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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I also have a circular piece of black plastic with a hole in the centre.
Is this a record?
Tom English has a real go at Black and by inference McCoist.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26536553
http://www.valucomputers.co.uk/
BRTH…..you ,ll get a braw deal here sir…..hoopy laptopping …….braw
BRTH
Get a ,,,,,,,,,,,
MacBook Pro ME294LL/A .
A wonderful thing !
Great to see that the Gers are back!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-26538402
I wonder why :-)
Good evening friends……or friend…….or anyone???
Where is everyone?
Jobo Baldie
Its you and me my friend.
Awerabest PJ
Head down and getting stuck into work this week but…mind starting to drift towards the Kerrydale.
HH
TimsinOhio & WeeOscar Never Walk Alone
As the wife would say Wrong again.
Awerabest PJ
Well met Papa john. Your wife is a wise woman.
TimsinOhio & WeeOscar Never Walk Alone
42yrs of perfect Bliss, aye an then a woke up, just Jesting, looking forward to Friday.
Awerabest PJ
Evening Timland from a coldish hun free mountain valley.
Just been perusing my site stats, and where the visits have originated, most have come from posters on CQN, and I thank you all for giving my site hits, as hits mean prizes >}
Astonished to find that I have had 4 visits from Sevco 5088, how weird it that.
Anyways, thanks again for the hits.
HH
Papa john
any idea where the game is being shown on fri night
TET. forgive my ignorance,I have missed the boat on your site, if you could point me in the right direction I can join in.
Awerabest PJ
Why do football teams have to make it ‘mathematically’ certain before claiming a title. Is ‘arithmetical’ no good enough?
Evening guys
Just wondering where to sink a few Guinness on St.Patricks day in Glasgow city centre, any thoughts would be appreciated. I realise it may be rather busy anyway much obliged. HH
mickybhoy
Kerrydale Suite thats where I will be, and any Stream yae kin find Ha Ha.
Awerabest PJ
I see the journo Richard Wilson has joined the Shortbread team; a diet version of Jabba me thinks.
Jobo
Hypothetically you are right.
Got to go, away to pray for you lot, lenten duties, its not what you stop, its what you start.
Awerabest PJ
Papa John
How are you, long time no speak, hope you are doin good.
All the stuff is made by own fair hands.
HH
http://www.crystalsandcollars.co.uk/
Papa john, hope we get to meet Friday night.
For those not interested; Politics alert. Pass on by.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/26543691
Is it just me or do I detect Tom English , since his defection from the papers, has developed a knack for the truth re Sevco?
Probably not , just temporary I’m sure
Hi BRTH,
if you need to recover data from a dead laptop, you should be able to remove the drive, mount it in a caddy (under a tenner in PC World, less on eBay) which plugs into USB on ‘another’ PC – think this is what you are asking?
HH
P.S. Same boat here – thinking of ‘reflowing’ the motherboard…wish me luck:)
Burghbhoy
he’s maybe vying for a position in Dave King’s camp :)
Aiden getting asked the Irish question again,……………missing Scotland wee man? Nah ,thought not…….
Mark Guidi, just cant accept that Rangers are a bad team.
Cant except it he says!!
T E T …just advertised you on a few of my sites ….rock and roll pal ….rock and roll …braw …
http://www.crystalsandcollars.co.uk/
HH
Richard Wilson has been shamelessly promoted from his 2.5 yrs of relentless myths at the Herald( I stopped buying it because of him)-and now such writings have obviously pleased the masters.
They need him on state tv/radio now..
Desperation…
HH
Neustadt-Braw
Muchas Gracious mi amigo.
It will take time but I will get there, tis a long, long haul up the google ladder >}
HH
STV trying to put Aiden McGeady on the spot, for choosing Ireland. Trying to excuse the racism he had to put up with playing for Celtic. STV can be despicable sometimes.
The real question is Why is it that despite the fact that the Rangers that played at Ibrox and are in liquidation that the Scottish media etc push the point that the team now playing at Ibrox are the same as the liquidatedsand retain their history?
Wilson certainly has contributed to the dumbing down of the Herald’s sports section and for it’s bias towards thon deid team. I very very occasionally scan it these days. Bad news if he’s now on the BBC. Rabid hun.
Off oot to see Barca spanking City soon, free vino again tonight, no the may west, but once the first is down and burnt your palate they don’t taste too bad >}
HH
A decent read, by an Albion Rovers supporter.
http://against–the–grain.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/reflections-on-scottish-cup-quarter.html?spref=tw
HH
TET
Your life sounds pretty awright amigo!!!
HH jamesgang