With Lionel Messi and Barcelona focussed on winning their final group game against Benfica tomorrow night Celtic must achieve a better result against Spartak Moscow than Benfica manage at the Camp Nou to progress to the latter stages of the Champions League.
Aiden McGeady has suffered a recurrence of a pennate muscle tendon injury and is doubtful. Georgian creative midfielder, Jano Ananidze, is also out injured, while coach Valery Karpin is under pressure to axe Argentine defenders Juan Insaurralde and Nicolas Pareja after both picked up red cards on Friday night against Zenit. The Russian media have also turned on Dutch midfielder Demy De Zeeuw, who was at least partially culpable for the Zenit defeat. Celtic could face a more cohesive Russian team tomorrow, although perhaps without some of their more talented players. Who this troubles most remains to be seen.
Reading (and writing) Celtic Quick News you learn of the thousands of actions Celtic fans take in order to assist others or alleviate pain and distress. In aggregate these actions can and do move mountains.
Yesterday it was announced that one of our family, Rod Stewart, is donating proceeds of his new single, Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas, to the Celtic Charity Fund and Teenage Cancer Trust to fight this horrible disease and assist those afflicted by it.
The single will be available for download from this Sunday, 9 December. It offers you and me the opportunity to raise awareness – and funds – on a level we would otherwise never be able to achieve. Charity is part of your job as a Celtic fan. On this occasion, on aggregate, we can have an enormous impact.
Still looking for tickets for tomorrow night?
You can email an auction bid for two Wee Oscar Write Bands, each comes with a free ticket to Celtic v Spartak Moscow. Send an email with your bid to weeoscar4life@gmail.com. Competition closes at 20:00 GMT tonight.
You can buy the CQN Annual at the Cathedral House Hotel before the game tomorrow night. The Hotel are organising a lift to the game too!
We’ll pick up on the SFA president once the more important matters are out of the way.
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Celtic_First
11:49 on 4 December, 2012
Barcelona have left Jordi Alba, Iniesta, Cesc, Pedro, Xavi and Mascherano out of their squad for the Benfica game.
Messi is in.
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Oh dear. C’mon the wee man. It’s on you…
Over the years Paul, you have written this in many different ways, i think this is the best yet –
‘Charity is part of your job as a Celtic fan.’
Bada….
Happy buffday
Breaking News:
Swally LeCoist demands to know who are the UTT judges and whit schools did they go to.
googybhoy-Might need yer zimmer mate,cheers.
Hamiltontim- Stranger things have happened….HH
canamalar-Thanks,HH.
Jabba getting fitted for his brown brogues
http://www.scotzine.com/2012/12/exclusive-james-traynor-to-swap-daily-record-for-rangers-football-club/
Maybe they should asK Campbell Ogilivie before they proceed with any appeal
Árd Macha
13:35 on 4 December, 2012
From page 59 of the FTT findings-
“This document contains full findings of fact and reasons for the decision. Any
party dissatisfied with this decision has a right to apply for permission to appeal
against it pursuant to Rule 39 of the Tribunal Procedure (First-tier Tribunal) (Tax
Chamber) Rules 2009. The application must be received by this Tribunal not later
than 56 days after this decision is sent to that party. The parties are referred to
“Guidance to accompany a Decision from the First-tier Tribunal (Tax Chamber)”
which accompanies and forms part of this decision notice.”
So yesterday jaba steps down and we had an idea something was up :oD))))
Today we find out what was up, Jaba don’t like humble pie
doc is neil lennon
13:33 on
4 December, 2012
CORRECT………!!!!!!!
!!Bada Bing!! – Have a birthday (thumbsup)
canamalar – That is a disgusting slur against James Traynor’s reputation.
He likes ALL pies. (thumbsup)
I live in Barcelona and the Barca fans in my work are still very confident of winning. They are looking forward to a few players getting a run out and a chance to impress. They are confident the players that come in know the Barca way inside out.
I wished I shared their confidence, I do however think it is very likly Barca will lose in the Camp Nou.
Messi wants Muller´s record badly.
Win tomorrow and we should be through.
BB
So many candles… so little cake.
Enjoy
HMRC appealing is like a new signing- Mark Hately
I have held back from saying this for quite a few years on here – but todays the day.
It is hard to knock charity and the huge efforts made in its name. we have all done our bit and continue to do so in many different ways.
However – I would also like to think that if Charity is part of your duty as a Celtic fan as Paul67 says, then just as importantly is pressing for the change in society needed to ensure that when a child is sick they receive treatment from the government funded health system rather than rely on the inspirational efforts of ordinary people.
I once read a poster that said:
‘I long for the day when hospitals have all the equipment they need and the Army has to have a jumble sale to buy a missile’
While we still need it charity is good, but don’t let it be a substitute for doing your bit to change the world for the better so some time in the future we won’t need charity – we will all have what we need when we need it.
Philvis
I’m not sure if big Pete can act, but he sure isny brad Pitt!
Looks like Barca have left out their top midfielders, but with Messi up front and the likes of Villa, Song, Sanchez, etc I would still expect them to win.
Looking forward to going tomo night but fear it could be another nervous one!
With regards to the tax case, here we go again. Would love to see the tabloids reporting on a reverse decision (not that much of that would happen & not that I’d be buying to see)
The Prince of Goalkeepers.
Thanks for that.
Árd Macha
philvisreturns-Cheers,HH
Well that’s appealing isn’t it?
‘HMRC to appeal against ruling in Rangers ‘Big Tax Case’
HM Revenue and Customs has said it will seek permission to appeal against a tax tribunal ruling in favour of Rangers’ use of Employee Benefit Trusts.
The club, which is now in liquidation, used the scheme from 2001 to 2010 to make £47.65m in payments to players and staff in the form of tax-free loans.
HMRC had challenged the payments, arguing that they were illegal.
Rangers disputed the bill and a First Tier Tax Tribunal (FTT) ruled the scheme did not breach tax law.
In a majority decision, the tribunal said the payments – of about £49m – were loans, not earnings, and so were not liable for income tax.
The old Rangers was under the control of Sir David Murray when it began using EBTs.
He sold the club for £1 to Scottish businessman Craig Whyte in 2011, while the tax liability was in dispute.
The FTT, before three judges, concluded in January, one month before the old Rangers, now under the control of Mr Whyte, was forced into administration by HMRC over non-payment of tax totalling about £14m.
HMRC subsequently rejected proposals for a creditors agreement that would have allowed the old club to continue.
Administrators Duff and Phelps then negotiated a sale of assets to a consortium led by Charles Green for £5.5m.
He has since formed a new club, now playing in the Scottish Football League Third Division.’
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-20597808
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As expected.
I like the last line of that report.
Paul67
Your articles keep getting the ‘Norman Colliers’, what is Rod donating?
SOAL-Thanks HH,the candles helping melt the frost in EK.
Were does the UTT sit ?
I wonder now if the media will be quite so vociferous in reminding all the Sevco fans that their old clubs “Victory” is now under appeal on the radio shows?
Nah me either.
Árd Macha
13:51 on 4 December, 2012
No problem, need to stock up on popcorn again!
Rab Tressell
Love the line about the army and jumble sales.
Invest in hospitals, houses, schools, living environment, culture and the arts. Invest in the things that make us human, not the things that show our inhuman side. Consider Costa Rica.
I had a debate with my lib-dem in-laws on Sunday. I wanted to know why a party couldn’t make a manifesto commitment to taking energy provision back off the MBA graduates with slits in their Gucci jackets for their dorsal fins and make heating affordable for ordinary people. Heating is about saving lives, not ratcheting up profit margins to keep investors happy.
MurdochauldandHay
13:54 on 4 December, 2012
‘Were does the UTT sit ?’
The Vatican.
Brad Pitt is supposed to be in Linlithgow today with Angelina Jolie, the faces of Chanel.
If I bump into Brad I’ll have a word with him.
See what he thinks.
If he’s going to play the part of Peter Lawell, he’ll need to lose some weight first.
Might be too much for him.
Mind you they cast Tom Cruise as Jack reacher and he had to put on 100 lbs and grow 11 inches.
He must’ve managed it.
Ye never know.
Snake Plissken – 13:54 on 4 December, 2012
Probably only Stuart Cosgrove, who was trying to hammer it into Traynor’s head that it could (and probably would) happen, the first weekend after the decision.
ernie lynch @ 13 21
” the whole point of the Ramsey Principle is that even though it doesn’t walk like a duck or swim like a duck , it can still be a duck “.
That is certainly much of the point but it is by no means all of the point . The Ramsey thing cuts both ways ———– ie —— yes — a duck is a duck but the law requires statutory powers over that particular duck . If that power doesn’t exist , the law can’t do anything until there is a proper legal foundation for deciding that the duck is a duck …
Mallards , wigeons , pochards etc might be illegal but maybe the law isn’t ready to deal with a naughty Garganey yet . It takes time
RobertTressell – So, you’re saying people being forced to pay to help others is better than them doing so voluntarily?
Doesn’t sound very charitable to me.
‘I long for the day when hospitals have all the equipment they need’
That will never happen, because we live in a world of infinite wants and finite resources.
However, we do know how to get the most out of the limited resources we do have, it’s called the free market. (thumbsup)
pabloh_AKA_NEIL LENNON – I’m not sure if big Pete can act, but he sure isny brad Pitt!
If Ally McCoist can do it, how hard can it be? (thumbsup)
Seems some people think Barcelona only have 11 good players…
Kojo
13:32 on 4 December, 2012
Thankfully its Neil Lennon and not you picking the team tomorrow night. No place for unproven bhoys, players out of position and mainstays sitting on the bench.
Its almost certain that Hector will be granted leave by the FTT. Even if that is refused they can seek leave directly from the UT and given the fact you could drive a coach and horses(c.S.Fallon 1957) through the FTT decision then I am certain Hector will prevail. The UT can make its own decision but normally it will send it back to to another differently constituted FTT with directions.
Given the importance of this case I suspect it will be full bench ie 3 judges and I would also suspect the chair will be an English High Court judge. In any event all of this means another couple of years of fun.
13:56 on
4 December, 2012
MurdochauldandHay
13:54 on 4 December, 2012
‘Were does the UTT sit ?’
Normally George St in Edinburgh
Its also likely to be a public hearing
philvisreturns
13:57 on 4 December, 2012
‘However, we do know how to get the most out of the limited resources we do have, it’s called the free market.’
(thumbsup)
If that’s the case, how come, when this country was in extremis, during WW2, the free market gave way to state control?