Football can be a primitive sport on occasions but before kick off at Cardiff tonight the Wales and Scotland players will acknowledge the nation’s thoughts for a family in distress. The game provides many of us with opportunities to remember we are members of a complex and caring society. The The Wee Oscar 4 Life team have asked me to invite you to next month’s race night at Celtic Park. This is from them:
Be a hero for Wee Oscar and come along and join us for the WeeOscar4Life Race Night and Auction on 17th November in the Kerrydale Suite at Celtic Park!
Wee Oscar and his family flew to Philadelphia on the 6th October to start Wee Oscar’s potentially lifesaving Immunotherapy treatment, unfortunately due to health complications Wee Oscar was rushed into Intensive Care and it appears that these complications have shattered the prospect of receiving this immunotherapy treatment in Philadelphia. The events from the last few days have strengthened the WeeOscar4Life Campaign’s resolve to ensure maximum support for Wee Oscar and his family throughout Wee Oscar’s treatment. Set-backs such as this mean that it’s now more important than ever to raise additional funds.
The WeeOscar4Life campaign are proud to continue our fundraising for Oscar and his family during his treatment; Lisa Hague, Patron of the campaign, and Partner of Celtic’s Kris Commons says ‘This is the next stage of fundraising which will directly support Oscar and his family throughout the treatment and we implore the Celtic Family to continue supporting this incredibly worthwhile appeal. The Race Night and Auction is going to be a wonderful night and I can’t wait for the fun!”
Tom Boyd, the captain who stopped 10, said, “It will be my pleasure to support the WeeOscar4Life campaign by attending the race night next month. The backing shown by the Celtic Family already has been nothing short of extraordinary, and has inspired many of us to get involved and help this family through such an abysmal time.”
10 WeeOscar4Life Corporate tables, seating 10 people, are available on a first come first served basis offering preferential seating, drinks package, snacks, free entry and company advertising/printed logos. Early booking is advised as advanced reservations mean there is limited availability.
WeeOscar4Life seats are available and can be purchased individually or as groups at £7 per ticket. Again these seats will be sold on a first come first served basis. Snacks will be available on each table. Tables seat 10 people.
On the night there will be 8 races a raffle and an auction.
Race sponsorship is also available at £250 per race.
Jockey and Owner sponsorship is also available at £5 per Jockey or Owner. Each winning Jockey and Owner will receive a prize.
To reserve tickets or request further information please contact the team at here WeeOscar4Life@gmail.com.
The event flyer can be found here.
The full press release can be found here.
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petec @ 03:38
Fair play, I know you do that.
But JEEEZZZZ there are some trumpets out there >:(((((
petec @ 03:38
Did you like that…never done it myself :))
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xsj66S6Xuw
For you buddy. :))
Tooting Tim,
Am not going to let this go.
Are you waiting for back up or summit??
Do you have “CQN pals”?
Let’s be having you? Come on me auld son?
oldtim67
23:05 on
12 October, 2012
The anti Scottish venom on this blog is way and beyond intolerable,It may be Scots that want to be from another country, or it may be people who belong to another country that think it’s okay to slag of the Scots, well It’s not okay.
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Agreed the usual suspects who think being a Scotland fan means anti- Irish and/ or not Celtic enough
Yes a cr@p team – and SFA factor/ mib factor is sometimes hard to reconcile
but it doesn’t excuse the behaviour
I’ve had enough if it !
I FECKIN hate that when folk can’t stand up for themselves and what they said….
Although I’ve said some stupid things myself in the past, and apologised.
But come on…. spineless or asleep???
Why say something so provocational and then feck off????
Hun behaviour.
Petec,
That was a great call for a song – you know me too well !!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftlYLcEW_I4
It’s a Good Life being a Celt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=998P6HEzCdI&feature=related
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
Spooky, that is my Big Sister’s favourite. I spoke about her yesterday morning and how it was a miracle that she made it to her 1st birthday.
I hope Oscar makes a miraculous recovery. That wee man has an inner strength and bravery that is remarkable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODtExxkW0ws
And another from the sidebar……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN8oN8I3lrk&feature=related
Got to go as I’m up early, so in true Kojo © style. :))))
Good Night Dumbarton
Good Night Glasgow
Good Night Edinburgh
Good Night CQN
And Good Night Fortunes Favour Mibbes wherever you may be. ;))
Hail Hail
And go easy on TootingTim he might just have forgot to put a smilie at the end. It happens sometimes. :)
petec,
“I Believe”. Beautiful.
You have kindness pouring out your heart amigo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT57tjz9py8
FFM
If you have time check out the link I put up yesterday morning, I think it is about 90 minutes long but a part of it goes into how Freemasonry’s numbers are dwindling amongst many other things and they explain the real reason for this, it’s not as good as it sounds and I have explained it also before on here. It’s a good interview, from a Christian perspective of course. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ZKQfp7D6U
HH and NN
And another from the sidebar……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN8oN8I3lrk&feature=related
Got to go as I’m up early, so in true Kojo © style. :))))
Good Night My Brother
Good Night My 9yr old step son who was killed in July
Good Night Aberdeen
Good Night Glasgow
And Good Night auld fannies who can’t see the wood for the feckin trees.
And I will go easy go easy on Tooting Tim as soon as he has the balls to confront me monicker to monicker. :)))
And good night to yourself, me auld amigo. A bright start in a darkening planet.
Which order, I do NOT know !!!!! But feckin enjoy ya trumpets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2ZKQfp7D6U
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLhYxLE8uCA
Hiroshima??
http://youtu.be/iqOB53p3Npc?t=2m18s
Anyway, we delivered the bomb……..
Silence.
Says it all.
Nothin’s changed.
Am away listening to Queen songs.
Geez a shout, when someones shows some baws…
Its probably been posted before, Ive not read back but this is comedy gold from the owner of a daft wee division 3 club. Reported via their BBC.
‘Rangers chief executive Charles Green predicts European overhaul
Chief executive Charles Green believes Rangers will be involved in the formation of a new European league.
Green’s consortium relaunched the Ibrox club after the former incarnation could not be saved from liquidation.
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“I’m convinced it will happen because otherwise where will the revenues for the top come from”
Charles Green on a European league
Rangers currently play in Scottish Football League Division Three.
“There will be a European league because big teams can’t keep subsidising small teams for the next 10 years because they will go stale,” said Green.
“Arsenal don’t want to play Southampton or Swansea, but ask them if they want to play Celtic or Rangers. It’s what the fans want to see.
“Fans across the world want to see Manchester United play Barcelona, not just once every few years but every season.”
Green is convinced Rangers would be part of any new European league.
“If there are two divisions of 18 clubs, how could Rangers not be a part of that?” he asked. “I’m convinced it will happen because otherwise where will the revenues for the top come from? These days Arsenal are struggling to sell out their game against West Ham.”
Last month, BBC Scotland revealed Scottish clubs, including Rangers, were to discuss the possibility of being part of a new European regional league set-up.
Uefa is believed to be open to change as it grows increasingly concerned by the polarisation between the top clubs and top leagues.
Green added: “How can Manchester United’s revenues be £320m and Aston Villa, who are completely useless, get £250m?
“What Manchester United put into world football is massive, but what they take out of it is a joke and they won’t put up with that for much longer.”
Owner of a daft wee division 3 club calls European Cup winners Aston Villa ‘completely useless’
Wow, this absolute clown is comedy gold.
EN
Mornin’
“Hughie” or rather his PR people are just getting him to give the the hopeful, hurtin’ huns in the media an eye-catchin headline – hoping to cause a kerfuffle……….
I liked the way he managed to bring the Champions into the equation as well…….
Anytime Celtic specualted on moving away from the scottish league we were roundly derided by the same outlets that give this trumpet a platform……..
HH
Chuck Green
Celtic hero like Craig Whyte or dangerous buffoon like Boris Johnston.
MWD
Just in case anyone missed last night @Wee_Oscar update.
@Wee_Oscar: Oscar doing really well today! Still needs help breathing but just had rice krispies & juice- first he’s eaten or drank in days. Good sign!
MWD
Bankiebhoy1
Mornin…
Aye talk of Celtic moving away is scorned upon and reported with a snyde view yet the delusional owner of a daft wee 3 club gets his bewildered nonsense reported word for word.
He is playing the daft huns and their media like the idiots they are by playing the fool and talking nonsense, mad ranting is their language, fair play to the clown he is good at it.
EN
Morning all!
Well it’s official – Green is barking mad! We already knew that ‘tho!
In his rants he has managed to antagonise just about everyone, including EPL clubs as well.
The zombies in a European Super League?! Aye right!
When this league DOES come about, and I believe it will, the only Scottish club in it will be CELTIC.
HH!!
Thoughts with wee Oscar – delighted to hear that he is feeling a bit better.
HH!!
Cant beat Stirling Albion but wanting to join a European League.
Comedy Gold.
Come back to us when you are able to reach the later stages of the Ramsdens cup wee man.
Alex Tommo’s latest……………….
Threats and silence: the intimidation by Rangers fans
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As I’ve said before my interest in Rangers stems purely from the standpoint of it being a spectacular example of a corporate omnishambles: British mismanagement so profound and bewildering it veers between performance art and social car-crash. With the loyal Rangers fans left mugged in the middle.
It’s still happening. Past mismanagement matched by the odious behaviour of a no-doubt small minority of Rangers fans apparently hellbent on proving the new Rangers will be like the old.
An element of the Rangers customer base remains out of order and neither Rangers, nor Scotland’s football authorities, nor the police appear willing or able to do much about it.
I’m talking intimidation.
Of the legal profession. Of football’s governing bodies. Of football club executives. Of publishing. Of bookshops. Of newspapers. Of TV stations.
Tellingly, in Glasgow this will come as news to nobody. Which should tell anybody half awake how sick things are in this singular aspect of that great city.
Outside Scotland people may legitimately wonder how or why this is tolerated? Or simply gawp in astonishment that such things go on almost daily this year.
And it is arguably getting worse.
Consider the following brief summary of just some of what’s happened in Glasgow since Rangers’ downfall began, not a year ago.
THE LAWYERS
In April a 3 man Scottish FA Tribunal dared punish Rangers for bringing the game into disrepute (so seriously it was deemed just short of match-fixing).
Gary Allan QC, Raith Rovers director Eric Drysdale, and former commentator, Alastair Murning had their identities disclosed as well as private details with threats so serious the police advised all three on security measures.
Their identities became public after the Rangers manager no less, Ally McCoist said: “Who are these people? I want to know who these people are.”
The Scottish FA was left, not for the first time, wringing its corporate hands, saying: “We are deeply concerned that the safety and security of judicial panel members has been compromised by a wholly irresponsible betrayal of confidential information.”
And: ” all three panel members have reported intrusion into their personal and work lives, including abusive and threatening communication”.
Yet the manager of Rangers itself, a man steeped in the ways of Glasgow football, was instrumental in this chain of events, knowingly, or not.
Hardly an episode of corporate social responsibility.
It has continued. In the past few weeks Scottish Law Lord and former Supreme Court Judge Lord Nimmo-Smith actually had to put out a statement pleading for his independence to be recognised as he embarks on yet another investigation of the fallen club.
Again – the sheer weirdness of this to outsiders, passes almost without comment in Glasgow.
THE FOOTBALL AUTHORITIES
Like anybody prepared to challenge or ask questions or charged with passing judgement on Rangers, both Scottish Football Association and Scottish Premier League directors have had a torrid time of it.
In the case of SFA boss Stewart Regan, there were death threats.
The SFA have said publicly this year that private details of SFA directors have been published online.
The SFA Chief Executive Stewart Regan has said:
” At times, that does make you wonder whether it is going to impact on your family and your personal life.
But it’s never once made me think about walking from the job.”
Incredibly, to those outside the Clyde Cauldron, the SFA boss said he’d had to speak to Counter-Terrorism officers over the nature of the threats and the security response.
Yes – Counter-Terrorism police officers.
This revolting behaviour from a minority continues to spike in activity when those running the game are forced to take action to try and clear up the Ibrox mess.
Nobody, but nobody, should have to put up with this in the course of doing their job. But in Glasgow football it is dangerously close to being accepted as part of the job.
THE PUBLISHER
There has been just one book published on the Rangers. As you’d expect it’s gone through several print runs in the few weeks it has been out. But for daring to print a factual account of the Ibrox meltdown, the publisher, Bob Smith of Frontline Noir speaks of having to deal with a catalogue of abuse.
It had a potentially serious affect on customers and shops buying the book ‘Downfall’ he says:
“There was definitely pressure applied and there were certainly some wobbles along the way from shops and customers. But we got through and in the end people were supportive.”
Material was published online to identify where at least one person lived who worked on the production of ‘Downfall’.
The abuse I received for simply writing the forward to this factual account of the Ibrox debacle was routine for me – for publishers unused to it, the experience was frightening.
THE BOOKSELLERS
Those outside Scotland will find this hard to credit, but several shops including major chains like Waterstones and WHS were unable to display the book openly in some shops because of reported threats and actual abuse of staff.
For selling a work of non-fiction and journalistic enterprise!
In at least one store copies were ripped up. In another Glasgow shop an angry individual wearing a Union Jack repeatedly entered the bookshop to scream at staff to send the offending tome back to the publishers.
THE BROADCASTERS
As I write a colleague at STV in Glasgow has received threats for successfully doing his job. This person wishes to keep a low profile on police advice and is constrained to say nothing at all about it.
NUJ officials say currently around 25 journalists have been threatened recently for attempting to tell the truth about Rangers.
Understandably most feel they cannot discuss it openly. As one told me in a Glasgow hotel this summer: “I’m not paid enough and I don’t feel I have bosses who’d back me up if it came to it.”
Silence…hoping it will all go away…totally understandable when you live in Glasgow. But it isn’t going away, is it?
THE FOOTBALL CLUB
Enter Raith Rovers and their redoubtable chairman Turnbull Hutton. For Turnbull it was who was somewhat thrown into the limelight this summer as a champion of sporting integrity. As the SPL set about making itself a laughing stock in its tangled efforts to defy fairness, reason and morality to try and keep Rangers up in the Premier League, it was club chairmen like Mr Hutton who said no, Rangers must be treated like any other club.
But why, exactly? Yesterday Turnbull Hutton told me: “We had to circle our wagons at Raith given what had been done to us by Rangers fans.”
And he listed the endless abusive phone calls – some from Belfast – to Raith staff, theats, heavy-breathing, silent calls and so forth.
The day Fife police passed on credible information from the Strathclyde force that two men has been paid to burn down Raith’s stadium is a day Mr Turnbull and Raith Rovers will remember.
And all of it because that Raith man Eric Drysdale had dared sit on that SFA Tribunal and pass judgement and sanction upon Rangers’ gross mismanagement.
After all that Raith and Turnbull Hutton would lead the charge to stop Rangers remaining anywhere near the SPL, whatever it took.
The would-be intimidators didn’t tame Turnbull, their cowardice only making the club bide its time and help Rangers down into the fourth tier of Scottish football.
THE NEWSPAPER
It seems an entire newspaper can be got at, when it’s Glasgow and it’s Rangers.
Recent weeks saw one of the more bizarre editorial u-turns of recent newspaper history in the UK when a Scottish Sun double-page splash promoting the author of ‘Downfall’ prior to serialising the book – suddenly became a non-serialisation.
In a somewhat embarrassed editorial The Sun admitted to receiving a large number of complaints about promoting the book, from Rangers fans.
The paper denied it was bowing to threats. Yet the publisher of the book says the threat of a Hillsborough-style boycott was real and instrumental.
It’s widely known the threats were real, nasty and yet again Strathclyde police were involved.
Many – including the book’s publisher – express real sympathy with The Scottish Sun’s dilemma. It editor and staff are known to have been shocked at the level and fury of complaints.
The difficulty here is that, whatever the paper’s reasons, in the end the mob got their way. The serialisation of a fast-selling factual book on Rangers never happened.
They couldn’t get Turnbull Hutton, Lord Nimmo-Smith, Eric Drysdale, STV and many, many more – but many believe they did get the Scottish Sun.
That should give us all pause for thought. Is this the reason why not a single Scottish newspaper has reviewed a book selling way beyond its publisher’s estimates?
What kind of power does the Ibrox mob have still, in today’s Scotland?
So against all this catalogue of attempted (and mostly failed) intimidation, the new Rangers owner Charles Green must surely take a stand and trying to kick this poison out of Ibrox and some of its support for good?
Already in his short ownership Mr Green’s referred to the football authorities as ‘the enemy’ at fans’ meeting on many occasions and he faced formal disciplinary action for saying other clubs were motivated by ‘bigotry’ towards Rangers.
Mr Green must lead from the top because if he fails to do so what chance has anyone got to stop the moronic element at the bottom of the Rangers food chain from lashing out with threats against anyone who dares speak truth unto Ibrox?
Related posts:
Rangers: Why I endorsed Downfall book
Rangers fans have their say
Fans look beyond scapegoats for the truth
Rangers fans’ decency not matched by the fat cats
What now for Rangers fans?
Morning,
I see there was another disagreement on here last night. Should call CQN, Fight Club on a Friday night.
Scotland are dire under Levein. Give the job to WGS.
estadio nacional
I posted yesterday that any Super League would be under a UEFA remit as the clubs signed a new agreement in March to participate in UEFA competitions until 2018.
Sevco cannot participate in UEFA competitions until they have 3 years of accounts.
But why let fact get in the way of fiction.
“The SPL threw us out the league. They then stole our money that was due for last year [in prize pot and centralised revenues that were due to oldco Rangers] and are pursuing us to strip titles”……Charles Green
Owner of football club in Scotland accuses SPL of theft.
THE most serious accusation possible?
If this is not a case of bringing the game into disrepute then what is?
IF this goes unpunished or results in yet another Not Proven or slap on the wrist then it’s officially open season.Charlie will simply keep upping the ante.
What’s the odds on Sally replacing Levein?
Subject to the SFA paying sevco sufficient compensation.
medtim
The guy is absolutely desperate to get the zombies to buy into this share issue.
No cash, bills piling up and investors wanting out with a return.
He does not care about destroying Scottish Football.
Miki67’s assessment of The Green Man last night made me chuckle:
“In short : he’s nuts.”
And that, my hoopy friends, just about sums it all up!
Sitting wondering if I will lodge some more interest in the share issue. I think after yesterday’s rant by Green, Norman Bates would like to acquire £10,000 worth…
God bless Oscar keep fighting wee man
Chuck Greens are all to prevalent in the football world
Always chasing money
A new super duper league, theres always another league
As has crass comments show in trashing Aston Villa he has no idea about football, or respect for any club at any level
The SFA should ban this clown, he wont raise the cash he hopes because the brand of selling is cheap, toxic and dangerous
Thommos latest blog makes for incendiary reading……. Unless your from Scotland, of course.
Then it is merely sad.
And predictable.