I didn’t realise until this morning that the assault on Lukasz Zaluska’s assault by two premiership footballers was so serious as to have the player lying unconscious on the ground for several minutes. The Celtic player was out in Glasgow with his wife Sunday night before the incident.
Lukasz was singled-out for online abuse by two Dundee United players in August, one from Poland, one Scottish-born player who has represented Northern Ireland, after the Legia Warsaw Champions League qualifier. The Polish player subsequently took to Twitter to campaign for Legia’s punishment for fielding a suspended player against Celtic to be reduced.
The stories I could tell about various footballers would fill more than a few volumes, but all of the tales I’ve heard about Lukasz are that he is a polite, generous, player who repeatedly puts himself out to help Celtic fans and Poles living here. Very best wishes to the big guy, I hope we see him back soon.
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We will proud bhoy
Nice a few beers on bondi beach before the gig
Got to pinch maself sometimes :)
Although nothing beats hame :(
sydneytim
09:30 on 22 October, 2014
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True
Hoping to move back in 12/18months time.. Oz great but too far for me buddy.
May return in few yrs.
You a lifer out here ?
good appraisal livibhoy
Shaktars away win was the result of the week for me.
Donetsk is at the centre of a civil war and the city comes under regular artillery and missle fire. Civilian homes and lives destroyed by the Ukraine facist goverment attacks.Which is mostly unreported by our “free” western media.
Weefra and MT
Thinking and praying for u both today.
Also Michael Lustig’s wee bairn.
KTF
Proudbhoy. Yeh. Was in Dresden Germany for 5 years before coming here in 2006 No going home now
Proudbhoy. Where were you in oz ?
sydneytim
09:48 on 22 October, 2014
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Thats good, love germany. Would love to live there but language be a problem id say. Work aswel probably
Im in perth.. Working fifo at minute so in newman more than im in perth.
Morning,
As some of you will know, I coach the U19 team at East Kilbride FC.
It’s a good group of boys, playing in their first season at 19s, and developing within the club’s Lowland League pathway. We train and play at the club’s K Park Academy in EK, an outstanding facility.
Due to work commitments, I’m having to stand down, and therefore there’s a vacancy for a suitably qualified coach to join the club.
If anyone fancies the gig, get in touch with me via Paul67.
TBB
Kitalba:
Don’t go to many away games these days, partly because of the coppers.
Their approach varies in my experience. in Glasgow it’s latent hostility from “normal” cops, then we have the Focus lot! As the name suggests they focus on Celtic fans. They have said as much and appear to create problems were little or none exist. Add the fact that many are the hurting zombies the result is predictable.
Some of.the policing has been fine, good natured and pleasant even, notably the two Murrayfield events.
Published: Tuesday 21 October 2014, 10.30CET
UEFA President Michel Platini has welcomed the “relationship of trust” that exists between UEFA and the European Union – reflected in long-standing positive dialogue and recent key agreements between the parties.
In a keynote speech at a meeting of EU sports ministers in Rome on Tuesday, Mr Platini took the opportunity to greet the signature last week of a cooperation agreement between UEFA and the European Commission in Brussels.
The UEFA President pledged continued collaboration with the EU on matters of mutual interest, and asked for reciprocal support to ensure that sport would be based on values of “honesty, sustainability and solidarity” in the future.
In his address, Mr Platini urged European Union sports ministers in particular to condemn third-party ownership of football players, and to fully support UEFA’s financial fair play measures designed to safeguard the future stability of European club football.
“I want to set out some ideas that, I believe, will maintain high moral standards in football as well as the sport’s long-term future,” Mr Platini said in opening his speech. “I am counting on your active support on these fundamental issues, because we can achieve more together than alone, and because progress for one means progress for everyone.”
“On several occasions in recent years, I have expressed my concern about the growing number of immoral practices that are happening on the fringes of the football pyramid,” he added. “You know how determined I am to stamp them out. I do not believe they can be cast out by saying nothing, ignoring them and pretending they do not exist, but that, quite the reverse, they demand concrete action, energy and collective effort.”
Mr Platini called for strong denunciation of third-party ownership of players. “With insidious methods and ruthless objectives, this phenomenon shows a blatant disregard for human dignity, the integrity of our competitions, and even the financing of grassroots sport,” he said. “This terrible practice, previously seen only in South America, is now sweeping through the whole of Europe.”
The UEFA President said that the practice contravened human dignity principles laid down in the EU’s charter of fundamental rights. “Third-party ownership of players refers to the situation where a player is – to put it bluntly – carved up into economic rights, which are then shared between one or more investment funds,” he explained. “The players concerned lose their contractual freedom, as the owners of their economic rights abuse the powers entrusted to them and secure lucrative financial deals at the players’ expense. They are therefore deprived of their free will.
“And what do you think would happen if the same fund owned the economic rights of a number of players in different teams in the same competition? The answer is simple: the nightmare of match-fixing could rear its ugly head. The essential values of integrity and sincerity that should be embodied in sport are therefore being scorned, even violated.”
Mr Platini described third-party ownership as a complex and multifaceted phenomenon that is threating the ethics of sport at continental level. “There is no place for third-party ownership of players in European sport,” he said. “A tailor-made legal framework is therefore required. If we fail to deal with this properly, it will not just be a defeat for UEFA, nor even just for the sports movement, but for all Europe. There is therefore an urgent need to act and respond.”
Turning to financial fair play, Mr Platini said that measures taken aimed to guarantee football’s long-term economic future. “Previously unthinkable reforms have been adopted and implemented and they have proved successful,” he reflected. “The basis for [financial fair play] comes down to two sayings: ‘you should live within your means’ and ‘there’s a line that must not be crossed’.”
The UEFA President explained that UEFA had been forced to act because many clubs were facing financial ruin. “We have started to put football on the right track,” he stressed. “Each of us must measure how far we have come. Aggregate losses among European clubs, which had reached €1.7bn in 2011, fell to €800m in 2013, a drop of more than 50% in less than two years. Thanks to financial fair play, we are therefore heading in the right direction.”
Nevertheless, Mr Platini said that legal uncertainties were still hindering the way forward. He asked for support in opposing those who wished to bring down financial fair play, and for sport’s specificity to be guaranteed and freed from such uncertainties.
Mr Platini concluded by welcoming the new UEFA/EU agreement signed in Brussels last week, describing the cooperation arrangement as a “historic step forward for European sports policy”. “In this current day and age, sport tends to receive a great deal of flattery,” he concluded. “Let us not content ourselves with flattering sport. Let us love it, and let us serve it.”
The statement does not say if it also applies to the Scottish Football Association for whom rules be more guidelines and trust and integrity are bridges too far.
Chelsea have 26 players out on loan.. How many teams were weakened by losing players that Chelsea aren’t using?
Proudbhoy. Perth oz? Great place for ko times
Germany was great mates were all scottish and irish. Every Celtic game on in our local pub. My German was not very good Worked in semiconductors and language was English
Auldheid @10:04
fill your boots bhoys
ps morning CQN
Proudbhoy
Have you seen this yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZlz9BtMlw4
B-)
Bayern Munich , Chelsea ,PSG , Man City, Barca, Real Madrid ……they all leave me cool and barely interested . It seems to me CL is more about money than ever before and the magic is not really there anymore.
Livibhoy
An excellent summary of where Celtic are on the European stage.
We are not an all conquering William Wallace, we do not blow fireballs out our arse and we might have our occasional Stirling Bridge, but we are a small club in income terms with a huge heart.
That heart does expect fireballs to order at times but in expecting them we miss the everyday miracles that are worked to keep us where we are.
LiviBhoy
09:24 on 22 October, 2014
Too much realism in that post for some bhoys !!
sydneytim
10:13 on 22 October, 2014
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Yep perth wa
Kick off times are decent
Been to hamburg ,berlin and frankfurt. Great country and great people from what i saw.
bhoylo83
10:16 on 22 October, 2014
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Aye just saw it yday on facebook.. Some crowds back then. Frustrating for such a footballing city we only have a hardcore of 1700/1800.
Even when we had mcginn, mccourt, forde ,danny lafferty and james mcclean we rarely got more than 2.5k through the gates
Now there all regular pro’s across the water.
Red army in the cup final again this year in the aviva.
Cultsbhoy,
I’m saddened but not really surprised at McNamara’s wee intervention. I haven’t really had regard for him since his severing his ties with our club, which, given his injury prone career, stood by him. He never reciprocated. End of story, imo.
I think folk are getting influenced by Zagreb beating Astra 5-1.
The score line did not reflect the game and I fear our fans are now expecting a walk in the park.
Astra will be better than any of our domestic opponents.
I expect a win but it’ll be hard fought
LiviBhoy
09:24 on 22 October, 2014
I have argued before that Celtic can only be affective every 2 to 3 years in that competition and really punch above their weight. By that I mean qualify from the group. We need the element of surprise. If we have a good side which we have done in recent years under MON, WGS & NFL we can take the big teams on and beat them. Of that there is no doubt.
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So, how do we go about getting a ‘good-side’ when, we have what seems to be a policy of, if any player looks half decent he’ll be sold – then replaced by loanees which seems to be an extention to this – 3 steps forward / 2 steps back policy?
I also expect Red Bull to take care of Zagreb home and away
Kitalba –
You seem to be questioning why Celtic supporters who were at Dingwall on Saturday are not discussing police harassment, your inference being that such a lack of interest in the subject implies apathy or that we have grown used to it.
Allow me to explain why I, who was at Dingwall with my son and a friend, have not been on CQN complaining about the bad behaviour of the Inverness and/or Dingwall constabulary. The fact is, I didn’t experience or witness any such nefarious behaviour.
It’s as simple as that Kit. Nothing to do with apathy and weak-willed acceptance of police harassment. I can see that your experience was obviously quite different to mine, but how was I to know that? How am I and others expected to come on to CQN and shout about something I knew nothing about?
guernica
10:39 on 22 October, 2014
I think folk are getting influenced by Zagreb beating Astra 5-1.
The score line did not reflect the game and I fear our fans are now expecting a walk in the park.
Astra will be better than any of our domestic opponents.
I expect a win but it’ll be hard fought
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Very true. Add to that the fact that we have a habit of making hard work out of “must win games” and there will be a lot of tension tomorrow night.
Auldheid, Platini’s words on financial fair play will not reach these shores. The on going saga with the new club where convicted criminals past and present are allowed to invest does not deter the SFA from playing by their own fluid rules. I’m sure it was reported in the past that the convicted South African tax cheat had had meetings with the SFA and had been assured he meets the fit and proper person criteria.
If the SFA were the NHS they’d be happy to put Harold Shipman in charge of the geriatric ward.
Kitalba, are you in Scotland?
CQN = Apathy, Sheep, Apathy, Sheep, Apathy, Sheep, Apathy, Sheep, Apathy, Sheep, Apathy, Sheep, Apathy, Sheep and Cliques and Sleazeballs.
Off oot tae ma big comfy bed in the real world, bye.
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Lost my old man in Feb and it would have been his birthday today so i was a bit ropey this morning as you’d expect. I got a text from a mate about something or nothing and replied saying it would have been the old fella’s birthday, and that it is also Paul McStay’s 50th.
His response – ” only one of them will be out tonight”
You’ve gotta laugh. He would have!
Astra are 4th in their league, we are 5th.
Should be a close game.
Zico-Maltese Bhoy
Ah the delights of Croy. My boy trains at the new fottball pitch there two nights a week. Parking is crap.
If the citizens of Troy were Trojans are the citizens of Croy Crojans?
HamiltonTim you have based yourself in Cumbernauld for 5 nights a week and want to move there permanently? Really. If you looking for a house I’m happy to sell:-)
Where are you teaching?
THE BATTERED BUNNET
While yer on,any chance of posting your famous treatise on cats?
In the pub wi a few mates,one of whom is a pussy lover.
Guernica
I have no idea how good or otherwise Astra will be but in all honesty we are capable of putting a number past all of our domestic opponents.
Red Bull scored 5 against them and I hear all that you say that it did not reflect the overall flow of the game. However all that result tells me is that if you score one or two then the confidence goes up and you can go on to score more and that in the opposition mind there is the possibility of a collapse in confidence in concentration.
Astra are European opponents and should be taken very seriously and as you say should be treated as superior opponents to our domestic rivals who have not reached this stage in Europe.
However, for this Celtic side to advance they have to believe and show confidence.
A win is a must – even at 1-0 – however nervousness and lack of confidence can be seen and smelt — by the crowd and the opposition.
We have to go out with an attitude that we are going to boss this team from the outset.
Against Maribor Ronny made the fatal mistake of giving them the ball and prissying about without the ball as if Maribor were Barcelona or Real Madrid.
We had no outball up the park and they had nothing to worry about and so came forward at will and with no hesitation.
We need to be a constant threat, a constant nuisance, and make them afraid.
None of this hesitancy nervous stuff.
We are better than that.
Kev Jungle
Calm down and stop being so over exuberant — you will burst a blood vessel!
Kev,
I’d say “baa”, but i just canny be bothered
HAIL! HAIL!
Token
KevJungle – MURDO MacLEOD’s Title Winning Boots 4-2 LEGEND
I think I have explained that. Rebuild is required when we lose any or most of our spine and EL is realistic for a season probably every two years to allow that to happen.
We are no different to most sides outwith the top teams in the top leagues.
Look at some other sides who were punching above their weight and who have had their squads decimated by the bigger teams. Atheltico Madrid and Dortmund in recent years have done well in UCL and their best players have been bought by bigger clubs. They are big examples of this. They have access to bigger domestic revenues through TV money whilst we are not. How have Ajax fared recently? They are probably closer to the issues we face in retaining players although their TV money is bigger than ours and they also are not guaranteed UCL qualification as their domestic league is stronger. I guess I grew up in an era when we didn;t fare that well in Europe and to get half a dozen games in Europe minimum each season is pretty decent return.
We are where we are at the minute. You wither enjoy the EL and get behind the club or moan about what we don;t have. All in all I am being realistic. IF we can reach the latter stages of this European competition this season we will be able to gauge how we will fare in next seasons CL qualifiers and group stages.
It is important Ronny wins first the league cup to get a trophy in the cabinet and then the league. The Scottish cup would be a nice bonus but if that didn;t materialise and we reach the latter stages (quarters or semis) of the EL it would be a great season.
All my opinion of course.
LB
BMCUW
Posted a few in the vexing topic of cats. Is this the one you mean?
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Just been reading the ‘How to live on £53 per week’ article on the BBC.
Unbelievably, apparently it costs around £1000 per year to keep a domestic cat.
£1000.
To keep a cat?
Not in this house. Oh no.
Our 2 cats, Munn and Dunning, cost virtually nothing to keep, if you consider the minimal cost of garbage and Tesco Value Peanuts. My simple, sustainable solution to the cost of cat food is to cut a small hole – about the size of a 10p piece – at the bottom of the neighbour’s wheelie bin.
The local mice thrive by being able to feed on the garbage, the cats likewise on the mice. Accordingly, the cats are well exercised before their dinner, and can enjoy some playtime with their leftovers afterwards.
This has the added benefit that the local mice tend to live in and around the neighbour’s house rather than mine. The cats enjoy spending so much of their time round there that they’ve even adopted the large flower pot under the kitchen window as a litter tray, the one used by the neighbour for his herbs I think – not that he thanks me for the free fertiliser, oh no.
To balance the cats’ diet I use Tesco Value Peanuts, 59p for 200 grams, twice a year. Placed in a typical feeder at ground level, the peanuts attract the blue tits, robins and sparrows to the back yard, particularly effective around fledging time, and periodically creates a rather catching pastiche of feathers and feet as the cats pile in to the bite size beauties.
So there you have it: A Low-cost High-protein diet for the active cat, and the thick end of £1000 spare each year to support the good work of PDSA and YOC.