Interesting development reported this morning by the BBC that the SPFL have sold rights to a Chinese broadcaster for around £500k per year. With rights for major European leagues commanding premium fees, it seems intuitive that there’s space for lower-cost content, but Scottish football must be starting from a position of practically zero market knowledge in China. Unless Zheng Zhi is a whole lot more popular than I realised.
The other aspect about China to bear in mind is the size and habits of its gambling market. If you are a gambler, you don’t watch football for the thrill of following your favourite team, you watch for the opportunity to beat the bookie, and in this respect, Scottish football is as valuable as any league.
Sport’s relationship with gambling has been a source of concern, especially in the Scottish lower leagues, but when you look up your fixture list and see the Ladbrokes Scottish Premiership, there’s no point getting precious about the influence Chinese gamblers.
I see the Bumblebee’s back! This NB know how to push our buttons with the retro look.
I know around 100 of you have/can/will run a 10k or half marathon, and a few dozen have told me you’re signing up to do the Great Scottish Run for your Foundation. You know what it’s about, Health, Education, Learning, Poverty – or in short, it’s about what Celtic means to you and me.
Time to get moving on it. See the Foundation page here for details. It’s in October, so there’s a good chance the rain will stop by then. Let me know when you’ve signed up, celticquicknews@gmail.com
You don’t need to break records, you don’t even need to run the whole course, just get the trainers on and get out there, you’ll be glad you did.
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GG- I take onboard what you are saying but Canamalar is correct in his assertion of ‘favourable treatment’.
Kojo got a free reign to post some atrocious material without censure.
Paul67 knows that self policing is an important part of his blog. I think Canamalar is merely carrying out this act with some zeal.
Respect is the key. Lose that…well!
Canalmar play the game, whether we are right or wrong when it goes to a new page who scrolls back, don’t let it annoy you, laugh and move on, by the way when I wake up the morra there is no way I will be reading back !!!!!
Rudi / Thompsontwin any thoughts about Wednesday yet ?
Oh and GG
“canamalar
Take your yellow card and move on.
It’s a blog, mainly patronized by anonymous posters.
What separates us is small fry compared to what unites us.”
Whether you like it or no I don’t consider the endemic systemic institutionalised paedophilia of the Masonic establishment, the same establishment that have spent forever blaming their sins on Catholics as small fry.
Yep, there have been problems with the Catholic Church but compared with masonry it was a drop in the ocean.
Aye football is a great distraction as are all sports, concentrate on distractions and we can always say we didn’t know.
It’s quite apt that I am listening too Luke Kelly….. The Town I Loved So Well
Canalmar – what’s done is done, what is won is won and what is lost is lost and gone forever
Hail Hail enjoyed your chat fellow Celtic fan
Nothing in this world will unite me with a mason
“..,,Only cause I’m a bad catholic and it’s mere likely I’ll just go to purgatory, but huns Jews Muslims budists and Hindus and every other pagan will rot in hell in eternal agony”
Well Canamaler, that is quite a statement.
As a red blooded Gael, a heritage Catholic and a practicing Buddhist am kind of thinking, if I’ve got no place better to go that night, I should have a ticket to purgatory at least:-x
Anyway; everybody talks about the weather, we don’t.
Bomb the lot-a-rum….
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-XzYeHE2O4k
Hail Hail
Cqn good night & take care……… and Hail Hail
This has been a long long weekend hope 46 is a bit easier than 45
In fact 46….. It’s a sign bring back Aiden McGeady
weet weet weet(gbwo)
23:00 on 20 July, 2015
According to today’s regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the ’60s, ’70s and early ’80s probably shouldn’t have survived, since:
Our baby cots were covered with brightly coloured lead-based paint, which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans.
When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops and fluorescent ‘spokey dokey’s’ on our wheels. As children, we would ride in cars with no seatbelts or airbags – riding in the passenger seat was a treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank fizzy pop with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing.
We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one actually died from this.
We would spend hours building go-carts out of scraps and then went top speed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into stinging nettles a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded.
We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, and no Internet chat rooms. We had friends; we went outside and found them.
We played elastics and street rounders, and sometimes that ball really hurt.
We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones but there were no lawsuits.
We had full on fistfights but no prosecution followed from other parents.
We played knock-and-run and were actually afraid of the owners catching us.
We walked to friend’s homes.
We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn’t rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner.
We made up games with sticks and tennis balls.
We rode bikes in packs of 7 and wore our coats by only the hood.
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law unheard of. They actually sided with the law.
Our generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have seen an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
Pass this on to others who have had the luck to grow as real kids, before lawyers and government regulated our lives, for our own good.
Consider this:
The majority of students in universities today were born in 1983.
They have never heard of “We are the World, We are the children”, and the”Uptown Girl” they know is by Westlife not Billy Joel. They have never heard of Rick Astley, Bananarama, Nena or Belinda Carlisle.
For them, there has always been only one Germany and one Vietnam.
AIDS has existed since they were born.
CDs have existed since they were born.
To them, Michael Jackson has always been white and John Travolta has always been round in shape and they can’t imagine how this fat guy could have been a god of dance.
They believe that Charlie’s Angels and Mission Impossible are films that came out last year.
They’ll never have pretended to be the A Team, the Red Hand Gang or the Famous Five.
They can’t believe a black-and-white television ever existed and don’t even know how to switch on a TV without a remote control.
And they will never understand how we could leave the house without a mobile phone.
Now let’s check whether you’re getting old:
1. You understand what was written above and you smile.
2. You need to sleep more, usually until the afternoon, after a night out.
3. Your friends are getting married/already married.
4. You are always surprised to see small children playing comfortably with computers.
5. When you see teenagers with mobile phones, you shake your head.
6. You meet your friends from time to time, talking about the good old days, repeating again all the funny things you have experienced together.
7. Having read this mail, you are thinking of forwarding it to some other friends because you think they will like it too…
Yes, you’re getting older!!!!
HH
Weet weet weet..,
Only problem is, that generation are the people who refuse to trust society with their children, everything you say, I enjoyed that freedom, it’s yours and my generation that refuse to accept the risk we were exposed to, spoiled and precious but not warriors, nae place to raise children, unspoiled livestock best price policy or veal but not children. Can’t have that.
chairbhoy,
I’m no telling you anything new, I’m only repeating the bible according to the Holy Roman Empire, or are you saying it’s all my own work.
As for you being a bhudist, big deal you most likely went through most of the sacraments and will at least get to purgatory unless you made it clear to the world and Jesus Christ you rejected all of his teachings, now, did you declare and do you declare you reject the teachings of the Christ, come on now be brave, hell or purgatory ?
Practising bhudist, all nudists are perfect here on earth, pacifists when they need to be preaching, warriors when they need to be living and gobshites when they need to be
To be is to do and to do is to be so to be do be do strangers in the night.
Jews, an eye for an eye except we want both eyes
Christians, turn the other cheek while I steal your legs
Muslims, an eye for an eye and your legs and children, I’m getting married in the morning
Scientology, confess and we’ll blackmail you and, I’m getting married in the morning.
Masons, like a drink ? Yes everyone in the masons does this, smile for the camera
logged on to get a bit of perspective on the biting ban for Ciftci and thought I’d logged into some kind of gay Celtic fight club. WTF.
Posters addressing each other as “petal”, “girlfriend” and finishing with “ah bless”.
A veritable testosterone bitch fest with a bit of a twist and laugh a minute read.
FFS guy’s, huns read this blog.
canamalar @ 01:57,
“I’m no telling you anything new, I’m only repeating the bible according to the Holy Roman Empire, or are you saying it’s all my own work.”
Of course not, didn’t suggest otherwise…
What I would say I’m not so good on the Bible, but in this day-in-age I’m unfortunately pretty good at the new testament.
Yes I did all the sacraments, it meant a huge amount to me, seemed to me much more than my peers. Still does.
Brought my Children up the same way…
Only by their time, it was up to them if they wanted to make their Confirmation. None did.
Guess that’s when I stopped taking them an looked for something more in tune with my Spiritual Path.
As far as Jesus is concerned, never heard tell of a Religion or Philosophy of any merit that is incongruent with his teachings.
I love Jesus with all my Heart & my Soul.
But I wouldn’t be so presumptuous to tell him where I’m ending up.
Hail Hail
Chairbhoy,
You’ve just told us, you rejected him and your example led to your children rejecting him.
You’ve already told him and us where your ending up, you going looking for buda and the next plain, Christendom is not for you, you have rejected the message and have chosen to ignore his message, through him with him in him, not only have you chosen not to accept this, by your example you have made it easier for people who respect your choices to reject his message as insignificant.
When I put it like that, your hell bound my friend and hell mend you, hopefully there’s a CQN corner where we can rue the day :)
It’s far far harder to be a Christian
It goes against the human grain
Be a Christian and be saved
Pay lipservice to Christendom and burn like a capitalist/mason, eye of the needle n all that.
Feel sorry for all those that live like Christians but refuse to believe, maybe purgatory but probably not, that’s just for bad Catholics like me :)
Tonight Matthew I’m petec :)
canamalar
….
Take your pills and go to bed ..
You’re scaring people lol
Careful…,
On top of all that bevvy :)
Canamaler,
“It’s far far harder to be a Christian
It goes against the human grain”
Totally agree, I’ve quoted on here before Maya Angelou’s Quote…
Paraphrase…
Some come up to me and tell me “I’m a Christian”, I say What? already!
It was too hard for me, I’m not ashamed to say it.
My kids are good, they’ll find their way. In their Nana they had a much better Catholic Example than most.
Glad you did better.
BTW: The Holy Roman Empire
That’s not the Roman Catholic Church:-)
If you know your History.
Hail Hail
I’d be interested to know the average daily temperature of hell and annual sunshine count. If it’s warmer than Carmyllie, I may be interested in a timeshare.
ACGR,
Average temp in summer 38-45 degrees C
Winter 26-36 degrees C
Rains between jan and may twice for about ten minutes
Golf courses are green as paradise and every one sells whiskey except Saudi full of prod days, Jews and masons steer well clear :)
canamalar
02:49 on 21 July, 2015
Careful…,
On top of all that bevy :)
…..
P67’s barred me about half a dozen times over a 7 year period .. Every time I deserved it .. Because I was drunk and being offensive .. Don’t take it personally ..
But more importantly .. Don’t go near a keyboard, rat assed lol
Bedy bawz
Jesus!!
Name in vain, hells fire for you my fellow sinner
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wO0sPVWF-ns
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=j5AUm_xaE9A
No pain no remorse
Everybody want to go up to heaven and nobody wants to die
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IYLUhzk8vgA
CANAMALAR
Jee-zoh,yer on form tonight,bud. I think you’ve been out in the midday sun too long,and mixing wi the wrong sort over in that wee desert place!
What you need is the warmth and comfort of yer ain folk,The Smiddy,The Dolphin,Paradise.
I’ll tell you this,bhoy-you won’t get to Paradise if you don’t love yer neebur. But you might if you phone the ticket office a couple of days before the match!!
BMCUW,
My old man had the polis at the door in partick threatening him with a charge of treason for playing this
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UQlwy6WKeRY
CANAMALAR
Blinkin’ flip. Treason?
I knew you’d manage it one day,mate. Congratulations,because words fail me.
I’m glad my granda “lost” his index finger before the press gang turned up to drag him away for this one, or the song could have been about a young Bernard Lafferty (hundreds would not be here today) hopefully that scunners my most ardent “admirers” :)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ntt3wy-L8Ok
BMCUW,
That one was my da, the following was my granda, come from nonconformists that don’t take too easily to being told who we should be tugging our locks to.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XaI5IRuS2aE
CANAMALAR
If ever a war was avoidable,it was in 1914.
As for Woody,I only started listening to him when I discovered that Dylan hero-worshipped him. Little wonder.
Cheers,mate. iPad about to run out and I canny be bothered running after it.
Remember the old adage-Illegitimi non carborundum.
But always listen tea yer mammy she never laughs at her babies pain
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y5tOpyipNJs
My big chance to claim some fame and attention.
Responses to my posts and I’m not here.
Just like real life.
I remember being passed over at the final trial in Whifflet for the Lanarkshire School Boys under 12 side.
I went home devastated to tell my dad I’d been left out of the final XI.
He told me that I should be happy I nearly got picked.
I asked how and he responded “You were stood next to the guy who was picked.”
We lived in the days before the PC mob forced us to become touchy feely.
Everybody get up and dance
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bmzWzfd2WN0
GG,
Lucky it wisnae a Masonic team, touchey feely was a one way trip to london
Nice masons, the foundation of everything that’s British
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qiszBM4hc3g
Every probation office has an agent directing kids to London and don t kid yourself