Celtic box clever again, and the SFA know it. Aleks Tonev, who has a strong east-European accent and limited English, denies uttering racist comments against Aberdeen. Did he? He might well have, for all I know, but, with only one person contradicting Tonev, the SFA have no idea either.
When this issue first raised its head I don’t think anyone on CQN made a character reference for Aleks, but we concluded this issue was destined to remain unresolved, as there is simply not enough information to consider the matter. The SFA know this and know that the Court of Arbitration for Sport will find in favour of the player if they persist in trying to ban him for 7 games without collaboration.
Don’t let Barry Hearn fool you, it’s the SFA which is unfit for purpose, not the professional clubs or the SPFL.
It was great to see our very own Mouldy67 on the big screens on Wednesday for his Cycling Santa Appeal. He left London yesterday morning before resting up for the night in Birmingham. All going to plan, he’ll reach Glasgow on Monday.
Mouldy (Paul) is running to raise funds and awareness for Neuroblastoma Childrens’ Cancer Alliance in memory of Wee Oscar. It’s an incredible undertaking and a living example of the Celtic spirit brought to life.
You can follow his journey here, if you’re on Twitter, send him a good luck message, I know it will make a difference. More importantly, you keep tabs on his fundraising here.
I don’t get the notion, apparently widely held and reported by The Scotsman today, that Rangers (sic) cannot afford to sack Alloa McCoist (© Jobo). He’s on a contract which the club can continue to pay, while promoting Gordon Durie to first-team duties for little or no extra cash. They may even have a case to curtail their outlays to him. I can’t see how sacking him costs money in the short term, and let’s face it, that’s all this lot need to worry about.
Knowing where the bodies are buried
Super Alloa has seen the current directors, and all previous regimes right back to Murray, operating up close and personal. He knows which cupboards have skeletons lurking, while all of them will be aware of his contract negotiations, and what he has, or has not, been prepared to do for the club. It’s a classic co-dependency situation. You don’t sack the guy who knows what you don’t want revealed.
There is also the small matter of management priorities. Would the captain of the Titanic have sacked the chef for a lousy meal after they’d hit an iceberg?
If you’ve not been involved with the Celtic Foundation before there’s a great opportunity coming up next week. They’re looking for bucketeers ahead of the St Mirren game on Sunday, 14 December, to help raise money for the Christmas Appeal.
One of the beneficiaries of the Christmas Appeal is Glasgow City Mission, who provide emergency accommodation for the homeless, a dedicated Foodbank and an evening drop-in service that feeds those who are impoverished and in need of a proper meal, for, on average, 130 men and women each evening.
Graham Steven of the Mission said, “We are extremely grateful to Celtic FC Foundation and Celtic supporters for their continued generosity.
“Their much-needed financial contributions make the work of Glasgow City Mission possible. In particular, by funding our Older Men’s lunch club, you are providing a safe space for people to come and enjoy lunch and social companionship.
“Loneliness and isolation are significant factors in many of our clients’ lives – you are helping to turn that around, improving lives and strengthening communities – thank you!”
So next week, you can turn up to Celtic Park a wee bit earlier, get to meet hundreds of cheery Celtic fans, get a ticket to the game, and help to feed, shelter and provide companionship for the city’s homeless.
I spent most of the year not doing this kind of work, so I think I need to be there with a bucket next week. You are cordially invited to pick up your own bucket, email cfcfoundation@celticfc.co.uk or call here 0141 551 4291 now, before you forget about it. More info here. We’re lucky to be on the right side of the bucket campaign.
CQN Annual 2015 will be coming off the presses next week, order yours here in time for Christmas. There’s tons more on CQNBookstore.
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Blyth can’t get out their own box
A humping on the cards !
Sevco can get rid of McCoist. All they need to do is place him on gardening leave. It means they have to pay him for a year, or until he gets another job, and he would only be due basic salary and zero bonuses.
tallybhoy.
In the fishshop earlier.Big Q.Guy in front of me asked the guy behind me if he had seen Rube ‘s new strip .Guy responded with a Yes and expressed a wish that they played in a strip with big black arrows on it. I also learned that Fiorentina have beaten Rube twice in the last 25 Serie A games.
Tom McLaughlin
20:02 on
5 December, 2014
Sevco can get rid of McCoist. All they need to do is place him on gardening leave. It means they have to pay him for a year, or until he gets another job, and he would only be due basic salary and zero bonuses.
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Tom, how about a Zero hours contract? Mikey boy swears by them:-)
Tallybhoy
THE Maltese were trying to slag me for watching the game.But the guy who runs the pub is Maltese.He stayed in Govan for 25 years and is a mad tim.I am calling Rubentus all the cheats under the sun.But at least the Italian FA took titles from them and relegated them.Not like an other football association we know.
Rubentus wearing vertical hoops!
Bassas!
HH!!
Jungle Jim,
I don’t want him to be sacked.
I think he epitomises that part of the Ran*ers support that we all abhore.
No remorse, no humility: it’s just WATP, the expecttaion that they should be numero uno, etc etc
I want him to go down as the captain of the good ship “Govan Titanic” and to be exposed to all and sundry as one of the major Spivs in the whole operation.
If he’s sacked, he will be the Ibrox Che Guevara, and all the rest would disappear underneath the lumpy SFA carpet.
Looking forward to the game tomorrow – there could be a good few goals at the qugmire… for us !!!
PORTBHOY01
Just started a new job a few weeks ago, office in PA14 , loving the Glasgow accents after years in England and the high % of Tims around. Was handed a Celtic mug on my first day in office, was quickly told ” that’s no’ a test, we know yir no a monkey”. Loving it…
Monkey Hangers came close there….
“quagmire” obviously – synonym for Fir Park.
;o)
1-0 United
A bit insensitive linking McCoist with gardening leave, did his first wife not have a thing for a man with green fingers?
Neil, I hope Resolution 12 gets what it set out to do and nail the SFA for being the incompetent, cowardly and disgraceful shower that they are by manipulating the situation to help the now defunct club.
stairheedrammy,
Yep and if memory serves me right, the gardener was prone to flying red hand flegs amongst others out of Sallys ex home.
South of Tunis, great comment from that chap about the arrows that should be on the Rubentus top.
It really grates that a class act like Pirlo plays for a classless club like that.
I watched the Viola beat them 4 2 in the league last season after the thieves were 2 nil up. It was great viewing. The unfortunate Guiseppe Rossi scored a hat trick.
Dallas…,
I’m struggling with the incompetence label when I remember those in charge were and still are executives fully qualified and familiar with the responsibilities their roles carry, remember these guys have been in positions that require thorough knowledge of the rules and laws regarding commerce that’s why they hold these positions, innit.
This must be a 1st, how a wish a could return to THE PORT. 35 years away now. Portbhoy, like you returned to away games this season, you’ll love it. It never ever leaves you. Like me though I suspect you will be completely horrified at the treatment of our fantastic supPORTers. See what a did there ma mhan
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
15:57 on 5 December, 2014
Cheers for the reply – we were both right and both wrong
Portobhoy
Parking tomorrow will be a pain in the rectum. Must travel early, stop in chez moi for a coffee, buckie or whatever and park your charabang ootside my bivouwack.(Slum) 7 minute stroll to the game. makes sense, oh and that applies to anyone else going tomorrow.
You’ve been on here an hour and nobody has asked outright ;- is you is , or is is u not a current??? You must have a saintly attitude about you!
Welcome welcome.
Last time I was in the port, they made me run 26.2 miles, never been back.
LOL
gerry_hughes_1948@hotmail.com
tom mclaughlin
20:02 on 5 December, 2014
Sevco can get rid of McCoist. All they need to do is place him on gardening leave. It means they have to pay him for a year, or until he gets another job, and he would only be due basic salary and zero bonuses.
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Shhhh Tom don’t give them any ideas
Eeexslaemuirbhoy. My first away game of the season tomorrow and I am as excited as f@ck. only way the polis will spoil it is if we don’t win…..
I was going to make a comment about Sleekit, his ex-wife and the gardener…
…and a well-trimmed bush…
…but I won’t brother.
HH!!
Weet Weet Weet
Vg.
Neil, incompotent was probably the wrong word to use. Any one of these could be at them being allegedlly sleekit, devious, conniving, dishonest, selfish, deceitful would likely be more apt.
jmccormick. No fears then , Big Virgil 1st goal and a 0-5 scoreline. The polis will spend a lot of time watchin you instead of Scotland’s CHAMPIONEES. Here we go 4 iar.
tallybhoy,
lol, so you just hedged your bet and strimmed past the obvious…anyways wee Sally is raking it in. HH
Tallybhoy- he was planting more than bulbs!
Welcome welcome.
Last time I was in the port, they made me run 26.2 miles, never been back.
take it you were courting one of their sisters.
Am I the only one sick of this “Scottish football needs a strong Rangers” crap? For “competition?” Aye, right!
http://www.onfieldsofgreen.com/the-need-for-competition/
Sipsini.
Talking about getting cars watched at game,my favourite was when a wee bhoy asked a friend of mine if he wanted his car watched during the game.Friend said no thanks pal i have an Alsatian in the back who will look after it for me.
The wee bhoy then replied can your Alsatian put out fires mate.
I know old ones are the best.
Just trying to lighten the mood.
Ps guys if you want to use the joke you can insert any kind of dog you like.No offence meant to Alsatians whatsoever.HH
Tom McLaughlin @ 19.19
My post at 17.39 mentioned the lawful grounds for a BT to be required.
I am not aware of any power that the police legally have to demand a BT when they do not have any of the necessary grounds under the 1988 Act. Maybe you could direct me to where the legislation in Scotland permits police to stop a person driving a car and ask them for a BT simply because they are driving. I’ll happily stand corrected if there is one.
I agree with you on almost all of what you say, indeed I posted something not dissimilar at 17.39, so I am not sure how I have “got it all wrong” :o)
We diverge only on the issue of the police having a lawful authority to request a BT of anyone who is merely driving a car, with none of the other requirements, (post accident, suspect alcohol, moving traffic offence).
Anyway, I still say zero limit, then there is no doubt about numbers or devices.
HH
zico-maltese bhoy
Just cos you’ve got a poodle ;)))
HH
Sally will never leave…”sooo sally can wait”(noel gallagher) he will go down with “the good ship govan titanic”( sixtaeseven)…he knows its coming….he will go down with this ship, and he wont hold his hands up and surrender ( dido)…he knows its allover …so lets just enjoy it….coz a hard rains a gonna fall…
James forrest…really like your writing….but your taste in movies….well …sucks….laughing…
BGX –
Is the answer “three”?
tonydonnelly67
12:33 on 5 December, 2014
Auldheid
I spoke to JPT in October at the fans forum, and brought to his attention about the lack of policing at Bridgton X after Celtic home games, on that night I told him that there isn’t any cops there at all.
And he said that he was concerned as I told him our bus was attacked, and he said he would get right on it and make it a priority and he wrote it down, now I know he is a very busy man and can’t do everything for everyone at the drop of a hat, but he did say he would prioritise it.
To this day there are still no cops there, and I only hope nothing happens, it’s either a case of he didn’t bother, or the cops didnt, be it on there heads and God forbid if any thing does, it’s not the nicest place in the world to go past at any time of the day, never mind after a Celtic game.
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If JPT cant do anything about the deplorable standard of stewarding in our ground, our ticket monies pay for the stewards, how the hell do you expect him to sort out a policing matter outwith our stadium?
Fav Uncle
LOL
Good one. Courted a few of them, but it was a hundred years ago, or thereabouts. No, it was my best ever marathon, about 3.20, no bad fur a short ass in his forties!
Jobo balde…iluminate me please…