Sep Blatter hoped that Fifa would today ratify moving the 2022 World Cup, which will take place in Qatar, to the (i.e. Europe’s) winter months, however, that looks unlikely to happen. Fifa are split on the matter while Uefa president, Michel Platini, is keener to focus today’s meeting on the working conditions of migrant workers based in Qatar.
Right now Fifa have no grounds to withdraw the award of the World Cup hosting rights from Qatar, the award was made in full knowledge of the country’s climate. The treatment of migrant workers could change this. Fifa can insist that World Cup preparations do not expose workers to undue risk or inappropriate conditions. If Qatar cannot deliver within acceptable working practices the basis for legal grounds to withdraw the award has been established.
I wouldn’t book tickets for Qatar just yet.
The most enduring frustration from Tuesday night is for Charlie Mulgrew. Playing in his fourth choice position, which would never really be a choice Charlie would make, he did exactly what was asked of him against Iniesta and Xavi. His chance on 73 minutes could just as easily have bounced inside the post, which would have bestowed appropriate appreciation for the effort one of our own has put into his career.
Bring on the Ajax.
I’m curious as to who gave the £2.5m personal guarantee to lend Rangers International money, noted in their accounts this week. This is as big a financial commitment anyone has made to the Newco in some time.
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Another stonker of a post by BRTH!! http://www.sfmonitor.org/2013/10/scottish-football-administration-in-the-21st-century/comment-page-1/#comment-67654
BMCUW
Know exactly what you mean bud. I was a wild rover for work in the 80s n 90s. Home is where the heart is, even if the work isnae there. Glad am home now though.
HH
DELANEYS DUNKY
Skwerr sausage anaw,btw…..
BMCUW
Have relatives near you. Cheltenham n Cirencester. Can’t visit without a Lorne and Plain loaves. Love to visit the Cotswolds :)
If you have trouble sleeping?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dl93x2i_wZ8
Dinnae expect me to pick out AWESome chillout music. I’ll do the best I Can not Khan.
The Singing Detective Demands The Resignation Of Campbell Ogilvie
23:46 on
3 October, 2013
Been out having a swatch at the Fleet Review in beautiful Sydney harbour.
The noble Prince Hal should be arriving on the scene shortly.
Talking of boats,the vilifiers of our new P.M. may feel inclined to revisit their attitudes after the tragedy of the recent drowning of so many ” asylum seekers ” off the coast of Italy.
The Italian govt. seem determined to stop the boats,but that`s different because they`re Italians,not Australians.
The irony is palpable.And tragic.
If Fraser exits our Club in the near future,I may have to join the ranks of the Board bashers.Along ,perhaps,with Lenny.
And Some Say the Devil is Deid?
P{ato wis no daft.
FFS Christ and the New Testemant. Amazing.
Turkeybhoy
00:22 on
4 October, 2013
Nice one,pal.
Amazingly,I`m starting to feel sympathy for them,in a “harming dumb animals” sort of way.
I am Always Wrong, WRONG and the more I am (and I emphasise, I AM about everythin’) about supremacy and the New Age and Naziism and Helena P BlavatSKY and a few more modern adepts.
Bill Gates is a MASS Steriliser, Eugene would you like some more fresh Air.
The first Earth Summit in the early 90s that was attended by Gorbchev (not sure Raisa was needed for entert/entr) Rockefeller and the Mysterious MAURICE Strong.
Maurice is highlighted regularly on Constance Cumbey’s blog.
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The Real REVOLUTION, Disnae spill any Blood.
Yeshua.CSC
a wee song for Macjay1
I Believe
My Dad, he cried just after his Mum was laid to rest. One of my workm8s allowed a Humanist ceremony to take place for his beloved Mother, if only he had known the horrible agenda.
God Bless you Brave Celtic person.
petec – Oscar BraveO – God Bless.
04:19 on
4 October, 2013
Cheers,pal.
Credo in unum deum.
All of us do a Broony now and then. Admitting it and learning from it is the key.
A bit precious,I know.:-)
Our Tims are SO good these days.Given time,the breaks will come our way.
God willing.:-)
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers forza oscar and mackenzie
01:58 on 4 October, 2013
DELANEYS DUNKY
Skwerr sausage anaw,btw…..
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No skwerr on a Friday!
So, back to the daily drudge of earning a living?
…..btw, no countin the day… 5 to go…..!!
T.S.D.
Fraser is in the England squad.
Why would he wish to change his situation?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/24382665
Oh yes.
A retrospective leap into the future.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/doncaster-spfl-would-welcome-standing-areas.22333112
Morning all still dark, in the drizzly but mild Chilterns…
Clashcitybhoy @ 21:10,
“Our youth system IMHO is a drain on resources For as long as I can remember we have won the u18s /19s league, but , we are no nearer having 5/ 6 homegrown players in our starting 11, than we were 10 years ago, or 20 years ago. Remember Eric Black coming up with a strategy for youth development in the late 90s ? Those 13/14 year olds should be 30 year old regulars Same applies to subsequent strategies. Personally I would seriously consider dumping the whole programme , and spend the £2m + running costs on three or four Ryan Gualds , Scott Allan’s , hoping 1 or 2 come good every season”
Barca have got the best Academy in Football, it was always their intention to try and get a first eleven out of the Academy, they managed it last year, these things take time.
Of course or problem is we are making no progress, quite the reverse. You talk of Eric Black’s initiative, of Course we have had programmes before and since, now all of them have been more successful and no doubt cheaper than Lennoxtown.
Rarely can we name a period when we had 5/6 homegrown players since the Lisbon Lions and Co.
Yet since then Barrowfield produced many squad players and I’d like to think quality Celts, though revisionist thinking may disagree.
Danny Mc Grain
Lou Macari
Kenny Dalglish
Davie Hay
Roy Aitken
Tommy Burns
Paul Mc Stay
Charlie Nicholas
Tommy Boyd
Aiden Mc Geady
Shaun Maloney
Charlie Mulgrew
Then you have the ones that got away, Shay Given etc.. apologies to the ones I’ve missed but you’ll take the point we have until Lennoxtown we produced a certain amount of quality if not quantity.
Now the Academy is a drain on resources but we need to keep it…
A Football Club has to give something back to it’s community, boys and youth teams do that, those players and Coaches are part of the fabric of the Club.
But how much time and resources do you put into it? well we can see in the last 45 years the players coming through in quality and quantity go from a torrent, through a stream, to a trickle and now it’s a drip.
Here’s the rub, with the Prices English Championship teams and mid-lower Premiership Clubs pay for average Footballers we should never be out of pocket, but Lennoxtown’s Failure to bring players through is manifest – true if you look around the SPL and the lower leagues in England you’ll find a splattering of good players that came through Lennoxtown, but for all intents and purposes we’ve had one player, James Forrest in seven years.
Now you say that we should concentrate on spending a bit more to bring quality youths in, well you have a point, we certainly seem to have been more successful in the past bringing those who joined as youths through to the first team than those who joined as boys.
Still
Paul Mc Stay – Boy
Tommy Burns – Youth
Both can and should work.
What is clear in my mind is the Lennoxtown Academy is not functioning, yet we need the players so abondoning it is not an option, so getting it to work is a must.
Hail Hail
Morning bhoys. On the red eye from Cambuslang to Edinburgh as usual.
Here’s the view from my seat on tuesday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXjouL8RbbI&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday from East Kilbride where the heavy overnight rain has now passed and there’s no current precipitation, as we speak (well, as I type). Another trip to Paradise tomorrow and my 1254125 Glasgow 10K on Sunday ( https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/jobo ). But first, to work…
Good morning CQNers,
I beg you indulgence on this fine morning as I feel the need to reply to a troll that infests this blog.
The Swinging Detective @ 18.26
I’ll ignore the childish taunts that characterise your posts and instead focus on the bewildering conclusion to your post.
Lest We Forget….
Rest In Peace……
Richard Nieuwenhuizen…
If your objective was to make some sort of obscure point about the unnecessary murder of innocent people then I’ll trade like for like with you every time.
http://www.anphoblacht.com/contents/17494
Interesting Cqn’rs are talking about our youth academy
If you look at our 1st it’s full of foreigners
Yes it’s good to have youth teams and put money back into the community , my view cut back on the youth academy and open a school in holland and Germany and have youth teams there
Scotland does not produce players anymore Scottish youngsters dont want to play in the cold and wet and are unfit
Set up overseas and reap the benefits
Murdochbhoy supporting Fearless Oscar:
Two books, not specifically about the Miami Showband massacre, but if you get to read them they make you wonder.
Death of a Hero by John Parker, and War without Honour by Fred Holyroyd.
STim….
Re the academy it would have to be somewhere in Africa….
Europe has too many kids with too many toys… Xboxes, play stations, iPads, ‘puters and mobiles to name but a few. Unless one has enuff sense/ability to think ” if I’m good enuff I can have a comfortable and well rewarded job playing football”.
Parental guidance plays a big part… For instance look at the young golfers (mostly female) that South Korea is churning out, and has been for a number of years now.
Parents take the risk of sacrificing everything they have if the child shows promise; ok, they could have the mega million $ signs in mind.
No the hungry, and gifted, will be somewhere in Africa (or South America).
Morning,
pmsl…
JIM JEFFERIES, the Dunfermline Athletic manager, insists that Ally McCoist has paid his side “the biggest compliment ever” by asking for their match against Rangers to be postponed. McCoist appealed to the Scottish Professional Football League for a delay to their home tie with Jefferies’ men, which was scheduled to be shown live on TV on Saturday week, because of international call-ups from the Ibrox side.
Surely there can’t be any more than 2 or 3 zombies playing international games?
That club/company/horror movie are an absolute disgrace.
Anyone know why Stuart Cosgrove hasn’t been on @bbcsportsound for a while and now we have to listen to that Sevco cheerleader Jingle Jangle Jackson ?
From Derek McNally 67 twitter.
Did anyone find a Celtic superstore bag in section 442 after the Barca game? My Bhoy left it under his seat, black, white & green top in it.
…maybe on holiday
All the recent discussion about Barcelona reminds me of another outstanding product of the youth system.
John Kennedy.
Who could ever forget his incredible performance in that game at the Camp Nou?
Such a display in the art of defending.
Such a footballer.
hen1rik
Could it be they are worried he may say something along the lines of what Jim Spence did and that they value the lives of their employees?
See BFDJ not been on Clyde either, could that be to avoid anyone asking him a question on his support of the bigotfest last week?
16…
Yup, that Ivan Gonorrhoea has a lot to answer for!!
Gutted when JK couldn’t continue, what a loss and all for a needless Scotland friendly.
Glasgow airport,s Green and White. Not a hun top in site appart from their wee barrow stall at the top of the elevator.
Just as it should be.
Looking forward to some sclaffbaw with TET on monday.
16 roads, It was a tragedy the way young kennedy,s playing career was ended. Good to see he,s doing so well outside of playing.
HH
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous hillbilllies the day?
Kitalba
after your reference to the book War Without Honour I looked it up on Amazon and they want £300.00 for a second hand, slightly bent, copy.
I probably wont bother.
Hx2
Really hope that Charles Green’s new French castle and string of racehorses has been funded by the deidco season ticket money, just to show that sometimes life is fair.
Woke up this morning to find that there is a vile FaceBook Site called
“Justice for Victims of Celtic FC Child Abusers” .
I would not post the link on here as I do not wish to allow it anymore publicity. It is not in anyway a “serious” site fighting for justice for child abuse. It is full of the usual anti Irish/Catholic language.
For any of you on FaceBook you may like to report it.
They no no depths to sink to.
Top of the morning to you all from a dreich Fife where the locals have a spring in their step because of the fear the mighty Sevco have of their players.
John Kennedy was indeed an outstanding talent with the heart of a lion and perhaps it was his honesty and bravery to the Scotland cause that was his undoing. An older, wiser, Kennedy might have held back. Pushed into the international squad too soon I think.
Here’s hoping that JK can star for the club in another role. This has happened before hasn’t it?
Public petition to the Scottish Parliament on JudgesMasonRegister has 1,442 supporters from 33 countries.
Can you help reach 1,450 or even 1,500 this weekend, by signing, or passing it on to a friend?
http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/GettingInvolved/Petitions/judgesmasonregister
Big Nan
Signed up pal
kitalba
I haven’t read the Death of a Hero but I’m aware of Nirac and his activities and the unanswered question , was he a renegade, was he showing initiative in the field or was he acting on orders?
Having read Ciarin MacAirt’s The McGurk Bar Bombing ( recommended reading for students of the NI troubles) has led me to look into the development and use of pys-ops by the British.
An interesting subject and one that has migrated to everyday life. I’m particularly interesting in how they’re currently being used in Scotland in portraying Cetlic supporters in a poor light.
Anybody got a date and time for the AGM?