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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As some wag has just tweeted, there are three players in Scotland with double barrelled names.
Mackay-Steven
Taylor-Sinclair
McCulloch-Pen
jackie mac
20:14 on 12 March, 2014
Got to give them credit mate, always seem to pull a pen out the bag just when it’s needed, great wee knack they have there :-(
Bada, @ 2017
VG:)
2 penalties in less than 20 minutes in a league decider.
Probably the only world record they can legitimately claim…
BRTH
I had an email from currying today, the below item as highly recommended by raymac, now has another £50 off, so is £349
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raymac
19:36 on 12 March, 2014
BTRH–my trusty Dell PC went crump this time last week. The computer guru I use recommended a Lenovo. I got one for £399 in PC World. Awesome machine. 8 gigabyte Ram, 1 terrabyte memory. All sorts of bells and whistles. I’m delighted with it. Incredibly fast. Don’t buy any antivirus programs from them. Download Malwarebytes free and Avast free and that will do you. Use Google Chrome as your search engine and add Adblocker pro for free. Run an antivirus scan once a week using the 2 programs mentioned and you’ll be hassle-free.
Currying = Curry’s , bloody spell check
Hail Hail
I see Sidney Sam has scored for Leverkusen against PSG.
Is he related to Yosemite?
Ref in Barca game must have been given free air miles from Etihad.
To his credit, Hart makes a good save.
Any financial boffins able to dispel much of the noise coming from this ‘John’ character on twitter over our indebtedness / property charges to co-op and potential choppy waters ahead ?
From the tweets he seems to be derided but persistent in attempts to deflect and blacken our name .
Paul 67, condolences to you and your family.
YNWA
Raymac,
does yer man work for the Chinese Government? :))
http://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/2285455/nsa-gchq-ban-lenovo-pcs-due-to-security-concerns#
Well the latest FIFA allocation of WC tix went out online at 08:00 this morning.
Now looks like the following games are “sold out” (at the moment):-
– Any game played in São Paulo or Rio
– Final and Semi-finals
– England v Italy (14 Jun. Manaus)
– Germany v Portugal (16 Jun. Salvador)
– Italy v Uruguay (24 Jun. Natal)
There will be one more round of ticket sales yet, supposedly 15 Apr.
Oh and I managed to get some tickets (this time) too!
this is great, they’ll go back to tinking sally’s good !
Great article Paul – thoroughly enjoyable……………
in other news….
I see that richard,
…Wilson
is at Asbestox.
..and now with the BBC.
How convenient.
In the land of TET it’s decent wine and all you can nibble tapas for €5.
In the land of jamesgang it’s projectile vomit from the wee man and a sky box that’s broken doon!
LivinTheDreamCSC
HH jamesgang And yes, I have washed ma hands!!!
popped my head in to see what’s going on and it’s same old, same old, Sevco obsessed twats ……………………….oooooooooooot as Kev would say
Wot game is Redknapp watching? City dominated the midfield?
Cowiebhoy 20:21
If it came with Windows 8.1 then the included Windows Defender should be good enough.
Nothing wrong with the two you mentioned either I use all three.
Belts, braces and string CSC
hun skelper
the scary bit is we predicted a raft of penalties to get them back up there !
That’ll be the Laptop Loyal sucking up to the Huns again, a thousand apologies and all that, for even suggesting they were a bad lot.
On the jura 10 original to keep yon pesky cold at bay….
actually quite sweet as a toadie
The Barca manager looks like your maths teacher
Real toss up who is worse,the referee or that trumpet commentating.The English in full flow are something to behold.Kompany,who I think is wonderful,being ripped apart.Outstanding to these closets.
DU 0 ST J 1,May
!!bada bing!!
20:17 on 12 March, 2014
As some wag has just tweeted, there are three players in Scotland with double barrelled names.
Mackay-Steven
Taylor-Sinclair
McCulloch-Pen
Deserves a. CQN retweet.
2 penalties for Sevco already? A 3-line whip clearly gone out to the MIBs after the Albion debacle.
What a save from Barca keeper
Messi hits post at one end and Valdes has great save at other.
Raymac at 19:36, I have downloaded Download Malwarebytes free and Avast free and my laptop is already running better so thank you. Several months ago I bought a program called PC Tuneup to try and speed up this laptop but when it had completed all its functions i have been unable to print from this laptop and it made little difference.
I reported previously that my wife purchased a HP Chromebook 14 for about £270 and what an amazing machine this is if you just want to access the internet, it comes with free Mobile 3G so you can access the internet anywhere you can use a mobile phone.
Anyone interested in sharing a taxi from Bishopbriggs Cross to Celtic Park on Friday.
Uncle Chugg says thers another big story coming. Emdae??
gg-it’s a cracker
hrvatski jim
Remind the taxi driver access is from Janefield St.
Sorry I can’t share unless I can get picked up in New Jersey :)
The English commentators are really dire at times. Is that Neville bumming up City now???
What a stunning little cameo of genius from Iniesta there.
jude2005 is neil lennon \o/
20:58 on 12 March, 2014
Uncle Chugg says thers another big story coming. Emdae??
Could be the big exposee on Celtic’s mineral tights deal on Bhoystown.
Gg
I will ask him to keave a bit early so be ready