Really pleased the Scottish Professional Football League have awarded the League Cup Final to Scotland’s largest football stadium, Celtic Park. We are now hosting the League and Scottish Cup finals, as well as the head of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games.
So with the Commonwealth and Scottish Cup gigs going to Celtic, why didn’t Newco Rangers get the other final at their 50,000 capacity facility?
Back in the days such certification existed, Ibrox was a Uefa five star venue, whereas Celtic Park was four star, but maintaining those standards takes, well, maintenance, which has not been a priority in some parts. Celtic Park remains highly functional, and safe.
There is also the hazard of planning an event, even six weeks out, at a venue owned (cough) by a company which does not have bank credit facilities and who are broadcasting financial distress signals like some kind of insolvency Batman call.
These perfectly valid reasons are, of course, a mere distraction from the real reason, the Co-op Bank, which controls Glasgow City Council, is also able to manipulate league football in Scotland and decided to award the final to their partner organisation, while cutting their borrowing rate, by way of compensation.
Issue 19 of CQN Magazine is fresh off the press, 104 pages of great stuff from the CQN community. 10 men won the league, Dam Justice, the Celtic Foundation, and Brogan Rogan outs the difficult questions to Pat Nevin about his Cup Final comments.
The graphic below is just a taster, GO HERE to read properly, and for FREE!!
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Googybhoy
With all due respect. Having not read it…
bollocks…
he is a spineless git
Would have to say I thought the Nevin piece was a load of contrived sh*t*. No idea what he thought he would achieve and, tbh, surprised Jim and David reached the conclusions they did.
So, if Pat tells us he will call it as he hears it from now on, regardless of teams involved, fine.
If he’s in a sound-proofed studio he hears NOTHING. So how can he call it since he hears nothing?
Sorry, Pat, a good try…I’m not buying it at all. The BBC team may have tried to lead you up a certain path, you willingly followed.
Most Tims I know would do anything to defend Celtic before having to fall on their sword. You, as far as I can observe, dived on yours. Shame on you.
SFTB
Mibbes I’m missing it but I fail to get an appropriate response to a google search for the above – little above what I already knew – which seemed flimsy then.
Am I missing something?
U
BT
I would give any man a chance to defend himself. Mo has never even tried to say it was anything but money.
I looked at his reasons and accepted that he made a family decision and fair play to him.
i read his reasons for the Cup Final fiasco and I do not change my opinion on that. A different reaction to two different events and motivations
Did u bhoys expect anything else from him…?
The days when Hoops fans filled half of Ibrox…. http://t.co/ISxodtJk1U
The subject was on here last week…
I posted yesterday asking for someone to post some hard evidence that Ayebrokes required £10 million to be spent on it to bring it up to safety standards etc.
Apologies if I missed the posted evidence.
However I believe all this about the ground not being safe etc ,is utter pish.
We care as guilty as the Huns of printing some utter nonsense,it would seem.
TT
TOSB
I agree, the world has changed for the better, Fergus McCann moved the club on and recognized the need to do so, and I have a special admiration for non Catholic Celtic supporters given as you have pointed out the cringe factor in our history.
But it has to be stressed that ‘community singing’ of this nature was confined to the bin decades ago.
During the unfortunate Frank De Boer (Ajax game…. sad you know what) you could have cut the cringe factor with a knife it was so palpable, a blast from the past, that failed to catch on for that reason.
BIG-CUP-WINNERS
20:30 on
5 February, 2014
Celticrollercoaster
Thanks. Here’s a wee taster question:
Name Celtic’s English born keepers since 1975 (There are 7) ?
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Peter Latchford
Roy Baines?
Carl Muggleton
Ian Andrews
Frazer Forster
Tony Warner
Jonathan Gould
HH
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Sftb
if he told the truth he would be an honourable man..
spinless money grabbing kike judas..
judas sold his soul once, ask sneffin how many times he has a
eddieinkirkmichael
I did Eddie, thanks, just trying to give some of the others a wee taster….
uly
It is a matter I think we should keep off the blog. Some other place to discuss?
uly
Ha – Crazy House CSC ;-)
Tiny ti, I agree. It’s wishful thinking I’m afraid.
SFTB
I have no prob with the notion that we shouldn’t be talking about Nevin’s family and that those incline to find out what the situation is can dig online.
I have done so and found something which is nobodys business but his family but for the life of me I don’t see why it necessitates or explains a flounce away from Celtic and a public declaration to that effect
A phoney who saw CQN as a means of public redemption
Sorry
TinyTim 20:44 on 5 February, 2014
“I posted yesterday asking for someone to post some hard evidence that Ayebrokes required £10 million to be spent on it to bring it up to safety standards etc.”
As a matter of interest, why do you require ‘hard evidence’?
!!Bada Bing!!
Look at the wee guy at the front with the sky blue top on !!!
PN story, however unconvincing, is his story. We need to accept it at face value and move on. We are not the Huns. We are far better than that. I may have my doubts but let’s move on.
tinytim
20:44 on 5 February, 2014
Been to ibrokes every season for as long as I remember supporting Celtic and always thought it was well looked after but in the last 5 years or so it’s was beginning to look a state and unkept bit of a shithole really and got mates who are STH in the main stand and they have said it’s looking a bit tattie and things are not being fixed as before.
Not saying it’s unsafe but the maintenance is not up to date HH
I made my opinion clear a couple of month ago..
I will stick to my guns. Clowns who have no idea about Celtic and what it is to play for Celtic spouting pish on tv is bad enough but giving them space in the cqn magazine is every bit as bad..
hail hail..
btw david p67 has my number should you wish to report me again…
Celticrollercoaster
All seven – Top man, well done.
TT
why is lcfinal being held at Celtic park?
Could there be a question re safety cert?
TT
If a stadium is unsafe – it’s unsafe – not partly unsafe, or safe for home games – it’s unsafe.
There’s too much junk going about – if there was any – and I mean any concerns for Asbestos then the place would be shut down – no ifs buts or mibbes.
Try and get your ceiling plastered by a reputable company and they’ll do an asbestos check with detailed work plan just for a living room!
I worry there’s arch dissemination at play.
I worry that Phil the blogger gets fed a whopper that blows his credibility out the water.
Isn’t there a story of Fergus dropping story hints to different people to see which ended up in the paper – and boom – bye bye Celtic park mole…
U
I know I am a broken record but if our club really went after the BBC I am sure the outcome would have been different. But as ever they let us down enormously.
BT-No mate.
Neil Lennon
Taranis the Celtic god of Thunder
blantyretim is praying for the knox family
20:53 on 5 February, 2014
I made my opinion clear a couple of month ago..
I will stick to my guns. Clowns who have no idea about Celtic and what it is to play for Celtic spouting pish on tv is bad enough but giving them space in the cqn magazine is every bit as bad..
hail hail..
btw david p67 has my number should you wish to report me again…
PN not good enough for us,and the chip is now a full bag of mccains.
No matter what he says about knocking us back for Everton.
squire D
Thanks for not putting out details. I read the same thing and I do understand how it might impact a father in the public eye.
It does not account for the Cup Final issue however.
TT
Do you believe that the Huns in their various guises have kept up with maintenance during their financial woes
I don’t ….
Too busy paying all their turnover out to overpaid numpties
Besides which Green et al where in it for a quick turn …they had no concern in upkeep of the stadium etc
It’s not so much the monkey I’m interested in as the organ grinder(s).
Whose agenda was this?
Who whispered in Rob McLean’s ear to ask PN the question?
SFTB – I agree – not for consumption.
Talking of consumption – is there a meet planned for the weekend?
U
Bada
cheers mate. ?
did u get a beer in the grove last week at yer night oot?
In tribute to Pat Nevin’s love of classic Russian books:
Pat, you used to be a Prince Myshkin figure to us Tims. Afterall, you condemned the huns for their braindead signing policy. Now you are more like Raskolnikov to the Tims. Redeem yourself and all will be forgiven. Your exile from Celtic is like being exiled from your beloved Moscow and ending up in Siberia doing hard labour. Come back! пегрустин(don’t be sad).
Big Nan
20.19
“..We all tailor our conduct to the company we are in but come on. This was treason without good reason!.”
I enjoy every contribution you make to the comments section on this blog but the one above, for me, although the rhyme was sublime, the thinkin’ is stinkin’.
Is it only an urban myth that treasoners can still be hanged?
Neganon
Why do I need to accept anything the Nevin says at face value ?
I like the way Spanish teams put out full teams for Copa del Rey
U
aye but as I may be in attendance it seems to have become one man and his nevin or is it bitch…
BCW
Ha, will stop there! And I did not have the answers in front of me for a change :-)
HH
CRC