Every year we ask you to put your hand in your pocket for various causes and every year you react, but never more so than 2012. You responded magnificently to the Wee Oscar Appeal, which from Celtic fans in total raised £31k in a bucket collection in September and £27k at a race night last month.
It is breath-taking to see the work done by those who, without thought for their personal sacrifices, decided this young boy would get the best chance possible. The photographs of Oscar are an inspiration, but the work done by those who staged the race night and bucket collection – and brought a new CQN badge to life – is even more inspiring.
The events surrounding the charity golf day raised four-figure sums for Oscar, the Neuroblastoma Alliance, the Martin Chambers Ecuador Trust and The Haven in Blantyre, which supports people with life limiting illness. There were smaller donations too, each one a credit to the organisers and to those of you who contributed.
The overwhelming majority of this work, and pretty much all donations, are made by people who don’t want any thanks and would be horrified by publicity. In most instances the beneficiaries will never know their names. I’m in the really fortunate position that I get to see a lot of this happen and I can assure you it is awe inspiring. You are in the company of many great Celts.
This club is not Neil Lennon’s or Dermot Desmond’s, it’s yours. Celtic will win and lose many games but that will change nothing that is really important. You are the person who will make it a unique force for good in the world. That is our challenge for 2013.
Thank you for all your help, take care and have an absolutely fantastic Christmas.
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Just watched the last 3 episodes of breaking bad season 4.
Kept them for my christmas night viewing and it was worth the wait.
Need to get season 5 very soon … Anyone got it on disc
no, I’M Neil Lennon “i’ll never walk alone” (fourstonecoppi )
Thank you my friend.
When my old uncle John was in his last days and knew it, he loved nothing more than making it to the pub to watch “THE celtic” never just celtic I phoned to take him up to the Derby inn to watch the st mirren game (gary Hooper late goal in 1 nil win) and he told me he wasn’t up to it.
when I phoned him at the final whistle to tell him the score he said and i quote “magic son but im done, when I cant make it a couple of hundred yards to see THE celtic its time to go” He passed away shortly afterwards.
My da showed me many things but my uncles Neily & John installed in me a love for our club that can only be explained to another tim.
He could not understand why I didn’t go to some home games when physically able, now though I cant afford it all the time and got some heath issues I get to paradise as often as I can,
Good night all a special montion to Lennybhoy :))
soberasajudgecsc
leftclicktic
hail hail to your uncle john………great taste in song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wWm9W47gV4
Before I go one for my old man.
I think I hear his voice more now than when he was here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNL_wGZgV5Q
Imstillsoberdacsc
goodnight all
HAIL HAIL
To end my night with a smile Monty Python
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9V7zbWNznbs
FRENCH TAUNTING
shady
15:51 on 25 December, 2012
In a traditional English country pub with the family around. Son plugged into PSP, daughter plugged into a DVD, and wife plugged into something racy on a Kobo.
Me, I’ve a pint of hand pumped Doom something and just unwrapped my CQN annual at last.
To all those that have suffered loss, stay strong when you can.
S
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Sounds fine
Merninks You drinking Doombar mate :)
Great beer but I heard they might be sponsoring Sevco next term ;-)
HH
leftclicktic
My da showed me many things but my uncles Neily & John installed in me a love for our club
same here, my da’s younger brother took me to the games since i was about 5 ( i’m now in my 50’s). i grew up with him watchin the celik home and away………we parted and
thro my teens i was a jungle jim and did my own thing, as teenagers do, but sometimes i would miss him,, forget the jungle, and want to hook up with him………and there he would be same spot as always. In the celtic end.
we are now back together sitting pretty much in the same area we stood all those years ago………its now role reversal hes quiet and i’m vocal. But a great place. to be.
hail hail to my fathers brother
thank ghod i’m a tim!……….although it was written in the stars!
Ah Merninks=methinks ;)
pished, sorry for the bad grammar……………….
na no really!
hail hail!
FAVOURITE UNCLE
12:01 on 25 December, 2012
AULDHEID.did you see my post from earlier.you played football with me last game at ST KENT’S.we were loosing 2.0 till yu scored a hat-trick.al three goals made by me.think i’m correct PAT.
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I just caught the above before I went out for dinner and you got me OK. I am intrigued as I tend to remember hat tricks and am grateful for you telling the world I was a goal scorer.
I have a game in mind at Loretto where Willie McGlaughlin was manager and I had formed an effective partnership with a lad called Steve who knew just where to put the ball to meet my runs.
Is this the game you mean or was it from an earlier point in my crash and burn footballing career? :)
Evening all
a very merry xmas to you and yours!!
got a copy of the view in my stocking this year (keep the stocking jokes to yerself thanks!) first time av read it in years, liked the 1-2-1 stuff wi the players but still a bit too sterile in parts, not read many opinions of the offical mag on here so I’d like to know what others think
HH
Santa is a tim
The Royle Family…Oh Dear!
The boy jinky
Get netflixs series 5 Breaking Bad on there, superb by the way
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQbXO828Vio
just have to share this
Paul67 et al
Expect philvis will be on soon now Downton Abbey is over! In the meantime best wishes to all on here, now and always. Philvis included!
Oldtim67
BT has bought you a set of bagpipes – that’ll fix the drummer next door.
Hail Hail and merry Christmas.
Teuchter ar la
MERRY CHRISTMAS,ALL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOWs63NLdCk
oldtim67 –
We’re looking for an update on the little drummer bhoy…
Pa-ru-pa-pum-pum!
Hoopy Christmas to all CQN’ers…and a Jazzy New Year!
Page 75 of the CQN annual has just brought a tear to a glass eye.
Is pride still a sin?
What a night, had my kids wi their friends at meh hoose tonite, never seen drink getting put awa like that in my life, sambuca, shots, jayger bombs, tequilla, u name it, they drunk it and then the usual, sick guys, greeting girls, and me laughing at the lot o them, my wife running aboot looking efter them, on my own in the kitchen now, listening to the stereophonics wi a beer and a chaser,doors are locked,they aint coming back here,dens today, meeting the bhoys, my turn to enjoy, HH
seanandliam1888
Young weans need to serve an apprenticeship before being allowed out in public.
Mind,their livers will come in handy for a transplant……….
Three amazing things in my stocking yesterday:
The CQN Annual
A Psychedelic Pill
A Tribe Called Celtic
HH!
Bobby M
your fecking right mate, just had the young lad on fone, he’s been scrapping and he’s on his way home. el let you know the script mate
KilbowieKelt:
I was only 12/13 in 1970 so I don’t know John. Oddly enough I worked at U of W for a couple of years in the very late 70’s but in computing.
Lots of Scots there by that time; about half and half, My old man for a while as a plasterer.
I’ll mention to them that i know that the Uni got a mention on the blog though.
All the best to you and yours!
COYBIG!
can i have raspberry on that champions league ice cream
00:23 on 26 December, 2012
Good for you…. Couldn’t see my name…… I demand to know who picked the names! …. who are these people?
Just seen the Christmas message from Celtic F.C. and NFL. Simple, dignified.
Compare and contrast to you know who.
: > )
Kilbowie kelt:
I see you are a touch pedantic abot the spelling.
I like that ‘alot’
T
miki67
Merry christmas good celtic supporter that you are. :))) And you are very articulate tonight, which shows exactly how clever you really are, and how I never doubted you were. :))))
Weefra HH
Abot = about
LOL!
Jackson Browne
miki67
The CQN Annal is Fantastic. Hope you enjoy it. Wit am I talking about? I know you will enjoy it. Have a fantastic time.
Weefra HH
Annal=Annual
Weefra HH
Night night Timland
Weefra HH
Ta weefrathetim.
I like kk’s posts, but I’m reely temted tae wynd him up boot the spelin’ obsesshun…..nae pun intendead.
Prior to the invention of dictionaries, language was rich in its inventivenes and people spelled stuff all higgledy piggledy and no one gave a monkey’s.
It’s like clocks, and the time and motion men.
Stickin’ us all in wee boxes. Ever tighter. Ever more controlled.
We don’t own the universe.
The universe owns us.
A goodly nicht tae aw yooz ravin’ interthingy baampawts!
HH!
Great day, but also glad it’s over.
Mad
Night Bhoys.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
23:58 on 25 December, 2012
MERRY CHRISTMAS,ALL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOWs63NLdCk
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I find the crazy moonhowling talk over the last few weeks excellent. Then there were serious moonhowlers who commented about the Mayan end of the World prophecies.
The end isnae until 1000 years after the Big Guy re-appears anyway. I had the family guessing as “Who Am I” with just yes or no answers. When they got the answer, my most excellent Sister said awww that is really topical on this day.
Who am I to deny Corinne, who was lucky to even be alive before I was even born!!!! after all the operations she went through as a little kid. I have explained it all before to her about Yeshua’s birth but as KK says, everyone knows. Corinne plays along with the Ultimate Goodness in her heart. Let us all judge less, especially on this excellent site. Paul67 is the most Fantastic role model in this regard as he always has a response, when he is available, to those people who others get annoyed with.
P67.csc
Corrina Corrina
Fred C. Dobbs
01:48 on 26 December, 2012
Great day, but also glad it’s over.
Mad
Night Bhoys.
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Fred,
I think they call it ESP, I don’t even know what continent you are on, whatever one it is, they are blessed.
Amazing track.
This Celtic team, built on a shoestring and strengthened by the years of MIBBERY managed to get the total sum of 1 booking (I think) against Barcelona home and away. ;)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xW1fXL3s7bk