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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Zaluska in goal, Fasan on the bench. Hopefully its just a cold or something that’s sidelined Gordon.
Craig Gordon wasn’t really needed in the last game. Maybe this is the way of things now. :-)
Craig Gordon rested according facebook. Hopefully!
Official Site, saying Gordon is being rested. Strange to rest a Keeper, the very least you’d expect is thay he would be on the bench. Ronny better not have a goal keeping calamity happen today.
Newcastle one up against Liverpool, 74 mins.
Gordon has a slight knock so taking no chances apparently
Never saw CQN so quiet before a game, am I missing something?
Zaluska; Lustig, Denayer, van Dijk, Izaguirre; Brown, Mulgrew; Wakaso, Johansen, Stokes; Guidetti.
Celtic subs: Fasan, Matthews, Ambrose, Scepovic, Griffiths, Kayal, McGregor.
Just in from the town Corkcelt -)))
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3-0 the Bhoys
Hx2
New article….
CQN Corner was top class today.
KTF pals.
Home win.
HH jamesgang
Is there a better sight in this workd?
Just got text a tip there not from my usual very good source but a reliable one normally what a warrior 3.35 mascot currently @ 9/1 I am going e/w on this one good luck
I said this earlier, tongue in cheek.
But now I pose the question in all seriousness.
If Celtic (at Hampden) were playing any provincial club from a lower tier in the scottish league set-up , we would get at least 30/35k tickets…. Opposition would get 7/8k tickets.
Surely that’s what should happen this time round.??