I’ve given Ann Budge appropriate levels of criticism this year but credit where it is due, she managed to get the ‘exclusive’ that James Anderson was a potential benefactor in waiting for Scottish football. Anyone who comes up with £2m for the game is entitled to break the news in whatever way they choose.
Unlike Budge, Anderson clearly understands how important it is to cultivate support in arenas you want to influence. He is now perfectly placed to do just that. Hearts fans can only wonder how their club’s fortunes would differ if he, not Budge, fronted their financial rescue.
£50k per club is generous and welcome at every one of the 42 clubs. It is easy to suggest Celtic should take the high ground and leave their portion in the pot, but that suggestion looks different if you dig into the grubby details.
Right now Celtic’s reserves are reducing by millions each month. We don’t want to, and are unlikely to, sell anyone of value this year, pay cuts have happened – and not just for top executives. That £50k might keep a couple of people in jobs. Alternatively, if it is put to altruistic use, it should top up the support the club gives to the Foundation.
There are times to be generous to smaller clubs, but it is ludicrous to suggest that the extra £1219 they would earn if Celtic declined their portion would make any material difference. It is a stupid idea, counterproductive and of value only as a vacant gesture.
We need to get ready for 10-in-a-row and Champions League qualification. The Foundation needs to continue its work with the most needy in our community and beyond – and we still need to sell season tickets. There is not enough money to do everything we will want to do in our own back yard.
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TBB,
I agree completely. We will have saved that in a couple of months (at most I’d imagine) by removing Simunovic and Hayes from the wage bill. Give it to more desperate clubs.
The comet bar.
The Widow’s pub was behind the Old Govan Town Hall in Carmichael Street if my old memory is still working!
Are Rankers still coming or have I missed them?
Memories, who needs them
Thanks St Stivs – why the real name had gone from memory escapes me, drove past it for years.
Fess19 on 7th June 2020 11:40 am
The Widow’s (if I’m correct) was just being the Old Govan town hall. Big pub with good beer.
The Stadium bar was rubbish when it opened and went even more downhill when it changed it’s name to the Lou, the Lou ah feqq it that Hun pub at the Copland road subway
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The stadium bar is now called the louden as all hun pubs seem to be now.
After the 10 men won the league game I got dropped off at the top of Broomloan Road to make my way home to Clynder Street. I tried to get into haddows on Copland Road to buy beer with my last £4.
The woman had locked the door as I walked towards it and wouldn’t let me in. So I had to go into the stadium bar were I bought a pint of double diamond (i think) and the barman to give me the rest in cans of beer. He gave me my pint and 10 cans. So I downed the pint and headed for home to watch the highlights on the telly singing 10 men won the league. Got home and the hun bbc had went on strike and pulled the plug on the highlights. Just had to kiss the girlfriend (now wife) and drink the beer. So not all bad.
KEEP THE FAITH
TONY ROME/FESS 19
After all the talk about Govan and Kinning park pubs, i decided to
look at aul Glesga pubs Govan Road on Google.
Feck me, 59 pubs mentioned, think i only drank in hauf o them, the
rest i was barred.
And i must admit Kai Johanssens bar across from the dry dock was
where i had my first pint.
Won’t tell you my age though lol.
H.H . Mick
Oh! and before i get shot at dawn, it was called the Clyde bar then
and the owner was a tim. he..he.
H.H . Mick
https://oldglasgowpubs.com/the-stanley-bar
Hi Mick
Good job you cleared that up. The 2 pubs Ihad a pint in were up near the town hall The Bells and The Three Elms or Ells.
KEEP THE FAITH
SAINT STIVS
Great photo, although very upmarket to what i remember it.
Can still hear rabid huns outside trying to enter and buy us tims
a beer lol.
1967 it was nicknamed ” The Alamo ”
H.H . Mick
Kai Johansen’s was a good boozer, I worked at the dry docks for 5 years before moving up the East Coast. The guy who managed Kai’s pub went to St Margaret’s in Kinming Park, Angus but can’t remember his second name.
Tony Rome
I went to school,St Gerrards with a Lachlan Steele who lived in number 17 Clynder Street. Lachie is in New Zealand the last I heard.
Clynder Street, is that not were Frank Haffey lived?
TBB @ 1:17pm.
Totally agree.
Who needs that £50,000?
Selfish Celtic should give it up.
That amount can be recouped by simply adding £1 to the price of each season ticket.
Judging by the debate on this thread, many will have no problem paying even more for their season tickets.
Celtic have already deferred income they were entitled to in order to help other clubs financially – but it’s nowhere near enough.
In fact … Sod the 10.
And Odsonne’s wage increase to keep him here longer.
And any new signings.
Let’s just give it all away.
:)
Fess19 on 7th June 2020 2:32 pm
Kai Johansen’s was a good boozer, I worked at the dry docks for 5 years before moving up the East Coast. The guy who managed Kai’s pub went to St Margaret’s in Kinming Park, Angus but can’t remember his second name.
Tony Rome
I went to school,St Gerrards with a Lachlan Steele who lived in number 17 Clynder Street. Lachie is in New Zealand the last I heard.
Clynder Street, is that not were Frank Haffey lived?
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I lived in Clynder Street from 76 -79. I lived in number 19 shared the ground floor with the wee shop.
I never went to St Gerrard’s. But my cousins did Cleary and Love.
KEEP THE FAITH
Li’l Ze
@LilZe85
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14h
7th June 1967, Celtic beat Real Madrid 1:0 at the Bernabeu in a testimonial for Alfredo Di Stefano.
Bobby Lennox got the winner but Jinky stole the show.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1269419090051039237
Tin hat on
So Dominic Cummings travels 500 miles and breaks lockdown rules and gets hounded by the public and the media. Undermining the government message – encouraging people to break lockdown.
Meanwhile thousands of demonstrates clearly breaking the law and because it’s for a just cause it’s tolerated.
Funny old world.
Back in July 2005 Jean Charles Menezes was shot eleven times after boarding a London Underground train en route to work. Both police and soldiers were involved in his death. The Met was charged under the Health & Safety at Work and the Commissioner fined.
The operations director (Gold Commander) in charge was Cressida Dick,
now Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police, overseeing protests over the death of George Floyd…….
Celtic Mac
She’s aptly named – promotion beyond ability.
Also a clear demonstration of institutional racism in the Met.
There’s also a comparison to be made in uefa support of the support shown for the George Floyd protest by footballers and their handing out fines to Celtic for their fans support of oppressed Palestinians.
Funny old world
Annoying..
Celtic Mac
Yes indeed. Perfidious Albion in a perfect example of hypocrisy.
HH
MELBOURNE MICK
Thanks for the reply.
My Dad managed The Viceroy Bar at Paisley Road Toll in the late 60’s and early 70’s.
We moved in 1962 upto a Scheme, Arden, surrounded by Green Fields and had an inside toilet!! por cierto.
Back to Basics..
Well said fella. If there was ever an argument for NOT having ‘the fan’s rep’ on the board it was made eloquently by some today.
GENE
“There’s also a comparison to be made in uefa support of the support shown for the George Floyd protest by footballers and their handing out fines to Celtic for their fans support of oppressed Palestinians.”
If Celtic PLC had any B&%ls, they’d be asking for those fines to be returned por cierto.
Por Cierto.
A Rangers pub, now.
Has been for a while, in the early 80s, I once popped in there for a pint, before going to meet someone and my Dad was moaning at me, as it was a Gers pub.
A good pint, though.
Another Celtic Govan Pub, was The Glen Bar, I went to my first proper away game, from the bus, that left that pub, Hearts away 1976.
4.3 to the Hoops, after being 2.0 and 3.1 down.
Ronnie Glavin scored the winner, with a few mins to go.
Must be free ice cream in Nardini’s in Largs today judging by the queue outside.
Sad,very sad !
Celtic are rightly taking a conservative route during this current public health crisis. Celtic will move out as many non-contrabuting players as possible and will try to retain as much of the core squad as possible.
Despite celtic’s best attempts, I cant see ajer or ntcham being here next season. That is a shame because they have been good and will get better given their age and stage of development.
If that is the case next season celtic will need a no.1 goalkeeper, 1st pick left sided centreback and first pick left sided midfielder/winger to stand still. (Natural leftsided centreback may actually improve us). That is if we manage to keep eduard.
Get the above right and the easiest way to improve the starting 11 is to upgrade the weakest areas. Bring in an athletic pacey experienced 1st pick leftback/ wingback would be easy than trying to upgrade any other area of the team.
Jimmy not Paul
The Glen, was that not known as the Beauty Parlor? The Viceroy used to be a heilansman’s pub at one time, guys I worked with were from Barra and that was their local.
My pubs were the Rob Roy (or No.2) or the Welcome Inn
Big Wavy
All Bundesliga clubs are required to have a fan’s rep and fans have the majority voting rights. Are you suggesting that it doesn’t work there or that it works there but we would be unable to do so?
Have to say Cannot get into the German – No Fans attendance games
No personal allegiance to any team though
Fess 19.
This is from old Govan Pubs.
When I asked about The Glen Bar.
952 Govan Road, Govan, Glasgow. G51 3AJ.
There has been licensed premises on this site since 1887. The pub sat at the corner of 1 Ruthlin Street formerly known as Reid Street. Over the years this old pub has been known as Kraken Bar 2018, Richard’s Bar 1990,
First pub I frequented was the Seven Seas in Clydebank. It was at the corner of the junction of Kilbowie Road and Glasgow Road. Public bar entrance was on Glasgow Road and upstairs lounge bar entrance was on Kilbowie road. It was demolished in the 1970’s or 80’s and The Chandlers is now more or less in the same spot.
Fess19 on 7th June 2020 4:37 pm
Jimmy not Paul
The Glen, was that not known as the Beauty Parlor? The Viceroy used to be a heilansman’s pub at one time, guys I worked with were from Barra and that was their local.
My pubs were the Rob Roy (or No.2) or the Welcome Inn
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Fess 19
I went on a supporters bus a couple of times from The Welcome Inn. With a couple of brothers fae the wine alley Clark.
The Beauty Parlour is The Harmony Bar straight across the govan road from The Glen.
KEEP THE FAITH
One of the problems wi re-naming aw the streets named after the slavers and the traders is…
How are aw the Merchant City Tims gonna find their way aboot the place?
thatisthequestioncsc
here is a braw song … Tom Jones sang it the best …Herr Zimmerman esq..
What good am I
What good am I if I’m like all the rest
If I just turn away, when I see how you’re dressed
If I shut myself off so I can’t hear you cry
What good am I?
What good am I if I know and don’t do
If I see and don’t say, if I look right through you
If I turn a deaf ear to the thunderin’ sky
What good am I?
What good am I while you softly weep
And I hear in my head what you say in your sleep
And I freeze in the moment like the rest who don’t try
What good am I?
What good am I then to others and me
If I’ve had every chance and yet still fail to see
If my hands are tied must I not wonder within
Who tied them and why and where must I have been?
What good am I if I say foolish things
And I laugh in the face of what sorrow brings
And I just turn my back while you silently die
What good am I?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGawnVcpzB4
smiley the world is watching thing
Braw
I see the papers are linking us to Lyndon Dykes. That can only mean the Sevco are interested in him.
Hagi, Leicester young fella and Dykes. They went all in last season it would seem.
TonyRome.
Thanks for clarification, pal.
See your post from earlier about your cousins.
I knew Shug ( Cleary )from his days at Harmony Row.
He played striker.
My good mate played for them, so I got to know Shug, from nights out and house parties.
We used to go to Morleys, crazy times
What a guy, very funny and daft as a brush.
He knew everyone, so I was safe, even though I wasn’t a local boy, by then.
Obviously all about 35 years ago.
TONYROME on 7TH JUNE 2020 5:16 PM
Fess19 on 7th June 2020 4:37 pm
Jimmy not Paul
The Glen, was that not known as the Beauty Parlor? The Viceroy used to be a heilansman’s pub at one time, guys I worked with were from Barra and that was their local.
My pubs were the Rob Roy (or No.2) or the Welcome Inn
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I remember a pub called The Viceroy in Lothian Rd. Edinburgh.
I was dating a young lady who’s sister worked for a bookie in Glasgow.
She came home from work on the Friday and told us, at work, they had received a note to say not to accept bets of more than £20 on a horse called John Cherry, which was running on the Saturday, the next day.
We put 20 quid on the nag to win and headed into Edinburgh the next day.. Checked into our digs and went for a walk. Popped into the Viceroy for a drink.
As we stood at the bar ordering a drink, we could here the commentator on the telly screaming “and it’s John Cherry by 10 lengths”!
Twenty to one made it a very profitable weekend.