Is the club safe with Sir David, Dave King and Paul Murray? Is Craig Whyte a worthy successor? Is Charles Green trustworthy? Is Ally McCoist a great manager? For the PR hired hands at Ibrox, the questions were always the same, it was just the answers that changed.
Few have the gall to deliver the PR messages which flow out of Ibrox, and that group of clubs have depended on PR spin for decades. Short of the communication of formal issues, like Annual Accounts and sensitive Stock Market issues, Celtic don’t utilise external PR services.
Celtic have in-house PR to facilitate media inquiries and the output of club message, but there’s no perceived need to bring in an external spin doctor to reframe reality. This is the way it should be, of course, you’ll never win a battle in the gutter with a guttersnipe, but there are costs.
We have had paid professionals successfully briefing against our club for decades, millions of people read and listen to these messages daily. This is a battle we will never win but the consequences for a football club trying to go about their business in an orderly manner are significant. The club, its directors, manager, players and supporters are variously painted as money-obsessed, anger-filled, flops and a rabble who hate the country their forefathers fought for.
We don’t indulge in PR excesses because Celtic have nothing to spin. They pay the taxes required to support their nation’s services, run an orderly business and are a remarkably well-respected and successful collection of fans, players, coaches and administrators. There are always unpopular decisions but the club face them down.
An eagle-eyed reader noticed an interesting aggregation in the two schools in Malawi we are assisting. Saturday’s article noted the pupil numbers at Kholoni Primary School in Mchinji as 1221 and St Josephs’ Primary School in Kasungu as 746. Go on, add the figures and see how many pupils will benefit from Celtic fans building kitchens. The spirit of ’67 is alive and kicking.
If you are driving to, or being driven to, CQteN on Friday, don’t think you can just nip along London Road and into Celtic Park. There is no access to the stadium from London Road. Access is via Janefield St, which, if you are coming from the east, means driving underneath the stadium. Make sure your taxi driver is aware.
There was a tremendous response to the whisky auction, which closes on Friday at noon, the current highest bid stands at £225. We have bottle No. 1 of a limited edition (291 in total) Craigallachie Telford’s Bridge, in a wooden box and presentation cardboard tube, whit an authentication certificate.
Bids are by email only to auction@celticquicknews.co.uk. This is a rare and valuable bottle. Shipping within UK and Ireland is included. Please include contact details and your bid amount.
Many thanks for all the kind wishes to the family yesterday, they were enormously appreciated.
Seville, The Celtic Movement, launches on Friday! Copies have landed and I hear…. it’s pretty decent.
“We are in the Estadio Do Besso on the 24th April 2003. We are far into the 78th minute of the 2nd leg of a UEFA Cup Semi-Final. The first leg in Glasgow, a fortnight earlier had seen Celtic obtain a 1:1 draw with Boavista, a relative minnow in Portuguese terms who had won their first ever top league title in season 2000/01, having only been 2nd on 2 previous occasions in their history.”
Order yours below:
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bateen bhoy
08:44 on 13 March, 2014
That post right there is what Celtic is all about, take a bow sir!!
Right, off to climb another hill!!
Sannabhoy if your struggling stagger over to table 11 and you can borrow me and I can help you keep up. If table 11 is to far there will be plenty of volunteers sitting close bye. Enjoy :))
HH
KTF
martybhoy59
23:16 on
12 March, 2014
hrvatski jim
Just seen your earlier message happy to share a taxi from briggs
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Hi Martybhoy59 – that would be great.
I will order a cab and pick you up at Kenmure Avenue (where the Celtic bus leaves from) at 6.20
Please confirm that you have got this message.
marrakesh express
06:53 on 13 March, 2014
Dearie me. Just saw them celebrate winning a third tier league full of part-timers as if it was the top one.
They have no shame, no remorse, no dignity and no class. Totally embarrassing.
Many of their own will be cringeing.
No chance, shameless shower
Hamiltontim – I’m guessing from your earlier post that you might be at Blairvaddich. If so, I’m pretty sure that handheld devices are frowned upon. So put it away and go out and climb a pole or something ;)
That richard,
….Wilson can’t help it….
he’s just another fan,
eh!?
HH.
Just saying this afore I leave the blog……
Because certain fans don’t want to see the huns again
disny mean that – ye wulny!!!
Because resolution 12 ‘might’ prove – collusion / cheating / whatever…..
disny mean that the ‘bored’ will pursue the SFA / Whoever ?
What will make the ‘bored’ act and, go for the bassas who cheated the
Celtic support and, the support’s of all the other Scottish clubs in competition
with the huns is, now….I know that this might not be the right time, with respect
but, the Celtic ‘bored’ don’t have to put in a shift for your money cos, you just
turn up with the best intentions for Celtic with yer contributions to the club but,
you have ask yerselve’s…at what point does the ‘bored’ fight ‘YOUR’ battles ?
I would say that, they have enjoy a charmed existence cos, they don’t have to work for ‘your’
money. So…change that dynamic. Only ‘YOU’ can make the ‘bored’ get the gloves on, get into the ring and, fight the corner of the of the vicTIMS of the greatest sporting scandal in the history of the game.
When yer SB-renewal forms drop through the door…get yer thinking caps on.
It’s at this time of the year that, ‘YOU’ get the chance to call the shots – not at a hand-picked AGM were shareholders are easily kidded-on with – Rory Bremner style – cheap digs at the huns. Yeah, very funny. The ‘bored’ must have a collective wet-dream when these pea-shooters farces are played out. Talk about mugs ? Aye…..
One more fence for the died-huns to jump and they’ll be right back – cheating the nicks off yeez and what will the ‘bored’ do about it ? F all – as usual. imho
It’s ‘YOUR’ call fellow Tims – be shady or – be shafted !
Good luck to you all – Goodbye.
RIP JJ YNWA HH
Heard on the radio this morning that lowly Albion Rovers are to donate £10K to the cash for kids charity from their money spinning SC run … a wee club with a big heart and a gesture that should shame some to hell and back ……. hat duly doffed to the Wee Rovers .
bankiebhoy1
09:34 on 13 March, 2014
That richard,
….Wilson can’t help it….
he’s just another fan,
eh!?
HH.
I don’t belieeeve it
Why is it, that former celtic players such as Aiden McGeady, don’t understand that R****** are deid?
Why would celtic fans welcome sectarian cheats at CP?….seemingly we are that daft, that we all want to be abused by bigots in our own ground.
And furthermore, after a 100 years of cheating, and the honest mistakes that keep coming, week in, week out, why would celtic supporters want to watch a blatantly rigged game?
Scoddish Fitba eh, where Elbows becomes Roy of the Rovers….Hunbelievable.
Its like a car crash in a david lynch film, on acid.
Somebody needs to stop them.
HH
jikyredstar
Cunbrae is very slowly appearing out the mist, at this very minute. Shows you what a few miles can do.
Emerald Green. Great point about the wee Rovers. 10k to them is an astronomical amount of money. Respect due.
As for shaming you know who…….. impossible.
The Green Man,
I think it is, in part, because they know that if they don’t be complicit in the fiction, they or their families will suffer for it. The died team’s follow followers can’t abide the truth (that holds, of course, for much of the Scottish media).
emerald green
09:50 on 13 March, 2014Heard on the radio this morning that lowly Albion Rovers are to donate £10K to the cash for kids charity from their money spinning SC run … a wee club with a big heart and a gesture that should shame some to hell and back ……. hat duly doffed to the Wee Rovers .
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Makes me wonder which charity benefited from the supposed donation from the new club after Dundee Utd humped them in the cup!
Toor A Loo
08:42 on 13 March, 2014
I have enjoyed a sectarian free atmosphere for 2 years now and I bet every A&E up and down the land have done.
Never want to see or hear their supremacist bile again in my life and don’t want my children to suffer it either.
Any tim who is an apologist for that lot should hang their head in shame.
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EXCELLENT POST!!!!! Aiden is clearly out of touch with true Celtic supporters.
Pat McGinley @ Farmer Autocare have been a valuable sponsor for CQTEN.
Tomorrow night they will be running a free to enter competition at CQTEN. Basically you will be asked who will be Celtic’s last goalscorer v Kilmarmock and the time of the goal. The winner will be the person who gets firstly the player correct and then the nearest time. If no Celtic goal then everyone is in the raffle – the prize is £500 to spend on new tyres.
Pat has also given us two tickets for CQTEN that he has paid for and wishes us to give these away today in return for a small donation to Mary’s Meals fund. This is idea for any CQNer who would like to attend CQTEN but funds don’t permit. Please email me and I will sort. Email address is david@CQNMagazine.com
The Green Man (9.51)… He’s probably confused by the likes of this (from the BBC website):
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He [McMoist] added: “McCulloch epitomises the spirit that has been required within the club at the beginning of the journey back. I’m absolutely thrilled for him. For a captain to score a hat-trick from centre-half on a title-winning day is real ‘Roy or the Rovers’ stuff.”
Ranger [sic] are attempting to reclaim their place in the top flight after a torrid few years off the pitch. They were placed in the bottom rung of Scottish league football after lapsing into administration and then liquidation in 2012.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26555502
My observations on that are:
“…at the beginning of the journey back“.
What journey back?
Rangers FC had a one way journey into liquidation. i.e. They went out of business. They ceased to be. They are no more. They are an ex tax cheat.
Elbows may have displayed the spirit required for the new club Sevco (aka “The Rangers”) to attempt a rise to the top, after it was gifted SFL membership ahead of so many other aspirant clubs, who had played within the rules and waited patiently for years as they tried to win entry… only to become victims of a queue jumper at the eleventh hour. But this was a one way journey for the new club, from the bottom up, not a journey back.
And for a player to score a hat-trick against a team ranked 30th out of 42 in Scotland, and whose entire starting XI combined probably earn less than the scorer, is barely ‘Roy or the Rovers’ stuff., particularly when two of those were delivered via the now almost customary penalty-kick awards in favour of his team.
The confusion is then further propagated by the asserton that “Ranger” are attempting to reclaim their place in the top flight, immediately followed by an acknowledgement that they had lapsed into administration and then liquidation (i.e. out of existence) in 2012.
Now you can forgive wee Aiden for getting confused by reporting like this. He doesn’t exactly have a university degree, does he?
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
09:07 on
13 March, 2014
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Thanks for that link attached to the post Re the clydebank blitz. That was an excellent read.
9 hrs per day of continuous bombing over 2 days – 18 hrs of bombing of both conventional bombs and incendiary bombs. Horriffic.
For Clydebank to be then left to die a second time through neglect by politicians of both parties, the same politicians who religiously wore the poppy just adds insult to injury.
Once again thatnks for that.
So Aiden McGeady is the latest ex Celt to come along and tell me that I miss Rangers. No Aiden, I don’t. They cheated and died. I don’t want nor do I need them.
Parkheadcumsalford
For many many years, I was shocked as we all were, at their moral depravity.
But since the dawn of the internet, they have been exposed as the most blatant, bigoted cheats of all time….its been going on so long, that’s its institutional.
The dark stain of bigotry cant be washed out from the marrow of Scotland, John Knox would have absolutely loved modern day Scotland.
And yet, knowing all this, as you do yourself…im am still totally staggered at what is going on over at the circus of the damned, and what they are getting away with, its Kafkaesque surrealism, Dali wouldn’t have a look in.
Im stunned at the extent of the cheating…..its crazy.
HH
Winning the Big Cup in 67 (first British, Non Latin etc).
First to 9 in a row
The pilgrimage to Seville and subsequent unrivalled fanfare winning applause from all quarters of Europe.
Two of which thems will never come close to and the third? Well who remembers the second man on the moon, or the second 4 minute miler?
I’d say these go a long way in explaining why they are the way they are.
hh
Once a group of 500 people were attending a seminar. Suddenly the speaker stopped and decided to do a group activity. He started giving each person a balloon. Each person was then asked to write their name on it using a marker pen. Then all the balloons were collected and put in another room.
The people were then let into that room and asked to find the balloon which had their name written on it within 5 minutes. Everyone was frantically searching for their name, colliding with each other, pushing around others and there was utter chaos.
At the end of 5 minutes no one could find their own balloon.
Then, the speaker asked each person to randomly collect a balloon and give it to the person whose name was written on it. Within minutes everyone had their own balloon.
The speaker then began, “This is happening in our lives. Everyone is frantically looking for happiness all around, not knowing where it is.
Our happiness lies in the happiness of other people. Give them their happiness; you will get your own happiness. And this is the purpose of human life…the pursuit of happiness.
BigChipsUK – There are only two SPL teams in Glasgow… Celtic and Partick Thistle
Have Melchester Rovers bid for Elbows yet?
LB
Sanna @ 8.34
In this instance I would always seek clerical advice.
What would Father Jack say?
HH jamesgang
LiviBhoy, I believe they are unable to afford him ,having just donated £100 to a local hospice. But for that…
However, I believe that Manchester City, Manchester United and Arsenal all have him as a back-up option should Virgil van Dijk resist their overtures at the end of the season.
;o)
big Chips
some very valid and well put observations
There is no way back from liquidation
Despite what the MSM/SFA/and SFPL would have us believe
Meanwhile sevco have so far spent about 40 million quid to win the fourth tier and the third tier of scottish fitba.
I wonder how much sevco will need to spend to win the second tier.
I shudder to think how much they will need to win the top tier
Probably they would have been cheaper just paying their tax in the first place!
Winning Captains,
If you have a way of getting in touch with Oldtim67, you can have another ticket to giveaway to someone who wants to go. I’ll buy his ticket, and donate it, rather than have an empty seat there, and try to decide who to give my free pint to.
See my post at 8.44
LiviBhoy, Melchester Rovers must be doing some wheeler-dealing behind the scenes! I reckon that’s Elbows fourth from right in this picture of the 2014-15 Melchester Rovers first team squad:
http://goo.gl/veUUCk
The Green Man. Kafkaesque Surrealism? That reminds me. I must watch The Prisoner again.
You are Number Six.
I am not a number, I am a free man!
Mon the rebels!
BigChipsUK – There are only two SPL teams in Glasgow… Celtic and Partick Thistle
The campaign for a Scotland call up and the Scottish player of the year MUST start now!
LB
“Tim in ‘I agree with McCoist’ shocker…”
I confess. I do. Elbows does indeed epitomise the FOD. I would suggest however that any proper-thinking person wouldn’t see this as praise.
HH jamesgang
Lee of The Liquidated. Captain of Melcheater Rovers.
Has a certain ring to it.
if elbows is roy of the rovers with his two penalties, the other 10 sevconians must be really poor
anyway hands up if youre sad to see that the careers of John Daly, Templeton and Ian Black are unlikely to recover from their sevco stint.
No hands? oh dear, how sad, never mind
LiviBhoy, Melchester Rovers seem to also have The Rangers Scottish Cup hero, Bilel Mohsni, in that team picture. I’m pretty sure that’s him second from the right, judging by the way he’s gone in on the ‘keeper!
http://goo.gl/veUUCk
Sicilian radio discussion re last night s Champions League games.——-
” I am surprised that the guy who Ref d the Barca v Manchester City game was allowed to work without his guide dog.. Seems the French have been complaining about their Refs not been given big games but picking one from the Elementary Schools League is a bit much. He was absolutely awful “
BigChipsUK – There are only two SPL teams in Glasgow… Celtic and Partick Thistle
Didn’t even realise Roy of the Rovers was still going.
LB
South Of Tunis
A real lack of top quality referee’s in Europe just now.
Who is in charge of that department at UEFA???
LB