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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AWE NAW
Jooooooooost having a laugh on it…….
BMCUW
Aye, When the big league comes, and it eventually will, we will be in a better position to hold onto superstars like Wanyama. There is something very magical about us which no other club in the world comes close to. I can only hope that the powers at Parkhead are monitoring the way the SFA are completely mis-managing Scottish football and come to the conclusion that we deserve better.
I said before that the Sfa should be overseeing junior football – perhaps I’ll get my wish.
Onward and upward – Hail Hail Glasgow Celtic – The greatest team on the planet.
Teuchter ár lá
AWE NAW
In a vain attempt to rescue my rep,I still have The Valentine Brothers original version of “Money’s Too Tight to Mention”
A Christmas Tale
See me?
See me?
Ah jist luv fitbaw.
Its funny cos I was never that interested until about age eleven when a good pal, who was destined never to see his 21st birthday after a car crash in Rome encouraged me to try it. John was there to become a priest but got fast tracked by the Big Man who knows a good guy when he sees wan.
John encouraged me to give it a go in Suffolk St. We played “croassies in” with the metal pull down blinds that formed the gates to the interior of the Barras as goals. Plastic baws, Fridos then Wembleys, arrived about then and many a red hot poker made the game a bogey in a failed attempt at repairing a burst baw.
(I blame the whelk shells; they were aw ower the place from the Oyster Bar in the Gallowgate (where I was entrapped in the cellar two weekends in a row cleaning whelks and mussels) and the ravenous appetite of the Glasgow Barras punter for shellfish.
I played fitbaw morning, noon and night in my early teens and saw Glasgow Green pitches UPGRADED from black ash/clinker to red blaze. We thought we were Wullie Fernie playing on that stuff and there was a case for playing with 10 baws as teams were filled with tanner baw players (goalies were just last man standing) for whom the object of the game was to beat everybody else in the opposition before scoring or it wisnae a goal.
I remember wan night at the Glasgow Green waiting to play for St Alphonsus v Our Lady of Fatima when I saw Tony Green, who was a Mungo boy and went on to play for Newcastle and Scotland before injury ended his career too early, waiting, sannies under his arm, to get a game with any team who were a man short. I think the OLOF manager mugged wan of his boys as Tony appeared for them and turned a virtuoso performance against us to give OLOF a 3-2 victory.
I started work and went to London for a year to work in the old Post Office Savings Bank. In my first week Jock (a Jock) approached and asked if I played. He never mentioned the sport, he didnae hiv tae, we wur already communicating at the spiritual level only fitbaw lovers can achieve (the kind of thing that electrifies CP on CL nights.)
I get directions fur a game oan the Saturday at Acton Town and turn up, new Puma boots, paid by my civil service transfer grant, under my arm (nae sannies fur me)
On entering the park ahm puzzled, there wiz GRASS everywhere, nae clinker or red blaze in sight. “Must be roon the back of the dressing rooms “ I remember thinking.
Anyhoo I gets changed, runs roon the back to see — MAIR grass as far as the eye can see. So I troop back tae the dressing rooms to get directions to the ash pitches. When I explain what ah wiz used to playin oan they aw jist looked at me like my village wiz searching fur their idiot.
Well I get sorted out and line up. The baw, I remember, wiz a size 5 orange wan, but no wan o they bricks wi laces. The first pass to me wiz high and ah chests the ball doon and whirls roon afore I get studded from the back as wiz the custom oan the narrow pitches of Glasgow Green. To ma amazement the nearest opponent to me is about 4 yards away. As I look into his eyes I smile and turn to Jock at the sidelines and shout.
“Yer gonnae need anither baw” as I meander off in pursuit of the only goal that counted for a tanner baw man. I think I managed 7 before netting and I’ll take that. It wiz oan unfamiliar grass after all.
“Aye very guid Auldheid” yer thinking if you have stayed with me so far.
“Nice reminiscing and it is Christmas Eve, so thanks fur the memories. “
But there’s mer tae this tale fur
See me?
See me?
I jist luv fitbaw.
Its ma game, its OOR game and when I see the mess those responsible for looking after its welfare have made of it ah want to do something.
I hope ahm not alone.
Oldtim67
How you doing???
Teuchter ár lá 1717
I dunno,mate.
We’ve waited all our lives for the authorities to give us the even playing-field on which we can thrive.
It ain’t happened yet,but I live in hope. Some day,one day.
Adam Matthews (ankle) remains out of Celtic’s squad for the Clydesdale Bank Premier League clash at Dundee on Boxing Day but fellow full-back Mikael Lustig could return from a hip problem.
Lassad Nouioui is feeling the effects of flu but could feature and Miku is in the squad after being given time off for personal reasons.
Kris Commons (thigh) is out but could be fit to face Hibernian on Saturday, while Joe Ledley (groin) and Anthony Stokes (ankle) remain missing.
Dundee midfielder Iain Davidson will miss the clash through suspension.
Striker Steven Milne remains out with a stomach muscle injury but midfielder Stephen O’Donnell could feature after making the bench at Inverness on Saturday following a hamstring injury.
Dundee remain without Carl Finnigan (knee), Mark Kerr (knee), Brian Easton (hamstring), Jamie McCluskey (Achilles) and Davide Grassi (knee) while on-loan Celtic full-back Lewis Toshney cannot feature.
Merry Xmas to each and every Celtic Supporter ….. i see greengo has finally admitted they are deed ……pity the bhuns haven’t …… and he actually did say that sevco might join the English League ……they are all in cloud cuckoo zombie-land…..
Auldheid
17:17 on
24 December, 2012
A Christmas Tale? No as good as An American Tail(poor wee Fievel) But still a cracker.hh
AULDHEID
Possibly your best post ever.
Tony Green was a magnificent player-sure he played for Albion Rovers and Blackpool first.
His career was wrecked when his knee was wrecked like Brian McLaughlin’s.
A loss to the game in both cases,but a personal tragedy each time.
merry christmas cqn
paul67 and all you internet bampots
myself excluded ;-))))
the greats gift on christmas morning is knowning you are a celtic fan
as for chuckles and the riot mob
1 word missing from your video
liquidation
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never let the lie become truth regards sevco fc
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celtic fc 125 years unbroken
jam67
Hamiltontim.
I’m fine. Sorry for being such a pain on Saturday,But when it acts up you just have to get on with it,I’ll get fighting fit for the next time.
Just preparing something to eat,Cullen Skink,made by my own hand, and just like you, it’s lovely.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS
Aye you are right about Tony on all counts. Funny thing is Celtic missed signing him but did sign other Mungo lads not quite so talented.
A very happy Christmas to all CQN r’s and Tims everywhere. And a special thank you to Paul67 for this brilliant blog. I can’t imagine life without it.
Auldheid-great post.
Well done Paul and all CQN ers
hope you all have a merry Christmas and a great ( last 8 at least ) new year
including Blantyretim ,Vmhan and hid good lady .
there will be a lot of sevconians looking forwards to their teams FIRST Christmas ( hope its their last )
Auldheid
Good that, – wonder if there was ever a successful hot poker attempt at fixing a burst baw?
That’s why they invented the Mouldy CSC
Looking forward to hear about when you hung up your boots and helped make me a chain smoking Celtic supporting midfielder LOL *as my daughters text *
Hail Hail
HIS good lady sorry Vmhan
Oldtim67
Mind an’ leave yer windaes open after ye finish yer soup :)
Teuchter ár lá
I don’t know how Santa is getting on but this fat man has done his rounds of gift giving. Now time for a beer. To all in the family Celtic have a Cool Yule !
A big thankyou from myself to Paul 67, and all you ghuys for keeping me informed about our Celtic ,
I do a lot of traveling all over this country, and sometimes i miss my home,
but when i log on to CQN, well it makes me know that a Celtic fan is never far away, and that can be a wee comfort,
So to all you ghuys n’ ghirls enjoy your 25th of December,
for all us believers, have a holy time ,
for all others , celebrate like it was 25/5/67…
Oldtim67
Behave yourself ya oul bugger I had a great night and genuinely it was all the better for your company.
That offer still stands for tomorrow?!
teuchter ar la.
Will do,I make it often I always wondered where the pong was coming from
Seasons Greetings to all on CQN ! Just saw the Green Grinch Flinch during his Seriously misguided attempt at humour ! He is Feeding the lunitic fringe with his provocative propaganda which needs to be addressed.He is definitely spoiling for a fight and is being given a platform by the media to rewrite the facts and reasons which took the deid club to exstinction. Spare a thot for the 276 or so creditors who will be suffering financial hardship as a direct result of them who he bought the history from ! Some legacy eh SHAME ON SHAME ! Hail Hail COYBIG and NSNO . Peace be with you .
A very happy christmas to Kano, wee Oscar and all on cqn.
Hamiltontim.
Very nice offer but I must decline,When I got home on Saturday, received a mail from Zbyszek,and he made a similar offer,True, I don’t think he knew my jet was hung up in the hanger for repairs. once the punctures fixed I may head over for a few days.
Toffeetim-Every dispute which is normally of their own design is laced with threats and agression,to feed the bayong hordes of huns.SFA are scared of him and his club,due to previous threats among other reasons.They should have been papped out the SC for refusing DU tickets for example IMO.HH
Boy Jinky and Hamiltontim..just read back and caught your posts.no problem always a pleasure..O ldtim have a great Christmas ..catch you soon hh
How good is it to hear Celtic men telling their tales ?
Thanks, Auldheid.
Celtic men don’t have to CREATE their experiences.
They have LIVED them.
God bless us all.
He appears to enjoy taunting the SFA and he does so with impunity.
He appears to have a hold over them. Nest of snakes.
But forget about them and enjoy a Very Merry Christmas.
All the pussying about by the SFA in the summer is coming back to haunt them big time.
Green knows he has a licence to do and say what he wants, SFA under the spineless Regan and the complicit Ogilvie and Broadfoot are neutered.
Lawwell and the rest of Scottish football need to start kicking some a***s quickly.
Oldtim67
I have a rug in the loft that was purchased from Ali Babas at the Barras. I’m sure it’s magic, ye can use that but I’m not offering a safety certificate with it.
Have a lovely day my friend and we’ll catch up in the new year.
Johann Murdoch.
Will do.Is the next home game Motherwell.Yes it is.
God bless all Celtic supporters here and everywhere.
Off to my bruvva’s for a couple of days.
Wishing you all a very merry Christmas ! Been a very pleasant time catching up the blog today and all the good wishes shared. More than just a Club :))
(Vmhan, how did you skip into my lunar timezone?? If you have a spare flux capacitor you should be sharing it with modern science !!! But for goodness sake, don’t let Christopher Lloyd near it !) :))))
HH to all !
hamiltontim.
I’ve got one of those too,had to hoover it before it would lift off the floor,it hovered quite well after the heavy dirt was taken off.
glendalystonsils likes a mr whippy with his lime green jelly
17:36 on
24 December, 2012
My wife could …… LOL
How in the name of ‘ME’ are that mob still playing in blue at IPox with their 5 feckin’ stars and calling themselves the same thing after all this tome. Disgraceful.
Tome=time