The Fifa Executive Committee meet in Zurich today and tomorrow but it is unclear if the allegations of corruption concerning the decision to award the 2022 World Cup to Qatar will be on the agenda. The world body are no strangers to allegations of corruption, it seems to be an internal part of the fabric of the game at the top level, they are also extremely experienced at stonewalling such allegations.
The International Trades Union Congress, who are calling for the 2022 vote to be re-run, have called for fans attending games this weekend to turn their back on the field at the 22nd minute, to build awareness of what is going on with Fifa and the Qatari preparations.
When you get corruption at the top of an organisation it tends to undermine process all the way down. A clean and alert Fifa would give us a far better game. It’s time we were all asking questions about this.
Congratulations to Mrs Jobo Balde, who won at £50 voucher to spend at Cail Bruich, 725 Great Western Road. Jobo, drop me and email……….
Photos are in from CQteN, great work by Geo, as usual. Click on the photo to see hi-res. More to come:
Seville, The Celtic Movement, is selling like the proverbial……
“I decided to go to the train station only to be told that there were no more trains to Malaga that night and so I was now truly stranded. By chance I met an old man who asked me if I knew where the train station was. “It’s no good mate they are all off—all the trains have gone!”
“The old man laughed and explained that he wasn’t looking to get a train, but just needed to find the station as that is where he had parked his car while he and his wife went to the game.
“We spoke for a few minutes about what had happened to me and then he said if I could get him to the station he would drive me to Malaga as they were staying twenty minutes outside Malaga for the rest of the week!
“I was delighted and accepted the lift and we got to the airport just as the last call went out for my flight. I rushed on board and guess who was there? None other than my mate Jim. I owe that old man and his wife so much for their help.”
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geordie munro
08:06 on 21 March, 2014
Ah, right…..Chromecast is cheaper, right enough………I prefer quality, though, like Celtic, for example… :) HH
Mon the kafflics
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67Heaven … I am Neil Lennon, supporting WEE OSCAR..!!.. Ibrox belongs to the creditors
………I prefer quality, though, like Celtic, for example
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Or, like the Celtic choir, for example.
According to the article about the screen for the Commonwealth Games at Celtic park:
“The huge screen weighs around 38 million tonnes and will cover 1,020 square metres and the audience inside Celtic Park will be able to view the events happening inside the stadium during the Opening Ceremony.”
And here was me thinking that teles were getting lighter.
I love that weather forecaster with the big cold fronts on BBC
Amazing talent
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=278029449029718
So the CL Draw Manipulation twitter account is predicting the following:
Atlético Madrid Vs Paris Saint-Germain
Bayern München Vs Barcelona
Real Madrid Vs Manchester United
Borussia Dortmund Vs Chelsea
Let’s see if they’re right.
They ‘predicted’ one of the previous draws correctly.
“…McCoist talks with signing targets………….”
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Aye.
Melchester Rovers CSC.
Twists and turns 05.06
Very good article posted re the Quality Street Gang.
I saw them a good few times and its no overstatment to say they could have been better than the Lions. I remember the Friday night they beat Rangers 7-1, must have been about 20k there. BFDJ made it 1-0 into the Celtic end and did a giruy to us behind the goal. Anyway Dalglish and Vic Davidson ran amok, I think vic scored four.
Tony McBride gets a mention too. I grew up watching this guy almost every day on St. Dominic’s football pitch. He was four or five years older so I was too young to play against him, but for me he was the best player I ever saw in Castlemilk, and there was some great talent up there in the late 60s early 70’s. Its true to say he was Jinky in the making, but I actually think he played more in the style of Maradonna. A team made up of McBride, Connelly, McGrain, Hay, Dalglish, McLaughlin (as good as McBride and possibly Kenny too) and Macari, would have been at least as good as the Lisbon Lions.
Heading for the plane.
Look out, Glasgow. Here I come. Brace yersels!
Morning all. Carol on the BBC has been totally absorbed by the English. She identified with them this morning and reckoned this weekend would be cold, because London would only be 11 as opposed to the 20 it was last weekend. Well, if it reached 11 down here, that was about it. It is far colder than that at the moment. Wild, wet and windy sums it up.
An extract from CELTICWIKI about The Quality Street Kids also,provides links to some player details if anyone is interested.
http://www.thecelticwiki.com/m/page/Quality+Street+Gang
Marrakesh Express,
Didn’t Jock Stein say Tony McBride could have been a great but the lhad, sadly, wasted his gifts. To me, the Quality Street Kids were a joy to watch. Vic Davidson was my Uncle Eddie’s favourite. One was better than another, apart, imo, from Macari, who couldn’t lace the others’ boots. If they had matured together, I haven’t the least doubt that they would have been a wonderful team.
Top of the morning to you all from a sunny, cold and blustery Fife.
Paul’s article poses a good question as to whether this is the time to call Fifa to account but like others I see little chance of this when our own regulating authority [no laughing at the back now] is so obviously corrupt and where Celtic apparently are quite happy to sit.
I was taken by an article in the Glasgow Herald which is about a furniture shop opening in Glasgow. Now of course that isn’t newsworthy but the Herald make it so by reference to a public house that was closed two years ago.
A public house closed because of VIOLENT DRUNKEN CELTIC SUPPORTERS.
This sort of snide journalism is band enough but worse is the fact that it was written by not one, but two of the paper’s top journalists Gerry Braiden and Tom Gordon and worse still it was the Most Read story yesterday.
Don’t buy the Herald is the lesson I take from this pish.
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/bar-which-lost-licence-to-re-open-as-furniture-store.23736468
FFM – I’m the only conspiracy theorist in the village)
06:08 on 21 March, 2014
‘we owe it to the rest of the world to break up history’s most evil empire which we created.’
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So will the newly independent Scotland transfer its sovereign wealth to the countries it preyed on when it was involved in building an empire?
Or is a meaningless gesture (breaking up the British state) enough to give you that nice warm self satisfied feeling that seems to be your motivation?
Through all the fog surrounding this issue the only thing we seem to be certain of is that if Scotland leaves the UK the SNP are determined to cut corporation tax by 3%.
I’m sure the lands we harried will appreciate that.
Parkheadcumsalford
09:17 on 21 March, 2014
It’s the same with the BBC Scotland forecast.
It’s all about the central belt.
Ridiculous. You’d almost think that’s where most of the population lived.
ERNIE
Pity little of the empire was in South America. Amazon would appreciate a cut in Corporation Tax.
I was with Tony McBride last week, I’ve known him for years, his mother and my mother where in the same ward in the Vicky, and they are old bingo pals too, but they got split up, the mums I mean, my mum is in the suffering general now, but it was nice to have a chat with Tony, and catch up on everything, he’s a great guy always up for a laugh, I remember my stag night it was in the Norfolk Bar in the Gorbals, Tony was there, the Norfolk was well known for it’s wine as the owner then used to say, he only served wine that was graped from the shady side of the vine yard, it was of the South African Grape, Lanoliqe it was called ( not sure bout the spelling) anyway, we participated with copious amounts of this wonderful grape, got well tanked up and headed for the Locarno, so we’re making our way across the swing bridge from the Gorbals to St. Enochs square, and there’s an empty beer can on the bridge, so I gave it a kick to the wee man (Tony ) he stops, flicks it up with his foot, on to his knee, back to his foot, flicks it up to his shoulder, flicks it over to his other shoulder, let’s it drop, and volleys it way up in the air, and into the river Clyde, Tony could do that, that’s why he was so gifted a player, anyway, as I’m watching the can flying in the air, I see another object behind it? Tonys slip on shoe :(, not knowing how to react I quickly turn and look at him, and he burst into laughter, needless to say we all joined in, so anyway, we gets to the Locarno and the bouncer cops Tony wi the wan shoe on, lol, sais….hey yi get in here wi wan shoe oan pal, Tony looks at the bouncer, shrugs his shoulders , turns round swings his left leg forward lobs the other shoe right in the middle of sauchihall street, turns round says to the bouncer….kin a get in like this then? I said to myself aweeee nawwwwww, BUT,! The bouncer actually laughed and let us both in, but with the words al be in an out keeping an eye on you, ended up a great night, kinda long and winded story, but all true, great we guy, didn’t get much luck, to this day he is still my friend,.
Today at 9:30am Glasgow time George Donaldson ( big George the singer from jintys Molly malones , oneils , welcome inn , auld barns and Celtic Thunder) will be laid to rest at St. Paul’s Shettleson then after to Celic Park for the wake
Rip big man You will be sadly missed
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
09:34 on 21 March, 2014
‘ERNIE
Pity little of the empire was in South America. Amazon would appreciate a cut in Corporation Tax.’
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If only the Darien Scheme had worked out I’m sure Scotland would have used it as a springboard to conquer most of the Americas.
Things could have been so so different.
TONY DONNELLY
Hilarious! Truly gifted.
He is in the 2013 reunion photo on the wiki page.
Buy him a beer on my tab.
5-O-5-O, T4 is 50 and we all know :-)
Happy Birthday, Tommytwiststommyturns, hope it is a good one!
HH
CRC
ERNIE
Bearing in mind its location,we would probably have built the Panama Canal a darn site earlier!
Site,sight.
I refuse to come out until Jobo tells us what it’s like out there!
H.H.
When everyone is finished with the companies who help claim back ppi I’m sure they could work on the guys behind the darien company.
Lanliq was the choice of discearning alkies back in the day Tony.
http://billysinclair.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/lanliq-wine.html
Big Nan – thats the sort of report that has been rife in the scottish media that has always existed. Scotland is institutionally sectarian from top to bottom. And some want independence.
Big nan
It’s true, some people couldent handle it, I loved it, it’s kinda like they call the Stella today,… A pint of wife beater…not a nice handle to put on any tipple, but some can’t handle Stella it seems, personally it’s not for me but each to there own,.
TheLannyCSC
gerald766
09:52 on 21 March, 2014
I refuse to come out until Jobo tells us what it’s like out there!
H.H
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A big Happy BURPDAY TO Tommytwiststommyturns, hope your day/year is all you and yours could wish for.
Gb
TD67
Your best ever post!
It’s stories like that, that make this Blog a wonderful read!
Thanks.
Big Nan – you’re forgetting that other delight of the time, Four Crown and our Hero Four Crown Fergus who caused a weekly chuckle in the Daily Retard. Aah those were the days my friend.
HH
Ernie Lynch,
I appreciate your point but I don’t think BBC Scotland is quite as bad as the BBC itself.
As for us going independent, I have a lot of friends in the north west of England who would rather join us than stay with London. I think that is a widely shared opinion in the area, if last night’s Question Time is anything to go by.
tonydonnelly67
10:03 on 21 March, 2014
Big nan
It’s true, some people couldent handle it, I loved it, it’s kinda like they call the Stella today,… A pint of wife beater…not a nice handle to put on any tipple, but some can’t handle Stella it seems, personally it’s not for me but each to there own,.
TheLannyCSC
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Absolutely, I had a liking for the draught sherry that the COOP sold. You took your milk, lemonade, or whatever bottles to the COOP and the nice lady filled it up from a cask at a very reasonable price. Smashing stuff it was too.
Its like when they bulldoze or demolish a school or other building that’s been associated with bad results or events. I don’t see the point myself. The building, like the Lanliq isn’t to blame!
Wee ditty of the day was
Campbeltown Loch,I wish ye wur Lanny…
Us Ayrshire types were more of the El-Dee persuasion.