If you have been in Celtic Quick News or several other places online in recent months you will be aware of Oscar Knox’ battle against Neuroblastoma. The CQN community has never been slow to react for those in need. On this occasion Bundoran Bhoy and Celticrollercoaster have taken the initiative and have launched the Wee Oscar 4 Life campaign. This is what they plan:
Today we are launching the ‘Wee Oscar 4 Life’ campaign focusing once again on the generosity of the Celtic family and the Celtic Internet community. In the past your generosity has helped better the life of Kano & Vanessa to name but two. Now Wee Oscar needs you 4 life.
Over the next few months, with the full support and endorsement of Wee Oscar’s family, we will be holding a number of events where we will all be able to come together to raise money that will go to helping provide Wee Oscar the immunotherapy treatment he desperately needs to help his young body fight of further attacks of Neuroblastoma (an aggressive form of childhood cancer).
So please look out for confirmation of dates that will be posted over the next couple of weeks, book your tickets for the events, bring your wallets and were possible help us promote the following events:
Wee Oscar 4 Life Celtic Quiz Night (based roughly on the Friday night CQN footie quiz)
Wee Oscar 4 Life Bucket Collection
Wee Oscar 4 Life Race & Auction night
We are also planning a cycle from Glasgow to Belfast for St Patrick’s weekend in March 2013 and will be looking for cyclists to take part in this event to raise funds for the Wee Oscar 4 Life appeal. If you are not from Glasgow there is no reason to stop you organising/participating in a cycle (or maybe even a run or walk) from your local town to Belfast on the same weekend.
Around £80,000.00 pounds has already been donated to the Wee Oscar Appeal and we hope that the ‘Wee Oscar 4 Life’ events detailed above will take Wee Oscar closer to the target of £250,000.00 the family require to raise.
As ever our thoughts and prayers are with Wee Oscar Knox, his Dad Stephen (CQN’s very own Knoxy2000), his Mum Leona and Wee Oscar’s sister and best friend Izzie.
We welcome your continued support and look forward to seeing you over the coming months.
WeeOscar4Life Campaign Team
Email – weeoscar4life@gmail.com
Twitter – @weeoscar4life
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ITV Engerlund on SKY 993. That’s where my TV will be tuned into.
StillboycottingSTV. CSC.
GreenJedi at 10.45 – number 2 of your statement sums the situation up perfectly.
This should be our mantra when it comes to them – want your history? Want to be Old Rangers? Then Pay your bills.
Until they pay back every thin dime they have no moral legitimacy. They had little before having practiced religious aparthied for nigh on a century without hint of an apology or sign of remorse.
But on the bright side here’s what I see happening to them if they do not implode again (so the best case scenario fro Corpse Club) – this season they are carried on a wave of defiance and get promoted. They might even make progress in the cups. Every win, every pathetic ‘record’ will be touted as a huge success.
Next season the enthusiasm may be harder for te MSM to sell. They will concoct some nonsense or other to do so. But stagnation and lack of new players will see some of the ‘loyal’ drift away. In all probability they will get promoted. But it won’t be just that straight forward. The remaining players from Oldco apart from Elbows will sneak out the door – hence the rush to get numbers in now. Wallace, Goian – I don’t now who else is there???? – are not going to hang about. The trickle out the door will go largely unreported.
Third year in and I think it could get interesting. The pressure will be on. The followers will demand return to the top. They will go out and sign some bodies to make sure they get up at the first time of asking. But financial realities will also have sunk in and the mid level SPL journey men they sign may get it tight against motivated first division players who want a go at the ‘big boys’ and indeed the one or two clubs with SPL aspirations will not let them have it all their own way.
If they get promoted in season 4 they have two options – spend money they don’t have on players of a standard they HOPE will be good enough to be top half of the SPL and get them in to Europe. Ally is back among the ‘big boys’ again and gets found out. They either gamble by spending big – or they live within their means. Either way they lay a host of problems out form themselves. No euro income, no improvement in the squa, no trophies – the ‘loyal’ will disappear.
So while they have shown no contrition and are a vile and repugnant club to be forever scorned by the decent footballing world (is there one?) they are still, despite the MSM hype, a busted flush.
And of course my scenario does not even begin to take account of what BDO, the FTT, the EBT inquiry etc etc etc might deliver. And never mind all of them, I am looking forward to the first set of accounts to see just where the money is going.
Fact is the Ramsden Cup and the Third Division title are as good as it gets for them. It would be like us celebrating Stayleybridge Celtic winning the Beazer homes league if we had gone under in 1994. Pathetic.
Got in to a bit of a flow of consciousness there – apologies………..
starry plough
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Well done mhan!
Eleven years and counting……the best years of my life. Keep on keepin’ on!
HH!
What was it that the Falkirk stadium announcer said again?
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Our Day Has Come, just like we told you it would, you stupid stupid huns!
Will a Sevco SHare issue, which is an inevitability, be used to pay ticketus? How funny would that be? PArticularly if word got out before hand – and the ‘loyal’ once more defiantly refused to dip their hands in their pockets!!!!
Start spreading the news………………………….
EmeraldBee\o/ proud to be an internet bampot 11:32 on 21 August, 2012
I think he also added at the end “And the final score from Castle greyskull is Sevco Franchise 5 East Stirling 1″
Ha Ha Ha – I’d happily buy the boy a drink.
KI super in Europe far too slow at getting ball forward in SPL.
In Europe ball retention all important as teams will punish you
BUT against the likes of ICT and Ross County slow cross field passing just lets them reinforce the 8 man defence.
HOOPEDREAMS
Ta. Will take a bite at it anyway, just can’t stomach the pash up here any more.
miki67
Thanks Miki, I got good folks round me in my life and on here…
Makes a difference..
Intae them Swedes noo Celts…
miki67
Your singin my song bother. The MSM have more or less declared war on us. Its not even an undercurrent of anti-celtic journalism any more. Its blatant now and all done to appease their shamed readership. You can bet that the majority will be hoping we get knocked out and that is disgraceful. Strangely enough, my two pet hates, Keevins and Jabba, imo, will be wanting us to go through. With those two its a case of grovelling to any depth to keep their master happy, but secretly they’ll support us tonight. With Jackson, Young, Waddell, McInnes and Devlin (and more) its a different story. They are out and out huns.
hh
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gerryguk7
11:34 on
21 August, 2012
miki67,
have a word with yourself. No place for that kind of talk on here.
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Why?
An interesting read featuring none other than Michaal Kelly, The Orange Order and Glasgow City Council:
George Square is ours
Monday 20 August 2012
by Malcolm Burns
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Everyone who reads this should know by now that the TUC has permission to organise a march through central London on October 20.
Calling for A Future That Works, the march should see hundreds of thousands of people on the streets protesting at the government’s austerity economics.
But here in Scotland the STUC is scaling up its fight with Glasgow City Council – a Labour council, we might emphasise – for the basic right to take the Scottish anti-austerity demo on the same day into George Square.
Former (Labour) lord provost Michael Kelly, who writes a kite-flying column for the Scotsman newspaper, argued in support of the council last week that protests were a thing of the past and the main square should be permanently clear of citizens exercising their democratic rights – so that commercial and private visitors can enjoy spending their time and money in the centre of town.
It’s par for the course for the old provocateur, whose main claim to fame is the creation of Glasgow’s Miles Better campaign, along with the licensing of the Mister Happy character, in the days when he made his dough in the public relations business.
And it exactly reflects the thinking in the city chambers, where officials and the city fathers in their bunker overlooking George Square are making plans to eliminate unsightly popular rallies on their doorstep.
Glasgow Council is using the problem of Orange marches as an excuse to end all legitimate civic protest in the city centre.
Orange walks are a problem for lots of reasons but especially because they are so frequent – accounting for over three-quarters of all parades – and because they take up large police resources.
They often feature return marches back to their starting places and they frequently trigger disorder, offensive behaviour and violence.
But trade union and peace campaigns are well organised and stewarded.
And despite the grumbling of Mr Unhappy the ex-provost and his shiny-suited successors our protests are both popular and effective.
Kelly gloats that the anti-war protests didn’t stop his beloved Tony Blair unleashing war on Iraq.
True, but we mobilised the majority on these demos – February 15 2003 saw millions march in London and the biggest Scottish demo on record.
We won the argument. We wiped out any legitimacy Blair’s warmongers may have imagined they had, and I would argue we may even have stopped further disastrous attacks on other targets – at least for a time.
We don’t need reminding of the historic status of George Square and Glasgow city centre in popular protest over the centuries, right up to the present day.
STUC deputy general secretary Dave Moxham points out that citizens of Glasgow – the people the council supposedly represents – actually lined the streets on November 30 last year to applaud the public-service workers on the huge pensions demo.
Glasgow should be worried about the threat to its reputation its council is now posing.
Edinburgh allowed the STUC to march around 25,000 people through Princes Street in the first big demo against Con-Dem austerity on October 23 2010.
Clearly demos in the Scottish capital haven’t stopped its festival being the biggest and most lucrative arts fair in the world.
London can cope with an Olympic Games and a TUC demo for A Future That Works.
Paris, Madrid and Athens manage to have huge public marches without losing their credibility as world cities – indeed, such protests enhance civic reputations.
And we should be defending our own hard-won democratic rights even as we salute movements for democracy in public places around the world.
Glasgow’s visitors, whether they come for business or holidays – or the Commonwealth Games in a couple of years’ time – deserve to see the real city, not one sanitised for their presumed convenience.
The ongoing crash of capitalism and the austerity measures promoted by its apologists is the biggest public issue of the day.
It forms the crucible in which the new world will be forged.
It will either be a dismal future with poverty, inequality and robbery rife in every land or we will win democratic control of our collective destiny and see off the toffs who are stealing our very lives.
To do that we have to assert the collective right to protest. We have to get out on the streets on October 20.
I hope you are mobilising your own community and workplace wherever you are.
And if you’re in Scotland, get in early and lobby Glasgow City Council to let us have our democratic say in our main public forum – George Square.
Miki – just a guess and I’m sure the Bhoy can type for himself but I read that as a hint of sarcasm…..
hope so anyway. It’s nothing we haven’t all been saying for years!!!
Blantyretim.
Just booked a room at the Merchant City Inn for the night of the game,I frequent the Merchant City a lot,but never came across this Inn-Hotel before,any comments.
Game on TV3 in Ireland.
Shoplocalcsc.
…….and give The Rose Of Tralee a miss.
miki67
10:23 on
21 August, 2012
Absolutely spot on …….and that’s why the FTT / BDO / SPL etc outcomes are so important. ….. We will then know what we are up against, or justice will prevail, as it has, to be fair, so far……..(Div 3 etc)
Just 3 reasons we will miss Ki, but he should have got a lot more, imho!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/19331581
ItaliaBhoy
07:54 on
21 August, 2012
Utter hypocrisy from Galloway.
If a right-wing politician was accused of serious sexual crimes and had fled the country in an effort to avoid answering questions, do you think this balloon wold be coming out with these mealy-mouthed excuses?
The Hard Left are the feminists’ greatest friends until one of their own is caught out. Then they become a lefty version of Judge Pickles.
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My Dear Friend,ItaliaBhoy….
Couldnae Agree Mair…With Yer Excellent Submission..Oan Lochee’s Maist Infamous Son….
However…We Hiv No Seen The Last O’ The Oleaginous Member ..For Baghdad North…..
His Fall From Grace…Will Be Safely Cushioned…By His Ample Three Cheeks
And He Will Bounce Back..Like Tyyger Despite His Maist Egregious Failure Tae Deliver….Dusty Springfield:The Musical Oan Budget….Oan Time….At All…..!!!!
For Like The Cat That Got The Cream……
Oor George Has Nine Lives………
(Which Is One Mair Than Korki….).
And You Are Quite Correct..Oan The Subject Of The Far Left…
Seemingly Urbane,Decent,And Plausible
,Everybody’s Pal…..
Until……………. The Forensic Light Of Scutiny…..Reveals The True Nature….
Of The Hellish Four- Headed Beast……..
Medusa’s Nasty Big Brother…..Breathing All Thae Sulphurous Fumes…….
They Should Be..Skelped For Talkin’ Bull
…With No Half Measures…….
With Firmness…And Regularity…..
Spare The Rod……..Spoil The Marxist..As Dear Brother Walfrid….Never Tired Of Saying……Back In The Day…
(Surely They Are Already Beyond Redemption..?……Ed)
Laughin’……Like Skippy..
Afternoon bhoys, too hot, but it’s hun free.
Got a good feeling about the game tonight.
I hope everyone demonstrates anyway. I’m in my 7th. decade on this unforgiving planet and I’m off to the demo on Oct.20th. Enough is enough. Have you heard about I.D. Smith’s latest edict on the blind? Taking away the mobility component of their DLA? Oh yes.
And ‘Atos’ are a major sponsor of The Paralympics? It would be funny if it wasn’t all so sick and cruel.
Yeah,I feel anger at injustice and wrongdoing. And I’ve paid my dues. So I’ll keep on saying what I see and hear. Compromise is cowardice if you just walk on by.
I’m not saying I’m right. I’m just saying. Fair enough?
ttt
I saw a bit of the Rose last night, Oh dear, how embarresing, saw the bit when the Sydney Rose sang Whiskey in the Jar.
Keep it local :>)))
shimmies
I don’t think that anyone is saying that anyone else is more or less of a Celtic supporter.
What I’m saying is that I’ve had enough of the habitual greetin’ faces who seem more intent on lambasting everything wrong with the club on the day of a champion’s league qualifier than wishing the team all the best and identifying the positives.
And btw, Brother Walfrid never said ‘boo’ about Marxists. He was a MARIST,and I have a lot of time for them as well as Marxists.
And yes,I get the joke. I just won’t let right wingers have it all their own way with their sleekit lies and ‘libertarian’ values. A satanic notion that ‘libertarianism’, if you ask me. Unbecoming of a Tim.
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THE EXILED TIM
11:56 on 21 August, 2012
Afternoon bhoys, too hot, but it’s hun free.
Got a good feeling about the game tonight.
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Chucking it down over here.
Anyone know what its like in Sweden?
Guys where did the 6.3m figure come from for Ki…..it’s very exact to be an approximate? I have seen it on a good few posts on here but not in any of the articles/websites I’ve read
There seems to be a lot of people jumping in on the Assange case with what can only be a tiny grasp of the facts.
Whatever your feelings about Assange’s guilt or innocence, surely if the US came out with a statement saying they did not intend to extradite Assange, the road would be clear for him to go to Sweden and face these charges?
RobertTressell – Calling for A Future That Works, the march should see hundreds of thousands of people on the streets protesting at the government’s austerity economics.
Oh dear.
What austerity economics?
Public spending in 1998: £318.4 Billion
Public spending in 2001: £362.6 Billion
Public spending in 2006: £502.6 Billion
Public spending in 2010: £660.8 Billion
Public spending in 2012: £688.0 Billion
Planned Public spending in 2015: £728.9 Billion (!)
Please tell me where the austerity is in ever-rising public spending?
If we want a future that works, maybe we should start by encouraging trade union members to take remedial maths classes. (thumbsup)
McBhoy
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niallo83
12:05 on
21 August, 2012
Guys where did the 6.3m figure come from for Ki…..it’s very exact to be an approximate? I have seen it on a good few posts on here but not in any of the articles/websites I’ve read
I saw £6.3m in a tweet from Matt McGlone I think
It would be nice if there was a Fourth case they could trumpet about…
HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has trumpeted three victories in the courts last month against complex tax avoidance schemes.
The Revenue said the decisions had potentially stopped as much as £200m being lost.
Its director general of business tax, Jim Harra, said: “HMRC will challenge tax avoidance relentlessly.”
Helsingborg 22c and sunny
Born 67.
Should we all be contacting BDO to register our concern at the situation regarding Sevco
-purchasing the assets of a soon to liquidated company at a massively undervalued price
and
-Using the trading name of a soon to be liquidated company
HH
Oldtim..how are you? hope you are well..Ill pick you up from your hotel and drop you back in town also if needed.
BT will txt you also..HH
THE EXILED TIM
Cheers, conditions shouldn’t be a problem then. That moon gets up early over there though eh?
WishingiwasthereCFC
new article posted.
JinkyvJohnGreig-saysitall
12:09 on
21 August, 2012
niallo83
12:05 on
21 August, 2012
Guys where did the 6.3m figure come from for Ki…..it’s very exact to be an approximate? I have seen it on a good few posts on here but not in any of the articles/websites I’ve read
I saw £6.3m in a tweet from Matt McGlone I think
Cheers Jinky……was pissed off when I saw the fee quoted as 5m…..6.3m is more acceptable…haha 8m would have been great though:-)