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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JMCCORMICK, my wife is a lifelong liverpool fan, and is distraught tonite, but some of the anti liverpool shit on here tonight does cqn no favours.hh.
Hey, Stevie G – Karius for Sevco?
I reckon that Liverpool’s best keeper is their 3rd choice, Danny Ward.
BP Behave yourself. Hh
big packy on 26th May 2018 9:48 pm
JMCCORMICK, my wife is a lifelong liverpool fan, and is distraught tonite, but some of the anti liverpool shit on here tonight does cqn no favours.hh.
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I’ve never liked Liverpool, glad they lost, they don’t have the best of histories. Won decent money today on my Fulham, Madrid double.
GB64 ?????
Bad Winner ??????
I will take a bad Treble Treble and 10IAR NO PROBLEM !!!
So settle down young fella and don’t take the banter too seriously !!
Hail Hail n NSNO ?
A wee bit of hopeful logiv for your delusional sevcoite.
Zinedine Zidane is a rookie manager and he’s just won 3 CL Cups in a row.
Stevie Gee is also a rookie manager and………..
That should read logic
WITS i know who she is believe me
Saw them at Croker concerts 85-87 simple minds the middle one U2 the other two
BP
How ya doing?
Seamus and I are up at the cottage … sittting on the back deck overlooking Lake Simcoe, watching the CL final on my iPad, while watching the most spectacular storm raging over the water….
Technology and nature … both continue to amaze me!
BP
DRY YER EYES !!!!
Yer acting like a Hun !
Are you by the way ?
You are correct but we cannot argue with 3 in a row………..remarkable.
:))))))))))))))))
Love him or loathe him Sergio Ramos is a real street fighter and would never be out of my team. Hh
REEL PEOPLE FROM LIVERPOOL??????
Toffeetim,
aye just you come on and goad people,
i guess as an Everton fan the only joy you have
is seeing Liverpool fail.
Stupid phone -real
THE_HUDDLE why dont you like them just remember christ the king nuff said.
Harry Flasheart
Saw her play years later with Paul Brady at Vicar Street …she could still make a young mans heart flutter
F Liverpool.
HH.
Gordon64 on 26th May 2018 9:54 pm
Love him or loathe him Sergio Ramos is a real street fighter and would never be out of my team. Hh
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Yep, every manager out there would sign Ramos tomorrow before Bale or Ronaldo, some player, total scum bag :O)
GORDON64 no my wife joan is a big liverpool fan and read the garbage about liverpool fans tonight how would you feel.hh.
big packy on 26th May 2018 9:55 pm
THE_HUDDLE why dont you like them just remember christ the king nuff said.
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There fans have done horrid things, and I don’t know what christ king means??
Everton the proper Celtic connection in that city by the way.
HH.
TOFFEETIM, you know im not of the butchers apron lot, just feel for joan tonight.hh.
Big Packy
Sorry to hear your wife is upset.
At the end of the day it’s only football. There is always another game and another season.
I have a pal who is a long suffering Everton fan. His prayers were answered tonight. That’s football. For every winner there is a loser.
Hope all well with you Frankie and Benny and I hope your wife can cheer up.
BIG PACKY
The wife, Lhad and daughters partner love to see Liverpool win, they always have.
I am strictly neutral on a “ second team” preferring to enjoy individual players rather than clubs. There is only one club for me.
My concern that this young keeper appears to be having a huge mental trauma in full glare of the media and is nobody from Liverpool taking care of him? I cannot belive that to be the case.
Song thieves.
BP
Feck Liverpool FC. What have they ever done for Celtic. The Liverpool support have a huge contingent of orange bassas in it’s ranks.
Glad Real Madrid won tonight.
YNWA
16roads
Stop changing your moniker !!!!
I didn’t care who won tonight apart from financially
Toffeetim enjoy your night am sure a few Celtic fans enjoyed Zenits triumph a decade ago
Hail Hail :-)
Andy Robertson played well tonight and looked comfortable playing in a CL final. I like Robertson but he is not as good a player as KT in terms of his energy, forward play and shooting ability. Hh
Liverpool
Everton
Who gives a fk
WE ARE CELTIC
A TEAM LIKE NO OTHER
KTF
Gordon 64-hate it but must agree regarding Ramos ?
MIKE IN TORONTO, hi mike just trying to defend joan, but will have to submit shortly, how are you and seamus.hh.
Ramos had two contributions to the game tonight. He dislocated Salas’ shoulder and then feigned injury to get Mane booked.
Should be playing women’s football. He’s a ladies front bottom.
Fact!
GORDON64
I agree about Ramos, a Spanish version of John Terry if you like.
GFTB – I bet Madrid chief.
Ton @ 6/5 not much of a price, better than nothing tho.
Jinky loved Real Madrid by the way.
Ole, Ole, Ole.
Marvellous.
HH. ?
Gordon64 on 26th May 2018 10:03 pm
Andy Robertson played well tonight and looked comfortable playing in a CL final. I like Robertson but he is not as good a player as KT in terms of his energy, forward play and shooting ability. Hh
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I’ve never rated Robertson at Hull as a defender, good going forward but very suspect defending. He’s done very well at Liverpool, though the style of football suits him, all out attack.
I think KT has better raw materials but I have my doubts at the moment, next season is huge for KT