Five years ago when CQN’er Kano was confined to hospital with a debilitating illness Pablophanque was first to issue the call, “We need to raise the money to bring Kano home”. In the weeks which followed the Bring Martin Home campaign launched. The campaign succeeded and then some; the Kano Foundation is its lasting legacy.
While working in Holland in May 2011 Pablophanque took ill suddenly and died a few days later, leaving two young-adult children to deal with matters a long way from home. As the news filtered through of his death, the call went out in the comments section here to raise money to bring his remains home. One day later Pablo’s son was told the money was there and to confirm arrangements.
Pablo’s estate has recently been settled and his son and daughter wanted to repay the generosity shown to them when they needed it most. Mary’s Meals are now in receipt of £4500 from them towards our CQteN Malawi School Kitchen Appeal. It is an enormous gesture by two young people and shows the level of appreciation they have to those who helped them in 2011.
Raising money is hard and I remember telling Pablo his idea was ambitious, to say the least. There has never been a spontaneous movement like Bring Martin Home and the Kano Foundation. Many of those who made the call for Pablo were inspired by Bring Martin Home. The cumulative impact of this generosity is quite stunning.
My thanks to Pablo’s son, daughter and brother for this fantastic support, inspired, as it was, by the wider Celtic community. I never use the ‘Greatest fans in the world’ line, largely as I don’t think there is much competition, but the Celtic support are among the finest human beings you could hope to meet.
Thanks also to everyone who booked a seat or table for the CQteN St Patrick’s Day Party at the Kerrydale Suite on Friday 14 March, where we hoped to raise the bulk of the money for the school kitchen. If you want know what it’s all about, read Friday’s article.
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All 470 tickets for the event have gone. Any applications received from now on will go to the waiting list.
Brilliant response. Many thanks.
There are just a few posting days left to order your CQN Annual in time for Christmas. £5 from every sale is going towards the Malawi appeal, get yours here:
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KITALBA
An alien?
How do you know ET was a hun?
Cos he looked like one!
HereawweekCSC
All quiet on the Western Front…….can you imagine if it was Celtic’s AGM coming up with this background……apoplexy in the media…..hahahahahahaha
kitalba@10 23.
I’m an alien too.
kitalba
10:23A daft wee divison 3 (three) club’s AGM?
Yip. Im an alien.
ET
asonofdan
10:22 on 17 December, 2013
Ghanaian striker Mawuli Osei has claimed Celtic want to bolster their contingent of recruits from Israeli football by signing him next month.
Osei is the top scorer in the Israeli top flight, with 13 goals in just 11 games for Ashkelon, and both the player and his agent claim there is interest.
Spent ages trying to find him on transfermarkt……Ashkelon are in the Israeli second division….not the top division. Doesn’t sound too promising!!
“Italian Catholic Gattuso reportedly married to self-confessed Celtic supporter held in match-fixing probe.”
asonofdan- JohnPark thinks he’s the Chief Rabbi, not the Chief Scout.
Gattuso ———-
Gattuso has not been arrested. Gattuso has not been charged.. He is being ” investigated “. He is helping plod make some enquiries.. Plod have taken his Identity Card and his Passport in an effort to ensure that Gattuso remains in Italy .An Investigative Judge will decide if Gattuso can be charged/arrested.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/heerenveen-striker-not-ruling-out-move-to-celtic-in-transfer-window.22972237
Seville – The Celtic Movement is the new book from CQN which will be launched at the now sold out CQTEN dinner at Celtic Park on Friday 14th March. How nice would it be if we secured the league championship the next day?
Anyway we have been putting the finish touches to the Seville book and I can tell you that the opening chapter is about another Celtic movement – in May 1967 to Lisbon. It is a wonderful read.
We are looking to add some memories from CQNers who were on Lisbon. We have over 40,000 words from CQNers re Seville and it is an absolutely brilliant read. We’d like some older supporters memories from the trip to Lisbon and back. Much appreciated.
twists n turns
10:25 on 17 December, 2013
MWD
Aye, they’ll win ok. They already know they have 54% tied up, so, they use McCoist as part of the master plan. “Look Ally, we have won. We have won without your 1.5% of shares. So, give yours to the fans. That way, after we win, you get your shares back, the fans still love you and you can tell them to buy season tickets. Share price creeps back up a few pence, everyone wins. Most importantly, you are still seen as the good guy”
McCoist does as asks…and whatya know…check their blogs..he’s a legend!
Another few months of civil war ahead then! :-)
Saint Stivs
10:18 on 17 December, 2013
Big Nan.
did you happen to watch the Miners Strike 1926 drama the other night,
Happy Lands, it was called.
you got any perspective on it ?
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I do have a view on it and it is that there are not nearly enough programmes of this type on Scottish television. Scotland has a rich history of which the Red coloured variety is seldom shown. The stuff that Billy Connolly refers to as the shortbread tin Scotch is what we usually get.
I can empathise with strikers as I was blacklisted after a strike at Methil and went from being a trade union shop steward/activist into an employer as I had to feed a family and struck out on my own.
I was aware from an early age that Fife had strong Communist ties especially the coalfield areas around Cowdenbeath. I had a workshop in Cowdenbeath and regularly picked up my cleaning woman who lived in Gagarin Way, Lumphinans so though this area is a bit Orange, it is also, red and I know several councillors until recently were Communist in Cowdenbeath and Ballingary.
Willie Gallagher MP for this area was one of only three Communist MPs ever elected. He was re-elected as well and was well respected and it is said that Churchill attended his funeral.
My son-in law’s parents came from Lochore/Crosshill and there was a strong Irish/RC community in these Fife villages, which may account for the trade union activism in these areas. The O’Donnell twins, Frank and Hugh, Jimmy Delaney, and Chic Geatons are just some of the Celtic players to come from the Fife coalfield villages and at one time in the 30s Celtic took six players from Blairhall Colliery Juniors, most of whom Hugh O’Neil, Jimmy Birrel were of the auld country stock.
I heard tales a plenty about the Happy Lands from friends who knew of it and it was said that when things kicked off there on a Saturday night the police wouldn’t go near unless they were mob handed. It is of course mentioned in the song penned by Jim Watt and is mentioned in the second verse of his famous song the Kelty Clippie:
Fae the pyramids up in Kelty, tae the mansions in Glencraig,
We’ve trod the bings together, in many’s the blithe stravaig,
Watched the sun rise over Crosshill, trod Buckavens golden sands,
And many’s the happy night we’ve spent in Lochgelly’s Happy Land.
No shortbread stuff there and there is a great streak of individualism in Fife which has produced works like Watt’s and the poems of William Hershaw as well as the pawky pish of Jimmy Shand.
Easy signing for Celtic in January. Billy McKay. Get him sigend up.
Get the boy Gauld too and build the side round him. A player who will entertain the fans and play a killer pass. Give United £3m up front and add ons. The boy will be sold for more than double the original outlay in years to come. Give United Rogic on loan as part of the deal he won’t get games for us yet.
Finnbogasson may come in the summer. Nobody else seems all that interested in him. I think Everton were linked but I don’t see them following that up.
Celtic have tried the foreign route of singing potential with quite a large outlay for Boerritger, Pukki and Balde and they have not produced as yet. McKay will hit the ground running. He will get 20 goals between January and the summer.
Gauld is already running riot in the SPFL and will gel with the others before the summer and be ready for Europe.
We can’t continually miss out on the best in our own league it’s easy to snap them up and the players are not on big wages and the lure of European football will be enough to ensure they sign up. The next 6 months should be a walk in the park for Celtic. Get them in and bedded in for the summer. It makes sense to me.
LB
LiviBhoy 10:50
I think Gauld’s new contract to 2017 has priced us out of a move for him is his form continues.
EN
tonydonnelly67
07:36 on 17 December, 2013
I see the Jeanette Findly,GB drum beating Uni. Brain washed mob are taking there orders and flooding the Celtic media blogs with there Hun driven hate for PL and the board, thems are infighting and making a complete arse of themselves this week, and your still banging on, enjoy the Huns civil war, take a couple of days off and enjoy yourself at Huns trying to save themsefs AGAIN, this anti board anti PL is Hun driven, make no mistake about that, prob. Makes Jack Irvine snigger and blush, real Celtic fans know the score, make no mistake about that either, do so at your pearl, HH, now go away and let us have our fun this week, or is it the Hun in you that just can’t help it?
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I’ve scrolled by your pish and even ignored your racist slur. However, enough is enough. You’re now saying that because some of us are deeply unhappy at the manner our club is being run by its custodians that we’re being led by huns and their agenda.
For you to mention personally an individual who has done so much for the Celtic support is an absolute disgrace.
I’ve no doubt that you’ll respond with your usual, “It’s my opinion!”
But that doesn’t wash when you’re openly disregarding the feelings of genuine supporters and treating them as if they’re lepers.
For the culture vultures here is the Kelty Clippie as sung by Davie Stewart I think.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNw_Vb5Z5dM
Where is your Nessun Dorma now?
Big Nan
10:48 on
17 December, 2013
Saint Stivs
10:18 on 17 December, 2013
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Ta.
I found it hugely interesting. Part of our history that is not really taught in schools. Or maybe it is now.
The Brogan fella, the guy who gets the Working Class Hero medal, I want to find out some more about him, I will go search it out.
I found the mere fact the family was catholic suprising enough. And for me, the Working class, Socialist, Communist attitude was show in all the actions of the community, particularly with no barrier to him becoming the bin counter (i know thats the wrong terminology, but sure you will know what I mean).
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pawky pish, i am going to use that, thats going into my lexicon , lol.
every day is a school day right enough.
Serie A—-
Top 3 ———-
Rubentus 43 pts.
Roma 38 points
Napoli 35 points
Inter are 5th on 28 points.
Milan are 10th on 19 points.
Estadio Nacional
United have a debt to pay. The boy is probably on no more than £1k a week. We can get him for under £4m. United will not be hard to deal with. They need the money and as long as they don;t lose too many in January still have a very good side. They must be paying Goodwillie decent money which will be draining their funds. In hindsight they didn’t even need him. If nobody else moves for him in January they will take £3m plus add ons and the boy will earn £8k a week at Celtic. Player and club will be happy with that. He gets the platform to play at a decent level and get European experience and he can also visit his mammy. He is just a boy. Don;t think he is ready for the move abroad or down South. I think wee Jackie would advise him it’s a great move for his development. Dunno who his agent is but playing for Celtic is the next step. Let’s him win some trophies too. Celtic must at least try and get the boy. Most exciting prospect I have seen since Paul McStay.
LB
LiviBhoy
We are missing out on home grown talent as we continue our obsession with trying to find potential in foreign leagues such as Israel, Portugal and the Scandanavian countries.
Dundee United seem to have an exceptional crop of youngsters at the moment with Gauld the jewel.
However, what about giving our own youngsters a chance. We already have the most successful youth set up in terms of success over the past few years, we have the players who have represented their countries at various levels and they also have the Next Gen/CL tournament experience. Give Henderson, Atajic, Herron, Fraser, Miller, Johnstone, Thomson etc a chance before buying from others. All that does is weaken the league and make it easier for the returning zombies in a couple of years. By all means try to get the exceptional (Gauld) but leave the rest be at least until we give our own a chance.
And bring back Callum McGregor and give him first team opportunities
Big Nan .
so is there any JIMMY SHAND tunes the green br.could do the huddle to.
Hamiltontim is praying for Oscar
10:58 on
17 December, 2013
not worth the typing time bud.
i havnt met a tim with any such viewpoints on anything celtic related.
a green leggat.
if you can hate other celts, particularly our young, then that says it all.
to denigrate people for going to Uni, but then claim they are “easily led” is the biggest lot of pawky pish ive read.
you will get a call out to the brazen next …………..
LiviBhoy – God bless wee Oscar 10:59
Good points but from what Ive heard he seems keen on a move abroad and if those clubs come in Dundee Utd would get more money then we would probably go to.
Not seen a hell of a lot of him but a McGeadyesque career would be good, Celtic and CL experience then the big move later as you say.
EN
Kayal33
I think you make some great points but we have to be selfish. If you sign the lad and bring our own yougsters in beside him we have a very exciting future.
I think that the signings in the sumemr may not make it at Celtic. Maybe one will. Who knows. What I do know is this boy scores and creates goals from midfield and is something we are struggling with. He is a future Scotland great. He doesn;t even have potential he is already one of the best players in the league. It would be criminal if we are not doing all we can to get him. he has signed a new deal with United that will ensure they get a decent fee. Good on him for that. Celtic can get him for around £4m I reckon and it will be paid up in the normal manner. It’s not £3m up front. It’s hardly even a gamble. This boy is a sure thing.
Billy McKay is another that I feel is a no brainer. A more natural finisher than Stokes and rattling them in at ICT with one or two chances per game. Put him in our side and he will bang in plenty. He will also gives Stokes/Pukki a partner who can take the pressure off. I see these two as must buys in January. We have always throughout our history cherry picked the best talent from smaller Scottish clubs and they have done well for us.
When we sign a foreigner like Pukki, Balde and Boerritger we don;t even know if they will do it in our league. Gauld and McKay are already proven. They will be able to come in to the team and produce instantly.
I reckon the outlay for both will be similar to what we spent on Balde and Pukki and they will give us much more value for money.
LB
FAVOURITE UNCLE
11:03
Not sure about the Huddle, but if they decide the Dashing White Sergeant is their thing, Jimmy Shand is their man.
Jimmy Shand, top dog at Parlophone, and then along come these Beatle upstarts … he must have been beelin.
Estadio Nacional
I think the boy has his head screwed on though. If he goes abroad now he will rot in the reserves at some club. We can guarantee him a game from now to the summer. I think he has to look at Danny Wilson. The boy went to Liverpool hardly played and has gone backwards. I just hope Celtic are doing all they can to get in there now and get this boy. I honestly believe he could be world class. I would hope we can get him for 4 or 5 years and he can leave at 23 after some sterling service in the Hoops. If we want to compete in the CL this is the type of player we should be looking at. He is a creator and a scorer of goals. His final ball is superb. He split defences. he must be a jo to play in front of. If he signs and hits the ground running watch the attendences rise. People want to be entertained. It’s in the celtic fan DNA. The Celtic job is one of the hardest in world football. Not only do you have to win you have to do it with style. This boy can prove to be the jewel in the crown. I would let Ledley and Samaras go unless they accept reduced terms. They have had their day. Gauld would excite the fans more than Ledley does and would cerate and score goals. He is a modern day McStay. Maybe McGregor can come back and play alongside him. Biton will play in behind and brown can play alongside him in the diamond that has worked well for us recently.
I really think this boy is the future and hope he is part of our future. He is a ball retainer and we need one in Europe. This boy has no fear and no pressure on him. get him signed up and watch him grow into a world class midfielder in the Hoops.
LB
CELTIC FIRST
Reelin.
As big chief, PL has one duty, to act in what HE sees as the best way for the club.
If he listened to the guidance offered by the fans he (& the club) would be spinning like a ceiling fan.
Make your decisions PL and stick by them.
Some will be right. Some wrong.
C’est la vie.
LiviBhoy
Whilst I agree with you that Gauld should be a priority signing, he would never get a game with us. The manager would hardly pick him and when he did would stick him out on the wing.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
11:17
You’ll go far.
kitalba @ 10.23 hrs.
A lot of aliens on here me thinks.
Feel a bit peckish;Think I’ll go for a martian-mallow.
HH, Always in Celtic .Extracholesterol CSC.
LiviBhoy – God bless wee Oscar
11:09 on 17 December, 2013
Kayal33
I think you make some great points but we have to be selfish. If you sign the lad and bring our own yougsters in beside him we have a very exciting future.
I think that the signings in the sumemr may not make it at Celtic. Maybe one will. Who knows. What I do know is this boy scores and creates goals from midfield and is something we are struggling with. He is a future Scotland great. He doesn;t even have potential he is already one of the best players in the league. It would be criminal if we are not doing all we can to get him. he has signed a new deal with United that will ensure they get a decent fee. Good on him for that. Celtic can get him for around £4m I reckon and it will be paid up in the normal manner. It’s not £3m up front. It’s hardly even a gamble. This boy is a sure thing.
Billy McKay is another that I feel is a no brainer. A more natural finisher than Stokes and rattling them in at ICT with one or two chances per game. Put him in our side and he will bang in plenty. He will also gives Stokes/Pukki a partner who can take the pressure off. I see these two as must buys in January. We have always throughout our history cherry picked the best talent from smaller Scottish clubs and they have done well for us.
When we sign a foreigner like Pukki, Balde and Boerritger we don;t even know if they will do it in our league. Gauld and McKay are already proven. They will be able to come in to the team and produce instantly.
I reckon the outlay for both will be similar to what we spent on Balde and Pukki and they will give us much more value for money.
LB
Do you think there’s any possibility that Celtic have “stood back” from signing players from other SPFL teams in rder to engourage more competition?
Saint Stivs
10:59 on 17 December, 2013
Big Nan
10:48 on
17 December, 2013
Saint Stivs
10:18 on 17 December, 2013
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Ta.
I found it hugely interesting. Part of our history that is not really taught in schools. Or maybe it is now.
The Brogan fella, the guy who gets the Working Class Hero medal, I want to find out some more about him, I will go search it out.
I found the mere fact the family was catholic suprising enough. And for me, the Working class, Socialist, Communist attitude was show in all the actions of the community, particularly with no barrier to him becoming the bin counter (i know thats the wrong terminology, but sure you will know what I mean).
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Saint Stivs, a year or so ago I could have answered your query on Brogan if that in fact was his real name as my son-in-laws mum, the late Isa Jobson would have known.
Isa was brought up as the daughter (in fact the granddaughter) of James Farrell of Crosshill/Lochore.
I did my granddaughters family tree and James was an interesting entry about which Isa was a good source of anecdotal evidence that complimented my factual research. In fact one tale of James is very similar to that of Brogan.
James was a son of Irish immigrants living in Irish Row Trannent who came to Fife for work in the pits but during a lay off joined the 16th Lancers and fought in the North West Frontier and then the Second Boer War before going “on reserve” then back to the pits. As a reservist he was first to be called up in WW1 and was stationed at the Curragh Camp at the time of the Officers’ Mutiny.
Anyway James the lancer couldn’t handle being against his own so he had a one-man mutiny until he got posted to France where he saw action until his horse kicked him in the head and gave him a Blighty pass.
After the war this veteran miner & soldier couldn’t get a job until a firm sinking a new mine in Crosshill started him as a tea-boy. The reason why he could only get this lowly job was because all the highly paid mining jobs went to Masons.
But when pay day came there was only one man the Masonic gaffer would trust to go to the bank for the wages.. James because he knew if he sent a Mason they would abscond with the takings safe in the knowledge that their brethren wouldn’t prosecute!
So my James was a bit like Brogan, trusted but perhaps not favoured.
Isa Jobson could never tell this oft-repeated story without cursing and swearing profusely.
I posted a picture of my good friend on the Wiki a while ago, she and her hubby John were wonderful people. Truly the salt of the earth.
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/photo/14472606/Isa+%26+John+Jobson+Snr+with+TB+at+Lochgelly+CSC+dinner
I was telling people at work, in Blighty, the other day about physical education being suspended at schools in Scotland from the start of December for the weans to be taught dancing instead.
Don’t think they believed me.
An abiding memory for me is that the first couple of times the teachers told the boys, all lined up along one wall of the gym, to go and pick a partner, we tried to embed ourselves in the wall-bars, such was our reluctance.
From about three dances in, it was like a race, with guys pushing each other out of the way to get the best-looking lassies as partners.
What larks.
Celtic_First 11:23 on 17 December, 2013
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
11:17
You’ll go far…………
Aye, he generally does go far but it’s usually in the wrong direction………..
TBM
Jimmy Shand.
Old man down the canyon plays the accordian —he has a Hohner Shand Morino.
I trawled many a Scottish second hand rack in search of choons. In the late 60s and early 70s you had to move the Jimmy Shand choons to one side in order to trawl the rest.Man made a lot of choons.[all of them pawky pish]
Don’t sit on my Jimmy Shands CSC-way down south