I’m a bit confused at the chat this morning of reintroducing the sale of alcohol at football games. Alcohol is available for sale at games at Celtic Park, you just need to have a ticket for an expensive enough seat. If you’re in the cheap seats, you get to queue to pay for some cola. Is people’s ability to pay an indication of their likelihood to behave in a dangerous or criminal way with some alcohol in their blood?
This implication has always troubled me.
Alcohol, wherever it is sold, inevitably leads to over-indulgence and potentially dangerous behaviour, and requires strong stewarding, whether that is at a night club, or in the No. 7 restaurant. Scotland’s licenced premises have changed beyond recognition in recent decades. They are increasingly well-lit, family friendly and safe places to be. They now sell better beer too, but our nation’s problem with alcohol remains acute.
Society needs to be educated on how to use alcohol responsibly; good venues are part of the solution.
While we are on the subject of facilities at Celtic Park……. I go months without buying food or drink in the North Stand, Upper, for good reason. Last week (pestered by one of the boys), I left for the kiosk with 40 minutes on the clock, didn’t get served until the second half started, only to be told there were no hotdogs or pies left.
You know me, I’m not one to get angry at Celtic, but the sheer frustration pushed me over the top, and I didn’t have a drink! If you’re charging circa £4 for something that’s costing less than £1, make sure stock is sufficient. Have two people serving each side of the kiosk, not two on one side, with a single person making hardly a dent on the queue at the other.
Needed to get that off my chest.
The ‘news’ this morning that Rangers International are trying to sack commercial director, Imran Ahmad, is more curious for being news than in itself. Is it even possible for this news to be anything other than a leak from a director against another director? These newspaper people don’t do irony, they just take careful notes and go write up their story.
This whole episode is beginning to feel a bit like sitting out the back when the neighbours don’t realise their bedroom window is open. You can hear the noises and you looked up and caught a glance at something horrific looking. It’s something you’ll laugh about later with your friends but these people really need to acquire some dignity.
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Many happy returns to ole pabbers, much missed from the ole parish.
He was one of the original moon howlers, stayin’ up all night spinning his discs.
He didn’t play much george jones from memory, but he was definitely one of the good guys.
So Teflon Ally lives to eat another day?
The man who wholeheartedly backed Murray, Whyte, then Green, and who gave positive overtures to Ng and Miller, is now content to see Ahmad walk away.
Combined with his appalling football management, isn’t it about time someone in the MSM starting questioning Ally’s all-round judgement?
Every shyster that turns up at Ibrox is greeted with the same warm, unquestioning, puppy-dog welcome. “It was a positive meeting, there’s absolutely no doubt about that. We’ll have to see what happens, and its not for me to judge, but I was impressed. Very impressed…. yadda yaddda yaddda…
Morning Celts,
Christening today 12 – 5, i wonder if the Celtic game is the only one on around 1pm?
V
Italiabhoy-leave Alastair alone. He’s doing just fine.
In the Tom English piece above, he has decided to insert [acceptable], where fat sally didn’t say it. This has changed the meaning of what sally said.
Good morning CQN
Be good to see some of our fringe players
Getting a game today
Let’s hope for a good result against
Murderwell
Come on you Bhoys in Green and White
Keep the Faith
Hail Hail
Happy birthday Steve. Gone but not forgotten.
ItaliaBhoy
07:53 on
28 April, 2013
So Teflon Ally lives to eat another day?
Good!!!!
Previous several days have read great pieces from my favourites James Forrest,BR&T and TBB (economical care of cats! laugh). Summa of Sammi-4-56 well done one of the few decent reads since yesterday afternoon.
I posted earlier about SFTB’s over the top repeated offers to “see you anywhere,anytime-you’re yellow which he had the grace to acknowledge,apologise for and banish himself for a cooling off period.Now we’ve had hours again because of blogs from Kojo and TSD. Think I will check on McCarthyism,don’t think I will change my mind,always 2 sides but as with Thatcher? Then Nig Nogs. Think when a boy did mean clueless,useless but could be applied to blacks (maybe original use?). Incidentally I worked at Nigg for many years, we were all Niggers,white or black! Nin Nongs-never heard of it? Previous to this Hobbits-those hairy footed Leprechauns was the insult of the day!!
One thing I have noted is that Kojo/TSD rarely, if ever, tell people what to do or not to do, say or not….,no personal insults or call outs. Don’t turn up to meet people who they know don’t like them, Seems sensible!
Not that I agree with what they say but they are becoming the underdogs that many like to defend. Indeed I found Macjay1’s blog to my thinking.
Maybe in years past this site was mainly a bunch of like minded Celtic supporting pals having occasional tiffs after a tipple but that’s long gone. Far outgrown that! Now more differencies,more anger,more invectives. Always said if you give you have got to be able to take it!! We know what we should do to solve our own problems,most of us are old- have we learnt? SFTB seems to have solved his own problem remarkably well to coincide with his further studies,good luck to him If we read something,take out what we can learn from,discard the rest. The world becomes too small on here,introverted? Ihave been putting in more hours all the time, hovering,waiting for total downfall almost every week,which never comes,and that causes me so much more anguish and desperation than any blogger can.
Wait a minute here! Have I accidentally just hit on the actual reason why we all need tranquilisers???. This long period of cover ups,corruption,wrong legal decisions. the SFA how I long for them to be gone. I can laugh at the shit they’re in but it doesn’t compare with my anger and frustration that the SFA will just change the rules or ignore them!!
This is still a site with much beauty,wisdom and insight with the best Celtic reportage. Lets all try to keep it that way.
tusker
Over the years too much time and effort has gone into deciphering the john birch circle jerk.
They do a great deal of harm and their positive contribution to the blog seems minimal.
The net result is that the good guys leave in droves and opinion on here gets more and more polarised.
tusker
The SFA are the problem…….if there is not a
clear out at Hampdump, the game is f””ed,
Happy birthday Pablo, never far from our thoughts x
Happy Birthday Steve Reynolds. I only ever exchanged texts with him. One of the last was that we would meet for a beer the next time he was in Town. Alss it was not to be. However, thanks to him I have endeavoured to personally meet and keep in touch with as many CQNers as I can. Why, because he typified everything what this Site is about. I still have a great many of you to meet.
Thank you Steve. Certainly gone but certainly not forgotten. Thank you my Celtic friend and fellow CQNer.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Today is international workers’ memorial, up and down the country local trades councils have organised events to remember those who went to work and didn’t come home . as the current parcel of rogues are intent on making the workplace increasingly dangerous, the slogan of the day is ‘remember the dead,fight for the living’.
The Glasgow event is at the People’s Palace at 12 midday.
http://www.tuc.org.uk/workplace/tuc-21912-f0.cfm
Morning,
I see that King has now entered the Sevco frey. Every time you read about them it is a who’s who of tax dodgers and fraudsters.
.
Bhoys..
I am trying to find info on a Hunger March l believe it was 1934 it left from Blantyre and l think it was one of the First..
Had a Look but seems there were a few but can’t find a Blantyre one (Glasgow?)..
Any help would be great..
Thanks in Advance..
001Bhoy
Good morning friends from East Kilbride where it’s unfortunately returned to the wet and grey.
The question is not whether or not there is some ancient alternative meaning to an offensive word. The question is, can a person professing no intent to offend, claim they could not predict the offence it’s use would cause. For if they cannot so claim, and it seems to me ludicrous that they should try, then the offence is, at best foreseen and, more likely, fully intended.
asonofdan, 23:22 on 27 April, 2013:
“Jordan Rhodes scored a golden goal for Blackburn against Crystal Palace. I was hoping they got relegated and maybe get him on the cheap.”
I had been struck with identical hopes myself…
Without coming over all Kev Jungle I can’t shake the disconcerting rumour that the club could have agreed a transfer of the player for circa £4 million early in the summer. Allegedly an opportunity we squandered. Trouble with rumours, of course, is there is no way of knowing if they have any substance. I know this only to well but, for some reason I can’t help but let it wrankle…
Happy birthday Steve/ Pablo.
HH
Happy Birthday Pablo. RIP
MWD
DBBIA, well said (written)
Someone on here said
kojo/collie/pookah personae don’t call people names but they do. The collective have professed their dislike of ad-hominems however they post such things as “only a fool/insert ad-hominem would say xxx” when xxx is the other person’s point of view.
It was SFTB who caugh t them out on this recently.
And last night they DID call people names. I’m sure they also have identities as “reasonable” posters, too, who will come on in the aftermath.
They are a complete, articulate fabrication designed to liven up the blog/create controversy. They’re certainly not Celtic supporters.
All they do is drive people away from this blog and create division. I don’t think that’s what Paul67 had in mind for CQN.
I’ve had enough.
Happy birthday Pablophanque. We would have met had it not been for my reticence. I regret it.
Another rangers about to implode…
Harry Redknapp admits QPR’s season
has been hampered by a huge rift
between squad members over wage
disparity.
Rangers must beat Reading to have
any hope of avoiding relegation but
even if they win at the Madejski their
two-year stay in the top flight will
end should Aston Villa beat
Sunderland on Monday.
And one area which Redknapp
believes has caused problems for the
club is the gulf in wages between
those players who were signed on
large salaries after Tony Fernandes’
takeover and those who battled to
get the team promoted in the 2010-11
campaign.
The likes of as Julio Cesar, Jose
Bosingwa, and Park Ji-sung, were
given big pay packets when they
signed last summer in line with their
reputation as experienced and
successful players.
However, Ryan Nelsen and Jermaine
Jenas – both free signings from
Tottenham – and Spurs loanee Andros
Townsend, have made a bigger
impact despite being on lower
salaries.
“I would be lying if I said there were
not splits in the camp here,” said
Redknapp. “That has been obvious for
everyone to see all year. It has been a
big problem I think.
“I haven’t had this too much
anywhere else, but when we came it
was obvious there was a problem.
“It is difficult with players earning
differently. It’s not a problem if you
are playing with Robin van Persie or
Steven Gerrard and they are getting
£130,000 or £140,000 a week – but
someone else is getting £50,000 –
because you don’t mind if they are
worth it and are so good.
“So that’s a problem if players look at
others and think: ‘he ain’t that good’.
That’s when you get problems.
People don’t mind others getting
good money if they earn it.”
George Jones .RIP.
Apt words from a DJ on Sicilian radio——-
” a crazy man but a truly great singer “.
Followed by a wee spin of George’s version of the Bob Wills choon ——– Bubbles In My Beer ..
Warm and sunny -way down south.
Perhaps CQN could begin to get away from the nom de blog culture. Why hide behind a (or multiple) persona(s)?
Afterall we have nothing to be ashamed about. Have we?
Wild Boar ribs for brunch ?
Ive not met a single person on this site but i’m willing to share my ribs -)))
Michael
That would mean some having to deal in reality
As has been said …truth ….”some” couldn’t handle the truth
For others being a cyber bully is a way of filling the void in their otherwise pathetic lives
I’ve met many CQN folk ….have to say …the loudmouth troublemakers never seem to make an appearance
Cheers pf.. o ((
BT
You missed a good day yesterday
I was a bit handicapped after my exertions on on Friday
Just say I was a couple of goals down after the first leg
Btw your usually too blotto to cause trouble :-))
O)
South of tunis- driving up to the highlands for an ole birthday party, listening to possum in the car (drivers choice) and then the news of his death comes on.
Will the circle be unbroken.
I think he has made one last album, with dolly p.
Morning bhoys!
Sun is finally out in Motherwell. Hoping we give this mob a doin today as most murderwell fans I kno are horrified that we are getting a guard of honour today
Get intae thum!!!!!
Happy birthday to our pal stevie / pablophanque
A great bhoy who brought much to this site … apart from the football debate .. he was the original nighshift music man…. and in the year before he went to work away from here he was a founder member of the gang who started the kano fund raising campaign to get martin home
I pray for both those guys every day … for different reasons. ..
Anyone on here for years will remember kano and pablo well… neither were shrinking violets but contributed so much to this place.
So happy birthday my friend.. I miss you big time.
And God Bless and support Kano .
PF said:
“the loudmouth troublemakers never seem to make an appearance”
Have you forgotten already I was there yesterday?
Good day and a good wee chat about books with you , about running with Midfield Maestro and about everything else with everyone else. I am off up a couple of local (ish) Munroes now. Cheerio.
JJ
PS I was in Morrisons and saw a back page headline (Sunday Mail ? ) claiming that the deeds to Ibrox etc are in the safe there and Craig Whyte is talking nonsense. Anyone know anything about this?
Morning all. Things are looking brighter down here. It was miserable earlier.
Any news to further brighten the day?
Morning from a sunny yet chilled Chilterns…
Here’s to Lenny and the bhoys making short shrift of the uninventionists this afternoon.
So Mr Ahmad has gone?
Interesting, the Gers want their club back.
Well, I take their point, I’d like that flat with views over the Hughenden Valley back, I’d like my original In the City 45 back but most of all I’d love my mummy back.
Still I sold the flat, some b@$£@¡d nicked my Jam single and my Sainted Mother is dead.
I read what Mr Ahmad in IamRangers mode said…
Apart from wishing ill fortune on our Hero I thought he was pretty much spot on.
When Rangers died because the Gers did not want to pay off the debt.
Did not want some Trucker from America with the Bona Fides to take over their team.
Did not want the hassle of starting a new Club and running it properly.
When they prefered to sit on their Bums moaning about other people sitting on their bums.
Some enterprising Englishmen with a heads up from the Whyte Knight and the wherewithal decided to raise the funds and buy the trinkets from that dead Football Team and Do a Barnumesque show from the Big Hoose.
But what these Englishmen didn’t know, yet we always knew the Gers would want THEIR club back for nowt.
Obviously IamRangers (and I’m pretty sure you thought you were Mr Ahmad) has been black balled from “Club”.
He got this crazy idea because he’s a major share holder and Director in the company that owns the Football team he had some say in the institution.
What he didn’t understand is the supernatural, ethereal nature of the Club he thought he bought into.
It is not bound by ANY law…
Be that civil crimminl or physics.
No! This entity is above ALL, comformity in any sense does not apply.
It must be there.
It must be strong.
The very antithesis of the Holy Spirit, yet still undefinable and undestructable.
Still, we’ll never be mastered.
Pablophanque was one of the first Celts on here to stick his hand out to me in the days when newcomers got a welcome, his humour and music lifted me on nights when he had no idea that I needed lifted, Pablophanque was one of the reasons I kept coming back…
Just reading back on the nightshift to see the Dividerers hold court, remember Bhoys and Ghirls if you use yer dictaphone you might not be transmitting the message ye want to!!
There are many many great Celts on here and I have had the pleasure of sharing a few hours with them from time to time and look forward to do so again soon and then there are the others!!
Mon the Celts…
Summa of Sammi….
08:54 on 28 April, 2013
If it was 1934 it wouldn’t have been one of the first.
There was a march from Scotland to London in 1932 and there were regular marches to Edinburgh around the same time.
Local newspaper archives might be your best bet for more information. Have you tried the Mitchell library?
.
Ernie..
Cheers..
I think it was the London march..My Grandad was on it..Someone in My Family has all the Stuff on it but l wanted to find out if there has more written on it Later..
It All makes Interesting reading even in 2013
Thanks Again..
Summa