Issue 7 of CQN Magazine is out now! We continue our campaigning focus on the crisis in Scottish football from recent weeks as well as delivering many great articles on Celtic.
You can get a glimpse of the magazine below but go to the dedicated magazine site here to read it properly (which you’ll not be able to do below). Nip to page 64 for my favourite article this month, comparing the age of the current Celtic team to some of our great teams from the past. It’s an eye opener.
A special word of thanks to Alex Thomson of Channel 4 News, who this morning got Uefa to confirm: “We are in contact with the Scottish FA and offering assistance”.
We have tons to talk about in the next couple of days, Brian Kennedy, Sailen Manna – don’t let me forget to talk about Sailen, Athletic (one of the most important cup ties in years?), Kenny Shiels (don’t underestimate this guy) and we have a Cup Final to look forward to! Struggling to fit it in but we’ll try.
We are now shipping hard copies of the magazine from the UK – and sold out last month (unlike Rangers tickets last week). Order your copy by clicking on the link below. If you want a copy shipped overseas (note, seas, not sees) email me, celticquicknews@gmail.com (for Britain and Ireland please use the link below).
Pay by card or Paypal – We don’t do clowns!
You can support the online edition by making a discretionary donation here. Thanks to James, Bart, Bobby and David, all of whom are probably still asleep, and everyone who contributed.
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Paul67
Good luck with CQN 7.
Should be a collectors item…..especially with that rarely seen cracked crest:)
TAL
Ard macha re yir twit thingy, who was it you met in the KF, I think I know them all.
Nosy b CSC
Guys,
I know htis is is long shot but due to change of plans I am looking for a single ticket for Sunday if anyone has access to one. I will be travelling most of today and will be back online after 9 tonight, however, you should be able to get my email form Paul if necessary and I would be willing to travel to collect over the weekend if possible.
Thanks Vmhan like a kid thinking its Christmas on Sunday sooooo excited about the first part of Neil’s treble can’t wait. Going to a shindig at cp before and after. Just can’t get enough hail hail. Plane boarding need to switch off see you all at Hampden pb
obonfanti1888, 10:43
The Rangers Trust think this blog and the tax case blog are being run, in the style of the Stasi, by ‘an individual’ at Celtic
O.G.Rafferty
Priceless. I suppose all the posters are the same person too.
I am CQN and work 24 hrs a day to make sure comments are continually updated. :-)
Mort
Champions Leagie quarter and semi finals draw coming up soon. I’m guessing that most folk will be happy if Barce and Real are in opposite halves.
Apoel Vs Real Madrid(both will be pleased with that i’d imagine)
Marseille Vs Bayern
Benfica Vs Chelsea
Milan Vs Barca
I need beer tokens for a busy weekend, has our expert Spanish tipster left today’s winners yet??
setting free the bears, 10:50
I think that’s a very astute summary
Chesea/Benfica Vs Milan/barca in Semis
What price an all Spanish final ,perhaps Bayern might thwart this!
Tendulkar finally gets his 100TH 100 (Vs Bangladesh )
It seems most likely that their fans have been bombarding Mr Thomson with their fairy tales about Celtic – I wonder if the leaving the lights on to guide German planes to Glasgow during WW2 one made it in there (total nonsense).
However, behind closed doors none of us really know what goes on.
To state he has heard something is most unlike a journalist – there has to be a developing story there or they don’t comment and he must take heed of the law as you cannot talk about someone based on hearsay and rumour from internet bampots (according to Hugh Keevins).
Mr Thomson asked Rangers fans for their input – and of course they doubtless did what they always do, blame Celtic for their own actions.
I hope that is all this is. I would not like Celtic’s name dragged through the same mud that they operate in.
Oooooooo, could be a Barca/Real final. Think i’d probably watch that.
Chelsea could get Barca in semi, oh i’d love that. Fair to say i’m not too fond of Chelsea.
brimmer
Re; Alex Thomson’s latest tweet. What’s the panic about??
I thought we all wanted a complete and thorough impartial investigation into all proceedings. If he does that we have nothing to fear.
David Murray to be interviewed live on Sky News at 1.30. Apologies if already posted.
Just wondering what happens if the dids don’t ‘arrive’ by 5pm, or are unacceptable…?
…..Who’s this guy, A Thompson ?
Dids = Dids………LLLLOOOOOLLLL ….now there’s an appropriate slip
From official Celtic Site-Well done Celtic and John Kennedy!
Legends’ game funds help Oxfam’s appeal
By: Newsroom Staff on 16 Mar, 2012 10:27
CELTIC were born of famine and, to this day, charity is still at the core of the club, and Celtic supporters are never slow to rally to the cause and raise much-needed funds for those who are truly in need.
The Celtic v Manchester United Legends match, held in August earlier this season, raised an incredible £336,345 for Oxfam´s East Africa Appeal and the charity has now provided the club with a breakdown of where that much-needed cash is going.
This money has enabled Oxfam to continue providing clean water, sanitation and food to thousands of people desperately in need.
Prolonged drought, poverty and conflict in the Horn of Africa have led to severe food and water shortages, spiralling food prices and the widespread loss of livestock across parts of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
The October rains finally arrived, but this brings fresh concerns of flooding, the spread of water-borne diseases and difficulties in reaching rural areas.
In September, the United Nations confirmed famine had spread to a sixth area in Somalia, bringing the total number of people in desperate need of life-saving assistance to more than four million, with 750,000 at risk of dying of starvation in the following four months.
Many families do not have enough food or water to survive, and livestock have died due to lack of pasture, leaving pastoralists with no source of income.
Increased security within camps in Kenya and Somalia is affecting humanitarian access and response.
The money raised in the Celtic Legends match was enough to fund the Oxfam water and sanitation programme for the entire Lower and Middle Jubas in the South West of the country for 12 months.
That means providing more than 66,000 people with essential clean water from Oxfam hand-pumps and from rehabilitated shallow wells.
In addition to all this, the funds also enable Oxfam´s public health teams to conduct house-to-house visits to distribute soap and raise awareness around sanitation and promote good hygiene practices.
Thank you for raising such an incredible amount for Oxfam’s work in East Africa.
Without your support, we would not be able to reach those desperately in need
“Rangers are expected to defend themselves at the hearing by claiming that any wrongdoing and breaches of SFA rules were down to their owner. That could minimise any punishment for the club.”
(From Michael Grant’s piece in The Herald)
Now this defence, if indeed it counts as a defence, leads to two interesting questions that are more than just philosophy: what exactly is a football club and who is responsible for running it?
The idea that the club is somehow not responsible for the actions of its own Board is a strange one. The Board of Directors runs the club on behalf of its shareholders, who elect them. The Directors have responsibility, and possibly liability, for the actions they take.
So what exactly is the club as a corporate entity? To me it is a company run according to its own rules and regulations, governed by the laws of the land and of football. So if its Board, its governing body, takes decisions or carries out actions or inactions that break either the law or football’s rules then the club itself is guilty.
And the huns’ favourite defence – it wasn’t us it was someone else – is a nonsense.
G Samaras a doubt for final after being bailed by police.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/17398034
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Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon on 16 March, 2012 at 11:19
Gordon, do you know what the possible sanctions are? It seems to me lots of media have covered this, with the Scottish Sun even speculating that Craig Whyte could face a lifetime ban from football (later to be amended to career ban by Gordon Smith, perhaps), but no mention of what the SFA might impose on the club. No one else seems to have asked or thought about this obvious follow-up question.
Do you know?
Gordon_J
Correct, a football club, especially one that is a Plc is by the letter of the law a legal entity with legal personality and can sue and be sued. The Board of directors are given responsiblity for the day-to-day running of the club.
Also, resigning as a director does not allow you to walk away from problems that occurred while you were a director – you retain responsibility for things you did (and sometimes things that you did not do), or that happened, on your ‘watch’.
For example, if the company subsequently becomes insolvent, the official receiver (or administrator, etc) will look into the conduct of the directors over the previous three years.
Mort
Great work on the magazines Paul.
I am going to Whitley Bay for a stag weekend, do any CQNers know of anyTim friendly pubs down there?
If the consortium led by Paul Murray includes Ticketus, does that not mean he is using future sales of RFC(IA) season tickets to fund his bid? Something our hero, the MBB, has been vilified for doing.
I think this is my longest ever CQN post, I might need a wee lie doon now!
Vmhan Supporting Lenny! on 16 March, 2012 at 10:55 said:
I met sannbhoy. He was here in Belfast and we met up for a couple of scoops.
Árd Macha
GonnaeSignMaSunburn on 16 March, 2012 at 11:26 said:
Great work on the magazines Paul.
I am going to Whitley Bay for a stag weekend,
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Mind take your cleaning gear down with you,ajax ,bleach etc.
Wear old shoes as the sticky carpets will ruin your good ones.
ENJOY.
playfusbal4dguilders
More importantly I hope this doesn’t have the Samson effect for Sammi
Mort
Celtic_First,
As I understand it the SFA could fine them, suspend their membership or even throw them out of the SFA entirely.
They say timing is everything, took the week off starting tonight, to have a wee weekend of it..Oul fellas birthday, which he shares with someone called St Patrick, oh and a a Cup Final on Sunday,
Now as some on here will know Mrs Che loves her holidays, for the past week ive done everything possible to find excuses not to go here there and everywhere, text at work an hour ago
Cape Verde for a week leaving sunday am
Is this grounds for divorce?
(Twisty/HT/BT/T4 you can stop laughing ya gits)
Gordon_J
I expect a huge fine of £1m and thrown out of the SFA.
Punishment suspended for 1 year if they don’t break any more rules in that time.
Mort
tomtheleedstim on 16 March, 2012 at 11:14 said:
Re; Alex Thomson’s latest tweet. What’s the panic about??
I thought we all wanted a complete and thorough impartial investigation into all proceedings. If he does that we have nothing to fear.
Well said that man! And there seems little point in speculating which sin or sins Celtic might be accused of. Why draw up a list for others to beat us over the head with?
Doesn’t make any sense to me….:-(
Mort,
Is it worth fining them? Whyte would just add it to his big pile of unpaid bills.
from phil
Phil MacGiollaBhain@Pmacgiollabhain
Have Werder Bremen and Stuttgart contacted the German FA about the RFC 2nd Contract situation?
Árd Macha on 16 March, 2012 at 11:29 said:
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He gets around that Bhoy, probably see him on Sunday if not before.
HH
Mort
I think your comparison has been photo-shopped
keepitrealCSC
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Vmhan Supporting Lenny! on 16 March, 2012 at 11:35 said:
He’s a good guy. I enjoyed the craic.
Árd Macha
Asked this the other day I will try again.Is the Scottish cup final on the 19th(Sat) or the 20th(Sun) of May.I heard somewhere it was changed to the Sunday because of the CL final being on the Saturday.Anybody help.
Understand fully why Lenny has blocked the Record from his press conference. Does anyone know why he’s not talking to BBC who gave him the wonderful platform last Sunday to publicly have a brilliant pop at Traynor?