When I grew up everyone knew about Thalidomide, a drug given to prevent morning sickness in expectant mothers, which caused severe limb abnormalities in the child. The drug was used for only a short period, so those suffering from the condition are all of a certain age.
The condition is both very recognisable and rare, so there is a good chance you will have noticed Gerry Cleary (above) at a Celtic game at some point. When I was a boy I saw him at Love St and heard about the scandal later that night from my (animated) mother. There was a fresh news story only yesterday, detailing the history of one uncompensated victim.
Gerry is part of a campaign by Thalidomide sufferers to raise awareness of the condition and put pressure on the drug’s developer, Chemie Grunenthal, to compensate UK victims. On this occasion, you are not being asked to put your hands in your pockets, you’re being asked to register your support of the Show Your Hand campaign.
Gerry explains the campaign below:
“My name is Gerry Cleary, I am a 51 year old Celtic supporter from East Kilbride who was born with a condition called Thalidomide caused by a so called wonder drug manufactured by a German pharmaceutical company, Chemie Grunenthal.
“There is currently a major awareness campaign underway to put pressure on this company to face up to their responsibilities, finally apologise and compensate all thalidomers affected by their actions over 50 years ago.
“I know being a hoops fan all my life and following the team all over Europe our club is open to all and our fans second to none, and all I ask is the Celtic family to show their support by logging on to our campaign website www.showyourhand.org which enables you to register your support. It also details the history of the biggest pharmaceutical disaster in modern times and is both enlightening and informative.
“I look forward to your support.
Hail Hail !!!”
I know we can’t all afford to participate in the many needy causes we feature regularly here but we can all support this campaign, as can the club, I am sure.
Celtic’s Iron Man:
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Happy birthday Tommy
http://www.celticfc.net/newsstory?item=4710
This blog is often split between two extremes of those who think the board can do no wrong and those who think they can do no right. I’m often accused of bored bashing etc, when my motivation for raising a point was not to bash the board but to suggest a different way of doing things might be better.
Well the board can do right, for a start, we aren’t bankrupt, We have money in the bank, We are likely to win quite a few “in a row”
But that doesn’t mean that the board always get everything just right either.
The recent Green Brigade issue was handled poorly.
The failure to address the criminalisation of the fans, following the so called shame game, IMO is also poor
The silence over “the shenanigans” is poor
However and I have to believe that they are no fools and I understand that maybe they have access to information that perhaps I don’t have access to.
But I can’t understand any celtic fan who wants us to remain silent, simply because the huns will be angry if we mention the truth about what is going on.
You are not protecting the club, if anything you are protecting the blue bigots who influence and pollute this country and would treat us as second class citizens for all of our lives. They are a sectarian KKK and should be challenged and outed at every opportunity.
Indeed many believe that they dined at the CL table at our expense and cost our club millions by doing so. I don’t ever want to see a club called Rangers or similar back in top flight football, they were a permanent embarrassment and an occasional disgrace. They have no place in a civilised country and their recent british army sectarian singing parade on the pitch shows that nowt has changed in that regard or is likely to change either.
If you feel this is board bashing then so be it, but don’t ever expect me to be silent, or to support the silence either, just to keep them happy. It just isn’t happening and im fully supportive of the attempts to raise the matter in public.
if there are any green huns out there, then they are the ones who are staying quiet for fear of angering the zombies who currently wander the queens highways in search of a cause to rally behind!!
goldstar10
no Billy Urquhart?
I noticed that, last night, David Tanner was actually wearing brown shoes that could easily have been brogues. (I was distracted by his fawning attitude to Lord Cardigan of Carmyle).
Talking about Ikechi Anya, Tanner said, “He grew up in Glasgow supporting your 9 in a row team, Walter.”
He left Glasgow when he was 6 in 1994…and how many of those years before he left was he old enough to be aware of? I guffaw at Hunguffery
Leftclicktic:
I was on the train going into the city this morning, and as you do, I drifted away with the rhythm of the motion, and I swear, in the twilight zone between boredom and unconsciousness, the wheels were whispering…
Ticketus… Ticketus… Ticketus… Ticketus… Ticketus… Ticketus… Ticketus… Ticketus…
VP KO’d by fearless Oscar Knox
11:20 on 16 October, 2013
“‘Rogues in brogues’ it’s got a ring to it.”
that’s just me and you then@
Tommy Gemmell on his Aberdeen debut
He said: “My debut for Celtic was at Pittodrie just over a year after I had joined the club. Subs weren’t allowed back then so there was no prospect of easing young players into the team via the bench.
“My opportunity knocked when Jim Kennedy, the first choice left-back, and Willie O’Neill, the second choice man for that position, were both injured.
“So my name was listed on the noticeboard in the dressing room but as I was still part-time, it was only when I went into training on the Thursday evening that I saw my name in the pool of players that was to go north on the Friday to stay in the Bay Hotel in Stonehaven prior to the match.
“That was enough of a big deal for me but on the Friday night I got a phone call from a guy who told me he was from the Aberdeen Evening Express and because of my debut he wondered if he could get a story and a picture for the paper.
“I checked with manager Jimmy McGrory and he said it was okay so half-an-hour later I was standing outside the hotel awaiting this guy from the paper.
“You can imagine what it was like on a freezing cold January night up in the North East. I was still standing there waiting when Paddy Crerand came out and said: ‘Get yourself in here. Have you not realised we’ve been carrying out a spoof on you?’
“I had been standing there, cold but excited, dreaming of the spotlight, and visualising my picture and story in the paper.”
Gms,
Pics please.
Cadizzy, oh thems were brogues all right.
The Green Man @ 10:35,
“Seriously…if there is anyone on our board willing to help them, after the years of violence and bigotry we have suffered…I will be truly astonished, and extremely saddened.”
Personally I’d like to find these Director(s) and sack ’em,
If someone on Celtic’s Board is tasked with helping them, they have failed….
To properly warn them and put contingency plans in place to prevent a financial melt down…
To make Rangers progress in European Cup competitions…
To stop an Administration event, get a CVA, prevent liquidation…
To get a reliable and quality mangement team to take over the assets and set-up a New Club with a properly thought out and funded business plan…
To get the Newco into the SPL…
To progress Newco in any Cup competition…
To get an IPO off the ground to bring in sufficient funds to ensure medium term survival…
To ensure Board stability…
All in all our ghuy would have to be as poor as….
SDM
Alister Johnston
Martin Bain
Paul Murray
Dave King
Craig Whyte
Charles Green
Malcolm Murray
Craig Mather.
(T)he(y) should be sacked for incompetence:-))
Hail Hail
kitalba
:)))
Someone is behind the curtains looking on
for me its sale & leaseback sale & leaseback sale & leaseback sale & leaseback.
stay well sir
till later all visit my mam time
78 first thing she will say when I walk through the door
“I was beginning to think you had forgot you had a mother”
:))
cadizzy
Keep it going mate,sure to catch at least one more.
@ParsUnited supporters trust have bought @officialdafc.
Hope that works out well for them.
Live within your means – Rule 1.
Find your level – Rule 2.
To have a long future – Repeat Rule 1.
Glad ther was no liquidation.
play
Great post Tamrabam..my sentiments exactly.
I feel this agm is of huge importance, this is a burning issue for thousands of supporters and it needs addressed immediately if we are to move on.
I simply just cant just ignore it all and get on
with things…for the good of scottish football.
Enough..
leftclicktic:
A long time ago I was in Paddy Crerand’s bar, The Jolly Friar, in Altingham in Manchester. Along with a couple of good Tims we were indulging a very early Sunday morning session, Bryan Robson was in with the sun of his landlady from his West Brom (?) days. Paddy had tee’d us up and when Robson and his mate came through from the pool room to the bar, Paddy came screaming down the stairs shouting that Dalglish had just signed for United, my mate told him he was wrong, Kenny had signed the previous night. Robson’s was white and he asked if he could join us, and when he offered to get a round in my mate said “mate, the dole doesn’t pay much, I’ll get this one”.
Robson was bricking it.
Goldstar
Ahhhh you were including players etc….. I think :-)
cadizzy- Thank the Lord I don’t subscribe to Sky, would have needed a new telly I had watched that.
leftclicktic:
All mothers say that, just like they always bought you your handkerchiefs.
hamiltontim- indeed! :)
Any pics of the newly shorn Sammi please?
Goldstar
My sincere apologies :-)
Right, now off to take 3 screaming lassies swimming. I’ll be glad to get back to work!
28 degrees in Majorca and a sore back but still table tennis champion in the celticrollercoaster family. :-)
HH
CRC
Can anyone here offer any insight as to why two (or should that be four) of the brogues have resigned this morning? There are a couple of possible scenarios at play here but cannae quite put my finger on the right one….
All very interesting.
http://twitter.com/Damon_Meikle/status/390261418588909568/photo/1
Canny do the link thing so shut it in advance. ;)
Canny see too many huns buying the latest Andy Murray gear.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/wimbledon-champ-andy-murray-reveals-2457839
Very tastefully done,IMO. Lovely colours….
Interesting observation regarding the remaining Directors at the troubled Multi National.
“The brothers Grim are only keeping Stockbridge because he can do sums without taking his shoes and socks off.His days are numbered.”
Many a true word spoken in jest!!
I wonder if Mather’s payoff will be in the region of £100,000.
All approved by the Easdales.
And paid in shiny £1 coins…..
Geordie Munro
Thanks!
He’s still a handsome devil!
Remember the story about Thalidomide well, did not realise however that the victims where short changed with compensation. Good luck to them in their battle to get justice!
PS Sorry can I just add good luck to the McCann family also, another tragic matter!
Return of the Duck
http://imgur.com/oUiuXYf
kitalba
Ticketus…Ticketus
Ticketus…Ticketus
Classic – made me snigger…!
And in the twilight zone nobody has anything to say.
The Spirit of Arthur Lee
Classic
Democracy at work…
Share holders meeting
300 Shareholders support a motion
6 shareholders don’t.
The 6 win.
How and why?
That’s not democracy that’s despotism…
Nah son, that’s reality.
KITALBA
Because in this democracy,some are more equal than others?
“So if 60,000 Celtic supporters want to go down one road we’re not allowed to because 6 want to go down another”?
“Such is life son.”
So, Mather has chucked it then eh!
Who is Fat Sally going to back now?
Oh, I forgot, it’s Super Dave this week.
Doug & Dinsdale next week maybe?
“Dad, in the war against the SFA, did you brick it?”