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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I hope it wasn’t this hunka hunka burnin luv. Elvis does BFDJ.
http://youtu.be/2_QyaGkcezY
HoundDogCSC
Can I Have Raspberry On That Champions League Ice Cream
I’m a thicko, please explain!!!
Just going out to work…….text from Big Bada…”That’s us just arrived in Noo Yoik’
Don’t you just hate it when other fholk are on holiday?
….apparently the fracas flared up when the boul’ Stokesie asked
Mr P to sing…..
“Are You Lonesome Tonight”….. Mr Struth………….
:O
Uh huh! CSC
valentinesday
17:24 on 6 March, 2014
Can I Have Raspberry On That Champions League Ice Cream
I’m a thicko, please explain!!!
You will find out when you see him, he’s tiny.
TinyTimCSC
Aberdeen have sold nearly 40,000 tickets for LC final.
HowdoyouspellArmageddonCSC
Boa tarde fae Brasil.
Well that’s it Carnival is over (at last). So, as you can imagine, fitba’s taken a back seat these past few days. Mind you, one of the Rio Carnival school’s (Imperatriz Leopoldina) main theme was a homage to Zico. It could’ve actually won, but was trumped by União de Tijuca’s homage to Ayrton Senna who died 20 yrs ago. Senna is (arguably) a bigger figure here than Pelé.
Personally, I’m not a big Carnival fan (now) as it represents, to me, a lot of what’s never going to get fixed (There’s a saying here : Brasil – the Country of the Future. Always will be) but maybe that’s just my inner Grinch speaking.
Anyway, speaking of getting things fixed, less than 100 days to go until the World Cup starts now and there’s still four stadiums not ready but “should be OK”. These are :- Cuiabá (fire damaged during construction), Curitiba (construction delayed due to cash flow), Manaus (inaugural game this weekend) and São Paulo (Construction delayed after roof section collapse, Nov last year. Due initial game April). My angle on this one is that they will, at least, LOOK ready. More than that – anybody’s guess.
As a side issue to this – of the 49 associated (ie. airways, public transport, accommodation) works announced in 2010, reduced to 40 in revised planning of Oct 2013, only 3 have been completed to date. Most won’t be completed before the World Cup (some, if ever at all).
In short, whilst the stadiums maybe (and most likely will be) ready on time. Getting there and back maybe a bit more, how can I put it – complicated.
On the pitch, Brasil cantered their 5-0 thrashing of South Africa yesterday and public opinion is now saying that the 23 names for Felipão’s squad, to be announced 07 May will be (I’ve put the, most likely reserves in italics):-
Goleiros (Keepers)
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Julió Cesar (Toronto FC)
Jefferson (Botafogo)
Diego Cavaleri (Fluminense) / Victor (Atletico-MG)
Laterais (Wing backs)
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Dani Alves (Barcelona)
Maicon (Roma)
Marcelo (Real Madrid)
Maxwell (PSG)
Rafinha (Bayern Munich) / Filipe Luís (A.Madrid)
Zagueiros (Central Defenders)
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Thiago Silva (PSG)
David Luiz (Chelsea)
Dante (Bayern Munich)
Marquinhos (PSG)
Dedé (Cruzeiro)
Rever (Atletico-MG) / Henrique (Napoli)
Volantes (Midfielder – defensive)
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Luiz Gustavo (Wolfsburg)
Paulinho (Spurs)
Hernanes (Inter Milan)
Ramires (Chelsea)
Lucas Leiva (Liverpool) / Fernandinho (Man City)
Meias(Midfielder – attack)
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Oscar (Chelsea)
Bernard (Shaktar Donetsk)
Willian (Chelsea)
Lucas (PSG)
Atacantes (Striker)
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Neymar (Barcelona)
Fred (Fluminense)
Jô (Atlético -MG)
Hulk (Zenit)
Robinho (Inter Milan)
That’s about it for today. Anybody fancing a flutter? Try Botafogo (away to Audax in the Carioca) and Santos (away to Rivaldo’s Mogi Morim) tonight for a short odds double tonight.
Boa sorte !!
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 confirmed.
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 (FFP).
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 £49.8million 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 owners Fenway Sports Group to repay a £38million loan taken out to develop stadium plans by the former owners 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 £149million in the past two seasons, have the most to fear among Premier League clubs, while on the continent Paris St Germain are also in the spotlight.
http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/english/2014/0305/600394-liverpool-exempt-from-uefa-finance-rules-next-year/
https://twitter.com/tommymartintv3/status/441610319430156288
@Big Tony you do know we lurve ye really?
Lookin forward tae the 14th when we once again see
The Wonder of You.
Call me x
Just catching up,and would like to thank everyone except MICKTT for their birthday wishes for Lorna,both on here or by mail.
Obviously she would like to thank you all too,but she’s sticking to lurking-not like her to be shy!
Cheers y’all.
Vp
Are you badas Dad?
That’s the sorta text I send to my folks. Lol
Apparently it wasn’t a real Elvis impersonator but just some guy who worked down the chip shop.
Sorry, tallybhoy.
Tony Stokes
Caught in a trap?
Geordie M
No mate,my own fault I sent him a ‘enjoy yir break’ text first……………obviously I didn’t mean it. :O(
On the subject of P G Wodehouse and “nazi sympathies”
He was living in France when war broke out,and was subsequently interned by the occupiers. He made a few light-hearted statements on radio,much to the dismay,and worse,of his countrymen.
His involvement was investigated after the war,and he was exonerated. His reasoning that his “stiff upper lip” approach to his plight would be appreciated at home was accepted. A great writer,but politically naive.
But not a nazi sympathiser,I doubt he had any interest in any form of politics.
Vp,
Ahhhh. You asked for it then. ;)
Just dropped in to say:
I am very proud to be a Celtic supporter!
I am proud of all Celtic supporters!
You make ‘a difference’!
H.H.
Facinating stuff re P G Wodehouse.
I knew nothing of this when I began reading his books some 40 years ago, I always enjoyed them, and I credit him with getting me into Tom Sharpe books, which were a source of joy for me. However, surprising that they have both been associated with a similar past.
Tom Sharpe
His father was a Nazi sympathiser: Unitarian minister Reverend George Coverdale Sharpe was a supporter of fascism, Oswald Mosley and Adolf Hitler, and brought up his son with the same beliefs. During World War Two, Sharpe wore a German army belt and, at boarding school in Sussex, fantasised about swimming across the Channel to Occupied France. His father died before the end of the war and Sharpe soon discovered “that Hitler was not the man I was led to believe he was”.
http://www.theweek.co.uk/people/53456/five-facts-about-novelist-tom-sharpe-man-behind-wilt
T3, the tickets are here now. I’ll send an email out in a bit to arranged distribution.
Somebody will have to protect me at CQteN, VP’s gonnae batter me for stealing his drink!
Survey completed.
Paul67, the generosity if our community is breath taking at times.
Well done.
Stoksie decks the guy who is in a bit of a state.
Stoksie aids him back in his feet
Celtic guilty of state aid screams Chris Graham.
Oldtim
table are we at.
Sir Paul,
Man .. Man…~
Ye did it again..Man~!!!!!!
This news, concerning, the Substantial Sum of Charitable Funds, Raised fur such a
worthy Cause..
as “Mary’s Meals”..
And… raised in such Short Period of Time, Mainly Due..
Your .. yes. YOOR.. Initialization, Promptings.. and Cajoles…
is .. Astionishing n .. Heart Burstin’.
A loata folk oan here.. moistly ,the Newbies.. Wonder, Ah suppose, why Ah
invariably begin my Submissinons… to You,pal.. With the Appellation..
“Sir Paul”.
They should Wonder..Nae Longer.
Well… Actually, Ah am noo toying with the idea of Changing that Appellation..
To..
“Saint Paul”~~
Yep.. Yessiree. Boab..
You,My Friend, are ..wit is Known in the Trade.. as a
Force.. fur Good.!
Ah don’t wanna embarrass ye, by …well.. Layin ‘ oan Ye..
well.. TOO Much..o’ The…
Mair Truth..
But, Let me jist tellyah..
Pal.. It his bin wanna o ‘ the Pleasures of Ma Life,,in Coming intae Contact …with You.
You are a Peach of a Guy.. Wan in A Million..
A Real.. Man tae Ride the River ,wi’…
if ye know wit Ah mean???..
An,Ah think that Ye Dae!
Great tae greet ye.. Ma Freen.. Greet tae Meet ye,tae!!
Thanks fur Being.. Jist.. You.
Kojo
Greendreamz
Why look at it with a cynical eye?
Why not take it that the views expressed ( and I did have the advantage of being there which you did not to be fair to you) with feeling actually got across the message that Celtic supporters were hurting?
I certainly got that message so why not the Celtic management team?
They acted a lot quicker than I expected. I would argue that forums such as were held in the last couple of months had an impact but it was the one the management team attended that really got the message.
Nearly 600 people have completed the survey on fans views of the OB act this afternoon.
surveymonkey.com/s/7LVDFF6
With the greatest of respects, Kojo.
Your contributions are stomach churning.
Paul needs your phoney plaudits like he needs a hole in the heid.
BRTH
We need to have lunch to talk over that subject on IPTV.
Your treat me being a pensioner but happy with the pensioner’s deal.
Big Bada update………minus 6 in New York….which is nice :O)
Fans opinions on the Offensive Behaviour Act wanted, only takes a min to fill in. 600 have completed it this afternoon, it’s by a student for her course work but she has agreed to share the info with FAC for their use aswell.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/7LVDFF6
Skyislandfill
Just checked. I’m afraid you drew the short straw.
valentinesday
17:08 on 6 March, 2014
eddieinkirkmichael
Table 34 rules ok…looking forward to sharing a meal with you
and your daughter at CQteN.
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And estorilbhoy + son :))
Blantyretim.
A more interesting question is when are you coming into town on the day of the 14th. Can you get into town before the dinner, Karens welcome too.
Trying to organize a wee swallie before the dinner starts, I’ve a feeling that we will struggle to get a drink in the Kerrydale Suite when we want one.
I think I’ll bring in a couple of bottles and have them in my room,done that at one of the European games and they were scoffed.
Seating arrangements, non existent, Tables 37.38.& 47.First in first served, whens Your old man and Charlie coming, If they would fancy a drink before hand ask them to come into the Blane Valley.
Aw haw — I have to have lunch with Auldheid — I will be back on the Blog round about 2018 after the first course!
This post is sponsored by TALK TALK…….
eddieinkirkmichael
18:22 on 6 March, 2014
Filled it in today every little helps HH
BILLY BHOY 05
Excellent piece on the OB Act from Campbell Martin,and interesting how he views the “songs of supremacy and hate v songs of remembrance and lament” argument.
I knew one or two Celtic fans at his alma mater,and he wasn’t one of them! More importantly,I don’t think he is now. He is to be commended for a balanced post,especially as he was in favour-in principle-of the act when it was first mentioned.