As we reported yesterday, Celtic have been busy buying up land around the periphery of the stadium for many years. The club managed to get the deal to buy land behind the Jock Stein Stand done before the mineral seam running below it was discovered. I hear the excavation rights are estimated to be worth £50m to Celtic, who bought the land for £3m in January 2009 with money which had been earmarked to buy Stephen Fletcher. Hibernian thought the Fletcher deal was done but Celtic pulled out at the last minute when the land deal became available due to an emergency cash requirement at the Council, who needed to build schools to educate children arriving in the city from Eastern Europe.
Back then, when I asked why we weren’t signing Fletcher a senior source at the club told me, “We can only spend that £3m once and we need the land for burger vans and stuff.” Before kick-off, fans currently go off-premises to spend their money, cash that could be going to Celtic. Source added, “We’ll be able to buy a Fletcher every year with the catering income we’ll make from this land deal.”
Made sense at the time, makes more sense now.
That £50m is due to arrive in time to get the Co-op off our case and leave a substantial amount available to deal with what could be the first season we ever face Sevco- keeping them in their place.
Good luck to the Celtic fans based in North America ahead of the Féile on the weekend of 17-19 January. Events are based at The Plough & Stars, Philidelphia, include live music, a tour of the An Gorta Mor Memorial, a live Beyond the Waves broadcast and a Q&A with Celtic Youth Coach, Willie McNabb.
Visit ploughbhoyscsc.com for more details, including how to secure accommodation.
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A couple of Celtic questions any word on is Ledley staying or going ? any idea why Kayal is on a plane back to Glasgow is he injured again ? H.H.
oldtim67
17:37 on 9 January, 2014
ACGR.& corkcelt..
Many Happy returns on your birthdays,both of you guys must be about the same age.
……………….,,,.
Do you reckon if you add the ages together they would be older than Celtic????
Forget about the need to be convinced.
Vote for what your used to.
Vote through fear.
Vote to take what ever is served up by the Eton boys club.
Stand shoulder to shoulder with the Tories….and the Orangemen……..and the zombies………Vote NO!
Keep the status quo, we suffered just fine, so the weans can suffer it too.
God Bless Her Majesty’s United Kingdom, we can’t go it alone, we’re useless without direction from down south. We need to be grateful to London, without them we are just rudderless.
Remember your place
Rule Britannia!
johann murdoch
17:36 on 9 January, 2014
Happy New Year mate, tried to send you a text a few days ago but wouldn’t go, nothing exciting as it turns out.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
BB
With Peter Lawwell as deputy!
googybhoy ♥ celtic
17:42 on 9 January, 2014
Or older than oldtim…:)
Just kidding oldtim.
Joint ages of ACGR and corkcelt not collectively older than CFC, although not that far away.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
wdh
How are you keeping?
Professionally: B. Maule. Strengths and weaknesses?
Now Smashy is askin me to post a message re his missing wooden leg….I’ve told him to hop it….
joe filippis haircut – protect our country against who? Serious question.
Game on Premier Sports which is free on Virgin I understand .
JamsieBhoy. Anyone the current British Army, Navy and Air Force protect us against currently. H.H.
31003
17:47 on 9 January, 2014
Tell him Jake stole it…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
To all of those advocating a Yes vote on independance I say it is your choice. However do not be deluded into thinking that the OO and the Hand shakers will not come after the RC’s Re schools and our club. They truly detest us with a passion.
My own family is split RC and Protestant, right down the middle and I can tell you that the schools issue is a massive bug bear with some of my Proddy family. They really will dance in the streets if any government abolishes RC schools and make no mistake it will be done with all the stealth and sleekit will in the world. They are very very good at being sleekit, it is hammered into them from an early age.
Just watch the massive influx from the six counties where Sammy and his family will think that an Independant Scotland is the holy grail where they can once again exert massive overlording of a new Catholic population as they are being left behind in their own wee sick counties.
As I choose to live in Suffolk and have no desire to return Independant or not, it will not affect me.
Just saying like.
Big Turnbull is right, I wouldn’t fancy the zombie support above me…University challenge not!
HH
lennybhoy…supporting the dam 5, neil lennon, wee oscar knox, and cfc until i die
I did think of that when I posted but thought it was a cheap shot.
What ever happened to respect for your elders?
I blame Catholic schools.
Independence should see an end to them. :>{}
joe filippis haircut – always remover the second last lot that tried to invade disappeared and the built a wall to keep us in.
HH
P67 piece today has to be a wind up hasn’t it?
tractorbhoy
17:51 on 9 January, 2014
Independence for Suffolk.
Jungle Jim
I think I beat you. It’s just under 60 miles from Belfast to Cairnryan and just 63 miles from Cairnryan to Celtic Park and a further 8 miles from my home to the Belfast ferry terminal. That’s a round trip of approx 262 miles. I set off at 5.45 am on a Saturday morning and reach home at 6.30 pm on Sunday.
I would imagine Hebcelt would beat that travelling from Stornoway.
I have a friend who travels regularly from Dungloe, West Donegal, a round trip of 498 miles!
I often meet Big Jock on the ferry. He is a a season book holder and travels regularly from Castlebar via Belfast. A round trip of 588 miles.
Hail hail
Thanks to my comrades for birthday wishes, our combined years are, I believe 116. I’m carrying the can for the majority of those years. On more important matters what time is kick off tonight.
e=mc2 skiving at work
17:53 on 9 January, 2014
P67 piece today has to be a wind up hasn’t it?
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh
People are watching
Maybe I m being stupid here, but why not put sevco fans down below the raith guys?
Unless they are concerned about an invasion by zombies while the rovers players are parading with the cup.
JamsieBhoy. It for me is a complex issue. I do believe like some others Catholic schools would be under real threat if we vote yes.However,as I said I am undecided. H.H.
Do people honestly believe that any government in Scotland are going to abolish catholic schools?
This is just madness. Worthy of follow follow intelligence.
Can we have a grown up discussion now please?
corkcelt- supporting the dam 5
17:55 on 9 January, 2014
I reckoned it was 117, arithmetic never my strongest point…:)
You don’t look as old as ACGR…:)
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
corkcelt
18.30 CPT
HH
Is it just me or are the cyber gnats on here getting increasingly desperate?
It’s almost as if they know they’ve backed a loser.
Nine months of the same old exhortations and half baked heedrum hodrum nonsense is going to be very, very boring.
Few observations on the Indy debate.
It will be won or lost by each side’s economic credentials; emotional arguments are a waste of time. Anyone who is going to make their mind up (yes and no) on this basis has already made up their mind.
It’s nonsense to compare Scotland with former British colonies. It is also, in my opinion, worthless to compare the Scottish experience of union with that of nationalists in the north of Ireland.
The previous failures of Labour governments are no reason to vote yes. There remains no constitutional obstacle to the apparatus of the British state bring re-configured towards more socially just destinations. Dislike of the SNP is no reason to vote no, but labour failures in the past are similary no reason to vote Yes.
Scottish voters, in terms of number of MPs and their MPs continued ability post devolution to vote on matters which don’t affect Scotland, are arguably more influential within Westminster than their English counterparts.
Voting yes is a big two fingered sionara to labour voters in England and Wales. They’re condemned to perpetual Tory rule if we vote yes. Why should I do that? Why not aim for something more substantial than independence that involves them?
e=mc2
No, the East End is riddled with old mine workings, and Celtic Park is smack bang on top of an incredibly rich seam of anthracite.
It was historically too unstable to mine, but the development of CO2 sequestration technologies, and its associated methane production means the site is now not only economically viable, but highly lucrative.
It’s expected the site will produce around 5000 mcm of gas annually and last for 30 years, the equivalent of 5% of the entire UK offshore gas output.
The additional income from CO2 sequestration is yet to be valued.
Who’dathunkitCSC
Haven’t read back so some bright spark might have beat me to it.
We had to watch Willo Flood or risk salmonella from dodgy burger vans.
Difficult choice.
Mr.Paul Brennan you are very good at spin my man.
Would make a very good politician methinks.
a c g r and corkcelt both older th
an thems congrats to you both the most recent event i recall about someone not believing dead meant dead was a movie about a big hoose the unbelieving survivor was a master bates and the title was phsyco……..the similarities abound
RC
You just gave me a flashback to The Young Ones. Scumbag College! :)))
Googybhoy.
I’m afraid Suffolk cannot get any more Tory than it is now.
On the schools issue I was reared on stories from my great uncle John Ryan, God bless his soul. He was a Partick man and told of the riots in Partick Burgh Hall when the OO tried to stop the schools from being RC. It took great men like the Boar and other Partick Catholics to stand up to these bigots and yes on occasion crack a few knuckle dragging skulls.
Times have not changed since those days they will always try and keep us down.
Delaneys Dunky
18:04 on 9 January, 2014
RC
You just gave me a flashback to The Young Ones. Scumbag College! :)))
They were ugly but the zombies are worse :)
Delaney’s Dunky
At the risk of prolonging this:-
“The Unionists who post here seem to use scaremonger tactics,”
Both sides use scaremonger tactics because they are effective. You pass by without comment when other Pro-Yes voters say “If you don’t vote Yes, you’ll be governed by the English/Tories/Unionists/Monarchists”, “this is a once in a lifetime opportunity” (funnily enough I have had 2 such opportunities and, if it;s a close Vote for NO, I’ll give you short odds on a 3rd chance) or even”Think of the grandchildren”. What is that if not the invocation of fears? The only difference is they are fears you share rather than reject.
” I feel self determination should be our grandchildren’s right.”
It is and it always will be so long as we live in a democracy. Why do you think we are having a referendum? It is because Scots voted SNP in large numbers. It was not granted by English largesse or fears; it was earned in the ballot box. If there is a No vote and people continue to vote SNP heavily thereafter, then there will be other opportunities.
If, as we are constantly told, people want to vote for a left wing Scottish Party then why not join one or start one with that aim. If it is as popular an aim as you say, then millions should join and vote. It would not be a referendum on the SNP, it would be for a monarchy free, own currency, Nato-free(?) country.
If you vote Yes, expecting this fantasy to fall in place thereafter, then look in that poke and you will find a smelly farm animal.
QuickDraw
“When the oil runs out there is a very good chance that England will grant us our independence.”
Really?? That’s not how democracy works. We get to vote for Independence every time we go to the Ballot Box. If enough Scots want it, it happens. England (I’ll overlook the subtraction of Wales, the 6 counties, and your fellow Scots) is not some tyrant denying you a vote and self determination; there has been an SNP option on every ballot paper in every election that you and I have voted in. Don’t blame the English for the faults(??) of your fellow Scots. We get the government that we, collectively, vote for. All that independence does is change the terms of who gets defined within the collective.
Now, I am off to watch some football and, when I come back, I will want to talk about that not this.
Vote yes??? Aye and see the very worst of the masonic control. It’d bad enough now and has been for years but until the core of masonics is destroyed I say we stay in the Uk. Better the devil you know etc etc.
Imagine what it would be like , just imagine!! You think it’s bad now, just wait!!!
Within years, all RC’s would be put to the sword, RC churches burned to the ground. Celtic would be out of business in a short space of time, they would find “something” bet you’re bottom dollar.
Nuff said
KINGLuBO
I see the normal square sausage provider is offering one for tonight’s game. Team Zaluska; Matthews, Ambrose, van Dijk, Izaguirre; Biton, Brown; Forrest, Pukki, Boerrigter; Balde
Subs: Fasan, Ledley, Commons, Mulgrew ,Fisher, Atajic, O’Connell, Chalmers
Teams warming up. Not many in the stadium.