Having seen European football played on what could easily be mistaken for a swimming pool, I would be surprised if Uefa postponed Wednesday’s game Quarabag-Celtic game. Champions League and Europa League football takes place on pitches which are unplayable every season.
The combination of clubs travelling thousands of miles, crammed fixture schedules, competitors from hundreds of towns, many of which are not in natural grass growing regions, forces match supervisors to turn a blind eye. If the pitch in Baku is truly in a bad shape, the best Celtic can achieve is to have the game moved to an alternative venue., but even that would take an unlikely alignment of stars.
To some or other extent, everyone wants to control what the media reports about them. This is not in itself bad, but there are limits to the extent a football club, or any other group, should take this desire to control. Often for the reason that it will simply not work.
If some numpty reports that Ronny Deila said something off about Neil Lennon, and Ronny said no such thing, the numpty in question would find (found) himself banned from Celtic Park for using falsehoods to cause the club trouble. His newspaper would have to suck it up, as they were in the wrong.
When it comes to journalists reporting an unwelcome fact the rules are completely different. BBC’s Chris McLaughlin, who was banned from Ibrox days after reporting police arrested fans at the Hibs – Newco game for sectarian offenses has been publicly backed by the BBC.
The Corporation eventually backed Jim Spence after he was subject to significant intimidation for using the phrase “some people will tell you, the club that died” in connection to Rangers, but from the outside they appeared to be on the back foot early on.
In his excellent interview with Phil Mac Giolla Bhain, published today, Spence talks about this, saying “It has been and still is a blatant attempt to coerce and ultimately take journalists livelihoods away from them”.
Banning journos work in some circumstances: when they are factually wrong and doing you harm, but if they are factually correct, you’re handing the perceived enemy the initiative, and the high moral ground. A comment about a small number of arrests for sectarian offenses, which few people read, has now been magnified beyond comprehension. It’s a complete PR disaster of their own making, Newco should buy-in some expertise in this area.
Incredibly, when Craig Whyte made himself busy banning journos who reported what he was up to, those who should have been most alarmed were so lustfully delighted at the bans and invitations to demonstrate, they didn’t stop to consider Whyte was diverting their attention.
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TET so people living in Spain but not from there have no sympathy for other people from another country trying to better themselves
Definite hunnic behaviour
Btw how is the book going ?
https://twitter.com/celticnewsnow/status/628208525743902720
3:19
You denied all Knowledge of even talking to that Stranger, talking about that molehill.
Sorry to make a mountain out of a…… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SACTy2rZ7kE
So Thomson twin, with a 8 million bid already received for vvd, are you going to confess your 5 millions tops prediction for vvd was totally pants and you just may not know everything in the universe?
AndrewK
this is not the first time I have been barred for getting it up them,
The wife’s book has been out for a while, its doing good, he
R second one should be out soon
HH
Thanks for all the kind comments folks.
Hebcelt.
Thoroughly enjoyed the bus tour. It’s amazing what I didn’t know about my home city. Got soaked, Sat upstairs, wife and daughter Sat in the enclosed bit, I said wimps. Twenty minutes later after very heavy rain and soaked, I meekly moved up to sit beside them, to much hilarity, who is the wimp now ?was the cry. Only disappointment was got off at Glasgow university to go to Hunterian Art Gallery, it opens 6 days a week but not on a Monday. A really good and interestingway to spend the day.
At the game on saturday i was next to where sky were doing there interviews with charlie m, tanner, mc ann , and walker .Mcann took healthy abuse of the fans ie “zombie,judas, gtf your not wanted ” in the corner before the game and at half time ,he was clearly rattled by the fans
Regards
Celtic Mac
Ha Have – certainly not
But unlike some – I don’t live in the past
Charles Kickham People who live in the past have no future – as a wise man once said!! H H Hebcelt
Tiny tim
Yep Craig G could have easily been sent off but he would have been sent off in the wrong. Not a clear goal scoring opportunity and not last man.
That may not have stopped MIBs before but it would still have been a wrong decision.
Bhoylo (God bless his wee cotton socks) and Weeminger above both call it right.
Craig’s decision making may have been questionable in this instance but his offence did not merit a red.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL2YQxQhMRo
can we get back to the fitba instead of bein suckered into ‘new’ drivel from ‘new’ multi posters who followed ‘new…. what was it called again….things can only get better eh!
Paul serious problems getting on today,bout an hour!
out of here Celts.be good
UP LIKE A BIRD on 3RD AUGUST 2015 4:18 PM
At the game on saturday i was next to where sky were doing there interviews with charlie m, tanner, mc ann , and walker .Mcann took healthy abuse of the fans ie “zombie,judas, gtf your not wanted ” in the corner before the game and at half time ,he was clearly rattled by the fans
Regards
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disappointed Mulgrew didnt just tell him to f up.
My friends in Celtic,
Celtic football club is open to all. I’m absolutely sure that non socialists or even Tories actively support Celtic.
You would never think so on here, but it is probably so. And rightly so, IMO.
Not my particular cup of tea, but we are a broad church with a common denominator of supporting Celtic.
HH.
Celtic FC Good Luck
now how does anybody know that last post was a link to a good video
link to a good video
Craig Gordon
Kit
We didn’t
kit that was good.
it was follwed by this …………..
craig gordons best saves 2015.
quite magnificent actually.
couple of double stops that are just incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BeQvdgo3LM
What the blazes are the posts about King Billy, a horse and a molehill about,
Anyway Charlie hasn’t travelled, any news on whether Stokes travelled, I expect not. For once a bumpy pitch mightn’t be the worst thing in the world for us. Big big game get through and we are guaranteed 8 more European nights. I think we will get through this one, it may not be pretty but I think we can do it.
Saint Stivs
Impressive when you see The Cat’s saves all together!
Frankfurts finest.
Jiri Ceiver. Shortwaves.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRWd-HI_MBM
Backintheday.csc
I saw the pitch last week and it looked okay to me, better than okay. A hard, bumpy pitch hurts their style of play more than it hurts ours.
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I take nothing as given but if I could get to a bookies I’d be putting a few quid on Celtic to go through.
Was oot earlier on and met most excellent Cqner ANGELGABRIEL and his guide dog – a lovely lab named Orla!
:-)
Only joking F!
HH!!
Kit posted a good link
Azerbaijan media say UEFA confirmed Tofiq stadium for Wednesday game.
Zbyszek
Thank you for your earlier information re the pitch. We know the MSSM are ridiculous but it is still useful to have the real stories on here from people like yourself. Again, thank you and keep it up!
JJ
vfr800a8 on 3rd August 2015 2:01 pm
Apologies for the late response – but basically 10 beers
Big decision !!!!
67ECW
Strikes me big Craig actually did know the rules when he mad ehis decision to put in the challenge.
An astute ‘take one for the team’ lightning judgement.
If you have any doubt, remember it was GOLLUM whose responsibility it fell upon to select a card colour. The man who gives penalties he does not see. For Huns. At Celtic Park. Proof positive, if any was ultimately needed. Absolute empirical evidence, as PF Ayr might put it.
As for ratfink Neil McCann, I find myself suffering from mild tourettes at the mention of his name now – the urge to shout out a popular yet brutal four-letter word, spectacularly put to use in Trainspotting and delivered with venom by Frankie Boyle, grips me like a sneeze.
Aaa-choo, mcCann, ya ####!
Qarabag are a small team who like to play the ball on the deck, I would say the pitch would be against them just as much as it would be for us. It’s in our hands to progress.
At the game on Saturday my first instinct was that it wasn’t a red card. Watched it on TV and thought it was. I don’t think mccann will be standing at that corner anytime soon after Saturday’s outburst…
Well the good news is that the new CQN now has the up to date league table.
The bad news is that we are only in second place. I blame Peter Lawwell.
As with any European away match for Celtic, I am gripped with fear two days in advance. Worrying on the day of the match isn’t enough worrying time, especially with a 5:30 kick off!
JJ You are welcome.
There are two teams missing from the Scottish Premiership table.
Have they gone bust?!
HH!!
After 7 days of mid 90s temps, 35C approx, I was out watering the wee tract of green that is loosely referred to as the front lawn.
It was mainly green with some wee burnt patches, could be due to some local dogs with a penchant for peeing on grass.
All in all its holding up well, but would it be suitable to play football on it?
On reflection, probably not.
Mainly because the tree would get in the way.
Many thinks – re my league table comment from earlier
http://futbolgrad.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/5.jpg
The Tofiq Bahramov Stadium, Baku, Azerbaijan.
COYBIG
Gordon J
FYI Mrs RWE is currently reading Calling Cards and she has asked me to pass on her compliments.