How not to stage a flashmob protest

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If you’re going to stage a protest it’s better to make sure that it registers where it counts.  Turning up at a Sports Direct till with a pile of tracksuits, then only offering £1 for their purchase, might echo the transaction Mike Ashley completed for the naming rights of Ibrox, but if the tycoon even gets to hear about the so-called flashmob protest he’s likely to pity the forsaken attempt to undermine him.

Ashley has invested around a couple of million in Newco Rangers but it’s pin money for him, which he can easily afford to gamble with.  He is also not afflicted with any emotional attachment to Newco, or pretty much anything else, it seems.  In short, this is a guy ‘Rangers’ fans can’t lay a glove on.  They would be far better to figure this out and start to deal with the reality than provoke an unwelcome response.

Neither Ashley nor the Easdale brothers strike me as people who will be easily cowed or bullied into forgoing the rights they have purchased, while others, including thousands of fans, kept their hands in their pockets.  The many genuine fans who are distraught at the humiliating mess Newco has become have been led up the garden path by would-be sages.

Africa

The world is paying a little more attention than usual to the many problems in Africa at the moment but I heard one authoritative voice last week suggest that ebloa is only around the third or fourth most severe problem the continent faces.

But, things are getting better in large swathes of the continent, thanks to improving governance in some areas, better infrastructure, more widely available healthcare, and more children, especially girls, given access to education.

20 people from Celtic Foundation are in Malawi building classrooms and toilets at the moment, while CQN’ers built three school kitchens there this year (more on the soon), but sometimes these many parallel developments conflict.

One such occasion is the John Bande Foundation School in Blantyre, Malawi, which through Mary’s Meals is supported by the Noreen Davies Hikers & Bikers, a group of people from Lanarkshire and Glasgow.  The Hikers and Bikers support a feeding programme at the school, which makes it possible for kids to attempt the school, instead of working for food.  It’s a mature project but the recent building of a motorway right on the edge of the school property has made the building dangerous; learning and feeding is no longer possible.

The Noreen Davies people are raising money to erect three new buildings.  You can read more of the story here, with pictures of the school and road.  If you can give them a £1 or two, do so here.

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  1. Gordon64…… Bale….? Ur hardly Gareth, auld yin. How about reading what’s said, then giving at least a half intellectual response

  2. Morrissey the 23rd on

    ‘We never say aloud the things

     

    That we say in our prayers

     

    Cause no one cares’

  3. Been out tonight with a few friends one of which is heading bsck to Austrslia after 2 years seeing if he could hack it back in the old country…he couldnt so he is heading back to the land down under so i wish him good luck and all the best.Sometimes I eish i had his drive to do the same myself other times i think hey Scotland and Glasgow aint so bad i mean i get to go and watch Celtic anytime i please and i reslly dont csre if we win lose or draw…seriously cos when i wake up the next day Im stll as Celtic fan and thst mskes me feel good so all you Celtic ladies and gentlemen have a good Sunday and remember my baby bought me a brand new Cadillacb

  4. Sorry its been a long day and i do have rather chunky fingers hey but the rest of me looks smooooooooooooooth goodnight everyone.Peace.

  5. Hoopdoggy – there is much to be,said for staying where you’re known. Take it from one who has become a perpetual outsider no matter where I am.

     

     

    The dear green place is a great city of great people.

  6. Hey Robert most of my school freinds from back in the day( St Augustined Milton) have went out and made their mark in the world in their own way and i am delighted for them…they are my booys still.I have remained here in Scotlsnd but hey im easily pleased..give me my music..Celtic and my 5asides and im a happy kindaguy.So good luck and as Dave Allan said msy your God go with you.Hey one last thing…The Clash or Pink Floyd….Joe and the boys fir me

  7. Im going to bed so goodnight to everyone and have a great weekend.The lunatic is on the grass.

  8. macjay1 for Neil Lennon on

    Hoop Doggydog

     

    02:06 on

     

    12 October, 2014

     

     

    I`ve been in Oz. for 30 odd years.

     

    I gained a lot and I missed a lot.

     

    I still miss Glasgow and my pals.

     

    Today`s communications make things easier,C.Q.N. being a prime example.

     

    The grass ain`t always greener than Paradise.

     

    :-)

  9. macanbheatha Oscar Abú on

    I wonder did our Neill give a wee cheer when Kyle Lafferty scored tonight for the Billy Boys?

  10. Cool guys goodnight my friend since back in the day dtaus in Nrisnane works im Melbourne but his heart is in Glasgow ..cheers Neil Goodnight to everyone

  11. 10 guinness

     

    About 20 yrs ago i asked a millionaire what keeps a multi millionaire going

     

    He reckoned it was the satisfaction of a deal done well

     

    All you guys that want rid of DD think of the alternative

     

    Ashley, Green and hedge funds

     

    DD will give his shares to his kids

     

    What Fergus gave us was a sustainable business that would live forever

     

    I could cry how much i love our club and how much my dad and papas did

     

    Please ghuys support Ronnie

  12. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    macanbheatha oscar abú

     

     

    02:36 on 12 October, 2014

     

    I wonder did our Neill give a wee cheer when Kyle Lafferty scored tonight for the Billy Boys?

     

    ……..

     

    Wer ye not at the game? ;-)

  13. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Nally81,

     

    Will you support Ronny if he steadfastly maintains his tactics and our results don’t improve?

  14. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    macanbheatha oscar abú

     

     

    02:47 on 12 October, 2014

     

    Tr

     

    Ya f@@ker!:-)..

     

     

    BTW ,

     

    Lafferty ain’t the worst,not by a long shot.

  15. Melbourne Mick on

    Hi macjay 1 and hoopdoggydog.

     

    Where are you in Oz?

     

    I’m not long here just got our visa last year and loving it.

     

    Just heading out to our new celtic club down the Mornington

     

    peninsula, will always miss Glasgow, mates, and going to

     

    games but it’s a big difference going down the beach to

     

    sleep it off than preparing for ambushes from the badyins

     

    coming out of Bairds bar.

     

    H/H Mick

  16. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    nally81

     

     

    02:45 on 12 October, 2014

     

    And remember we have mulgrew forrest lustig and mathews returning

     

    NO DANGER..

     

    …..

     

    With respect pal,

     

    We need goalscorers.

  17. macanbheatha Oscar Abú on

    Tr

     

    Don’t panic re RD

     

    We’ll be searching for cheap flights come march

     

    You heard here first:-)

  18. Tricoloured Ribbon on

    Macanbheatha,

     

    I wish Ronny all the best.

     

    I really do.

     

    This nonsense about giving him a year or so to get it together.

     

    Seriously.The board are another story.

     

    But,we have the players on our books to demolish pub teams in this league.

     

    That’s what they are and it’s time the manager was choosing the appropriate team,tactics and formations to sweep these teams aside.Surely?

  19. macanbheatha Oscar Abú on

    This time last year we were saying we don’t need the Hun in order to make a good league

     

    People on here were wishing DU & Aberdeen would make it a bit more tight for us in order to see more competitive games then when we get a few everyone cachs them

     

    Remember we were 15pts behind a hun team in Nov and how did that work out?

     

    Light do scith a chara

  20. Tri col

     

    I hear you mate and i take my 6 year old son to paradise every game and it brks my heart when he doesn’t feekg ood aftet watching the hoops.

     

    We have to play sb sj and cm in midfield

     

     

    Then guidetti ss and griffiths and forrest up front

     

    While i’m on

     

    Dave king on last 3 trips to glasgow via heathrow flew economy— like davy murray he’s pratted

     

    Chuck green rented a house in normandy for 1 week and got photos taken cos he is shit feart

     

    He lives in spain

     

    Everyone always says—follow the money where did ticketus get the actual 28m? That’s the story

     

    And finally craigy boy has davy murray on tape telling him how to do the deal via ticketus

     

    Very finally Celtic will put on the programme v sevco celtic v rangers but inside wil put there honours as 2012 onwards

     

    God bless Johnny Doyle

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