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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Quantum
All the previous articles and comments are on the site – so it is easy for you to check yourself. I will have a look at that in morning.
Jacko says UEFA have told Celtic we can’t train on the pitch but it’s fine to play on the night.
‘GG on 3RD AUGUST 2015 10:05 PM
NEGANON2 on 3RD AUGUST 2015 7:40 PM
Very thought provoking and passionate.
Once again I am reluctantly and surprisingly nodding my head in agreement.
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I have a wee dug on the dashboard of my car that does that as well.
“Thought provoking and passionate”,What,a Neganon post?.He would be as well using”Copy and paste”.
Same old guff day in day out.
“Rubbish board,racist,sectarian Scotland”
Aye right,carry on.
BGX
Jammin in the name of The Lord.
Hail Hail
Winning Captains – if you still on.
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Are you not creating the problem or at least exacerbating it by creating “7 or 8 articles” in one day?
Why the need for so many? It surely stretches whatever limited resource that you do have. It also ‘dilutes’ the message (from the board :-) that Paul wants to put across.
Upgrading the ole platform is fine and indeed wise but the whole shooting match in one go is a leap too far.
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I’ve been there and done it with wholesale network upgrades and I know that it is not easy. But it can be done with a bit more finesse. I salute what you have achieved so far but you will now be chasing your own ass for weeks doing fixes.
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Please start by allowing me to access site from my Samsung phone and not from my old Wi-Fi Titan 3 (which works fine) but needs a wireless network!
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Good luck.
The Tiny Wharton dummy game……,,,
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GxLgmfB73sI
Have only posted once since new site was launched (twice now) :O) but I lurk/read as often as I ever did.
Change can be a slow process, though I must admit I preferred the old simpler blog. It’s no awe aboot me though :O).
Hail Hail.
Documentary about the OO just started on BBC4
Art of War,
Almore told me what you are doing to help Dublin 2016.
Thanks, hope to see you here.
HH,
Clogher
Clogher
Just checking my son Ryan and I have tickets to the key event. Almore is a gem. Had a great day with him on Saturday.
Baile Atha Cliath, Easter 2016!
Bring it on!
TEUCHTER ÁR LÁ on 4TH AUGUST 2015 12:27 AM
Big Yogi ran absolute riot that day wearing his trainers.
Went in at the half 1-0 and we couldn’t understand how after it was practically shooty in to their goal. One break and wee Davie Wilson scored.
Yogi had hammered shots at Ritchie all half and we were just unable to score.
Second half was sheer unadulterated joy.
TAL & GG
My dad, God rest him, would love to be sitting beside me watching that game in 66. He told me about it often. I was 1 at the time. He was still talking about it when I was 41.
DD,
Yep, sorry for any confusion. You and the CQNer’s are all top of the list.
Don’t worry about tickets.
My cousin in Toronto want’s to come over but I had to say, I’ll offer tickets to the lads that e mailed first.
Clogher
Clogher
Thank you pal.
Good night God bless.
Thanks DD,
I hope to be over in the next few weeks with the wee fella. Hope to meet you then.
Clogher
I actually believe the bumpy pitch in Baku will work in our favour as Qarabag played more of a passing game than we did in the 1st leg so they would have to adapt their game more than us.I fancy Celtic to score at least one probably from a set piece.
I have the upmost respect for Almore and Cloghercelt in all their efforts in organising the event in Dublin.
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However, I’ve spent many, many years trying to highlight the Irish cause in Scotland and I think that ultimately I’ll decide to stay in Glasgow and take part in the celebrations here.
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UTLR
It’s 7:31 in Azerbaijan.
3:31 at Celtic Park.
I hope the boys are all well tucked up in bed living on Celtic Park time.
If it’s like other Islamic countries the morning calls to prayer may have wakened them up.
Ear plugs, thick bedroom curtains and an empty room fridge should be the order of the day.
Team breakfast at lunch time locally, unless Broony sends out for a pizza.
Meanwhile back in Glasgow, Donald Park has reversed his bus out of Ibrox, taking his baw with him and refused to pay any more fares.
Is his bus hire contract still valid?
Rare post from the outreaches of west coast USA.
Can’t load pages mostly, can’t log in hardly ever.
Bring back the outdated format please.
10:41 here in the eastern seaboard.
What does the server show?
Spot on.
SDB
I’m having no issues on iPad or Windows.
‘GG-
Not a techie pal. Use Mac hardware and rely on their software.
Chatting to my mate in the Punjab, but CQN is in never ending loading…
Hope this post got through before the next reload kicked in.
I keep myself logged on to cqn on my iPhone and apart from being slow to reload and sometimes telling can me it has had a problem and is reloading it seems ok
I very seldom read the magazine links tbh.
Cold and damp in G72
Good Morning Timland.
Good luck to the next generation the young Miss included who await
their exam results this morning,away tae work,a nervous dad waiting
on a call.
Off to leafy Leicestershire in the rain…. Two vey big days ahead , business and football wise ( as Charlie Nicholas may say).
Fitness wise , it’s catching , slight hip pain from yesterday’s exertions. Will be having a few system he’s on journey down south, if you see an eedjit doing stretches at the side of A66, A1 or M1, that’ll be me.
Systems? Stretches more like…..I blame the new blog.
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Good luck to all the kids today waiting on their exam results
My two are beyond that now …both at uni …one a post grad …still remember the tension and thankfully the relief
May you all get what you need and at least what you deserve
Good morning friends from the Atlantis district of East Kilbride. Boooooooooooooo. ;-(
Hope all the kids are satisfied with their results today
Good morning CQN
https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/06/which-country-is-the-happiest-in-the-world-2/
Good morning.
To be perfectly honest with you the pitch should not be a problem for Celtic, I would say that at least 75%80% of the pitches we play away in our own domestic league are s…, long, patchy bumpy surfaces, grass not cut, pitch not been rolled, haven’t seen water all week, looking like they had a tractor pull competition the day before, and it’s the same every year, and it’s the same old suspects, and our FA do frack all about it either, so let’s get on with it ffs, no excuses, HH.
Lurking Huns GIRFUYs.
Morning all from a wet South Ayrshire coast.
Sitting here thinking (© Charlie Nicholas) and looking out onto a damp and windy landscape. A bit depressing!
…but it’s good to be a Tim, and looking forward to the game tomorrow!
Best of luck to all the kids waiting on their exam results.
HH!!
Morning all.
Winter has arrived down here about 3 months early. Awful weather-wise.
Any word from Baku?
EPL spend 500 mill, still 4 weeks to go till deadline….scary stuff in the league next door
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/33765321
Premier League champions Chelsea are reportedly interested in Everton’s John Stones with a £26m bid turned down…………..21 yr old centre back,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,is john stone far superior to Virgil
The excellent Joseph Rowntree foundation with a report that sadly wont be highlighted in the tabloid press……as they do not do honest truthful reporting
http://www.jrf.org.uk/publications/housing-and-poverty
lionroars67 on 4th August 2015 7:58 am
No he’s not but teams down south pay premium for English born players, particularly the big clubs who play in Europe, as they need to meet minimum home grown requirements in squad.