This morning world football has plenty reason to be ashamed of itself. US prosecutors yesterday charged 16 Fifa officials, on top of the 14 charged earlier this year. As well as taking bribes and kick-backs, it is alleged money designated for charitable causes such as the relief of natural disasters, were siphoned off by Fifa executives. In recent years we’ve seen how revenue from charity games have been hijacked by club officials to pay bills, or perhaps fund signing bids for Daniel Cousin.
Tomorrow you are going to see the most Ethical Football Club in the World do its thing. Thousands of you will support the Foundation Christmas Appeal by putting money in buckets as you enter the ground.
That money will do incredible things.
It will support the Scottish Refugee Council, as they aid some of the world’s most vulnerable who have recently arrived in Scotland.
It will support the volunteers who run The Invisibles, who help homeless charities in Glasgow by providing sleeping bags, clothing and toiletries for rough sleepers.
It will support the Glasgow City Mission, in their work with vulnerable adults and families with disadvantaged pre-school children.
It will support the incredible work of the Wayside Club, who provide food, shower, shaving and First Aid facilities to Glasgow’s homeless 365 days a year.
It will support Loaves and Fishes, who open their doors to people who need clothes, toiletries and food.
It will support Glasgow East Women’s Aid, who work with women, children and young people affected by domestic abuse.
And it will support the Salvation Army, who have been a lifeline for countless thousands for longer than Celtic have been in existence.
The bar on ethics in football is not set particularly high, few clubs have a social mission as their core value. None do it like Celtic, the most Ethical Football Club in the World – bar none.
This is the story of football in Scotland 2015, no matter what happens in Switzerland or the Concafa region. You should be proud of your part in this great story. Let’s make it a good one tomorrow – and let people know this is happening tomorrow.
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PETEC on 5TH DECEMBER 2015 1:59 AM
So, Once again.
You are a big believer …………..some people are not …they have there own take on it
So am are Auldhied ( wish i was top guy)
And yes i do
.
Me pal lost it years ago?
HH
Shuggiebhoy67,
You sound very knowledgeable about what we’re all about…..
So where does the human population of the world go from here?
(By the by if you are interested or care.)
Bit of fun
Chill oot we are Celtic
Bloons up in the sky.
HH
balloons
dooo
good night timland
####
HH
On a phone boys…needing music…gonna scroll back for a liink to a tune…aiche bha. love y’alLLll
This is Celtic
It is nobodys business what religon any other poster has or even if they have any religon at all.
Just more what school did you go to crap.
A favourite question of the bigots
HH Y’all!
Any moon howlers out there?
Cool night way down south in Texas
TC 45
http://youtu.be/8Oa4HoEZM8M
Enjoy!
Homesick tonight!
TC45
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wind and rain calmed down a bit from last night here in G72 still quite blowy though
Do you believe that, Jesus died and, is risen again ?
Do you believe that, Rangers died and, are risen again ?
Do you believe that the Jungle would still pay money into the Celtic directors pockets if, the Jungle ‘new’ that the directors were looking the other way whilst Rangers were cheating ?
Do you believe that, Celtic’s middle-class fans would go to the AGM and, get their nickers ripped aff them by, Bankier, Livingstone, Lawwell ?
Do you believe that, the Aberdeen fans with their banners have become the Jungle and, that Celtic’s middle-class fans have become the sweetie wives, rustling their sweetie papers ?
Do you believe that, Neganon2, Margaret McGill will be the only CQNers to catch the last train out of dodge whilst, all the other CQNers will be left standing on the platform say…”Wow!…How did we miss that?”….?
I believe that, religion is a private thing.
I believe that No 3 is palavir.
May your God Love you.
…..bye…..
I believe it was Pjbhoynyc who first posted a YouTube link to Glen Hansard.
Here’s his song “Winning Streak” which I hope we will continue later today.
“May your winning streak, may it never end.”
http://youtu.be/iu0s3qwFPc0
Be safe, warm and dry
Do you believe that
KEVJUNGLE on 5TH DECEMBER 2015 5:59 AM
is aff his heid ?
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But his heart is in the right place.
Alleluia.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfuBREMXxts
Good Morning Timland.
Back fae walking the dug,it’s pissin doon,
I’ll be amazed if the games on.
Celtic game maybe called off due tae
storm Desmond!!!!!!
I would just like to thank the Dude and BigMadRorschark over on Rangers Media for the entertainment and the absolute piss-take of the village one Carsons Army. The post “Can this comic get any worse” starts by having a go at Angela Haggarty’s signing up with the Herald, then morphs into what I can only say is the funniest threads I have read for a long time. I know they are currents but well worth a read. Had me in stitches.
PS God Bless the Celts.
BigMike
Cheers for the heads up, I’ll check it out,
I lurk on hun meeja now and again it’s a
bit like watching Jeremy kyle.
Morning all,crank up the volume;)
http://youtu.be/T5Obrj3IjBY
HH
Had me in stitches Nye!
Absolutely chucking it down in ML5 about 6miles from Celtic Park, if the game was in doubt yesterday this mornings weather should put the tin lid on it, think the pitch inspection is at 9.30am, canny see the pitch “drying out” by then……..
I doubt very much if the game will be on today, let’s put it this way, I’m not going out in that, not a chance in hell, the wind seems to have slowed down a bit, but it’s chucking it down, could change between now and and the 9:30 inspection, I’m only 3…4 mile from Celtic park.
As I said doesent look to good chaps.
Met Office Warnings Issued For:
Glasgow
Yellow warning of rain
From:
0005 on Sat 5 December
To:
0900 on Sun 6 December
Updated 4 December at 11:55 Active
Outbreaks of rain will become persistent and heavy at times on Friday night and will last through Saturday, before clearing to the south early on Sunday. This is an update to slightly extend the area, allowing insertion of a separate Amber warning area.
Please be aware of the likelihood of flooding, exacerbated by the existing saturated conditions. Some medium level disruption, for example to travel, is possible.
GIVEN recent weather conditions and the current forecast for the next 24 hours, there will be a pitch inspection at Celtic Park tomorrow morning (Saturday) at 9.30am ahead of the game against Hamilton Accies (KO: 3pm). We will update supporters with further information following this inspection.
All planned matchday activities, including the Scott Brown book signing session in the Superstore, are subject to the pitch passing its inspection at 9.30am.
Hope the hun game survives,the thought of
the hordes sitting on a bus soaking wet and
stuck in a traffic jam makes me all warm and
fuzzy inside.
From Celtic video, Warbs not a happy chapy, ah well.
As Sevco scramble desperately for the funds to see them into the new year Mark Warburton has lashed out at the BBC over continued speculation linking him with the manager’s job at Fulham.
With dozens of better qualified candidates such as Alan Curbishley, Nigel Pearson and Tim Sherwood currently out of the game it seems strange how strongly the state broadcaster has been pushing this story.
From Dick Wilson breaking the story on Tuesday, followed by Al Lamont’s update on Wednesday night about new cash being made available to retain Warbo through to Jonathan Sutherland’s performance at Thursday’s press conference the former Brentford boss must have felt like he was under attack from all sides.
Earlier this season Sevco withdrew media facilities from Chris McLaughlin of the BBC for reporting arrests for sectarian singing at a match away to Hibs.
After the BBC briefly watered down their coverage a deal was reached with the club announcing: “Following a meeting with the BBC the media privileges of Chris McLaughlin have been reinstated. Rangers has received assurances from the BBC that their reporting of Rangers’ affairs will be balanced.”
As he attempted to preview tomorrow’s match at Raith Rovers Warbo was unable to keep his emotions in check.
Under questioning from Sutherland he hit back with: “Two weeks ago, when people said I had been linked with jobs, I said I was the Rangers manager. I was asked that question, the BBC included, and I gave the same answer. I did the same again on Tuesday.
“I asked to be shown some respect. To do it again is malicious, inappropriate, whatever term you want to use. I think they are ignoring what I’ve been saying. I thought I had nipped it in the bud two weeks ago, then Saturday and then on Tuesday.
“And then on Wednesday I was forced to be stronger. That is not respectful to me, the club, the supporters and Fulham.”
The determination of the BBC to constantly push this story in the face of constant denials must be a puzzle for the former Brentford boss.
With the Ibrox media machine being masterminded by former BBC pundit Jim Traynor it shouldn’t be too difficult for Warbo to put together some of the pieces in the jigsaw.
Whether Warbo stays or goes much more important issues will engulf Sevco over the next few weeks starting off with chairman Dave King facing a charge of contempt of court for discussing details of the Rangers Retail contract with Sports Direct.
Read more at http://videocelts.com/2015/12/blogs/latest-news/respectful-warbo-shocked-by-bbc-attacks#fZh0D7ZuwXqqaH5u.99
Lol, seasons cheating S from Paddy On The Railway.
Our next cheating bastard, hiding behind Door Number 5, is one Hugh Dallas MBE. As well as making an appearance on Family Fortunes, Dallas was long considered Scotland’s top referee. He was also well-regarded by UEFA and FIFA, leading to him officiating at Champions League matches, the Euros and even the World Cup. It just goes to show that the international refereeing community is just as corrupt as that of Scotland!
Top-level European and international games officiated by Dallas were renowned for controversial (wrong) decisions and these matches usually ended with Dallas being escorted from the pitch by police officers, while a hail of missiles descended upon him. Teams and nations constantly put in complaints about him and, when it was announced that he would be officiating, demands were made for him to be removed. And yet, we were still told that he was one of the World’s top referees and Scotland’s Number One.
His most infamous performance was in a decisive league match between Celtic and Rangers in May 1999. As the match progressed, it looked as if he was showing distinct favouritism toward Rangers. As was the norm in a match with Dallas in charge, missiles were never far away. Somebody, allegedly a Celtic supporter, threw a coin and hit Dallas on the head. When the match restarted, Dallas, even with a ten-bob bit embedded in his napper and his eyes full of blood, managed to spot an infringement that nobody else saw. Rangers were awarded a penalty and went on to win the match 3-0, winning the league in the process.
With the accusations of favouritism being bandied about, the Daily Record (of course) analysed the match and showed that Celtic had been awarded more free kicks than Rangers. According to the Record, this proved categorically that no favouritism had been shown. The fact was, however, that the majority of those free kicks meant that Celtic were constantly pulled back when on the break. Not once did Dallas play advantage and there were a few occasions when Larsson was straight in on goal, only for the whistle to blow for a free kick, usually back in Celtic’s own half.
In later years, Dallas was appointed Head of Referee Development at the SFA and got himself involved in a major controversy involving, you guessed it, Celtic. It was discovered that Dougie McDonald had lied to Neil Lennon about a pivotal decision in a match against Motherwell. Dallas had been vocal in defending McDonald’s story; effectively lying as well. Assistant referee Steven Craven accused Dallas of exerting undue pressure on him to back up McDonald’s lies. Among all the fallout, ‘Scotland’s Top Referee’ escaped any discipline, or even, for that matter, censure.
Dallas, later that year, sent an offensive e-mail about the Pope, using his SFA e-mail account. After Phil Mac Giolla Bhain broke the story, the SFA had to act and Dallas was sacked after an in-house enquiry. He then had the gall to claim unfair dismissal, which the SFA settled out of court. Our media, even then, refused to condemn him; instead bemoaning the loss of such a great man. This episode confirmed what we had all suspected: Dallas was a cheating Hun. It also exposed the criteria used in Scotland for deciding what makes a ‘top referee’.
Hertz game aff.
tonydonnelly67 on 5th December 2015 7:45 am
Hey,Tony.
My alarm`s on for 11.15 pm tonight.
Keep giving us the head`s up.
I read (Uncle Tom) Suttons article on if Celtic don’t want Stokes just come right out and say it, and stop the double standard crap?
Why should they? So if he is up for sale? And Celtic are trying to punt him, they should be saying we’re done with him, we don’t want him any more, he’s bad for the club, it’s not working out with the new manager?
Aye right you are Sutton, and after all that rubbish ing him, we should name our price?
Aye ok, keep kissing BTs arse, that you do well.
Random inaccurate articles always make good reading
Canamalar
Belter. Nearly spilled my tea.
Morning tims.
If you are looking for a wee read back over last nights blog may I suggest you stick 2 nitting needles in your eyes instead, it will be less painful.
Hope the dayshift are in a better mood (aye right ).If that game gets called off this morning it could be a long bloody day.
Anyway here is my treble for todays action on CQN.
No 1
Its Peters fault that the pitch is flooded, if he didn’t have such a big bonus it we would have better drainage.
No 2
It’s a good thing today’s game was off means we can get a rest before Thursday.
No 3.
And this is my banker, someone who doesn’t listen to snyde radio to come on and moan about something Puke Keevins mutters.
Me if the games off then am off to pub.
Have a nice day folks,and if you happen to be down Govan way today watch out for flying Masons oops sorry flying masonry.
H.H
Sitting nice and warm in my wee house waiting to see if game is on, feel sorry for the Bhoys who are travelling further away, surely the game could have been decided earlier like last night as a lot of people will be out of pocket
The game at swinecastle has been called off
due to extreme weather conditions,no mention
of a waterlogged pitch,so if we have rules applied
without fear or favour then our game will be off.
Randomly Inaccurate wind-up merchants never make good reading.
Let’s hope it on
HH
The truth will out, and guess whose side we’re on
Massacre Proves Turk, Washington Complicity in Syria Terror
By Finian Cunningham
December 04, 2015 “Information Clearing House” – “SCF” – On the morning of March 21, 2014, the Syrian village of Kessab was attacked with a combined force of Islamist jihadists and the Turkish army. Among the irregular militia were brigades belonging to the Free Syrian Army, Turkmen tribes and Al Qaeda-linked Al Nusra and the self-proclaimed Islamic State. All were working in tandem in the resulting massacre. And the evidence shows that the Ankara and Washington governments were fully complicit in the atrocity.
The dawn assault on the mainly Armenian Christian village of 2,000 inhabitants began with heavy artillery fire from Turkish army positions across the border in Turkey’s Hatay Province. Turkish army helicopters were also used to strafe Kessab homes and farms. The village is located in the Jebel Al-Aqra mountains overlooking the Mediterranean Sea only a few kilometres from the Turkish border in Syria’s Latakia Province.
After the initial salvos from the Turk army, the village was then attacked with thousands of militants who streamed across the border in pick-up trucks. Among the assault force were nationals from Chechnya, Afghanistan, Tunisia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia – as well as British and Australian, according to survivors.
Most of the Kessab residents managed to escape in panic from the advancing jihadists in cars and other vehicles to the southern city of Latakia, which is about an hour’s drive away and is under the control of the Syrian government.
But what transpired in the next days was a massacre of villagers who were left stranded. In total, 88 mainly elderly residents were slaughtered. Thirteen of the victims were beheaded. One young man, 21-year-old Kevork Djurian, was executed in front of his parents. The killers just laughed at his father Papken’s anguish. The jihadists refused to let the father bury his son, saying that he was «an Armenian dog».
Kessab was occupied by the jihadists for nearly three months before theSyrian Arab Army finally routed the militants and retook the village in mid-June 2014. Today, it still remains under Syrian government control.
Two witnesses to the slaughter have separately told this author of the event and its aftermath. One is an American citizen who has lived in Syria for more than 20 years. She is a medical professional who has a family home in Kessab. On the morning of the opening assault, she was in Latakia, but she tended to the survivors who fled to the main Armenian church in Latakia for sanctuary. As well as caring for the traumatised people, some of whom were her neighbours and friends, she carefully noted their accounts of how the initial attack unfolded. When the Syrian army later retook Kessab in June, the American medic returned to the village and witnessed the devastation that the jihadists had inflicted on homes, public buildings and churches.
Another witness is Irish peace activist, Dr Declan Hayes. He also managed to reach Kessab in the days following its recapture by the Syrian army. Hayes interviewed survivors and recorded the scenes of looting and destruction left behind by the fleeing anti-government militia.
«I interviewed the man whose son was slain in front of his eyes», says Hayes. «The jihadists left the young man’s bloodied corpse lying on the ground for three days outside the family home just to torment his parents».
Without exception, all the villagers said that the assault began with artillery fire and raids by helicopter gunships from Turk territory. «The border is heavily militarised with Turk army positions everywhere on the Turkish side. There is no doubt that this attack was launched with the direct involvement of the Turkish government in Ankara», adds Hayes.
Kessab is in the same mountainous location where Turkish F-16 fighter jets last week shot down a Russian Su-24 bomber, which had been carrying out raids on jihadist groups. The Russian plane came down in Syrian territory and one of its pilots was murdered as he parachuted to the ground by Turkmen militants. The Turkmen are Syrian citizens who are ethnically related to Turks across the border.
The American-Syrian woman (whose name has been withheld by this author on request) says that the Turkmen played an important role in the slaughter of Kessab. «They know all the roads, trails and paths into and out of Kessab. They were the ones who led the attackers into the village», she says.
Churches and a cultural centre in the village were desecrated. The attackers moved from house-to-house killing terrified dwellers and then they looted everything that was not nailed down or even those possessions that were nailed down. Money, jewellery, televisions, fridges, doors, windows, furnishings and farm equipment were systematically plundered and hauled back in trucks to be sold off across the border in Turkey.
Adding to the crimes, a group of about 30 elderly village folk were then abducted by the marauders and taken to the Turkish town of Vakifli some 20 kilometres across the border. They were held there by armed militants for several weeks before they were flown by the Turk authorities to the city of Tripoli in Lebanon. From there the people were able to make their way back to the sanctuary of Latakia. The circuitous route was chosen by the Turk regime in order to conceal its involvement in the crime.
During their abduction, the group was visited by an official American delegation that included the then US ambassador to Turkey, Francis Ricciardone. Ricciardone introduced himself through an interpreter. The petrified Kessab folk pleaded with the American official to intervene for their release. But he left them in their plight. What he wanted to know through his questioning was if any of the people from Kessab were American citizens.
As the American medic pointed out to this author: «There are a few US citizens like me who live in Kessab. There is a big diaspora community of Armenian Syrians in the United States and many of them have homes back in Syria. It seems that the American ambassador was worried that if any US citizens were among the Kessab survivors this would rebound badly for the American government if that news got out».
As noted, once the US ambassador established that there were apparently no American citizens involved in the aftermath of the Kessab assault, he duly left them to their fate of captivity in Turkey.
What that encounter illustrates is that Washington must have been fully aware of what went down in Kessab. How else would the US diplomat know to show up to question the abducted villagers?
In the days following the attack on the village, Samantha Power, the US ambassador to the United Nations, issued a perfunctory, bland statement about Washington’s «concern» over the violence. But Washington did not specify who the guilty parties were, nor did it issue any censure of the Turk government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was the prime minister at that time. He is now the president.
In fact, a subsequent statement issued by State Department official Victoria Nuland claimed that the Turk government had no involvement in the Kessab incident. However, the Russian, Syrian and Armenian governments did make explicit condemnations of the massacre.
The Turkish government claimed that it had no role in the attack. In an official release, the Erdogan regime said: «The allegations by some circles that Turkey is providing support to the opposition forces by letting them use its territory or through some other ways during the conflict which have intensified recently in the Latakia/Kessab region are totally unfounded and untrue».
But the testimonies cited in this article show that the Turk authorities were directly involved in the military assault and the orchestration of jihadist militants. The Ankara government’s denials of what happened in Kessab are thus barefaced lies.
On April 1, 2014, 12 days after the assault began, Ahmed Jarba, the leader of the Western-backed Syrian National Council (SNC), arrived in Kessab. The SNC is the exiled political wing of the Free Syrian Army. Jarba, who is a protégé of the Saudi regime, went there to inspect the occupation and congratulate the militants on their successful breach of government-held territory in Latakia. The breach of territory to the Mediterranean coast was considered a significant victory for the militants. The following month, in May, Jarba was received in the White House by President Barack Obama. He was also greeted by Obama’s National Security advisor, Susan Rice.
The «rape of Kessab», as Dr Declan Hayes has called it, was fully conducted by fighters belonging to the Western-backed FSA, along with jihadist brigades comprising Turkmen tribesmen and Al Qaeda-linked Al Nusra and Islamic State.
The incident serves as a microcosm of the entire four-and-a-half-year-old Syrian conflict. The mainly Armenian Christian village of Kessab is home to all religious sects that reside in Syria, including Alawite and Sunni Muslims. The farming community has lived peaceably together for centuries and has never been persecuted by the Syrian government of President Assad. The only previous persecution was a century ago, in 1915, when the Turk Ottoman empire carried out the Armenian genocide, when 1.5 million Armenians were exterminated. Tragically, many survivors of the Kessab massacre last year are descendants of that first genocide.
On the morning of March 21 last year, the community of Kessab was plunged into an orgy of barbarism carried out by Western, Turk and Saudi-backed jihadists. The whole notion contrived by Western governments and their mainstream media that the West is backing «secular, moderate rebels» in Syria fighting against a sectarian, despotic regime is thus exposed as a vile charade, as the carnage at Kessab shows.
Of particular import is the criminal role played by the Turk government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, not only in the orchestration of the slaughter at Kessab, but, more generally, throughout the entire Syrian conflict.
Erdogan has this week flatly denied claims made by Russian President Vladimir Putin that Ankara is complicit in fuelling the conflict in Syria by supporting terrorists through an industrial-scale campaign, involving the smuggling of oil for weapons. Erdogan has even said that he will resign if it is proven that his regime is complicit. His arrogant confidence seems to stem from his regime’s brutal suppression of Turk media publishing verifiable articles that Turkish state intelligence has indeed been running truck-loads of weapons into Syria.
Previously, by way of attempting to absolve the Turk state from charges of terrorist collusion, Erdogan claimed that weapons were being sent to help Turkmen «brothers» to defend themselves from the Syrian army. Following the brutal murder of the Russian pilot by Turkmen jihadists last week, Erdogan this week changed his tune and claimed that weapon convoys into Syria were allegedly being sent to the «Free Syrian Army».
But, as the Kessab massacre demonstrates, the so-called «moderate» FSA is an integral and indistinguishable component of the proxy terrorist army that Ankara and its Washington ally are supporting to overthrow the elected government of President Assad. Any difference is patently just a figment of imaginative propaganda.
Obama, while at the Paris climate change summit this week (appropriately, a «hot-air» conference of world leaders), has this week reiterated calls on Russia to focus its military campaign on the Islamic State and to halt its aerial attacks on «moderate rebels».
The American president and his Turk ally are in no position to lecture anybody about «terrorists» and «moderates». They are all part of the same criminal gang, and that gang includes Obama and Erdogan.
© Strategic Culture Foundation – anybody know them ?
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