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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Paul Larkin’s film, the Asterisk Years, is available to watch or download on Youtube. A fee has to be paid to download it, I’m afraid.
Paul expains how a guy who either worked for Murray or was knowledgable about the Edinburgh Establishment , contacted him about the malevolent attitude among the Edinburgh establishment , fed by Murray, towards Celtic.
Paul was given plenty of information and clues about how Murray immersed himself in Edinburgh establishment for his own benefit. Some of the people mentioned in the film are behind the scenes power makers and breakers .
Some people doubt the information provided in the film is truthful and is conjecture. Paul puts over his case very well .
Fettes College former pupils are prevalent among the Edinburgh establishment figures as well as being members of Murrayfield golf club. Murray attended Fettes for a short period. As an aside a certain Anthony Blair attended that school also.
Its possible the reason Murray’s business practices have not really been placed under any scrutiny because of his link to the Edinburgh etablishment. I may be wrong.
As Paul says despite the efforts to destroy Celtic, we still won.
And they called it Poppy Love
Joe Fili, when Rangers were liquidated the Scottish establishment of polticians, SFA and the press were in denial and have facilitated the existence of A Rangers not quite the same as before but enough for the hun supporters to turn up
DALLASDALLAS
I’ll be watching that,for sure. Thanks,mate. And thanks to Paul Larkin too.
On YouTube clips,can anyone point me to a clip of Mike Conroy elbowing Alex Miller bang on the coupon. Pretty sure it was right in front of the Jungle.
It was a beauty,a joy to behold…
If you are at an away ground where we are getting ripped off[most of them…],don’t buy any programmes,pies,bovril etc,a bhoycott of Rugby Park would be ideal,but i don’t think it would ever be 100%.
Cheers for the comments lads, the political hijacking of the poppy by ra peepul turns my stomach
RON BACARDI. Fella I agree the establishment have pulled together to protect what has always been the establishment team. Scottish football is corrupt and some are blind to it and because of that no real change to clean up our game will happen there was a time when all the cheats could have been called out but it did not happen for one reason or another and the time has past.We have in my opinion to accept they will be back in the SPL next season and it will not be long to they are a real challenge to us. H.H.
Bobby, humphy backed Miller’s reaction to Michael connecting with him was priceless. One of the funniest things I have saw on a football pitch. I am led to believe Michael was not that fond of the first club to play at Ibrox.
Talking of Millers, not the view’s Average Joe Miller is in the Asterisk Years film also. Joe is a cracking guy.
MIGHTY TIM on 15TH OCTOBER 2015 6:41 PM
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.
You are missing absolutely nothing.
Only the delusional who have rabbited on here for years about THEM being dead are dying are missing something.
That is the capability of facing up to the truth when it hits them in the face.
That is that THEY have never died and with the collusion of Scottish Football, Celtic included, THEY will not be allowed to die.
HH
KTF
UTLR
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I don’t go to many away games but would never ask the guys that do to boycott. It isn’t fair to put pressure on them asking them not to follow the hoops. Don’t buy anything in the ground etc but I think a boycott would hurt our troops the most…
TBJ SAYS WEE OSCAR KNOX IS IN HEAVEN WITH THE ANGELS on 15TH OCTOBER 2015 7:15 PM
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.
Agree totally with your last sentence.
Red or White wear a poppy if that is your choice.
My own view is that poppies, should be distributed free with no collection boxes in sight.
As an alternative, and this might test the patriotism of quite a few, is as follows.
A penny in the pound on income tax, the revenue from which to be ring fenced,for taking care of wounded service personnel, the paying of decent war widow’s and dependant’s pensions and allowances.
And anything left be put to paying better service wages.
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DALLASDALLAS
A legendary piece of work,that. If I can track it down somewhere,I’m gonna mail it to my Hun mates. I know they’ll appreciate it too(!)
Quonno
Or we could increase the tax on the rich – demand the Starbucks, amazon’s and all other tax avoiders stump up and fund all that you suggest
Bobby, they would be delighted with that.
Seeing as Paul’s blog is about Killie, our developement team beat their Killie counterparts , 3 nil today. Kieran Tierney played very well but did not play in the second half. Jack Breslin scored with Theo Archibald got the other two.
Ronny was at the game and hopefully was impressed with Kieran’s performance.
Video Celts have a report about today’s game.
TBJ SAYS WEE OSCAR KNOX IS IN HEAVEN WITH THE ANGELS on 15TH OCTOBER 2015 8:09 PM
Quonno
Or we could increase the tax on the rich – demand the Starbucks, amazon’s and all other tax avoiders stump up and fund all that you suggest
Agree with your sentiments entirely.
However, until you have government with the will to makes sure that the above parasites pay thir dues, increasing taxes on them is meaningless..
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TBJ
Business is only following government tax regulations.
Of course,it helps when business is the committee which decides such regulations.
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/13/tories-big-business-tax-loopholes
If someone was to Google Celtic forum’s/chat rooms and stumbled upon CQN they would be hard pushed to work out this was a Celtic blog. Just read back lucky if there’s a dozen post about Celtic. Politics, Zombies some utter pish gets posted.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 15TH OCTOBER 2015 7:45 PM
DALLASDALLAS
I’ll be watching that,for sure. Thanks,mate. And thanks to Paul Larkin too.
On YouTube clips,can anyone point me to a clip of Mike Conroy elbowing Alex Miller bang on the coupon. Pretty sure it was right in front of the Jungle.
It was a beauty,a joy to behold…
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Mike Conroy was one tough hombre. He always gave the Huns a hard time. Their players didn’t take any liberties when Mike was about.
Evening Timland from a warm hun free mountain valley.
Aye, if everyone who was due tax paid it, there wouldn’t be the problems there are, aye right, those and such as those would still make the working man suffer.
They tell us there is a recession, and people believe them, there is more money in the world today than there ever has been, it’s just not reaching those who need it, and it’s only going to get worse.
But we bring it all on ourselfs, we vote for these people.
Lennon’s Passion
In the last week I have asked quite a few times about players, not a single reply was forthcoming.
HH
DD … @ 7.30
Not sure if I am a bit late to your SDM party.
His rise if not his fall always reminds me of Schindler’s List.
My thoughts are that he started out as a bit of an insider but worked his way into the Auld Reekie / Speculative Club financial and social establishment.
You have to hand it to him he started at the bottom — getting a kb from from the honest men of AU really is the bottom — and his “rise” to the top was something to behold but to me he is an outsider and he has had to work very hard and make lots of money for others to get accepted.
Not sure the exact reason why he got a kb from AU.
His da was the town coal an so he might have been to close to trade for them.
Also there was the issue that things for SDM senior went belly up big style and that seems to be the reason that SDM never finished his FC education.
As an ideas man SDM has some validity — a bit like Fred the Shred.
As a business man he is / was / forever will be a total sham / totally useless — all about timing, hot air and self publicity.
The fact that he has never been bankrupted and prosecuted after all the MIM froth and collapse is a stain on the nation of Scotland — economically controlled by a certain schools FP club.
I’m in Dubrovnik at the moment. Wife was talking to me at breakfast yesterday and head waiter comes over and asks her if she’s Scottish. “Yes”, she replies.
“Where are you from?”
“Glasgow”, we both reply.
“Celtic or Rangers?”, quoth he.
“Celtic!”, says we.
“Me too!” says he, before adding “I hate Hearts too. Especially their fans.”
This guy knew all about us and has never been in Scotland.
Bliddy I-Pad predictive texting.
SDM = Outsider, outsider, outsider.
Son of a failed coal man.
Theoriginalsadiesbhoy, Michael never flinched a tackle anytime I saw him play.
It shows how much times have changed that when Michael played for us, we had at least five players in the team who wete Celtic fans as boys for example , the late and great Tommy Burns and John Doyle, George McLuskey, Roy Aitken, Andy Lynch.
In the last twenty years we have had many players from outside of Scotland who have became Celtic supporters.
The sport pages in the papers and on line………
………. (on- the-line?)…….
are full o’ nuthun during the International hiatus……………
TOSB,
I’ve been going to Dubrovnik since 2006, even back then it was the same. At one point I had a Croatian waiter apologising to me for Dado Prso!!
Beautiful place, hope you have a great time.
setting free the bears for Res. 12 & Oscar Knox on 15th October 2015 6:52 pm
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
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The report in The Sun was inaccurate and mischievous.
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on 15th October 2015 8:47 pm
Great achievement! Your wife was talking to you at breakfast. That is pretty good, especially when on holiday.
Prediction.
If current rangers are found to need to cover Green’s and Ahmad’s legal fees then the charges will be dropped.
My guess is Tyre will find against Green, either because the alleged crime happened before the legal cover was in place or any contract offering legal cover for criminality is invalid.
Either way, my guess is current rangers will not be responsible for Chuck’s costs.
There used to be a Serb band called Orthodox Celts. They would play Irish and Celtic songs and had audiences in the thousands. Celtic crests were everywhere.
The Celtic suits warned them not to infringe trademarks.
Madmitch…
Schindler atleast saw the error of his ways, Sdm pumped his workers pensions for 60 million.
Apologies. They still exist.
The report in The Sun was inaccurate and mischievous.
The person named was cleared of all charges and what he revealed, whilst still subject to court embargo is nevertheless true and will resurface and reveal what the SFA and SPFL would much prefer was kept under wraps.
LNS was a contrived sham only made possible through keeping secret what CF exposed. RFC lied to keep the UEFA licence In 2011 and there is more to suggest that both RFC and the SFA did all in their power to present that tax liability in such a way that they could justify both the granting and retention of the licence.
CF shows the truth and at.great personal risk and stress will in time become known as the guy who lifted the lid on the can of worms that our club, by accident of history and geography, are required to work in. Those who criticise Celtic would mute it somewhat if they understood better how hostile that environment is.
RFC and those that think like them should be allowed nowhere near our game. They are deceivers and cheats, but in Scotland it would seem ethics and integrity are forlorn bystanders as mugs line up to jump into the worm can.
TheOriginalSadiesBhoy on 15th October 2015 8:47 pm
Cavtat …. If you can visit ….Heaven
Enjoy
Murray liquidated the old Rangers. Were I able to outflank the journalists attached to his backside, I would be inclined to give him a great big kiss.
Hello again all you young rebels.
It’s that time of the month again for all the peninsula tims to enjoy
their get the gether for singing and dancing and all things Celtic, this
Sunday the club are combining our Scots\ Irish with an Oktoberfest
celebration there will be Bratwurst, Sauerkraut and various other
German food on the menu so get there early even if it’s just to see
CQN.s Paddymacoz with his Lederhosen on, it’s going to be crazy day
so for any visitors to the sight the events are held in the Bay Hotel
Mornington k.o at 3.
Don’t know about you ghuys but when i see those German words i
always think they represent anything to do with the deid team.
For instance.
Sauerkraut = the cardigan
Sheisse = Weisse
Bratwurst =Novo
Rathause = the crumbldome
I’m sure i could go on but i know you would like to add some of
your own.
Also big cup tournament for the wee mhans footie team here
which is run over Sat/Sun. that event is in a wee town called
Berwick, big expat area so there should be loads of hoops about.
These football tournaments are extremely well organised here
and visiting teams from various parts of the state bring their
own gazebos and cook their lunch etc under them.
The wee fhella has been hyper all week and I’ve got the bruises and
broken spectacles from his thunderbolt shooting at training as he is
determined to put on a good show, thought i would wind him up
a bit so i said.
” Wee mhan you’ll not be able to wear your hoops under the team strip
this weekend ”
” Whit! how no ”
” well its going to be very warm and you’ll sweat too much ”
” Don’t be stupid Papa i’ll drink mer water ”
Lol, thats me telt.
HH Mick
Injury update for the weekend, Jozo & Charlie still out with Broonie, Griff & James Forrest all doubtful. Stuart Armstrong fit again, hopefully the other guys who were away on international duty arrived back ok…
Looks like Jozo has replaced Matthews
West End of East End
Derk is available for selection