This is stock number 11172A. We are here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used heavy-duty truck headquarters today. We are checking out this super clean 2016 GMC Sierra 2500 Crew cab short box with the SLT package on it This truck has the 6.6 liter Duramax diesel with the LML motor which bumps out 397 horsepower. This truck has been fully safe and inspected by our service shop as a fresh oil and Filter change all the fluids have been checked and topped off and this truck is 100% ready to go Iridium metallic is the color we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second so if you have HD capabilities on your computer tablet or smartphone device turn them on right now because it is Definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the truck before seeing it in person And if you'd like to check out all the photos on this truck in the upper right hand part of your screen Is a link to our website click that and check us out there This one has some really good-looking black Rhino hard alloy rims and they are painted black obviously And they are 20 inch rims has wild country Trail 4s X tires these are LT 275 65 hour 20s And they look like they have a pretty good amount of tread left. I'd say probably about 70 to 80 percent Maybe even a little bit more Frame and underbodies in really nice shape. I believe this one came out of Florida originally Front fender is in nice shape no dents or dings This one does have the HID headlamps and the LED running lamps and somebody also put LED fog lamps in this truck Front bumper is in excellent condition. I didn't see any dents or dings on that And it does have the front bumper parking sensors chrome trimmed grille no dents or dings on the hood Passenger side front fender is in great condition too And the passenger side rim no scuffs or scrapes on there As you go down this side of the truck take note of how clean the body is how reflective and mirror like that paint is We take these HD videos So if you are far away or even if you're close by and you just cannot make the trip down But you're still interested in purchasing the truck you can see the truck hear the truck and of confidence in the vehicle That you're looking at before you even get here so that when you do get here There's absolutely no surprises and that is why we offer the summit auto fast-pass option in the upper right hand part of Your screen a link right to our website where you can apply for financing get pre-approved see a payment quote Even appraise the trade all from the comfort of your own home Basically do your entire deal so when you get here all you have to do is drive the truck love it You'll be all set to go back tears have just about as much tread as the front tires and the frame and under body is an exceptionally nice condition And it's like that all the way underneath has all the remaining factory exhaust and The lower rockers all look great Those with some really nice factory black painted step bars. You get the bed rail covers With the SLT package Rear bumpers in pretty nice shape Does have a full towing package includes receiver hitch four pin and seven pin wiring rear bumper steps and rear bumper parking sensors Has a shot down assist tailgate Linux spray and bed liner and The beds in pretty nice shape tailgate lifts up nice and easy and Shuts solidly as you go down the Driver side just clean as that passenger side box looks good And the driver's side rear rim is an excellent shape. No scuffs or scrapes on that As you go down the rest of this side of the truck Doors look really good. It does have the telescopic tome ears with the built-in directional signals You also get LED side lights and Lights on the side chrome trim on the back Inside the SLT package gives you the black leather interior There are no rips. There are no tears on the seats. They are in really nice Condition you get the white stitching on there Both the seats are heated and cooled and you do get factory all-weather floor mats Auto headlamps turned out four-wheel drive and factory brake controller telescopic steering wheel tilt Audio controls on the back of the steering wheel power windows power locks power mirrors and Memory driver seat these mirrors do power fold in always like showing both sides so that you know all the options are Working on the truck before you get here This also has the Bose sound system And we'll turn the ignition on here So you can see the instrument cluster and the radio and everything you can see that this one has 53,000 712 miles digital speedometer instrument cluster is very nice and clean comes with the heated Leather-wrapped steering wheel Bluetooth and information center controls on the right cruise controls and forward collision controls on the left And your heated steering wheel controls on the left as well You get the Allison six-speed automatic transmission with the optional tap shift and this one has the GMC and telelink system with the factory navigation system you also get AM FM and serious XM radio capabilities and You also have Projection where you can project your cell phone to the screen if you've got Android Auto or Apple CarPlay Done here is your CD player dual climate controls heated and cooled seat buttons power pedals stability control That's for your cargo lamps. That's how you turn on those LED side lights lane departure warning parking sensors and your factory exhaust brake Down here you get two USBs two 12 volt power points and a hundred ten volt 150 watt plug-in There's your key for your lug nuts And I know it's kind of dark over there, but Seat and floor mat are in excellent condition the headliner is in great shape on this truck Smells very clean inside here I don't think it's ever been smoked in and you do get home link buttons with your garage door security systems and lighting systems Buttons right there on star and SLS and your map lights We'll take a quick look at the back seats and then we'll start it up And check out under the hood The back seats are just as clean as the front seats no rips. No tears back here You do get the latch child safety system the fixed glass rear window with the built-in rear defrost You do get a storage compartment underneath these seats And you do get all other floor mats back here as well carpetings in very nice condition And we'll start it up to look under the hood there those LED side lights And you can also see that you get LED lights in the box there But we'll start it up take a look under the hood No check engine lights or anything like that Now personally like thank you for checking out the video today and hopefully from this HD video You will have been able to tell just how clean this truck is all the way around Inside now under the hood. We have the 6.6 supercar max diesel with the LML motor 397 horsepower engine base very clean runs very smooth Once again this truck has been fully safety to and inspect the medicine shop of a fresh oil and filter change And this truck is Ready to go there are those HIV headlamps and only running lights And I'd highly recommend this truck from a quality and conditions standpoint and see more pictures of this truck or one of our other 450 new and used cars trucks SUVs minivans Wranglers half tons two quarter tons one tons you name it we got it go to that website right there www.SummitAuto.com Full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations all at SummitAuto.com And if you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to youtube.com slash SummitAuto Remember to like subscribe and share on this video and all the videos that you see there In fact in a second you will see links to subscribe to our YouTube channel on your left it links more GMC Sierra 2,500 truck videos like this one right if you've not been to our website on the bottom link to this vehicle on our website Click those checks out and we really look forward to helping with this super clean 2016 GMC Sierra 2,500 crew cab short box SLT in iridium metallic. 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Hey guys, it's Nate, aka The Foot Account, and welcome back to the channel. Something that has never happened before is about to happen today on Saturday in FIFA 22. That is, two showdown cards are going to get upgraded, and both are going to get a plus two. Because of the canceled fixture that was supposed to happen today, EA Sports have come out and announced that they are going to upgrade both Alvarez and Parisic with a plus two, and there's still time to do their SBC. I want to talk about that announcement that EA made and take a look at the brand new content that we had yesterday on Friday with the preseason rewards from week four and the Kulabali, the Quetzalera cards that were dropped and the mistake that EA made. Yes, EA's still making mistakes in August. It's a little unfortunate, but it is what it is, and I think that mistake could impact our content today on Saturday. But if you're excited for these free showdown upgrades, if you will, hit the thumbs up and subscribe if you are new. Let's talk about that first, because this tweet from just a couple hours ago is what we are mentioning right now. Since the Premier League announced the suspension of the fixtures this weekend, of course, including that Manchester United City versus Tottenham matchup, Alvarez and Parisic showdown, they have said, will both receive a plus two upgrade as a result. W. I mean, this is a tremendous W from EA Sports, because I mean, I was hoping that they would do this, but I wasn't honestly expecting it, but they're just giving out the upgrades. That is great. They followed that up with a response tweet saying, no further upgrades will be given regardless of the result of the match when it is played. And they said the upgrades will be given shortly after when the game was scheduled to be played. So, of course, it was scheduled to be played today on Saturday. So we should be seeing our 96 rated, or sorry, yeah, our 96 rated Alvarez and our 96 rated Parisic getting plus twos and going to 98. I quickly made this concept cards here, tweeted out when I saw the EA tweeted. And I mean, look at this Alvarez card, like that's crazy getting a plus two for each of these. This is probably like the only time it's ever going to happen, right? Because you know how showdowns work, right? Plus two of the team wins, plus one if they draw. So we've had both showdowns get upgraded before in a matchup, but they've only ever gotten plus ones. This is the only time ever I believe it's been a plus two to both cards. So if you have not done these SBCs yet, and you're like, man, this kind of tempts me now, since they're both getting plus two upgrades, I have good news because they're still available in FIFA. If you're watching this video before 6pm on Saturday, you can go into FIFA and get these SBCs done. I mean, GGCA sports, that's all you can say here. That was the right move, the right decision 100% to give us kind of a little, I guess, end game gift, if you will. Anything other than this outcome would have left people being very disappointed and very upset, of course, with the showdowns and the game that people were excited about today that we don't get to see, of course, because of everything that has happened. We respect that decision, but a lot of us as football fans would have loved to see this match, and it's a nice consolation to see the parasit plus two and the Alvarez plus two in spite of that. So they did say in the tweet that the upgrade would happen shortly after the game was scheduled to be played. So that to me reads shortly after means that it hopefully will be today on Saturday. I'm talking like hopefully a couple hours after content because I believe the game was scheduled to be at like right around 6pm, 5.30pm, I believe is when the old, the kickoff time was supposed to be for this game. So hopefully we see a 98 rated Alvarez and Parasit sometime tonight on FIFA. That would be fantastic. If they don't, the only thing they'll say is the other showdowns that we have had before that have had Saturday games, the upgrades did not take place until Monday because that's kind of when EA was getting back in the office, if you will. So hopefully it takes place a little bit faster than that. I mean, if you remember the Ericsson upgrade happened super duper duper fast, but for these two cards here, hopefully they go to 98 status really really quickly tonight on Saturday post game time kickoff when that game was supposed to be played. So that's the biggest W right now. And again, if you haven't done those SBCs, they are great value in my opinion. They're really cheap. They're easy to do with 85 times 10s. Go ahead and get them done. You might as well. They're both getting a plus two and they both are going to look cracked after those upgrades. So that's the biggest thing for today on Saturday. Now let's look back yesterday a little bit at some of the preseason rewards because some of this was kind of a letdown, but also there is some interesting happenings with EA's mistake releasing two player SBCs. I want to start with the objectives here really fast. We didn't get another 50K pack. Instead, if you remember the kickstart three objective that we had last week, it was a bunch of nations, right? And they gave out 15 different gold rare players from five different nations, right? Three players per five different nations. And of course there's five more nations this week, but you're only getting three rare gold players as the ultimate reward in FIFA 23, France, Brazil, and Spain. So instead of playing 15 games or scoring in 15 games to get 15 rare gold players, you're playing or scoring in 15 and then you only get nine players. But it's from arguably some of the biggest nations, especially France and Brazil. Now they've added Poland and Belgium in here. I do believe some Polish cards on the market went up yesterday and maybe some Belgium cards as well. Again, you only have to have five of them so you can put in five Polish bronzes. If you're like me and don't have anybody, but like Lewandowski team of the season in your club, you can throw four other silver Polish cards in there. A lot of people, please play Golden Goal in this because a lot of people are not and it's a pain, especially if you see a Polish or a Belgium team. Golden Goal would be a huge help to get this objective done way faster because again, if you're playing in the Kickstarter game mode, you're trying to get the FIFA 23 objectives. That's what you're going for, right? So I wish EA would have made that mode Golden Goal in the first place. I was struggling with it on stream yesterday because a lot of people were not playing Golden Goal. So I'm gonna wait until later on this week and hopefully some of the sweats get it done and finish it off. But just play Golden Goal in there. It makes everybody's life so much easier. But that was a little bit, I guess, if we set the bar pretty high in week two with a 50K pack, this was a little bit of a bummer, but it is nice. Three rare goal players from France or Brazil could end up paying out pretty nicely in a starter squad or with some fodder since there's a lot of potential there with high rated players from those nations. So it is what it is. We also had a Decattelera released yesterday, which again, it's like four weeks in a row now where we have an objective player that is not leaked ahead of time that they end up dropping a pretty cool card here. They didn't give him five star skills, which would have been cool, but he has club 90, really nice looking card and the AC Milan links. And one thing to watch out for today and objectives is a preseason cup because the friendly game mode I do believe is still there. Let me go and check just to make sure. But I'm pretty sure preseason cup still has, yeah, it still has seven days left on it. So I have not been playing preseason cup three, but since everything went from week three to week four, this is the last thing to go from week three to week four. I would expect to see a new preseason cup today probably with the same rewards. So watch out for that if you've been grinding that mode for some extra packs in FIFA 22, 10 golden gold games a day. It's not that bad if we're being completely honest. Now let's talk about SBCs from yesterday because this is where it gets interesting. Now for me on the PlayStation, I only see one SBC and that is Kaladu Kula Bali, great center back card, absolutely cracked looking item, medium-high work rates. He got like a solid pace boost.  He was already like maxed out on his team of the season card, but 85 agility, 86 balance, 99 reactions, 97 composure, great card, great SBC. And if you take a look at his price, it gets even better. Only three squads to do him, like 150,000 coins, which again at this stage of the game, you get done like that with the 85 times 10 with a couple duplicate cards that you have. It is super duper, duper easy to do. And if you take a look at the thumbs up, thumbs down, very high thumbs up rate and a very high completion percentage, 93% in the SBC section under this tab. So very popular SBC. You did have a good amount of Premier League fodder going up yesterday. Take a look at like Thomas Partey, right? He was 2K all the way up to 3.7K. So a lot of your Prem fodder is up. I do believe that at one point, Chelsea cards were all 10,000 coins yesterday. Like even silver and bronzes, because inside of the Kula Bali SBC, there are, there's a Chelsea requirement for the 83 rated squad. So Chelsea cards were way, way, way up in price. So maybe check your club for some silver and bronzes there to see if they're still up. But again, pretty high chemistry on these. That's the only bad part about it, but the ratings are pretty low. But still really, really easy to do to get that Kula Bali. And some people are saying, hey, I'm taking Kunde out of my squad to run Kula Bali and Veran together instead of maybe Kunde and Veran or Veran and Rutiger. Now they're subbing in Kula Bali. Great card, GGZA Sports, love the price. And again, you can tell that people are going out and doing this SBC. And you know, I was looking at this SBC just a bit ago and thinking to myself, this is a really, really good tip to remember as we're heading into FIFA 23 market-wise. If you're still in that market mindset and thinking about things a little bit, I mean, Premier League, Centerback SBCs and Premier League SBCs in general that have hype to them, that are A, a good price, or B, releasing as very meta cards that would replace players and people's teams, they move the market every single time they're released. This is example number one of a card that even moved up in September. By the way, we're talking the last two weeks of this game. This card moved up 20,000 coins yesterday. He was 50K, 55K before the content drop. Right here you can see Cancelo, 55,000 coins. He is now almost 80K on the market after people did Kulabali, they go out and they buy a left-back card, they buy a card to link to him. This is the perfect card that they would go and get. This card starts to rise. So maybe even some of your other, I think like Conte shapeshipped their card is up a little bit too. 1.4, 1.5 basically. He's basically 1.5 mil. I think that's up a little bit, yeah. So maybe up like 70, 80K, nothing crazy there. But some of your Premier League links are up because of, again, a very popular and meta SPC. Even the team of the Eurorgenia, what about you? Okay, team of the Eurorgenia was still at his minimum price range. So that one didn't move up too much. I wonder if like Kyle Walker dropped at all if people were replacing him with a Kulabali. Let's see. Oh yeah, 295K all the way down to 194. So that's the opposite side of the coin, right? You have a substitute good where somebody is of course being replaced. Kyle Walker replaced by Kulabali. Then you have of course the good that is seen as a, I can't even think of the word right now, substitute goods and goods that you would use beside them. So basically links to the player, right? That's the easy way to say it. Cancelo links to Kulabali and he goes up. Somebody will name that in the comments. I can't think of the proper term there. But that's kind of what went on with the market yesterday. Again, check your club for any bronze or silver Chelsea players because those might be shooting up in price at the moment due to the hype of that Chelsea SPC. Now, here's where the mistake and here's where yesterday's content gets interesting and it kind of blends in with the conversation about today's content because yesterday we had a Phantom SPC release and you may see this card on footpin.  You might not be able to find it. But on Xbox and PC, it's a different story. So yesterday, I mean, even first of all, this Kulabali was released late, like 15 minutes late. So that was a bit of a mistake. Small one will let it fly, right? Now, if you see right now on footpin, you see this Alexis Sanchez card. This card was leaked by Foot Sheriff Friday morning as a SPC to come. I was like, okay, one of these will come on Friday. One will be on Saturday. But evidently EA's had some issues because this Alexis Sanchez was dropped in the game on the Xbox and the PC SPC markets or in the SPC tab. But not on PlayStation. It was an 85 and an 86 rated squad. And people were able to do the SPC, but they were not able to check the in-game stats of the card. As you can see, they're not loaded in on footpin because he's not been added as a card in the database on the game. Like if you search concepts, he's not there. So you can't search him up and you can't see his stats. You can't also get into a game. If you've done this and he's in your squad, it will not allow you to enter into a game. It'll kick you out. And I don't know if the SPC is still there. It shows on footpin and it shows you the exact requirements that it does require 85 and 86 rated squad with a little bit of chemistry. It's decently cheap. It's a cool looking card. The one thing I will say is he is not four-star, three-star. That is incorrect. That's his base gold card. He is four-star, three-star. This card is five-star skills, four-star, weak foot, I believe. So I don't know if he's actually out on the game as it is right now, but of course, foot share if tweeted out EA mistakes. And it makes sense, right? We've only been getting one of these player SPCs every single day. So this SPC was probably supposed to be released today on Saturday. That's what we'd be thinking. That's what we'd be expecting. But EA seemed to drop it early for some people and not even everybody. So that's part of what I would expect to be today's content on Saturday. Now also, it's kind of a weird Saturday in the fact that a lot of SPCs are expiring as well if you think about it. The 85 times 10. I've only done it three times since it's last refreshed, but today will be the last time you'll be able to do 10, 85 times 10s before this and the 95 plus shapeshift their player pick expire on Sunday. So that's really interesting as well as to see what is gonna be happening on Sunday as all this stuff expires and goes away. At least these two SPCs that are really, really big. I think there's a couple other ones that are in here expiring as well. Just kind of keep that in mind. The 82 plus player pick, common triple goal upgrade. I would imagine that these are gonna come back. The repeatable shapeshifter player pick, you would think that it's maybe gonna come back as well. There's just so much in here that's gonna expire on Sunday. I'm really, really curious to see how this ends up happening and what stays, what goes. We had the batch two, pre-season batch two player pick re-release yesterday as well. Kind of an LSBC, but it is what it is. And the 87 plus player pick expires as well. And that was released a couple days ago. And yeah, that one's still there and it's kind of being forgotten about. I feel like the main two SPCs right now are these two, 85 times 10, 95 plus shapeshifters, and the year in review. I can't leave that one out. I've already completed it for the day so it's not showing for me. But the year in review is expiring in six days so we're able to do one of those every single day to chase Campembe if you will, or any of those footies cards that you maybe had not completed yet. So that's kind of the big news of what's happening right now. Watch out for Alexis Sanchez today. Watch out for a brand new cup. I do think that we would get one more of those since the friendly is still gonna be there in the game. And yeah, other than that, just enjoy trying to enjoy grinding these FIFA 23 rewards, getting those done. If you're still chasing after 99 Messi, Ronaldo, Marcello, Ginola, any of those guys, enjoy maybe the last few 95 plus shapeshifter player picks. I would hope that they would re-release that SPC. I would hope fingers crossed, but we'll just have to see as EA maybe are just starting to turn on that one track FIFA 23 mind. Here very, very soon. So that's gonna be the video for today. If you guys did enjoy it, smash them up on a comment down below if you have any questions and subscribe if you're new. Watch out very soon for some of FIFA 23 videos talking about preparation, how to get ready for it, and all of that good stuff as we get closer and closer to FIFA 23. Thanks again guys for watching. It's been Nathan with the Count and I'll catch you guys later. Peace out.


What's up everybody Jason for Jasper's case breaks calm 2020 panini immaculate baseball two box break random number block number two Just sold out guys and again two box break everybody gets a random number from zero to nine again All that matters is what number you get on the left side of the serial number if it matches yours That means you get a hit guys so as an example if you get randomized block three You will get all hits with three being the first number on the on the card on the left side of the dash so for example First number left side of the dash 13 out of 99 hit comes out of for any team That will go to block three as you can see three is the first number on the left side of the dash Three out of 25 zero number card comes out. That's yours 43 out of 49 93 out of 99 and so on It will go to number three block our redemption cars will go to spot zero even if we know it's a one-on-one It'll still go to spot zero.  Here's a customer names Alex down to Jonathan and you got zero through nine Roll the dice we got six and a four ten times. Good luck one Two three four five six seven eight nine and Tenth and final time. Yes, boom ten times Alex down to Jarell ten times one two three four five six seven eight eight nine and 10th and final time. Yes, boom Six down to nine All right, so Alex you have six Ryan with seven next over five Barry you have one any one of ones will be yours Sean with three Edward zero any redemption will be yours. Not right with two Jonathan with four Alex with eight and Jarell you have nine So any trades guys, I'll be a quick 30 seconds. If not, we will close up Print and rip. All right, guys TWC All right, so earlier we did I numbered these boxes one two three and four and across so If we get randomized to you're gonna do these two boxes three and four So since you only have six boxes level we'll do here's if I roll a one two or one or two We're gonna go with the top box. I wrote three four We're gonna with the middle five six the bottom box would to be box four. It's three. So one two three four We're gonna with the middle and I say we can do at least two more breaks of this and I'll post it up After there you go. Let's get it rolling us Remember R&B style this doesn't matter what teams pop out all that matters is the numbers I guys just freshly traded no linear and auto 24 out of 49 so spot 4 it's going to Jonathan last bomb We have a little Kirby Puckett to 49 Pinstrum for Minnesota That's 31 out of 49 spot one going to bury We got a little patch auto of Tres Barrera for Washington That's 49 out of 49 little eBay one of one Spot 9 going to Jarrell We got a little extra bases Andy Pettit Houston edition 24 to 25 So 24 spot 4 going to Jonathan. We have a little Jonathan Daza debut moments 90 out of 99 It's going to spot 0 and Ed and the last one here is extra bases Ryan Mountcastle 7 out of 10 Ryan going to Ryan spot 7. There you go One more to go guys didn't get traded at St. Louis That was breaking news like a day or two ago Joey Gallo tonight and I 63 out of 99 Three going to Sean Maddock old school Richie Ashburn 4 out of 5 for the Philadelphia Phillies or I'm part of the colors, but could be a's I guess four to five John the last Bob module spot for what's up all the guys are going man. We have a debut moments Aaron Savelle Look at that little piece of the baseball right there That's a rookie three out of ten Spot three going to Sean. I'm sure the Cardinals hate you too And what do we have here? Ryan Braun One of one printing plate autograph for the Milwaukee Brewers One of one spot one going to Barry to 60 point perfect. There you go. One of one two more to go guys Sean Murphy 80 out of 99 spot zero Going to Ed and the last one here folks is a little rookie patch autograph of Nico Horner for the Cubs 75 out of 99 Cubs Nick spot five and there you go guys another two box break in the books Don't have half a case left number three will be posted up soon jazby's case breaks calm


The final item of business today is the member's business debate on motion number 13199, in the name of Chick Brody, on youth football's contribution to men's and women's football. This debate will be concluded without any questions being put, and I would be grateful if those members who wish to contribute could press the request to speak buttons now, please. I call on Chick Brody to open the debate. Seven minutes, please, Mr Brody. Thank you, Presiding Officer. It is normal practice in members' debates to say that one is delighted, even privileged, to bring such a debate to the chamber. Tonight against the maelstrom of this week's international criticism of global football management, I am not so determined or indeed delighted, but I do wish to thank the model Fraser and James Kelly for supporting the debate, for I know of their personal interest in the game and their inherent personal fairness. In life we have many dreams to achieve a personal desire, and aspiration is inspiring. As we sit here to make, certainly to hope to achieve just one significant change that may affect positively just one person's life and that of a child, to do so is humbling. That is what I hope we will affect tonight, to start to eschew and stop the exploitation of children's dreams, to start to make, again, football our beautiful game. Beautiful again because it has in this area, in my opinion, turned ugly. Let me, before I do so, thank those who for many years have kept that dream alive, that flame burning, to Willie Smyth and Scott Robertson of the Rio Grassroots organisation who are with us tonight to their consultants and advisers to the fantastic European Youth Football Advisors in Fifepro, and other national professional advisers and consultants that have been privileged to meet. Let me say thanks. I also thank the Scotland's Children and Young People's Commissioner organisation that has conducted its recent review of the subject purposefully, professionally and independently. Behind the great wall of support for football, of total and unwavering faith in our local and national teams, there lies a very dark corner as to why our ultimate goal and the progress toward it will be limited in our inability to be a natural producer again of our national and inherent football skills. Those two are increasingly important as young women embrace our national game. So, Presiding Officer, in challenging the normal modus of members' debates tonight and going forward, we seek answers and we seek change. Let's start first with the cherry-picking by some clubs of potentially talented young footballers. Children are some of six years old, but more generally 10 and 12 years old and only with one thought in their mind, one place in their mind. It could be Celtic Park, Ibrox, the Bernabar, Old Safford or even their own local professional park. Only to be cast aside a few years later, not good enough, and then their dreams turn into nightmares. Except for the few, the very few of the 15 and 16-year-olds with huge ability with even greater skills, but to some with greater investment potential. These young people engaged and over-enthused in some cases by parents to engage in contracts or registration forms with some of our clubs. Those are documents that are not worth the paper that they are written on. Contracts, registration forms and now, apparently, commitment letters in some cases which do not meet UK or European legislative standards. When meeting our national skills agency to talk of professional apprenticeships in football, I was told that registration forms for young people in football today were indeed wordless, and they were considering its continued financial support. The contracts, the registration forms were exorcets aimed at the dreams of the young and their parents. It cannot, for example, be right to deny an 18-year-old so contracted to be denied to play for his university, for example, because of an alleged contract, which is now the basis of challenge. However, it is not only that basis of legality of those arrangements that we challenge. For example, I have become aware, and as a result of pursuing correspondence, I have detailed information from BIS and the HMRC and tax people to support it, that there have been professional football clubs in Scotland contracting and paying young players on less than the minimum wage in contravention of the National Minimum Wage Act 1998. That announcement will have much wider implications elsewhere. However, if a player is being contracted to a club paying him £1 per week and, in fact, paying anyone less than the minimum wage is, in fact, in contravention of that act and that the contract or registration does not apply, that is a very serious but confirmed legal interpretation and, as I say, has much wider implications outside football. The additional restriction under the Human Rights Act of personal freedom of movement without appropriate transfer rights is, frankly, and also a major breach of civil rights under European law. Remember, we are talking of children. Frankly, at the door of our major football club organisation, in its subservience to the clubs and apparent lack of monitoring of those clubs and its seeming total disengagement with this Parliament and its organisations. In a letter to me of 29 January this year, when I asked the SPFL about its engagement with the consultation being prepared by the Children's Commissioner on specifically the minimum wage, it said that it was unaware of the wider consultation. Well, it should have been. Based on the data that I have received from SPICE, the Foodball Authority agreed to deliver an integrated and four-year cycle plan, an investment plan and in the course of that, Sport Scotland invested over the period 2011 to 2015 £5.5 million and that included a network development centre to support the best young grass roots player. In seeking to determine the return on that investment, we shall seek to have an audit trail of that expenditure, some of which I accept will be bona fide. Many questions arise, not least are we following the robust guidance of FIFPRO, UEFA and the Football Trade Unions. Will we now listen to the wise words of the valued commissioner, where the report commendedly headline said, I would like to have control over my life and do what I want to do? Or do we sit back and allow the directors and the agents to use actions that we shall turn to in the future, to treat children, as the commissioner said in 2011, as commodities? Commodities are now subject to financial raids from clubs south of the border. That attitudinal change in youth football in Scotland is now required. Finally, we are no longer the Keynesian and children rights will be protected and there should be no circumstance where the state or associated bodies should invest in those resources or finance that violates those rights. Those involved, I repeat, are children, not investments, not commodities. They too have rights. Football in Scotland shall now return to its roots, belonging to its fans, to our young footballers and to our collective dream. If the current administrators of the Scottish Football Club and by default Scottish Youth Football cannot make themselves the required changes to meet those rights, we shall seek to pursue a statutory course and underpun current legislation that does so. We will not wait a further five years to do so. I ask members to keep to four-minute speeches, please, and I call Malcolm Chisholm to be followed by Kenny MacAskill. I congratulate Chick Brody and bring forward this important motion. Like him, I want to start with the football for those who are pining to play in the top bracket, but I think that the motion invites us also to consider football for a much wider range of young people. It is very timely, of course, given the Children's Commissioner report. I think that the Children's Commissioner has quite rightly emphasised, as he is a central theme, that we must take account of young people's rights when it comes to the contracts that they signed with the big football clubs. I think that that is the main concern, but it is also worth observing that perhaps the clubs in many ways have not been very good in general at bringing on young people in terms of realising their potential. Perhaps my own club Hibs is an exception to that. They have done very well in bringing on young people, but I think that all the top clubs have to listen very carefully to what Chick Brody has been saying and the Children's Commissioner is saying about the rights of young people who sign up for them, particularly the right to have control, the right to be able to leave when they want to. I think that that is one of the commissioner's recommendations that young people should be able to leave giving 28 days notice. It is particularly appalling that, when young footballers are 15, some of them are actually stuck with that particular club and cannot move to another club and cannot play for the university, as Chick Brody referred to. There are big issues there that Chick Brody has highlighted and we have had quite a lot of publicity around that over the weekend from the papers and from the commissioner's report. I hope that some momentum will build up around that central theme of the debate. As I said, I want to consider football for a much wider range of young people, boys and girls. I will use two examples from my constituency, because I am lucky to have two outstanding examples in my constituency. If I can start with Leith Athletic, which involves, I think, around a couple of hundred young people and teams of varying ages from the early years of primary right up beyond school, leaving age in particular, I want to congratulate the Rundr21 team, which won, in fact, their third trophy in a matter of a few weeks on Saturday. That is a splendid example of a large number of people in a local area being supported by a youth football club. The main point that I would make about that is that they do a great job, but they really do need more financial support. I think that there are big challenges for the SFA in that. Are they really going to support youth football and, perhaps, challenges for the Government as well? The other example that I want to give is the Spartan Community Football Academy, which is a social enterprise based in my constituency at Ainsley Park in the Pylton area. It is the charge of alarm of the highly successful Spartans football club. If you look at their website at the top, it says, live together, play together, win together. There is a massive number of young people given an opportunity to participate in football there, and they can stay there for several years. Those first two words, live together, emphasise the wider aims that they have, because they want to strengthen community cohesion involving, for example, specific initiatives for ethnic minorities, and they also want to have a positive impact on social targets such as health inequalities, increased employment opportunities and climate reduction. They have been an outstanding example of youth football for the many, but, in my last minute, I must talk about girls and women. Girls are involved, for example, at Spartan, and we need to do a great deal more to encourage girls to have opportunities in football. One important initiative is that the Scottish Football Association joined UEFA's women's football development programme, a project to promote role models and ambassadors as a way of encouraging girls to be involved in football. Specifically, members of the Scottish women's national team were selected as ambassadors to raise the profile and support the women's and girls' game. Those players attended workshops and then went on school visits and grass-roots festivals that had been arranged for them. That is one example of how to increase participation in girls and women's football in Scotland at all levels, but we need a lot more initiatives. Girls must not be deprived of that opportunity. I know more play than did in the past, but there is a lot more to do there, and we should not forget that aspect of the topic. I now call Kenny MacAskill to be followed by Cameron Buchanan. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I should declare an interest as the chairperson of Heberian Supporters Limited, a company established for the ultimate fan ownership of Heberian FC by their fans. I would thank Chick Brody for bringing this debate. I think that it is opportun, but I do believe that the glass is half full, not half empty. Although there are issues troubling Scottish football, the game remains strong, certainly at grass-roots, and that is what we require to support. I think that it is important that, along with Malcolm Chisholm, we should thank all those who do such sterling services in each and every one of our communities and constituencies. The game is built upon its grass-roots. That is where the foundations remain, and the clubs and the individuals who give a great deal of commitment. It is not easy being involved in grass-roots football, whether for young people or women. It takes out a lot of time that can come out of your family life, that can come out of your working life, that can cost you a significant amount of money. The inconvenience that you may have to go through, understandably, for various checks and disclosures, all of which people have to surmount to be able to do what we all appreciate and welcome in terms of their commitment. It is not an either or, though, between the grass-roots game and the pinnacle of the professional game. They are both dependent upon each other, and they require to show mutual respect and to work together. Earlier this afternoon, I was indeed down at Easter Road with two new signings for Hebernain, a 22-year-old and a 24-year-old. One of them has now moved to a full-time contract. That may be the pinnacle of his career, but it may not. It may go on to even greater heights than playing for hybs at Easter Road. However, that is, as I say, a momentous moment for him. It is something that he has probably dreamed for as a youngster, as many do. Very few have the opportunity, though, like him and his colleague, to make that progress. However, it is in many instances what drives him, as indeed people all over the world will tune in on Saturday evening for the Champions League final. I enjoy the grass-roots game, but equally I also enjoy supporting the very elite level. Scotland and Scottish football have had its difficulties, but there are good things happening. The national team under Gordon Strachan is doing remarkably well and, hopefully, not simply in the friendly, despite the controversy, but more importantly, next week in the fixture that really matters for qualification, we will see success. Equally, I think that we also have to recognise the importance that football has. It can provide opportunities both for youngsters and indeed for women. It can provide opportunities for those with learning difficulties, for those with educational difficulties, for those who are offending. All of those people can be transformed by the power of football. I do believe, as I say, that that is based upon what the SFA and indeed the clubs can provide and support, but more importantly, the base in the communities that provides it. We have seen progress. The growth in the women's game is huge and significant and is to be very much welcomed. In youth football, we have seen a change, and I think that it is for the benefit. We have perhaps seen less clubs but more teams. In Scotland, for too long, we perhaps had too many people involved with clubs because of their own youngsters, and that is admirable and appropriate. Equally, we have to look to the continent where clubs have not only hundreds of youngsters but thousands of youngsters. They are a proper pyramid establishment and elite, perhaps even and often with a professional club at the top. That is the direction that we have to go. We have to support the professional game. It is not, as I say, at the consequence of the grassroots. It is how they work better and best together. That requires mutual respect, but, given that, the game will flourish and go on to the success that we know it can and will have. Many thanks. I now call Cameron Buchanan to be followed by John Pentland. Football is not just our national game. It is our national obsession. Since the early days, boys and girls now have grown up wanting to wear the dark blue jersey at Hamden. Football has the power to cross barriers and getting it right at a young age can help to break down old age prejudices in class, gender, race and religion. Youth football is not just about nurturing the next generation of professionals. It also helps youngsters to learn transferable skills that can be used in everyday life, such as teamwork, dedication and hard work. Ensuring that we have enough coaches to have sufficiently skills to teach our kids the right footballing and life lessons is very important. Historically, Scotland has always been on top of the game when it comes to coaching. Largs on the west coast is home to the prestigious SFA-run elite coaching centre, where many of the game's greats earn their stripes, including the special one. No, I am not referring to you, Chick, but to Josie Marino. Despite that, the past two decades have seen declining standards, sadly, in our national game. The McLeish report sought to provide a pathway back to the top table, and youth football was placed at the centre of this ambition. That report called for a minimum of 20 football academies and an increase in participation to half a million. Therefore, the creation of a national academy based in Edinburgh is to be welcomed. A place where youngsters can come and learn from the best, both on and off the pitch, will hopefully develop the next generation of Dalglesias and Laws, but more needs to be done. The Scottish FFA commenced the performance schools project in August 2012, which is designed for elite boys and girls and runs from S1 to S4. In Edinburgh, the programme is located at Broughton High School, where participants undertake their football education within the standard school curriculum. Beauty of this programme is its marriage between football skills and academic qualifications. Not everyone turns professional, and having a solid education is just as important as having a thunderous right boot. I would also like to reserve a special mention for Spartans, as did Football Club and Malcolm Chisholm, who have created an almost professional setup with both the age grade and senior teams. Spartans is now a model of diversity, housing both their senior men's, juniors and women's teams under the same roof, which I think is very important. The partnership between the club and Edinburgh leisure has shown what can be achieved with public and private co-operation. I have always believed that if clubs set aside rivalries, we can have a far more integrated youth coaching set-up, particularly in relation to provincial clubs. Across the water in Fife, we have a regional academy, which draws together four professional teams who provide coaching until the age of 16. Upon graduation, players have the choice of four different clubs to sign for. I believe that anyone in this chamber can help clubs set aside rivalries. It is Chick Brody, who is a man who has swapped sides more times than Mo Johnson. Changing a system is never easy. There have been bumps along the road. The Dutch coach Mark Wotty, who pointed to overseeing the reforms in the McLeish report, recently left the SFA citing that some people in Scotland are reluctant to change. This, I think, is disappointing, as we need more men like him. More men like Ian Cathrow, who set up the youth football academy in Dundee, helped to produce a string of technically gifted players at Tannadise. Players like Ryan Gold, who now plays for Sporting Lisbon in Portugal. Ian's talent took him to Portugal and now Spain, where he is assistant manager at Valencia. Success stories like this should be champion, but we should also be disappointed that we have not retained talent like this in Scotland. In conclusion, youth football in Scotland has never been run so professionally. We have more coaches and volunteers than ever before. There is still a long way to go before we can match our continental competitors, but I think that we are on the right track. The growth and success of the women's game should serve as a template and inspiration. I would urge the SFA and Scottish Government to continue to collaborate to ensure that every youngster has the opportunity to learn life skills associated with playing football. Thank you, Presiding Officer. I am speaking in my capacity as a convener of the Public Petitions Committee and, like others, I thank Jack Brody for bringing this motion to the chamber for debate. Having been lodged in 2010, the public petition by William Scott and Scott Robertson has the dubious distinction of being one of the oldest still in the committee books. We are still considering three interlinked issues, contracts or registration agreements with professional clubs, young elite players being able to play for school teams and the system of compensation payments between clubs for the transfer of young players under the age of 16 years. Children up to 14 can register with a club for a maximum of one season, registration lapsing at the end of each season, thereafter registration carried forward from 15 to 16 and from 16 to 17 so that a 15-year-old player can be kept for a further two years. In 2010, the committee took evidence from the Scottish Premier League, the Scottish Football Association, the Commissioner for Children and Young People, Rangers director of youth development and the heads of two club youth academies. Now, while the SFA is primarily responsible for the operation of the sport, it is right that the Parliament and the Scottish Government ask questions as to how appropriate and fair the arrangements are. Football's governing bodies told us that the concern arose from misunderstandings and that change was not required. On the other hand, the petitioners, some young players and their parents and the children's commissioners feel that the arrangements restrict young players' freedoms and acts in the interests of the clubs, not the young players. The SFA says that FIFA requires national football associations to have a system to place reward, to place to reward young players, but are our systems fair? Now, since 2010, some changes have been made. Some young elite players can now play for their school teams, but those who train several times a week and play matches at the weekend is at restriction fair. A new system of transfer compensation payments has been introduced. It prescribes that payments to be made ranging from £600 to £15,000 depending on the club's contribution to the club academy Scotland programme. However, despite the changes, there are still concerns. In June last year, the Public Petitions Committee asked the Children's Commissioner to review registration process and report its findings back to us. We recently received his report. It makes very interest to read it and I welcome his recommendations, which include that young players' rights must be respected when entering into what is in effect a contract, current arrangements create an imbalance of power, registration for older youth players should not carry over from the end of a season, and young players should not be prevented from playing football because professional clubs are negotiating trade deals. The registration process needs to be independently monitored and there should be clear complaints and mechanism. The point that I agree with whole heartily is that clubs must take a greater account of young people's rights. They should respect all their needs, not just treating them as footballing assets or worse, as monetary investments. In conclusion, the committee will take evidence from the commissioner on his findings before the summer recess and I commend his report to the chamber. Graham Dey, to be followed by James Kelly. The registration slash contract situation pertaining to young football has been the subject of debate over many years. In certain regards, where we find ourselves today, is a considerable improvement on where once Scottish football was. I make that point not in any way to diminish the validity of debate in this matter. I congratulate Chick Brory for giving us this opportunity. I want to bring a degree of context to things. I can go back the best part of 35 years to my early days as a sports journalist when certain clubs were signing up youngsters on lengthy pro contracts that involved extended options. What they did was to bind rising talent to the teams for an initial four-year term. Then, if the club wanted to hang on to them because they progressed to the point of becoming a playing or financial asset, the option was exercise and the contract was extended for perhaps another three years. Of course, there was no guarantee of that happening, so the option was of one-way benefit to the clubs. The player could be held on to regardless of whether he wanted that. Notwithstanding the problems that exist currently as regards the youth registration process, it is fair to say that the Scottish game has become far better organised and more professional in its development of young players, which is to everyone's benefits. Let's acknowledge that a number of our major clubs, such as Aberdeen, the team that both Mark McDonald and I support, Dundee United, Hamilton and Hartford, are bringing through talented home-reared players, which is to be very welcomed. However, it is only right and proper that, from a sport that can fulfil or destroy the dreams of young people in far less than equal measure, we demand the same standards of treatment of those young people as we do from other sectors of our society. The Scottish Football Authority is really doing—I would suggest—need to respond appropriately to the commissioner's report, which has been considered, as we have heard by the Public Petitions Committee. There are undoubtedly a number of the key recommendations contained within the report. They could, without undermining the structures that are delivering this emergence of young talent within the Premier League, deliver on. Let me pick out five key demands relating to the pre-formal contract phase of a young player's development. Recommendation 3, professional youth football in Scotland needs to undergo a significant attitudinal change. The clubs, and to some extent the SFA, refer to youth players purely in terms of investment and fail to acknowledge the young person in their own right. Recommendation 7, rules that are required in the formation, performance, enforcement and impact of contracts. Rights and remedies must be accessible, relevant, independent and effective for children and young people. 11, steps must be taken to avoid situations where a child or a young person is prevented from playing football for an entire season, whilst professional clubs negotiate trade deals. Recommendation 12, the youth registration process is an agreement between two parties that places obligations on both to ensure that it takes account of the interests and rights of children and young people. As much as the interests of professional football clubs it needs to be regulated and monitored in a manner that is independent of the clubs. Finally, regardless of whether or not an independent regulatory body is established, a clear process needs to be put in place immediately to ensure that children and young people can lodge a complaint where they feel their rights have been infringed by a club. Those are not unreasonable expectations in this day and age. We cannot continue to have a situation where, as the commissioner says in the overview, it is reasonable to conclude that the terms of the contracts are not necessarily mutually agreed, as they are not adequately understood. Where the process of cancelling or renewing a young person's registration would, as the reporter asserts, appear to be skewed in favour of the best interests of the professional club and that, from the age of 10, children are effectively making a decision that ties them to one professional team for the duration of their youth football years, unless on other side steps are on reimbusess training costs. Surely no one would deny the appropriateness of ensuring that each young person registering to play with a pro-club is provided with age-appropriate guidance on what that registration actually means in advance of signing it and the age-appropriate versions of codes of conduct are developed. Some will balk at some of what is being proposed, they will predict implementation of those measures, will put clubs off bringing through youngsters and undermine the whole development process. I am not sure quite why that would be the case. The better that young players are treated, surely more likely is that they will choose to remain with the club that they are linked to, and the club will inevitably get far more out of a contented player than one being forced to be held on to. In other words, everyone wins. I now call James Kelly to be followed by Mark McDonald. Thank you very much, Deputy Presiding Officer. First of all, I congratulate Chick Brody on securing the debate tonight, focusing on the issue of youth football. There is no doubt that when you listen to all the members speaking and I very much align myself with that, football is a big part of our lives, a big part of our upbringing, and I think that it is also really important in our constituencies a lot of communities that we represent. Football currently plays a big part there and, historically, it has also made a major contribution. I want to start by noting some of the local successes in relation to my constituency and start by highlighting the excellent work of the Blantyre Soccer Academy, which has been chaired and organised by local Jimmy Whelan. This is an excellent club that supports many in the community across boys and girls. The highlight for this club each year is the Raymond Gormley memorial football tournament. It is in celebration of young Raymond Gormley who tragically lost his life in a stabbing in 2011. However, the tournament not only allows a lot of young teams in Blantyre to come together but also raises money for charity and also helps to support the Gormley family. I think that that is something to celebrate. I also very much welcome the growth in women and girls football in recent years. In fact, there are two youngsters in my constituency, Miltmore and Cunningham from Stonelaw High and Brogan Hay from Trinity High, who are part of the Scotland under 15s girls team. I think that they are very much to be commended on their success. I also think that football can be used positively. Nill-by-Mouth has some excellent schemes where they use football as a method of tackling sectarianism to bring down barriers that exist between communities and that they use football as a vehicle for dealing with that. I very much want to commend the work of Dave Scott and his team in doing so. In relation to tonight's debate, although we want to celebrate youth football and be positive as Kenny MacAskill was about the current state of playing in Scottish football, I think that Chick Brody raised some very important issues about how young people are treated. When people are tied into contracts and they are not able to play as freely as they would like to play, as John Pentland pointed out, that is not only unfair but an infringement of young people's rights. I also think that it is totally unacceptable if we get a situation where clubs are paying youngsters less in the minimum wage. As Chick Brody said, it is incumbent not only on the clubs but on the football authorities, the SFA and the SPFL to take responsibility in this area and to ensure that that does not happen. We cannot have it not happen. We have an opportunity with the Petitions Committee to examine the commissioner's report. It gives us a platform not only to examine those issues but also to ensure that we can hold the clubs and the football organisations to account. That gives us an opportunity in relation to tonight's debate, not only to celebrate the success of youth football but to ensure that the arrangements around taking good care of our youngsters are robust going into the future. Mark McDonald, please. Thank you very much, Presiding Officer. I stand as somebody who has both been a youth football player and a youth football coach, having coached the under-13s team at Dice Boys' Club back in the before I became elected. Both Dice Boys' Club and Albion Boys' Club, who are the two youth clubs in Aberdeen, who tend to compete for honours alongside Loose United Youth, are based in my constituency. Loose United Youth are an interesting club, because they are established as a result of players being released from the Aberdeen FC under 12 development squad and have since grown to become a much larger club with teams at all age groups. Dice was the club that I coached with. The past players who have come through that system include Graham Shinney, who lifted the Scottish Cup for Caledysol at the weekend, and his brother Andrew, who plays for Birmingham. He recently retired Aberdeen captain Russell Anderson and Stuart Armstrong, who recently signed for Celtic from Dundee United. Many clubs can point to players playing their trade professionally as players who have come through their system. Many can also attest to the ones who got away as well and who perhaps came through a different route. The point is prescient around expectation among young players. Certainly, I remember when my brother played youth football, he was a contemporary of Sean Maloney, who played for one of the competitor clubs that he played against. There were players who my brother played for the Aberdeen squad that went to the Jack Wood tournament in Wales, who were training with professional clubs. At that time, those clubs did not have their own age group-specific teams per se. They would take players who were attached with other clubs to train with them and would then decide who they would sign up on to forms at a later stage. However, now, clubs have development squads at all age groups, consisting of a large number of boys. I think that Chick Brody makes the point that, for many of those youngsters, they perhaps do not realise at the point at which they sign for the clubs just how few people can make it in the game. Perhaps we need to do more to ensure that that realisation in those expectation levels is managed both for the players themselves and for their parents. I think that there is a question about how we develop young players in Scotland. One of the things that I am very passionate about is summer football. Having coached at youth level, one of the most frustrating things is trying to encourage passing football, trying to encourage the skills that you teach in the gym hall or the training area, and trying to put that into practice on the pitch. We are trying to do that in some of the weather conditions that we experience in Scotland in January and February when it becomes much more difficult for young players in particular to hone those skills. You end up developing the kick-and-rush football because in driving rain and gale force winds, sometimes that is all that you are faced with. I think that, in terms of the development of young players, how the professional clubs interact with what we call the feeder clubs or the established youth clubs when players are being released so that they are not left to try to go and find a club at a point at which they will obviously be quite upset at the fact that they are no longer going to be continued within the system of a professional club. That needs to be looked at as well. One final point, if I may, is around the loss of municipal pitches, which I think is an issue that we need to look at very carefully. In my constituency, Aberdeen Lads club pitches are about to be developed upon. That will result in the loss of a number of grass pitches, which are to be replaced by one 3G pitch, not within that community but elsewhere in the city. That will be a benefit to the community of Northfield who are set to get that 3G pitch. All 3G pitches can be used more than grass pitches because of the quality of the surface. I think that we need to look very carefully at how municipal pitches are being protected and also how the upkeep of those pitches is being protected as well, to ensure that when our young developing players go out and play on those pitches, they are able to play the game the way that we would expect the game to be played and can develop their skills from there. Thank you very much. Can I now invite the minister, Jamie Hepburn, to respond to the debate, minister, seven minutes or so? Thank you very much. I thank all members for taking part in the debate. I particularly like to thank Jack Brodie for securing the debate so that the Parliament can consider the benefits that youth football can bring across the country. I know that Mr Brodie has a keen interest in football. I know that he was a very good footballer in his youth. I primarily know that, minister, because Mr Brodie tells me and assures me that it was the case, but I know that he is a survivor of the junior leagues in Dundee, making my own modest achievements in football pale by comparison. In a week, I think that we can all accept that football has had its difficulties internationally. I think that this debate can serve as a reminder of what is good about the game and what is good about the sport of football, about opportunities for youngsters to take part in something that they love young people. Girls and boys taking part in football are the lifelid of the game, so we must do all we can to encourage them so that they can flourish and make the most of their talents and, hopefully, if they get the opportunity to have successful careers. Mr Brodie has raised legitimate concerns about the processes of registration of players with professional clubs, and I will come to that in due course. However, it is important to recognise that most youth football is delivered at the amateur level. Only a very small proportion will be delivered through Scotland's professional clubs, and that means that there are thousands of volunteers across the country. Mums and dads dedicated coaches devoting their time to support the youngsters to have the opportunity to take part in youth football. Of course, all members will have many examples of such youth clubs in their area. James Kelly reminded us of the importance of football to communities across Scotland. I think that it is appropriate that this juncture to put on record my thanks. I am sure that all members thanks for the efforts of those volunteers involved in amateur youth football. Many members gave examples of good work in their area. Mr Kelly gave a very specific example of how powerful football can be as a positive example of community cohesion with the example of the tournament held to honour the memory of Raymond Gorman. I would like to thank him for bringing that example to the chamber. Malcolm Chisholm made the point that we must do more to support girls into football. I quite agree with that perspective. Frankly, it is a point that could be made more generally about sport. I am sure that Malcolm Chisholm would agree that I had the opportunity to attend the Scottish women. I am aware that, through the establishment of the quality mark, clubs that were specifically only orientated towards boys football are now branching out to include girls teams in girls training sessions, which allow more girls to get involved in football at the grass roots. The quality mark has been a very welcome addition. I recognise that, in my area, we have a very good example of a club that has gone through that process, the common old colts, which offer opportunities right across the age ranges to some 500-plus youngsters, including girls. They have achieved that standard. Indeed, I could let the chamber know that it was very delighted to learn that, only now that they have that status, they have just been accepted to full membership of the Scottish Football Association, which is a great recognition of the effort that they make locally. I am allowed to make a specific local example in those debates. I hope that you will allow me to do so. On the issue of the role of girls in football and sport more generally, I was very privileged to attend the Scottish Women's Sport Conference last week. Those were issues that were being taken up there. Of course, the Scottish Government commissioned the working group on women in sport, which was chaired by Barnas, Sue Campbell and Sport Scotland. They are now taking forward the work of that group through their own equality subgroup, which will ultimately report to their board. However, I very much recognise that we have to do more to promote positive role models for girls. Of course, such examples exist. Chick Brody has raised concerns. I promise that I will turn my attention to those concerns in. I say that he has raised concerns about the role of elite clubs. I can think of a very positive example from one of Scotland's elite clubs, Glasgow City, if football club is the best women's team in the country. Indeed, by the last Scottish club left in Europe in the season, they just passed the furthest of any of the clubs competing in Europe. I was delighted to meet Laura Montgomery, who is a co-founder and director of Glasgow City. I was very struck by that club's determination to support young girls into football and also providing the positive role models through the players that they have playing for their first team. Let me turn my attention to the specific points raised on youth football contracts and registration issues by Chick Brody. I know that the Public Petitions Committee has been working on that issue since 2010. When the petition was lodged with it, I know that Chick Brody has taken a close interest in it. The committee, of course, requested that comprehensive review to be undertaken by the Scottish Commissioner for Children and Young People on the current registration process, particularly from a rights perspective. Mr Brody referred to that, and indeed the convener of the committee mentioned that. I am very pleased to see that review has been completed and has begun to be considered by the committee. It is a thorough and substantial report that incorporates a child rights impact assessment, explores the views of young players and has a wide range of recommendations for those involved in youth football, particularly the clubs and the SFA. I suggest that it is a bit premature for me to comment in too much detail in relation to that report. I know that the committee still has a job of work to do, so I look forward to—the conveners confirmed that they are going to take evidence from the commission and I look forward to seeing the results from that and seeing where the committee takes its petition. However, I can say that I have seen some of the coverage generated by Mr Brody's concept with the press over the weekend. Mr Brody alluded to the example of the young man who is unable to play for his university team or an amateur level because the professional club, which holds his registration, refuses to release him from that. That, quite clearly, seems unfair and unreasonable. I can also inform Mr Brody that I have sought a meeting with the Children and Young People's Commissioner to discuss his report. I am also very happy to meet Mr Brody directly to discuss his concerns and perspectives on the matter. I recognise the legitimate concerns that Mr Brody has raised, but we should recognise the vast good that is out there in youth football across Scotland. I thank Chuck Brody for securing tonight's debate to give us the opportunity to have done just that. Thank you very much. I thank the minister and that concludes Chuck Brody's debate on youth football's contribution to men's and women's football. I now close this meeting of Parliament.


So we'll be speaking now about the Qadish. The Qadish is probably one of the best known prayers in the Jewish liturgy, but probably one of the least understood. It's actually very difficult to place Qadish under a microscope because there are actually various kinds of Qadish that are recited at different times. We have, for example, the Qadish du Rebanon, the Rabbis Qadish, which is said after a study of one of the agaddic or homiletic portions, passages in the writings of the sages. Then there's something called Qadish Shalame, which is a full Qadish which is said by the leader of public prayer services at the end of each of the major sections in the prayer service. Then there's something called Khatsi Qadish, which is a half Qadish, which again is said by the prayer leader during formal prayer services between the various parts of the prayers. Then there's what is referred to as the Qadish Yasom, which is the mourners Qadish, which is recited by mourners at the end of the prayer service and at the end of different Psalms that are recited. And finally, there's an expanded form of Qadish, which is said at a cemetery after a funeral. And as well, there's an expanded form of Qadish that's said after the completion of a tractate of the Talmud. What I want to focus on tonight is the better known of these forms of Qadish, which is the mourners Qadish. So before we actually explore the meaning of the text, let's just read the text. The mourners Qadish. May his great name grow exalted and sanctified in the world that he created as he willed. May he give reign to his kingship in your lifetimes and in your days. And in the lifetimes of the entire family of Israel, swiftly and soon, and now respond Amin. And the congregation responds by saying, Amin, may his great name be blessed forever and ever. And then the reciter continues. May his great name be blessed forever and ever. Blessed, praised, glorified, exalted, extolled, mighty, upraised and lauded be the name of the Holy One. Blessed is he. Beyond any blessing and song, praise and consolation that are uttered in the world now and respond Amin. May there be abundant peace from heaven and life upon us and upon all of Israel. Now respond Amin. May he who makes peace in his heights, may he make peace upon us and upon all of Israel and now respond Amin. What is going on in the mourners Qadish? First of all, Qadish is always recited in a quorum. In a minion of at least 10 male worshipers. And what happens when the mourner comes to recite Qadish in a quorum? It places them within the community of worshipers out of the dark isolation of mourning. Mourning is a very difficult period to be in. We often feel very alone. And so the very process of having to leave our isolation and come to be among a group of other Jewish people in a supportive environment to say Qadish is very healing. There's great comfort in being part of the community. Number two, Qadish brings us into the presence of God because death can alienate us from God. Death can feel very unfair. And so despite our loss in the Qadish we affirm our faith in God and we come to peace with God. Number three, Qadish connects us to the person who died. In the words of Rabbi Maurice Lam, Qadish is a hand clasp between generations. There's tremendous consolation to the deceased themselves to know that their children are continuing their legacy. Number four, Qadish is a consolation to God because God's image is diminished by the loss of any being that's created in his image. So when God's image is decreased, the Qadish says we magnify God, we exalt God. The Qadish is a consolation to God. And finally Qadish changes and elevates the person that is reciting it because the mourner should reflect on whether they are fully revealing the divine soul that's within them. So Qadish exalts God, but Qadish also exalts each being created in his image. And finally Qadish lifts up the soul of the deceased.  By our saying Qadish, we demonstrate that the deceased was a catalyst for our lifting up the name of God. That brings healing and merit and elevation to the souls of those who have passed away. Qadish is the actualization and the articulation of the entire purpose of our existence and the purpose of the nation of Israel. After all, what is the purpose of human existence? So the Torah says that God created human beings in order to have a relationship with him. God is seeking a relationship with every human being in the world. The goal of history, according to Judaism, and this comes through very clearly on our prayers said on Rosh Hashanah, but it's said in the Qadish itself, the goal of history is that every human being comes to know God. And that's why God shows Israel as his chosen people, to be his ambassadors to the world. God says to Abraham, in your seed, all the nations of the world shall be blessed. Before we receive the Torah at Mount Sinai, God says to us that we are to be a kingdom of priests and a holy nation. Priests are teachers and Israel is here to teach the world. The prophet Isaiah says that we are to be a light to the nations. Isaiah says that we are to be God's witnesses. The people of Israel are called upon by God to witness to his reality in the world. And so in the Qadish when we proclaim the greatness of God, the Qadish is a public sanctification of his name and it's a prayer that soon all of God's desire for a world that will know him will soon be realized. That is the greatness of Qadish.


Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia Claudia based on the original stories by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday. Are your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola? Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself Have a coke and now Claudia Yes dear your way I have the impression that I am oh were you asleep? It's not time to get up yet What's the matter? Nothing. I was just wondering if you knew what day it was Monday. Oh It's come to that just Monday. It isn't an anniversary of our marriage There are other anniversaries than marriage anniversaries. Your birthday isn't until December and I'm not talking about my birthday Oh, I know what?  I was to forget can you ever forget I'll think it over and it wasn't a week ago today It will be a week ago tomorrow. Well practically a week Do you realize we haven't bought a stick of furniture for this place? We have the bedroom except for the rugs curtains a couple of chairs and some lamps what more do you want? Well, don't you think we ought to start buying things? No hurry. Well, we have got a place to sleep and the kitchen's furnished so we can eat But we might like to have somebody in oh Thanksgiving Day I didn't notice that lack of furniture stopped you Hartley and Roger and mama We had the trunks and the bells to sit on and eat off of now They're all unpacked and we sent them down to the cellar. Well and darling if the Homemaking instinct is staring within you. Let's go ahead. Good. How much have we got to stand much as we need I guess I'd set aside about 2,500 It's an awful lot with the price of things today. It probably won't be enough I'll knock off this afternoon and we'll shop together. Oh, you sound so Masterly. Oh darling you even kiss good morning in a very masterly way Even I've never been to an auction I've always wanted to go to one the way you say that makes me wish I'd never brought the matter up Why I don't like to look in your eye Something tells me you've got the auction bug before we ever start David this is wonderful. What's wonderful the auction say it hasn't begun yet. What do you do? Do you just call out the price you want to pay for something? It is an awful lot of men in the audience. They all look like they could be your uncles or something. They're antique dealers most of them Buying things the same as us. We're not going to buy anything. We're just going to watch the day that you said We were gonna buy our furniture today. We're just going to get ready to buy it We haven't examined any of the things they're going to sell You have to look at them beforehand But you you can see them when they're put up on the platform. Can't you not enough David if dealers come to Auction sales to buy things and then you buy them later from the dealer in a store. You pay just that much more, don't you? Theoretically, yes, then why doesn't everyone buy their things at auction because Why because like most theories it only works that way in theory darling read your catalog like a good girl It's a lovely big catalog to get for nothing pictures and everything Say how can they afford to get them away free they afford it don't worry Hey listen to what this says David furnishings a famous Long Island house to close the state David look at the picture of this sofa. Now look that's what I call a sofa. Which number is it? 32 32 32 30. Here it is Genuine sheriff and sofa with original needle point. Hmm. You've got good taste darling. Wouldn't it be lovely in our living room? Yes, very lovely. It's just what I had in mind Say you don't object. It's being second hand. Do you it isn't second hand? It happens to be a collector's piece It's an original and that's good. Yes darling. Very good Say of the beginning remember we're not going to buy anything. We're just looking around this afternoon The estate of Ari Emerson the entire contents and furnishings of a famous Long Island mansion will be put up at seven Look what they're putting up on the platform a checker set They sell toys to that isn't the toy Checkers is a toy and it isn't checkers. It's chess Actually the same first time on the server day. Do I hear a hundred dollars a hundred dollars? Do I hear 50? 25 do I hear 10 three dollars? I did I have three dollars three dollars? Do I hear five? Ladies and gentlemen, is it possible? I've been only three dollars with this rare and beautiful late 18th century Ivory chess set elaborately hand-carved and in perfect condition. I can hardly believe my ears. Five But David, you don't need a chess set? Five dollars, I did five. Five dollars, I did. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a crime. He's right. It's giving it away. Five, six, seven, fifty, seven, fifty, seven, fifty, I did, I did. David, don't be silly. You don't play chess. I was on the chess team at college. Darling, you're out of college now and we need chairs to sit on and at tables to eat from. One table will do. I can only eat from one table at a time. Such as we haven't got any things to put on any of the tables we haven't got yet. Uh, ten dollars. Ten dollars, I'm big. I have twelve fifty, twelve fifty. Does the gentleman say fifteen? Fifteen. The gentleman wasn't going to buy anything, but the gentleman says fifteen. But Claudia, just with David, who are you going to play with? I'll teach you, heaven help me. Sixteen. I asked ten dollars for this handsome chess set. Seventeen fifty. David. A bid of seventeen fifty from the gentleman. Nineteen dollars. Twenty-two fifty. Twenty-two fifty. You could have bid nineteen fifty. Twenty-two fifty. And the bidder against me would have kept going up. I wanted to stop him. You see, there's a system to it. Going once, going twice, sold. I've got it, Joe. I've got it. It's a steal. It's worth five times that much. That's good. David, look, is it stunning? Uh, nothing. What did you say, David? What can I bring in now? Look, look. Isn't that stunning? What is it? Sheffield Punch Bowl, eighteen twenty. I don't know what we'd do without a punch bowl. Ten dollars for this eighteen twenty Sheffield Punch Bowl. Ten dollars, ten dollars. Do I have fifteen? Do I have fifteen? All come now, friends. You can't fail to take advantage of this rare bargain. Just look at the piece. David, it's beautiful. I want it. What for? I have fifteen. I can't bear it. We've got two soup terrains from Aunt Louisa. Remember, if you have a punch bowl, you have to have a table. We lose your chess table when you're not playing chess. Now that is hitting under the bell. Twenty fifteen, going to the gentleman on the side of fifteen, going once, going twice. Twenty two fifty. Twenty two fifty to the young lady. Twenty two fifty, going once, going twice, sold. Gentlemen, this is a beautiful piece of furniture. Just look at that. One of the finest pieces in the collection. One of the finest pieces we've offered in many years, and I have auctioned many, many objects over the years. Now, who will give me a bit of fifteen for this lovely Sheraton sofa? David, that's awesome. Fifteen. It's even more beautiful than in the picture. Fifteen. Fifteen. Pretty nice. Do I have fifteen? Fifteen. Come now, ladies and gentlemen. Surely that isn't asking too much for this fully valuable piece. Fifteen, I have fifteen. And now I have fifteen, fifty, fifteen, fifty. Do I have sixteen? David, that's dirty. Do I have sixteen? Because it's so shabby, I guess. I have sixteen. I have sixteen. Don't shush me. It's nothing. I have sixteen. Sixteen, sixteen. Now I have seventeen. Who'll make it eighteen for this rare and priceless old piece? David and the sofa were thinking of as four hundred dollars, and there was all. Who'll make it eighteen? Eighteen. I have eighteen, fifteen, fifteen, fifteen, ladies and gentlemen. This is a crime that's no price for this beautiful old piece. Ladies and gentlemen, the needlework alone is worth more. David, he's right. Eighteen, fifteen. Eighteen, fifteen. I'm bid eighteen, fifty. Do I hear nineteen? Nineteen, I have nineteen. Nineteen, fifty on the side. Twenty-two, fifty. Twenty-two, fifty. I have twenty-two, fifty. The little lady in the rear has good taste. She knows a bargain when she sees one. Twenty-two, fifty for this rare collector's piece. Twenty-two, fifty going once, going twice. Are you done? Sold! David, it's my something. Heaven's sakes don't just stand there staring at me like that. Say something. I... I can't. But you love it, don't you? You said it was beautiful, didn't you? Now you have number thirty-three, a pair of valuable chip and nail chairs. Now what am I doing for this beautiful... Let's get out of here. Excuse me. What's wrong? Hey, wait for me! I need air, I'm going out in the hall. David, you're positively white, don't you feel well? Oh, sure, I feel fine, fine. Well, you don't look fine, you look sick. Listen to me, darling. Do you love that sofa? Of course. Don't you? Yes, I love it. I don't even want to change that old cover, and I think it's beautiful. From a distance, at least. It better be beautiful close-up, too, darling. Say, David, why do you act so funny? Me? Acting funny? Yes, you acting funny? Look, darling, which would you rather do?  One beautiful, lovely thing, of course. No, that's good. Come on back to the cashier's desk, and I'll make out a check for the sofa. And $22.50 for the chess set. And $22.50 for the punch bowl. Say, $22.50 is our lucky number today. Yes, darling, $22.50 is our lucky number. Oh, lady, just a moment, lady. That man's calling us, David. What's he want, do you think? I'm past thinking. I just want to get out of here. Excuse me, but you're a lady that just bought the shirt and sofa for $22.50. You wouldn't consider selling it, would you? Why should I, for goodness sakes? Claudia, wait a minute. But, David, I don't want to sell it. Where could we get another one at the same price? Well, Hank, no harm in asking. Thought maybe you'd want to make a little profit on it. I'd be willing to give you $25 for it. But if you wanted it, why didn't you bid on it? Well, frankly, lady, I did bid on it. I got a client, asked me to get it for her, and I know she's going to hate to lose it. I bet she is.  It sort of takes courage to jump a bid like you did. I don't know what you're talking about. You wouldn't consider letting me have it for, say, $2,600, would you? No, I love that sofa. I would. What did you say? $2,600, what? $2,600, Claudia. The gentleman is asking you to sell the sofa that you just bought for $2,250 for $2,600. David, what have I done? It's what are you going to do? I think I'm going to faint. This broadcast of Claudia was supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney. Your day's work is done, and you slide comfortably into your favorite armchair. The music is soft and pleasant. What more could you ask? Just one thing, an ice cold Coca-Cola for the pause that refreshes. Now that more Coke is available, you might as well buy it by the case. Then there'll always be plenty in the refrigerator for hospitality as well as family refreshment. Suppose you ask your grocer or service station attendant to put a case in your car tomorrow. Every day, Monday through Friday, Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola. So listen again tomorrow at the same time. And now this is Joe King saying, au revoir and remember, whoever you are, whatever you do, wherever you may be, when you think of refreshment, think of Coca-Cola or ice cold Coca-Cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes.


Most herbaceous plants are dug up with a little soil on the roots. Some botanists had the habit in the time when a lot of the collecting was being done of washing the roots, but others didn't and those where they didn't wash, the soil can be used for pollen analysis to tell what the sort of climate was where that plant grew by looking at the whole complex, not just the one plant, but the whole complex that the pollen indicates was there. And there have been such studies. Another thing that we're now doing is there are some herbarium specimens that represent specimens of trees which are still alive and maybe the specimen was collected 100 years ago and the tree is still alive and it's interesting to look at what the difference is between the pollen and the living tree and what it was like 100 years ago. There are differences and some people think it is due to increase in air pollution or possibly it's just mutations but there is a difference and it's interesting to study.