New Balance take over from Nike this summer as Celtic’s official kit partner and main sponsor. The US sportswear firm have along heritage in technical products, like running shoes, with less of a legacy in the leisurewear market than the likes of Nike, but this move, as well as a recent deal to partner Liverpool, indicates a strong commitment to become a major player in the football marketplace.
Both the Celtic and Liverpool contracts have been advertised as potentially record deals for the respective clubs, although each club declined to put a figure on the value, or the contract period in their official statements. It’s likely that a significant part of the contract fee will depend on Champions League qualification.
Unconfirmed reports put the size of the deal at £29m, cash that other clubs have securitised off to a retailer.
Last call today for CQN11 St Patrick’s Dinner, which takes place next Friday, 13 March, at the Kerrydale Suite. After the dinner we have a Q&A with Packy Bonnar, Tommy Coyne, Joe Miller and Tom Boyd. We have Archie Macpherson speaking about Jock Stein on the 50th anniversary of him becoming manager, and song from Patricia Ferns.
The object of the night is to raise money to build another school kitchen for Mary’s Meals in Malawi. Kris Commons’ partner, Lisa Hague, will also join us. She will be auctioning an incredible prize of a signed Ronny Deila jersey, signed Kris Commons boots and match hospitality in the Players’ Lounge for the Marie Curie Hospice in Glasgow.
Tickets will be posted out over the next few days, email me if you’re still looking, celticquicknews@gmail.com we’re closing the book tomorrow.
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jimmynotpaul
21:42 on 5 March, 2015
Doooooh ….. Think you should watch the video again ….PL was pandering to noone….
there is a difference between Irish and Irish republicans – celtic were founded to help feed the poor and underprivileged – by and irish priest. it so happened that many of the poor were indeed irish immigrants but not exclusively.
Celtic knows its history and its future has no political agenda – this is the ONLY way ahead otherwise we are on a parallel with sevco.
jimmynotpaul
21:42 on 5 March, 2015
Stringer bell 21.26.
Can’t agree with your comments.
This was a good news story hijacked by the press to put a negative slant on Celtic.
Look at BBC website for example.
Peter handled it poorly. He could have batted it away not the time or place or he could have been more up to speed on our history.
Although that is the bit that is puzzling me. Peter went to my school so I have no doubt that he knows our history. Makes me think he was pandering to a unionist press.
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We are going to face these question though, our club has had enough negative press to make them relevant, like it or not. It’s a story.
What did he say that was factually wrong today?
Cowiebhoy@ 21.39…agreed..
67. Heaven.
You are entitled to you opinion. I will disagree. He tied himself in knots trying to watch his words.
We are all adults no need for the patronising Doooooh.
hamiltontim
21:41 on 5 March, 2015
Absolutely spot on ……now that sevco is at a critical stage in it’s decaying state, the smsm need to get the hunsonboard, and how better to do this than to humble the timmies……but, they are forgetting OUR DAY HAS COME …….. Their favoured club is deed, and sevco will follow suite …… soon
http://www.thefootballlife.co.uk/post/112216843941/deforrestation-the-end-of-a-celtic-career
jimmynotpaul
21:49 on 5 March, 2015
……anything but patronising, just my way of saying ‘bollocks’ ……just kidding lighten up HH
It is noticeable that a number of Irish posters don’t want IRA chants at Celtic games. In contrast, many of the hardliner dinosaurs are from Scotland, far from the realities of a tragic conflict.
PL is doing what is best for Celtic.
TinyTim
17:17 on
5 March, 2015
Touch tar are la 13.05
My joke went over your head.
You said that I had less chance of dementia.
I then said I couldn’t recall .
If it needs explaining it was a right pish joke.
(:-)
TT
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Aaaarrgghh!! Of course! Very deep and thoughtful….Hats off.
I claim that just coming in from a nightshift was the reason I was a wee bit slow:-)
you may have got JJ too :-)
Hail Hail
stebhoy
21:45 on 5 March, 2015
Correct……nail on head, in a lot lees words than mine
stebhoy
21:45 on 5 March, 2015
Where do you get your knowledge of the history of Celtic from?
Serious question.
67 Heaven.
Fair enough. Bollocks I can handle. Not literally though!!!!
Oglach
Great post,I agree with all you said.
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Stringer Bell,
Regarding your contextualisation of republicanism in an earlier post.
I,as an Irish republican, took part in the military campaign against the British in 70s,80,and 90s.
Could you explain the difference between the republicans of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and those of my generation please.
HH BB
CELTIC LINKS – a true story or two! —- please read.
A teenage boy sits and watches. His father is on the edge of his seat throughout and constantly cheers on his team, but the boy just watches. Their team is losing – losing but playing brilliantly and the man refuses to give up hope and keeps telling his son:
“They’ll score! They’ll score!”
And they do score!
There is jumping around the living room. There are shouts of encouragement to the team so many miles away: “Come on now!” says the father “We have them! You can do it!”
And the teenage boy watches. He watches his television and he watches his father and his father’s belief and soaks it all in.
Then, in the dying moments, their team scores again!
“Ya beauty” shouts the father and leaps off the couch. Father and son hug one another, for theirs is a special bond. They leap, shout, smile and sing – and they rejoice in that one fabulous and universally understood word — CELTIC!
The kingdom of Fife is one of the earth’s holy places in the world of sport. People, from every corner of the globe come to Fife for the sheer thrill of standing in the rain or the sun or the wind or the cloud just for the thrill of being able to say that they have played golf there.
From California to Kathmandu, from Bangkok to Bangladesh, from Newcastle to New York and from Partick to Panama when it comes to world of golf St Andrews is Paradise, with Kings Barns, Crail and many other courses treated as if they are hallowed ground.
Our teenage boy of the story above dreamed of winning the British Open in Fife but it was a dream he would never achieve.
Sam Torrance’s moment on the World stage would come at the Belfry Resort and Golf Club in Warwickshire where he would sink the put to win the Ryder Cup. It was a moment that would define a great sporting career.
However, ask him about football, and he will tell you how he watched Celtic win the European Cup with his father and legendary coach, Bob. Celtic was Bob Torrance’s team and so Sam was always going to follow them – it was inevitable.
A number of years ago, a well-known Golfing magazine decided to do a feature on Golfers and their football teams and have some of the leading golfers of the day pose in the strip of their choice.
This proved to be a problem because one team seemed to dominate the potential photo shoot and that simply would not do.
Eventually Sam got to wear the hoops but only after fighting off competition from Bernard Gallagher, Paul McGinley, Padraig Harrington and various others.
Shortly before the Ryder Cup, Paul McGinley, who followed in Sam’s footsteps as winning Ryder Cup Captain and player, was asked in an interview:
“What is your favourite word?”
“Celtic!” came the instant reply.
McGinley only turned to golf after a knee injury brought his budding Gaelic football career to an end. However in pursuing his chosen career he has never hidden his other passion – The Green and White of Celtic.
Watching Paul McGinley on a golf course is quite an interesting phenomenon.
He tees up with green and white hooped tees and wipes his clubs down with a green and white hooped towel.
On the afternoon of 22nd May 2005, McGinley was leading the BMW Masters Tournament and was hot favourite to win the title. This was his best year in golf and he would ultimately finish third in the European order of merit.
Unfortunately, on the 15th hole, Paul completely fluffed a shot and ended up in a bunker. He was clearly disgusted and so out of sorts that his game lost its consistency during the last holes and he eventually came in second two strokes behind Angel Cabrera of Argentina.
There is a story that abounds which says that Paul was interviewed on television immediately after his round had finished and was asked by the interviewer where things had gone wrong for him and what happened at the 15th?
Allegedly McGinley replied “ F**king Motherwell Scored!” – though that quote cannot be confirmed — or denied apparently!
However, it is not just the golfers who have this amazing love of Celtic football club on the pro tour.
There are few more recognisable people on the golf circuit than Ian Poulter who is a devout Arsenal fan apparently. However, his golf towel his half Arsenal half Celtic on the insistence of his caddy Terry Mundy who is well known for having an affection for the hoops.
However, the last word on this golfing affection for the Glasgow Football Club goes to Sam Torrance.
The scene is a sporting lunch in a Glasgow hotel with a Q & A session with Sam.
The MC announces that the next sporting lunch will be to honour the Rangers side who won the European Cup Winners Cup in 1972.
“ I’ll give that one a miss!” says Sam very loudly and turns to take another question from the floor.
“ How would you compare yourself to Jack Nicklaus?” asks the questioner.
Sam Torrance pauses, then says with a smile:
“ Well that’s like comparing Rangers to Celtic” he says dryly.
“They both play the same sport technically – but they are not really in the same league are they? – never were and never will be!”
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Joseph strikes a golf ball again and again. Sometimes the ball goes left, sometimes right sometimes it flies straight. It doesn’t matter on a golf range. The ball can fly for two hundred yards or barely make it passed twenty yards and it won’t matter.
For Joseph it is the repetitiveness of the swing that counts; the recurring routine of the set up, the swing and the end result that counts. When he gets down to swinging the club again and again he is happy.
He talks not stop between hits:
“ That is a good one. I like that shot. That is a good one. Keep your eye on the ball when you hit it. That is a good one.”
And occasionally:
“ If you don’t hit it right you will go back in your box prospector! Yes you will!”
Joseph is severely autistic.
The exercise at the golf range is one of his favourite past times. He likes to cycle, swim, ski and various other things but he is keen on golf.
His mum can sit on the bench behind his place on the golf range and take a rest. She can maybe read a book or a newspaper and enjoy a cup of tea from a paper cup.
Sometimes she hits a few balls with Joseph but on other occasions she just takes a break at the golf range while he hits the balls.
After this there will be cycling, and then home for tea and then bed.
Tomorrow she will go to work, do her job and then come home and take Joseph out somewhere else – maybe to a concert, maybe just for a walk or maybe to the cinema – and then home for tea and the bed.
And on to the next day…… and the next.
Joseph’s mother is a widow. He only has her, and she only has him.
He is 25 years old and weighs 17 stone. If he doesn’t exercise he will get ever heavier and will suffer potential health problems. He is a big lump of a boy.
He is generally a happy bloke, and can be very funny with his observations and his repetition of any phrase he has heard on the TV.
Once his mother went out for dinner and a friend agreed to “babysit” with Joseph.
“ He likes to watch movies” his mum had said and so the friend thought nothing at all about saying to Joseph “ Come on and we will watch a movie big guy!”
And his face lit up as he sat down on the couch: “I like movies”.
Perhaps Pulp Fiction was not the best choice.
When Joseph’s mother came home he was in bed, asleep and all was well.
It was only the following day when she took him out and he started repeating all of the lines from the movie that she realised what had happened.
There was no point in trying to explain to passers-by, all they saw was a 6 ft plus chap with a big smile on his face suggesting that he was going to “shoot the mother**ker up the ass!”
That’s the way it is with an autistic adult and for the parent or carer of an Autistic adult.
Sometimes funny, more times sad – and all the time just hard —- bloody hard!
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Thursday April 2nd 2015 is world autism awareness day.
Autism is a lifelong developmental disability that affects how a person communicates with, and relates to, other people. It also affects how they make sense of the world around them.
It is a spectrum condition, which means that, while all people with autism share certain difficulties, their condition will affect them in different ways. Some people with autism are able to live relatively independent lives but others may have accompanying learning disabilities and need a lifetime of specialist support.
Joseph is one of those who needs specialist support 24/7
People with autism may also experience over- or under-sensitivity to sounds, touch, tastes, smells, light or colours.
Some Autism sufferers, like Joseph, have severe communication and learning difficulties. They cannot communicate like other people do and have no ability to pick up the social niceties that most of us come to learn naturally.
The world is a jumbled mixture of sounds, people, personalities and situations which don’t always make sense and which can’t be described.
So, Thursday April 2nd is World Autism Awareness Day.
It is also the day of the inaugural Celtic FC Foundation Charity Golf Day which will take place at Renfrew Golf Club next to the Normandy Hotel. All proceeds raised from the golf day will be going towards a project initiated by the Celtic FC Foundation which will help children and young people with autism and their families.
In collaboration with the University of Strathclyde, Celtic FC Foundation intend to create a project which will offer an opportunity to enhance each child’s wellbeing through supported physical activity such as football, dance and maybe some golf with a focus on fun.
The autism project will also seek to enhance parents’ and carers’ skills in behaviour management with an emphasis on promoting the development of social interaction skills for children and young people with autism.
Ultimately, the proceeds from Celtic FC Foundation’s inaugural Golf Day will help support autistic children and young people through both inclusiveness and providing parents and carers with practical skills to enhance their child’s well-being.
The format of the Golf Day will see a host of teams playing 18 holes with a shotgun start and a Texas scramble scoring system.
Among the teams, will be a team of ex-Celts aiming to take the prestigious Celtic FC Foundation Golf Day trophy.
Following the tournament, there will be a fantastic carvery lunch as well as a charity auction, raffle and entertainment.
The cost to enter a team of four is £400 and availability is now limited. Guests who want to just come to the lunch can pay separately.
The golf day and its aims are supported by European Golf Pro and Celtic Season ticket holder Stephen Gallagher among others.
If you are interested in submitting a team for Celtic FC Foundation’s inaugural Golf Day or require any more information, please email cfcfoundation@celticfc.co.uk or call 0141 551 429.
If you are a golfer or have friends who are golfers please consider putting a team together and participating.
If you are not a golfer and would like to help then please text CELT07 followed by £1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10 to 70070 or donate on the Celtic FC Foundation just giving page which can be found here https://mydonate.bt.com/charities/celticfcfoundation
Autism is a very real problem for a huge number of people so please help.
Sadly, it is a very real problem for Joseph and his mum as theirs is an absolutely true story.
Joseph will never be Sam or Paul or Stephen or Padraig and he will never play St Andrews but you can help guys like Joseph by having a day out at the golf in Renfrew on 2nd April.
Thanks for your time.
BRTH
Irish politics had absolutely nothing to do with the reason Celtic held a press conference,I don’t care if the so called journalist asks difficult questions at Ibrox,what a disgraceful question to ask,crass, offensive and downright childish,I’d hope Celtic will serve sanctions because of it but won’t hold my breath.
So on the day Celtic announce a record sponsorship deal and the eve of Sevco’s meltdown EGM, Lawwell gets asked a question that serves one purpose and one purpose only – to distract from what is going on in Govan.
If he didn’t have the sense to stop the press conference there and then, then Celtic’s PR certainly should have.
A major o.g.
jamesgang
21:29 on 5 March, 2015
You don’t know much do you …..hahahahahahaha ….HH
rafferty
21:56 on 5 March, 2015
Correct, n
But thought PL answered it fine ……..
hamiltontim
21:38 on 5 March, 2015
Stringer
“I don’t recognise Celtic being associated with Irish republicanism.
I don’t accept Irish republicanism is in Celtic’s history, anywhere in Celtic’s history.”
Historically it’s bollocks.
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Really?
In my lifetime, I have never known Celtic to support Irish republicanism. Have you in your lifetime? I was born in the 70’s btw.
If you go back a hundred years, are there links. Yes, it could be argued there are. are they relevant to where we are today? Nope. Not a bit.
If I support Celtic, must I then be an Irish republican?
The republican movement has nothing to do with Celtic, other than a section of the fan base supporting both. It is impossible to draw a contemporary link between both.
So you say, historically, PL’s comments are bollocks.
Contemporarily, so are yours.
We’re at opposite sides of this debate and no minds will be changed. That much I kow.
Rather than fall out, I wish you a good rest of night.
Peace :-)
Cowiebhoy,
Thanks for the nod need to catch up soon. ;-)
Sitting here on the couch knackered after the CQN 5s beer in hand wondering what happened to Winning captains tonight? left us one man short and aw lopsided.
Lots of extra running aboot for the 4s.
Too many injuries to our stalwarts ie Hamilton Tim and CRC hurry back bhoys you where missed tonight.
HH Pb1888
Hamiltontim
21:38 on 5 March, 2015
Stringer
“I don’t recognise Celtic being associated with Irish republicanism.
I don’t accept Irish republicanism is in Celtic’s history, anywhere in Celtic’s history.”
Historically it’s bollocks.
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Depends on what you mean by Republicanism.
You could argue that the founding fathers were Irish nationalists or Home Rulers rather than Irish Republicans.
The question is though what their attitude was to physical force methods used to achieve political ends.
So let’s not forget that Brother Walfrid invited TD Sullivan to sing his song, God Save Ireland, at Celtic Park.
And let’s not forget that that song commemorates Irish men who were hanged for the murder of an English policeman in furtherance of their political aims.
I appreciate that doesn’t find in with the glossy corporate identity the PLC like to portray but it’s there and it’s part of our heritage.
captain beefheart
21:52 on 5 March, 2015
Your right the majority of people in the north are glad the ‘troubles’ are over and the majority of football fans in the south couldn’t name 3 Celtic players, it’s mostly scottish Celtic supporters that keep the IRA chants going the irish lads couldn’t give a monkey about it
Ernie Lynch.
Smashing post.
Ernie, sometimes you get a hard time on here because of the politics. However, I think when it comes to knowledge of all things Celtic you are up there with the best of them.
Davitt was a frequent visitor to Scotland where he was closely associated with the crofters’ struggles in the Highlands and Islands. He also urged the Irish immigrant population to integrate into the politics of their adopted country and in particular the infant Labour Movement rather than to pursue a particularly Irish agenda. In Glasgow, where he had a strong following, Davitt’s prestige was attested to by the fact that he was invited to lay the first turf of the stadium of Celtic Football Club in 1892. The turf was stolen overnight giving rise to a poem which began: “The curse of Cromwell blast the hand that stole the sod that Michael cut; May all his praties turn to sand – the crawling, thieving scut”!
A fine militant republican there,bhoys
BB HH
stebhoy
21:45 on 5 March, 2015
there is a difference between Irish and Irish republicans – celtic were founded to help feed the poor and underprivileged – by and irish priest. it so happened that many of the poor were indeed irish immigrants but not exclusively.
Celtic knows its history and its future has no political agenda – this is the ONLY way ahead otherwise we are on a parallel with sevco.
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With all due respect, I cannot disagree strongly enough.
Normally, when a party says that it is apolitical, what it really means is that (i) it is okay with the status quo, and (ii) it is the or a dominant party within that status quo.
to say that we would be on a parallel with sevco, would be like saying the KKK and the NAACP are two sides of the same coin – sure, on one level, they both deal in racial issues, but one group seeks advancement and equality, while the other seeks inequality and hatred. They are complete opposites. Just like sevco and celtic. One club was inclusive and wanted integration and equality, and one club didn’t. It is that simple. .
67Heaven .. CHALLENGING THE LIE ..I am wee Oscar / Neil Lennon.. Ipox belongs to the creditors
21:57 on
5 March, 2015
jamesgang
21:29 on 5 March, 2015
You don’t know much do you …..hahahahahahaha ….HH
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Like old Harry Callaghan says, a good man knows his limitations!
I actually know a lot. But i also know there’s a ‘very big lot’ I don’t know.
And that in itself is always an important thing to know.
FortuneCookieCSC
hahaha etc etcright back atcha buddy!
HH jamesgang
I am in the main a supporter of Peter Lawwell.
I do not agree with everything he has said or done in the name of Celtic, but in the main, I think history will show him to have helped steer Celtic thru difficult financial times for Scottish football.
I’ve met him, and forgetting (if you can) about his actual job, I think he’s a Celtic man, who loves the club and who will continue to love Celtic after he leaves.
Only my opinion, I know that there are many Celts who would disagree.
Peter has scored an OG today I think. I’m disappointed and actually amazed that he has issued a statement which mentions Celtic and Irish Republicanism in the same sentence.
Divisive amongst the support and plays into the hands of our enemies.
tully57
Malcolm Tucker for Celtic PR man…..
#hewouldsortthelapdogsout
I’ve never sung an overtly political Irish song…I wouldn’t know the words.
There are a couple, no more, of Irish freedom folk songs I know reasonably well and have sung.
My links to Ireland are distant and tenuous and I feel in no way Irish.
However the idea that Irish Republicanism has not been a thread in the Celtic story is ridiculous. All you need by way of confirmation are the OFFICIAL histories authorised by the club.
This is not to say it has been the main thread or even a very important one but many of the main instigators creating the club were members of ‘free ireland’ politics.
Republicanism is not the reason Celtic exist nor has the club had any official political position but surely there is no need to be cowed by the fact some people in power at the club and some supporters on the terraces were/are republican. Its very poor of the club to allow Republican sentiment to be deliberately misused by media in an wholly corrupt way.
HH
PS…Brian Dempsey… What a tart.
I have no doubt the questions today about the IRA were done to try and sabotage this deal, I have no doubt the media masters of sevco were behind it, they want scottish football to stay in the doldrums until they get sevco back they know that Celtic are miles ahead and dont want Celtic to get money to continue to develop, I truly wish we could get out of this cesspit of a league and leave them behind forever.
Mike in Toronto
past tense ?
HH
stringer bell
Michael Davitt?
bigbones8867 supports wee oscar
21:54 on 5 March, 2015
Oglach
Great post,I agree with all you said.
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Stringer Bell,
Regarding your contextualisation of republicanism in an earlier post.
I,as an Irish republican, took part in the military campaign against the British in 70s,80,and 90s.
Could you explain the difference between the republicans of the late 19th and early 20th centuries and those of my generation please.
HH BB
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Big bones
Given your history, my answer would actually have to be no, I couldn’t even begin to explain the differnce to you.
You have lived a life in an environment I know nothing of. I am grateful I didnt face your challenges, if I’m honest and you have my complete respect for your fight.
My point was that Cetic have nothing to do with republican struggles, and haven’t had for decades.
My contextualising of republicanism was not about the ideology necessarily, more about the relevance and some of the context modern Scotland puts puts on different eras of your struggle.
HH
I can’t believe that there are intelligent Celtic supporters who would claim that our club doesn’t have links to Irish Republicanism.
annoan …. ha! you are right. I misspoke there … thanks for catching it.
Doesn’t should read didn’t.
Justafan you nailed it, Dempsey is a Tart.