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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CultsBhoy loves being 1st forever & ever
00:12 on 14 October, 2012
If he chucks it he won’t get any compo.
If they sack him they’ll have to pay him for the duration of his contract.
If this wee bigoted country ever gets independence, then it is bye, bye from myself and my family.
Don’t fancy my kids school being closed down or my chapel being petrol bombed.
Gordon64
00:06 on 14 October, 2012
Petec
What do you want me to say ?
Your views are totally beyond me.
I’m not being critical just bemused.
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I asked you to do some investigating before you start slinging mud.
Is that beyond you?
Your original comment, and I don’t think for a minute it was original but hey.
“Gordon64
22:02 on 13 October, 2012
FFB and Petec
Are you like Kojo and TSD one and the same ?”
Now, once again can you please do some investigating as it is not very hard to find out the Truth. The truth is unlikely to suit your agenda though now is it?
Cults,
Agreed re class. But you need to tell me where I can buy it ! :))
Re Levein,
Very bizarre. At pre-game interview he was asked if he was confident. His heid went down and it felt like an eternity before he said, “Am putting the best team out that I can”. The irony being, that this was true, for a change.
The SFA have summit on him, imo. He’s never looked comfortable, rather the opposite. They broke him.
Ernie lynch
Does he need the money?
Surely there must be ‘performance get outs’?
jeese oh, i thought at times i posted some rubbidge on here, but tonights “topics”
gies peace.
poppy & song debate, much more interesting.
keep it lit.
bring back the fitba
CultsBhoy loves being 1st forever & ever
00:18 on 14 October, 2012
There won’t be any performance get outs. No manager would accept that. They’d take a lower salary and performance bonus but that’s about it. He’ll stick it out until he’s sacked or they’ll reach a compromise. He won’t walk away. It might be a year before he gets another job.
Interesting article in The Spectator…
By Tim Marshall….Foreign Affairs Editor At Sky News….
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/coffeehouse/2012/10/arab-spring-is-a-misnomer/
ernie lynch
No system can work in the long run, I have said to your good self before that Man is the problem. I seem to remember you disagreeing about that point back then. Do you think Man can have a system that would work? If Yes please tell m8ty. ;))
67heaven … i am neil lennon..!!.. ibrox belongs to the creditors
23:43 on
13 October, 2012
macjay1 for neil lennon
21:42 on 13 October, 2012
ElDiegoBhoy
19:45 on 13 October, 2012
Losing the big hoose is, indeed, very important in all of this ……. when BDO snaffle it for the creditors, that will be the moment even the SILLY bhuns will have to finally admit to themselves it is all over …….. It IS all over, they are deed, but they still cling to this cringeworthy relic of their former club’s corruption ……..
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Will not happen.BDO on their appointment stated they will not do anything to prevent thems continuing from a football perspective. Sorry but wishfull thinking.
Petec
You pushed me so i will tell you
that your opinions are ridiculous
and border line dangerous.
So imo cool it pal.
No offence meant.
HH.
Fortune Favour Mibbes
I think most lost faith when he went nil up front…
TBH – I think it’s a tricky job. Expectations aren’t so massive but he seems rudderless. Personally – I’d play form players, discarding if I had to better players. For instance – is Darren Fletcher really worthy given his recent tribulations?
I consider myself a keen watcher of football but for too long too many players I’ve never seen or heard of get a cap.
No wonder only the diehard Tartan Army types retain any real interest…even that is probably just a habit for some of them.
Do you know how much the job pays? How does it compare to other management posts – say Celtic?
ASonOfDan
00:17 on
14 October, 2012
If this wee bigoted country ever gets independence, then it is bye, bye from myself and my family.
Don’t fancy my kids school being closed down or my chapel being petrol bombed.
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i really dont subscribe to this bud.
the bigots in this country are a minority, their influence lessens, they have no political power.
neither school nor chapel nor mosque or indian restraunt will be shut down,
there are many more tolerant grown up and non partisan scots than there are loyal subjects.
scotland free will be a normailsed country.
my opinion, the bigots will be consigned to the dustbin of history.
never be scared of them, they are done.
Saint Stivs
Am no a fan of poppies (see Wizard of Oz), but I like songs.
Discuss. 3000 words.
(Wanted to share Tommy Sands’ Back to School Again, but not on Youtube. So this instead. Lovely song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omPltWNzLcM
Ok, one more drop of the gold, and then am aff
You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.
Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.
Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.
Weakened by my soulful cries.
Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don’t you take it awful hard
‘Cause I laugh like I’ve got gold mines
Diggin’ in my own back yard.
You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I’ll rise.
Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I’ve got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?
Out of the huts of history’s shame
I rise
Up from a past that’s rooted in pain
I rise
I’m a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.
Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise.
Maya Angelou
Ernie Lynch
I reckon there will be ‘performance get outs’ – failure to qualify must be one of them..but I’d think some others…
It’s all very amateurish at SFA so you may well be right. The problem would be in finding a successor – my nightmare would be the likes of Souness..
Gordon64
00:25 on 14 October, 2012
Petec
You pushed me so i will tell you
that your opinions are ridiculous
and border line dangerous.
So imo cool it pal.
No offence meant.
HH.
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The only thing I pushed, was for you to explain your earlier comment.
You can’t can you? you are a lazy commentator.
No problemo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzLVSxlrV-U
CultsBhoy
Have no idea, but it must be a better wage than he was getting at DU (well, at least comparable).
I agree, a very difficult job for anyone to take on, and requires balls…..which highlights the sus-ness of it all the more.
I liked CL before he took the job – he was outspoken, and showed strength. I also had respect for him, and I don’t believe he would have taken that job under the circumstances, knowing himself that he needed more time to develop, unless summit else coerced him. But I’m speculating on a blog, so not to be taken seriously !!!
Re the lack of interest, it’s as if they have given up on retaining that. Are you finding the kids you are coaching are showing any interest?
From what you say there, it seems our worst fears have been confirmed. R@ngers and the SFA have literally ruined Scottish football, and we need a miracle, (eg oor Lenny winning the CL…. :) ) to get that back.
A revival would be possible imo, this season, if we had the right people running the game. But, clearly we don’t . And from what I can gather you are quite active in football – tell me I’m wrong, amigo…
Your prayers please for my uncle tommy (maley) . Grandson on THE willie maley who passed away yesterday morning. He was a great man and the double of his grandfather.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGnjrTkv1gs
Petec
Your probably a good guy but i cannot connect with your strange views.
Good night from a lazy commentator.
Every pensioner who dies this winter as a result of worrying that heating is too expensive will be a victim of the climate change con artists who have deliberately driven up energy prices in this country to line the pockets of wind farm subsidy junkies. (thumbsup)
Philvis, you is out of line here….
Do you REALLY believe this ? Thumbs up on a death ? Eh ?
maleys bhoy
God Bless Tommy.
maleys bhoy
Sorry for your loss. Thoughts with you amigo. Mayo?
maleys bhoy
00:36 on 14 October, 2012
May he rest in peace.
Deepest sympathy,my fellow Tim.
“I don’t know where the moral is or where this song should end,
But I wondered just how many wars are fought between good friends.
And those who give the orders are not the ones to die.
It’s Bell and O’Malley and the likes of you and I.”
Tommy Sands
maleys bhoy, god bless your uncle.
for the orignal cqners, allways wanted to ask this, is this video and other on you tube, our Pablo ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kI4ny-6Rn4
pigalle
00:38 on 14 October, 2012
You`re surely aware that “thumbs up ” is his sign off,not a comment.
Gordon64
00:37 on 14 October, 2012
Petec
Your probably a good guy but i cannot connect with your strange views.
Good night from a lazy commentator.
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OK, I’m glad you admitted to being lazy.
I would appreciate you telling me exactly what my “strange views” are that gets you so hopping mad? and thinking my opinions, and in your words, are “borderline dangerous”.
I hope it is just the fortified wine talking because your comments are dangerous and I feel deliberately inflammatory.
Fortune Favours Mibbes
TBH
the kids I coach are 10 yrs old, I do see the occasional Scotland top at training but interest is focussed on their own football or Man Utd, Barca – although I’ve seen more Aberdeen strips – which I always like to see – being a believer in kids identifying with their local club.
I suspect events will overtake SFA / SPL the likes of Celtic will move to something bigger and then maybe supporters will look closer to home. I went to school in Nairn and they beat Clyde last week, Sevco beat Motherwell but lost to Stirling – all of which tells me that the standard of football (out with Celtic!) in Scotland is fairly similar across the leagues – the difference between semi pro and fulltime pro is marginal. That being the case fans will take the cheaper option.
Personally if I ever have a Saturday free and I don’t go to see Aberdeen, I’d take in a Highland league game for about £10. Sometimes I go to Culter Juniors for £5.
It’s not purely a financial decision as much as a value for money decision.
Celtic need to get out of Scotland – unless annual Champs League can sustain them…
Fortunes Favour Mibbes
interesting, will watch again when sober, cheers
macjay1 for neil lennon
Did you read what he posted ?
A good hearted one to end the night, from the Boss
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8PB1a1c9zA
I don’t have a God… all I can say is that I genuinely hope, Maleys Bhoy, that you find comfort in the memories
G’night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSKrC7dGcY&feature=related
Njoi this Anthem. Enjoy the silence.
pigalle
00:48 on 14 October, 2012
macjay1 for neil lennon
Did you read what he posted ?
I did,mate and made no comment about that.
dont ever forget, Neil Lennon.
threats, bombs, lies.
our leader .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2NlXagj-l8&feature=related
By GLENN GIBBONS
RANGERS supporters sensible enough to resist hysteria and take a detached view of the club’s tremulous recent history are likely to have spent much of this week in a quandary; namely, whether to be more fearful of John Pritchett’s prediction of another economic cataclysm or Ibrox chairman Malcolm Murray’s reassurances of financial impregnability.
It is not, after all, without precedent for a Rangers chairman to be less than totally familiar with the machinations of a despotic owner impervious to the mores that normally govern boardroom business.
As recently as the present decade, John McClelland and Alastair Johnston during the proprietorship of David Murray would be prime examples of figureheads largely ignorant of the extent of the damage being inflicted on the organisation by the cavalier stewardship of the commander-in-chief.
At least, that claim will surely underpin the testimony they will almost certainly be asked to give to the HMRC-inspired investigation into Rangers’ scandalous mismanagement. It will not be forgotten that the tax authorities rejected the offer of a CVA from present chief executive Charles Green with the specific purpose of putting the company into liquidation, thereby arming the liquidators, BDO, with the power to carry out a wide-ranging official inquiry.
Given such a background, it seems perfectly legitimate to infer the possibility that Malcolm Murray is not au fait with every nut and bolt of the club’s business under the control of Green and the mysterious consortium he represents.
Murray’s riposte to the dark, apocalyptic pronouncements of the American entrepreneur – the latter was outlining the reasons why his associate, Bill Miller, had stepped away from assuming ownership of Rangers despite having been given preferred bidder status by the administrators, Duff and Phelps – was certainly vehement. Predictably, however, it lacked detail, the numbers that would have lent it credibility.
Murray was unarguably justified in making the point that certain aspects of Pritchett’s thesis were based on information gleaned months ago and now out of date. But it is not enough simply to insist, without the corroboration of relevant figures, that “there is no risk of the club going into administration and any suggestion otherwise is scandalous.”
While Pritchett’s article, written for the influential Forbes magazine, is certainly flawed in some respects, at least two elements should be treated as significant in any debate over Rangers’ troubles, especially in the wake of Green’s announcement of a share issue and the intention to register the club with the Alternative Investment Market (Aim).
The first is that Miller appears to have taken one look at Rangers’ books and experienced enough heat to singe his eyebrows. The subsequent administration and liquidation confirms (even without supporting data) that the economic devastation must have been irreparable.
The second is Pritchett’s claim that Rangers’ main revenue stream, the sales of season tickets, was projected to drop by 20 per cent, has turned out to be very probably worse than expected. Where once the figure was 44,000, we are told that the present regime has shifted 36,000, but at only half the previous prices, thanks to their now playing in the Third Division. This would suggest that the reduction in income from this source could be as much as 50 per cent. It seems very likely that the wage bill has been greatly reduced, but this is a conclusion drawn from the departures of so many known high earners on the playing staff and the subsequent recruitment of inferior (and, consequently, lower-paid) replacements. Green’s “revelation” that salaries now account for £6 million remains, like every other claim made since his takeover (including my own speculation on season ticket sales), merely hearsay. Until these statements are accompanied by documentary evidence –that is, audited accounts – nobody (possibly even Malcolm Murray) can be certain of Rangers’ condition.
And, with a raft of huge issues, including the liability to HMRC, the SPL inquiry into dual contracts, the police and the liquidators’ investigations into possible criminal activity, still to be settled, those who blithely comment that the endgame in the Rangers saga is in sight have not been paying attention.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EamFyYFRFeo
I wonder what Neil’s “strange views” are. I hope they are compatible. ;))