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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blantyretim is praying for the knox family
20:41 on 5 February, 2014
Googybhoy
With all due respect. Having not read it…
bollocks…
he is a spineless git
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With the same due respect sir.
I may have taken a few more words to reach the same conclusion as you.
As I said too long the neutral for career purposes.
Still if you read the article you might also feel he was stitched up.
ulysses mcghee is praying for oscar
20:54 on 5 February, 2014
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
Never mentioned asbestos but the fact GCC h&s surveyors are there before every home game might tell you something. That doesn’t even happen at Scoutson for the rugby.
John O’Neil
Your post clearly suggested Celtic supporters sing ‘soon there’ll be no Protestants at all”
and you gave it as sectarian example.
I said they didn’t inside CP, you then said that wasn’t true. *see I did read it correctly*
I await your evidence that they do.
If you heard a wee bhoy singing it in the queue for pies it doesn’t count as plural or communal as in ‘supporters’.
HH
TinyTim
And what shape or form would this hard evidence need to come to satisfy you?
For example, I know a deidco season ticket holder who tells me some pretty grubby stuff as simple as decoration, plumbing , electrical requirements. All simple fixes but not done…..
Sorry Bournesoupe. It is 1am here. Your evidence can be found by looking back. Sorry but you misrepresented my posts.
I thought Nevin was a spineless wee nyaff
then I read the article…..
Pat Nevin is a spineless wee nyaff
Googybhoy
I refuse to read his crap in a cqn magazine, if u believe he was stitched up I believe you are very naive because having grown up in Glasgow both you and he know what we are up against..
stitched up no, selling yer soul for the queens shilling aye..
Uly
I believe that there may be another get together to toast absent friends (or The Token Tim, as he is known). Someone may be able to provide details too.
John O’Neil
Prince Munchkin, surely.
Vogue:-)
You can buy me a beer instead, I’ll make sure you get a badge, or at least you can buy a badge:-)
Just turned on the Peterborough game what’s happened ?
BT-Plan was a few in The Grove,got waylaid in Droothys,met the excellent CQN’r Can i have Raspberry at the night oot.HH
Guy just said Someone in the crowd collapsed
http://willievass.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/110114-Rangers-v-East-Fife/G0000gFRU00Ena0Y/I0000kVKI0oDswWo/C0000ThqwCLASK_4
Not sure if this has happened at any other ground in Scotland – fans getting moved for safety reasons.
I think at the level Sevco play at there tends to be occasional problems with uneven hedges, or with the wind blowing away one of the jumpers that doubles as a goalpost.
BT
IT was already stated on here earlier but I refuse to believe that a 50-y-o man who spent the 70s/80s in the Jungle for every game can seriously claim not to know the words of BOTOB
A phoney who tried to use CQN in every sense of the word
Swindon fan taken unwell
Nice to see so many of us are worried about the H&S of our neighbours. Maybe PL will offer to groundshare with them, that way he might see our ground full once every couple of weeks.
Squire
I always knew he was a spineless git but now he has been shown to be a big fibber, well wee in his view, did he ever go to the jungle? Are we expected to believe him?
In the words of wee Jimmy..
BALDERDASH….
DeniaBhoy in awe of wee Oscar’s Courage 21:12 on 5 February, 2014
Worried?
I thought we were laughing at them.
John O’Neil
I read your posts and interpret the only way I can.
I’ve quoted you, verbatim.
You generalised at best, but you still maligned the CP supporters unfairly with your
‘soon there’ll be no protestants at all’ particular comment.
It 9.15 here goodnight CSC
it’s ermm 9.16
no, it’s ermm 9.17
doc is neil lennon
21:07 on 5 February, 2014
Badges, what Badges?
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
I make 21:17
deniabhoy in awe of wee oscar’s courage
21:12 on 5 February, 2014
Would it ?
They can’t fill a 50,000 seat stadium why would they suddenly fill a 60,000 seat stadium
blantyretim is praying for the knox family
I am no apologist for Nevin. He should have known better than to jump on his bandwagon.
Years of toing the BBC Scotland line came to the fore.
The point about being stitched up in this instance by someone at the BBC outside the studio telling him that Celtic fans were singing sectarian songs when they were not.
But if you do not read the article any further discussion on that point is futile.
Uly
not like royal mail to be late..
Ok googybhoy..
didn’t read Mein Kampf but know Hitler was a mass murderer
BT
Indeed but would that be an ecumenical matter??
bournesouprecipe
20:45 on 5 February, 2014
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.
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Yes. You’re absolutely correct to stress that these songs haven’t been heard since the arrival of Fergus at the new stadium. We should all give thanks daily for that. You’re also spot on about that particular Frank de Boer song as well. It seemed so out of place and out of context for the Celtic support of today.
I think Big Jock challenged the thinking of Celtic supporters in the 1960s and 70s and we progressed as a result. Fergus McCann’s campaign and no nonsense approach in the 1990s took us another giant step forward.
8.20 here.A.M.that is.
squire danaher
21:10 on
5 February, 2014
BT
IT was already stated on here earlier but I refuse to believe that a 50-y-o man who spent the 70s/80s in the Jungle for every game can seriously claim not to know the words of BOTOB
Bit more than `50s.but I was and I don`t.
Celtic end actually.
Now on a steep learning curve.:-)
Just read the Patsy (THM :)) Nevin interview. More than a touch of the soi-disant holy fool about him, IMHO.
Contrast maybe with maybe Michael Stewart who, is it safe to assume?, is economically secure thanks to his playing contracts, and doesn’t play ball with the MSM sevco line. BRTH interestingly lingered on PN’s finances for a few paragraphs there.
HH & Night all:)
Macjay
Must have been faith of our fathers for u then
Loved the last few pages, loved BT’s posts. Proud to say I know the guy, just wish there were more like him.
LennyBhoy, these bad Bhoys!
http://twitpic.com/dug9xl
cqnbadges@gmail.com
Ignore the sizes, they may well change, slightly.
That’s definitely a maybe, at any rate:)
blantyretim is praying for the knox family
21:20 on 5 February, 2014
Ok googybhoy..
didn’t read Mein Kampf but know Hitler was a mass murderer
Like it :>{}
Bhoylo83
Re: Laudrup
I don’t think so as he has £4:5m to keep him in holidays for a while