Raising money for the needy is the first part of our heritage as Celtic supporters. Once that job is done, you need to ensure it goes to worthy projects. This year is likely to see a new high water mark for your Foundation. As well as the usual badge day, bucket collection, Christmas Appeal and other projects throughout the year, we had the events surrounding the 50th anniversary of the Lisbon Lions European Cup win.
Celebrations at The Hydro and the Grosvenor Hotel in London not only marked the anniversary in some style, they allowed the Foundation to be more ambitious with their projects.
You and I have discussed many times how seemingly innocuous contemporary events would not take place without that achievement in Lisbon, but it never occurred to me that the work done because of the Lions should bear their name in legacy.
Today, Celtic FC Foundation announced £2m would be paid to Dementia Care for projects run by Alzheimer Scotland: ‘Lions Lunch Breaks’ and ‘Dementia Befrienders’.
Research continues into the effects of heading a football on dementia. The illness has struck the Lions directly; Billy McNeill’s family recently let it be known he has suffered for several years. It is a distressing condition for both suffers and their loved ones. These projects will make daily life more enjoyable for both.
Well done to everyone who put their hand in their pocket this year.
More later……
NEW CQN PODCAST OUT NOW!
A Celtic State of Mind presents its 23rd instalment of insightful discussion into the culture of Celtic Football Club, the city of Glasgow, and fans of the reigning invincible Scottish champions.
Paul John Dykes is joined by Bafta-winning documentary director, John MacLaverty, and Scottish comedian, Phil Differ.
John’s Lisbon Lions documentary – Glasgow: 1967 – is an incredible celebration of Celtic’s European Cup win 50 years on.
Phil has been a staple part of Scottish comedy for decades, and has worked on such iconic productions as Scotch & Wry, Naked Video, City Lights, Rab C Nesbitt and Only An Excuse.
The CQN Podcast has gone from strength-to-strength over the last few months, and there are many more guests lined up in the months ahead from the world of sport, music, film, art, broadcasting, literature and politics.
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The absence of Italy, Ireland, and (I suppose) Scoddland, means this will be a very dull World Cup in Casa Italiabhoy.
But despite my guttedness I was really happy for Mikael Lustig: a really under-rated player for us.
That awkward moment when you get a lance in a ifetime chance to address Peter Lawwell and you ask him about Park’s Buses?
Shareholders CSC
lance = chance
Can’t see Michael O’Neill heading to Ibrox.
Will have a few decent offers now, I imagine, and unless you are McCall-level staunch (which I’m pretty sure he, er, isn’t), then Sevco is a chalice to be avoided at all costs.
I also suspect “Deeks” realises this as well…
Copied over from SFM because its important the response goes wider than Celtic fans.
Here is the statement in full from Celtic with regard to Resolution 12 adjourned at 2013 AGM and the response to it.
Statement re Resolution 12 (2013 AGM) at Celtic 2017 AGM.
In the past year the Club has continued to work with shareholder representatives to seek to achieve a satisfactory solution to the concerns raised by both the board and shareholders regarding issues of football governance. Shareholders raised their initial concerns via Resolution 12 from our AGM in 2013, relating to Scottish FA licensing procedures in 2011. At that meeting a vote was taken to adjourn the resolution indefinitely to allow further enquiries to be made of the SFA and if necessary UEFA.
Having raised the matter with the Scottish FA in 2011 and 2012, the Club had received assurances as to the process followed. Following the concerns raised by shareholders, over the last four years the Club has continued to work with shareholder representatives to seek further clarification on various matters, and the matter was, and continues to be reviewed, by the Board on a regular basis.
Over those four years, the Club has corresponded with the Scottish FA, and independent solicitors instructed by the shareholders have also corresponded with the Scottish FA, providing them with information for consideration and asked further questions regarding governance procedures. The responses received thus far did not address the concerns raised.
At the same time, court proceedings which related to the issues raised in correspondence were progressing in the Scottish courts. The Club and shareholders agreed to await the outcome of those proceedings.
Following the conclusion of those court proceedings, the Club called upon the Scottish FA to hold an independent review of all matters, including the licensing processes followed in 2011, which are of importance to the governance of football in Scotland. The SPFL also called for a review.
Regrettably, the SFA declined to hold such a review. The Club remains of the view that an independent review established by the Scottish FA and SPFL presents the best opportunity to allow lessons to be learned and recommendations made to ensure effective governance moving forward so that such events cannot happen again.
However, the Board and shareholders welcomed the SFA’s decision to refer the specific issue of UEFA licensing procedures in season 2011/2012 to the SFA Compliance Officer for him to review.
The Club awaits the outcome of that review with keen interest and will review matters with shareholder representatives at that stage.
The Board will take appropriate steps to promote and protect the interests of the Club and will continue to work closely with the shareholders’ representatives.
In response, I would like to say:
Thank you Michael for stating where matters now stand.
As a spokesperson for all shareholders who supported Resolution 12, I would like to say that we strongly share Celtic’s disappointment at the SFA declining to hold an independent enquiry.
However, supporters of many clubs, not just Celtic, see the SFA Compliance Officer investigation as a step towards restoring integrity and a degree of trust in the proper governance of Scottish football
I would like to add that as
First: A Football supporter and lover of the game in Scotland.
Second: A Celtic football supporter who loves the way we play the game – on and off the park
and
Third: A Celtic shareholder
That I hope this great opportunity towards restoring trust in football governance will not be spurned by those responsible for its safekeeping.
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Interesting that Hibernian fans share the same concerns and if they want further reason to then it is in this Compliance Officer investigation because of what it would prove if properly done a based on the evidence presented to them by Celtic which will be bolstered by all the correspondence between the Res12 lawyers, the SFA and UEFA.
Ultimately this matter of integrity and trust will be settled by supporters of football in Scotland and not by the guilty parties.
Happy Birthday to Mrs CRC !!
JMCCORMICK
Dunno why you bother coming on at all,if you only do so to point out that you don’t come on much.
i must say though,that I miss your wit and wisdom. I’m sure everyone who knows you feels the same.
Celtic’s League Cup final ticket allocation sold-out
By: Newsroom Staff on 15 Nov, 2017 15:19
THE Hoops head to Hampden on Sunday, November 26 to face Motherwell in the final of the Betfred League Cup and the club’s allocation of 32,600 tickets for the match are now sold-out.
Brendan Rodgers’ side are the League Cup holders, having secured the silverware during last season’s historic, invincible, treble-winning campaign and they’ll set out to secure the trophy yet again in front of a strong support at the National Stadium.
It’s a 3pm kick-off on Sunday, November 26 and, with our ticket allocation sold-out, we thank our fans once again for their tremendous support.
The ole Sevco septic chalice
“As a club we deeply resent association with the scuttlebuck that was Panorama.”
Where’s VFR when you need him?
What kind of venison do you get from a scuttlebuck?
Surely the word that Oul Tin Ear Bankier was searching for was “scuttlebutt”?
Next thing you know and people will be mis-using hornswoggle
water cooler gossip
BIG PACKY on 15TH NOVEMBER 2017 5:53 PM
BIG JIMMY. with regards to comments earlier about you not drinking spirits. the drinks are definately on me next time we meet.lol.
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.Cheers mate….but I should warn you what I don’t drink in spirits…I certainly make up for in Beers
i’m a Guzzler once I start.
HH
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
Bankier’s words were reported on Twitter. As such,unlikely to be verbatim but more a reflection of what the tweeter thought he heard.
BIGJIMMY
Girly bottles of Miller do not a guzzler make,big fella(!)
BMCUW
So it was just scuttlebutt, then? :-)
Serious blaze in a multi-storey near Belfast. Fingers crossed.
Currently watching on Iplayer, the Bill Shankly documentary,
Very good – lots of parallels with Big Jock.
SETTINGFREETHEBEARS
Mibbe,dunno. But I heard some people up the back started some strange dance.
One for Scotland fans within the CQN community who, I appreciate, are probably in the minority for many different reasons! Bend it like Baxter, a comedy play about that ‘other’ match in ’67 at Wembley that featured four of the Lions only a few weeks before Lisbon. A time when Scotland were quite good at kicking a ball about! Timed to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the match and the nation basking in the glory of qualifying for the World Cup via the play offs. So, that’s one out of two then!
http://www.webstersglasgow.com/events/bend-like-baxter/
An ole Celtic board trick making fans reach for the dictionary.
Malcontents – Jack McGinn CSC
I don’t understand why the blog is so peaceful tonight, post AGM.
With the club in turmoil on and off the park, I would have expected some level of dissension in the ranks.
I guess there’s nowt as fickle as folks, eh.
Scuttlebutt in slang usage means rumor or gossip,
I imagine that was what Bankier said, or did he say clusterfu**.
BMCUW
Behave yourself, you on a fishing expedition?
I’ll bite for now, my reluctance to post was not my primary point, in fact it was not even my secondary point. Just passing on a a little local flavour from my travels over the last couple of days, as for passing on wit and wisdom? I think that passed me by a good few years ago.
I must get back to an earnest discussion on the correct amount of leg to be exposed when turning up your chino’s for work. It’s not all fun up north you know. .
Didn’t that Ross gellar go oot wi a lassie called hornswoggle
THOMTHETHIM
Must be an AGM day. Bankier and “Behave yourself” all on the same page. It’s like yon deja vu thing all over again.
As it would be if I posted my thoughts on the board and an AGM.
For any sado masochists out there- Crusaders v Linfield on BBC Red Button
Ian Bankier addresses the AGM
https://www.change.org/p/ceo-hibernian-football-club-release-information-related-to-rangers-football-club-2012
SFTB- VG ;)
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 15TH NOVEMBER 2017 7:44 PM
THOMTHETHIM
Must be an AGM day. Bankier and “Behave yourself” all on the same page. It’s like yon deja vu thing all over again.
As it would be if I posted my thoughts on the board and an AGM.
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……..and can one safely assume that the CP pies are of a satisfactory temperature?
Clutterbuck was a popular phrase of Colonel Sherman Potter in M*A*S*H.
Gabby Bankier says what needed to be said
THOMTHETHIM
My disparaging opinion of Parkhead Pies Through The Decades is no secret,their only use being as a missile/WMD,but a couple of them have recently been surreptitiously smuggled out for my delectation.
Damn nice they were too,a vast improvement. Though their temperature depended largely on the smuggling method involved. So I didnae ask!
So scuttlebutt it is then?
Doesn’t really make a whole lot of difference, the dogs keep barking but the caravan moves on , as a great football coach never said.
!!Bada Bing!! on 15th November 2017 4:17 pm
A summary of the AGM on the website, no mention of Res 12 ……
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It wasn’t named but it was covered.
“Shareholders were then invited to ask questions, with a variety of issues raised, including an update following the club’s call for the SFA to conduct an independent review into Scottish football and its licensing procedures. The SFA Compliance Officer is currently conducting an investigation into the granting of UEFA licences specific to the 2011/12 season, and the club are awaiting the results of that investigation.”
Best line from AGM came from Joe O Rourke CSA
“If Regan told me he told lies, I wouldn’t believe him”
Auldheid- apologies all round, just read it again, keep fighting the good fight HH
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 15TH NOVEMBER 2017 7:29 PM
BIGJIMMY
Girly bottles of Miller do not a guzzler make,big fella(!)
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I know…I know…BT questioned my Machoness on Saturday re bottles of Miller which I do NOT normally drink…but due to being unwell in recent weeks, I thought it best to stick to Girly bottles of Miller for once, as a light refreshment instead of my usual Belhaven Best and/or Guinness ?
Thats my excuse for drinking like Dale feckin Winton…and i’m sticking to it !
Every real macho man like me…is only a real macho man cos we are not afraid of our feminine side now and again…now where did I put my Sweetheart Stout and Pink Gin ?
HH
when talking about the parkhead pies ffs. remember the guy coming round the terracing. with the macaroon bars spearmint chewing gum and cold sausage rolls we still ate them.
My BUTT has never been so SCUTTLED…..As Fred Scuttle may have said ?
HH