So you have money left at the end of the month? Enough for a holiday, for Christmas? Chances are if you are a season ticket holder at a UK football club you do. Even if this is the case, and if you have a full time wage coming into the house, you’ll have noticed the cost of living a normal, socially-connected, life in the UK is not cheap.
Housing, travel, energy are all expensive. If you want to get or keep a job, a mobile phone is increasingly necessary. If the only wage coming into the house is low, or if you are bringing up a family, or if you are unwaged, or on your own with kids, you’re struggling. The heating will be rationed, Christmas is an annual worry you save for 11 months of the year, holidays are something other families talk about.
Life is miserable for many families, demeaningly so.
I heard a politician last week suggest food banks have burgeoned in recent years due to them being better advertised. I respectfully disagree. Food poverty exists across the UK, alongside heating and housing poverty. People eat toast, a tin of beans or a plate of chips as their main daily meal. Sometimes this is not even an option.
If you’re on a limited wage or keeping a family together on benefits your money will be gone before the next payment is in the bank, pretty much every week or month. You put the heating up during the cold spell last month and have now paid the bill. There’s will be no money for several days and there’s no food in the house. What do you do?
Fortunately food banks exist, not because they are a well marketed business success story, because hundreds of thousands of people in towns and cities across the country have no food before the next tranche of money arrives.
The Penny Dinners Brother Walfrid provided to kids in the east end of Glasgow, which Celtic were started to fund, resonate today. This is why today, on the 100th anniversary of Walfrid’s death, you are asked to bring a bag of provisions along to Celtic Park. That food is your way of paying into the social fund that gave you Celtic. There is a possibility that collectively, you will achieve something magnificent for some of the poorest families in Scotland.
While you’re in a listening mood, CQN’er Tommy Melly, an integral part of TeamOscar, is running the Great Edinburgh Run on Sunday for Neuroblastoma Children’s Cancer Alliance. He’s also doing the Glasgow 10k in June and the Great Scottish Run in October, all for NCCA. You can do your bit in memory of Oscar, and for those kids who fight on, here.
Have a great day at the football, I hear the banners on the stadium at the top of Celtic Way will be worth photographing.
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justafan:
Mate it just busts my nut when people buy into all that free crap :-) right back at you.
I suppose a smile is the most valuable gift that anybody can give another that is free, besides a kind word.
justafan
15:22 on
15 April, 2015
Kit….
Of course you’re right. Free is a lazy word in this context.
My advice is not to use the word at all.
That advice is free. ;-)
HH
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Did this comment appear by magic?!
If not, then you spent time writing and posting it. The cost was your time – not free!
This post cost me time but I won’t charge your for it.
;-))
geordie munro and robinbhoy
Thanks bhoys.
Nae blue m&m’s and creme de menthe Geordie?
Think you have had quite enough anyway :)
The Comfortable Collective
AAR = Additional Assistant Referee.
Though I had to google it :))))
Twenty minutes before I depart on my journey to Celtic Park. Looking forward to seeing my team play some more of the beautiful football they have produced so often as this season has progressed and Ronny`s influence has increased.
I might even enjoy the negativity of the guy behind me compared to some of the political nonsense I have read on here today 0:-)
I was going to post my predicted team for tonight but I can wait and see the reality.
JJ
PS
Communists, Christians, comrades all!
Dublin, Belfast, Cork or Donegal!
We’re on the one road, 0:-))
celt55
15:13 on 15 April, 2015Aren’t all the games on the last day of a season supposed to kick off at the same time, to avoid any advantage being gained?
absolutely correct,but only in countries who don’t favour 1 team above all others mate.
kitalba
15:28 on
15 April, 2015
I suppose a smile is the most valuable gift that anybody can give another that is free, besides a kind word.
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Good point. I will pay the bus driver in smiles when I leave work to go home tonight. See how far I get…! :-))
iki:
But in the grat scheme of things… who has the bigger muscles, SKY or the SPFL.
Unless of course they are two limbs of the one torso.
Comfortable Collective-thanks-still think Dallas is in “accelerated promotion” mode.HH
I don’t think Stubbs will keep quiet over this…..
NatKnow:
The 1st law of economics… the opportunity cost….
The hundits will of course blame the TV companies,re huns fixture cheating.
“Unless of course they are two limbs of the one torso.”
I know with which part of our anatomy I would compare the SPFL and the SFA 0:-)
Definitely off now.
Cheerio all,
JJ
Afternoon all.
Just read our final fixtures. To say I’m annoyed is a wee understatement. The only game I can attend is the Friday night one against Dundee. I received my email about renewal a couple of days ago. I am in a very serious quandary about renewing simply because I can’t attend any of the Sunday games unless they are at 3pm, which is seldom the case. Why couldn’t the last game of the season be then? TV, I presume. Well, it’s time Celtic told SKY/BT/SFA and all the other initials which are ruining the game to take a running jump.
The usual custom and practice is that all final matches kick off at the same time, for clear and obvious reasons of fairness.
But in Scottish football there is an unwritten Rule 0. This states that any and all other rules, guidelines and customs can be manipulated, changed, amended or ignored if it suits the interests of a club with Rangers in its name.
Do you think ANY huns feel slightly uncomfortable about this latest bout of cheating? A single one? Nah, me neither. It’s in their DNA.
The whole charade gives me the dry boak.
Dignity my erchie.
Will not watch a single second of the playoffs. Utterly pointless exercise.
kitalba
15:34 on
15 April, 2015
NatKnow:
The 1st law of economics… the opportunity cost….
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You’ll know more than me mate – too dry a subject for me. However, to paraphrase Kevin Bridges, I may know nothing about global economics, but when the proce of a Chomp Bar rockets to 20p I know we’ve got an fiscal crisis on our hands…
nat….
“but I won’t charge your for it.”
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That’s what I call ‘generous’…or put another way:
Free handed!
ThinkthislinemaynowbeexhaustedCSC
Burgas Hoops,
Would it not be true to say that the peoples of countries like Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, to name only a few, are delighted to have seen the back of communism or at least the variety imposed on them by Russia?
parkhead …
Sorry to barge in but as for Poland communism, totalitarianism, ethnic oppression and theft sort of became one and the same thing.
Does Mike Ashley now own the hun copyright on dignity?
Parkheadcumsalford
15:42 on
15 April, 2015
Burgas Hoops,
Would it not be true to say that the peoples of countries like Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, to name only a few, are delighted to have seen the back of communism or at least the variety imposed on them by Russia?
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On some things Parkheadcumsalford definately. That wasn’t the point i was trying to get across though.
If anyone thinks communism just vanished one day a country put “Republic of” in front of their name needs to re-think that theory.
I know and have friends who are still communist even though times have changed, speaking to them in DEPTH it wasn’t all rosy by any means when they ditched communism.
This land is your land is a comunist anthem.
HH
No wonder the huns have got a cheating mentality when they’re blatantly assisted by those that are supposed to run the game.
Off oot for a pre match pint
HH
johann murdoch @ 15:33 on 15 April, 2015
I agree 100%. RE Dallas jnr being fast tracked to 3rd degree Master referee.
And it was you initial post that got me to look on their website, as I believe since about the year 2000 or so, referees are always referees and assistant referees are always assistant referees. (I.E. Craig Thompson, Gollum, etc do not alternate between refereeing games and then running the line. They are used exclusively as referees. The same in reverse is true of assistant referees).
Whereas in olden days you could be refereeing a game one week and then be a linesman the following week.
Paul67
Well done for highlighting Tommy in your article. If it hadn’t been for Tommy and CRC the drive for Oscar in Scotland wouldn’t have happened to the extent that it did.
Just back in Letterkenny after an emotional trip to Derry where we also had the all to brief privilege of having a pint with another gent. Tricolour ribbon thank you mo chara.
Oh and I cannae believe we’ve got a Communion on the day of Aberdeen away!!!
buick makane:
Maybe you’re being too kind to the huns there accrediting them a cheating mentality.
Maybe the charge could be more poignantly levelled against those who are facilitating the cheating.
HT:
I’ll take any spares off your hands.
Sorry for the repost
Anyone advise ?
Thanks
I know it was mentioned last week but what types of food items are they looking for tonight ?.
Also, seem to remember no dog/cat food mentioned but I am involved (not directly but in a way ) in a foodbank and they say a lot of these people have cats/dogs so will probably pitch up with some stuff for them.
HH
The regime that the Soviet Union imposed on its own people since 1917, and the people of the rest of the Warsaw pact countries since the end of the second world war was in many aspects barbaric and evil, with Joe Stalin one of, if not thee most, murderous individuals in the history of this planet.
However, anyone who thinks any of this has got any connection with the theory and principles of Communism is barking mad.
By extension Jesus killed a hell of a lot
TCC – exactly. As soon as somebody was allowed a ZiL instead of a Lada, due to their position, Communism had failed.
Rodow1.
Please explain yourself?
If they HAVE to move the fixture for TV, they could move the others as well. If they wanted to of course…..
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2015/apr/15/bradford-fire-stafford-heginbotham-martin-fletcher?CMP=share_btn_tw
Incredible claim.
A wee parody…
The geo-ethnic cleansing that the United Kingdom imposed on the vulnerable people of Diego Garcia circa 1969 was in many aspects barbaric and evil with the then Labour prime minister one of its most vocal proponents.
However, if anyone thinks this has any connection to imperialism and the ability to wage war against weaker nations is barking mad, after all it was a labour government.
adi_dasle-
Sugar (500g)
– Fruit juice (carton)
– Soup , Pasta sauces, Tomatoes (tinned)
– Cereals
– Tea Bags/instant coffee
– Rice/pasta
– Tinned meat/fish, Tinned fruit
– Jam, Biscuits or snack bars
the preferred items but all non perishable items would be welcome I’m sure
HH