Not only are Newco left without an auditor, a Nomad and therefore a market listing, outgoing auditors Deloitte, wrote to the club last month to explain they were resigning due to threatening and intimidating messages received by their staff from anonymous persons during 2013 and 2014 in relation to their work with the club.
The toxicity of that football club is difficult to overstate. Is it any wonder Celtic fans are clear: the ‘Old Firm’ died in 2012? Any attempts to rekindle it will result in contagion for our own club, who maybe smaller going forward without the ‘Old Firm’ dividend, but it will be healthier nonetheless.
I’ll take 40,000 crowds and winning the next 30 titles in a canter, bring it on.
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On Phil’s site he is saying Rangers II have no options left
No banker, no NOMAD, no benign benefactor.
How long, must we sing this song?
AR
Quite Sir.
Sips
I have a spare for Friday if you fancy it?
HH jamesgang
Burnley just had a season in the EPL without signing expensive players. They now have parachute payments to fall back on.
They sold Trippier for £3.5 million and replaced him with Lowton for £1 million. They are expecting 6 to 8 million for Ings at tribunal. It’s fair to say they are flush.
That Dyche is a good manager.
It’s not the transfer cost, it’s the wages they are paying down there, they are throwing stupid money at players, and half of them wouldent get in the Celtic team, that’s why it is what it is, but by all means blame PL.
I reckon Ciftci is Celtic’s preferred option, Middlesbrough declined to keep Vossen after his loan, says it all really. Vossen’s name was only ever in a drawer a Lennoxtown.
We need a Viduka-BJH-Sutton type for this season. No messing.
jamesgang
Seems there was an outbreak of hill billy tabloidism when you were gone:((
Some poor fare the last few days.
Welcome back
SP
Just Read back on last nights postings…Wow..Was really something Else…
Since I was alerted to this blog many years ago, I have found it a great Celtic resource and a great way to enhance the experience of being a Celt. For those of us living a distance from Glasgow it is great just to be able to talk about Celtic stuff with fellow fans.
Unfortunately a few roasters are more interested in trolling and winding up others rather then genuinely contributing. Last night was another disgrace on here, I have recently recommended the site to a few nice Celtic minded people I met on holiday and to be honest I am sorry I did. People can make jokes about flouncing and tu-tus but good posters are leaving and I can’t blame them.
Guy in Eroski Supermarket wearing Hai Karate. He must have been because he smelled liked he’d been doing martial arts.
Mickybhoy1888′
I usually just scroll past your pish but fell the need to answer your slight on great guys like willie rozini and the rest of the dalton guys that collected green cross money for many years to say they drank most of it is absolute crap, I myself alongside a few others were responsible for collecting in the gorbals and south side and can assure you all the money made its way to Belfast I knew personally the guys that made some of the trips.bringing the names of those volunteers down is out of order, but you knew that eh?
Dalton- Calton
Any chance of talking about Celtic on here?
Another scorcher – way down south..
” Heatwave ” predicted for mid week..
Work to do.Reluctant to do it.This morning’s get my ass in gear and do it choon.-
Slim Smith – Sun On The Sea ( Unity)
Political commentator on the radio – “Angela Merkel will spend the next few days washing her hair and waiting for the implications of a cashless economy to impact “
new article posted.
tonydonnelly67
I don’t think Vossen’s wages were an issue. Burnley won’t be paying him any more than we could afford.
I just don’t think we wanted him. I’ll be happy with Cifci.
Who will be the also rans this year. I fancy the Dons for 2nd, Utd for 3rd, Hearts next.
In Ronny we trust and if he thinks Cifti is the man that is good enough for me. H.H.
Thank you CQNrs for yer wonderful-heartfelt-wishes-well-dones-etc….
As I said….the battle goes on but…it will go on in the back ground….so, no more light to be shone on that subject….thanks.
L-O-V-E You ALL……oot. YNWA.
corkcelt
Was out for a few beers on Saturday with an old mate who i have just recently got in touch with again and suggested he gave CQN a try.
Had a wee lurk when i got home and was saddened to read it.
I hope he was not doing the same :(
Kevj
That was a brilliant bit of news mate.
Well done and best wishes for the rest of your fight.
Hail Hail
Mickbhoy1888
Could you not get a decent hire during the night? Please conduct your hate campaign against true Celtic fans somewhere else. Pricks like you were not only pissed on in the Jungle, they were given their just desserts by the miners on the picket lines. I suppose you made enough in overtime to buy a couple of taxis. You are contemptible.
An article byJames MacMillan well worth a repost
By James MacMillan History Last updated: August 26th, 2010
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Celtic fans in Seville Photo: Getty
Celtic fans in Seville Photo: Getty
The country was astonished and sickened this week at the news that a Catholic priest in Ireland, Fr James Chesney, had been involved in murderous IRA activities at the height of the Troubles in the 1970s. Those of us of an Hiberno-Catholic inclination in Scotland have seen this sort of thing before. A similar scandal erupted in Glasgow at about the same time, involving a Fr Bartholomew Burns.
Most Catholics in the west of Scotland can claim origins in Ireland. The Catholic culture here is imbued with the memories of those roots, for good and for ill. During the Troubles in Ulster, emotions and anxieties ran high here, as relatives were caught up in the mayhem and violence. It was inevitable that Catholics in these parts would take sides with the Civil Rights Movement, and their republican politics. In earlier phases of the Nationalist/British struggle many of our relatives took part. After WWI, my grandfather’s cousin fled from Ireland to hide with the Scottish branch of the family in Ayrshire. This man sat with a cocked revolver behind the front door expecting the police to catch up with him at any time. I think he had probably shot some Black and Tan soldiers. One morning he was gone. A postcard from Pittsburgh finally arrived, and that branch of the family have been there ever since.
My other grandfather was a Black and Tan! The two branches of the family could, at one time, have faced each other across the barricades, and cancelled each other out. For my sake, and for my existence, I’m glad they didn’t.
The culture of Glasgow Celtic FC is steeped in this history. It was established by a Marist Brother from Sligo in 1888 to provide charity, sport and entertainment for the urban poor who had settled in the east end of Glasgow in the 19th century. The club was eventually gifted the national flag – the tricolor – from the Irish Republic for the work they had done for Irish immigrants in Scotland. The culture of the club and its supporters, even today, is Irish as well as Scottish. Mostly, this is something worth celebrating. However, the suspicion persists that there is still stubborn support for extremist Irish politics among some of the fans. I would bet anything that Fathers Chesney and Burns were Celtic fans, like me.
In the continual bickering with their ancient enemies, Rangers FC, the accusations fly as to who has the most sectarian set of fans. The chants from the Rangers fans have a distinctly anti-Catholic edge, attacking the Pope and aspects of the faith. The Celtic fans counter that their songs have nothing to do with religion, but are political in nature. But hatred is hatred, and it doesn’t matter what initial instigation and shape it has. I have always celebrated the Irish culture from which I grew, but I have always been appalled at the ease with which many fellow Celtic fans were able to bestow their support on the IRA.
In the 1970s Scottish and English football was blighted by the entryism of the extreme Right. The NF and later the BNP would distribute their propaganda quite freely outside many grounds. In Scotland the most eager takers for this kind of fascist filth were the Rangers and Hearts fans. In contrast, the Celtic fans would pride themselves on the presence of the extreme Left at Celtic Park, in the shape of various Trotskyist and Sinn Fein lobbyists. Some sanctimonious Hoops supporters would even argue that their Leftism was the true modern heir of the charitable activities of the club’s Marist founder, Brother Walfrid. This clutch of values has led many Celtic fans into supporting the IRA’s murderous collaborators in other conflicts, including Hamas and Catalan and Basque separatists.
When Celtic faced FC Hapoel of Tel Aviv recently, the Scottish TUC organized a huge anti-Israeli demonstration at the Glasgow leg, and recruited many eager Celtic fans to wave Palestinian and Hamas flags at the visitors. The sight of my fellow Celtic supporters goading our Jewish guests with anti-Semitic howls and insults was deeply shaming.
With British troops in action in Iraq and Afghanistan, many football clubs invite soldiers on leave to attend as honoured guests. Rangers have made a feature of this. This would be unimaginable at Celtic Park because of the baggage left over from the Troubles. But if Celtic supporters imagine that their team is not without its support in the British Armed forces, they are very much mistaken. In their last European final, in 2003, when Celtic played Porto in Seville, I happened to be working in Germany. I found a pub to watch the game. It was full of British soldiers, Celtic fans to a man.
For the sake of our reputation, Celtic fans need to reflect on the appalling political allegiances that they have made over the years. There is a clear necessity for a radical reassessment of the shadier aspects of Celtic’s “culture”. For a start, my fellow fans could ditch their copies of Socialist Worker and An Phoblacht, and get back to the original values of the club’s Catholic founder. That might mean finding new reading materials – the Gospels, for example. And it would also mean getting back to attending Mass and Confession.
I have no idea how hard it is to do. Maybe close the comments page earlier.
Clogher
http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2010/apr/27/crystal-palace-existence-relegation-championship