You, your Celtic heritage and Vanessa

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I’m sure many of you will be aware of the Vanessa Riddle appeal which has featured in the comments page in recent weeks.  Vanessa was diagnosed with a form of childhood cancer in 2009 but after extensive and difficult treatment received the all clear 17 months ago.  Last month her parents received news that she had suffered a relapse and that no suitable treatment was available in the UK.  Treatment is available in Philadelphia at a cost of £500,000.

Although the diagnosis is only a few weeks old the fundraising effort to send Vanessa to Philadelphia has already raised over £137k with increasing numbers of people becoming aware of the need on a daily basis (CQN’er, Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan is not a man to be denied).

To help raise awareness and funds, Taggsybhoy has booked Jury’s Inn, Glasgow, two nights next month, one of which, Saturday 11th February, he will hold a Music Quiz for the CQN community, with all proceeds going to the Vanessa Riddle Appeal.  You may have heard mention of the appeal but if you have not caught the details take a moment to update yourself here.  Getting involved is as part of your Celtic heritage as green and white hoops.  Don’t forget to book for the quiz, there’s a limit of 70 people for the room so you can’t turn up unannounced.  We’re home to the Highanders that day.

Issue 6 of CQN Magazine is currently being prepared; drop me a line if you would like to advertise, celticquicknews@gmail.com.

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  1. Kevtic…Falkirk replay at deathstar. Horrible time to grow up as a young Celtic supporter.And the rain!Actually felt like the end of the world.Still shudder thinking about that game.

  2. I much prefer talking up the good times than talking doon the bad.

     

     

    My first ever game.

     

     

    Celtic v China Victory

     

     

    First league game Celtic v Airdrie Victory

     

     

    First ever Derby game Victory

     

     

    Love St 85.

     

     

    Centenary Double

     

     

    The Bunnet taking the reigns.

     

     

    The Phoenix rising from the ashes.

     

     

    Halting the cheating 10

     

     

    Winning the treble under O’Neill

     

     

    Seville run

     

     

    Watching the Lisbon Lions glorious in Europe as if I had been born to see it

     

     

    Watching 7-1 as if I had stood in the terrace on the day

     

     

    Getting to know the history of our club, the founders, the ethos, the greats, the tragedy of those lost to young to our club…

     

     

    Why linger on the darkness Bhoys.

     

     

    Cheer up FFS.

     

     

    MWD

  3. MWD @ 00:05

     

     

    Hear Hear

     

     

    C’mon guys, auld china proverb, if it wisnae shite sometimes then ye’d never know when it wis guid.

     

     

    HH

  4. Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. says:

     

    25 January, 2012 at 00:05

     

     

    GREAT POST!!!

     

     

    25 January, 2012 at 00:09

     

     

    This is going fae bad to worse. Ditched fur a bit of wet dreamin’ how can I possibly show ma boat race in public again…

     

     

    Whitedohunch – small donation made mate – good luck! BTW what the **** is with the Y instead of I – ya snob

     

     

    hh

     

     

    bjmac

  5. Sandman Is Neil Lennon on

    Saint Stivs says:

     

    24 January, 2012 at 20:55

     

     

    http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/the-second-contract-fact-or-rumour/

     

     

    ================================

     

     

    I posted here about this last week.

     

     

    I stated what I’d heard from an extremely reliable business acquaintance close to the source:

     

     

    I was told they were NOT contracts, but LETTERS – missives in layman’s terms for the benefit of the foreign Huns and their agents/ ‘people’ who could not grasp the complexities of the English involved in the actual contracts about the EBTs.

     

     

    These letters explained in simple – and DAMNING – terms, just how the Huns would go about paying these players behind Her Majesty’s back at the expense of PAYE.

     

     

    They are the smoking guns, and I’m told the revenue have a few. Bye, bye, Huns.

  6. Celtic 6 China 1 ?

     

     

    1979 mibbies.

     

     

    I was at the game, programme up the loft.

     

     

    Zheing Zui played in goals.

     

     

    ————

     

     

    I was a veteran then, 13, first game sometime in 72 maybe , definately against Hibs, vivid vivid meory of sitting on the jungle wall and celtic in colour.

     

     

    MWD,

     

    your right, many many more highs than lows. Long barren years of torture, but they are just stations of the cross.

     

    When we win , the salvation, redemption, and girut huns surpasses everything.

     

     

    ktf

     

     

    rgt

     

     

    hh

     

     

     

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHA

     

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHA

     

    HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAH

     

     

    HA

  7. Nollaig a chara on

    Hello Fholks…Hope i’m not breaking any rules here but I told a friend i’d do this…There in a band (Pop Punk) and have just done an EP

     

    there getting some good reviews at mo and a potential to get some radio play so if any of you are on facebook

     

    They have a band page called ‘You Say Tiger@….if ya’s could go to it and like it’d be much appricated….GRMA

  8. Moonbeams WD. Kano 1000 \o/ Supporting Neil Lennon 100%. says:

     

    25 January, 2012 at 00:05

     

     

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    it was my youngest brothers birthday yesterday.

     

    born 24th January 1979.

     

     

    he went to his first match against Morton, Cappielow, we won 2-1 i think, 1983.

     

    our twin brothers were there causin mayhem, ypsr , and all that, but a right of passage was borne.

     

    he hadnt started school yet.

     

     

    loads of early highlight, he was at love street 86.

     

    Partizan game.

     

    Centenery double. both the win against dundee 3-0 for the league (80,000 probably there),

     

    and McAvennie double against United,

     

    game against Honved, in the EC, brother gets a ball handed to him, we were in the main stand, from Mick McCarthy.

     

    then the barren years began.

     

     

    we suffered it all, week in, week out, everywhere.

     

     

    Raith was the worst.

     

    for me, i gret. on the way out Brother, Cousin and Nephew in tow . I gret.

     

     

    Brothers first Huns game we won, Andy Payton scored a winner.

     

    First time at the victorian toilet block was the 3-3.

     

     

    Hampden season, mostly misery.

     

    TB and the first season return , our seats in 144.

     

    Wim, and Larsson.

     

    Beating them at New Year.

     

    No ten , I hugged Jackie as we scored the second.

     

     

    Since then Martins years, WGS , for me, success means everything in results and trophies, perfomances and flair are great, but if we had won 1-0 in seville with a penalty, that would have been better than watching Henke score them goals.

     

    But we did have the most amazing 24 hours out of Prestwick in the company of Catmans mum and dad that will forever be a cherished memory.

     

     

    and since then, lots of great and greater memories

     

     

    together we dont like the huns, we really dont, we love beating them,

     

    but, we wont miss them. ever, perioD, never again.

     

     

    the highlight of it all, and the bestest memory ever.

     

     

    High up in the North Stand

     

     

    Celtic 4 Juventus 2.

     

     

    at that point in that game , saying to each other “look at the scoreboard, Celtic 4 Juventus 2”.

     

     

    i want to be at the Champions league final on 25th May 2013.

     

    Lennies New Age Lions will be there.

     

     

    Me and my brother Jimbo, will be there as well.

     

    love you brother.

     

     

    half the joy of supporting them hoops was taking you.

     

    The other half was my own personal pilgramage.

     

     

    and my thanks to Dunky Campbell.

     

     

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    birthdays, hitting us hard since the cave man discovered the passages of the moon.

     

     

     

    ——————-

     

     

    ktf.

     

     

    hh

     

     

    rgt

     

     

    TAL.

     

     

     

    HAHAHAHAHAHHAAHAHHAHAHHAHA

  9. Tom McLaughlin on

    Stringer Bell said:

     

    The wummin on SSN appears to be wearing some kind of roman toga.

     

    Maybe it’s just me.

     

     

    What? You mean you are also wearing a toga?

     

     

    Help ma Boab!

  10. trying to get to bed, i am the pilot for the 06:05 KLM from Glasgow to Amsterdam in 5 hours,

     

     

    but hey ho

     

     

    them Thai Tims produce Videos faster than discrepancies in a Huns Tax Case.

     

     

    Never seen this before, the Bhould Bobby Murdoch.

     

    The image jumping in front of the main stand at the old hampden is truelly stunning.

     

     

    Kathleen Murdoch.

     

    Your an angel.

     

     

    Thai Tims welcome Kathleen Murdoch

  11. Best game. St mirren v Celtic. 1980 qtr final replay Scottish cup

     

     

    Proudest moment In a bar in dresden at final whistle of Celtic 0 b Munich 0. Munich fans all celebrated as they had got a point a fotress Celtic park

     

     

    Sadest moment. The passing away of TB

     

     

    Embarrassing moment. The last 3 Hun titles cause by our zero debt policy

     

     

    ST

  12. SydneyTim says:

     

    25 January, 2012 at 01:46

     

    Best game. St mirren v Celtic. 1980 qtr final replay Scottish cup

     

     

     

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    thank god your on board i thought i went tinternet deaf there.

     

     

    Lennox x 2, Doyle x 1, Doyle sent off.

     

     

    extra time. 27,000 at love street.

     

     

    Saint stivs age 13, in the love st end, with at least 5,000 other tims.

     

     

    One of my favorite memories, and games, and my heroes Lennox and Doyle.

  13. My first game was the China game.

     

    My family are all Thistle fans,but after seeing a team score 6 in one game,well that was it for me.

     

    Which takes me to my proudest moment being another 6 goal game,against the Huns,3 up in a 11 minutes .

     

    Brilliant,sure I’ve been at the bad ones but the feeling that day as Sutton made it 6 will live with me forever.

     

    Now I have son of my own there is not a hope in hell he will follow the Thistle.

  14. Celtic 4 Rangers 2

     

    10 men won the league. I was there.So were the STV cameras but the game was never shown. A fire apparently.

     

    Never seen a packed Rangers end at Celtic Park empty so quickly when Murdo’s screamer made it 4. Best Monday of my 48 years!

     

    HH

  15. bunburybhoy says:

     

    25 January, 2012 at 02:47

     

     

    First time at league winning game, it hasn’t ever got any better than that!

  16. Margaret McGill on

    I have checked back on all my CQN postings and have asked this 8 times in 2 years without a reply. I am now asking a 9th. Splain to me why a billionaire Celtic shareholder wont buy the huns? Last time they went for a pound.

     

     

    Football is totally corrupt so there cant be any laws against Celtic buying Rangers.

     

    The huns are in deep financial doo-doo so there cant be a logical reason for it. What is the reason?

     

    If our bored are Celtic supporters and the biggest anathema are the huns whats to prevent the annihilation of hunnery? Can some of you oh so erudite Tims splain it to me?

     

    ……

     

    Now for the sake of the “just being polemical” tag let me suggest that our bored are not interested in the demise of the huns for obvious financial reasons which reduces to taking the piss and taking advantage of you all your larssonesque mcgroryesque jinkyesque emotional allegiances for nothing more than making a few Irish bucks

     

     

    ….ok so what am I missing?

  17. I believe there are laws about owning two clubs in the same association, but I could be wrong. My wife tells me I often am.

     

    Apart from that, Mint said he would only sell to someone with Rangers’ interest at heart. Code for only a Masonic wiggly handshaking Hun who could afford a pound.

  18. Margaret McGill on

    “I bury my stuff 10 deep in any legal system to accomplish any purchase” Ltd. (as long as they have the money)…next?