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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If we’re to believe UEFA are serious about Financial Fair Play in all their competitions why don’t they allow all eligible clubs who comply with the agreed criteria, to enter the CL at the Group stage level?
Let those who don’t, play the preliminary rounds with all their vast over inflated resources. It just might focus a few of them on living within their means and ultimately these teams will end up in the latter stage of the tournament anyway. That’ll keep the sponsors happy.
bournesouprecipe
14:16 on 16 December, 2013
Glasgow Tigers
I thought that was the speedway team? :-)
After a week spent scrolling past “he said she said” arguments and some personal attacks it was a joy to read today’s article… Thank you
Natknow
There’s a Hull City group fighting the owners proposed name change to Hull Tigers
They’re called – The City till we die campaign.
TooLateForSevcoBaby CSC
Rumour that any fans at CP,swaying in a Louis Walsh stylee will be forcibly ejected and banned.
Hail Hail stones in EK
Minty’s Moochers .
The Threadbears
Wonderful gesture from Pablo’s family, uplifting stuff.
Paul67 I think you may have to order a bigger kitchen, wonderful.
Bada Bing, at last the board are doing the right thing.
DownwiththelouiswalshstyleeswayingCSC
Letthepeopleswaybutnotinalouiswalshstylee.CSC
C’mon the chip van.
Wasnt that dead mob called the
Rearrangers for a while cause of fixture changing
So I says to the memsahib, ” They’re aw fightin’ AGAIN!”
She says to me, “I’ve tellt ye tae stop playin’ wi them.”
Then today Paul posts that and I show it to the Memsahib.
” I think you should keep playin’ wi they bhoys. Awwfy nice bhoys.”
Hail Hail!!
http://www.heraldscotland.com/sport/football/gauld-signs-new-four-year-deal-with-dundee-united.1387193699
Very very interesting development. It would suggest that McNamara is in it for the long haul and intends to build a team around young Gauld.
I thought Butcher would make Hibs the number 2 team but I now think DU might be the ones.
CQN sayings:
“Keep your friends close and your Miroslav Klose”
for the list,
Turd Lanark.
Fat Salary is appearing in pantomime in the run up to the first AGM, as ProxyBear.
New Article?
Natknow…
“….Celtic board by now allowing that they may have let some drop of emotion into their reasoning!”
Made me smile. ;-)
On a quiet blog day and given players signings are topical, here is another perspective originally published in the CQN Magazine a while back.
Evolution Soccer – Revolution Soccer.
“The socialism I believe in is everybody working for the same goal and everybody having a share in the rewards. That’s how I see football, that’s how I see life.” Bill Shankley. Liverpool FC.
Football has experienced a curious phenomenon over the last ten years. Neither the fans nor the clubs can be considered the owners of the game. If we define ownership as the ability to dictate terms then it becomes self evident. The world’s best players and those who hang on to their coat tails now run the show and it filters down to the lower levels. These people are football’s new owners.
How has this happened for it would be impossible in normal business? It happened because the player’s paymasters, the support, set no price on their desire for glory and success. The paymasters have become the slaves of glory and football is paying the ultimate cost.
Along with the desire for glory at any price is the working man’s thinking that a player, like any working man, has the right to negotiate as high a reward for his labour as he can. As a left leaning Glaswegian who has had to strike for improved conditions in normal business, I subscribe to that notion and paid my dues to defend that right. However football is not like normal business. In normal business if a worker negotiates a wage that makes the company uncompetitive because the rise exceeds the income it will generate, that company will eventually go out of business. Thus a reality wage ceiling is in place. This is a good thing because it means the company can continue to offer employment to all its workers and continue to serve its customers.
However in recent football history the influx of TV and sugar daddy money has enabled a wage to be offered that goes way beyond the business’s ability to sustain, but unlike normal business, clubs do not, by and large, go out of business. They find ways of reforming and carry on, but at a cost to those players not in the top earning bracket, or to the workers in companies who served them. It has meant smaller squads, fewer players able to earn.
It is a curious socialist philosophy that supports a player’s right to get as much as he can from the game, but ignores the consequences for his fellow players/workers without whom there would be no game.
A good analogy is in order here. Modern football is like a description of a scene from hell where a visitor looks into one room and sees an emaciated group around a table on which is set a large pot full of stew. They cannot eat because their arms have been set straight at the elbow and elongated so that they cannot get a spoon in their mouths. It is a miserable place. Then the visitor goes upstairs and enters a similar room with occupants similarly handicapped, but where everyone is well fed and contented. “How can this be?” he asks his guide. “Well downstairs all their energies are spent in the nigh impossible task of feeding their insatiable hunger, whilst up here they simply feed each other.”
The thankless job of managing the downstairs room falls to the custodians of clubs, but their hands are tied by the players’ real paymasters, the support, demanding the custodians throw more food into the room, rather than teach the occupants the benefit of feeding each other for the good of all.
Not all players and agents are greedy men, John Kennedy’s magnificent gesture to give his testimonial money to famine relief is a demonstration of this, and there are other players who also carry out charitable acts. However, overall, it is players who exploit the support using the support’s desire for success to demand from custodians wages that starve lower reaches of the game. There is more than enough finance to satisfy both players and supporters needs, it just needs to be distributed more equitably.
Hopefully this phenomenon will end when the unconscious paymasters – the support, who should be the owners, waken up and realise that they are being exploited, not by the custodians of clubs, but by their fellow workers the players. When this realisation finally dawns about who currently owns football a consensual wage ceiling might emerge to allow football to again become the people’s game. There is no natural ceiling to ensure wealth generation is preserved or that the wealth created is more fairly distributed. One must be created.
At some point the age old class struggle of exploited worker versus owner will be repeated, except the battle will be between a more aware and responsible support and the new owners of soccer, the players.
These are not to be confused with the players of the past, fellow workers of their time exploited by then club owners. Players like Bobby Evans, Willie Fernie, Jimmy Johnstone, Bobby Murdoch etc. These guys and their fellow professionals were working men all their playing lives.
Those days, however, have gone.
CQN Syings
‘Keep your handwriting legible, and your Zheng Zhis eligible.’
List—The Norwegian Blues. Deid,fallen of the perch,gone to the big roost in the sky,defunct, defecked, leggoed, banjoed, ballixed. I could go on,but I have to wash my hair.
weeminger 14:19 on 16 December, 2013
Regarding the corrupt uefa account publishing the draw yesterday – https://twitter.com/uefacorruption
It’s possible they put in every possible tie (256 I think), and then deleted the wrong ones.
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Yes, hadn’t thought of that. I’m not naïve enough to think there’s no corrupution but am feeling pretty stunned right now.
I didn’t see the draw – is that the order they actually came out it? The tweets are very close together in time. IF they had originally tweeted all possible combinations, the nº of possible cominations would have to be much higher to get the order right as well.
Auldheid
Thanks for posting. Thought provoking.
Players in top divisions are masters for now that’s for sure. It is supporters though who have absolute power should they, combined, choose to use it. Not likely!
Lennon for Spurs… Only a matter of time
Incredible generosity shown by Sara and Jonny. I did not think Stevie could be any more proud of them but I might be wrong.
HH
Just saw the details of the next st pauli/celtic weekend annonced for end of march.
I went around 4years ago… Anyone thinking about going should go for it. Very welcoming people and great weekend.
CultsBhoy
15:20 on 16 December, 2013
“Lennon for Spurs… Only a matter of time”
He already plays for Spurs 0-)
“Just when I thought I was out they try to drag me back in”
Glenn Loovens
Great tune from declan mclaughlin here called dont let hatred
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRHBvdcr474&sns=em
Post couple of his songs in a minute, great singer/songwriter from derry.
Mate of mine’s a Glasgow hack driver. Last year he got flagged down by Sir Walter of Cardigan, who was coming out of a Christmas party in town. ‘Where to buddy?’ my mate asked….’Ibrox driver’ replies the man with no surname……’where abouts in Ibrox you going?….a not too happy Walt gives him an angry stare in his rear view mirror….my wee mate well chuffed. As expected, no tip.
Everyday’s a school day on here.
I’ve learned that the antonym of marquee is ‘Loovens’.
What was the name of the horse in The Quiet Man?
John Wayneigh?
Maureen O’Hara ?
•-:¦:-•** -:¦:- sparkleghirl :¦:-.•**• -:¦:-•
15:20 on
16 December, 2013
See later posts. I really think it’s a hoax.
Bring Glenda back,that will keep the bhoys happy…….
bournesouprecipe
15:12 on 16 December, 2013
“FAT SALARY” …….. Absolutely hilarious…..hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
I don’t see a problem with bringing Loovens back.
After all, we’ve got LOADS OF BL**DY MONEY!
Haven’t we?