Some weeks ago I received a painting of Neil Lennon in the post from US based artist, Joseph Gormley. We put it onto eBay this week to get our launch our 2012 charity fundraising efforts. As well as a couple of local charities we will again donate to the Martin Chambers Ecuador Trust and Leukaemia and Lymphoma Research. After so many Celtic fans have been touched by three kids, Oscar, Niamh and Vanessa, this year we added The Neuroblastoma Alliance who do research work into the childhood cancer.
The auction raised an incredible £5000. When I contacted the winning bidder and discussed some of the stories behind the beneficiaries I had to insist he took the painting, he was so affected he wanted to return it for another auction to raise more money. Joseph Gormley was so inspired by the success of the auction he has already offered to paint other subjects for us and I have a jersey signed by the Seville team in the pipeline.
So, if you were one of those who bid an incredible amount but were pipped at the post (and there were a few in this category), there will be another chance soon.
Running this blog gives me the privilege of witnessing so many great works, most of which come with the request of anonymity. It’s a real honour.
Well done and thank you.
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HT
I think we’ll just need to leave that for now and argue/debate it over dinner next Saturday night @ TKF EOS.
MWD
Doncaster is right not to comment on this. There is nothing he could say that wouldn’t be reinterpreted and misinterpreted to death.
I’m surprised though that he would talk to someone who has no status in football at present, other than as someone who has a plan to put in a bid that might then see him negotiate to buy a club that might not exist.
He’s right on one thing – he is loathed
Allgreen….
Agree completely!
Play ghuys that want to be CELTS!!!!
I’d play McGeough in goals before FF if he wants to leave.
HT – A MASSIVE HAIL HAIL to you and your family.
Tell yer auld Ma the next time she is over in Jersey it will be our pleasure to take her for lunch.
I haven’t believed a word the Express has said since their sports editor Andy McInnes, Minty’s glove puppet, indulged himself in a Beggars headline directed at Celtic- the irony in that
Just one more thing…
New gadgets are great. I’m typing this from the bath!
If that image disnae put yous off your roll on square, nothin will.
Right, back to apologising to Mrs JQB
Ciao
Daily Express, 15 years on and Diana still on the front page.
Says it all.
ernie
Who said anything about enjoyment, it’s watching Celtic we’re talking about here :-)
With respect you claimed a while back that I would be a ‘joke’ supporter following a ‘joke’ club if I continued to attend games in the aftermath of a hun re admission to the SPL.
As I’ve already said why did you continue to watch Celtic in the full knowledge that we were participating in a league with a club which operated a policy of religious apartheid?
Hamiltontim 04.48
I wish i could write a post like that when sober, never mind drunk. Heart warming.
I closed my eyes & thought of my favourite moment, it brought a tear to my eye.
Seville, behind goals, with my son & daughter (12& 11 at the time), Henrik’s 1st goal, everyone celebrating, my daughter keeps pulling at me & tells me to look at her brother, he is in floods of tears (tears of joy). That memory will stay with me forever.
HT, your pain will ease.
If true about FF then good luck to him in the future, He will be England number 1 within a year or 2. Had hoped he would sign a long term contract as this guy is only going to get better and better. He has improved dramatically since he arrived.
So where do we go from here…I’d be happy with either Boruc or Gordon.
JimmyQuinnsBits- you might want to turn the web cam off
Paddy G
I fear that may be a one off. My brother paid for Jersey, I’m taking her to Millport!! :-)
Don’t worry bhoys
Doesny matter what laptop loyal say
Our hero whytey own Huns and wants about 10m for his huge investment of 1 pound
Any newco who wants a training ground or ground to
Play has to pay him :)
Without paying him, newco has to lease hampden
With no income mmm. Interesting how that can be done
ST
seems everyone is bending over backwards to help the bigots, that’s cool, keep on helping, keep on digging.
i hope a newco going into the spl triggers celtic’s move out of the SPL and gives us legitimate grounds to petition footballs governing bodies for a move. the SPL will be a league that promotes and encourages cheating and dishonesty for the benefit of one club.
if rangers cannot be relegated or go bust does that not mean the competition is set-up?
how does that sit with fair play?
what if they decide they actually need to play in the CL every year, do we just step aside and say o.k, because we need a strong rangers?
what if they say we need rangers to win at least one cup every year, do we get every other team to compete then at the end just give them the trophy?
spl newco = game up
Stairheedrammy on 22 April, 2012 at 10:34 said:
JimmyQuinnsBits- you might want to turn the web cam off
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Tune in for this weeks episode of the soap ‘JQB’.
I can only see Forster going back to Newcastle if Krul is sold. FF must want regular first team football. But if he is willing to sit on the bench at Newcastle rather than sign for Celtic then good luck to him.
On top form Craig Gordon is a fine goalkeeper. If he is over his injury problems then he would be a great replacement.
Can I just say a genuine thank you to all who have taken the time to comment on my post in the early hours, it is greatly appreciated.
Wasn’t gonnae submit it, it was more a personal expression of gratitude but after about 2 hours and another 4 cans, I thought that I might as well post it :-)
hamiltontim 4.48- An amazing very heart warming story, thanks for sharing it.
It never ceases to amaze me the muticultural background among the Celtic support and we are all accepted as equals, which makes me immensely proud and humble.
They might have operated a policy of religious apartheid but it was us who creamed the benifits.
HT
Absolute wonderful post mate and a joy reading it..
HH Mate
JQB
You still in the bath?
An interesting quote from Paul Clark in the Herald:
“Ticketus have always told us that they have the ability to get Whyte’s shares. They have said, ‘You don’t need to do anything Duff & Phelps, we’ll deal with it’. I believe they are still talking to [Whyte] and they are close to a solution.”
So is there a deal in the offing between Whyte and Ticketus? They get his shares to sell – is that his “personal and corporate” guarantee against the money they put up?
HT,
Just oot, I was gettin a bit unsettled… Dunno what a webcam is, so couldn’t switch it off.
For the avoidance of doubt, I was the one on the right ;)
Just back from walking the woofer….I’m Gonnae go and look for HT’s post, I wonder if be pinched it from the Vogue?
V
ht – just read back and I’m glad you decided to post it. Sounds lie yer da was a man you don’t meet every day.
MWD & BT – cards marked, ya flabby-moothed chancers!
T4
lie = like DOH!
be = he
Effin b
Kit. How did we get the benifits
We had Danny mcgrain , but top
Right back in world sandy jardine played for huns, must of as he had all the caps at right back
We had 2nd rate jimmy johnstone , but Willie Henderson was top winner in Scotland and he got all the caps,
True eh kit
HT
Loved the honesty and love in your post from the early hours, a joy to read and will say a wee prayer for you and your da today.
HH
If the newco deal goes ahead with minimal or no penalties, then the most shameful period in scottish football will have been presided over by two Englishmen, Doncaster and Regan.
hamiltontim
It is the wonderful posts like yours that make this site a great place to be.
Thanks again!
Kit
Agreed but we continued to supplement and by our silence, support that policy.
Jeezo I’m not slagging Celtic here in fact it’s the opposite. My point is that our policies and decision making should be completely separate from the huns.
If we truly are an entity on our own and not just one half of a commercial cow then we as a club and a support should be making our decisions based on our own mission statement regardless of what they do.
Philbhoy
Thank you for that.
You still up for Continuity CFC along with Estadio and me?? :-)
Inspired by J Milton Hayes
There was a blue-nosed Orange Monster
To the south bank of the Clyde;
There’s a Big Hoose standing on that side of town;
Now a broken-hearted Ally
Tends the grave with Duff and Phelps,
While the owner Craigy Whyte he gazes down.
He was known as Minty Murray
By the Huns that frequented there,
He thought he was smarter than he felt inclined to tell,
But, for all his foolish pranks,
He was worshipped in the ranks,
And the Establishment smiled down on him as well.
He had thought this all along
With the passion of the strong,
And decided to employ the EBT.
It was cheating by the Hun,
And arrangements were begun
To save tax and to defraud old HMRC.
Well Craigy came to save
With a pound and a plan so brave
With Ticketus in tow to foot the bill
Pay no further tax to the nation
Will lead to administration
Then he sat and waited to have his fill
They asked for final bids
And along came a bunch of dids
But no money was put down on the table
There was Kennedy, Ng and Murray
But none were in a hurry
And to satisfy the Creditors they weren’t able
So what is left for the Nation
It’s only liquidation
And we’ll take their tainted titles when their done
No Newco in the SPL
The authorities think would be hell
But for fairness it’s better when their gone
hamiltontim on 22 April, 2012 at 10:32 said:
The Celtic Board could stop a newco huns being admitted to the SPL. It therefore follows that if a newco huns is admitted straight into the SPL it will be because the Celtic Board want it.
For your argument to have any substance it would require the Celtic Board to have wanted the huns to have adopted and maintained their anti Catholic signing policy. I don’t believe that and I don’t think you do either.
HT
Explain please?