The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[T Fearon]

The Civil Servants probably claimed their travel expenses to Celtic games back as well! 

Meanwhile is Sir Roderick in danger of alienating himself from Celtic fans,gleeful about his knighthood and saying he is "sort of" friendly with Trump

[uimhr ocht]

Comfortable win yesterday mwell didnt create much and we hit post and bar twice,henderson started just ok, young tierney was mom,sinclair forrest,dembelle,were our main threat in attack,roll on wed i think we can upset the germans.

[southderryman]

Southderryman,I have been at more Celtic games than you will ever see.

If you say so tiny

[southderryman]

Comfortable win yesterday mwell didnt create much and we hit post and bar twice,henderson started just ok, young tierney was mom,sinclair forrest,dembelle,were our main threat in attack,roll on wed i think we can upset the germans.

Very comfortable. Could have scored a few more and quite unlucky at times. If Tierney had scored that chance it was goal of the season, fantastic run and composure

Need the first goal on Wednesday. Think we'll need to score 2 if we're to win. Another massive game

[southderryman]

Southderryman,I have been at more Celtic games than you will ever see.

Tony or SDM

Do any of you follow a local team regularly rather than bragging about who going the see the footballing wing of a British Plc the most often .

We've enough trolls on this thread. Run along and play somewhere else

[T Fearon]

I do follow local soccer North and South,though rarely attend games though I did in the past.Many a Sunday I travelled from Portadown to watch Dundalk back in the day

[ashman]

Southderryman,I have been at more Celtic games than you will ever see.

Tony or SDM

Do any of you follow a local team regularly rather than bragging about who going the see the footballing wing of a British Plc the most often .

We've enough trolls on this thread. Run along and play somewhere else

Troll

You are referring to a British Plc as "we". You don't live in the city where that team play. They have no social value to you .  The mercenaries they employ are looking for pay rises in England .

[southderryman]

Southderryman,I have been at more Celtic games than you will ever see.

Tony or SDM

Do any of you follow a local team regularly rather than bragging about who going the see the footballing wing of a British Plc the most often .

We've enough trolls on this thread. Run along and play somewhere else

Troll

You are referring to a British Plc as "we". You don't live in the city where that team play. They have no social value to you .  The mercenaries they employ are looking for pay rises in England .

You know absolutely nothing about me. You are trolling for a reaction Plain as day. Sorry to disappoint you

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[MoChara]

Fair play to the club, a nice gesture even if a little later than they should of.

Celtic agree to pay new living wage of £8.25 to employees
STV
a day ago
   
The Parkhead club agreed to make the change after a review of pay rates affecting up to 100 staff.

The club reviewed pay rates affecting an estimated 100 full-time employees and hundreds more non-permanent staff whose wages fell below the new living wage threshold.

Staff had been paid £7.85 per hour but the rate, adjusted by the Living Wage Foundation, was raised by 40p last November.

Details of the agreement, which came into effect in July, have been revealed in the club's annual report.

It comes after the Celtic board faced criticism at last year's AGM for failing to sign up to the living wage standard.

Chairman Ian Bankier said then it was "not in the interests" of Celtic to follow in the footsteps of around 380 Scottish employers including fellow Ladbrokes Premiership club Heart of Midlothian in signing up to the scheme.

Many shareholders called for the club to change their stance with shareholders and fan group the Celtic Trust, supporting a resolution that the board take "all necessary steps" to make Celtic an accredited living wage employer and to provide to shareholders a progress report on this within three months.

Celtic's annual report revealed the club have now agreed to pay staff the £8.25 living wage.

It said: "Celtic remains the only professional football club in Scotland to hold the prestigious Investors in People award and our Celtic Pride employee engagement and culture change initiative continues to be a priority.

"This initiative continues to drive improvements in the areas of employee recognition, reward and development, all underpinning the four key values of Inclusion, Integrity, Inspiration and Innovation.

"Earlier this year, the club made a commitment to again review the minimum hourly rate of permanent staff.

"This commitment was delivered and a minimum rate of at least £8.25/hour was implemented with effect from July 1, 2016, reflecting the prevailing voluntary Living Wage rate."

It came as it emerged the board of directors' overall salary costs rose by 20% in the last year, due largely to a near-£240,000 ill health payment to long-serving former financial chief Eric Riley.

The Parkhead club had previously said it would not sign up to the living wage scheme as it would mean "handing over decision-making on salaries to another agency".

The Celtic Trust said as "progress has been made - small though it is", it will not be bringing a living wage resolution to the forthcoming annual general meeting.

"The lowest paid workers have now been paid more than they would have been without this campaign and we are delighted about that," the trust said.

"We hope you will continue to support us, and that, unless national political developments overtake it, we will soon be able to say that our club is an Accredited Living Wage employer.

"We think Brother Walfrid would have wanted that, don't you?"

[T Fearon]

Timely announcement a few weeks ahead of the AGM,funded by Champions League group money and season ticket sales.The Board is in for an easy time now

[T Fearon]

Now can we keep a clean sheet tomorrow night,as you'd fancy us to score and secure three points which you would think at least,guarantee a third place finish in the group?

[bennydorano]

Unlikely. Another we're gonna score more than you night. Goals galore cert.

[Applesisapples]

If the overpaid multi millionaire on a 7 figure Salary can't beat BMG by 6 clear goals then he is a failure and should resign!

[Hectic]

I have a feeling that we might see a bit of a shift tonight where the Germans come for a draw, will sit in and try and pick us off.  Scottish teams have tried this with little success but given the superior quality of tonight's opposition I think it is one where the supporters will need to be patient while also loudly backing the team.  Could see a 1-1 or hopefully a narrow win for us.

[tonto1888]

Timely announcement a few weeks ahead of the AGM,funded by Champions League group money and season ticket sales.The Board is in for an easy time now

why are they in for an easy timenow?