I’ve resisted temptation to comment on the comical over-reaction to another below-par league performance by Celtic. Most of us realise where we are as a club (champions, champions-elect, post-Christmas in Europe, perhaps Champions League knockout, improving young squad, improving young manager), so the troughs between the peaks are to be anticipated, even if you can’t enjoy them.
Not that I’ve any hostility towards those who cannot find joy in our current situation; football can be beautiful but it will always involve sweat and snotters. Stand up for the Snotters, but definitely not on the 12th minute, there is no 12th-man redeeming feature involved here!
Even if you cannot enjoy football if you’re not turning over Barcelona, you’ll enjoy this:
WeeOscar4Life Campaign Raises £27K at Race Night and Auction
On the evening of Saturday 17th November 2012, around 400 people descended on the Kerrydale Suite at Celtic Park to raise funds for the WeeOscar4Life campaign at an entertaining Race Night & Auction. The event was also attended by Wee Oscar’s dad Stephen Knox, and an astonishing £27,350.00 was raised to directly support Wee Oscar and his family during his continued treatment and fight against neuroblastoma.
This campaign was launched by supporters of Celtic Football Club (the Celtic Family) to raise money for Oscar Knox, a four year old boy who was diagnosed in November 2011 with high risk neuroblastoma – a rare form of cancer which mainly affects children.
On the race night, the campaign team were delighted to be joined by supporters of many other Clubs and Oscar’s dad Stephen flew over from Northern Ireland. Also in attendance we’re former Celtic Players Tom Boyd, Bobby Petta and Frank McAvennie as well as current Players partners and great supporters of the campaign Lisa Hague (Partner of Kris Commons and Patron of the WeeOscar4Life campaign), Ruby May Ridgeway (Partner of Joe Ledley) and Lucy Parmenter (Partner of Gary Hooper).
The evening’s entertainment included moving, yet truly inspiring videos of Wee Oscar and his incredibly brave family’s journey, which generated an energy and fun loving atmosphere comparable only to Wee Oscars outgoing and fun loving nature. There was a ‘buzz about the place’ and cheers went up as winning horses went over the finishing line.
The auction and raffle, strewn with kindly donated items, including a Celtic 125th Anniversary top signed by the entire first team kindly donated by Celtic FC, sparked a flood of generosity and excitement as friendly rivalry saw items being auctioned for literally thousands of pounds.
Wee Oscar’s dad Stephen commented: “What an amazing night! I am delighted that I was able to be here to support the event; there are just so many people to thank that I could be here all night! Oscars fight goes on and we will continue to take advice from Oscars Doctors regarding future treatment paths; we are delighted that Oscar came home from Hospital on Thursday and maybe we can get a little bit of normality into our lives at least for a while. Thank you all.”
Stephen was pleased to meet so many of the campaign team on the night: “It was fantastic to have the opportunity to come over to meet and personally thank the people who have been helping out so much with the WeeOscar4Life campaign. We will be eternally grateful to everyone involved for all their efforts!”
Oscars mum Leona was unable to travel and stayed at home to look after Oscar and Oscar’s little sister Izzie however, through Twitter Leona said “I’m short of words, for once! What you have done for my family can never be repaid, saying thanks just isn’t enough.”
Wee Oscar and his family flew to Philadelphia on the 6th October 2012 to start Wee Oscar’s potentially lifesaving Immunotherapy treatment, but unfortunately due to health complications, Wee Oscar was rushed into Intensive Care. It appears that these complications have shattered the prospect of him receiving this immunotherapy treatment in Philadelphia.
Thankfully, Wee Oscar is a fighter and he gained enough strength to return home on Saturday 27th October 2012. However, the events of the last couple of months – and the news that it could cost an enormous £400,000 for the treatment Oscar had while he was in hospital in Philadelphia – have strengthened the WeeOscar4Life Campaign’s resolve to ensure maximum support for Wee Oscar and his family throughout Oscar’s on-going treatment.
Lisa Hague who works so hard to promote the cause (despite being heavily pregnant) commented on the race night: “What an amazing selection of people, brought together for one reason: to continue the support for Wee Oscar. This is just another event that confirms what the Celtic family is all about; kindness, support and generosity. I thought the night was so well organised and a credit to the whole WeeOscar4Life team! My personal reward was speaking on the phone to Wee Oscar on the night. It is a pleasure to be Patron and a pleasure to be part of the Celtic family.”
Tom Boyd was asked “How proud do you feel being regarded as a legend amongst the Celtic fans?” he replied “Myself and other Celtic greats won trophies and medals, but it’s on a night like tonight that you realise what a real legend is….. Wee Oscar is a true legend.”
Future planned events include: Glasgow to Belfast Cycle Ride
WeeOscar4Life organisers are planning a cycle from Glasgow to Belfast for St Patrick’s weekend in March 2013 and will be looking for cyclists to take part in this event. Interested parties should email weeoscar4life@gmail.com quoting ‘Cycle’ in the subject field and the organisers will get back to you with more details.
For more information please contact the WeeOscar4Life campaign team by emailing WeeOscar4Life@gmail.com. Alternatively contact the WeeOscar4Life team on: 07595015203.
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Bobby Murdochs Curled Up Winklepickers
I apologize for confusing you with this ahem….other guy.
If yer lurking i’m sorry M8.
Hail hail
In all of this FTT / dual contracts / financial doping (cheating), there is the possibility that justice / sporting integrity will not prevail ……. Just as well, then, that they are deed……..
The CQN troll talks more crap about Celtic than Hugh Keevins…
KEV
Cheap dig?
Me?
If I passed that one up,you would have thought someone had stolen my log-in,ffs!
Charlie was POTY last season-everyone has an off-day. Even Henrik was known to miss chances-and penalties-Jinky to be dispossessed,Bobby Murdoch to have a pass go astray (I don’t remember that one,but I’m assured it’s true)
Sammi has been playing through the pain barrier,and has been our most efficient player over the last twelve months. We have been seeing the player we all knew was in there.
Kris Commons is a confidence player,and the fans and players love it when the guy is on fire. He has been invaluable at times this season.
Joe Ledley is the best midfielder in the league,and as always,has been available in unfamiliar roles to help out when other players are injured. He’s had a few of them himself,btw.
Kev,I think yer Celtic-daft,and I enjoy the repartee,but why the negativity all the time?
Kev Jungle
Sorry to correct you twice in the same day but Aulko scored one goal that day while running at Charlie Mulgrew and others.
No penalty was given to them that day but two players were sent off for nothing that day to make sure Celtic had no chance of winning.
I’m afraid you need to be accurate if you want to kick into players, the manager or the team.
Please stop posting nonsense or at the least think about what you are saying before you type it.
So I suppose a CQN and Celtic endorsed fund raiser for Palestinian refugees and orphans would be viewed as extreme compassion and not in glory of our commercial gods.
KITALBA 0944
That’s why I suggested it be done low-key. It is unpalatable to me too,for that reason.
But The Real IRA,IIRC,are still a proscribed organisation.
Roccobhoy -seeing how he struggles to grasp the basics of the offside law I’m not sure Stokesy is the brightest bulb on the ole Christmas tree.
If what he is doing is legal then I’m not sure the Club can do anything to stop him; of course as we saw with the ole EBTs there’s a difference in an action being legal and an action being right.
roccobhoy:
I don’t agree with you.
Tricky picks for Lenny.. Balancing poor performances , dropping players yet keeping them match fit for CL games.
I’d like to drop Hooper and play Watt but if Hooper is expected to perform on the 5 Dec he needs to be kept fit..
As I say very tricky!
rocco
you were the person who mentioned goram – as a comparison
i know what your point was – but you shouldnt have compared with goram –
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS:
Who ‘proscribed’ them? Was it he same government that would not allow us to listen to the broadcast words of Gerry Adams but thought it was quite okay to shoot three people in Gibralter and broacast absolute fabrications of the truth?
asonofdan
The ‘effectively won’ comment, I also thought was strange.
Why the change now I wonder?
Kev, that world beater Aluko, the one who’s playin at Hull, just so we’re talkin about the same guy. And if you see Joe Leadley as another pointer words fail me.
You naw left yet.
Bma
Barcelona are resting players for tonight’s cup clash with Deportivo Alavés. The game is in Barcelona and the home team are 3-0 up from the first leg in Vitoria.
Leo Messi, Valdés, Piqué, Alba, Busquets, Xavi and Iniesta have all been loused from the squad, which is good news if you ask me.
Piqué is a bit of a surprise as he has missed a lot of games and has only just got playing again after injury. Messi has three goals to get to beat Gerd Muller’s record of 85 goals in a calendar year.
Tito Vilanova said yesterday that if wee Leo’s mind was on the goals record he would have insisted on playing, but he hasn’t so he’s clearly happy to sit this one out. This is good.
It means Barcelona will be less likely to rest players against Benfica next Wednesday. It will be good if Messi doesn’t score in the league against Athletic Bilbao on Saturday. If he is sitting out tonight, he will have five more chances to get the three goals he needs, six if you count the next round of the cup. If he doesn’t get a goal against Athletic, he is very likely to play the Benfica game, in which I hope the wee man scores all three of the goals he needs.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
09:59 on 28 November, 2012
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Great stuff as usual M8.
And…yer some Ghuy.
But….I have to stand my ground and contest yer inference that – I’m negative ALL the time ? Maybe most of it but…there comes a point were you have to ask yerself…”Am I watching the same players – wonderful football – big rosy-garden that everyone else is watching ?”
Or…maybe sometimes that wee penny falls from the sky and, gives me a much needed dunt on my dome and at that point….. I say – naw..am no gonna agree just
to be nice. Feck being a – happy-clapper with a blind fold on.
I’ve been suckered by the Celtic bored since MO’N had to leave. NO MORE !
Surely I’m allowed to say that ?
Kitalba, your entitled to disagree.
DBBIA, he sure ain’t the brightest. Technically, the club can’t do anything but they can strongly advise him they are totally against him attending. It’s so embarrassing for the club.
Spikeysauldman – fair enough, I see what your saying.
Hail Hail
Roccobhoy
A club open to all becomes more ridiculous by the day
No neds, no mad republicans, no funeral attenders, no hun proclaimers, no standers, no lateral movers…
And the list goes on…..
KITALBA
The discussion we are having is precisely why the papers have decided to recycle an old story.
IMO,everyone is entitled to freedom of conscience. They can think what they like,fund whomsoever they please,have a pint with anyone they choose.
As am I,but I am subject to employment regulations regarding bringing my company into disrepute.
Stokes is a striker,he should not be scoring own goals.
Respectfully,I’m gonna say no more on the subject.
Top of the morning to you all on this beautiful and sunny autumn day in Fife.
I see that Prof Peter Watson is representing SDM in his claim that all the leaking by RTC is a total injustice.
Hope he does a better job than he did with his former client Steven Purcell!
http://scottishlaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/03/cocaine-lawyers-politicians-ex-glasgow.html
Hard game tonight but referee’s allowing we should win as the fact that they will come at us will suit us.
H.H.
rocco
Anthony Stokes isentitled to go where he wants when he wants as long as he doesn’t break the law..
my grandfather told my father that if heever had the misfortune of meeting De Valera that he should refrain from shaking his hand…
Klinsmann refused to shake the hand of his holiness JP2 when he met him..(he wasn’t sacked by Milanbtw)
free chioce in a free world…
Snake Plissken
10:02 on 28 November, 2012
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Maybe Aluko didny score 2 goals but….yer no trying to tell me
that he didny rip Mulgrew to ribbons ?
Naw….yer not on.
And btw…referee’s have been doing us for – 125 years !
THAT’S why the manager had to put a team on the park that would come away from there – unbeaten. If Neil didny ask players to do things that they CAN’Y do then maybe we would be all the better for it ?
Only saying
KEVJUNGLE
Just for you,I’ll retract “all of the time” re your negativity.
I’ll substitute “so often” instead-that ok,bud?
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RoccoBhoy..
Cheers for the Info..
The Record probably have a Even bigger Story on him for Tomorrow..
Anthony Stokes member of the Ole Green Brigade Exclusive..;0)
Summa of TheRealGreenBrigadeCSC
Ps.. Just trying lighten the Ole Christamas Tree Bulbs..;0)
@ Bobby Murdochs Ankle, I am with you man, I think Ledley is a fine player.
He clearly wasn´t fit against Benfica. Both games against Barca he was incredible. I always feel more confident when he plays and hope he is back fit very soon.
@ stoksey10
Lovely morning in Glasgow! I see the papers wer struggling for a story 2day… Not all facts they’ve put in their article tho, not like them
Maybe Celtic should ban the Queen from the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth games; after all, didn’t she recently lay a reef to the Republican dead in Dublin. The Republican dead that fought (treasoned (sic)) against her crown.
Bobby Murdochs Ankle
10:10 on 28 November, 2012
Kev, that world beater Aluko, the one who’s playin at Hull, just so we’re talkin about the same guy. And if you see Joe Leadley as another pointer words fail me.
You naw left yet.
Bma
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Naw – no yet.
Ledley and Broony are the 2 biggest earners at the club.
How much value have we had for that ?
Broony – 5 good games in 5 years imo.
Ledley…I’ve seen games were he touches the 5 times in the entire game ! I kid you not ! If a Joe Bloggs from the street can see it….why not the Celtic management ?
I smell – cronyism – cliques – teachers pets etc…and it’s not very healthy.
B/T -you’ll be keepin’ your hands in your pockets tomorrow when you’re being shown round the ole Waddell Suite.
Kev
With a fine name like that should you not be known as Ted.. eh… bare?
Ledley…I’ve seen games were he touches the 5 times in the entire game !
should be……
Ledley….I’ve seen games were he touches the ball 5 times in the entire game !
bliddy typos
What’s all the hassle about Stokes attending a function
Frankly I think this is just DR spin and anti CFC copy ..
Couldn’t care less
ROW Z – Let Celtic Flourish by the Cleansing of the ‘den!
10:27 on 28 November, 2012
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That wouldn’t happen to be a wee bit of paranoia there ?
BMCUWP
Are you bored or something ….why you engaging …
I’ve seen games when Joe Ledley touches the ball once with his nut, the ball flies into the back of the hun net and thank you very much I’ll take that league flag!!
Summa of Sammi
No probs re the info.
Blantyretim, technically you are correct – he is entitled to do as he pleases so long as he aint breaking the law but IMO, he should not be embarrassing the club we both love by attending these functions.
Hail Hail
Roccobhoy
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
09:59 on
28 November, 2012
Well said- spot on!
HH
DBBIA
no lunch provided so yes, I’ll need to put my hand in my pocket..