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.
SOLD OUT
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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Kayal33
Harsh on the manager. I think Neil is playing the best we have. Who else should be playing?
NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
I think there may be an element of not signing players to sit on our bench. I don’t think Neil wouldn;t just sign players for the sake of it but last season he said the 4 players in the running for the Scottish POTY award would not get in our team. I think Gauld and Mckay would walk in our team and make it better.
LB
twists n turns
Exactly as I view Ally’s gesture. Huns are easily duped it appears..
LiviBhoy – God bless wee Oscar 11:16
Agree, Im a long time campaigner for entertainment to be brought into this team, would be great to see a player like that in it, if the manager would take the chance and play him….
EN
Celtic _First @11 27.
Similar memories abide with me..
Not only the dancing in December thing but also a June Primary 7 thing as we prepared for the horrors of The Quali Dance.
THE BARCA MOLE
Got a bad habit of dragging others with me!
Big Nan
James Farrell of Crosshill/Lochore sounds like a real good yin thank you for post.
I really need to do more with the wee bit of brain I have so I will start to do a wee bit of digging on web sites or evennnnnnnn get into reading.
TheBarcaMole
Dont mention the last train time tables :))
Gooood morning BMCUW :))
LiviBhoy – God bless wee Oscar
11:28 on 17 December, 2013
Harsh? Maybe, and I suppose he has moved Commons more of a ‘No.10’ role. But Rogic and McGeouch are two who have never been given a chance in their natural position. This has been a recurring theme for years at Celtic, WGS played the most creative players (Naka & Aiden) wide, whilst MON would often prefer Sutton as the attacking midfielder rather than Lubo.
South of Tunis
We never had a Quali Dance, now it’s me who’s beelin at the lost opportunities. They had done away with Qualis by the time I got to primary seven.
Check out these moves:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfpvSCYLhA0
Estadio Nacional
I think the foundations need to be in place in January. We have a pretty unique position at the moment that we have little compettition at home and we know we are in the CL qualifiers. The league is done and dusted. It gives Celtic a chance to give certain players a run of games and see what they can do. Pukki should get at least 6 starts. Balde should get a run of starts too. If we sign players in January they can get time to bed in without being under pressure. It’s a luxury we have. If they are signed in tjhe summer they are instantly under pressure to produce the goods. We have seen this with Puki and Boerritger and they have crumbled. We lost the spine fo the side and any team would find that difficult. It made us weak at times especially in Europe. I don;t get too hung up on that but we MUST learn from it. That is what is frustrating in any walk of life when ,istakes are continually made over and over again. I think Neil has made it clear that we should do the ground work in January and sign maybe one or two blue chip signings in the summer. Any player who is surplus to requirements or who will not sign a new deal should be used sparingly or put on the bench. There is no point having someone vital to the team play who will not be there for the qualifiers in July. We must learn from this season and not make the same mistakes again.
LB
BMCUW ………FC not PLC 11:33 on 17 December, 2013
THE BARCA MOLE Got a bad habit of dragging others with me!
leftclick Together we will get justice for the Dam ……. 11:36 on 17 December, 2013
TheBarcaMole Dont mention the last train time tables :))
Or Blue Taxis……………….
TBM
Agree re Gauld…also think we should buy back Robertson. Everton reported to be interested.
Kayal33
This may sound harsh but I can see why McGeouch and Rogic don’t get much game time. I have seen nothing in Rogic at Celtic so far. Maybe the boy will develop into a layer but I just don’t see it so far. Gauld is 18 and is miles in front of Rogic. Maybe he needs games? He looks like a luxury player for me in the same mould as McCourt. I hope all players make it at Celtic but that lad doesn;t look to have it for me.
Mcgeouch looks a tidy enough wee player but hasn’t grabbed his chances. Looks a bit light weight and doesn’t seem to be direct enough.
Might be totally harsh on both Bhoys but it’s just what I have seen. Don;t see either being a regular for Celtic but if I am proven wrong I will be delighted.
LB
LiviBhoy – God bless wee Oscar
11:28 on 17 December, 2013
Kayal33
Harsh on the manager. I think Neil is playing the best we have. Who else should be playing?
NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
I think there may be an element of not signing players to sit on our bench. I don’t think Neil wouldn;t just sign players for the sake of it but last season he said the 4 players in the running for the Scottish POTY award would not get in our team. I think Gauld and Mckay would walk in our team and make it better.
LB
I hadn’t read those remarks from Neil. Interesting. There’s a general assumption that the reason we don’t sign a player is down to cost (and it’s PL’s fault!) but in any business, a number of people usually have to be convinced and sign up to spending money. Last year the nominees were Leigh Griffiths, Michael Higdon, Niall McGinn and Andrew Shinnie. So I’d probably agree that none of those players would walk into our first team. Some may have had a chance of success. By all accounts Gauld is a different proposition. Others have mentioned GMS and Russell. There must be a reason why we didn’t sign them. Occam’s Razor suggests the scouts at CP didn’t think they were right for us.Or perhaps they did and Big Bad Peter Lawwell vetoed it! ;-)
Who was/is our brightest young talent ?
Remember reading it was either young george or herron ? Anyone any opinions….
We really need to use the rest of this season to decide if 6/7 of the young bhoys have any future with celtic.
Would also love to see us move for Gauld. Only saw highlights of him but looks like an excellant prospect.
LEFTCLICKTIC
Howdy,bud!
If all goes to plan,THE BARCA MOLE will be joining me in a coupla months in a game of chicken with train timetables.
We’ll see if he’s so mouthy then….
I also have a trip to Wolverhampton scheduled just before that,which involves a few trains.
I can be a bit of a thrillseeker at times,as you know.
Alternatively,jooooost too styoooopit to learn a lesson….
THE BARCA MOLE
Blue taxis!!!!!
Not my finest moment,and there’s plenty of competition.
Funny in hindsight. Eventually.
Leftclicktic, I didn’t know him other than from Isa but yes and the irony is that the British Empire was policed by such as him, a man who was driven by harsh economic realities rather than ideals, but idealistic enough to not go against his own.
I knew of his insubordination from Isa before I managed to get his records and sure enough exemplary soldier except for the period in Ireland where he was never out of the glass house for abusing his Sergeant, going AWOL, Etc till he got his posting to France.
BMCUW
Will definitely be down your neck of the woods between now and then……..our paths may cross :-)
Way back in the day,
a friend of ours used to invoke the memory of the boul’ Mr J Shand Esq,
when talking fondly
of former female paramours…………
I could never understand what the connection was.
“la, llaalalalllalalalalalalalalalalalallalalalalalllalalalla……..! CSC
;)
South Of Tunis, I go back to late 50s and early 60s when at every ground that I visited in Scotland the half time music began with Jimmy Shand’s Bluebell Polka.
This is the real thing as far as Fife culture goes IMHO of course.
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The Cowdenbeath Man
Poem by William Hershaw
In the slow revolving of the mineral heavy Earth, how long did the great hump of Hill of Beath take to make coal?
How long did it press down on rotting woods , squeezing out fossils?
Did the clouds hurtle overhead while the continents moved miles by inches?
How much moss greens a stone in a hundred years?
For in that blink of God’s grey een, one lucky human’s long life, the coal was found and gutted, a town was thrown up then its reason for being thrown on a bing.
In that hundred year span I was a child there.
I grew up jealous of the children who wrote to ‘My Home Town’ in The Dandy with their Blackpool Tower and Canterbury Cathedral, their Adam Smith and Carnegie while my Cowdenbeath had nothing but people trying to keep their feet as the mining subsided.
No couthy mercat cross or corbie steps, no getting on the cover of The People’s Friend, Broad Street and the low High Street met at angles like a miner’s broken spine.
Now they have a Leisure Pool and a new golf course, Shoprite and the Store in competition, pubs, clubs, bookies and bingo in the satellite dish shanty scheme of things.
It is like a hundred other small towns in Scotland’s crowded waist except, except that once in a hundred thousand years from now the scientists from Alpha Centauri found the Cowdenbeath Man.
They dug him out of the coal, brought him ageless and whole with a stomach full of fish supper fat, giro and Labour Party membership intact, back to the mother craft.
Blackened but perfectly preserved at thirty seven, with the liver of a ninety year old.
They learned a lot to take home.
After they had gone, a dwindling, faint light in the sky, a snell December wind blew over the grasses and moss that had heaped upon Cowdenbeath.
It was as if the Great War or the twenty-six strike or Scargill or the Poll Tax or the rising tide that drowned us had never been on the slow revolving, mineral heavy Earth.
With the rumours of Loovens coming back, what are the central defenders in the youth/reserves like… Good enough for the SPL?
HAMILTON TIM
I don’t want to be held responsible for giving you a hangover,bud.
I’ll make sure you stick to the milkshakes.
Looking forward to seeing you again. Ya lucky sod!
BIG NAN
Ouch…..
BMCUW
Unsure of dates yet but it’s looking likely that I’ll have to give up my ticket for Inverness away and will travel down on the Saturday.
Dinnae you worry about my hangovers just you concern yourself with getting home within 2 days of leaving for the meet :-)
HAMILTON TIM
Swindon to Cheltenham is an hour by train,I’m quicker walking.
Excuse in early,nae bother.
Celtic _First .
The Quali ——–an exam , an IQ test and a letter telling you that you were an A ,a B or a C.
Then a dance in the gym [with girls !] Sandwiches, trifle,juice, ice cream and jelly .First pair of long trousers, a sleeveless pully, a Viyella shirt and a tartan tie. My mother plastered my coos lick into submission with Brylcream specially for the occasion.
‘Now on the EMI/ Parlophone label, he released one single per month in the mid fifties, including his only top 20 hit – “The Bluebell Polka” (1955). It was produced by George Martin, who was later to work with the Beatles. He was awarded an MBE in 1962. This period is remembered affectionately by Richard Thompson, who played Shand tunes on his Henry the Human Fly and Strict Tempo! albums. Thompson’s Scottish father had been a keen Shand collector. In 1991, Thompson paid tribute to Shand with an original song, “Don’t Sit on My Jimmy Shands”, from Rumor and Sigh.
“Call me precious I don’t mind
78s are hard to find
You just can’t get the shellac since the war
This one’s the Beltona brand
Finest label in the land
They don’t make them like that any more”
— “Don’t Sit on My Jimmy Shands” by Richard Thompson
-lifted from Wiki/EWLM/EWTB.
Ole Charlie Watts is also a big fan.
yorkbhoy
11:52 on 17 December, 2013
Marcus Fraser has looked the part on the few occasions he’s played. Unfortunatlety a bad injury has meant he’s missed all of this season so far but he is now back in training. More than good enough for SPFL
Incredible donation by johnny and sarah.
Steve has fine couple of young adults as part of his legacy.
‘Charlie Watts once said of Sir Jimmy: “I love his music. It’s the drumming. It’s real dance-hall stuff. His records swing like mad. They’re always the ones people put on in our house at Christmas parties and we all end up doing jigs and reels.” ‘
Big Nan
That’s a terrific piece. Thanks for posting it.
Big Nan .
I remember that Blue Polka thing . My memory thinks it made the Top 20.
I knew people who lived in a ” commune ” in North Fife in the late 60s. My memories of that include a wacky[resulting in the polis being called] visit to a record shop in Auchtermuchty -would that have been owned by Jimmy Shand ?
NatKnow – Supporting Wee Oscar
I think we have to learn from previous mistakes.
I remember a long time back I had the pleasure of having a pint with Neil McCann. A very
decent fella. His kids were at the local RC school and I asked him if it were difficult playing for Rangers with an RC background.
he said quite simply that it was easy because they paid his wages. He was very honest about it.
He said when he was at Hearts and it was clear that he was going to be sold he asked them to contact two clubs.
Celtic
Liverpool
Both clubs declined to bid for him. Liverpool said they weren;t interested and Celtic who I believe were managed by Venglos at the time were fine on the left side of midfield with Phil O’Donnell (RIP)
Rangers were interested and he didn’t really want to go there. His agent told him to speak with them. It couldn’t do any harm. he got a good reception and discussed terms. They were offering him £20k a week. Neil said that it’s easy to sit in the pub and say I would never play for that mob but put a contract on the table for 4 years that will set your family up for life and try and take the same stance. He signed it instantly and done his best for the club.
I think they signed him for under £2m and he was a great player for them. He never turned into a monster like Novo just done his job and got paid well for it. A player who probably would have been brilliant for Celtic.
A year before he went to hearts we played Dundee at Dens in the cup. McCann was outsanding and scored one and we beat Dundee 2-1 with Collins I think scoring the winner. I would have sigend the boy there and then. He looked a class act.
My point is that the Huns were ruthless. They saw a player they wanted in Scotland they went out to get him. They clearly paid over the odds through EBT’s and stuff but they made sure they got their man. If it weakened the league did they care? No they care about Rangers. We should adopt a similar stance when signings players from other Scottish clubs. If they are good enough go get them because if they are doing the busienss against teams we are struggling to beat then they will improve your side.
It pains me when people I know say our players cant get up for some of these diddy teams after playing the big guns in Europe. Henrik and the likes never had that problem.
If you play for Celtic you must be up for every game and there are a few at the minute who are not up for it. Maybe a guy from our league who has had to graft for a living for a few years at a smaller club will grab the chance with both hands to play for a huge club who will win trophies and play in Europe like Neil McCann did with Rangers and many players in the past have done with Celtic. barry Robson is the prime example of a so called journeyman who was a key player for us. Probably became the first name on the team shet for many during his time at Celtic. There are gems in the Scottish game they can be blended with what we have and become very good players. We have signed plenty foreign duds in the last 10-15 years. How many poor players have we signed that were from our own league?
LB
BMCUW
I shall be in touch youngster!!!
TBB my pleasure I haven’t read it for a while. I love it.
SOT Jimmy Shand lived in Auchtermuchty right enough and I seem to recall someone saying he had a shop there so your memory can’t have been that badly affected by the vegitation from the commune.
HAMILTON TIM
Compliments like that can get you anywhere.
I suggest an optician.
new article posted.