Apologies for absence yesterday, the day got away from me. The blog would have said something like, “really pleased Celtic pushed back so vocally against the illiberal and ill-conceived Offensive Behaviour Act”, but with less brevity.
Shortly before Christmas we launched the campaign to fund the construction of a school kitchen in Malawi through Mary’s Meals to mark the 10th anniversary of Celtic Quick News. The project would cost £7000 and to get us there we scheduled a St Patrick’s Day dinner dance for next Friday, 14 March.
8 days out I am delighted to inform you the target money has been raised, Mary’s Meals already have £7000 in their bank, the project is officially funded and construction plans are underway.
That the money was raised ahead of the event was a surprise, although after 10 years of watching Celtic fans go about their business in this manner, it shouldn’t have been.
We received a remarkable donation from Patrick Foley’s Irish Bar & Restaurant in Gent, and Barney Vallely’s Irish Pub in Cologne, who between them raised €2600.
You don’t think of Gent and Cologne as being big ‘Celtic towns’. I’m sure they are not, but there enough Celtic fans in each city to form a proper community. Their work has been incredible and a real inspiration. Thank you to Patrick, Charlie and their patrons. Special thanks to Kolncelt, who orgainsed the entire effort, but has had to cancel his trip to Glasgow next week.
This gave us a problem, of course, The Show is going ahead next week, but the kitchen at the Kholoni Primary School is already paid for, what will be our focus next week. Here is a remind of what that £7000 is going to achieve:
Mary’s Meals feed 822,142 kids each day across some of the most impoverished areas of the world. The global average annual cost per child is £10.70, and is only £7 in Malawi, where the Kholoni Primary School is.
Kitchens are brick constructed and fully stocked with stoves, pots, serving utensils, mugs and cutlery. They also have a wall-mounted blackboard, so the room can be used as a classroom outside of meal times.
The charity started in 2002 when founder Magnus MacFarlane-Barrow met a mother dying of AIDS, and her child, whose only ambition was to have enough food to eat.
93% of money raised goes directly to the needy and, where possible, the 65,000 volunteers who keep the project running are drawn from parents and relatives of the children being fed.
The impact in Malawi, 17th poorest country by UN measures, is significant. Mary’s Meals provide a daily meal to 20% of the countries primary school aged children. The impact is more than just feeding the hungry, two years after a Mary’s Meals project in Malawi starts, school enrolment is up an average of 30%, leading to higher educational achievements, and a better chance in life.
I’m open to ideas on what to focus on next week but my instinct is to get back onto Mary’s Meals and ask where they next need a kitchen.
A couple of pairs of tickets have become available for Friday’s CQteN St Patrick’s Day at the Kerrydale Suite, Celtic Park. £50 per ticket, dinner, dancing, two acts, Irish dancers; it is shaping up to be quite an event. Email Tony if you want to be there, cqnbooks@gmail.com
We have a donations page for CQN Mary’s Meals’ projects, if you would like to help out, you can do so here.
Seville, The Celtic Movement, launches this month.
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FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
03:33 on
7 March, 2014
PS Macjay, I always liked the word “mollify”. It implies us angry ones should soften out attitude, while young Celtic Supporters are being persecuted for…..supporting Celtic.
Or is it because the rozzers have the same fear as you, that they’re trying to start a Marxist revolution…?
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Last sentence:You assert I am afraid that young Celtic supporters are trying to start a Marxist revolution.
You`re wrong.You`re mistaken.Only you know whether the much bandied about “lying” word is appropriate.
I don`t give a damn if they`re starting a Maoist revolution.
Just don`t use Celtic to do it.
That`s what entryists and parasites do.
They use a body for their own benefit to the detriment of the host.
Summa of Sami
If you’re about…..
We get into Melbourne on 16th in afternoon. Was planning on Pj O’Brians Southbank? Will also check out Punt on Pint(?)
Sydney first tho’ – Sunday night in Cheers
12′ x 6′ Celtic banner on tow!!!
Macjay,
“Lying” applies to the situation regarding the arrest of Celtic Supporters at CP (firstly the GB, now that they are weakened and the support divided, any individual).
I only ask that you comment on the board’s role in this, and not ask me to provide evidence which has dropped on our doorstep the last few years that they had more than a significant role in this.
Is your concern that the reds under the bed are threatening the board?
Having experienced Celtic “hospitality” seats and also the eqivalent elsewhere, I have no other conclusion to make than they are taking the pish out of a loyal support.
If you choose to defend them without question, then it belies all the knowledge you have portrayed on world politics here (rightly or wrongly).
Are our board uniquely superior to other football chairmen? Or are we unique in that we need someone to fend off those reds under the bed?
Big Nan,
Top of the morning to your good self !
I reckon my grandad would have known you and you him – but we should leave it at that. (He would have been several years your senior). He refused to join or support any organisation except the union of workers whom he ended up representing.
I am lucky to have his funeral as one of my first memories. A large attendance. My other early memory? – he took me aged 4 and my two older cousins to our first Celtic game.
Luving your work, sir.
Good morning CQNers,
Its refreshing to read the overnight posts from Auldheid and BRTH about those that work within the club, and the club itself. They acknowledge mistakes have been made but the message from their posts is the club and it’s employees have recognised the need to engage with the support.
They’ve recognised, somewhat belatedly, these guys and the many others who’ve engaged in dialogue with them are assets, assets that can be harnessed to work with towards progressive goals.
Well done to all those who’ve got off their arses.
TBJ
Is Goa – in on another wee holiday today
Enjoy your break Bhud :-)
Beautiful Sunshine and temps rapidly rising this morning
Hail Hail
GCT
If Desert Orchid had been as useful on left handed tracks as he was on right handed ones, it’s frightening to think what he’d have achieved. His only win in the Gold cup was in 1989, and the ground was bottomless that year, which he hated, so it was an astonishing effort. His forte of course was the King George, winning it 4 times.
Wonderful horse.
twists n turns –
Yes, I won a few bob on Dessie on the King George as well. Made for a great Christmas.
What a battler he was.
Were Celtic correct in disbanding section 111 containing the GB when the club have never, ever examined a GB display prior to a game at Parkhead?!
BCW
checked our stock, the boxes I was talking about, do have no.10 self tappers, but nowhere near the length you need.
Ernie’s options are your best bet.
Good luck.
I’m quite sure now the Birmingham City owner will be kicking himself not investing in TRFC.
I’m sure @ScottishFA would’ve found a relaxed rule to bypass money laundering & promoted TRFC :)
So today at 2pm another stitch up will be decided at UTT.
Morning All.
Bó-aire
02:09 on
7 March, 2014
Good Morning to you —– my post about DD hopefully makes it plain that I am repeating something that I have been told by someone who is not Celtic minded or connected with Celtic or whatever and obviously I have no idea if it is a fair account or not — so— make of the whole story what you will.
Big Nan
Yes I know, anyone who has amassed £1800 Million in his lifetime must be a saint and probably can’t get through the day without having his ego boosted a wee bit by bozos like me and Auldheid.
What I would say is that if he wants to turn up at the next Res 12 meeting then he can buy his own sandwiches like the rest of us!
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday from a rather drizzly , blustery and grey EK.
7 more sleeps.
So @PeterAdamSmith from STV win an award a few months back in my eyes he will deserve that award when he interviews Ogilvie & Regan on corruption live on tv & only then I’ll say he deserves it
Hen1rik
In the hearing so far, some quotes pertaining to the original decision;
“The initial ruling failed to consider all points of evidence and their cumulative effect”
” amounts of evidence had been written off as irrelevant”
” the majority decision failed to show the slightest hint of understanding HMRC’s case”
You could be forgiven for thinking that the initial decision was made by people with an agenda. That would of course be ridiculous. Why, that’s akin to thinking that if someone attacked a man inside a football stadium, in front of 20,000 witnesses, and tv cameras, that he’d be found not guilty!
Remember Bob Massingbird from Blackadder?
“I remember Massingbird’s most famous case, the case of the bloody knife. A man was found next to a murdered body, he had the knife in his hand, thirteen witnesses that seen him stab the victim, and when the police arrived he said, “I’m glad I killed the b*******d.” Massingbird not only got him off, but he got him knighted in the New Year’s Honors list, and the relatives of the victim had to pay to have the blood washed out of his jacket.”
safe standing area means more stewarding
the word SAFE gives it away
with the authorities track record with celtic fans
it will make kettling seem like a nice walk in the park.
hail hail.
Ive been reading the comments regards DD.
Seemingly he has a topline of 1800 million….so, if you are reading this D
Buy a fecking star player, ya miserable big chancer:)
HH
FrankMarker
I echo your concerns.
Sadly, we can’t vocalise them as that would make us mine-shafting reds under the bed conspiracy lunatics.
Like you, my concerns are based on what has happened recently at Celtic Park.
I see the owner of Birningham City has been sent to Prison for 6 years for Money Laundering.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-26479124
Also noting the losses posted by Liverpoool and Man City just might mean that they are excluded from European Competition in terms of the FFP rules.
Bolton are something like £180Million in debt and QPR spent vastly more on wages this year than they have by way of turnover.
It would appear that the majority of championship clubs are skint as can be and that more and more English Football Clubs seem to fall into dodgy or strange foreign ownership.
Does anyone see a troublesome trend here? And do we really want to be heading to such an environment?
Football needs to give itself a shake — not a sheikh!
BRTH
Not sure if this was discussed yesterday, been too busy to keep up, but does any of this stuff strike you as authorities introducing guidelines, realising they are being largely ignored, so decide to shift the goalposts a few yards?
Article:
Liverpool and other clubs such as Monaco who are not playing in Europe this season will not have to pass Uefa’s break-even rule in order to take part in the next Champions League campaign, it has been confirmed. Only the 237 clubs who took part in this season’s Champions League and Europa League are currently being assessed.
Uefa has revealed 76 of these are being investigated and face sanctions this summer – including possible disqualification from next season’s competitions – if they fail to comply with financial fair play.
Clubs such as Liverpool and Monaco who have not been in Europe face no threat of sanctions this summer for failing to break even. They would be assessed next autumn – along with all the other clubs in Uefa competitions next season – with any sanctions applicable in 2015.
Liverpool this week announced losses of £49.8m up to the end of May 2013, and a further £40.5m over the previous 10 months leading to some concern over whether the club would comply with Uefa’s FFP rules.
A Uefa spokesman confirmed to Press Association Sport that clubs not involved in Europe this season will not be assessed until next season.
Liverpool remain hopeful that they will comply despite their losses. The club may be able to write off a loan made by their owners Fenway Sports Group to repay a £38m loan taken out to develop stadium plans by the former proprietors Tom Hicks and George Gillett.
The autumn financial review by Uefa will look at clubs’ finances over the 2011-12, 2012-13 and 2013-14 seasons, plus an estimate of the position over the two years to come.
That means the impact of the new bumper Premier League TV deal would be reflected in the English clubs’ accounts.
Manchester City, who have lost £149m in the past two seasons, have the most to fear among Premier League clubs, while on the continent Paris Saint-Germain are also in the spotlight.
That Birmingham City chairman sounds very like a zombie to me.
Am beginning to see where this is all going.
The “big” EPL clubs have their own super money league.
The ECA supports Celtic, Ajax and other wee clubs in their endeavours to make more money, so creates a rival FFP league.
To do so, the head of the ECA before taking the role has to prove to yon clubs that fan control is easy:
“Thou shall not demand the signing of expensive strikers more than once every four years.” …on pain of your children being arrested or at best, you being terrified to bring them back to the football stadium for fear of arrest.
Thank feck those dry chicken burgers make it worthwhile……
Morning All
TET pass on my thanks to Mrs TET laughing out loud on the train!
Can I ask those who do, to say a wee prayer for a very special intention this morning thanks.
Morning all.
The old Italian rumour mill in overdrive with the news that the old Lothario Silvio Berlusconi may be trying to sell Milan.
AC Milan that is – not the city!
He has denied it apparently.
HH!!
Morning all. Very changeable today.
Any more news on Biton?
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers ………fc not plc
03:30 on 7 March, 2014
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2574895/Algerian-asylum-seeker-42-sexually-assaulted-eight-year-old-girl-Madame-Tussauds-gift-shop-looked-mothers-birthday-present.html
I’ll make no comment on this story other than…..
Isn’t he well-named?
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Aptly named indeed!
Minx, wee prayer offered up for your special intention.
BRTH, if not England, what?
Real Madrid….revenue profile;
41% commercial
36% broadcasting
23% match day.
Wonder how Celtic compares?
Well we are 10th in Europe on match day revenue, but not quoted in top 20 overall.
Tells you all you need to know.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust Says Hail Hail Big Fraser
I wrote a reply the other day. I hope you managed to see it.
HH
LB
the green man
08:08 on 7 March, 2014
I’ve got some money……would you like a pie…. :)…..DD is spot on, apart from the fact that he forgot to mention our anti-all things Celtic media….bless them……they destroyed the bhuns with their compliant silence (of the lambs), but they will NEVER destroy us (we shall not be moved)
parkheadcumsalford
08:44 on 7 March, 2014
Out for a month…groin
The Daily Reprobate are furious because Der Kaiser has stated,(quite correctly I hasten to add) that Celtic are one of the best clubs in the world.
Bloody marvellous.
Happy Friday zombies.
:D
LIVIBHOY
He did,mate.
I mailed it to him.
Avoid ACGR at CQTEN at all costs. He intends to show his appreciation in DRAM-atic fashion!
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
Thanks mate.
I’m not sure I will be able to avoid anyone getting the drams in. My table is right at the bar!
LB
BGFC
Thanks,mate. Evil ould….. that he is.
I was asked to remove the post though,and have requested such from PAUL67.
No game this weekend? What are we going to find to talk about?
Twists
Partly yes!
I genuinely think — and maybe someone within UEFA also thinks — that football as we know it commercially is absolutely doomed! Totally bankrupt and financially unsustainable in its current business model– and the main reason for that is broadcasting.
I posted yesterday that Celtic and any other football club in its right mind should have had someone at the mobile phone conference in Barcelona and I wasn’t joking.
The current TV deal in England ( and elsewhere ) is all based on the fact that football matches will be screened by a broadcaster who offers so much money that they can determine when football games will start and indeed stop.
They then sell advertising around the football matches and so recoup the vast amounts of money that they offer the leagues and associations for the right to broadcast.
However, advances in technology and the increasing spread of the internet means that typical or traditional broadcasting is about to go clean down the toilet– which is why traditional broadcasters are jumping on to the digital bandwagon, and internet providers are jumping into the sports world.
Yesterday, STV ( who provide literally no live sports coverage in Scotland ) announced that digital broadcasting now accounts for 19% of their overall revenue — revenue which increased by 76% last year!
Digital is now their single biggest department!
The new BT deal with the Champions League tells you that football is moving to the internet and away from the Satellite — trust me the Murdoch operation is scrambling about looking for digital foothold as they know that the Satellite day on which they based their stronghold is under BIG threat!
Now, 28% of all satellite broadcasting last year goes through mobile devices — tablets, smart phones and so on and so advertising is moving to direct personal marketing — direct to your phone or laptop or PC — rather than scattergun approaches like 30 seconds on a national or international broadcaster at half time.
Look at your own computer — do you get e-mails or messages or texts which relate to webites or purchases that you personally have made?
Do you get messages from Amazon punting things that you might personally be interested in?
I do.
That is called affinity group advertising — in other words getting out there directly to people who might be interested in your product.
So this personal advertising replaces scattergun territorial advertising and those who will make the most money from advertising are the biggest brands or, to put it another way, those who have the biggest following.
Clubs like Bolton, or Portsmouth, or Southampton or Norwich or whoever have traditionally enjoyed the bounties of the EPL not because they have that huge following but because they have been admitted to a league with a huge territorial advertising and media deal.
But if the broadcasting industry goes digital ( it has already gone ) then the clubs with the biggest database of potential customers around the globe prosper.
Barcelona, Man Utd ……… Celtic!!!!
Could that be why Peter Lawell has gone to join the previously named G14?
Lots of clubs around the globe have taken on unsustainable debt which they thought would always be serviced by the current style TV deal —– Liverpool are asking for £38Million of loans from Gillette and Hicks to be written off FFS– WRITTEN OFF???? —- just to try and balance the books and we are talking Liverpool FC — hardly a “wee club”.
Football Governance is pathetic — worse than the bankers — absolutely shocking– and in my opinion it has stopped investing in ordinary people– the working Joe who used to stand on the terracings.
Yet, digital broadcasting will inevitably take you straight back to the mass market ( Nokia’s new smartphone aimed at the third world market is available for £80 saying “You can stick your £500 iphone up your arse as this does the same thing in many respects for a fraction of the price!”
There is a tsunami of change coming and I am sure the people in football can see it — but hey some are swimming for the shore as fast as they can and many won’t make it!!!!
There will be casualties and some of them may well be big name casualties.
Nobody watches the telly on a schedule any more — it is all catch up or to use its proper industry term — VOD — video on demand and the teams with the most number potential viewers scoop the prize.
Fergus McCann rejected several approaches from SKY when Murdoch’s team were buying their way into Man Utd, Sunderland, Newcastle and so on so they could get a foothold in the clubs with big number potential.
Celtic have their own broadcast facilities. They have their own broadcast content ( Digital Assets ) whereby they can broadcast old games, interviews with past players, current players, the Board, the SLO, you, me, Tom Minogue and even Kojo if he wants to turn up — and they can do that without any cololective agreement with the SPFL, SFA, UEFA, FIFA or whoever– and all the advertising revenue would be Celtic’s.
Further, they can screen their matches live without the need for any other permissions and keep all the revenue for themselves — if the broadcast is geo blocked in the UK — and only goes to the fans with the smartphones or tablets outwith the UK.
So, if you are your own digital broadcaster and you have a large overseas fanbase, you keep the advertising revenue from Nike or whoever.
That puts team like Bolton etc in the grubber in terms of current finances and takes clubs like Celtic into a new sphere altogether — if they are smart enough to see the potential and the possibilities.