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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TD67
Your older brother got your dads name
and you got my Dads name
wish i had got it
: > )
abhoynamedSueCSC
John Collins scored the first professional goal wearing Predator boot. Was that against the Zombies at Ibrox the game without Celtic fans ?
Just watched Wee Leigh and John Collins on Soccer Am there and it just occurred to me…
Auldheid, you haven’t answered the simple question posed.
Do you believe that JC has dyed for his sins?
:)))
HH
TONYDONNELLY67 on 5TH DECEMBER 2015 10:44 AM
quonno
Just thought you were being a wee bit dismissive of folks reading books.
If you think folk on here are stalking you, so be it.
Me. I just like stirring the shit.
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CRAIG THOMPSON IN BIG CELTIC
CORRECT DECISION SHOCKER!
It had to happen eventually I suppose……
Lennons Passion
Yep, that was the very game. 1-1 draw. Huns equalised with a jammy deflected goal if I remember right.
Melbourne Mick just in case you were wondering about M. She’s been tied up with wedding festivities and is off up to Monti in Queensland tomorrow for a week ,she will be in touch when she gets back. She is in the Land down under until Dec 30th , may I be the first to wish you and yours a very Merry Xmas and a Guid New Year. Hail Hail Hebcelt
Stevie Mac doesn’t know the story but it doesn’t stop him having a go
Is he a writer for the Record
Morning CQN
I’m not saying it’s windy this morning over the Dechmont Massif, but I’ve just seen Almira Gulch fly past on her bicycle.
As things stand, there is no senior football in Glasgow, Hamilton, Motherwell or Paisley today, meaning the biggest crowd of the day will be at K Park, East Kilbride for the Scottish Cup replay between EK FC and Stenhousemuir.
It’s been quite an adventure since EKFC was formed around 8 years ago. From fairly humble beginnings, the club has grown to encompass three core activities:
The Senior team, which plays in the Scottish Lowland League
The Football Club, which comprises over 650 players of all ages and abilities and both genders across 32 teams, from first touches through to adult
And the Community Trust, which builds and manages the infrastructure, and is focussed on using football as a means to address inequality and social exclusion in the town.
The Trust funds and manages a number of important local programmes, including support for kids with Additional Support Needs, an Allotments project, another aimed at taking troubled kids out of street culture, and myriad interventions at the individual level, including the recent successful “Max to Miami” fundraiser.
The football club is based at the K Park Training Academy in Calderglen, and a planning application has recently been submitted to South Lanarkshire Council to build a new 4000 seater stadium in the town. You can read more here: http://eastkilbridecommunitytrust.co.uk/
There’s a whole lot going on that few folk have much visibility of, but a considerable number of CQNers have taken to the club, and have gotten into the habit of supporting the team when there’s no Celtic game on.
That’ll be today, for example.
Despite the weather, the pitch is in perfect condition, and the Scottish Cup tie v Stenhousemuir goes ahead.
Come along, and support poor Matt McGinley in goal for EFKC, son of one of our bloggers, and facing the prospect of taking goal kicks into a 60mph gale.
It’s £10 at the gate, £5 concessions, and the bar is open.
Yes, Football and Beer, living together under the one roof. It’s the future.
See you there.
Its going to be a very cold Istanbul on Thursday.My wee Hun mate is going with me,along with around 14 Fener fans.They are taking us into the Fener fans boozers on the day of the match.We are going into the European side on the Wednesday.Will check out the Irish boozers(probably plastic Paddy)bars.Shame about the weather as all the drinking will be done inside.The Cafe atmosphere in Istanbul in the summer is brilliant.Anyone going across for the game,it is a huge city.Not easy to keep your bearings.Have been in the stadium once before for a Galatasaray game.Great stadium,and atmosphere.No problems for us as a couple of the Turks going with us are very well connected.If you know what I mean.
How is Morton game still on in the wettest
place on the planet
THE GLORIOUS BALANCE SHEET on 5TH DECEMBER 2015 11:49 AM
Thought it was. Remember the wonderful stories after Seville on how fans got in. Wonder if any Tim’s got in that day. Mind a plane flying over.
Monsoon rain here for two days straight in southern Florida.
A wee tad warmer than in Glesga though…
Nae fitba the day, oh well I’ll jist have to dae some work.
Hebcelt
Yes, all sorted, emailed her yesterday and we will meet up
when she gets back, hope you told her to slip , slap, slop
as they say here absolutely burning, i suppose a bit like
Stornoway.
H.H Mick
Auldheid and The Battered Bunnet come across as the sort of people most of us would like to see on the Celtic board and/or involved in running Scottish fitba’.
The blog would sure as hell be a poorer, less informed place without them. For the sake of the sane amongst us, please stick with it guys…
TBB
What time is kickoff ?
LENNON’S PASSION/TBGS…
The plane flying over ipox and then Celtic Park….will live with me forever…”HAIL HAIL THE CELTS ARE HERE”…HH
JC2
Kick off is 3pm. Bring your Sou’wester and your smile.
Oops, apologies….the glorious balance sheet. HH
TBB
you obviously dont know me if you think i smile.
Its an option was supposed to be out today before game ill see if
anyone fancies it.
That wonderful time of the year when our neighbours exchange trampolines.
Brilliant from The Celtic Diary,
Mark Warburton,”I had a face to face meeting with Dave King over the talk of a move to Fulham.
I wanted to look into his eyes and see what he was thinking.One eye told me to stay,the other told me to go to Fulham”.
Johnjames, this blokes like a terrier with a rat by the throat….
As I revealed exclusively on Tuesday, Mr King and his discredited board overruled the advice of solicitors to engage in vote rigging. They stripped 10.4% properly constituted votes, that complied with their articles of association, in an illegal attempt to force through Resolution 10.
Anyone with even a cursory knowledge of the penniless spiv from the Transvaal would not be surprised by this news.Martin Williams of The Herald ‘broke’ the story this morning. Keith Jackson, who could have had an exclusive, dismissed me as being confused and decided to watch a programme that he referred to as ‘Jungle.’ Some might conclude that Keith took the week off to coincide with the absence of his primary source, Phil Mac Giolla Bhain.
King is no stranger to share manipulation, but I’m surprised that Paul Murray and John Gilligan went along with them. I assume company secretary James Blair opposed their illegal actions. I would also envisage opposition from our managing director Stewart Robertson. But in the final analysis, both Blair and Robertson do the bidding of the board.
Douglas Park and Graeme Park are also complicit in this vote rigging scandal.All five directors could be suspended from holding office in any UK plc for a term of between 5-15 years.
The matter will now be addressed in Companies Court, which is in The Rolls building, which is a modern annexe to The High Courts Of Justice, on The Strand, London. Mr King will be in this building on Wednesday in his attempt to avoid imprisonment. Should the petition by Sandy Easdale be upheld, all five directors will face a petition at The Court of Session to have them suspended.
The implications of this have not been fully explored by Mr Williams. The entire board could be cleared out.
I trust Stewart Regan and Neil Doncaster read The Herald this morning. They both voted for King and Murray to be approved as ‘fit and proper.’
Were they fit and proper to engage in electoral fraud?
Tim Malone
I can’t imagine a more uncomfortable position than being a Director of Celtic. A thankless task.
As for the blog, well, it’s about the community. Too many folk think it’s a place to litter with personal insult. Litter is the right word, with comments left lying there in plain site. Either the community sorts the issue, or it will diminish. I’m backing the bloggers.
Auldheid,
Found this quote from the herald article, typical of driving the lie.
“when Charles Green’s consortium bought the business and assets of Rangers as it entered liquidation.”
Now, can anyone see the deliberate lie ?
Gooooooooooooooooooooood afternoon all,
Right decision re game ,but gutted for the kano weans who had travelled over fae Ireland for the game,
It would seem that King has a more rigorous fit and proper test than Regan.
Mind you, that would not be difficult.
I remember, when I used to read the papers,New Year was a time to bestow various personages with a “Player.writer/baker etc of the Year” title. I propose that we vote for a CQN Poster of the Year and I nominate AULDHEID;THE BATTERED BUNNET, SETTING FREE THE BEARS AND BROGAN ,ROGAN TREVINO & HOGAN as the candidates. Of course, there are many other worthies but having only four reduces the chance of divided camps leading to a less representative winner.
In fairness to the other Resolution Twelvers, another Award for Crusaders of the Year can be awarded to them collectively. What do we think?
Who knows how to set it up on CQN so that we can vote?
JJ
PS BMCUW would maybe have been a candidate had he not flounced 0:-)
What Katy did….for me.
On a completely different note, I am quite confident that Aberdeen will not win today.
JJ
Auldheid and HamiltonTim represent, in their selfless work, represent all that is good about the hallowed ground on which Paradise stands.
Those that badger them, and/or post derogatory remarks about them merely reinforce that the problem lies within themselves. Time taken out for introspection, rather than knee-jerk hysteria would be on much value to them.
A hallmark of entrenched, intolerant belief is a repetition of one narrow viewpoint. How many of those that continue to sow dissent on the blog follow this pattern?
Stop trying to control the behavior, and beliefs of another and get on with your own life. At the very least you’ll be a lot happier.
See those podium chasers logged in on two devices…?
“I can’t imagine a more uncomfortable position than being a Director of Celtic.”
Tbb,
Director at Sevco? :)
Eeeyyghshudder csc
JJ… 1-0 sheep.
Has the Hun game been called off yet?
I’m not sure I fancy starting my night out trying to avoid the straggling often spotted blue tit.
HH
Sheepies 1 up.
Leftie
Perhaps the Irish kano weans could take the short detour to East Kilbride.
Geordie Munro
Uncomfortable, Deadclub Directors ? Where they oculd be heading , nah
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/8789794/Slopping-out-case-life-of-luxury-in-British-jails.html