, click ‘first blog’ underneath. I’m not sure any comments have made it through moderation yet though.
a know nothing about tax cases at all. it cant be me. that guy is clued up
Lol a tough day at the grindstone has been made exceptionally amusing by the bizarre antics of this Celtictaxcase person.
Keep it coming. Absolutely mental and hilarious.
vmhan
No probs. I would have stood in the pub for 2 hours looking like a prat anyway. Having organised Jelly and Ice Cream, a wee greetings party and a true Gorbal’s welcome for our visitors from Blackpool. The assembled masses weren’t too disappointed mind you when we just drank the ‘free booze’ we’d put behind the bar for you.
Anyway here’s the Gallowgate (or Gallowgat if you look closely above the Saracen Head pic) on St Patrick’s day with a wee bonus that shows just how much Babbity’s has been influenced by the patronage of the CQNers. It must have taken them days to organise the decorations.
http://tinyurl.com/7tdfcdh
Hail hail
Estadio
Monaghan1900 on 22 March, 2012 at 11:50 said:
There is a trial finishing as we speak at Glasgow Sheriff Court involving two of the Green Brigade accused of breach of the peace.
Shocking waste of time and money , are the police that desperate to have a go at the GB . To say that banner would incite anyone is absolute rubbish. Hope they have a good brief and the judge can see it for what it is.
Lil sod at the CelticTaxCase blog will not publish my posts.
Tried to tell them about the pie and bovril tax avoidance scam at CP and they’ll not let me.
I was just trying to help.
Timabhoy – we’re ALL celtictaxcase… :-D
Philvis @ 13:21
Erm … calm down, bud.
I was having a wee joke (albeit partly at your expense) around the reporting in an influential journal of a major study which supports the view that that ‘prejudice tends not to arise directly from low intelligence, but from the conservative ideologies to which people of low intelligence are drawn. Conservative ideology is the “critical pathway” from low intelligence to racism. Those with low cognitive abilities are attracted to “right-wing ideologies that promote coherence and order” and “emphasize the maintenance of the status quo”’, though the piece was careful to point out that not all conservatives are stupid.
Indeed, some are very far from stupid, as is obviously the case with your good self. Notwithstanding your occasional promotion of what most of us would deem to be way-out-there conservatism.
As a great espouser of the free market, can I ask your views on how spectacularly badly the top-end of this free market was at avoiding the recent global banking crisis and how that self-same ‘free market’ gladly accepted whole-and colossal hearted government intervention in order to maintain the illusion of there continuing to be a free market (a free market festooned with “very clever people in government, advising politicians, running think-tanks, writing for newspapers, who have acquired power and influence by promoting rightwing ideologies”).
Hail, hail.
Wonder if Celtictaxcase know about the free sod of shamrock for the centre circle.
Surely it should have been put in the ‘Gifts Register’?
Hector will be crawling all over this.
neveralone
Given the state of Rangers FC, no one can seriously argue in favour of the SPL as is, or worse an SPL of ten. I am with philvisreturns on this one, a sixteen team league, with the option of increasing to eighteen. He is right, Partick Thistle are a Glasgow team, we should be playing them a couple of times a season, rather than play Saint Mirren four times. And Ross County too! Celtic and Rangers, (even in administration) can block any form of change, so it is no wonder the other members of the SPL want to meet up. Celtic need to step up with alternatives, not clinging to the wreckage!
Lennon n Mc….Mjallby
Re ‘mhan of good taste’ comment – my wife & I were invited to a wedding on the same day as a Paul McCartney concert.
We compromised – she went to the wedding & I went to the concert.
I am reminded of it often.
I wonder if we’ll have to declare the title which they think they’ve “gifted” us this year.
weeminger
Thanks, I’ll not drown myself just yet.
Mort
The 2014 Champions League Final will take place in the heat of Lisbon. The first time the City has been awarded the final since 1967.
Get yer flights booked bhoys! History shall be repeated :-)
In the heat of Lisbon
The fans came in their thousands
To see the bhoys become
Champions
2014
Folly Folly on 22 March, 2012 at 14:17 said:
Philvis @ 13:21
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Well said that man
Estadio on 22 March, 2012 at 14:15 said:
Enjoyed your wee Easter egg hunt,the bb bit was amusing.
Hail hail.
Could somebody put me right on this.
The SPL money in general and TV money in particular is skewed to ensure big bucks for the Championees and runners-up. True?
If so how much would the game against R@ngers be worth to the Steelmen if it (eventually) clinches them second?
CelticMac
Don’t disagree in general
Anyway it will be interesting to see what the 10 want & what CFC are absolutely not prepared to accept.
HH
Mort on 22 March, 2012 at 14:24 said:
We should worry though. The sword of truth is now swinging into action. ;)
Value Added Tax (or VAT) was introduced into the UK on 1 April 1973 at a rate of 10%.
Extraordinary blog today. So much going on. Laugh out loud stuff then down to the deadly serious – thanks to Monaghan1900 for the nod re the GB case.
FWIW, I agree 100% with philvis and others on playing each other 4 times a year – a failed experiment.
Could some of the ‘more experienced’ (no sniggering pls) posters explain what was the original rationale for 4 times a year when it was introduced in 75-76?
Was there a groundswell for or against it? Was it debated much beforehand?
No TV deal worth speaking of back then…
The Lizard King on 22 March, 2012 at 14:04 said
Well said.
When we had our problems in the late 80s and early 90s no one was better informed than the Celtic suppoters who took charge of the calls for change. The contrast with the passive or defensive Rangers support now in the face of impending disaster is one that deserves study. I wonder what it tells us!
I would like to think that if we were involved in wrong doing we would want it all laid bare so that the size of the problem could be confronted rationally and honestly in an integral way.
cqn, phil, pmcc now a part of celtic history
Folly Folly – I am calm, this is my calm face:
>:-(
though the piece was careful to point out that not all conservatives are stupid.
That was very kind of them at least.
I would suggest “studies” of that nature are indicative of too much funding floating around in higher education, something I hope is rectified in due course.
As a great espouser of the free market, can I ask your views on how spectacularly badly the top-end of this free market was at avoiding the recent global banking crisis and how that self-same ‘free market’ gladly accepted whole-and colossal hearted government intervention in order to maintain the illusion of there continuing to be a free market (a free market festooned with “very clever people in government, advising politicians, running think-tanks, writing for newspapers, who have acquired power and influence by promoting rightwing ideologies”).
Of course you can.
As you say, government intervention isn’t “the free market”. I was against bailouts from the start. Not one single penny of taxpayers’ money should have been given to the banks.
Did bankers gladly accept the blank cheque Gordon Brown was prepared to write them? You bet.
Does that mean the free market doesn’t work? No, it means people will generally accept money if you offer it to them.
Re: the crisis and how badly many institutions were prepared for it.
In 2001 the global economy was going into a mild recession. Then September 11th happened, and Alan Greenspan decided to turn on the money taps, because otherwise The Terrorists Would Win. Europe and Britain followed suit with easy money and low interest rates. It marked the start of a trend in the Western world that made the biggest bubble in history possible.
The roots of this crisis lie in the catastrophic mismanagement of the money supply. Governments and their central banks controls the money supply. Publicly owned or private financial institutions do not – they are merely fish swimming in the water the government is peeing into.
Insanely, the government is still at it. They have learned nothing from the crisis and are determined to try to inflate their way out of debt. They’re particularly determined to keep the housing bubble going in this country, which is something they should be tarred and feathered for.
You’re right that we don’t have free markets. But it’s only when we allow markets to work, freely, or as freely as is politically possible, that we see economic growth, which is the engine that delivers improvements to living standards. That’s why heroic rightwingers keep pointing out the benefits of free markets, and defend them against anti-capitalist superstitions. Do you see? (thumbsup)
TootingTim
If I recall correctly, the idea was to create an elite ‘top 10’. At that time there were many ‘good teams’ but some disparity with those at the bottom. The theory was that if the ‘good teams’ play each other four teams a year then the standard would improve due to increased competition.
VogueP
Don’t go away just yet……some absolute doozies coming up starting with
http://tinyurl.com/86vmo5a
Hail hail
Estadio
Estadio
Gorbals ?
Morning All,
Do Celtic often have beam backs at CP for SPL games?
I wonder if this is a warning shot over the bows of the gang of 10…an illustration of what is in store for them.
Get along to Paradise on Sunday for derby beamback
By: Newsroom Staff on 22 Mar, 2012 10:31
CELTIC take on Rangers this Sunday in a vital league match, with the Hoops closing in on the SPL title.
And you can join us on Sunday to watch the game in the comfort of one of the lounges at Celtic Park.
Tickets for the beamback are only £5, which includes a breakfast roll on arrival and a half-time pie. Drinks will be available to purchase.
Demand for this has been extremely high, so please book as soon as possible. If you want to come along, to book contact us on 0871 226 1888 (option 4)* or email us at conferenceandbanqueting@celticfc.co.uk
Hail Hail
rtc did say ftt tax could take any amount of time to conclude but it doesn’t half make your mind wander when it’s taking so long
(folly folly , I’ve only just realised the genius of the moniker – ffs, but brilliant)
sunny day, my son’s just walked on a newly screeded kitchen floor, only solution is drink
TootingTim on 22 March, 2012 at 14:37 said:
“Could some of the ‘more experienced’ (no sniggering pls) posters explain what was the original rationale for 4 times a year when it was introduced in 75-76?”
Although there are doubtless many on here who are longer in the tooth than ‘yours truly’ and will have a better recollection of events, as a teenager at the time I seem to recall that the move from First Division to Premier Division was brought about by factors such as the lack of meanignful games towards of the season (remember at that time Celtic and Rangers had seriously good sides and routinely skelped the bottom sides in the old set-up meaning a lot of games towards the end of the season when some sides had both no chance of winning the league and no chance of being relegated), plus the fact that Celtic were proving almost impossible to dislodge as champions, so a league in which the top sides played each other more often was felt to be a better way of bringing and sustaining competition in the top flight.
The fact that the top sides would also meet each other 4 times a season was also seen as a way of injecting cash into the equation.
FF
db , it’s 15 degrees here – florida eat your heart oot