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.
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Bobby Evans
Cumberland Street….spot on.
Here’s the original picture of the boys in heels and the tribute statues lit up at night.
http://tinyurl.com/6mc34fc
Hail hail
Estadio
Hail Hail
Estadio
Ragers in maladministration…..the ‘fighting’ fund….wee wullie and his pathetic song,”we don’t do walking away….the celtictaxcaseblog….folly folly goin’ radio rental….they are the epitome of buffonery. The trouble is,they KNOW it & are absolutely seething inside.
I do fret about Sunday,because they will allow (and be encouraged to do so by the likes of comical ally) that festering resentment and basic self-loathing to have full rein. This is probably their last chance,maybe forever,to play us in their midden & they will not pass up the chance to maximise the potential.
Over the decades,they have proved themselves to be the most toxic and obnoxious collection of ‘fans’ the world has ever known.
I hope that Sunday passes quickly and we can be shot of them.
Good- bye & good riddance. HH.
Estadio on 22 March, 2012 at 14:42 said:
Just passed these 10 minutes ago. They disappeared for a time, any idea what happened?
There’ll be many candidates , but can anybody beat this as the best post in 2012
Get it roon ya ya plumb bassa
can’t remember who but it’s got to be up there
Philvis
‘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.’
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What you’re saying is that any findings which don’t affirm your weltansschaung should never see the light of day. You have much in common with Sky, Fox News, NoW, Sun, Daily Mail, Daily Express, the list is not quite endless but getting there.
Cetic Mac @ 14:21,
I’m with you on most of the proposals and would like to see the league expanded to 16 or 18 (weren’t UEFA pressing for standardization?) but surely the way the ten have gone about this shabby to say the least.
– We’re talking about you not to you nonsense seems to be the issue.
If these items were on the agenda at the recent “Financail fair play meet” recently and Celtic were uncooperative then that’s something else. Yet I think the idea that Celtic have any power of veto is exaggerated.
From memory wasn’t the ruinous Sentanta TV deal opposed by Celtic, Aberdeen & R@ngers yet still went through on a majority.
Estadio
My mates say I’m old enough to be in the original photo.
Estadio
Should add that isn’t the case – well, not quite.
Sorry for going off topic ghuys.
This poor family has links to our parish and are great people. Lots of young people queuing up to work in this industry. Lots of customers paying good money for the trips, but big corporations are hiding behind arcane naval laws (they’re not called flags of “convenience” for nothing) to shirk very important responsibilities.
Please pray for Rebecca and her lovely family.
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/3/prweb9313492.htm
Tooting Tim @ 14.37
Re the rationale for changing to 4 games and a ten team Premier League in 75/6
I think that there was a feeling by about 73/4 season that what we had – 18 teams and 34 games- wasn’t working. It was felt that there were an awful lot of dead games for teams between about 6th and 14th who from about New Year on were not going to get dragged into the relegating dogfight and had little chance of qualifying for Eutopean places through league placing.
I think even quite big clubs like Hearts , Dundee United and Kilmarnock were playing front of pitiful crowds like 3
Declan my good man. Grate to see you back on. Can you give me sum addvice? My Ma told me to where klean underpants in case i got knocked doon by a car. My mate got knocked doon but he saw the car comin. His ma had tae by a rite few boxes of Daz tae get his pants white again. Is it ok tae where yesterdays pants?
Celticinthesun
I may have missed it but I can’t see any subsequent comment from you regarding
my earlier post. Maybe you are too astounded?
Celtic_First
I remember reading about this case. A worrying time for her family. Thoughts & prayers with them.
Chairbhoy on 22 March, 2012 at 14:33
All commercial revenues received by SPL pooled and divided up as per follows:
1st – 17.0%
2nd – 15.0%
3rd – 9.5%
4th – 8.5%
and then decreasing by 0.5% each position to 4.5% for 12th.
Not sure total commercial revenues but TV money is £13m per year and Clydesdale Bank’s sponsorship said to be worth £1.75m a year so even guessing other sponsorships are worth £0.25m then there is a total pool of £15m.
First place is in line for £2.55m
2nd place looking at £2.25m
3rd place will get £1.425m
4th will get £1.275m
So if Motherwell can keep going and get 2nd, they are in line for an additional £825k.
Last year they finished 6th and would have got £1.125m so they are in line for double that this season plus the extras they will get from CL qualifiers.
Very important game for them next week.
Mort
Sorry I hate typing on these stupid phones.
Cont
3000 or so. It was felt that nobody would have dead games if there were fewer teams and that maybe having good teams playing four teams would mean nobody would run away with things.
I’ll let others judge whether thus was successful but would add that I have never liked the format.
H x 2 and sorry for break in transmission
Gorbalstam
Some eejits took a chisel to the one in the middle.
They were spotted by a resident who followed them home.
When the polis visited their flat, they still had the statue in the living room.
Hail Hail
Estadio
Estadio
Did they place it beside the window for their neighbours to see it?
Work nearly finished for the week, flights to Glasgow tmw, say hello to the folks, pints with the lads then my mate has organised a nice wee package for Sunday, breakfast in Paradise followed by coach to poundland to watch a Hunskelping then back to paradise for some pints and a title celebrating shindig. As Philvis would say ‘thumbs up’
Hail Hail
Are we appealing the Stokes yellow for diving since TV and camera shots now prove it was a pen?
Bobby
They told the polis that he was stoned!
Hail Hail
Estadio
From Niamh’s parents – posted on her appeal site.
“CQN, thank you all do much for your kind donations to our little girl. You are amazing people Xxx”
http://www.justgiving.com/NiamhsNextStep
jimbo67 @ 15:01,
When I was a kid getting to Celtic Park was a rarity and a luxury.
But I often went to Broomfield on a Saturday and watched a good game of Football.
That was the year I left bonnie Scotland and The PremierLeague Started, always remember John Greig saying that the Spl would be an improvement as they wouldn’t have to places like Airdrie anymore.
From memory Airdrie used to do pretty well against them so I took this as a huge insult.
Mind you that might have been green tinted glasses.
emusanorphan it is good for the enviromeant if you dont wash your kecks every day. since i started wearing mine for 3 or 4 days the amount of sparrows and magpyes i have seen about has been amazin. it is true using that soap and all the water affects the wildlife and that. if you have some dough just go to primark and get new ones and never wash again. thats my top tit
Partizan,
Sorry for late reply. The original post was deleted but the susequent comments explain it well enough.
Sadly not astounded when it comes to him.
From a RTC poster
I unearthed this little gem from Mr and Mrs. internet:
http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/opinion/columnists/oliver-holt/Why-Brian-Kennedy-and-Sale-Sharks-are-killing-Stockport-County-the-football-club-I-love-by-Oliver-Holt-article270857.html
Stockport’s past and Rangers future perhaps.
Ps I thought my Thai Tims tickets getting delivered would be the highlight of the day but reading @celtictaxcase makes that pale into significance.:))))
Orcs they just keep on giving, Stupid hun does not even begin to cover it(laughing while i type).In fact im away to read it again its hilarious.
HAIL HAIL
Chairbhoy
Airdrie was always a tough venue, but the stadium wasn’t the most pleasant. Mind you, that could have been said about most grounds back then.
What sort of Tifo has been organised for Sunday? It may already have been covered but I have missed it.
when the Scottish clubs begin to keep their own gate receipts ? did that coincide with the introduction of the Premier League ?
Mort @ 15:04,
Thanks for that excellent stuff.
Thought it would be a huge game for them.
Interesting to see how Mr McCall’s men step up.
Hail! Hail!
Anyway that’s enough so with a cheery wave I leave you with this last geographical puzzle AND the answer.
http://tinyurl.com/6pu8fz4
Hail Hail
Estadio
Okay, philvis, good points well made … (@ 14:41).
(Setting aside the question of what the odds might have been for this to have happened …) What do you think the consequences would have been if bankers had declined the offer of taxpayers’ money?
That aside, as far as I can tell a genuinely ‘free market’ economy is devoid of conscience, so I would argue that it cannot be allowed free reign; at least not in the fashion in which you appear to suggest, not unless one is prepared to countenance years of plenty interspersed with years of famine, on a global / biblical scale.
Basically, as this crisis has demonstrated to anyone who was in any doubt, free markets are unsustainable because people (free marketers) cannot be trusted – (any more than the ‘command economists’ can).
Another problem is that, as you admit, free market’s don’t exist in isolation, being susceptible to external forces, such as high profile terrorist attacks.
Moreover, a genuinely free market is incapable of self-regulation, of anticipating events, or of correcting itself in an orderly manner.
The so called banking and finance ‘Masters of The Universe’, unable to contain their glee at the leaders of some of the world’s the biggest economies were unable to control their naked greed (or should that be ‘keep a reign on the free market’?) So, in the end – you would seem to have us believe – it was the government’s fault and not the free market. Yet each has an indisputable dependency on the other and (short of tyranny) cannot seem to exist without the other.
I am encouraged that you notice that the UK government is ‘still at it’, but if a free market is such a glorious thing, there seems to be a paradoxic that it also needs to have checks and balances: some form of external regulation … in which case it ain’t a free market.
Just a wee foot note: Alan Greenspan: is he a free market economist or not?
Hail, hail
Total turnover of the SPL is about £23m per year – been as high as £25m and as low as £21m in recent years. Don’t think all of it is distributed – they retain reserves and it also costs to run the business.
Chairbhoy @ 15.16
I don’t think we always found it that easy at Broomfield either. Certainly recall a couple of defeats there in early to mid 70s.
In fact looking back some of the most difficult games in mu early days as a fan were against the likes of East Fife ( where I saw us miss three pens in one game),
Arbroath, Dumbarton and Falkirk where if we didn’t score early it could be a helluva hard game.
H x 2
Thanks for the replies bhoys,
that all sounds so logical doesn’t it? Being a bit younger I can see now how there must have been a lot of dead wood in the programme.
But I guess what wasn’t anticipated so well was the extra 2 games against the 2 big Glasgow teams for each club helped to insulate those 2 teams in a mini-league of their own – if you are Hibs and you start the season with 8 scheduled games against CFC and RFC(IA) to play you may reasonably expect to only see between 0 and 6 points return out of that 24 points. If it was twice a season only the perceived points head start would be much less.
Then you factor in the utter lack of occasion when a ‘wee’ team has either big club visiting. The swathes of empty seats in modestly-sized grounds have been beamed around the world for years now. Hardly a great advert for the game.
Play-offs could maybe help to off-set the dead rubber effect at the bottom of the table in a bigger league, and surely a broader distribution of what TV/CL money there is across the 16 or 18 teams may offer some of the new firm/embra teams a better chance of joining the top 2 procession more often.
The SPL is moribund in its’ present format. Any change leaving the 4 games a year in place is akin to deckchair-bothering on a four-funneled ship.
Chairbhoy
The “ten” cannot decide anything, but my main concern is that Celtic have nothing to contribute to the debate, and while I hope I am wrong, because we favour a return to a ten team SPL. We do not have a fallback position. Incidentally, two of the “ten”, Dunfermline and Hibernian will not be in it, but Rangers FC will be. Let us create a league which takes into account the footballing history and geography of Scottish football, a league where Celtic do not have to travel to the Highlands for an early Sunday kick off in darkest winter. Where the fixture list actually takes account of the seasons and not just the season, of the difficulties of travelling to fixtures, and of the timing of those matches. Or in other words, takes account of the actual football supporter, and not the preferences of a PLC. Is that what Celtic are in favour of? You tell me.
Bobby Evans Superstar @ 15:22,
That’s the way I remembered it.
The Premiership was a revolutionary idea and it could be argued lead to a great era of Scottish football in the 80s, but it would be hard to argue it’s been a benefit overall.
Celtic Mac
Good points. They also need to avoid playing on ‘family days’ e.g. Christmas Day, New Year’s Day & Easter Sunday. Oh yes, and my wife’s birthday – so much hassle.
We really do need to concentrate on the RTC on CQN……..and completely ignore CTC……….. Let’s not ‘take our eye off the ball’, lot of work still to be done….