🗣️ “My friends in Barcelona are also Celtic supporters!”
Hear from Spanish race walker and Celtic supporter, Paul McGrath on the latest episode of the Official #CelticFC Podcast 🍀
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A tribute to Olivia Manning’s (1908-80) Levant Trilogy. She wrote 6 excellent novels which comprise her Fortunes of War series about a young British couple early in WW2. It is formed of 2 collections: the unsurpassable Balkans Trilogy (The Great Fortune, 1960, The Spoilt City, 1962, & Friends and Heroes, 1965), and (which Myers discusses here) the outstanding Levant Trilogy (The Danger Tree, 1977, The Battle Lost and Won, 1978, & The Sum of Things, 1980).
Gripping & informative, full of convincing characters & beautifully written, they are lightly disguised accounts of the wartime lives of Manning and her friends in the Balkans & Mediterranean during 1939-42. Even if you tend to disdain WW2 fiction, do read them, for they teach you more about civilians caught up in war than any amount of academic studies: highly recommended. https://t.co/kdqMiAkr2C
🏴 Celtic are on the verge of 🔵 UCL league stage after winning 3-0 the first leg v 🇦🇹 LASK
If they qualify, their worst case scenario is €29.49m of 💰 UCL Prize Money.
But that floor can go up if other results go their way in PO round:
▪️🇹🇷 Fenerbahçe qualifying over 🇫🇷 Lyon would bring Celtic additional +€1.28m of guaranteed money from Value Pillar (both 5y coeff + TV ranking route and 10y coeff route)
▪️🇳🇱 NEC eliminating 🇳🇴 Bodø/Glimt would bring them additional +€0.94 (5y coeff + TV ranking route)
▪️🇳🇴 Viking eliminating 🇭🇷 Dinamo Zagreb would bring them additional +€0.35m (10y coeff route)
So overall, 🏴 Celtic's guaranteed minimum before the first ball is kicked in the league stage could climb to €32m.
That is before tickets are sold, any points are won, etc.
As far as cash flow goes, 🏴 Celtic can expect €26m of that money to be paid out already on 18 September 2026.
👉 Detailed club-by-club financial analysis for all 237 teams, with cash flow estimates of when exactly UEFA prize money is paid out available in our 💰 Prize Money Lab
"I said Ooh, aah, Paul McGrath!"
Amazing scenes at the European Athletics Championships as Paul McGrath (not that one) wins race-walk gold for Spain
His grandparents are indeed from Ireland
Celtic never died in 1994. Hours from the bank winding it up over a £5m overdraft, Fergus McCann took control on 4 March, paid the debts and restructured the existing company (SC003487, founded 1897) as Celtic PLC. Same continuous legal entity, never liquidated or demoted. Rangers 2012 entered administration then full liquidation of the oldco; a new company bought the assets and started in Division 3. Celtic paid the bills.
🚨Celtic just paid £11m — a club-record fee — for a Bodø/Glimt striker most fans outside Norway have never seen play. The numbers explain exactly why.
A thread on his last 12 games 🧵👇