Of all the supporter-related offenses Uefa are disciplining football clubs on at the moment the use of lasers annoys me most (with the appropriate caveat for health and safety matters).
Racism, health and safety violations, violence flares are all appropriate reasons to sanction a club but it’s always bothered me that Uefa seem to let the continental fashion for shining powerful lasers into the faces of opposing players and managers was not tackled appropriately.
I was, therefore, pleased to hear Uefa disciplined Olympiacos for, among a rich litany of offenses, their fans pointing a laser at Anderlecht players during their recent Champions League game. The Greek club have been ordered to close the more colourful part of their stadium for their last 16 game against Manchester United.
It will surprise few of us that despite the Greeks being sanctioned for using lasers, Milan have gone unpunished, despite their fans pointing lasers at Celtic players during our recent drubbing.
These games are supervised and televised from multiple angles. If the use of lasers attracts a punishment, and it should, the rules must apply without fear or favour.
Everyone who asked to book a ticket or table for the CQteN St Patrick’s Day Party should have received an email regarding payment in the last day. If you have not received an email, get in touch right away (CQNbooks@gmail.com) to ensure your booking is confirmed.
Orders received today for the CQN Annual will meet tomorrow’s the last posting day before Christmas for the UK. Order below, £5 from each Annual goes to our Malawi appeal:
Sean Fallon, Celtic’s Iron Man:
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back to lurking,the hills are calling
TONYD- Prefer bhoy bands to Billy Boys tbf.
Did you leave your phone on at the AGM? :-)))
Art of war
Naw a lost my phone in the Louden at the weekend at the Blue Christmas Party. ;)
neustadt,
I sure am, enjoyed a few days of Pom bashing and ales at the WACA, heading out for the works day out tomorrow and then on to see the Celts at the Mandurah CSC Christmas get together on Saturday night, not a pair of long breechs in sight, cooled down to 30 degrees right enough!
goodlifecsc
Has their first Annual Greetin’ Meetin’ finished then?
CQN Annuals in the post today to the following destinations:
Edinburgh
Reigate
Broxburn
Carluke
Glasgow
Knightswood
West Bridgford
Cumbernauld
Newry
Manchester
Falkirk
Ottawa
There are still TWO postal days to go if you want to receive the Annual for Christmas and it is a fantastic gift to give. Also £5 on all copies sold to the CQN Malawi kitchen appeal.
I posted this earlier this morning but it got lost amid the chat of the first ever AGM for the new football club in Govan.
Quick quiz – name city XXXX below….
“However, the most prophetic words must go to the XXXX Chief of Police. He went on record as saying: “The wonderful Celtic fans can come back any time. We have never had so much enjoyment from anyone.”
antipodean red
14:14 on 19 December, 2013
neustadt,
I sure am, enjoyed a few days of Pom bashing and ales at the WACA, heading out for the works day out tomorrow and then on to see the Celts at the Mandurah CSC Christmas get together on Saturday night, not a pair of long breechs in sight, cooled down to 30 degrees right enough!
I spent some time in Perth a few years ago and had a great time. Pretty sure the CSC I went to watch the games in was in central Perth. I didn;t enjoy the flies but I loved the quokkas. :-)
jungle jim
13:56 on 19 December, 2013
You may interpret my post in anyway you want my mhan but I am only stating what I see with my own eyes most weeks
You may disagree but I still have that spare ticket for the Hearts match on Saturday
Bhoys and Ghirls,
I will always remember Harald Brattbakk fondly due to the St Johnstone game. What a party
I have not seen too much of Finnbogason to comment but it could be yet another expensive project. Slightly worrying that we have been feeling this guy out for months and he is still very much available.
HH, Always in Celtic.
I recieved my CQN Annual weeks ago.
I am off for 2 weeks (ya byooty!) and that will be my holiday read.
Log fire, glass of red, CQN Annual open at page one, tissues on the arm of the chair.
Begin.
Heaven.
Thanks again to all who contributed and put the Annual together.
I expect it will be a wee bit like last years.
Real life stories by CQN’ers and their guests, a wee bit about our history and loads of tears.
Canny wait!
According to my chineesse wall chart I got from my fav. tiddlywinkies last night, 2014 is the year of the horse, and if you where born in 1954 66 78 or 90, you are strong, enthusiastic, generous with money, and good at socializing, marry a tiger or a dog, BUT never a rat, hmmmmm, hope this helps some of you.
natknow,
You are correct, in the early days I used to drive up to Perth to watch some of the games, 160km round trip, couldn’t have a beer. We have recently started our own club down here, expect about 20 on Saturday night, Derry, Luton, Coatbridge, Dumfries to name a few places that our Bhoys hail from, early days but so far so good.
The flies are particularly bad at the moment but the don’t seem as bad when the beer googles are on, the quokkas are good with chips!
AR
td67
I preferred that post of yours from earlier when you said………………..
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“@videocelts: Seems like the gullible fools have been held at bay by the current men of dignity, – quelle surprise”
Philbhoy
NICE.
Long may the agony continue for the huns,loving every minute.
67heaven
Seems like they have more questions now than before the rabble, am tellin yi, it’s awe gonny end in tears. The Easdales are pratted pink lint, not got a curdy, they need some Nelson Eddies (redies) and that will come from next years season book money, and then they will be offski, along wi the fat boy.
td67
Meant to end it with a smiley!
Nio offence meant.
More carnage to follow follow will follow Rangers self destruction II..
antipodean red
14:30 on 19 December, 2013
natknow,
You are correct, in the early days I used to drive up to Perth to watch some of the games, 160km round trip, couldn’t have a beer. We have recently started our own club down here, expect about 20 on Saturday night, Derry, Luton, Coatbridge, Dumfries to name a few places that our Bhoys hail from, early days but so far so good.
The flies are particularly bad at the moment but the don’t seem as bad when the beer googles are on, the quokkas are good with chips!
AR
Nie one! If I’m ever out again in WA I’ll look you up. Last time I was there I had a great time travelling round Bunbury, Margaret River, Albany and inland to Kalgoorlie to see the mines. Got invited to a party by a bunch of young graduate lawyers who were on a wine tour in Margaret River – along with an English girl who was also on the tour. The Aussies got the cricket gear out and insisted the Pom was first up to bat. They then spent an hour chucking a cricket ball at her! Just as well she had a good sense of humour and they could aim! ;-)
Folks I know that Winning Captains and Paul have pointed out that in terms of the CQN Annuals there are two ordering days left for Christmas and all that.
Both Paul and David are thoroughly nice, polite and dare I say it, decent individuals.
I, on the other hand, can be a little more blunt about certain matters.
Now the annual is a fantastic production with 228 quality pages, really good stories, and as Philbhoy says above you had better have the tissues ready for page one because if you don’t have a wee greet to yourself then I am afraid you have kicked the bucket and are stone dead.
Which takes me on to my point.
You all know that £5 of the price goes towards the cost of building the Kitchen in Malawi.
This Kitchen is to feed 1200 kids in an area of the world where a daily meal is a luxury.
1200 children– all of them starving or living just above starving as I type this and you read it.
1200 children for whom Christmas day perhaps means a bit more to eat, a bit more strength, a bit more hope but in comparison to all of us…….. means sod all else in terms of material possessions and presents.
They just want two things— food and some hope.
Now, I help write this bloody thing, but yesterday between me and my mammy we bought a few copies to send directly to friends through the post and we added a wee personal message– they are included in the list being posted out today — just because it was a way of giving someone who lived a wee bit away a Christmas present which they will enjoy and because it helps to pay for that Kitchen for the 1200 kids.
So– if you haven’t bought one — or even if you have — go on, buy one for yourself or for someone else– send a message and in so doing give a fiver towards the Kitchen.
If everyone who went to Seville bought a CQN Annual we could afford to build a right few kitchens and stock them properly and in so doing we would save more than a few lives.
Maybe this time next year we can bring you photographs of the CQN Kitchen in Malawi — and all the kids who go to it and rely on it for their daily food.
But we have to build it first so………. go on …….. buy an annual today as this is as near to the “penny” dinners as any of us will ever come.
HH
BRTH
Looking forward to John Brown’s press conference…
The msm told everyone who would listen that all the questions would be answered today, liars one and all.
They are no further forward today than they were yesterday, all good stuff, and still not a question answered.
All hail the spivs.
natknow – supporting wee oscar
13:44 on 19 December, 2013
Jungle Jim
13:25 on 19 December, 2013
I have just watched a Finnbogason compilation showing his 24 goals last (?) season . I can see why no big club has, apparently, come in for him. He actually does not look all that skillful but he does put the ball in the net. Kris Boyd was, and to a lesser extent still is, like that. I can`t decide if I would like Celtic to buy him. At £ 5 million it would be a heck of a risk.I certainly would not want him bought just to appease anxious fans.
Well that would explain why John Park wasn’t comfortable putting his name to the signing for that amount of money. As Weeminger points out, there are plenty of examples where we have bought a player that didn’t suit our style of play and who was then considered “a failure”. Although I should point out that Harold’s scoring stats are actually not that bad.
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John Park is only comfortable putting his name to the signing of strikers who don’t score goals, it would appear :-))
Get Alfie signed up. I don’t care if he knees the ball into the net or if it goes in off his erchie. I’m not looking for poise and grace. I’m looking for goals. If you want to be entertained go to the pictures.
winning captains
14:20 on 19 December, 2013
Tony Warrington says he put mine in the post to Germany on 5 December. Haven’t seen it yet but he believes it will arrive before Xmas.
HopesoCSC
:-)
Gerry
On the rangers going bust thing, could it simply be viewed as when Murray was in charge yes they were always in heavy debt but were able to service it, then when he sold up and CW moved in they couldn’t service it any more so they went bust? Also, If they had gained entry into the Champions League when CW was in charge would the money they have earned from that been able to service the debt at that time and enabled them to carry on? Do we really have the HMRC to thank for bringing them down?
TheOriginalsadiesBhoy
We should sign Thorin Oakenshield.
He’s no very big but jings, i think he’d score a good few.
No sure about the big branch though.
;-)
GerryBhoy
e-mail me your details re where it should have been sent to and I will look into it for you.
editor@cqnmagazine.com
Cheers
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
14:59 on 19 December, 2013
GerryBhoy
e-mail me your details re where it should have been sent to and I will look into it for you.
editor@cqnmagazine.com
Cheers
Done – email on the way.
Many thanks!
Gerry
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy
14:54 on 19 December, 2013
natknow – supporting wee oscar
13:44 on 19 December, 2013
Jungle Jim
13:25 on 19 December, 2013
I have just watched a Finnbogason compilation showing his 24 goals last (?) season . I can see why no big club has, apparently, come in for him. He actually does not look all that skillful but he does put the ball in the net. Kris Boyd was, and to a lesser extent still is, like that. I can`t decide if I would like Celtic to buy him. At £ 5 million it would be a heck of a risk.I certainly would not want him bought just to appease anxious fans.
Well that would explain why John Park wasn’t comfortable putting his name to the signing for that amount of money. As Weeminger points out, there are plenty of examples where we have bought a player that didn’t suit our style of play and who was then considered “a failure”. Although I should point out that Harold’s scoring stats are actually not that bad.
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John Park is only comfortable putting his name to the signing of strikers who don’t score goals, it would appear :-))
What, like Gary Hooper? :-)
If we are going to spend £5M on a single player, then :
1. Anyone who say the board are penny-pinching are wrong – bu this is the standard MSM line.
2. Let’s spend it wisely. Is this the only £5M player we’re looking at? I doubt it, but if CQN is all you read then that appears to be the case!
I’m happy to trust the judgement of the Celtic scouts and management team with this decision. A £5M spend is not a decision to be make lightly in any business. I work for a company whose Net Income for 2012 was £665M. A spend of £5M would be subject to extreme scrutiny at all levels from every department – as it should be.
Its a pity the Secret Santa in our work isnt till next week as some unsuspecting Bun might have got 30 shares for ma £10.
smoothcriminals
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Not a hope we will spend 5m on a player.
philbhoy – free the dam 5!
14:58 on 19 December, 2013
TheOriginalsadiesBhoy
We should sign Thorin Oakenshield.
He’s no very big but jings, i think he’d score a good few.
No sure about the big branch though.
;-)
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Seen him play. He’s a big (or wee) lump of wood :-))
An interesting take on the new definition of sectarianism from Liam Conway. Well worth a read for all those interested in the OB stuff, the last paragraph is the key one for me.
http://liamconway.wordpress.com/2013/12/18/a-working-definition-of-sectarianism-in-scotland/
Philbhoy
None taken mate ;)
….guess thats me back to being invisible again….SFTB…where are you?…you can normally see me….:-)
natknow – supporting wee oscar
15:06 on 19 December, 2013.
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Patience my ass I want a striker now! Alfie is the only name I know. I’ve no time for further scrutiny and it’s not my money I’m cyber spending :-))
Seriously, I take your point but I would KILL for a striker now.
BRTH
Is there a portal to contribute to the Malawi venture through CQN rather than Mary’s Meals?
Tlwio.
PS other than the annual which is already purchased.