I was at the Allianz Arena when we visited on Champions League duty this season. There are many reasons to like the Munich stadium (although navigating back to the bus was not one of them), but stadium lights were like nothing I had ever seen.
Not only do they illuminate the Arena to a near-daylight level, they can instantly flash on and off, creating a spectacular pre-match lightshow. Tools like this improve stadium atmosphere as well as providing a more striking event for TV viewers. Celtic Park will be transformed when we install these lights this summer.
A new hybrid pitch (part grass, part plastic) will provide the very best surface available anywhere in the world. It will be durable and bowling green-smooth.
Money will also be spent on the roof, which is the Achilles heel of the stadium. The design is prone to leaks and makes it difficult for public address and wifi systems to effectively reach spectators. A seven figure sum will be spent on the roof, but we need to realise a fundamental rethink is required.
As international tournaments reached Netherlands, Poland, Ukraine and now Russia, closing roofs were installed at stadiums. This increases attendance, game-experience, time inside the stadium and makes the game attractive to new attendees, who would never consider sitting in an exposed wind 147 steps in the air.
This technology has never been more affordable and is the norm from Kazakhstan to Cardiff. It needs to come to Celtic Park. I suspect those who sit in the South Stand do not have a full grasp on the match day experience of those in the upper sections of the rest of the stadium.
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By all means renew if you believe you’re buying your ST from people who have confidence in the fair and honest governance of the game up here, and who trust that those charged with this can be held accountable if they fail in their duty.
Auldheid stated some time back that supporters may have to choose between self-respect and loyalty to the club.
I don’t feel the club have shown any loyalty to supporters like me who spent thousands on a proven rigged game over a 10 year period. Not once have I heard this mentioned by the board, far less felt any anger from them about it.
Of course, that was done in ignorance. That excuse doesn’t exist now, and the game up here remains rigged, as one glance at the club section of the SPFL website, ‘Rangers’ ‘Honours’ will show. Founded in 1872, dontcha know!
That’s right, Rangers, a club who owed over 150 million pounds to creditors who didn’t get paid because that debtor club stopped being Rangers.
And now the debts are gone, we’ve to allow our intelligence to be insulted, because we’ve to accept they are still Rangers after all, the club who stole our money.
So we should pay all over again to watch a farce based on the Big Lie.
Aye, haud me back. No wonder some are hesitating about renewal.
And for the information of some who love these ‘great Celtic times’, with no place for doubt, self-respect is not the same as self-righteousness.
A thread on Swallow Swallow that shows just how deluded they are: https://www.followfollow.com/forum/threads/a-downer-thread-but-don’t-want-it-to-be-debt-when-should-we-worry.29910/
The summation of most posters is that Sevco have no debt; it’s only supporters/directors who they owe money to so it’s not debt!
Deluded disnae cover it!
KTF
DELANEYS DUNKY on 10TH MAY 2018 10:14 PM
Fantastic G!
KTF
Delaneys Dunkey, How’s the job going?
DD Sorry, spelling!
VFR.
That’s it done.
He’s sent a tweet out to all his fanzine followers.
Hail Hail
BeatBhoy
Outside cabin please, I should like to go out in style.
JimtheTim
I prefer working to being idle. I am loving setting my alarm for 5.45 and awakening for a purpose to my day again. Unemployment disnae suit my brain. Thanks for adking pal. Hope you are well.
HH
JIMMYNOTPAUL on 10TH MAY 2018 10:25 PM
What’s the twitter account?
KTF
I’m not renewing my season ticket tomorrow because I don’t have one. I’m on the waiting lhist and as soon as I’m offered one I’ll splash the cash.
LoveCelticCSC.
Oíche mhaith
That follow follow link is a must read, deluded goons
ALMORE on 10TH MAY 2018 10:36 PM
Maybe someone who is swithering may let you use theirs next season if you pay for it?
KTF
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beatbhoy good post @ 10.22
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You remind me of my brother, whom had he lived to see the debt and the demise of Rainjurz
he wouldn’t be renewing for the reasons you mention.
Sometimes since 2012 I think I’m renewing for people who can’t, I agree with SFTB that we are ‘just a football club’, and certainly not the judiciary to bring down the fraudsters that permeate Scottish Football past and present.
VFR His name is Sandy Armour.
Twitter account
@killiehippo
E.Mail killiehippo@aol.com
I notice that Alan Mahood the ex Killie player has already ‘re tweeted his tweet.
Hail Hail
JimtheTim
My nickname is Dunky or Dunkey. I am not sure of the spelling. I am Garry. Two R’s is a must. I am a bit OCD about Garry instead of the way most folk spell it Gary. You widnae be called Bary or Hary for Barry or Harry. Case dismissed. ??
DAVIDOPOULOS
Done.
Overandahout.
P.S. Richard Wilson on Twitter has poured a little cold water on the UEFA licence story – he thinks the SFA document is based solely on SFA decision and not necessarily rubber stamped by the UEFA crooks yet.
His point about licence confirmations coming on 31st May but that date could also be read as the latest date that the decisions will be made.
We shall see. I would advise against breath holding. The fundamental point regarding the SFA Licensing Committee failing in their role as Licensor remains.
Corrupt, stinking, dodgy, bent, Old Firm orientated, non regulated(apart from the oppressed rules that are administered to the back ae the bus Tims) that is Scottish fitba.
So, who will be the first ex-altar bhoy to put his hands in the air and admit that they’ve bought into it by way of purchasing a compliant Celtic season ticket ?
If ye suck it up……..
Anywye,…….oot.
*His point about licence confirmations….is correct
Almore
I don’t think there is a waiting list. I think that is marketing pish. I bet you get a season ticket again no problem. You can have mine for any match you wish, if I am wrong. Was magic seeing you and R again in McChuills, post hun mauling. See you in Kerrydale on May 25.
YNWA
BSR
Sorry you can’t have a good fraternal discussion with him about it all.
I get pelters for not going from my wee brother, albeit from the safety of Australia.
But he’ll have to come home some time. . . . . .
And if things have somehow changed for the better by that time, nothing would give me greater pleasure than going again to Paradise with the wee git.
So reading back on the many views displayed on the ethos of being a Celtic Supporter, I think the differences between Celtic and a club like Sevco (for example), can be distilled into two short statements.
Sevco…… “We are the peepll”
Celtic…… “We are a people”
One word, many differences.
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HUNDERBIRDS
Yer (in)definitely a bad article!
KevJ
I will renew my season ticket, probably because I am addicted to going to Paradise when Celtic play. Cannae kick the habit. I was never an altar boy though. Never fancied that job. Hope your health is good K.
That is all that matters.
YNWA
JIMMYNOTPAUL on 10TH MAY 2018 10:42 PM
It’s now doing the rounds on Twitter!
Thanks.
KTF
I was an altar boy for a very short time. I couldn’t get the candles lit on my debut appearance, and dropped the match,which was burning my fingers, onto the white pristine altar cloth.
Then holding the catch-tray at communion under chins, I stood on my badly-fitting cassock and did a Steve Gerrard, hitting some poor old wummin’ right on the chin with the implement.
Was back in the cheap seats before Lent was over, much to the congregation’s disappointment.
Somemothersdoave’em.
KEVJ I’ve renewed my season ticket; like DD I wisnae an Altar Boy.
Like DD I’m not compliant to ftSFA cheating. I’m simply a Celtic Supporter. As the song goes, faithful through and through.
A DD says, hope you’re good. I bear you no malice but don’t agree with you.
KTF
Delaneys,
me and a mate are also on the waiting list with a number in the 3000s,
not sure if thats the size of the supposed list
It is heavy irony indeed that the intangible sense of being a Celt, and all that entails, gives many of us a mindset that questions if we should be supporting Celtic at all? (The club, not the intangible)
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BEATBHOY on 10TH MAY 2018 11:11 PM
At least you were accidental. My son and his pals used to deliberately catch people on the throat with the catch tray!
KTF
VFR
I blame the parents!
BEATBHOY you would be right! ????
KTF
Gordy
There were probably less than 30000 in the ground last night. There were empty seats in front of me at the huns 5-0 game. Think you will get a season ticket. The mair Bankies in Paradise the better. Good luck mucker.
YNWA
A homily to the things we have to take as we face up to the side-effects of getting older…..
———————-The ageing Celtic supporter
Anti-toxins in the morning, and potions late at night
And in between a wholesome diet, of pills to make me sh*te
Or pee and sweat and lose fat, then sleep or stay awake
While pumping blood wae steroids, that make my toe-nails shake!
There’s pink, blue, black and white ones, round, square, short and long
There’s lozenge, capsule, pellet, ‘don’t get that sequence wrong’,
So got my smart phone programmed, my timer set to play
My ailment curing music from, “The Fields” to “Scots Wha Hae”
“Hail Hail” stops diahorrea, “For it’s” soothes breaking hearts
“Walk on” clears constipation, and perfumes sulph’rous f*rts,
Angina yields to ‘Maley’, ‘Big Jock’ calms Asthma’s wheeze
“They come from Bonnie Scotland…”, for ringworm, nits and fleas.
Arthritis, rheumatism, distemper, dandruff, gout
Baldness, toothache, haemorrhoids, a song will sort them out.
B.O.? conjunctivitis? ‘sea creatures’ itch down there?
A hymn or two will cleanse your pores with Antiseptic air!
Hail Hail
Matt
Level 5 got rhe crayons out again, £3mil for Windass……
Tommy Burns lived our dream, he was ‘ the fan in a jersey’ , KT is the closest thing since, TB phoned me one day i was arranging a charity game, and left me with a threat….i will post the details tomorrow, a Superstar of a human being.
CATCH TRAY!!!!
I was an altar bhoy before Vatican 2 so used to have the real skills required. Latin etc.
The Catch Tray was PATEN.
et cum spiritu tuo. (Sp)
Good news that Bain has signed a 4 year deal.
He has started his Celtic career well.
His kicking was excellent last night.