It is enormously sad news that our friend Kano, Martin Kane, succumbed to his illness this morning. Kano was an ever-present on CQN for four years, on occasion writing our match reports, until illness struck in 2008. He was left completely paralysed, eventually only able to communicate through a machine, requiring round the clock care.
He was isolated in hospital in his home city of Perth, Western Australia, lonely for him and difficult for his wife Carolyn and their family, with no realistic chance of recovery. On hearing this news, CQN reacted in an incredible way. Our also now-departed friend, Pablophanque, wrote, “We need to get this guy home”, and a campaign started to raise the tens of thousands of pounds required to transform part of his home into an appropriate care facility.
As the campaign got underway I remember being concerned, it was going to take at least £60k and I thought we had no chance of getting close to this. Pablo (memorably) didn’t want to head the campaign he started but others soon stepped in and the Bring Martin Home got underway in earnest. Those behind it moved heaven and earth, and within a few months, the money was in place and Kano was back living at home with his family.
The Kano Foundation, a remarkable self-funded organisation which takes kids groups and charities to Celtic games, was established by those running the Bring Martin Home campaign, to harness the expertise and goodwill for on-going good, in Martin’s name.
When I first met Kano’s dad, Matt, who himself is no longer with us, six years ago, I was caught off-guard when he talked about Kano’s life expectancy. Unable to move he was enormously vulnerable to any prosaic infection. He suffered a few health scares but fought through them for far longer than many anticipated.
We got him back on the blog briefly, sharing some of his gratitude for the work done and his humour, but he explained the hours it took to compose his few sentences. He continued to watch Celtic, of course.
This morning our thoughts go to Carolyn and the kids, as well as to his good pal Ramie and those who cared for Martin. Those who decided to get off their arses and change the world for one family back in 2008 should be very proud of what they did, and the years at home they gave Kano.
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McGinn for Aberdeen. It had to be him today, didn’t it!
Rumours rumours rumours
so far today I’ve been texted Anya, Armstrong and Wilson (Hertz)
I’m in Bada’s camp…
HH
….and now it’s Shay Logan!
leftclicktic
15:30 on
10 January, 2015
cheers
got an idea anyone need help with work/volunteering/anything
.
will work for free, off the bevy so got time on my hands.
fedupandboredootmynutcsc
Only read this page so far and see mention of tickets for the upcoming semi-final.
Have to admit, i have no interest in going to that one. They will be at their most vile odious worst IMO and I also think once we have cuffed them it could get messy. Hope im wrong about that last part, but knowing them…..
It’ll be the TV in the house for me that particular day.
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
THE QUEUE SO FAR
Nye Bevans’ rebel soilder
TheLurkinTim(frebbie) cheap bassa.
MickTT
BUTSYBHOY
Get back on the bevvy and save the glory-hunting for the young yins like MICKTT.
Ruined his weekend,you have.
Off the radar debt
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Oh dear.
Legacy issues.
A very panicked David Somers presented himself at the abode of Philip Tudor Nash in something of a state.
The ex-company secretary and chief financial officer of Rangers International Football Club was informed of a worrying development.
Nash was told that by the panicking RIFC chairman that something had been called in.
What I can tell you this morning dear reader is that it was:
Entirely unexpected
From the Charles Green era
In the accounting trade I believe they call these little landmines ‘off the books debt’.
Oh Charlie!
Somers is now being asked questions by Leach and Llambias that he does not have the answer to and this was the reason for him turning up on Nash’s doorstep.
This would help to explain the panic about the need to acquire £6.5m so urgently.
A lovely euphemism for this practice is ‘Incognito Leverage’.
Simply delightful.
In other news the Sarver bid IS being seriously considered and the board have asked the American if James Easdale can be allowed to re-invest and have a place in the new set-up..
Talks ongoing.
Now I have a double deadline to meet on other matters.
Subsequently I cannot be of any more help to the stenographers till Monday.
Previous post from oor Phil
Am off,
afore i go…..just want to say am glad to have been the object/subject of abuse earlier…..misguided anger at Martins untimely passing let yeez vent at my expense…..so be it…..am thick enuff to take it…..;-))
RIP Kano
H.H. YNWA
weneedherosCSC
SIPSINI 1444
Bring back Jim Farry,I say!
When we had to play on Thursdays when that wee was in charge,we still had to play on Saturday too.
I may have missed a word out,cyberpint to the first person to guess which one I wanted to say.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
15:39 on
10 January, 2015
that’s how feckin sad i have got.
HH
Billy Bhoy
15:35 on 10 January, 2015
McGinn for Aberdeen. It had to be him today, didn’t it!
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Delighted for him, he does not deserve the crap he endured at Celtic and now at Aberdeen from the SMSM and the bigots, intertwined?
People brought up the right way don’t resort to dishonest things. I’d be offended if any Celtic supporter lay down.
Celtic have had to Fight for Everything.
Last Man Standing has got a lot to answer for, I just went “YAAS” when Oscar scored for Chelsea
Never thought I would see that day
Afternoon Folks.
Shaun Maloney ……. hmmmmm
Now I like Shaun, he is a dedicated player who has worked hard at his game, suffered some big injuries in his career and has had some great goal scoring and creative moments in his Celtic career.
There is no doubting his skill and his abilities with a dead ball after all that practice and coaching via Lubo.
However, I am not so sure that he would want to return to Celtic or that such a return would be good for him.
The reason for my doubts?
Shaun’s head.
When he went to Villa he could not settle and did not fulfil his potential in the EPL.
When he came back to Celtic he initially failed to find his previous form or spark and was inconsistent although he was not helped by injury again.
Since moving to Wigan he has matured, become more confident in himself, established himself a senior professional with his club and Scotland and generally become a better footballer.
All of that has been achieved with the same skill set that he had at Celtic park. What has changed is his head and what lies within it.
The Villa experience undoubtedly knocked his confidence and for Sean confidence is a big thing.
At Wigan he has been their best player for the last couple of years and is seen as a leading light at the club let alone in the team.
That may not necessarily be the case on a third trip through Parkhead’s gates and to be honest a Shaun Maloney who is not at the top of his game and with his head in a wrong place is not something that Celtic want and not something that would be good for Shaun Maloney.
I don’t know Shaun, but I do know a couple of folk who do and my observations come from picking up snippets from them over the years.
Shaun Maloney is a guy to be admired in terms of what he has done with his football career, in choosing to pursue and work at that career as opposed to pursuing another sporting life ( which was a possibility ) and as someone who is a genuine Celtic fan who has lived the dream.
However, I am not sure that a return to Celtic park as a player is the route to go.
67 HEAVEN
Oh dear. An off-balance-sheet liability surfaces at a bad time.
Whooooodathunkit?
!!Bada Bing!!
15:16 on
10 January, 2015
starry plough-Last week Armstrong,this week Maloney,the week after Anya blah ,blah ,blah, CFC feeding the SMSM guff for our consumption.I was told last week nobody coming in,unless somebody leaves.HH
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That’s ok by me. For all its deficiencies (and there are many), the current squad is good enough to win all three domestic trophies. Our priority should be to ship out the deadwood this and the summer transfer windows.
We currently have a first team squad of forty players which includes 5 on currently on loan to other clubs. We are haemorrhaging money on players who seem more than happy to sit on the sidelines picking up a five figure monthly salary. Our squad should be trimmed to thirty with the concentration on quality rather than quantity.
Nye Bevans,
so…..if i can get you a ticket ( free to me, £20 quid to you…..;-)) ) you won’t/don’t want it?
H.H.
cheapbassasrusCSC
wewantheroesCSC
BSR,
thanks. This season 20 app for Wigan and 5 for Scotland
From what I have seen of Sean lately especially in the Scotland squad he seems to be in better shape and a wee bit quicker
HH
gsu
Them PSV kids looked sharp
Bobby,
is it mustashiod shit?
H.H.
weneedheroesCSC
Is it possible that the £6.5m used to buy the zombies from D&P was a loan which is, indeed, now being called in ?…… THAT really would be ‘game, set and match’ …. !!!!
BUTSYBHOY
Sad you will never be,bud. If you have the balls to stay off the drink for a bit,you have my total respect.
That you offer your services to kill time disnae surprise me. Firstly cos yer a good guy,secondly cos the ennui is the killer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_UGD7AazMI
I’d love to offer advice on your situation,but I last chucked the bevvy,for Lent,when I was in my teens. All I can say is-and this is also to PHILBHOY and anyone else doing similar-well done,and congratulations on being a better man than I.
Surely Willie Collum should be shown the red card.
A total incompetent as a referee.
Cyberpint is mine…..;-))
H.H.
BMCUW & 67H
Could it be the guy with big Yorkshire hands back in?
leftclicktic
15:30 on
10 January, 2015
cheers
got an idea anyone need help with work/volunteering/anything
.
will work for free, off the bevy so got time on my hands.
fedupandboredootmynutcsc
http://www.waysidecentre.org.uk/
THELURKINTIM
Strangely,no. But the sentiment is there…
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
15:46 on 10 January, 2015
I’m totally gobsmacked that this could well have been a secret loan between the 2 clumpanies, RIFC & TRFC, now being called in …….. Fekin Armageddon, right enough ….am away to lie down ….. Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
If we did sign Armstrong from Utd, who would he replace in the first 11?
BMCUW
Thanks pal
might see u in Belfast.
HH
Bobby,
thought i’d won it there…..you too tight to give a cyberpint?
H.H.
eddieinkirkmichael
It was
butsybhoy
15:38 on 10 January, 2015
Who was asking bud
67 HEAVEN
Shockerooooooni,innit?
Enjoy yer lie doon,I’m gonna have a wee snifter or two and raise a glass to Agent Green.
67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon ….The angels are with Wee Oscar in Heaven.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
Although TSFM is Over The Top with moderation plenty of good digging over the last couple of daysespecially from folk like Goosy Goosy
Challs is back and his Big Hauns are empty:)))
THELURKINTIM
Not when it is earned,old bean.
In real life,of course,it’s slightly different. Then you just have to guess which household item,piece of clothing,brand of car,I’m thinking about,and voila,I stand for my round.
The winners deserve it,and I tip the waitress the change from the ten-bob note.
Am aff oot this time…..honestly this place takes up too much of my tim(e)…..;-))
H.H.
weneedheroesCSC