You’ll remember the days of the season ticket waiting list. Then came the imaginary waiting list, which existed a while after seats were openly available. Now anyone can browse onto the Celtic web site and view exactly how many seats are available, and where, inside Celtic Park. It tells a fascinating story.
There’s the odd solitary seat and a few hundred with restricted views but that aside only the previously-closed part of the Lisbon Lions upper is not subscribed – and a significant number of tickets there will not include games against Newco, who are likely to ask for their entire entitlement according to league rules.
We’ve not seen anything like this since 1995 when Celtic Park reopened. Season 1994-95, at 34,000 capacity Hampden, was far from inspiring. We didn’t even sell-out a late-season game against Oldco, but Fergus had mortgaged our future on a partly-built 40,000 seater stadium, with projects underway to finish the job.
I looked at the empty seats at Hampden that day in 1995 and wondered if Fergus had blown his money. It didn’t look possible that we’d come anywhere close to filling a much larger stadium. As last season came to an end today’s ticket bonanza looked equally unlikely (although I did expect a pick-up).
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to examine sentiment too closely, just be grateful when you have it and know that it can change quickly when it’s against you.
Noting the increase in match day traffic around Celtic Park, you have to wonder how many millions of man hours will be wasted sitting in immobile cars and buses because Police Scotland no longer man traffic lights to allow spectators to leave the area quickly after events.
That’s another cost of our Offensive Behaviour’ Bill. Ponder that when you’ve moved 1 mile in an hour next season. Event-related gridlocks are another manifestation of ineffective governance. For decades police had budget to control traffic junctions at major events, not any more, in Scotland, anyway.
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Thanks Canamalar.
Hope all well with you and yours.
I see we only have the bottom tier open for the game with the newly crowned champs of the Epl. Not much chance of a public sale me thinks.
TTT,
I went to the official site dealing with the processes and procedures for the hearing, I think it was a set amount days to provide all the evidence being presented, 7 days to make any corrections or comments and at the end of the seven days the hearing date would be scheduled, that I worked out to be around the 20th June, I posted this at the time.
The date set had to be within a maximum permitted and that I worked out to be around late Nov early Dec.
mayanman,
It may be possible to make a case for the Guardian refusing the ad because it doesn’t fit their advertising criteria.
If that is the case and I’m not saying it is, then that would leave the way open for their editorial department to hand it over to an investigative journalist on their payroll.
They have experience in dealing with scandals and cover ups.
CANAMALAR IT LOOKS LIKE OCD OBSESSION on 9TH JUNE 2016 12:35 PM
I understand what you are saying, but, I’m sure the courts have, and reserve, the right to reschedule cases, according to availability of QCs, courts, etc.
I wish I could remember where I read it, but it even quoted three days for the appeal and the approximate dates for the result.
I read the Guardian regularly and I would find it hard to believe they are part of any conspiracy.
The paper view of Scottish fitba is that of a sporting backwater. They have absolutely no interest in it and they couldn’t be bothered with the grief associated with 5k of advertising revenue.
PS It was only last week that I read this, so, perhaps the preliminaries you mentioned have been dealt with and the date set.
ex thomson @alextomo 14m14 minutes ago
So – @Channel4News has asked the Guardian why it declined to run the advert placed by Scottish fans…
alex thomson @alextomo 13m13 minutes ago
Guardian spokesman said:” All adverts submitted for publication are considered on a case-by-case basis…”
alex thomson @alextomo 13m13 minutes ago
“..to assess suitability for publication according to our advertising terms and conditions…”
50 shades,
Upper tier will be open should the demand be high enough I believe.
HH
THOMTHETHIM FOR OSCAR OK on 9TH JUNE 2016 12:37 PM
mayanman,
It may be possible to make a case for the Guardian refusing the ad because it doesn’t fit their advertising criteria.
If that is the case and I’m not saying it is, then that would leave the way open for their editorial department to hand it over to an investigative journalist on their payroll.
They have experience in dealing with scandals and cover ups.
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I’ve repeatedly asked David Conn and Owen Gibson about covering the story. Both said they would be interested and Conn asked me to send him some info on the Sounness EBT payment.
However, the editorial desk have no interest in dealing with it. Conn has been covering Hillsborough and Gibson FIFA/UEFA. They couldn’t give a monkeys about cheating in Scottish football.
HUNDERBIRDS ARE GONE on 9TH JUNE 2016 12:15 PM
I feel that the issue is that virtually no-one in the ” outside world ” gives a damn about Scottish football.
Why would they ? We don`t matter.
All the others ,England , Wales , N.I. , and Ireland ,qualified for the upcoming Euros.
That`s barely credible for one of my generation.
And shameful.
If ever there was an indictment of the Scottish football authorities ,then this is it.
We have been focussed on the ” Celtic / S.F.A. ” issue.
We should have been focussed on the monumental failure of the S.F.A. to preside over a team which plays any part in the upper echelons of European football.
How the mighty have fallen.
Surely this disappointment is shared by the supporters of all other Scottish football teams .
Celtic ,with Brendan at the helm , can be at the forefront of a Scottish football revival .
We need to breach the parapets of the S.F.A. and it`s cosy masonic culture of mateship.
Believe.
TIMALOY29 SLEEPS ON THE HEATED DRIVEWAY on 9TH JUNE 2016 12:41 PM
I read the Guardian regularly and I would find it hard to believe they are part of any conspiracy.
The paper view of Scottish fitba is that of a sporting backwater. They have absolutely no interest in it and they couldn’t be bothered with the grief associated with 5k of advertising revenue.
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IMHO: just because the Guardian uses big words and has a high proportion of well educated readers doesn’t mean that they are different from the rest.
HH.
new article posted.
Supreme Court proceedings are on camera
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alex thomson @alextomo Jun 8
Court decision then comes 2 to 3 months later and that is the end of it – no perceived human rights issue so no further appeal to Europe…
alex thomson @alextomo Jun 8
Then it is a question of allotting requisite court time so hearing likely in first half of 2017. Likely to talk a few days, not weeks…
alex thomson @alextomo Jun 8
Rangers Big Tax – Supreme Court update: court currently receiving papers and soon preferred counsel will be identified…
The suggestion of using Private Eye is an interesting one – they regularly run stories about press hypocrisy, and they were quick to criticise the Telegraph for allowing its editorial content to be influenced by advertising revenue.
Now if someone could find a story where the Guardian had criticised the Telegraph over this – then I think the Eye would lap it up.
The idea that the taxpayer was left with a 94 million smackerooni/shockerooni tax bill is normal outrage to you and I. I would suggest that the prominence of that assertion in the ad would have pissed of many knights of the realm, and their sponsors, because The Mint, the Elusive Scarlet Pimpernel Mint, is one of those knights of the realm, and it opens a HUGE can of worms to the BANKING ESTABLISHMENT who not only rip off us and our weans, but they know how to stick together, and protect themselves and their own. Including The Mint. If the questions of the RES12 Bhoys are investigated, it could lead to a domino effect that many people do not want, as people are just begining to forget the outrageous behavior of the banks in 2008, before and since.
The Mint, who we never hear of these days, after being such a part of our lives for so long in the media, is part of this, but his duplicity was predominantly Scottish Fitba and Scottish Banks. Easily erased, However It goes further than that.. It is Global. Lloyds covered his Ass. Because he is a Knight of the Realm. And these elites protect their own against scrutiny, even to protect themselves.
94 million is the question that caused a problem in the Public Forum IMO…. For a journalist with half a brain it leads to awkward questions for The Mint & Lloyds (Of The City).
Scunnered (but not out) CSC
Roll on the Resolutioners….
Our issue is that our major shareholder knows the Game inside or out.
He is in the position of being an outsider and an insider….
The question is whose side is he on?
The ball is in his court…
In our side or theirs.