I try to avoid those who really should be avoided but I caught the report of Peter Lawwell’s Sky TV interview on their website yesterday. The “No summer sales” headline was misleading in itself as our chief exec actually said “there is no real necessity to sell players now”.
We are a solvent and well-run football club, there is no real, or imagined, necessity to sell, but there is an enormous leap between this status and “no summer sales”. All clubs, not just Celtic, sell when an offer exceeds their valuation for a player and they believe the money could be more productively redeployed elsewhere. There is no necessity for Manchester City to sell players, not until the oil runs out in the Middle East, anyway, but they may still sell.
Best part of the article was from Charlie Nicholas, “I’m a bitter idiot. Listen, I’ll prove it…..”
I’ve translated that quote from the vernacular.
Loved newco Rangers accounts. £3.5m in the bank on 31 December, £1.5m loan since, so they have £5m to operate until the season ticket money comes in, which will just be enough, but cash burn is running at over £1m per month; close to £15m a year.
£30m-£50m is not enough.
Seville – The Celtic Movement:
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Thot that. Will we ever learn? I take it the B M players arent being paid buttons eether??
Jude2005,
Pricing and not criminalising your core support, standing areas, decent kick off times, its not rocket science really, just need the baws tae say piss off to TV money…
gebhoy
BCW,
excuses excuses……
;-)
9.30pm it is my good mhan!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Quiz master shld never be late for his quiz. Shocking truly shocking!!! Right im off for some of the Pure!!!
how long has phil got to keep telling them they are mullered for moolah ?
it’s even ages since he said ‘when you’re sick of saying something you know the message has got through’
Ps Josh played the last 5 mins for the 19s yesterday V Q O S. Won 3-1 All experience for him imo!!
HaiL HaiL
I suppose it depends whether or not you believe in serendipity. It’s been a good week, hard work , lots of travel, late nights and I caught the second half of our title winning show at Firhill on Sky by running flat out and catching a train from Manchester to London Piccadilly ( note to self: must get fitter). Great result , great display in that second half so all feels good.
To the point of my post. Today has been manic from early but my IPad diary advised that Sebastian Barry ( one of my favourite authors) has a new novel out and it was time to go in search of it.
Just before 7pm tonight I did some food shopping and called into my local Daunts Books on Marylebone High Street to enquire about the publication date.
On asking my question the charming assistant responded by advising that she could do better than giving me the information I requested because the author was actually standing behind me having just arrived to give a talk about his new book – The Temporary Gentleman.
Had a nice chat with him, had a wee conversation about the Celtic and departed a happy man.
Life today dictates that I am reduced to being a lurker on CQN and noticed some days ago a debate about the Stein era and how good the Lisbon Lions were. Incidentally people of my generation , who attended that game, I believe became reluctant adopters of that name. I cannot recall anyone ever referring to that team as the LL in the immediate years after that stunning victory. Gordon- if you are on tonight would you confirm this statement.
Anyway I did read the excellent and lengthy contributions about the 1970 European Cup Semi Final between Celtic and Leeds United. In the modern world it would be like Celtic drawing a consistently better team than Manchester City. Leeds were unchallengeable. They were the outstanding team in English football at that point.
For the first leg a friend who was a relation of Sir Robert Kelly asked me if I would like to accompany him to Elland Road- who would source the tickets. I had intended travelling with my Dad and brothers on the Sarsfield Celtic Supporters Club bus but I was a young lad and impressed with the offer. My friend had a Jensen Interceptor sports car which was several lifetimes ( but not s enjoyable ) as travelling with my Gorbals folk.
He advised that we had to travel to Harrogate to the team hotel to collect the tickets and that is what we did. Difficult to replicate the sense of excitement and tension around the game. As ever the English press suggested that Celtic were only perceived as a really good team because they had little opposition in Scotland. For the modern generation of Celtic supporters then the excitement was possibly as electric as the whole Seville experience because we reckoned if we could overcome Leeds then the final would be a carnival in Milan.
On arriving at the hotel we met Sean Fallon , known to my Mum and Dad and we were taken through to have tea with Desmond White and collected our tickets. Throughout the tea drinking the players including g particularly Jimmy Johnstone lacked around in their Celtic hooped strips and didn’t appear to have a care in the world- unlike me. My hope was that if Celtic lost a couple of goals we could recover at Hampden in front of a huge partisan crowd. I distinctly remember asking Desmond White how he thought the game might unfold and without a moments hesitation he responded- 2-0 to Celtic. Now that prediction amongst English folk might have had you sent along to the nearest surgery for further investigations.
We took our places in the main stand amongst the rest of the Celtic party.
I remember the Leeds fans being really overawed by the numbers and passion of the Celtic support. We were ahead inside 30 seconds- cue delirium and we were 2-0 up just after the break although that second goal was ruled offside. At the end of that game I recall many Leeds fans in that stand shaking hands . They were hugely impressed by Celtic and their amazing support. It was only half time in the tie but everyone felt that we were on our road to winning a second European Cup.
We all have highs and lows in following Celtic. I attended the 7-1 League Cup Final , the Dunfermline game changing Cup Final, Lisbon, the amazing 4-2 League clincher in 1979, Seville and so on as well as gut wren hers such as the Raith Rovers defeat at I rox but nothing will ever replicate losing that European Cup Final in Milan. I can still touch back and recall the overwhelming sense of disappointment. Seville was pride. Milan was a lost opportunity.
Have just listened to the Peter Lawwell interview on Sky and feel hugely proud to be a Celtic supporter. Not through Peter’s leadership as CEO of Celtic but rather that the essence of this fine club is alive and well and waiting to write it’s next chapter in a truly amazing narrative.
Sebastian Barry is a nice man.
Zlatan is the only way to a step change
I’m at duke st station! Please bear ( that is not a phrase attributable to me very often) with me. 2 Stations to go and a 2 min car journey. 9:30ish
Questions are pre planned
Jude
My scheme is full of Celtic mad kids and unemployed young adults who canny afford Celtic Park prices. Sad.
How long can the SMSM get away with telling lies that a team got into financial difficulty and were demoted/relegated?
Are there any journalists, (don’t laugh) willing to tell the truth?
Tumbleweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeds
Jude
Drink is the demon :-)
DD-HH
big-cup-winners
21:25 on 28 March, 2014I’m at duke st station! Please bear ( that is not a phrase attributable to me very often) with me. 2 Stations to go and a 2 min car journey. 9:30ishQuestions are pre planned
Were you in The Louden or The Bristol ?
Garcia Lorca, great post mhate, enjoyed that.
Doc
That is some trick you can do with a Hula Hoop
What a mhan
Springburn station beckons….
Car awaits and question one as soon as I get on the home PC.
garcia lorca,
excellent mate!
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
garcia lorca.
your well missed on this blog, well by me anyway.
i remember quizzing you about lisbon and your story of who was on the park.
i loved that.
someone asked today is there any cqner who can say i remember seeing mcgrory.
at firhill on wednesday a guy called neilly wylie introduced me to an old fella who was 86 ish. he told me about great jags teams from the past , i like these things.
keep it lit.
your a lucky bandit to have been there.
spiders dont forget
BCW
Roughly where do you stay?
Djbee
You are right but why bother. Do they matter? The next time Lenny is asked if we miss them the answer should be ” hell no but they sure miss us”.
In the meantime we should rocket away and infact not wait of an invite to the epl to get better than their top four (1 really) and just go do it!!!!
The benchmark is indeed the cl. So do something about it
Garca
Fantastic read!
BCW
Is question one : what station would I have arrived at had I missed my stop
Sorry bhoys – looks like my email account has been hacked so apologies if this causes any hassle.
Apologies folks question 1 in just a minute……….
SOAL, a talent I never knew I had:-)
Che is a bad Bhoy.
HT,
roughly??
GRRRRRRR WHERE DO YOU STAY YA BAS???
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
Jensen Interceptor
what a player he was.
hahhahahhahahha
Dick Byrne
The PVC/Lycra/leopard skin look suits ya big bhoy x
Ht- I was reliably informed that after the beanie hats- Cqn camouflage style PVC Speedos was the next fashion line !!!
Q1 Title winning week !! In the Centenary season who scored the goals in the title clinching match ?
1 POINTS FOR EACH CORRECT ANSWER
Bcw
Well done
1st question
What time did he actually get in at ?
That seemed a wee bit funnier in ma heid!
walker , rogan . walker
Morris, miller and walker
doh, morris
BCW
Walker, Miller, Mcghee
Chris Morris a nd Andy “baxters soup” walker