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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The Spirit of Arthur Lee – You’re a tease….
West end of East end, let’s hope Broonie and leigh are fit. Don’t take any chances with James which might worsen his injury especially with the Molde. Utd and Aberdeen games coming up.
Dallas
Michael Conroy was my type of Celtic player. He reminded me when watching him, of my team mates in our succesful Saint Tam’s school team. We were a skillfull team especially Tosh who made all our dream, but every guy was hard and all good boxers. We took great delight in thrashing VD always by the scoreline and post match battles. Great days. :)
DD
Does he have a prodigy t shirt ?
Breathe
TSOAL
No an orange wan!
Mon the Urban Reynard! :)
Delaney’s. Michael played with his heart on his sleeve, always got stuck in plus never gave big greetin high pitched Johnstone a look in at the riot final. Do you remember the Michael Conroy who lived across the road from the shops on Alderman Road who went to 5.30 mass at Corpus Cristi after his Celtic Boys Club game? He wore his Celtic Boys Club blazer.
Those wonderful VD bigots, Cokey excepted. A few ex VD-ers are in my work. Their tolerance level has not improved.
WEST END OF EAST END on 15TH OCTOBER 2015 9:32 PM
Any info on the young boy Allan. Hoping to see him soon. Work in Edinburgh and hibs fans say he’s a player.
Lennon’s Passion
They said that about Joe Tortolano
Love
Paddy Hill,
http://youtu.be/02LkmhITHFA
Clogher
DD………
………There was a Mike Conroy played with me in a Spurs Boys Club side…………….
………the Drumchapel version………….Dalsetter no’ White Hart Lane :)
Wonder if he could have been your Alderman road Blazered buddy?
His dad used to go to all our games………
His only comment ever during games was
“Givetheballtomichael….!”
all one word, repeated every 5 minutes…..
HH
Bankiebhoy, the Celtic Boys Club Michael Conroy ended up playing for Clydebank and Dundee before playing lower league football in England.
Dallas
Knew Michael and his lovely sister Maureen well. He signed for the Bankies and played against his boyhood idols. The McAdam brothers, John Wark and ref Brian McGinlay were ex VD pupils. Tam must be the only VD FP to play for us.
Cokey wore his Celtic scarf every day to VD, therefore ensuring a fight or two every day for him. The fights stopped when they realised that the mad Tim fae Yoker was winning every scrap. God bless oor Front Line Clash City Rocker on glue. :)
Paddy Hill,
Prison Officer…”Call me sir.”
Paddy, “When were you knighted?”
Clogher
DD
I bet his da’ took his one word direction around the leagues as well…………
I remember he even shouted it once when the bold michael had the baw………..
Mouldmaster CSC
Bankiebhoy
I played with Michael for Corpus Christi Boys Guild Knightswood.
I was our midfield maestro. :)
I can still hear Mr Conroy shout “Dunky!!! Give Michael the ball!” :)))
Delaney’s, was he in your year ?
Your fellow Doobie Brother, Cokey, was an unbelievable character and top bloke.
The first time I recall seeing him was after the 4 2 game at Ibrox.
It was about 6pm in Whiteinch. He was at the bus stop just by the entrance to the tunnel. He shouted to someone on the bus he knew, that the had walked through the pedestrian tunnel after the game. He was proudly wearing his O’Neill’s Ireland top and waving his tricolour.
I’m so glad I got to know him when he joined the Lions bus.
Fighting his cause against the VD crew deserves the greatest of respect.
There is only one reason why RFC went bust. The English branch of the masonic network let their Scottish brothers down. When it came to the crunch, the English turned their back on their Scottish brethren for the sake of looking after themselves.
Not wishing to reignite the Indy debate I am a firm believer that had Scotland been independent whilst Murray was still at the helm, RFC would never have gone bust.
The Scottish brethren would never have tolerated this event.
There are only 2 decisions which forced their liquidation, Lloyds and HMRC would not come to the party.
Every Scottish authority has bent over backwards to accommodate the survival of a club playing at Ibrox.
MELBOURNE MICK 929
Your posts always cheer me up, mate. The way you and,for example,LEFTCLICKTIC,ensure the love and knowledge of our club is passed on. It’s pyoor dead brilliant,and I mean that.
A big HAIL HAIL to you and all like you.
On the subject of German terms matching up wi the huns,here’s a good one.
I was born in Germany.
In Munster.
Feel free to insert own punchline,but my own thought of a Herman would be Gregor Stevens.
Pity Fester was in The Addams Family,tbh…
http://proprofs-cdn.s3.amazonaws.com/images/QM/user_images/1748530/7016255704.gif
(Still have fond memories of the ‘Bald,ugly and insane’ NTV article on him,a genuine PMSL moment)
Bobby, Gregor Stevens’ style of play was a gruesome as his coupon.
AULDHEID 922
Good man,get that bit between your teeth and get in there.
Bobby, Stevens was still behind Highlander, Billy Urquhart , in the gruesome coupon stakes.
Stevens was a natural Hun player, brutal to watch and look at with the finesse of a car crusher in a scrappy when he tackled players.
The Greatest anti war song ever?
The futility of war is evoked like in no other song…..
Some Huns even think it is an Irish rebel song…..
Strangely enough….so do some of our own….
Anyway….regardless of the above…..incredibly poignant song about a time when we lost some of our forefathers….
The Green Fields Of France – YouTube
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Song by The Fureys and Davey Arthur. Written By Eric Bogle.
DALLASDALLAS
Motherwell refused to sell him to Rangers. Not a chance,and they had to be applauded for that.
Leicester bought him,and promptly sold him to Rangers.
Motherwell were furious,as the Leicester manager was a certain Jock Wallace.
Obviously not a club to bear grudges,they employed Mr Wallace as their next manager!
(Btw,he sold Brian McClair to us for peanuts,so he wisnae all bad)
Mea Culpa…….Dont know where you live but i hope for your sake it aint Scotland, I have this picture of you Cowering under your Comfort Blanket, Hoadin oan ti yir teddy bear Prayin the big bafbad Masons dont get yi.
……..Grow a pair Ffs…..We Are The Biggest Club in OUR COUNTRY…..ACT LIKE IT.instead of Acting like a subservient Bitch…..This is Our Country Glasgow is OUR City….Rant Starting…….
Dallas
Hurlock was uglier than them, but Davie Dodos trumped all of them.
Dallas
I first met Cokey at a Mod do in Knightswood Community Centre.
He was 14, I was 15. He was buzzin glue, I offered him a doobie and a lifetime friendship was formed. He had a German parka with a Green White and Orange target on the back, he wore it to school. Mad bassa but one of the best.
Madmitch at 8.45 , sorry for my late reply.
A guy I know used to work in the Scottish press.
He told me Murray the younger was knocked back by Ayr Utd because of Murray senior’s reputation in Ayrshire business circles. Ayr stated some years later that they knocked back Murray the younger as his ‘investment’ was really a loan as he wanted ‘his’ money back over the course of time. His EBT doesn’t appear to have to be repaid unlike the deal he put forward to Ayr Utd.
Dr John Cooper Clarke on Radio X now. Legend!
Delaney’s , Cokey is one of the biggest , if not the biggest character , I have ever met.
I like the idea of a green , white and orange target on his parka especially winding up that VD mob.
Did he not have an indian ink Jam tattoo on his arm?
They thought it was all over……
It is now….
Get it right up the Huns….
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The Rangers owner and chairman read out a statement on the steps of Ibrox. GUIDANCE …
Not too pleased at finding myself logged out between posts.
Am I now considered to be more than one of these so-called unique visitors we keep hearing about?
326 posts yesterday,and about 20,000 unique visitors?
Aye,right.
About a quarter of them were generated in two hours when I questioned the future of the blog due to lack of posts.
My grateful thanks to those who backed me on it,btw. Including DONTBRATTBAKKINANGER for his early morning cog diss observation.
DALLASDALLAS
Billy Urqhart,aw ffs…
Yer right,I canny top that,bud.
Mind,I heard he made a mint in royalties from the Chucky films.
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Big cup winners, Davie Dodds is indeed an ugly but Billy Urquhart with his mid seventies hair style and unnatural facial features , is still the most gruesome looking former sticky player I have saw.
My pals and I occasionally drank in Dukes Bar, near the Kelvin Hall.
They had a wee blackboard with an ad for Carlsberg elephant beer on it. Underneath the ad, someone had chalked up , as drunk by Davie Dodds.
Dallas
The Jam Indian Ink tatoo is still there.
He has moved from Proddy Yoker to Republican Whitecrook in his words, for peace.
He is fed up battering huns. :)
Manufactured intercinine warfare from Huns lol
Even funnier than if Big Daddy fought Giant Haystacks with Mick McManus as the ref…..
All a sham…..
Bigger sham than Sham 69
I laughed for days at this……
GoogleeyedCraigWhyteCSC
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The Green & Whyte saga continues… … Charles ‘Chuckles’ Green Calls Craig Whyte …
Rips ma knitting on here sometimes, If you dont Know when Youve Won, Then How can You Expect To Lead…..It Really is That Simple…
So many of our Support( if CQN is anything to go by) Love wallowing in the Downtrodden Martyr Theme
Well Sorry, That Aint For Me. This Is Our City, And These Are Our Colours
Glasgow Is Green And White…
DALLASDALLAS
The Castlehill Vaults-known locally as Aldo’s and then Alfie’s after the two generations of Agostini family owners-had a cartoon on the wall in the 80s and 90s.
A horse drinking from a bucket of Tennents,peeing into a bucket of McEwans.
Delaney’s, I’m sure he would have been more than welcome in Whitecrook.
Bobby, sorry for ruining your night mentioning Billy Urquhart. There was a picture in the internet of Urquhart from the late nineties, still not a pretty sight. The chucky comment brought a smile to my miserable coupon.
Good night all and sleep well.