Last week’s advert in the Tribune de Geneve was in English, despite the predominant local language being French. The primary target audience were Uefa representatives and functionaries, who are not drawn from the local Nyon catchment area, and will most likely speak English, with secondary target audiences in the UK. I hear both targets were reached.
There was a short-lived chat about which language to run with in Switzerland, but consensus was quickly reached that English was appropriate and sufficient. No translation was ever made.
Very much related to this subject…….
There was an incident when I was at school (many years ago). Two boys had exactly the same maths homework. This would have been fine had the work been correct, but the made exactly the same mistakes, so the teacher had sufficient proof to establish that he didn’t have two independently produced pieces of work.
The class lesson that day was, if you’re going to coordinate a response, you better get your facts right, or you’ll get caught.
Shortly after the Tribune de Geneve advert ran it was brought to my attention that some regularly-hostile-to-Celtic online loons were running with a line that an English advert had been sent to Switzerland and a French advert had been sent to an English newspaper by mistake.
This was fanciful, but not worthy of attention, because as you now know, there was never a French translation of the advert.
You can imagine my utter astonishment, therefore, that The Guardian claimed they didn’t run the advert because it was submitted to them in French, despite, as surely the world now knows, no French language version of the advert ever existing!
“If you’re going to coordinate a response, get your facts right.” It doesn’t look good, Guardian. It doesn’t look good at all. You’ve been caught in PR vice.
You know how PR works in Scottish football. Celtic and most clubs play with a straight bat: “This is the news relating to our games and events”, but there are clubs, personalities and organisations which are only tenable because of expensive and persuasive PR.
You remember the Poppy banner issue, which became news a full two days after a game, by which time PR could persuade journalists to run with a story which until then had no news value. You are only too familiar with some of the vacuous characters ushered into the game by newspapers demanding Lloyds Bank approve a takeover, while PR spun incredible lies about finance and probity.
The next time Celtic, or their manager, is vulnerable on a subject, look out for this Malign Influence. It battered Ronny Deila when he lost games, and recently went for Peter Lawwell.
My thanks to The Guardian advertising people, who confirmed to us this morning that the advert they received was in English. That’s the other thing about coordinating a Malign Influence, you need to get buy-in from a lot of people!
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chim chiminee chim chiminee chim chim…………….Giroud
Evra a complete liability.
Romania equalise from the spot.
Fuete Le comp
Need to get Payet more central.
Good old English BBC…
“Olivier Giroud hasn’t got his scoring boots on today”
Jobo, The dots at Celtic Park are continuing to disappear, I have them down to 140 but I’ll await confirmation from Official dot counter.
If we run out of dots can we open another section or is that it?.
Ref a liability an awe. Wits new?
There are in fact two types of hun.The ugly ones and the REALLY ugly ones..
Starry, am watching this on ITV here in Germania. Are you getting BBC?
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_NVPMM4BR05Q/RY2jtYSeJBI/AAAAAAAAABQ/VmOS2Q9zxFQ/s320/PIC_0118.JPG
Poor defending from L’Ambrose.
GERRYBHOY
Off of the live text mate, I don’t have a TV:)))
Corkcelt did you really say this?
As we regularly say in our part of the woods, F**k the begrudgers.
Is that your class showing through.
As we sit tonight. Celtic have said nothing about res12 despite constant promises. Confusion reigns over the guardian article.
We continue to have genuine concerns over the validity of our boards and of Scottish football.- all are unanswered.
And the above is your classy response?
As a Celtic supporter of circa 35 years I am no longer recognising what are supposed to be so called fellow supporters. f@@k the begrudges. Really?
Weefra,
Poor guy’ll be feeling naked and embarrassed…..and planning his revenge ;-))
Heard this from a reliable source…..apparently they take those clippings, process them using magic….voilà…..you’ve got Tupperware ;-))
FTSFA
H.H.
Corkcelt –
I think the remaining secions of the Lisbon Lions Upper would only be released as ‘special’ season tickets, not valid for games against Triggers Broom FC. Or our (ahem) custodians might just leave those remaining few sections for game-by-game sale – at least giving some oportunity for non-season ticket holders to attend some games.
i demand my 2 free seats
NEGANON2
Would you consider yourself to be a classy poster. What was that cute little name you called another poster just a few short nights ago??
Surely you can’t possibly be that lacking in self awareness??
Winning Captains
Wow – that’s some saga.
Persistence beats resistance all right!
Starry plough I do not for one second believe I am a pious poster. Whilst I regularly face horrible abuse I rarely react. On Tuesday evening and night I witnessed Celtic supporters telling me how greatdonald trump was and indeed how terrible socialism was and how ridiculous notions of the living wage were.
From Celtic supporters.
I did react but my god I have faced much worse most days.
Tonight Corkcelt in weird triumphalism is telling those who ask questions to f@@k off. We spend lots of time here ridiculing the Huns for such things.
No sense of irony on cqn tonight.
Starry Plough
To be fair, the goal did come from his head!
Starry,
you are not missing a hell of a lot. Must visit that valley to get a handle on your virtual texting experience :))
You are probably right Jobo, they always want the “Tourist” Fan as they tend to spend a bit more in the Store.
Have you counted the dots lately.
NEGANON2
If you even had an ounce of humility some might feel sorry for you, you’ve never once put your hands up in all the time I’ve been posting here, some seven seasons now.
Perhaps that’s why your revolution is floundering and you have descended into a bitter parody of the poster you once were.
Better men than you and me have held their hands up on here and apologised.
corkcelt – already seeing dots in front of my eyes so no counting tonight ;-)
I fear as I am watching In horror as cqn unfolds into soul twisted version of follow follow.
Refusing to challenge issues within our club.
Distracting with stories of other clubs.
Attacking non conformist views
Engaging in triumphalism
Hiding mistakes, misrepresenting truths.
Engaging in right wing racism and facism.
Wow.
Life is indeed a journey and every day is a school day.
All you want to know about this year’s Champions League
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016–17_UEFA_Champions_League
Goooooaaaaaaallllll!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Neganon
Keep posting, you make reasoned points and I understand your angst re your daughter
Get a relation to take her and allow her to grow up a tim
Neg, I didn’t call you a begrudger, if you’ve taken personal umbrage, it is you identifying yourself with that label.
Payer
2nd best player from la reunion
What a goal from Payet
Payet even fecking hate spelling
That’s not a left foot that is a wand. Moravcikesque.
Breithla Shona Travellerbhoy.
BT
Didn’t know yer oul fella was over.
West Ham will be hoping Payet has a stinker from here on in.
HH
Neganon, if ever your account is barred you may have a point, until then, not so much.
Freedom of opinion and speech has been a mainstay of Pauls blog since he began. He hasn’t censored opinion, not even obvious agitators fro the darkness.
So no, this blog is not going down that road.
Patience is a difficult thing, it takes discipline and faith.
Great goal by France.
Evening folks,
Had a wee nightmare last night, we lost 5-4 at home in the first leg of first CL qualifier. Woke to much relief.
Winnings, I hope you’re keeping the head, you must be climbing the walls today.
What a goal Payet!
I watched that crakin goal from a hun free valley so a did.
Ole Deschamps must read CQN:
GlassTwoThirdsFull on 10th June 2016 9:28 pm
Need to get Payet more central.