Newco have cut Celtic’s ticket allocation at Ibrox from 7,000 to 800 tickets per game next season. I understand their thinking. There have been four games between the clubs at Ibrox, Celtic winning each: the first, coming from behind, the second, free-wheeling by a couple of goals, the third – scoring five, and the fourth – twice coming from behind, then winning with 10 men.
It is a litany of humiliation, played out while 7,000 have a party in a stadium, the rest of which is near-empty well before full time. Can you imagine having to sit through this, season after season? Of course they want to reduce our headcount and garner whatever competitive advantage possible.
There are problems. League rules state a “reasonable number of visiting supporters” must be admitted. This number should be agreed in advance with the visiting club, or else the SPFL board will adjudicate.
Then there is the small matter of the Ibrox safety certificate, which Dave King previously said depended on Celtic fans being given the Broomloan Stand. The police insist each set of fans have distinct and separate approaches to stadiums at high-risk games.
Celtic will be happy to reduce the number of Newco fans they have to accommodate – it should shelve talk of having to put prison-grade toilet facilities in areas they visit. Each away team will suffer a competitive disadvantage, but making visits to Ibrox trickier will do our European preparations no harm.
Whatever the police and SPFL say, Dave King has more to worry about.
He still has to get £11m out of South Africa and into a UK bank account.
He needs to satisfy the Takeover Panel before he can start a share issue.
He needs to satisfy the Court of Session over his failure to comply with Takeover Panel instructions.
He needs to satisfy loans due by 1 July (Oh you thought they were all going to be converted to shares, did you? Wait for this one).
He needs to fund a trading shortfall for next season.
He needs to find enough cash to keep the management team on-side before the transfer window closes.
And he needs to convince Uefa they satisfy Financial Fair Play regulations. Straightforward if you have lots of cash, don’t need to use it to buy-out other shareholders at 20p/share, repay loans or fund a football team.
There is simply too much to do. Better to circle the wagons by throwing some crumbs to the easily-deluded. You know how this story ends.
It’s the 25th May. It is also the weekend. You have permission to wallow in nostalgia for 24 hours. Enjoy it.
You can also participate in Green Day: donate £5 (see below) to the Foundation. You’ll enjoy this too.
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The other Hearts player is Jankauskas with Porto
Can’t think of a 6th Hibbee- Tommy Craig missed out
Someone here will know, to many Celtic nerds :O) it a trick question of course but the clue is.
Played in Pat Stanton’s Testimonial
Good Evening One and All.
First of all can I just say a big thankyou to everyone from this site who supported the charity dinner last night by attending or by giving me things to auction or raffle.
I will not make an attempt of naming all the pople that covers because I would be sure to miss someone out.
However, Friesdorfer comes in for special mention as he painstakingly created all the badges and had to put up with me sending him repeated e-mails at midninght so much so that one night he replied with a message which more or less said “Go to bed — now!”
I would also like to thank CelticRollercoaster and Taggsybhoy for their utter generosity in donating really valuable things and their time to the auction. However, it is not just the gifts they give but the time, enthusaism and encouragement that they provide which makes taking on a fairly big task a lot easier.
And that goes for many many others …… I started a list but have just given up as there are too many to mention.
There are people who post on here who I am proud to consider as friends and whose company I absolutely love to share. Folk with whom I laugh heartily and who provide marvellous memories and experiences.
I salute and acknowledge you all and the good you do — and there is a lot of that.
Now, I can’t remember how to post links to photos on here but I have around 100 or so polos and t shirts to flog if anyone is interested. They all have the “One Night in Lisbon” logos and are genuine Fruit of the Loom quality shirts.
The shirt proceeds will help me to take out clothes and other things to Malawi in a fortnight – see here https://mydonate.bt.com/fundraisers/jamesmcginley3 – and I have another idea about what to do with them but before announcing that I need a chat with a man with a beard ………..
HH, God Bless and Thankyou.
BRTH
Loads of great Scottish players played for Liverpool including the great King Kenny however for some reason my fav as a boy was the Dubliner Stevie Heighway. Hh
Best ?
BBC 1 10.35 tonight. “Kenny”. Worth watching if you didn’t see it first time round. ?
GARYGILLESPIESHAMSTRING
Oh,very good!
THEHUDDLE
Kenny Dalglish?
Dallas
Pat Stanton was a great favourite of my dad too. One of the most underrated Scottish players ever. I thought he was close to world class. Also loved Stevie Murray, wish injury never ended his career prematurely. I think he would have been a Celtic great too.
HH
MARSPAPA-how was the redburn for lunch ??
Gordon
Steve Heighway was a player I liked.
Strange one though
Although born in Dublin and played for the Republic he was 100 per cent English. His parents were English with no Irish connections and just happened to be in Dublin when he was born .
Nah not Dalglish though I am basing this on a post from a Hibs forum, it is a Celt though
Wits He was a lucky man indeed. Hh
The LFC version of YNWA was so lacking in the spine tingling department BT have just shown about 10 seconds of it!
DD
Great to see you in good form last night…and our Clash stories and my pal Danny…small world Mo chara..like you I’m going for Real as of all the players on show tonight has bought me a drink and allowed me to DJ n rebel and Celtic up his boutique hotel!!
Mon CR7
Kikinthenakas still recovering ???x2
Simple Minds are still Alive and Kicking. Hh
I wouldn’t support Liverpool in a tiddlywinks contest – crooks behind them and almost certain that the Gerrard appointment is related to King and wider English organised crime
The teams walk out to duelling banjos… erm, cellos.
CL Final Real Madrid v Mo Salah & co
Eff the Red Sh&@E !!
Hail Hail n NSNO !!
Mon the Madrid ?????
Batten Bhoy 6.41pm
Cqn – “a site like no other” :-)
I have been lucky enough to meet plenty of good Celtic punters from here, people who I would never have met if I had never posted, I knew you would all have a blast last night
CL final – not many times Real Madrid are odds against in 90mins :-)
Tonight I will be supporting Andy Robertson the St.Ninian bhoy. Hh
Gordon64 on 26th May 2018 7:40 pm
Simple Minds are still Alive and Kicking. Hh
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So is the seat I liberated from the Broomloan when they played Ibrox in 1986.
Simple Minds, The Cult, Hipsway. Some gig. And a chance to give Mordor a makeover with the Troon posse.
Come on my second team Liverpool ??
DELANEYSDUNKY
I think my Dad was disappointed to miss the main event,but I’m sure he’d have loved the preliminaries!
Back home a week today,canny wait.
Kikin
Great night mi amigo. Serendipity.
Clash City Rockers CSC
Did big jock play for hibs ?
Delaney’s , Stevie Murray was a terrific player who i believe would have been our captain once big Billy retired.
I think Stevie had a toe amputated but I’m unsure.
When Jock Stein was Hibs boss, Pat Stanton was played as a defender, his preferred position.
Sorry if posted already……….Official BT Sport YouTube Link to UCL Final
https://youtu.be/CTLMDo682pU
HH
If you have Virgin, the game is free on channel 548 Bt Showcase
Sandman
Wonder if the Rosary Beads the Knightswood posse buried in the Ibrox turf on the day of that Simple Minds gig, are still there?
TOFFEETIM- you couldn’t just say mon the Madrid ?hurting pal??
Brogan Rogan Trevino and Hogan on 26th May 2018 7:23 pm
so glad it went well but I never doubted it for one minute :-))
HH
Madrid keeper is awful
Ernie, thanks for that.
The registered keeper of the car is the person billed, but wasn’t driving at the time, others are insured for the car.
BMCUW
I was a bit disappointed when I realised that Pat was not going to the Kerrydale. We promised to further chat in Belfast soon though.
YNWA
BMCUWP-BRTH that story was a few years ago now,but it’s still one of the best ,up there with the one about the alcoholic with a good boss.Glad you stuck around mate?
DELANEYSDUNKY
Oh,that’s a guarantee,mate.