Penny Black’s Social Diary: Golden sponsor for Celtic FC

Gold trimming for Celtic FC’s worthy women’s team

In the City, all the pubs, restaurants, and niche property insurers you could ever want or need are within the square mile.

But perhaps a more impressive feat is how, nearly 60 years on, that were was once a football team called the Lisbon Lions, who were all born within 30 miles of Glasgow, and who, maybe more impressively, won a European cup.

Unlike, every other recent (male) team in this football-mad country.

This proud green-and-white spirit lives on, particularly in the women’s Celtic FC Women’s team – the first women’s side in Scotland to become a fully professional set-up.

All the Celtic FC teams kits have been adorned with gold trimming for the upcoming season – a trend which I hope does not spread to the public – to mark the Lisbon Lions’ anniversary.

The Glasgow-founded Octo Insurance Brokers have further announced they are the women’s front-of-shirt sponsor, and as director Domenico Davis put it: “That level of ambition deserves support.” Quite.

Ill-timed breakfast food

When travelling in Europe, as I often do, you do come across sprawling breakfasts, which may come across as overwhelming, a bit too savoury and varied for the average Brit raised on toast.

I was reminded of this at the London Climate Action Week climate breakfast hosted by Scor and Axa in 8 Bishopsgate.

Pre-9am, at a slightly delayed event and during the middle of whatever number heatwave it was this summer, seeing rows of vaguely familiar yoghurts, pastries, breads, cheeses, and cold meats was rather personally unappetising.

I do confess that I am going through a phase, please sit down here, of finding cold salami laid out on a pain, hard to stomach – which I accept could just be my own idiosyncrasy.

The spirit of generosity is undoubted and the pistachios strawberry yoghurt was adequate, but overall, I found myself in a sea of food that was not for Penny. Two stars.