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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Sannabhoy
CQTEN once a decade
and Kano night I dont think anyone on here or any of the more than 2000 kids yous have helped would say you dont deserve to have a ball on both nights sir.
Is Pat McGinley @ Farmer Autocare online just now ?
Does he offer us fellow CQNers discounts ?
Would rather give him my money than those kwikfit cowboys….
Sevco must be dreading losing their top stars when the Transfer Window opens ….
LiviBhoy @10 57.
Indeed
Last night s CL highlights program spent some time discussing the Refereeing howlers in Barcelona.. Conclusion was that he was totally incompetent.
harryhoodsdugbitme @ 9:45
Your post gave me quite a shock! I have been to the Doctor`s this morning but it was only to have my ears syringed 0:-)
JJ
Re Clydebank air raids during WW2. Not an attempt to justify mass murder by the Luftwaffe but wasn’t the deliberate targeting of civilians a RAF policy during WW2? Otherwise euphemistically known as ‘Strategic bombing’. An estimated 70,000 civilians being killed during raids on Dresden and Hamburg alone over a period of a few days where the ‘allies’ used phosphorous bombs against civilians to maximize casualties.
Robcfc11
11:06 on
13 March, 2014
Is Pat McGinley @ Farmer Autocare online just now ?
Does he offer us fellow CQNers discounts ?
Would rather give him my money than those kwikfit cowboys….
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aye Celtic supporters and CQN ers are well looked after ,…hoopy motoring …braw
LiviBhoy (10:40 & 10.56), of course Elbows of The Rangers is still going strong (albeit with a little help form his friends), and pushing for an international call up and big money transfer to one of the EPL’s top teams!
The goal to clinch his hat-trick in the 41st minute last night was, in fact, his first league goal from open play since he notched back-to-back hat-tricks in the last game of August and the first game of September 2013. Between then and last night’s third he had notched a total of eight league goals, with every single one of those coming from the penalty spot!
For the record, here are some stats from The Rangers 28 league games this season (sourced from the BBC website):
The Rangers players were penalised with yellow cards on 41 occasions and saw 2 red cards. Their opponents saw no fewer than 89 yellow cards and 4 red cards.
When you consider that The Rangers saw 7 yellow cards in one game against Brechin (when they had to fight back from 0-2 and 1-3 to secure a 4-3 win), 5 in one game against Forfar and 4 in one game against Stenhousemuir, this means that they saw just one yellow card per game over the remaining 25 games.
The distribution of their opponents’ punishments was less prone to such extremes, with a more even distribution which amounted to amore than 3 yellow cards per game (three times as many as The Rangers… along with twice as many red cards).
One can only conclude therefore that The Rangers must have far too softly softly a playing style, enabling themselves to be bullied and fouled by their opponents. They’ll have to toughen up a bit as they go up a level next season! Or perhaps they’ll have to appeal to the match officials for even more protection from the billies?
Oh, having mentioned Elbows’ remarkable (world?) record streak of eight consecutive goals from the penalty spot, it is only fair that I mention Sean Higgins of Stenhousemuir, the only player to score a penalty against The Rangers in the league this season. That Cammy Bell must be some ‘keeper!
KevJungle
09:39 on
13 March, 2014
Are you flouncing?….say it ain’t so.
“more protection from the billies” should read “more protection from the bullies“
…Freudian slip!
Winning Captains do you have a list of the raffle/auction prizes? Is it possible to list them on here, I realise you are an extremely busy bhoy at the moment. I will deliver my donation to thr Kerrydale between 4 and 5 tomorrow ,that suitable? Hail Hail hebcelt
Bateen Bhoy – I think that he has been speaking to Paul this morning re the ticket. I’ll check and let you know.
I’m always amazed by that ex players don’t try refereeing.
The EPL guys don’t need the money but footballers in the lower leagues need to keep working after retirement.
They generally have the core fitness and the nous for the game.
Incidentally, The Rangers have scored twice as many goals from penalties in the league this season as have Celtic.
I don’t know how many others were awarded (and missed or saved).
VALENTINESDAY
I hope not. I have had many disagreements with KEVJ,but I would miss him if he went.
Proof at last that the hunbigots get breaks from referees. No they don’t, definitely not. Did they get 3 pens last night? No! So how come folks on here think there is corruption when they never got 3 pens. I mean, obvious innut.
KINGLuBO
For comparison, while The Rangers’ league opponents have seen 117% more yellow cards and 100% more red cards than the The Rangers players, Celtic’s league opponents have seen 39% more yellow cards and 50% fewer red cards than the Celtic players.
Clearly it is far easier to stop Celtic players by way of fair challenges, while it is more necessary to infringe the laws of the game in order to compete with The Rangers players.
BMCWP
It seemed to be a goodbye from the bold one…..hope your
wallet and liver survive Gold cup day.
Gosh, I forgot… it is an infringement of the fundamental laws of Scottish football to even try to compete with the The Rangers players. One is supposed to do the decent thing and let the superior class trample all over oneself, quite literally.
Winning Captains
Thanks, if need be, my offer will stand, whether through Oldtim or Paul.
I’ll check back later, and take it from there.
new article posted.
Oh there goes my CL/WC winning double out the window, had bayern Munich for the champions league and Brazil for the World Cup but after sevco won both last night am a wee big gutted.
Really hope they last until the end of this season – just a tad worried that they will get away with a 25 point deduction and still get promotion and a debt shedding.
I just read a bit of Aiden McGeady’s piece in the Retard. Maybe he got suckered in by a clever journalist? but I find it hard to believe he used the words “sent down” and “demoted” If he did say this then I would be disappointed.
I hope our club has made clear insurance arrangements with the S.F.A. for the protection of our property for the forthcoming cup ties . Some of our visitors have a bad record of vandalism at Celtic Park, and I mean players as well as supporters.
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