I’ve no affection for Real Madrid but was delighted for them, and Carlo Ancelotti in particular, last night. It’s getting to the stage that it’s impossible to figure out who the best team in Europe actually is.
Bayern Munich’s season has been historic. They swept aside German competitors with record-breaking ease on their way to what looked like them becoming the first team to retain Europe’s top crown in its Champions League format. Real were irresistible. Let’s hope for a Madrid final before the Lions in Lisbon next month.
After yesterday’s blog I heard that more journalistic allies from Anderston Quay have flocked to Dave King’s camp, including that Leggat (sp?) guy, who used to entertain many.
I’ve heard more theories as to what the Sevco board and the group trying to run their club into the ground are planning that I care to remember, but when you look at the team King in particular has pulled together, you would be forgiven for concluding there is no masterplan worthy of the name.
We can’t always judge a man by the company he keeps but we can just a strategy by those who fathered it.
Prediction: King will kill Sevco then fall on his arse. Bump.
Here we Go for 10 In a Row!
Applications for the 10th annual CQN charity golf day, which will take place in Aberdour Golf Club on Friday 4th July, will close this Friday, 2nd May.
As ever it will be oversubscribed so if you would like to attend, email BlantyreKev and Taggsy at cqnopen10IAR@gmx.co.uk before Friday. Cost for the full day’s entertainment including golf is £80. There are a very limited number of non-golfer evening places at £45. Further detail will be released nearer the date and when places confirmed.
Over the course of the season I’ve read lots of comment about the values we should aspire to as a club, specifically when it comes to alleviating poverty, both in our own community, and abroad. CQN’ers responded incredibly to our Malawi school kichen(s) appeal, which dwarfed our work at home.
The Charity Foundation are selling badges (£1 each) before the Dundee United game on 11 May to raise funds to feed the poor and hungry in and around Glasgow. I have volunteered as a coordinator on the day and have offered to help recruit around 100 to sell badges before the game.
This will be trophy presentation day – but the trophy isn’t coming out until after the game, so you’ll not miss any of the flesh-on-silver action.
If you are able to get involved in this initiative, which strikes the core of what we think of ourselves as a Movement, email your details to cfcfvolunteer@celticfc.co.uk .
Thank you.
Order Seville – The Celtic Movement, below………
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Bawsman
What are you talkin about?
Ernie is the one sounding desperate
Fair play to the DR, remember the constant calls for Andy Goram to be punished and sacked after bring pictured with UVF members and flags… No?
Tony Stiokes, an Irishman, vists puib in Ireland where Irish music is played.
Hope he had a great night. He deserves it. He’s been working hard and playing well.
19th September’s not so far away.
I suggest the yes blowhards just bear in mind how silly and discredited they’re going to look.
Assuming of course that they’re still posting.
Channel 4 are doing an interesting angle on the separation vote. They were in the Islands last night.
The Islanders are demanding they get a vote on who they should be allowed to align themselves with.
London and the UK
Edinburgh and Scotland
Norway/Scandinavia
Stand alone
Interestingly the wee Scottish Nationalist woman was a bit condescending and flippant, suggesting they couldn’t go it alone as they need Edinburgh.
I thought the irony was stark.
The Islanders would be minted if the ran the show, they did great work getting the oil to land in the Voe.
Surely the Stokes story is old news?
Why broadcast it now?
I’m sure I heard about this about a year ago. Don’t think he was singing or anything just on stage.
Does he not own a share in this pub? Is Anthony Stokes not an Irishman enjoying some Irish songs in Ireland?
Why is this news being reported now? Oh aye Sevco are on their arse!
LB
So the Daily Record have dug up an anti-Celtic story. Anyone reading my posts this week will recall that this was predicted on numerous occasions.
This paper is itching to print a story strongly linking Neil Lennon to a club in England. This weekend is my bed.
Traynor and Leggat pulling the strings – see it for what it is.
We are distributing copies of CQN UPDATE at the game on Saturday which points this out and hopefully recruits more Celtic supporters into the better informed online community.
CQN Magazine out this evening too!
The 3 then 4 then 5 Lions CQN night at Greenock on Friday 6 June has completely sold out. However I have 10 places on our own list if anyone wants to come along. Email david@cqnmagazine.com
Use this email for copies of Seville or a signed copy of Yogi Bare. We’ve posted hundreds out for the big man, got him out of the clutches of a vanity publisher who was ripping him off and already he has covered his costs. He could have lost thousands he couldn’t afford so good job to everyone who bought his new book!
yorkbhoy
Andy Goram was born near Yorkshire – maybe you know him.
He wore a black arm-band onto the pitch during a Celtic-Rangers game.
He was pictured with UVF members (not singers).
It was rumoured there were other Rangers platers in the photo.
He was nearing the end of his Rangers career.
WINNING CAPTAINS
Well done,mate. Good stuff getting the deal done for John.
Still not got my copy though,I’ll give it till Saturday,see how it goes.
I reckon my sister’s postman may be a hun. (Shooooorly not-in Kilwinning? Perish the thought…)
Yet another broadside from the Anti-CFC Daily Record.
Biggest talking points this week are either the imminent admimistration/collapse of The Rangers FC, or the Sevco fuelled bigotfest at the Glasgow cup final, not to mention the smashed seats at one end. Even McCoist’s insane comments about having ‘a wages to turnover ratio any club in the world would be proud of’, would have saw NL going through weeks of msm spotlight, interrogation and ridicule, if it was him.
But no, Stokes gets a full page hatchet job, and it’ll run for days or even weeks now.
Ban this rag from Parkhead now. Its bad for business.
Unlike the Griffiths one, the Stokes story is a non-story. There are no allegations of him having done anything illegal or even wrong. Not worth bothering about.
Bawsman
09:18 on
1 May, 2014
Channel 4 are doing an interesting angle on the separation vote. They were in the Islands last night.
The Islanders are demanding they get a vote on who they should be allowed to align themselves with.
London and the UK
Edinburgh and Scotland
Norway/Scandinavia
Stand alone
Interestingly the wee Scottish Nationalist woman was a bit condescending and flippant, suggesting they couldn’t go it alone as they need Edinburgh.
I thought the irony was stark.
The Islanders would be minted if the ran the show, they did great work getting the oil to land in the Voe.
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Shhhhshhh ffs, you’ll piss off wee Alex’s blog stormtroopers don’t ya know.
MARRAKESH EXPRESS
The DR doesn’t need access to Celtic Park to print stories about the club,so banning it would not stop them. Doubtful even that it would hurt them much.
The fans can do the damage by not buying it. Their advertising revenue will plummet as sales fall.
Ernie
I reckon your right, the no vote will win the day, the difference is I think that will be a pity.
Will you seriously be revelling in the continuation of the present political system and mocking the ‘blow hards’ who imagined something better? Even if you think it was all a fanciful utopia. Bit harsh no?
Was at the game on Sunday.
As I was passing the main stand a bloke stuck a microphone under my nose and asked me which way I would vote in the separation referendum, and why.
I gave him my opinions and wandered away blethering to my Dad. I saw a few folk being interviewed so decided to ask some questions of the interviewer out of curiosity.
(They were a crew from BBC TV NI)
I asked him, it’s a decent straw poll, so how was the yes/no balance?
They told me they were surprised at the amount of people who were saying NO.
They had been to Ibrox the day before and the NO vote was unanimous, quite aggressively so at times the guy said (with a smile).
I asked what the breakdown was at Celtic Park. He said it was still the majority NO but obviously less so than the previous day.
Take from that what you will.
monteblanco
09:36 on 1 May, 2014
There’s a nat poster on here who occasionally lets the mask slip and blurts out the truth. He probably thinks the way a lot of nats do. Their Scotland would not be a nice place. That’s the reality.
I tell you….that DR story about AS, is nothing but racism, sheer sectarianism right in front of your eyes.
I really hope someone can do something about, it needs to be challenged.
I wish the board would really speak out about it….its about time they did.
Scotland, is a sad shithole of a country…..racist
Makes me sick.
HH
Sorry for the language bhoys.
HH
Morning all. Back to the ole wind and rain. A lot colder too, now I think of it. Ach, we’ve been spoiled getting 4 or 5 days of lovely weather. That will never do.
How do the undead today? Has the unseen fenian hand been doing its dastardly best to undermine them? Oh, I do so fervently hope.
Can anyone explain the difference between ‘a Celtic spokesman’ and ‘a Celtic source’?
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
cheers….
BMCW
Would you invite someone into your house who was continually putting you down?
You could argue that such constant negativity has the effect of brainwashing some of our own fans (the booing of Fergus?), cranking up the hate mob on the other side or an impact on SB sales and share price, for example.
Do not underestimate the effects of media spin and propaganda.
Paul67 is a ‘Celtic spokesman’.
Keith Jackson’s spaniel is a ‘Celtic source’.
; )
MARRAKESH EXPRESS
I agree with you. My point is that banning them will have less effect than boycotting them.
However,a ban might make some people think twice about buying it.
So a good starting point,perhaps.
With this being d-day in a certain part of Govan, I thought this was worth sharing:
A wee lad goes up to the dodgy looking cashier at Ibrox and says:
“I want to buy a season ticket mister”
Cashier: “How old are you son?”
Wee lad: “Em, nearly nine, mister”
Cashier: “Ye dae know we don’t take debit or credit cerds?”
Wee lad: “Aye, ah know”, and proceeds to empty the contents of his school bag all over the cashier’s desk to reveal a sea of £1, 50p, 20p, 10p, 5p, 2p and 1p coins. “Ah think yu’ll find it’s aw therr mister.”
Cashier: “Where did ye get aw that money son”?
Wee lad: “Ma da gave me it. He kept it in a big bottle behind his wardrobe.”
Cashier: “Urr you sure aboot that son?”
Wee lad; “Aye, it’s the cash my father stored.”
MWD says AYe
Oh dear……
Three years ago today Steven Reynolds left us.
Gone but not forgotten.
Hail Hail
Another Celtic player caught singing in a pub?! Armageddon!!
Celtic should say and do nothing about this. If it’s brought up at a presser, Neil should stick to talking about the game and dingy it. Who cares about the DR? They’re full of tripe. Let them keep on selling papers to the their main audience – the gullible.
eddiegreenhillsbhoy
Thoughts an prayers with you and your wife.
Take care
HH
I notice Paul67 issued TD67 with a yellow card after certain posts were brought to his attention by other posters. Something someone seens to have missed here is that Paul67 must have read the posts and then agreed with the complainers that these posts were out of order otherwise he wouldn’t have issued the yellow card.
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This guy notices everything, keep an eye on him. Another one of my stalkers.
I regret to say it but for the first time in a year I ventured onto FF to check in with the inpatients.
Ooooofffffttttttt !!!!!!
Some things never change… No wonder tinfoil heid is the best they can do for a leader.
Doesent miss a thing this guy, same post.
I also notice that those who found these posts unacceptable, of which Paul67 must have been one, are now referred to by TD67, among other things as “snitch, or a grass, or a tattle tell, or a teachers pet”.
Spikeysauldman
Sorry I was trying to be ironic. I know the Goram story made the paper but I seem to remember it lasted a day unlike every negative Celtic story which runs and runs…
I’m just glad that Elvis had left the building or there might have been some real trouble
Ernie,
One can be used to dip your chips in at halftime.
Season Ticket Trust?
Written by: Nineteen Seventy-Two
It seems them on Hun media are asking Mr Lying King some awkward questions….with 2 weeks to go till the end of the renewal date it seems a bit late. Can any one help them with the answers to speed up the process;-)
Wednesday, 30th April 2014
In a week that saw the board of Ringers cinclude their 120 day review into the business, Season Ticket renewals across the country are in various stages of action, with Dave King and the “Union of Fans” encouraging Season Ticket holders to pay their season ticket monies in to an Escrow account that is intended to hold and release funds when Ringers sign over securities for the Albion Car Park and Edmiston House to Season Ticket holders.
With many of our members expressing concern that the “Season Ticket Trust” hasn’t been made clear to them, we believe it is appropriate to seek clarity by asking the following questions of Dave King, and the “Union of Fans”.
It should be noted that we also have concerns about the 120 Day Review, and how the club plan to bridge an apparent cash flow shortfall, with the club £1.5M down before next season has even started
Q – Has an Escrow account been set up yet?
Q – If so, who is hosting that Escrow account facility, i.e. which bank?
Q – Who are the Trustees of the account, other than Richard Gough?
Q – How do I pay in to it?
Q – If I pay in to it, what guarantees do I have over what seat I will be paying for, and that the seat will be in my name?
Q – What written assurances do I get that the money will be returned, in the event that the assurances the Trust are requesting from Rangers are not granted?
Q – What assurances, other than guarantees over Rangers owned assets have the Trust requested?
Q – 66.6% of the loan value, not including interest, is due to Rangers Supporters Trust board member George Letham. Don’t the Trust feel that withholding funds to Rangers runs the risk of Rangers defaulting on the loan to Mr Letham, and thereby Mr Letham theoretically stands to gain £1.075M worth of shares in Rangers International Football Club?
Q – Can George Letham confirm what his plans are regarding his holdings if that share value is transferred to him, namely, will he retain ownership and voting rights, or will he proxy votes to the Rangers Supporters Trust (RST)?
Q – For those who sign up for Away Tickets, how will they get tickets in future?
Q – Do current Travel Club members stand to lose travel club points by using this Trust?
Q – How will Richard Gough act as Guarantor as a resident of the USA?
Q – What are the Administration costs of the Escrow account, and how will they be funded?
Q – In the event that Rangers are willing to compromise over loan securities, with the agreement of Sandy Easdale and George Letham, who will become the signatory for these assets on behalf of Season Ticket holders
Q – Do shareholders that live abroad with a shareholding in value higher than the price of a season ticket get any security?
Q – Why was there no mention of the Season Ticket Trust, or any information about it in the UoF leaflet handed out last week?
Q – Will the Trust facilitate split payments like those offered by the club to pay for Season Tickets (through Zebra finance over 4 or 10 months)?
Q – Will Season Ticket Holders who have sat in their seat for a number of years be able to secure “their” seat at Ibrox, or will they stand to lose “their” seat?
Q – Will money deposited accrue any interest? If so, what will be done with that money?
Q – Where will the interest payments be shown?
Q – Who decides exactly when the money will be released to the club and in what form?
Q – Will the custodians of the account be separate and distinct from the organisations who wish only for the board’s removal?
Q – Will every member have a say in when the money should be released?
Q – What exactly does the board need to do (beyond what they have) to make the monies available?
Q – What lines of communication have been opened with the club to urgently discuss the aims of this project?
Q – Who exactly has the authority to negotiate with the club?
Q – How often will fans putting money into this scheme be updated of progress and by what medium?
Q – What other transparency is guaranteed by way of communicating to those who pay in to the scheme?
Q – Are other Rangers supporters’ organisations involved in this scheme?
Q – Are the Rangers supporters trust or any of their senior or high profile members involved at the core of this?
Q – Will there be a board of Trustees in the scheme, and if so, how will they be elected?
Q – How can supporters and contributors become involved to influence the decisions being made?
Q – Are any previous board members of any of Rangers corporate entities, other than Dave King, involved? If so, at what level?
Q – Are there any conditions attached to the Trust that require a nominee of the Trust to join the PLC board or the football club board of Rangers?
Q – If so, how will that nominee be chosen?
Q – Will the Trust be VAT Registered?
Q – If the board acquiesce to UOF demands who will then hold first charge/security on the stadium rights to our club?
Q – What IT problems could possibly delay implementation of the Trust?
We trust that the relevant people involved in the Trust will both answer these questions and make themselves known to Ringers supporters, who are understandably cautious about contributing their hard earned money to a scheme that appears to carry a high element of risk.
We feel that supporters should seek clarity both from the PLC board of the club, over their plans for the future, and from those promoting the Season Ticket Trust.
tonydonnelly67
10:09 on 1 May, 2014
‘certain posts were brought to his attention by other posters’
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That’s the bit I find hard to comprehend.
It’s a bit like complaining to the barman because you don’t like what someone has said in a pub.