Lots of frustration around today at the possibility the first leg of the Champions League qualifier will be switched to Belfast. It will be no comfort to those who booked travel yesterday but we are in this situation every qualifying game. The draw is made and confirmed a day or two later, which is why clubs (including Celtic) and CQN yesterday ran a “Don’t book travel until…” piece. On most occasions nothing is changed which means fans are caught out when change happens.
No reason why Uefa can’t deal with this on the day of the game, or exclusively on the basis of strict criteria. I hope they deny this request, which is not in Celtic’s favour and clearly not in fan’s best interest.
Two items to draw your attention to today:
Tommy Burns Skin Cancer Trust
Tommy Burns Skin Cancer Trust are undertaking a sponsored cycle of all SPL grounds this September in attempt to get to our £100k fundraising target. This money will be used to help on the battle to fight skin cancer working with organisations such as Beatson Cancer Centre. The event is called Tour for Tommy and will span 5 days, 12 clubs and 380 miles of cycling before returning to Celtic Park on Sunday 15th September. Ex-Celts such as Packie Bonner and Frank McGarvey are joining in as the full event and Bertie Auld will be completing the last day. The event is looking to team up with the fans of each club to join them on a leg from their stadium to the next.
The group have much of the logistics in place and most of the riders, but they need more help. Each of the four main days are being offered for sponsorship with day one already taken up. In return the 30-40 core riders will get their clothing made with that company’s logo as well as any signage on press releases at the stadiums among other benefits (full pack available upon request). The Tour has already received great coverage from Sky Sports with further commitment to track the whole event.
In addition the charity are looking for donations of anything from water bottles, energy bars/drinks to medical supplies and biking mechanical supplies.
If you are interested in getting involved in any way you can contact scottmcgarvey@gmail.com. You can donate here, follow on Facebook and twitter (@tommyburnsSCT).
I know many of you will be aware of the work done by Celtic fans for the people of Haiti as part of the Hoops For Haiti campaign. This is another aspect of the incredible work done by Celtic fans and a credit to our club. You can read their blog here and get involved here.
Heart of a Lion:
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Bartinho @BartinhoBaroldo 11h
@JaneLewisSport Jane, how is your intrepid investigations into the Charlotte material going? Tweeted you the other day, but no response.
Jane Lewis Jane Lewis @JaneLewisSport 11h
@BartinhoBaroldo Ask yourself this – how did CF get the material?? That may answer a lot of your questions?!
Jane Lewis it seems the DR has been able to ask questions and print the material
How did that happen, newspapers and media been doing running stories with dubious sources since………………………………………………………………………
changeFIFA @changeFIFA 7m
Italian Football
Reuters: Italian Police Launch ‘Sick Soccer’ Tax Investigation Into 40 Clubs
http://j.mp/17BCMXJ
Jobo,
New poster here. Long time lurker. Raised in East Kilbride (born in Springburn), emigrated to states in 69. Enjoy all the info and banter on CQN. Great place for a Celtic suppporter,
Canalmar it seems your request for Celtic to call out cheats may need to broaden its horizons
A Stor Mo Chroi
06:08
If the start of your message is with me in mind, you are too kind, amigo.
My response is to watch the last minute of this clip and take the appropriate action.
Pile on, Celtic people.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xg34lUIysk
Each to their own ghuys but why do Celtic supporters still pay any attention to the MSM? From the record and Sun to the BBC and SKY, these hun loving sychophants are no freinds of Celtic.
No lazy churnalism for this Bhoy. Personally don’t care if Keith Jackshun or any of his ilk paint their bottoms blue and nominate the pieman for the nobel peace prize.
Rant over
HH
Tom McLaughlin 06:50:
Out of curiosity what were you told about refreshing page on S3? Doc is Neil Lennon gave me some advice, curious if the same you got?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Wonder if anyone at the Daily Record is on Sevco’s pay roll?
Plenty of circumstantial evidence in todays on line edition.
I read it in the same way I read Viz when I was a student – it’s all right for a cheap laugh but I’m a little embarrassed at having even looked at it in the first place.
Whither The Scrofulous Wearer ….
Of The Decomposing Dunlop ‘Green Flash’….
The Dae….?
Good morning CQNers,
The editor and and chief sports writer at the Herald must be appeasing someone at Sevco ….
I refuse to post the article on here but suffice to say that its a nonsense little piece about player movements in/out of Ibrox and it finishes off with the following
“The deadline for Rangers season-ticket renewals is this Friday. Prices for the family section are £258 for adults, £65 for kids, £179 for concessions. Prices for other parts of the ground start at £278, £68 and £190 respectively. Information is available on the Rangers website, the Rangers Ticket Centre or on 0871 702 1972.”
Shameless
So the MSM finally take the plunge and print stuff from Charlotte, just maybe now it could get interesting, when is their SB deadline…:)
The SFA will though continue to SFA about it.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Morning,
pmsl at this one. He never seen all the empty seats on tv. The official capacity of ibrokes is 50411.
Michael Grant
THE crowd at Rangers’ final home match of last season was 50,048; the attendance at Bristol City’s last home game, against Huddersfield Town, was 13,376. Richard Foster yesterday admitted that dropping down to the Scottish Second Division was “a consideration” but ultimately those were the figures which convinced him to sign for Rangers.
Seatim
welcome.
I guess you know by now Jobo is the most accurate weather reporter in the world. He has achieved this level of fame and unprecedented success (100% accuracy over the recorded 5 year period) by using a method more hi tech and advanced than any qualified and famed meteorologists have been able to match……..he looks oot the windae.
Daily Record using the Charlotte tapes for a story. This will get interesting. I wonder who authorised the story at ibrokes?
Ahmad later predicts – accurately, as it turned out – that Green will not last a year in the role of chief executive.
He says: “Charles will f*** himself. He won’t be able to help himself. He’ll be like a kid in a candy shop. He’ll get absolutely burnt alive there.”
“Celtic denied Vic a move to q.p.r.”
????
They should be thanked for doing so.
Hindsight csc
Lennybhoy –
Here is the post I was referring to . . .
Jonny the Tim
09:53 on
25 June, 2013
Tom McLaughlin @ 09.30
At the bottom left of your phone, beside the big buton, if you touch that, a pop-up will appear and the address bar will drop down. touch the wee wheel at the left of the address, and hey presto, refreshment!
HH
Geordie
Indeed.
Tom McG hit the nail on the head earlier. Agent is obviously peeved at being denied a million bucks. Had he got his money, Vic would have been in Southampton now. He has his own interests at heart.
I was Interested to read Frank McGarvey’s reminisces about being chased on the pitch at Solitude by someone with a brick in the 1984 friendly, hmmm,
A different perspective, and one that’s nearer to the truth than yesterday’s DR piece…
http://archive.celticunderground.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=932&Itemid=127
Tom McL…not Tom McG
Apologies Tom for getting your name wrong. (I worked with a Tom McGlaughlin many moons ago)
twists n turns –
Not a problem mate :~)
I scanned the story about victor in the record…the usual negative prose about us.
Except for one snippet….
“in a tersely-worded statement a club spokesman said last night: “These negotiations like any others, are carried out by Celtic in a proper, private and professional manner.
Celtic carries out is business with “integrity”.
Now that’s a word Jackson would do well to look up in the dictionary.
Tom McLaughlin 08:03:
Cheers Tom,
There is another way, tap on the date and time in the last post and at the top the address bar appears at the top, tap the wee broken wheel and it will refresh for you.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Welcome Seatim don’t worry no one replies to my posts in the morning either….
Hadn’t seen this before. (Duff and Phelps are you sitting comfortably)
http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rl17m9
Thanks for the spelling mistake flight advice, I’ll probably just wing it, if you pardon the pun, and take my chances, worst that can happen is my mother-in-law doesnt get to go with us on holiday ;)
yorkbhoy 08:19:
1,2,3…Aaaaw…
Good morning my friend…:)
Seatim:
Welcome, glad you have taken the plunge.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Morning all. Cool but glorious down by the coast at the moment.
Any more “gems” from Victor’s agent? Have we no redress against such moronic mouthings?
Has CF brightened our day once more?
Lennybhoy –
Thanks. That’s even better.
Barcabhoy,
saint stivs calling barcabhoy, do you copy over.
anyone got a connection with barcabhoy, that facebook thing or email or text or whatever, if aye could you ask Barcabhoy to log onto CQN briefly.
ta muchos
Tom McLaughlin 08:28:
Your welcome mate.
Right off to work, until we meet again…
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Saint Stivs 08:29:
Just sent him this on twitter:
Lennybhoy @Lennybhoy1888 now
@Barcabhoy1 St. Stivs looking for you on CQN. #HH
Really got to go.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
Anyone any updates on season book sales ?
After last season has the green brigade got their section again this year ?
Whither the cash strapped scrofulous hillbillies the day?
Murdochbhoy, yermanfromMK
08:06 on
26 June, 2013
I also read McGarvey’s article with an amount of incredulity. No Celtic players were endangered by any of the fans within Solitude that day. The only real danger they were in was being hit by a rubber / plastic bullet fired indiscriminately by the RUC. Strange that he makes no mention of the RUC instigating the trouble. Is McGarvey yet another uncle Tim? Your link correctly describes the events of the day, basically being attacked by the police was a fairly common event for Nationalists in North Belfast at the time.
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As Celtic FC and Cliftonville prepare to meet in a friendly for the first time in 25 years, we reflect on the Celtic support in Belfast. Why do thousands regularly travel to Glasgow and what green roots do we find in the city at the mouth of the Lagan?
Belfast Tims of a certain vintage will remember the noise – a cross between a whistle and a science fiction flying saucer.If you were lucky, it went past and you heard it. You wouldn’t hear the bang as it left the breech. If you were in the way, it was trouble – the circular bruise would be deep and its likely bones were broken, if you survived.
In 1981 alone, the British Army and Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) admit to firing 30,000 of these plastic bullets.
They killed people, including Sean Downes, murdered a few days before the game between Celtic and Cliftonville in August 1984.
He was buried before the match (August 14) and as the gravediggers laid soil on his coffin, his murderers went to Solitude, Cliftonville’s ground, armed with the same guns that killed him.
The amount of plastic bullets fired at Celtic and Cliftonville fans that insane day is anyone’s guess. It was probably hundreds.
As Danny McGrain stood in the centre circle, as Davy Hay sat in the dugout, as Celtic’s Directors shook hands with Cliftonville’s in the stand, it’s likely none of them noticed the RUC filtering into the packed north Belfast ground.
Trouble flared as Loyalists from the Westland Estate threw missiles into the ground and as supporters clambered the high wall to see what was happening, it soon became clear -the RUC were mingling with the Loyalists.
When missiles were returned, the RUC stormed the ground and a happy union of fans disintegrated into a full scale riot, with plastic bullets raining on the supporters, many of whom follow both clubs even today. Later, as Celtic Director Desmond White staggered onto the ferry at Larne, he pledged that the disgusting actions of the RUC meant Celtic would never play in Belfast again!
No doubt, the police chuckled at a job well done. Luckily, no one was killed.
It was very reminiscent of 35 years previously, when the goliath of Irish Football, Belfast Celtic, left the footballing stage.
Established in 1891, with help from its Glasgow cousin, Belfast’s ‘Stripes’ became one of the most successful teams in Irish league history.
Naturally, a club representing the minority community in Belfast – while open to all and expert at collecting football trophies – rankled with the authorities who were publicly boasting at not having Catholics about the place.
Everything came to a head on a cold December day in 1948, when Linfield fans, drawn from the same moronic stock as their Glasgow counterparts, rushed the pitch at Windsor Park and attacked Celtic’s players.
Celtic’s star striker Jimmy Jones (a Protestant, incidentally), was almost beaten to death and one of his legs was so badly damaged it finished two inches shorter. The RUC stood by and watched the events unfold. One officer was heard to shout ‘If you don’t stop kicking him, I’ll draw my baton’.
I think all our future transfer dealings should be done via Summa of Sammi.
I’ve had the pleasure of his company and believe you me, the bhoy’s word is his bond.
He is 100% straight arrow and is the paradigm of the 21st century football agent.
If Mr Lawell, Mr Lennon, Mr Park etc etc are at all serious about Celtic they’ll get Summa’s number on speed dial- now!
SEATIM ok where abouts in SPRINGBURN ?????
YORKBHOY.if you finish by saying AFF or OFF OOT,everybody pays attention to you.
the bould bhoys
00:17 on 26 June, 2013
Briliant …… LLLLOOOOLLLL…..!!!!!!!!
dontbrattbakkinanger
Wherefore is your wherefore today …….get it done……LOL