I didn’t really know what to expect when I attended the launch of Peter Howson’s latest work on Brother Walfrid (more information here). The headline item is a painting, which the artist attempts to capture the horrors of famine across the world, and the compassion which drove Walfrid to do something about the poor in his own community. The painting contains figures which Howson accurately calls “grotesques”, a weighty work for a weighty subject.
The film accompanying the work manages to bring fresh insight into the potato blight which afflicted Europe in the mid-19th century, arriving in Ireland with devastating effect when Walfrid was a child. The blight caused hardship in Scotland and elsewhere, but as we all know, became the Famine in Ireland.
Microbiology, Malthusian politics and liberal economics combined to leave over a million to die, while millions more emigrated, often only to survive a short existence thereafter. Well done to Howson and his collaborators. If you get a chance, check it out.
Best of luck to Henrik Larsson who moves up the managerial food chain by taking over at his former club, Helsingborgs. If he can cut it at this level, I’d expect his next move to be to the UK.
Absolutely loved the Rangers Supporters’ Trust complaint to the London Stock Exchange about Mike Ashley, who I am sure will have acted without consulting his army of legal advisors when loaning Newco Rangers money to pay their wages this month.
The complaints are futile, neither Ashley nor Newco have broken any LSE rules, but they hammer home the divisions which are doing so much damage to the club. The reality for Newco fans is unattractive, Ashley looks set to continue to pick off their commercial assets, while major shareholders will seek a high return on their speculative investment, but it’s reality nonetheless.
The future of this club is not going to look like Rangers. Better to accept this and give Newco the support it needs, than turn it into the ‘next Rangers’, if you follow my drift.
Great news – Davie Hay will be on the blog on Thursday between 10:00 and 12:00. We’ve done this before a few times now, so you know the drill. Tune in and leave your questions on the blog which Davie will answer.
These events have been really enjoyable in the past, so put it in your diary.
We’re also having a party at the Supporters’ Club in Greenock on Friday 21 November with Davie and Billy McNeill to celebrate the launch of Caesar & The Assassin, their story of managing Celtic. We have plenty planned for the night, so if you’d like to attend, get your ticket from the Greenock Supporters Club, or email me at celticquicknews@gmail.com with the work Greenock in the subject line.
ALL ticket money is going to the Inverclyde Foodbank, you can pay as little as £1 for your ticket, up to a maximum donation of £10.
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Snake,
Dundee United haven’t had their employees subjected to bombs and bullets.
Incidentally, Old Firm Jackie has been very supportive to Rangers.
Stivs……….
Don’t be an eejit….
that’s patently a smokeless, coal-fired,
late model, hoover.
HH
God love yeez, bye.
Greenpinta
Ahhhhhhhh!!! that was good. All my thoughts were of you to.
Rugby, what’s that?
MWD said AYE
Skye.
The hoover guy. Any self respecting house husband knows the power cord is used to vacuum down a slope. Like council workies lawn mowers during the summer.
saint stivs
What this one?
http://www.gersnet.co.uk/index.php/latest-news/214-exclusive-rangers-to-benefit-from-new-glasgow-city-airport
HH
If utd were to pay less the older rangers were Thomson would quickly change his tune.
S O T
“Orange Sunshine ,a bag of blues and a big bag of Durban Poison .”
:))))))))))))))))))
NaughtyBhoy!
I AM SURPRISED YOU COULD DANCE SOT. DP STRONG SHIT
Saint Stivs
Numpty eh!
The latest Keiser report, the second half of the report discusses some very sick but enlightening stuff, a line from max talking about the investigation into the Westminster paedo ring about not being able to find anyone suitable qualified to lead the investigation as all are implicated, just shows you how sick Britannia is.
http://rt.com/shows/keiser-report/204003-episode-max-keiser/
So Ashley put up another million.
Onerous contracts sees that million liquidate to Charles of Normandy.
Ashley gets a wee bit of a biger percentage of the badge.
Once Ashley has whole badge. He runs the merry retail show.
Knowing the Orcs from their previous metamorphisis. they require league success and CL success plus millions spent on the best players. If they don’t get that they revolt.
So at revolt, Ashley own’s image rights and retail wing only profitable if the metamorphisis are going good guns. He does not own the club and therefor without pumping in more millions has no great control over club direction re. spending and ultimately success. So to gain the success to make his retail side profitable he has to spend more to make the metamorphisis compete with Scotlands bigger clubs. the more money pumped in the less the short to medium and possibly even long term profits as there appears to be no real way for that club to be in profit.
Is this a dead duck in the water or am I missing something and if I am missing something what is it?
MWD said AYE
You can be sure the Sevco/ DU spat over Telfer will be settled out of court, or no comment from both parties so not to upset the Zombies.
!!Bada Bing!!
Any settlement out of court results in Sevco admitting they have no case to answer.
They should never have let it get this far. They have blown this one and fair play to United for having the balls to carry it through to this point.
LB
MED
We may well be missing something,such as a planned future violation of FFP rules.
Ashley is not known as an idiot in business,but he has been known to gamble wrongly.
For me,it’s clear that major investment is needed at Ibrox-even given our custodians’ approach of presenting them an open goal rather than an insurmountable obstacle.
However,I reckon his belief is that he can make profit,kudos,success all from the sectarian idiots.
If he gets it right,it may be at our expense too.
Caesar & The Assassin has just arrived, hot off the presses.
On the weekend when we were putting the final, finishing touches to the book, we put together a wee surprise for everyone who posted on the blog – excluding a handful of names!
So if you were on the blog that weekend you’re in Caesar & The Assassin!
Beautiful big book it is too – over 480 pages!
Order a signed copy at http://www.cqnbookstore.com – or pick up from the Celtic Stores or all good bookshops shortly…
Morning all.
Fairish down here. Hint of blue sky even.
Are things going from bad to even badder down in Govan?
WC
I’m guessing those that questioned the Cesar / Caesar thing didn’t make the cut?
HH
bankiebhoy1
Had a wee look to check and you are in there!
I posted yesterday that Bertie Auld is contributing to the next edition of CQN Magazine talking about how Billy got the nickname Cesar and how it was transformed to Caesar.
Something happened 1800 miles from here nearly 50 years ago that caused the change…
South Of Tunis @ 10.46…Those were the days my friend, I thought they’d never end…But they did…However, the music lives on…
mark mcghee’s mind-games…a trick missed by celtic? oh, aye.
10:57 on 12 November, 2014
I did…and they made a pretty penny or two….
Morning all.
Fleetwood Mac were never the same when troubled genius Peter Green left to become a gravedigger.
Imo, of course.
HH!!
WC
Thanks.
The blessed buik remains on my Christmas list…..
;)
HH.
weeminger
10:59 on 12 November, 2014
Only allowed up to 10% though….he now has the rest of the shareholders ‘.in his pocket’ ……
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon ….The angels are with Wee Oscar in Heaven.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
11:56 on
12 November, 2014
That’s what I meant. He’s gained control without breaching the 10% rule.
I went to see Fleetwood Mac I think about 1969 in the Greens Playhouse , Tickets were certainly less than a quid . Probably about 60p .
BocchiniBhoy
Twelve bob!
:-)
q.
of the 276 owed money by old rangers,
how many where emergency services, charities, or similar ?
did they owe erskine or poppy scotland anything ?
See some on here like to have a pop at Rangers or Sevco.well i think it would be wise just to concern ourself with our club,our stadium has issuses itselfs that needs attended to. still see plenty of supporters hanging about on match days, ok you can go to the kerrydale suite if you are a s-b holder,but for them that dont .in the winter a trip to the Superstore which to my mind for a big club like ours is far to small,for a heat in these winter days and nights. not everyone can afford corporate, think about the ordinary fan who over the yrs who have carried this club,for a change, and i thought they were going to build something near the old school.
Aye……….. and that was when they were good.
q.
all this chat about “foreign” people getting booed on friday night, should the Tartan army not just stick to tradition and boo the celtic captain playing for the blue team
Re Fleetwood Mac…
I saw Peter Green play the Hop Farm festival a few years ago. He could still play but couldn’t speak to the audience and lyrics were jumbled. It really is sad what happened to him and Kerwin.
Don’t do drugs kids…
timbhoy 2. You don’t need a SB for the KD suite just a match ticket .
Kirwan – shocking misspelling.
timbhoy2
12:05 on
12 November, 2014
no one needs to hang about outside, the ticket lets you in the ground, there you go.
food, toilets, tv.s bookies, shop, dryness, warm-ish.
whats the problem ?
timbhoy2
12:05 on 12 November, 2014
Don’t think it’s up to the club to keep supporters warm, it’s a out door sport and it’s in Scotland which is Baltic most of the year, buy a good jacket or go to the pub if your early HH
Fiveways csc
Concert tickets were relatively cheap in the late 60s early 70s however LPs were not about 2 quid or more. I was earning 10 pound a week as an engineering apprentice so an album cost about one fifth of my income.
20. Without fans who pay at the turnstile, football is nothing. Sometimes we are inclined to forget that. The only chance of bringing them into stadiums is if they are entertained by what happens on the football field.
19. Unlike many other Celts, I cannot claim that Celtic was my first love … but I can say that it will be my last love.
18. There is no excuse for a professional footballer not to be 100% fit.
17. We all end up yesterday’s men in this business. You’re very quickly forgotten.
16. If form was the only factor we would all win the pools every week.
15. The secret of being a good manager is to keep the six players who hate you away from the five who are undecided.
14. I enjoy being manager here, because I like the people who support us.
13. Old Firm supporters went to internationals to cheer three players, boo two, and ignore the rest!
12. There’s nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.
11. It’s not religion that’s the problem – it’s the lack of religion!
10. I lost some friends when I made the move (to Celtic), but if that’s what matters to them, then they’re not really friends at all.
9. The best place to defend is in the opposition penalty box.
8. You go down that pit shaft, a mile underground. You can’t see a thing. The guy next to you, you don’t know who he is. Yet he is the best friend you will ever have.
7. We do have the greatest fans in the world but I’ve never seen a fan score a goal.
6. Never fall in love with them (players), because they’ll two-time you.
5. If you’re good enough, the referee doesn’t matter.
4. The most pleasure any manager can get is seeing everyday boys joining the club as youngsters and growing into men and giving themselves a better social standing than they could ever have dreamed of previously.
3. We don’t just want to win the European Cup. We want to do it playing good football, to make neutrals glad we won it, pleased to remember how we did it.
2. It is up to us, to everyone at Celtic Park, to build up our own legends. We don’t want to live with history, to be compared with legends from the past. We must make new legends.
1. Celtic jerseys are not for second best, they don’t shrink to fit inferior players.
Sammy Wilson’s funeral arrangements – Requiem mass – 9.30a.m. at St. John’s Uddingston; afterwards to Dalbeth cemetery. He deserves a good send-off.