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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CRC/WWC
At times of worry, hardship, loss or misery it’s customary for someone on here to put into words and encapsulate the feelings of the rest of us.
It was your turn today. Many thanks.
Celtic Football Club @celticfc 17m
The thoughts and prayers of the Celtic family are with brave Bhoy, Oscar Knox, and his family. @Wee_Oscar
CRC, well said mate.
HH
God bless.
ryecatcher
09:39 on 29 March, 2014
The Howff was always full of Huns from memory but the guy,Paul Waterson,who owned it was a big Tim.
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Was never a Hun shop when I drank in it ?
Thoughts and prayers with Wee Oscar and the Knox family.
Ticket going spare for this evening’s performance of the Celts in Seville. No charge other than a voluntary monetary donation to the CQN Mary’s Mary fund. Need to know if any takers before 1pm. Ticket collectable at Box Office. E-mail Paul 67 for contact details.
Danny
Thanks for the update,
One love CSC
V
TonyD……
Was in the night Deadclub beat Dundee Utd 4-1 in Cup Final Replay.
Ffs you’d have thought you were in the Louden……1981 I think?
Maybe picked a bad night then.
It was literally minging with stale sweat that night and that is my memory of a load of Orcs without deodorant in an enclosed space…..yeeeuucch!!
Just caught up with the last 12 hours on the blog – very thoughtful posts by CRC/WWC.
Can’t really offer anything more – other than to say: you’re in my prayers Wee Oscar and I hope you conquer this latest setback.
God Bless!
Been accessing CQN on my android phone for years and had problems clicking links (like the login link) using the default browser.
Just downloaded Opera Mini browser and it works a treat.
Would recommend it to Android users.
Just dropped in and see we have very sad news of Oscar -as a proud father of two cracking kids who are doing well in life it is heart wrenching and extremely sobering to think of what the Knox family have endured
I refer everyone to cowiebhoy’s post above
No harm in asking the assistance of higher powers at times such as this
Efficacious Novena to the Sacred Heart of Jesus
I. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, ask and you will receive, seek and you will find, knock and it will be opened to you.” Behold I knock, I seek and ask for the grace of…… (here name your request)
Our Father….Hail Mary….Glory Be to the Father….Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
II. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, if you ask anything of the Father in my name, he will give it to you.” Behold, in your name, I ask the Father for the grace of…….(here name your request) Our Father…Hail Mary….Glory Be To the Father….Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
III. O my Jesus, you have said: “Truly I say to you, heaven and earth will pass away but my words will not pass away.” Encouraged by your infallible words I now ask for the grace of…..(here name your request) Our Father….Hail Mary….Glory Be to the Father…Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place all my trust in you.
O Sacred Heart of Jesus, for whom it is impossible not to have compassion on the afflicted, have pity on us miserable sinners and grant us the grace which we ask of you, through the Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary, your tender Mother and ours.
Hail, Holy Queen…..
St. Joseph, foster father of Jesus, pray for the Knox family
Crazy Frances.
Morning. Just logged on to the news about #wee_oscar . My heart breaks for his parents and family. He’s fought so hard over his young life .
I’m not a deeply religious man but my thoughts and prayers are with him.
HH
Ryecatcher
Lol, aweeeeeeee ok, I’m talkin mid sixties, NP
I happened to catch the end of Emmerdale last night. It was a surprise to me that they had dropped the Farm bit and that most of the old characters were missing ….
but
The interesting, and topical, part is that a couple of dodgy types came up with a wheeze to avoid a haulage company paying out a large sum of cash. The words “pre pack” were used. They liquidated the company, sold its assets to a new one and started up all over again. Wonder where the script writers got that idea?
Yet they all seemed to believe that the old company was now dead. And that the new one was new. No buying history or claiming many years of successful trucking. Funny that.
I’m sure the FF mob will be updating their banned list as I write.
Sorry for not reading back but I have been chained to a computer for about four days. Is the trophy being presented today and is it on TV anywhere ?
Well done Lenny and the bhoys. Although a forgone conclusion it would look like Leigh Griffiths was an astute signing.
I will party this weekend like I always do. Reflective and quiet. ;-)
HH
Cowiebhoy…..
I sense you have had some sadness in your life and can only hope St Jude came to your aid.
I will say that prayer regularily for wee Oscar and urge others on here to do so.
Even if any of you have no church or God please help.
Thanks for posting Cowiebhoy and I will remember you and yours in my prayers today.
God bless.
The bold Tony D back in the day in the Houff, bottom right as you look, burd on the knee, prob. Someone in here’s granny, ahhhhhh the auld Mod days ;)
https://www.facebook.com/tony.donnelly.773/posts/10151981086981611:0
Hoopy birthday to CQN’R and all – round good ghuy, Leftclicktic .
Hope your team wins and looking forward to your party tonight #celebratingwithkano
Sannabhoy
WGS on BT Sports Panel…
V funny on the benefits of bottled water :-)
No tropy Today Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
But Bhoys taking a bow & doing a lap of Honour
Time I was aff oot…..got some serious beer bonding to do with my Villaboy mates.
Gabi Aghbonlahor for first goal at Theatre of Bad Dreams.
Remember who telt ye all first…….KERCHING
Up the Villa
Lefty
happy birthday
you share it with mrs bt…
and pukki..
Sannabhoy and 2000 kids say Hail Hail to Pablo’s family
What time does the Kano night K.O.
Ps thank you and to you know who for the opportunity to be there tonight.
Leftclicktic
Many happy returns to one of the most decent men I’ve had the pleasure to know.
Have a brilliant day/night P.
HOOOOOOOOOOOOOPY Birthday Mrs BT
You are truly blessed:))
Sharing a birthday wae me and havin a Mhan like BT :)))
No need to thank me :))))
leftclicktic We are all Neil Lennon
Happy Birthday mhate.
HH
Happy Birthday to long suffering CQN widow Mrs BT.
I’m quite sure he’ll be spending all day and night spoiling you rotten :-)
Dreadful news about wee Oscar. He is a remarkable wee man that has such an effect on so many people. Thoughts are with him and his brave family.
Happy birthday to Mrs BT and Leftclicktic!
Best wishes to you both!
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Man U fans years behind us…
flyingoveribrokesCSC
BT
You’ll no be at the game then?
I see media using Villa as latest screw to come loose
on david moyes coat peg
the same villa players who were a TOTAL DISGRACE
against Stoke City last game
Robinson Crusoe had more companions
than where left in their famous holt end long before game finished
though if Utd don’t win the old wall writer might start composing
hail hail
Philbhoy
working mhate..
went to la lanterna last night had a great meal and came home to terrible news re wee oscar
ive been in tears reading about him on here and on fb..
Morning all
Such sad news about wee Oscar. Seems inappropriate to add anything.
Jimbo67 supporting and praying for Oscar Knox
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During the infancy of the WeeOscar4Life fundraising I posted a thread on KDS to highlight Oscar’s and the Knox’s situation. One of the early posts on that thread informed that any fund raising on behalf of Oscar was futile and would be money wasted (to paraphrase). The post was not made with any malice but an opinion given by a medical person who had previous experience of how dreadful a disease Neuroblastoma was and who knew how low the mortality rate was for children like young Oscar who were fighting and battling the disease. It was a very brave post amidst the many posts of empathy, hope and those offering their thoughts and prayers.
To this day there has not been a day that has gone by that I have not thought about that post. All my education and informed knowledge of Neurablastoma gained since the day Stephen Knox, or to give him his proper name, Knoxy2000, posted on CQN informing us that his son’s battle had begun has had me consider the possible futility of all our efforts to help such a special young Bhoy and his family. I imagine that many of you have had the same thoughts at some time or another during the last few years.
Sadly last night all our worst fears for Oscar came to fruition when @Wee_Oscar posted on twitter that the family and doctors were now in the phase of managing our wee hero’s pain. It was devastating news!
Now we can only hope that the remaining time the family have together is peaceful and Oscar is pain free. God bless him and please hold his family close. (My anger for the big man has not yet subsided).
Remembering back to that day after Knoxy2000 informed us all of Oscar’s fight against Neuroblastoma, and knowing so little about the disease but learning more daily, I will be forever grateful for the traits of human nature. I will be forever thankful that as beings we are able to see past the cold hard facts and are able to empathise, be hopeful, be able to offer our thoughts and prayers for whatever worth they are. Medical science is easily measurable as are mortality rates etc. But just how do we measure empathy, measure hope and measure the power of our thoughts and prayers?
There have been so many highs and so many lows for Oscar, Leonna, Stephen, Izzie and their extended family throughout the last few years that to try to measure the good will of all those who took the Knox’s to their hearts is impossible. How can we measure what a baking bee in Philadelphia, a sponsored silence in a classroom in Glasgow or the prayer for Oscar of a young child before bed did for Oscar or helped the Knox’s get through another day? How do you measure the efforts, empathy, hope, thoughts and prayers of the 100’s of thousands and likely millions who took Oscar to their hearts? Is it possible?
There is an image for me that will forever remain with me till the day I pass. That image is worth all the empathy, love, hope, efforts and the thoughts and prayers that others gave to Oscar and the Knox’s. You could say it is a £650,000 image as that was the sum eventually raised to help save young Oscar’s life.
The image though is priceless!
http://sport.ie.msn.com/soccer/‘absolutely-magic’-cancer-survivor-wee-oscar-4-takes-centre-stage-before-celtic-win
The image proves the poster on KDS to be wrong!
My thoughts and prayers will be with you wee man and with your mum, dad and your little sister Izzie for every day to come.
Hail! Hail! The Bravest Little Fighter
MWD
Talking about decent men,strangely enough the most decent man I ever knew apart from my auld da was a Freemason without a bigoted bone in his body or a sectarian thought in his wise old head.My late father in law was a wonderful guy and I still miss him dreadfully 4 years on.
I think they’re just born into certain things and it becomes a habit they can’t break.
Lovely , lovely guy and I so wish I was going for a beer with him right now.