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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The CQN IRA Brigade v’s The CQN Sewing Bee ?
I know who my dosh would be on !!!
Then again….ye couldy make a ‘rebel’ out the whole blog !!!
e=mc2 skiving at work
12:07 on 21 March, 2014
‘I see the CQN IRA brigade have been out insulting Scots as usual. Probably whilst living in Scotland, claiming their pensions whilst taking their free prescriptions’
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You forgot to mention that the famine is over and they could all go home.
ernie lynch 12:09,
They may not have wanted to win that war, bigger prize and all that. The Eugenics going on around the World today is horrific. I cannae get my head round that stuff but Blavatsky was entirely evil, she inspired Hitler.
Twists & Turns’ eulogy of the Quality Street kids, at some ungodly time this morning,
recalled the famous story of the reserve match against Partick Thistle.
His post also showed me how flawed my memory is. T & T points out that we needed to win by 7 goals to win the reserve league title & somehow managed to win 12-0.
I have for many years been telling anybody daft enough to listen to me that we needed NINE goals to win that title.
I DO remember that it was one of the most incredible performances that I have ever seen by ANY team.
I was lucky enough to be living close by in Dalmarnock at that time & missed very few of the virtuoso performances of the greatest ever collection of young Celtic stars.
Thanks for the memories, T & T.
CANAMALAR
What a load of garbage.
There are casualties in ALL wars,and human rights are the first to go.
Methods can only be judged historically by contemporary comparisons,not by the present day.
What was wrong now was wrong then,but not in the eyes of the perpetrators.
The Spanish Inquisition,for instance,killed far fewer,but by modern eyes,more horrifically.
Still waiting for a sensible answer to my gas chamber question,btw.
Neil canamalar Lennon hunskelper extrordinaire
12:12 on
21 March, 2014
e=…
The same jewish refugees that were turned away at their first port of call ?
Wonder where that first refusal might have came from eh ?
But lets forget that when you are personifying racist stupidity
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Nice try but UK took in jewish refugees. I know because I am descended from them
ernie lynch
12:14 on
21 March, 2014
e=mc2 skiving at work
12:07 on 21 March, 2014
‘I see the CQN IRA brigade have been out insulting Scots as usual. Probably whilst living in Scotland, claiming their pensions whilst taking their free prescriptions’
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You forgot to mention that the famine is over and they could all go home.
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Nice try Ernie but inconvenient truths are well…, inconvenient aren’t they. Don’t get me wrong I’m an Irish nationalist, but this castigation of Scotland and Scots is generally constant and insulting. You are comparing Scotland to some mythical state that has never done anything wrong and the people are all tolerant and hugging trees. It doesn’t exist. Maybe in buddhist countries….
BOBBY:
Didn’t Britain use gas against Afghani’s, Iraqis’ and Russians. You should also read up about MI19.
kitalba
12:22 on
21 March, 2014
BOBBY:
Didn’t Britain use gas against Afghani’s, Iraqis’ and Russians. You should also read up about MI19.
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Fist country to use concentration camps in Boer war also.
A wee football question if you don’t mind ?
I don’t know the answer myself, that’s why I
came on here to see if some ‘esteemed’ tim
could help me out ?
Right, here goes……
Is it true that, The Original Holy Goalie, played in eleven Cup finals for Celtic
without losing any ?
As I said, I don’t know the answer but that is some record if true, eh ?
Hi guys. Important update, and sad news about my cousin Nicola who BRTH recently wrote about… Would really appreciate if someone could repost near the top of the next article. Thanks!
Nicola McCurry thanks community for their support on her journey fighting rare cancer
Cushendall girl Nicola McCurry (26) has thanked everyone who got involved and helped raise funds, which were to be used to send her to America for pioneering treatment for a rare form of cancer. However on learning that she is not suitable for the treatment, Nicola has thanked everyone for their good wishes and support and has asked that fundraising for the appeal now ceases.
Local people and clubs have raised over £40,000 so far and this money is to be held by the Neuroblastoma Children’s Cancer Alliance for use in any further treatment that may become available and to help with the fight against the disease.
Speaking from her home in Cushendall and surrounded by her family and friends Nicola said, ‘I have been overwhelmed by the love and support that I have received from so many people while I have been on this journey. I was diagnosed with this cancer in 1993 and while I spent a number of years in remission I learned in 2009 that it had returned. I am fighting hard to beat it and I am grateful to the specialists who are looking after me and who keep looking for new ways to treat it.
On learning that I am not suitable for further treatment I wanted to tell all the people who have fundraised for me and kept me in their thoughts and prayers that I am extremely touched and grateful for everything. The money that you raised will be used by the NCCA charity to help with the fight against this form of cancer. I remain hopeful that one day a cure will be found.’
Nicola’s family have also added their thanks to everyone who raised funds for the treatment.
Any money raised from events, which have been planned in the coming weeks, will still go to the “wee nic” appeal.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS ………FC not PLC
12:08 on
21 March, 2014
CANAMALAR
Where did we site our gas-chambers?
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Now as far as i understand all of the following is correct
Genocide – only actual know instance is that of the Tasmanina aborigionals – wiped off the face of the Earth by the British Empire.
Mass concentration camps. An invention of the British Empire – South Africa where the British imprisoned Boer woman and children and allowed 4,177 women, 22, 074 children under sixteen and 1 676 old men to die in captivity.
Oh and lets not foget Ireland where millions were allowed to stave in a land of plenty
The Nazis and Stalinist Russia learned a lot from the Brits.
KITALBA
I recall reading that Churchill wanted to use gas against Russia in their civil war but was vetoed.
We had no mandate in Afghanistan after about 1845,and I dunno about Iraq.
Hardly gas chambers though,using shells over open ground-a technique which we were far from the first to use.
And as for the Romans…….
And the Greeks……
And the Abyssinians………..
CANAMALAR
I’m aware of what you say re Tasmania,South Africa,and Ireland.
Gas chambers?
Oops,sorry.
Above to FRANK RYAN’S WHISKEY
e=mc2 skiving at work
12:20 on 21 March, 2014
The UK took in some refugees (far fewer than it could or should have) in spite of opposition from the right, championed then as now by the Daily Mail.
My point is that nats won’t acknowledge the downside of Scotland’s history in relation to Ireland and the Irish.
They will either deny it or blame it on the English. It’s an ignorant, immature and irresponsible response.
e=mc2 skiving at work:
De Valera did grant sanctuary to Jewish refugees that were at first deemed not to meet criteria and were turned away.
Bobby:
Britain did use gas and I don’t think a man who was gassed in a valley or a man who was gassed in a cell would spend too much time dead trying to determine the difference.
new article posted.
unew mike
12:08 on 21 March, 2014
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I share your concerns and have seen some posters on here previously being branded, trouble makers and the like for pursuing the same or, similar lines of questioning.
Aberdeen have now demonstrated twice that, mark KC out the game and Celtic have no threat.
The management team watched LG last season and, could have had him for £500k !!!
Instead, the managers delayed for 6 months and, in the meantime blew £5 mill of Celtic fans money on Balde and Pukki ?
It’s enough to make you sick.
Bmcuw,
My point was that the British are and from the earliest days of the empire at the forefront of developing WMD’s including chemical and all other means to commit genocide, and as history shows these were not kept to the confines of the battlefields, many civilian populations were the victim of British genocidal ethnic cleansing.
an Gorta Mor wiped out .003 of Europes population, starvation used as a WMD
KITALBA
CANAMALAR’s initial point was that Britain did it first.
Every single form of atrocity practiced by Communist Russia and Nazi Germany.
We didn’t.
That is my point.
Bobby: I know it is not a point yet under discussion but do you think it is more humane to starve millions to death than gas millions to death?
Ernie I agree that the majority of Scots don’t know about our history in oppressing Ireland on our own or as part of the British empire. I do think that if they did, and the role also played by many scots entrepreneurs in the empire then they would feel a sense of shame.
It’s purely a lack of education and ignorance, not spite or maliciousness. You could probably say the same for the English population also – they won’t know about the insane stuff the empire perpetrated, like the Opium Wars for example – but if they did they would be amazed and a little contrite
Anyway,new article.
I’ll not spoil it by continuing down this road.
Though I have found it interesting and educational,so thanks.
KITALBA
I’ll look further into those that you mention,esp MI19
What about the slave trade. I think the Britsh empire was at the forefront of this and that crime against humanity could be rated on par with the nazi death camps.
SydneyTim
09:39 on 21 March, 2014
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
Aye Sydney Tim, totally with you there, the Big man will be missed. Had some magic nights in Jinty’s with Big George playing. Lovely guy. RIP George Donaldson
marspapa
Quarry??? You did click it was a huns shop? Didn’t happen to catch D Syme when
you were in?
Lunch time. What’s been happening today?
Not sure I’m on the right thread for the nags but
Koolala at Newbury 2 55 please
Spiritual Star 5.00 Lingfield.
Good luck everyone.
… hopefully we’re not on the right thread and no-one will notice the “deliberate” mistake :)
Loughalder 330 Newbury.
Please.
Morning all…….Toubeera 2.55 Newbury 20/1…I’ve not given up on winning this thing :o)
Morning
STORM SURVIVOR 15-30 Newbury.
HH
Lads,
post your naps on here please…
fleagle1888
Rebellious Guest ..3:50 Lingfield…..another Hail Mary selection.