I’m not about to give you a character reference for Aleksandar Tonev, he may be prone to racist outburst, for all I know. Society, and therefore football, still has a racism problem, just read how coolly Luis Suarez played addressing an opponent as “negro”. The game has to react firmly when presented with racist banners, which regularly appear in Eastern Europe.
On the balance of probabilities, would a born-and-bred Scottish international be judged to have made a racist remark during a game against an opponent he doesn’t share a common tongue with?
If Kenny Miller was similarly accused and claimed to be misquoted, how would you feel? Scottish footballers just don’t have a history of this kind of remark; I’d be inclined to believe Miller. So, I expect, would Scottish football.
Tonev comes from one of those Eastern European countries. Scottish football acknowledged it had no evidence to act on but found him guilty.
Based in just as little evidence, could you please decide if Scottish football is guilty of racist generalisation in its handling of this matter? I know you don’t have enough evidence to come to a proper decision, but that’s the point.
Maybe if Aleks was at Ibrox on Tuesday making flute band gestures to TV cameras at halftime, the like of which Scottish Government minster Roseanna Cunningham once insisted was unacceptable and illegal, we’d all realise he didn’t mean any harm. Or was it just the Sign of the Cross, Ms Cunningham?
But Tonev’s not “one of us”, so who cares?
The auction for two debenture hospitality seats, which started our bid to build a fourth school kitchen in Malawi for Mary’s Meals ended a few minutes ago. Thanks to everyone who bid, the winner paid £295, a fantastic gesture. Thanks also to Celtic sponsor, Magners, for pulling things together for us and making it happen.
We have a couple of slightly less-illustrious premium seats for tomorrow in the Jock Stein stand from Magners, which you can win by answering the following question:
Which team do Celtic play tomorrow?
This competition is only open for an hour, closes at 2:0, so those who enter have an excellent chance. Keep an eye on your inbox this afteroon. If you’d like to donate £1 to the kitchen fund in tandem with your entry, you can do so here.
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Zbyszek @11 21 .
Yes ———-serious Italian media have him leaving without his money . Rumor mongers have him being uncool enough to mouth off about Putin.
ACGR
Doken leaves … brilliant .
When we were wee , we used to play fish and chip shops .
Doken leaves were the fish and small privet leaves were the chips … wrapped in newspaper of course
Believe it or not , broken glass was money .
So in a nutshell, it was the toss of a coin. In my post Bove.
Above……….sorry.
Really Looking forward to the game today, taking my grandson don’t often get the chance to do that.
BT happy birthday
Axiomatic = self evident truth, where the SFA is involved, evidence not needed ;-((
H H
Therefor truth is fluid ;-))
H H
ZBYSZEK
Most of us are backing Tonev,mate.
BT – Happy Birthday and many happy returns. Thanks for your words. I hope to enjoy every minute of today’s game. Getting very excited now. Hope it is not too long before you are back also.,
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Blantyre, happy birthday.Let’s hope the boys give a good present today.
Tony Doneely, I hope your brother makes a full recovery sooner rather than later and is back sitting beside you at our games.
Marrakesh, that Fraser Wishart character really p’s me off. He is on eof the lead figures in the Show Racism the red card campaign but has said hee haw about anit-Irish racism.
I’m waiting for his apology about hinting it was Celtic fans who gave McGregor a doing when it was his fiance.
You only ever hear or see him when there’s something going on with players with five stars on their tops.
Z- sorry my mistake HH
Tony, sorry for mispelling your name there.
BMCUW
Nah, all smart holdin fire till all is out in open ;-))
SFA&openbelievewencCSC
Good morning friends.
A decent ParkRun this morning was made even better my meeting a fellow CQNer pre and post race so a big well done to Colour Blind Bhoy and good luck for next week’s event in Glasgow Green.
Going shopping shortly. Anyone have a link to the preferred item list for today’s Foodbank collection?
Oh, and while I’m on – http://mobro.co/jobobaldie . Save it as a favourite and view my daily photo updates!
BRTH
I’m in for the £5 a goal. I will also donate £25 for every ICT goal.
So wet have a 3 o’clock kick off on a Saturday never catch on I tell you.
Wonder if we will go with JG and SS up front or will we play Without SS with Astra in mind.
No matter just hope we keep the momentum going and bang in another 6 today,and I get my own seat back yippee 403 here I come.
Also happy birthday to BT mate and on all saints day to from what I can gather from this site it seems a fitting day for your Birthday .
H.H
Celtic playing at 3 on a Saturday?
Don’t think this will catch on!
Good luck to the Bhoys today, back-to-back hat-tricks sounds good to me.
JG, score three this afternoon and you can change your name to Fantasticetti.
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All praise and all thanksgiving to the Green Brigade food-bank volunteers and donors today.
Jobo, toiletries, tinned fruit, UHT milk, tinned fish, toilet paper, sugar, tinned custard
No link Jobo, but long life perishables preferred ( cans, uht, canned fruit & rice, custard, stew, potatoes etc, ) sure sum1 asked about pet food..not a bad shout ;-))
H H
Good afternoon all, the Findlay quote;
Why now? Are we being prepared for the bubble to burst? No one of the hun persuasion says these things for the craic let alone a hun lawyer, paranoid, probably not enough!
Re pet food, unsure ;-))
H H
McPhail, r u a hun ;-)) paranoid enuff ;-))
H H
TheLurkin Tim
Ha ha, as I pointed out to others on my 1st post on Wednesday I had to find the sum to register; hardly a hun trait,… numbers and huns never a good combination!
A pleasure to meet Jobo Balde at the Glasgow Parkrun this morning and thanks for waiting for me at finish line Jobo, you’re a gentleman.
Now for the main event of the day, I love a Saturday 3:00pm kick off.
Jobo
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minx1888 praying to Wee Oscar
09:34 on
1 November, 2014
Happy birthday BT hope you have a cracker!
Remember bhoys and ghirls food bank collection today they are desperate for UHT milk, juice , sugar, nappies, baby food, toilet roll, tinned fish, tinned fruit, biscuits and toiletries.
Soz Jobo, there is a link, i just don’t/cant do them on fone, pic shows pick-up points and text gives needs, again soz from memory ;-))
H H
Bulgarian newspapers to a man are all behind Alex Tonev this morning, not one bad word from the press regarding the player.
CSKA Sofia also stated in the press that he was one of their star youth players and never had one problem with him as a youth with the club stating he played alongside many black players in his time at CSKA.
One or 2 quotes from people who know him well, basically saying the story is total nonsense and has no bearing on the man they know.
McPhail
was the answer 1888 ;-))
H H
nye bevans’ rebel soldier
11:22 on 1 November, 2014
Hamiltontim
10:17 on
1 November, 2014
Sorry about the late reply, running about like a daftie.
I’ll answer yer question wae a question have you ever had
yer ego massaged on here?
God forbid I’ve offended you,that’s not allowed on here, lot’s
of outrage,meanwhile lets kick the sh#te oot of Kevin,that’s
perfectly acceptable.
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My ego massaged on here? Ha ha I have friends and family well able to to do that, ain’t that right Minx :-)
I must have missed where I ‘kicked the shite’ out of KevJ but I did pull him up for referring to Bobo Balde as a ‘ black @@@@@’
I stand by that.
If you feel you’re missing out here’s a cyber kiss from me x
No to racism and jealousy CSC
I have a spare ticket for the game today if anyone wants it, I’ll be on here for the next hour or so.
Good luck to all with the food bank collection today, as someone has said before Brother Walfrid would be proud of everyone involved but appalled that more than 125 years later nothing much has changed; all in this together, I don’t think so
Connaire12
Fingers crossed you make your return to Paradise today sir. If you do I hope our hooped heroes give you a day to remember.
Happy birthday BT
Hope you have a great day and The Tic do for you, what they did for starry plough!
BCW
Are you going today mate?
TheLurkin Tim
no that would have been too easy, luckily for me it was a single digit, I could do the maths but only just
CQN Appears to be going through a metamorphosis at the moment. TSD disappeared without a goodbye, Kojo announced his retirement, ryecatcher disappeared for a week or so before making an undistinguished return last night. Was he suspended for a week or did he take a rest? Either way if he doesn’t calm down, I can’t see him lasting too long and around 5am, Kev J handed in his resignation. Who will be next?.