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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Aidan Connelly to Hibs, not yet reached MSM.
Aidan Connelly ???
Sftb
Dominic Behan, 26 years dead, hard to believe. Had the pleasure of his company on a couple of occasions including a day long pub crawl in Dublin around 1980, a gas man.
Dublin 2016,
Demand for tickets seems to be pretty high.
I had a couple of e mails this weekend after 7 tickets each.
Maybe if we limit it to two per email.
The lhads that are looking for seven, maybe if you send another couple of mails, that would help me.
HH
Hyrvatski
Friday is good for me, 5.30. Yes your last post made me wonder if you are keeping ok.
OK 5.30 on Friday. See you then.
Dallas
The plane arrived in Baku approximately 7pm our time 11pm Baku time hopefully a short trip to the hotel and a good skip thereafter
I am just checking……is this a dating site?
Skip=kip
Wilbur 55
Yes
Apparently thousands of bottles of alcohol containing Viagra have been confiscated by Chinese authorities.
Just when you needed a stiff drink too.
Zheng Schwing
Wilbur55 on 3rd August 2015 10:42 pm
I am just checking……is this a dating site?
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a/s/l
Must be an important match approaching for Celtic. The Daily Record have an “exclusive” tomorrow that will apparently outrage Celtic and Ronny Deila.
Hope everyone is getting the hang of the new site….
Wilbur55 on 3rd August 2015 10:42 pm I am just checking……is this a dating site?
My Mam is sure it is Shhhhhhhhhhhhhh:))))))))))))))))))
Winning Captain
just as well RD is out the country then
:-)
Winning Captains
Celtic have a big game coming up.
What a turnup – the Daily Deidclub running an anti-Celtic story.
My money is on a VVD “Come and get me”.
Seen on twitter
Douglas Park has stepped down from the Rangers board. He will be replaced by son Graeme
Winning Captains
Sevco board announcement at 10:30 pm just after the rags have run,:))))
Clogher celt just sent you some emails.
HH
KTF
Utlr
Till tomorrow all
Be good
Dessybhoy, thanks .
Video celts reporting that Hamilton bus & car magnate Dougie Park has chucked it but his boy is taking his place.
Probably to make sure the glib one isn’t pulling any more shameless lies and Park senior gets his dosh back.
Winning Captains
A few tweaks here and there the site will be better, managing to use my computer would be a start:-)
Highlighting the monikers would be the first thing I would sort.
HH
Exiled Tim – yes on it as you know. Traffic to the new site is much higher and that has caused some of the problems.
The comments section have still to be styled and will be improved.
Evening all.
Daily Record running an anti Celtic story on eve of big game shocker.What’s new ?
On a more serious matter I had the misfortune to catch a small part of Craig the zombie Houston on radio Shortbread tonight.
Is any criticism of the Rangers acceptable ?
Was the sectarian singing really a figment of imagination ?
Did I really hear him declare Rangers have never lost a case against HMRC ???
See nothing anti the Rangers
Speak nothing anti the Rangers
Hear nothing anti the Rangers.
All on a national radio station.
Beyond embarrassment.
Just reading back on CQN..brilliant…Two of the Big girls on here havin a bitch fight over a statue(moyntain outa a molehill) Celtic fans moaning about bbc sportsound( while listening to bbc sportsound) anddouglas pk telling the shameless one, deal wi my boy,(no more money)…Its All Good on CQN..
http://videocelts.com/2015/08/blogs/latest-news/sevco-plunged-into-crisis-as-douglas-park-walks-away
WINNING CAPTAINS
You reckon traffic to the new site is much higher,yet there are only c250 posts as we approach midnight?
I respectfully suggest that even in the first few days,there has been a significant drop in posters. Happy to be corrected on it.
Plus,Everything bar the weather( but that will come) being blamed by the useual on The Indy Brigade…i love CQN.
IM Happy , Hope your Happy Too..
BGX
Don’t Worry ‘Bout a Thing.
Robert Nesta Marley CSC
HAIL HAIL
Taxi for the bus man
Old Douglas announced his walkout on the Hun board at 10.30 PM.Timed it lovely for the last bus hame.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 3rd August 2015 11:36 pm
My thoughts exactly
BOBBY MURDOCH’s…
The numbers are higher. Happy to give you the stats if you like but a bit late tonight. On Friday over 27,500 supporters were on CQN. On Sunday even more.
We posted 7 or 8 features today and they have all achieved good audience numbers – these are outwith the comments.
The traffic slowed the site down and despite an increase in server capacity to cope with an increase, it was quickly running at capacity and more had to be added.
The stats are from Google Analytics and we can see in real time what pages are being read, how many people are on the site and where they were referred from etc
Mightytim,
Have your e mails,
Thanks,
See you in Dublin 2016,
Clogher
Neganon2
Agree mate, It’s bad enough that lies can be regurgitated to the extent that they become not only the norm, but a form of factual information to the unintelligent.
Although I would love to believe they are in their death throes, there is too much protection for this species.
Time for the non business leaders to stand up.
Good post.
HH
Delaneys Dunky…Funkin For Jamaica man me…Its Good
Some of the lhads, from Derry that will be remembered in Dublin 2016.
Many were very young.
http://youtu.be/-r1IB-tEHYA
HH,
Clogher
Winning captains
What are the number of posts to cqn over the last 7 days?
It looks to me that the actual posts have dropped significantly.