Yesterday’s The Price of Football BBC article was fascinating. Celtic, not surprisingly, have the most expensive season ticket in Scotland at £559. That’s around the midway mark for English Championship clubs, and a lower top price than only Sunderland and West Brom in the English Premier League.
Our cheapest adult season tickets, costing £337, is among a group of Premiership clubs bookended by Hearts and Kilmarnock (£280), and Hamilton Accies (£350). Inverness are an outlier, with a season ticket costing only £200.
Some of the prices in the English Premier League are astonishing Arsenal tickets cost between £1,014 and £2013 – and that’s for standard seats. Football is expensive everywhere, but in London in particular. The cheapest ticket at Arsenal, Chelsea (£750), Spurs (£765) and West Ham (£617) is matched only by Liverpool (£710).
Manchester City, with their petrodollars and newly enlarged stadium offer £299 tickets. Good value, but the most obvious question from reading the EPL stats is why, with all that TV and sponsorship money reducing match-ticket income to a tiny percentage of the pot, don’t they bring prices down further- like City, Stoke (£294) and Sunderland (£190).
The BBC also surveyed the price of tea, shirts, programmes and pies. One thing I checked for but couldn’t find, is the price all clubs in British and Irish football charge visiting Celtic fans – compared to the standard price they charge all other visiting fans.
Only Kilmarnock have one tariff for all home and away fans, apart from Celtic fans; and another, higher, ticket price for Celtic fans. You may think the people at Kilmarnock would be embarrassed by this. They should be, but I suspect they couldn’t care less. They don’t care what you think of them, and they are taking you for mugs……. Mugs. Think about that for a moment.
I like Aberdeen and hope they do well. Their success is good for Scottish football, but you can see the cracks opening up on what was a very promising season only a few weeks ago. Yesterday’s statement from the club, asserting that their manager would not be leaving, cut to the heart of the matter. Speculation is part of football. Clubs do themselves no favours by getting dragged into official comments over such issues. Better to brief one or two people off the record, let them quell the chatter.
Instead Aberdeen grandstanded with this fatal mistake, “we would question the motivation of those individuals looking to unsettle the club”. So it’s unsettling. There you have it. The players, and manager, have an excuse ahead of tomorrow night’s game.
Give players an excuse to fail and they will often grab it with both hands.
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Looked much better in the editor dialogue box. Much better.
Hunderbirds.
What is it meant to be?.
A Masonic message?
CFC going for another league title, still in Europe, and all the domestic trophys, and that’s the team I support, and that’s the way I like It, .
Makes me a mug?
Then I’m the biggest mug in here, and happy to be one.
Lurking Huns GIRFUYs
And in an act of absolute doublespeak sturgeon said today
“If there is strong and consistent evidence that people have changed their minds and that independence has become the choice of a clear majority in this country, then we have no right to rule out a referendum and we won’t do that either.
“No one has the right to stand in the way of democracy.”
Ignoring of course that the clear democratic will of Scottish people was against independence.
Facism alive and well and thriving in modern Scotland.
Yes Tony we do know you are happy to be a mug.
NegAnon2
http://youtu.be/-8hbUqhKM38
You aren’t a mug if you willingly pay for something, you’re only a mug if you willingly pay then complain about it.
NegAnon2 on 15th October 2015 5:03 pm
Actually you’re the one saying that people aren’t allowed to change their views. You’re stating “You’ve cast your vote and now you have to stick with it come what may”.
That sounds a lot more undemocratic than saying “a decision has been made, and until such time as a majority consistently demonstrate that they’d like a chance to change that decision, it’s the decision we stick with”.
Just as well we voted for fixed term parliaments otherwise your logic could see any party say “we’re not calling a GE you all made your decision your stuck with it”
JNP
Nah, that was a test. It just Said TIC. Took ages too. If that had worked, many other four letter maximum, ball messages would have followed. Ah, my ball message career, it was over before it began.
Neganon2 who is this “we” you refer to? Have you consulted anyone to get the ok to speak on their behalf? Presumptious or what ,just ask you never know you may get the thumbs up. H H Hebcelt
I’m logging off for the weekend, and I’m sorry to have engaged in what’s the 1st political comment I’ve seen on here for days. Worth noting as well that the topic wasn’t introduced by a Cybernat.
I do not wish to prolong the debate but every sign I see in Scotland right now is just wrong.
We had the referendum just o era a year ago and already the SNP have dismissed it and have the gall to talk of democracy.
Weeminger it’s one thing to have set elections for defined periods. It’s another to ignore a clear vote just older than a year. What sturgeon said today was breathtaking in its arrogance.
Hebcelt the only we I used was in reference to those of us who live in Scotland. We will need to ride out this facism together. Can see what is presumptious about that.
HT,
I agree neebs.
HH
Had a bet on the horses at Puncheston we trixie up. so a happy bhoy today.
An Tearmann
Thanks for posting that pieceby Ian Fraser.
Is that on his own blog?
Can you give the link if you haven’t already done so?
NOWA by the way :o)
HH
When does the poppy debate start
Love
Oldtim Bravo
/2015/10/leigh-griffiths-asked-to-sign-tunnocks-teacakes-at-celtic-superstore/?
I would have thought that handing your teacakes over to wee Leigh for signing would be a risky business.
CHARLIEBHOY on 15TH OCTOBER 2015 1:28 PM
the reason for my no show at the hoot…..https://scontent-lhr3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/12119104_1025445004142458_8937854184254409181_n.jpg?oh=16a2dddf939668bdf5696f94575b1af7&oe=56916B2D
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CHARLIEBHOY
That’s magic,mate. Absolutely tremendous stuff.
I’ll mark you down for next year-and I’ll mark the wee yin down for about 2031!
TALLYBHOY
Good news about yer auntie,mate.
Grapes are on me!
Michelle Mone takes her place in The Lords. As…
Baroness Mone of Mayfair.
Ffs,where she comes fae,Mayfair’s a packet of fags.
Or a scud book.
BMCUW.
Magic, that gave me a good laugh.
SOAL.
I posted this morning you and Huddle gave me a good laugh about who said Rudi 3 times in the mirror. H.T. Magic.
Poppy debate already started in my house. Dingwall at half three on remembrance Sunday. Me and my bhoy are going. One for the concourse one for observing the minutes silence.
NegAnon2 on 15th October 2015 5:32 pm – I do not wish to prolong the debate
But I’ll post the same opinion every day even though no one was remotely discussing it, then we wonder why no one posts. Just one positive Celtic post, just one on any subject would be nice, it would make all us mugs feel better….go on, you know you want too, or don’t you ?
A scud book seems appropriate for that Tory stooge
2 great uncles died in WW1 as Redmondites in the Irish Brigade, fighting to save small Catholic Belgium from oppressive Germany, should I support the wearing of Poppies?
An tearman…
Not sure if been posted already as I’ve read back much.
http://thecelticway.net/forum/showthread.php?21867-Sir-David-Murray-The-Story-The-Media-(Scottish)-Wont-Publish&p=135355#post135355
Tallybhoy, hope all goes well with your aunt. Hail Hail
Stairheedrammy.
James Forrest put up a great article on his onfieldsofgreen yesterday.
The poppy was,originally to remember those who died in the great war but now it has been hijacked for political means.
Ultimately, thankfully for now, you are still free to choose.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS from previous article
Thanks for the good wishes earlier this morning, friend.
All those years ago, we headed up to the Highlands on our honeymoon, me having just passed my driving test and bought a car.
The week after we got back, one of the office staff at work came into the canteen carrying a parcel. Puzzled at getting a delivery at my work, I stupidly opened it.
The kind owner of the lovely B&B we had been staying in had been talking to me about my job, remembered where I worked, and had returned a pair of trousers I had left up there!
The ribbing only went on for a couple of months.
Took me a while to get them to stop calling me ‘Donald’ right enough!
Evening bhoys and ghirls. Can someone explain something for me. Sevco according to everyone in the know are close to going bust. Yet today they appoint a chief scout are close to signing eustace and have an Israeli international in on trial. Now I don’t know how much any of that costs but it doesn’t strike me as a newco struggling financially. Am I missing something.
HH
KTF
UTLR
stairheedrammy I not a poppy lover. different reasons. You do what you think is appropriate. H H Hebcelt
Mighty Tim. Fella like you I noted The Rangers are still spending money quite freely so I have to assume those who say they are near broke must be mistaken. H.H.
Newradbhoy @ 10.13
“One of the questions I did post a few days ago , and didn’t get an answer to was about the sun
Allegedly named Charlotte fakes.
I didn’t see it. I don’t read papers now.(I get all my info from this great site).
I asked basically if it was legal for a paper to do this as they are obviously trying to sabotage the court case that’s going on at the moment.
Sorry for being long winded.”
Call that long-winded? That’s barely a 40 metre sprint.
Anyway, I see you got a view from BMCUW which is just as well because I am stumped for an answer. Maybe some of our more media informed legal eagles (PF Ayr, BRTH or Malceye) would have a more informed view.
Me, I just have the inherited paranoia that says, after such a long time spent ignoring the existence of Charlotte Fakes, the fact that they start talking about him/her now suggests it is to just run interference on the trial process.
JFH thanks for response. It certainly is baffling me. From Phil Mac and that johnjames guy they are saying that they are a busted flush yet they keep on coming up with the readies. Now I don’t know how much a chief scout costs but they have the guy who was at Bolton who worked with the warbmeister at Watford and Brentford and who previously worked for Liverpool. I wouldn’t imagine he would be cheap. As for Eustace not sure what his wages would be but it would still be more than most clubs could afford. No idea about the Israeli but currently registered to a Spanish team again a cost there I would have thought.
HH
KTF
UTLR
Mighty Tim
No you’re not missing anything and Sevco have lots of Rangers traits.
One of them is spending, whilst financially struggling
HH
More on David ‘nothing sticks to me but money’ Murray.
https://johnjamessite.wordpress.com/2015/10/15/teflon-david-murray/
Mighty Tim. For at least the last 3 years some posters on CQN have been saying The Rangers are going to go bust and of course it has never happened.I think they feel if they keep posting the same story it might eventually happen.My take on it is The Rangers will join us in the SPL next season and we will have to accept that they may well push us much more than we feel is comfortable. H.H.
I always wear a white poppy but respect others who may wish to wear a red one or not wear any
My old dad fought in ww2 but taught me that the guys who went away to fight for their country should not need to rely on charity.
Rangers are still the only show in town for many of our supporters.