The sun is shining on Celtic Park as the Easter weekend gets underway, while Celtic face Motherwell tomorrow, who look like they have discovered the limits of Stuart McCall’s managerial abilities this spring.
After some difficult news this week, here’s a ‘Happy Birthday CQN’ message from Wee Oscar, which he recorded last month; an even bigger ray of sunshine than the one beating down on Scotland.
Enjoy the break, if you’re getting one.
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God bless wee oscarxxxx
Meant to say he left it to my bhoy. My bhoy had only borrowed it before he died ( my bro). Hail hail
Travellerbhoy …………good morning lad —
take care mahn ………..there are a lot of braw people ….and they are all around you,…………………………..just smile ….
am off to ma scratcher…………..a braw song for all..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04AXP5TgYxE
I was taken out of school to be told. They were going to switch my mothers life support machine off
She had been on it for 18 months
My father was in jail charged with assault to severe injury. That was soon to change to murder. He deserved it And try as I might to justify her death I can’t. I hated her. She was evil. And I went on my knees and tried to get God to justifie it and He wouldn’t
Just to balance everything up. My father is a convicted murderer who has spent 22 year behind bars in his life. The biggest loser I ever met. He has never seen any of his grangkids. He’s not allowed to
Both my young brothers contacted hima few years back looking for something. My wee sis has contacted him recently She is quite volatile
I await his demise
I apologise to no one
He never even supported a football team
He is nothing to do with me
Travellerbhoy, hope things are better for you and your bhoy
CQN Saturday Naps Competition
Lads, for those who are in the CQN Saturday Naps competition, please go back and post today’s selection at the end of the previous article :
“Yogi Hughes on Jock Stein”
All the best, fleagle1888
Good morning friends from a beautifully dry, calm and bright EK with only a wee touch of Willie Wallace clouds to await the rising sun.
And only 5 and a bit hours till we see the Champions play (followed by golf with my Bhoys). “Doesn’t get any better than that, Ted”.
Oh and good to be back on the ole meat ;-)
Over the years I’ve had various discussions about when Lent ends precisely. So that’s another thing I learned on CQN – Lent ends when DBBIA recommences posting! Can’t wait…
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous hillbillies the day?
Just fantastic!!! Welcome home DBBIA.
Had a wee read back there and can’t believe I missed a couple of pages peppered with an ole CQN-Beatles debate. I’d have answered every question instantly. THis particular offering made me smile and worth a repost –
Henry Clarson 01:21 on 19 April, 2014
It’s probably well known now but according to Paul Larkin, McCartney started writing Band On The Run when he was at Celtic Park watching Celtic beating Motherwell in a midweek match. Dalglish scored, the crowd roared and “the rain exploded with a mighty crash” as the ball hit the net. By the time Macca had driven back home to Campbeltown, the song was more or less finished in his head.
DONTBRATTBAKKINANGER
Welcome back,mate.
Missed my chance to push the agenda for wind-turbines for another year,but heyho.
Not that I’m a fan,just out of devilment.
JOBO
Enjoy the golf,bud. Time I was getting ready for the pub. It opens in just over ten minutes.
Glorious start to the gardening day here……
……fitba’ on the agenda for us bhoys as well………
………..magic.
…with secateurs in hand and Celtic in my heart……………….
Oh Fir Park in the sun,
Celtic 7 Motherwell none!
Morning Timland from a soon t o be warm and sunny hun free mountain valley.
Footballs back, not before time, and soon to be gone again, then the dreaded transfer window, really canny hack the window thing.
Anyways, are we prepared enough for our onslaught on the CL this season ?
If we are blessed and get a decent draw like last season, we should be, or we could be given a much harder draw, then we will struggle IMO.
Over to you Pedro.
HH
Glenn Gibbons: Rangers fans playing dangerous game;
“I am no longer a great man,” he begins. “And since I am no more a great man, I no longer need a great household. Nor can I afford one. You will have to go.”
Here was a practical demonstration of the kind of acute insight and quick wits that gave rise to the former Lord Chancellor’s reputation as one of 16th-century England’s most formidable intellects.
Of course, More would also have been quick to acknowledge that even the humblest peasant farmer, faced with financial catastrophe – a failed crop, say – would have been similarly aware instantly of the necessity of a protracted period of austerity, or even abandonment of his smallholding and relocation as an employee on a steady, if modest, income.
It is a grasp of elementary economics that seems somehow to have eluded anyone charged with executive duties at Rangers throughout the years since the instigator of the old club’s decline, David Murray, began the large-scale, reckless extravagance that led to calamity.
Since then, despite the onset of administration and liquidation and passing through the hands of a succession of regimes to the present board of directors, the Glasgow institution has existed in a constant state of financial vulnerability, with no-one among the numerous sets of “saviours” apparently willing to identify certain damaging truths and take appropriate remedial action.
This speaks of a culture problem at Ibrox, one that became entrenched during the 140 years that preceded liquidation in 2012 and has generally not even been acknowledged, far less addressed, despite the overwhelming evidence of the need to abandon principles that have been rendered wasteful by monetary imperatives.
Chief among these actions is to emulate Thomas More and concede that Rangers are no longer a great club. That is, “great” in the sense of magnitude, as opposed to their historic high achievement and the resultant command of the affections and allegiances of many thousands of followers.
An organisation whose annual turnover once was close to £60 million has now, according to the latest returns, shrunk to £19m – and even that amount is likely to be reduced again at the end of the current financial year. Yet, in the wake of liquidation of the old club and the birth of the new, the directors saw fit to sanction a yearly wage bill of around £7m for players charged with winning the fourth- and third-division championships.
Salaries of non-playing personnel make the total around £9m, while the general costs of running the operation drain the kitty of £1.4m per month. These ludicrously high outgoings having to be met entirely from the club’s working capital, since their history of leaving behind creditors owed millions when entering administration means they no longer have access to credit lines at the banks.
Despite the obviously perilous condition of their finances (a recent emergency loan of £1.5m from private individuals required simply to remain solvent until the end of the season), numerous supporters are immovable in their conviction that Rangers remain a “massive” club whose rightful place is at the head of Scottish football’s Premiership and competing creditably in the Champions League.
There is, of course, nothing intrinsically flawed about aiming for the stars, but the problem with too many Rangers followers is that they want it to happen yesterday. Their ideal is the instant cure of a wealthy benefactor taking control and providing an unconditional minimum £50m of funding with which the team could be transformed from lower-league capabilities to national champions in the blink of an eye.
And yet, curiously, there appears to be a substantial number of fans willing to rally to the banner of Dave King, the South Africa-based entrepreneur who, astonishingly, has publicly declared his unwillingness to invest in the club. So far, he has offered only words, primarily to blacken the names of the current directors.
King has also shown himself to be as inconsistent as many who have become involved in the propaganda war at Ibrox, at first encouraging supporters not to renew their season tickets, then changing tack by saying that the chief executive, Graham Wallace, should be allowed to complete his 120-day review of the business, before returning this week with another fusillade in the direction of the board. King, convicted on more than 40 counts of tax evasion in South Africa, accused the opposition of a lack of integrity and honesty.
But, among the array of head-turning schemes associated with disenchanted fans and the directors, the most preposterous is surely the demand by the former to be handed security over Ibrox Stadium and Murray Park as part of their renewing season tickets. This is like insisting that M&S give customers security over their flagship Oxford Street store in exchange for a pledge to buy more merchandise.
The entire season-ticket phenomenon, in fact, has been warped into a grotesque caricature of its traditional place in the game and led to the utterly meaningless and misleading question: “What happened to the fans’ money?” This clearly ignores the fact that, when a ticket is bought, the money becomes the seller’s while the buyer gets the ticket. It’s not complicated. At the core of the Ibrox morass, however, there ought to be a warning that the fans should be careful what they wish for.
Institutional investors collectively make up a large majority of shareholders, but each has actually spent a comparatively tiny amount on acquiring their equity. If they continue to be harassed, they could consider the venture not to be worth the bother, sell off the assets and close down the business.
Sipsini
That’s certainly true!
Embdy seen this ?
Scandalous if true,a letter from Neil Doncaster telling sevco they won’t be done for EBT’s
http://thefrontofthebus.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/rangers-werent-only-ones-to-issue-side.html
HH
TET
looks fake
whats the gig with liverpool youth vs Celtic youth at 12.30
Now that Jobo has officially announced the day and that DBBIA has announced the end of lent — here is a wee tale I write up yesterday.
It might take the fancy of the Saturday tipsters as it features horses, bookies, Ronnie Biggs, a glamorous woman and the legendary Fabulous Harry!
Never Kid a Kidder — Part Deux!
http://wp.me/p1G95H-1g6
whitedoghunch
08:33 on 19 April, 2014
Looks like they start with Ajax at 9.3oam this morning. 30 mins per half.
Sorry. That’s the U17s playing in a tourney at Ajax training ground. A few high profile teams in this.
Lubo
08:27 on 19 April, 2014
Glenn Gibbons: Rangers fans playing dangerous game;
With all that truth coherently laid out – he sounds like an internet bampot :-)
Neil Lennon & McCartney / Lubo
Thanks for posting Glen Gibbons’ article. Some great points made, rarely seen on SMSM. However, having mentioned liquidation in the preceding two paragraphs, maybe in this sentence, “Chief among these actions is to emulate Thomas More and concede that Rangers are no longer a great club.”, he should have omitted the word “great “. Easy for me to say, given the environment he is writing in, I admit.
Anyway, thanks in advance to those who take the trouble to provide the live updates. Got an early afternoon family lunch, (planning outwith my control),so will be relying on them today. Thought the performance in the 5-0 game back in early December was our best of the season, given the fact that a loss would have reduced our lead to just 2 points, if I’m remembering correctly. Never really looked back after that, in league terms anyway. Hail! Hail!
THE EXILED TIM
08:31 on 19 April, 2014
Hands up all those who think that letter, and the five way agreement to which it is connected, were discussed, devised, drafted, revised, finalised and executed without the involvement or knowledge of any member of the Celtic board.
ERNIE LYNCH
Well,WHITEDOGHUNCH for one,as he reckons it’s a fake!
Personally I doubt that Celtic would agree to the ‘no sanctions’ clause.
But this board never cease to amaze-or disappoint-me when it comes to their Old Firm dealings.
Great stuff from Glenn Gibbons. He now firmly established on the Zombies “list” …
HH
BRTH
Engrossing from start to finish. Wonderful wonderful story.
Morning all. Beautiful stat to Holy Saturday.
Hope the Celtic make it a perfect day.
Morning CQN
Surprisingly clear head this morning. Rolls ready and the rasp bud hyper as she packs her flares and smoke bombs for her first away trip to see the bhoys.
ProuddadCSC
Hi, looking for some help ghuys. Anyone know of a bar in Puerto Del Carmen, Lanzarote that will defo show the Celtic match?
Some “Irish” bars advertising the Spursv Fulham game at 1245!
Any help v much appreciated
BRTH
Excellent read on a lazy Saturday morning ….well done
Twisty
Hope you’re well…went with TTT to The National last week ..two winners…( which was a substantial improvement on our last attendance at Ayr )
Need to have a wee conflab re the races this summer
Good morning everyone, what a great day this is, the sun is out in all it’s glory shining down on this terrific wee country of ours. I’m off to the game between Hurlford United v Irvine Meadow in the Scottish jounior cup semi finale then off to my mates cottage down the coast in Drumore for the rest of the weekend. I’ll be looking in from time to time so be good bhoys and ghirls. Oh 3-1 to the ‘Tic is my prediction on todays game at murderwell.
Is Glen Gibbons name on this article in the Hootsman? I saw it overnight but there was no name attached to it . Great piece all the same , sounds like him. Hail Hail Hebcelt
DBBIA,
Welcome home. I think I’ll stay off the drink until tomorrow….I know that’s daft but, for me, Easter Sunday spells the end of Lent. Childish, childhood thing.
Ha’penny inn old town lanzarote
Thanks heavens Lent is over.
I had given up reading DBBIA’s posts.
Hello this is WEE BGFC me and my dad are going to the swimming then going to the game today
Prediction
Motherwell 0-8 Celtic