Sometimes it seems there is a constant struggle underway for the heart and soul of Celtic. It is incredible that for 125 years a community has managed to retain the conviction to help the less fortunate which drove forward those who formed the club.
Scarcely a day goes by without me receiving a message from someone offering to help those in need. This week it was tables for the Wayside Club Gala Dinner (Saturday 27 April, check it out here), someone send in a box set of the Byrds, to raise money ‘for the homeless’, and a reader parted with a precious top signed by the Seville team, which I’ve to collect in Glasgow.
Much of this goes on below radar but when a call to arms is needed it goes out in impressive clarity; the Wee Oscar campaign slipped into an infrastructure established when Kano took ill a few years back (hope you are doing well, Kano and we hear from you soon). Believe me, some of the work, and many of the discrete donations, would blow you away.
None of this is random. At some point each and every person who has stepped forward did so, knowingly or not, because of the way the Celtic Movement infected them.
A number of Celtic fans, and one former treble winning captain, are helping the Celtic Charity this year with the objective of encouraging each Celtic fan to raise £125. It feels like the right thing to do and if you’ve not brought yourself up to speed with the project yet, do it this weekend (more information here).
There will be formal events throughout the year but if you want to do a sponsored run/walk/cycle/jig, this is your invitation. You are reading this stuff because of your link all the way back to that hall in the Calton; get involved and earn your place in that 125-year-old story.
The next major event is a mass huddle at the top of Ben Nevis, check it out here.
Enjoy your Easter holiday – but not before you get involved………
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Southside
Alan Freeland. Also sent off Jackie Mac and a Well player
Hamiltontim
13:06 on
29 March, 2013
Yes
Sorry – above post was to
southside
13:03 on 29 March, 2013
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typo sorry
HH
Treadmill I said”there’s life Jim but not as we know it” and he’s a.
RRC
That should have been first post of the day imho
Love this by big Chris:
David Tanner (Sky Sports): “Chris, just what is it that has made Celtic champions this year?”
Chris Sutton: “We got more points than anyone else.”
Off oot
Kayal/Prestonpans
Thank you.
Cheers guys, remember the two yellow cards he received were fouls commited against him.
Free drinks in the ludge for freeland that night.
A Ceiler Gonof Rust, I believe it was successfully contested by the debtor. Not quite a straight transaction.
Auldheid, well said.
Question
When did we last clinch the splIin front of our home support
The Boy Jinky
13:13 on
29 March, 2013
v Hearts under WGS? BBJ scored in 1-0 win. Midweek game
Paul
Sorry but im a bit fick… do you mean oldco proved they didnt owe us anything
Kayal
Thanks. … missed that as had a mate over from America. .. we couldn’t get tickets so watched it in a pub on vicky rd…. he was amazed at the party lmao
Test.
Podium?
I hope ole Jasmin doesn’t read that post earlier or the bunnets will be suitably battered.
we’re back again………
an appropriate blog for me to relate another small good news story.
i’m fortunate enough to be heading to brazil next week and whilst i’m over there will meet some of the fergus mccann csc bhoys in rio de janeiro.
with this in mind i got in touch with the celtic pr team and they kindly donated 12 kids celtic tops for me to take over. these will be donated to a local boys team which the csc help support.
looking forward to meeting jim, drew and the other guys to watch the hibs game in ipanema. lets hope its a title winning match.
also big thanks to karen and eileen at celtic pr for helping to arrange the strips
cheers
josimar
So especially to celebrate the ancient pagan festival of fertility and rebirth, I see that CQN is back with us. Rabbits and eggs all round!
Did we score?
Don’t know if Rangers have produced audited accounts yet but if they don’t by Monday does that mean they can’t play in europe for another year (on top of the 3 that are mandatory) or do they not need to produce audited accounts until they are in existence for 3 years ?
BoscoBhoy02
You will probably find that although there may be a rule in place, re the SFA licence,never mind a Euro one. there will also be a clause, to be invoked in certain circumstances.
They will probably hide behind the Newco angle, citing the absence of accounts due to the New Company, not club, only being existence since May or August 2012 : thereby not requiring audited accounts for this year.
Or else, some other lying, cheating subterfuge.
Whither or which, in the future, licences should only be granted after three years of audited accounts, not three years from the date they first kicked a ball.
The issues or predictive text….so I’ll repost..Jim and I
We’re driving past grey,skull and I said “there’s life Jim but not as we know it”and he’s a blue.he. the said “Cling ons on the the starboard bow” I don’t think he saw the irony of his statement
Thanks thomthetim. No doubt chuckles could produce numbers on the back of a fag packet and it would be accepted by the SFA. I was hoping monday might have been a day to look forward to. (Apart from my wee visit to Gweedore)
I see there is talk that league reconstruction won’t go ahead for next season. Makes sense to me – why the hurry? And why change the rules in mid season?
Heading back to see more of this under 13 Academy Tournament I mentioned earlier
Celtic -V- Espanyol 4.00
Arsenal -V-WBA 5.00
No match updates as I only have a stone age phone but match report at 6. (ish)
Richard Griffiths RIP..
Truly great as Hector in The History Boys ..
Mid 20s hot -feels like spring -way down south.
Pope scores again for Port Vale……
South of Tunis
It’s spring here too – but feels and looks like autumn.
Torrential rain and thunderstorms forecast for tomorrow.
Currently 13 degrees.
Buona Pasqua!
HH!!
Thomthetim
Do not let this spoil your Easter but the SFA, for the first time ever, have introduced an exceptional dispensation clause for clubs who cannot provide historical accounts.
This allows a club to apply rather than it be granted but as I have been pointing out for a month now granting The Rangers a club licence for next season is going to be less than straight forward if their Interim return is any indicator that they will last through to the end of next season.
Keep an eye on this one for answers to questions already posed.
Paul 67, any chance you will be sending any CQN merchandise to Vegas this year for NAFCSC?
Badges books etc.
Also maybe a way for people to donate whilst there that find it difficult to do from North America?
Just a thought.
Liquidation
– Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts
South of Tunis
He was great in Withnail and I
Late here and I’m maybe a wee bit tired, so might explain my failure to ‘get’ the article headline…….
Not long back in from “Via Dolorosa”………… Two and a half hours duration but extremely uplifting, so “Good Friday is just another Friday for you” doesn’t quite resonate (with me)…..
Could well be that I am just locked in on my own wee take on things and should perhaps read the leader (yet) again but I have done so and still do not see the correlation with the headline……….
Nonetheless, wishing a happy, holy and peaceful Easter to any interested parties.
God Bless Kano et al……….
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
Worrying times in Korea.
Worrying times.
Auldheid .
Harlan Ellison .!
He also scripted a Hulk comic titled —-The Brute That Shouted Love at The Heart of The Atom
Tallybhoy.
Warm enough to change skin color . Get a tan before the real thing starts ..
Buona Pasqua !