Strathclyde Police seem unprepared to decommission the loose cannon that is providing the regular leaks of largely inaccurate information about Celtic fans to the press. The country’s largest police force have become a regular source of material and hilarity for our media, perhaps best illustrated by their unattributed comment to the Scotland on Sunday, suggesting they plan to “smash the Irish Republican, Marxist, Green Brigade”.
While the police officially claim “these comments do not reflect the view of the Force” the damage is already done. The stage is set for an inevitable confrontation by a group of supporters who now believe they are being unfairly picked upon (for being Marxist, good grief, I thought they all shaved and suited-up under Tony, including the men!), and a police force, which employs someone who has told the press they are picking on the Green Brigade and which is asked by the Government to challenge pro-IRA chanting.
All political chanting must stop, of course, but I don’t fancy being an officer on the ground who has to pick up the pieces after a very loose tongue has set a scene for confrontation.
Make no mistake, the police are being laughed at by grateful recipients of their media comments, who cannot believe the utter naivety of the Pitt St operation, I have heard this laughter first hand from more than one journo, but the consequences of such dire behaviour will be severe.
I would like to thank everyone who bid on the ebay auction for the Jimmy Johnstone medal. I’m really pleased to let you know that the medal has been withdrawn from sale. Thanks again and sorry if you had already bid.
We are not short of history at Celtic, but there are very few occasions a unique memento of the Greatest Ever Celt becomes available. The medal is a 47-year-old slice of Celtic folklore, check it out on ebay.
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What result does Man Utd need tonight?
Benfica 1 up.
EDB
A draw and they are through.
Hope you are well!
ElDiego
A draw buddy
In the BIG game of the day, the lads in the U19 team showing some great touches and sustained possession.
Real 1 up.
Watching Masterchef!!!!
Please keep the updates coming!
Thanks in advance!
City goal chalked off.
Cheers hamiltontim and Philbhoy.
I’m great in fact.
Mrs EDB and young daughter are out at a carol service in St.Michael’s Dumbarton.
Peace reigns in the hoose:o)
Thompson showing command and aggression in his box, great to watch.
Philbhoy
Third Lanark are winning but Gretna are down 12-0!
hamiltontim says:
7 December, 2011 at 19:59
Ahh balls – guy in work said they needed a win and I just turned it over to the football there 5 mins ago and nearly had a fit!
Is Basels pitch somewhere just south of Motherwell?
Tony Watt down after getting clattered by a giant defender. End to end stuff, who cares about the financial doping championship.
” But I don’t fancy being an officer on the ground who has to pick up the pieces after a very loose tongue has set a scene for confrontation”.
Sake, Paul.
What, as they say, does that even mean?
Hamiltontim
I’ve many happy memories of Cathkin and not just as a Celtic supporter.
Who are Gretna?
:0)
Auld Neil Lennon heid says 7 December, 2011 at 19:18 BadaBing My lad sent me a text saying that Scotsman had Photoshopped a hand on Aluko to suggest it was responsible for his dive Surely not?
Wouldn’t be surprised the lengths Media House would go to….
Just noticed in local rag ” Health and safety officers visited a Port Glasgow club where the electricity meter was rigged, the Rankers supporters club in Bouverie Street had also lost their licence temporarily after selling drink outwith its licensed hours” had to chuckle……
Great to see Banguramscoring his first goals in the bounce game last night.
I also noticed Chralie Mulgrew was replaced late on by somebody called Mjallby??? Is our Dolph coming out of retirement to help out the defence?
This guy Shakira from Basel looks pretty good
DubaiBhoy (nee LondonBhoy) says:
7 December, 2011 at 20:11
I think the big mans son might be training with us
Philbhoy
Spent many a youthful day playing on the Cathkin turf and winching on the overgrown terracing :))
Gordon_J
I much prefer the Colombian Shakira:o)
Decent stop by Robby
hamiltontim
Think “winching” might have a different meaning for younger CQNers!
Hamiltontim
You are older than i thought you were!
:0)
Ajax score an equaliser which is rubbed out by the linesman. Bad even by Scottish standards.
ElDiego
Oh naw am I getting banned now!? :)
Always took ‘winching’ as just an innocent wee kiss n cuddle?
I’d like to start the illegal stream debate
Can someone explain why Celtic can/will not make all games available on CH67 ? outside Scotland.
If they cannot due to legal reasons, is it because the board cant be bothered challenging it ? heres why I ask,
any deal struck up by a national association only has authority over their own borders. The sectarian fa/pl cant justify British copyright simply because they refuse to acknowledge any British football authority.
As far as I’m concerned anyone who cant get to the game outside Scotland has every right to find an illegal stream and enjoy it.
If the board simply refuse to to allow it citing business reasons then I would be very angry.
So who thinks I’m wrong and why ??
hamiltontim says:
7 December, 2011 at 20:14
Philbhoy
Spent many a youthful day playing on the Cathkin turf and winching on the overgrown terracing :))
One of my earliest memories of my Grandfather taking me to see the Tic 4 v HiHi 3!
Linesman robs Ajax for a second time. Even worse this time.
hamiltontim said:
Spent many a youthful day playing on the Cathkin turf and winching on the overgrown terracing :))
Oh how I miss the days when a goalscorer would simply get a pat on the back from his team-mates.
:-)
Was out in the car and the radio commentator said Basle fans unfurled a massive banner which had pictures of Celtic and Liverpool plus another few clubs on it? Anyone see it or know what it is about?
Marseille playing well
I think a lot of people are losing touch with reality when espousing great ideas on a blog.
Building a platform that encapsulates Celtic supporters’ worldwide spend for the commissionable good of the Club is not a new idea. The easiest way to convert it in its simplest form was to tie up with a Creditcard company. Job done. A decade ago.
Beyond that there is a membership scheme. Barca do this. It is about £120 per year. As someone earlier said, many of us already pay around £600 for a season book. Would we be expected to pay that too? A season ticket at Barca averages less than 400 Euros. OK, so the £1 a week idea, that’s £52. Same question, don’t I get that with my season ticket?
OK, so if we get real and realise no meaningful numbers will part with £52 on a whim these days. It has to be a good product, big discounts with the big brands. This is a two way street, and a catch 22. You have to prove the numbers to the brand for them to pass on a discount to your scheme. But you have to have the discounted brands and services for meaningful numbers to join.
Cue business plan and sales pitch, statistical evidence of 9 million followers. (Don’t look to Facebook, there’s only 133,000 on there.) Maybe the creditcard numbers would back up the assertions of buying power, I don’t know.
You need an IT platform and staff, you need sales staff and you need customer relations people to operate such a system. Basically a subsidiary company, you couldn’t possibly do it in house, we struggle to cope with ticket queues let alone servicing worldwide consumer needs! Then you have the question of personnel that are going to do this for you. Anyone capable of building this for Celtic is capable of building it for anyone else, or themselves, and so how much of the profit could you expect that person to relinquish? Maybe you need to narrow down your selection criteria to Celtic diehards!
So do you commit the massive budget required to try and achieve this and divert it from all other aspects of the Club, most particularly ‘football operations’? Risk and reward? Speculate to accumulate? It’s a huge gamble, and imho would be a catastrophic mistake.
No, you don’t reinvent the wheel and take on established players in the market – you outsource it to them, it IS a viable idea, as was said earlier, the likes of Groupon. living social, social buy, and now the mighty Amazon are years ahead on this. But by doing so you need to accept you relinquish most of the profit and have a similar line of income to creditcard commissions.
I am not throwing a wet blanket over anything, I just think the leap from blog thoughts to reality is almost immeasurable and to turn a good idea very quickly into a stick to beat the marketing department with is just ridiculous.
What Celtic fans do take up for the love of the Club is charity. St Mary’s Hall, November 1887, you wouldn’t have any such rumblings from me!
The Green Mile has much more chance of becoming reality. You write up a mission statement and guide to organisation, its a downloadable pdf from the Celtic Charity Foundation, you register, and the Club promotes the date every year and folk interact on a Facebook page or Blog.
Right, I’m away for my tea and to have millions of brilliant idea that will never become reality.
City (Silva) 1-0.
EDB – you watch yer heart rate, auld yin….! :-)
T4
praecepta
I worked beside Bobby Ward who played for Thirds towards the end.
He was a good winger and a great golfer.
And a lovely bloke too.