Illustrating the very high regard the business community and people of Barcelona hold Celtic fans, one of the city’s top restaurants, Cinc Sentis have donated lunch for two towards our annual charity causes.
I am assured by our resident food critic (WDH), Cinc Sentis is a fabulous dining experience. The auction has just gone live – so get a low bid in early – and ends Sunday. If you’re heading to Barcelona next week, or anytime thereafter, get your eBay bid in here.
Many thanks to Cinc Sentis and WDH.
Read lots yesterday about the vast majority of people in Scotland missing the ‘Old Firm’ games. Trying hard to inoculate myself against any “bravado” I really don’t see this. The edge we used to feel when going into the final minutes of a game needing a goal is no longer there, but I’m really not sure that edge is healthy or necessary.
More than this, I don’t know a single fan from another Premiership club who regrets the liquidation of Rangers, or feels their life is enhanced by the presence of Celtic. Everyone is aware of the harsh reality – we spoil the league.
We do, of course, sell copy, as did the liquidated lot.
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RIP Nelson Mandela, one one the great men of our time.
Paul67 et al
Madiba leaves us.
RIP Nelson Mandela
BLANTYRE TIM
Heard it on the radio a couple of days back.
80s music still gets a bad press. But a lot of it was first-class!
In memory of a truly remarkable human being. A terrorist or a dreamer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-puOIya6fJ8
Nelson Mandela has died …95…..oh my God…truly GREAT MAN…..God rest his soul
RIP Nelson Mandela
YNWA
Everytime I read the abbreviation RFC-NIL as in Hen1rik’s post above my head continues with ‘who missed the penalty’.
Good Morning Britain(allegedly) was a call sign,to emergency services from a defensive paramilitary organisation,BEFORE any incendiary device should explode.This was often ignored for strategic reasons.
Sorry for you tonight South Africa.
Nelson Mandela…..Rest in Peace.
RIP Nelson Mandela. A truly remarkable man. Deepest condolences.
Weefra HH supporting Wee Oscar.
I’m sitting here in tears….GOD BLESS NELSON MANDELA, AND ALL HE STOOD FOR
Sad news re Nelson Mandela.
Last time I was at Wembley was for the free Nelson Mandela concert..
Rip..
This is a JFK moment
It will be interesting to watch and read the tributes and obituaries for Nelson Mandela.
How can any possibly do him justice?
To bring together two such viciously-opposed parties in his country verged on the miraculous.
Without any doubt,the greatest man in my lifetime.
RIP
Terrorist, Freedom Fighter, President and International Statesman.
Nelson Mandela RIP
Mandiba RIP. Peace for the great man but sadness for the World.
weeman67
19:47 on
5 December, 2013
Whiskey Auction for the 2 or 3 CQNRS on here that like a tipple, my numbers may be off a little..??
Thanks for that link.
Just going to forward to family members. Saves me writing out a list of what I would like for Christmas!
HAMILTON TIM
Super stuff,mate. Thanks!
This is from the sidebar,from Gary Og.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nArw2-UCv08
£35,000 to spare, anyone. The club should own these items.
http://www.mctears.co.uk/auctions/lot.aspx?id=b650eb76-8c45-4ca2-b5e8-de80e22e9624&page=1&referrer=browse
http://www.mctears.co.uk/auctions/lot.aspx?id=406c7a45-0f32-4cc1-8a43-f1771443b52e&page=1&referrer=browse
RIP Nelson Mandela.
All those years in prison and he didn`t hold a grudge. A remarkable man.
H T
Very apt! A truly great man. RIP Nelson.
YNWA
From The Telegraph
By Aislinn Laing, Southern Africa Correspondent9:50PM GMT 05 Dec 2013
Mr Mandela has suffered from a series of lung infections over the past two years and died at home.
His wife, Graca Machel, and some of his three children, 17 grandchildren and 13 great-grandchildren were with him in his final days, with other family and friends in attendance.
The former president’s body will most likely to taken to the Waterkloof Military Base in Pretoria, where it will be embalmed and prepared for public display.
A memorial service at Soweto’s FNB stadium, where Mr Mandela made his last public appearance at the closing ceremony of the football World Cup in July 2010, is expected to be attended by tens of thousands of people including foreign heads of state.
Many more will travel to the administrative capital Pretoria where Mr Mandela’s body will lie in state for up to a week at the Union Buildings, where he was inaugurated as South Africa’s first black, democratic president in 1994.
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In accordance with his final wishes, and those of his family, he will then be flown the 550 miles south to his home village of Qunu, in the rural Eastern Cape. There, following a traditional ceremony, he will be buried on a hillside which forms part of his estate, overlooking the verdant valley where he once tended his family’s livestock and played with other boys.
Despite his advanced years and his almost complete disappearance from the public stage, the news of Mr Mandela’s passing will be met with overwhelming sadness around the country.
Each time he has been admitted to hospital in recent years, first with respiratory problems, then with a hernia and lately, a series of lung infections, South Africans have held their breath and whispered prayers for his recovery.
When Mr Mandela last appeared in public aged 91, any suggestion that he might one day die was met with accusations of insensitivity and ignorance about African traditions.
But as the Nobel Peace laureate has grown weaker and his health problems have mounted up, the prayers for his recovery have been replaced with prayers for his comfort, and the strength of his family.
During his latest admission, South Africans began to ask themselves what life would be like without him.
Today, they will descend into a long period of mourning side by side with Mr Mandela’s large family.
Nelson Rolihlahla (meaning “troublemaker”) Mandela started out as a fiery young lawyer who battled South Africa’s dehumanising colour bar first by organising mass acts of defiance and later through armed resistance.
When he was jailed in 1962, following a tip-off by the US Central Intelligence Agency, he was seen as a terrorist in South Africa and abroad.
But by the time he was released 27 years later, his name had become synonymous around the world with the struggle for justice against tyranny and oppression.
He too had changed, into a more measured, thoughtful and dignified figure, ready and eager to shoulder the huge burden of transforming his country.
Nelson Mandela’s inauguration in 1994 as South Africa’s first black president was attended by an estimated 100,000 people of all races who formed a sea of supporters extending outwards from the emerald lawns of the Union Buildings into Pretoria’s jacaranda-lined streets.
Among foreign dignitaries from 140 countries were US First Lady Hillary Clinton, Vice-President Al Gore, Cuba leader Fidel Castro, the Duke of Edinburgh and Palestinian Liberation Organisation head Yasser Arafat. Millions more people around the world watched the event on television.
Glasses perched on his nose, eyes narrowed against the African sun and speaking in his trademark gravelly voice, Mr Mandela told his audience: “We saw our country tear itself apart in terrible conflict. The time for healing of wounds has come. Never, never again will this beautiful land experience the oppression of one by another.”
Despite the fears of white South Africans that Mr Mandela would turn on them after all of the years of deprivation inflicted on him and his people, he killed any potential conflict between South Africa’s many race groups with kindness.
One of his first acts as president was to visit 94-year-old Betsy Verwoerd, the widow of apartheid’s architect HF Vorwoerd, for tea and koeksister donuts. He invited previously staunch defenders of the repressive policy to join his government, and made a point of talking to Afrikaners in their own language.
In an act of reconciliation celebrated by the Hollywood film Invictus, he declared rugby his new favourite sport, donned a Springbok shirt and urged his countrymen to rally around the national team in the 1995 World Cup which they went on to win.
The crowds which will gather this week to bid farewell to Mr Mandela are expected to be larger than at any event during his life.
Among those who will be invited to attend his funeral are The Queen, US President Barack Obama, the Pope, U2 frontman Bono, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, and FW de Klerk, the former South African president with whom he shared the Nobel Peace Prize for dismantling apartheid.
Condolence books will be opened in all of South Africa’s diplomatic missions abroad.
In a column during Mr Mandela’s hospital stay in January 2011, Nic Dawes, editor of the South African weekly Mail and Guardian, sought to explain why the great statesman would be so missed when he finally slipped away.
“What South Africans feel for Madiba is not simply affection or respect. Even love may not be a strong enough word,” he wrote.
“His presence is part of the structure of our national being. We worry that we may not be quite ourselves without him.”
RIP Madiba. One people’s terrorist, the world’s freedom fighter.
Rest in peace Nelson Mandela
A true inspiration to the oppressed people of Ireland – a man we will never forget
God bless sleep well
Rip Nelson Mandela.
He really had something inside so strong.
A truly remarkable human being.
Will never forget his walk to freedom all those years ago.
Amandla!
I was just watching an interview with idris elba tonight. .. on his role as Mandela in the new movie ” the long walk to freedom”
He thought it a wind up when asked if he wanted the lead role. An honour to portray the great man.
Rest in peace Nelson Mandela …
Nelson Mandela Rest In Peace
God has called Madiba straight to heaven. Nelson Mandela passed his test of humanity with flying colours. Eternal rest grant unto you Madiba.
Free Nelson Mandela.
Legend RIP
Will wake up tomorrow proud to be a Tim.
Knowing Nelson Mandela was a good guy.
That is the difference between us and thems.
A very sad day for the world with the sad passing of a great man. Nelson Mandela RIP.
Nelson Mandela is truly free.
He carried a great burden with great dignity whilst emancipating his nation.
He made us look at ourselves and our world view.
I still remember dancing at the South African Embassy whilst in London with the Hoops for a testimonial, (against Arsenal) asking for his release.
RIP Big mhan
He should be Canonized!!
NELSON MANDELA
“During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.”
Can’t believe I played Graceland by Paul Simon,earlier.
Wonderful showcase of African music.
Nelson Mandela was a wonderful showcase of humanity.
Rest in Peace ..wonderful and inspirational man.
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan supports Oscar Knox, MacKenzie Furniss and anyone else who fights Neuroblastoma
Totally agree with your comments about foodbanks. I was in a Tescos on Saturday and when given a leaflet about the types of food accepted I thought what a disgrace and how shameful this is in 2013. I ended up putting a basket in my trolley and filled it up with items to donate.
Still irks me to think this happens and if anyone knows a better way to donate, I would like to know.
Also, some of these people have pets. Not surprisingly, they don’t accept pet food at these foodbanks. Any suggestions on how to donate such items?
Petition signed
RIP, Nelson Mandela.
Enjoy your true Freedom.
Many years ago four giant posters on the walls of my first flat:
Debbie Harry
Rod Stewart
Carlos Alberto
and…
Nelson Mandela
RIP