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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Why are we supposed to despise Real Madrid?
I thought it was Athletico the problem was with?
Genuine question.
HH.
DD-?liverpool
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS she loves ya mick.hh.
16 Roads
many people despise Real as they are seen to be the establishment team,
much like the huns are here
Pearl Jam – Better Man
https://youtu.be/_4BObpNQqNo
16roads,why Liverpool?
DELANEYS DUNKY ive asked a question any answers.
How Soon is Now?
Celtic are up against so much.
Lets do it Again
Oddsone looks to me an extremely lively Forward with enough Power and Pace to be a Massive player @ Celtic.
I think it’s about degrees of how much you dislike a team or it’s support or for whatever reason, a fair few on here tonight it seems disliked Lpool more than RM for their own reasons, all I know is that Celtic are the top of my like meter and the huns in whatever incarnation they are in are at the bottom, Lpool and RM are in between :-)
GORDYBHOY64 on 26TH MAY 2018 11:48 PM
16 Roads
many people despise Real as they are seen to be the establishment team,
much like the huns are here
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Thanks for the response.
It makes no sense to me though.
They seem to like Celtic anyway, regardless, perhaps oblivious for our supposed distain for them.
Alfredo Di Stefano testimonial was remarkable when their entire stadium paid homage to Jimmy Johnstone.
HH.
Nirvana – You Know You’re Right
https://youtu.be/qv96yJYhk3M
CONNAIRE12
You were there at two of my finest days
Our 25th wedding blessing at CP and indeed the wonderful mass in Lisbon. Now there is something in common here.
Introduce the ballad version of YNWA and the Celtic song at mass as new hymns and you have a winner and a capacity crowd. You know it makes sense :-)
HH
CRC
ps BMCUWP-welcome back my friend
I think life was easier when we just loved Celtic,mibbe had a soft spot for a diddy English team like Wimbledon,and CGAF about anything else.
Sure,we’d watch the games down the pub.
“So who do you want to win the night,bud?
Dunno,really don’t care,hope it’s a decent game though”
Atletico in 74? An aberration which many of their older fans are still embarrassed about. Liverpool or Man U or other English teams? Always a pleasure to beat them,but not from spite. Done us little or no harm.
Real? Maybe an establishment side,but tbh,I think Barcelona and them have teamed up to stitch up the income in Spain. That makes them establishment too,so no love for either,I’d rather have Atletico.
Italians? Naw,jooost naw. Germans,nothing from me-and I was born there!
Is this rambling? It’s not rambling at all,it’s an explanation of why,although I watched the game,I certainly didn’t have enough interest in it to fall out wi people.
Delaneys,
chill out mucker,
not that long ago you are calling FB a keyboard warrior,
not your style pal
FAIRHILL BHOY on 26TH MAY 2018 11:49 PM
16roads,why Liverpool?
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Me personally don’t like Liverpool, for lots of reasons – I’m not trying to say that the entire Celtic support should dislike them because I don’t like them.
Sheep mentality that is.
The scouse women are incredible though, credit to them.
HH.
Petec
I am the son and the heir
Of a shyness that is criminally vulgar.
How good is my guitar hero Johnny Marr?
YNWA
THEEXILEDTIM 1154
Aye,that’s what I was trying to say!!!
BobbyM
Aye, I know :-)
HH
Nirvana – Territorial Pissings
https://youtu.be/xJeH_3vvisM
Sleep well Timland
HH
KTF
Tis a terrible thing the drink so it is.
There are times when you really despair.
I was in conversation with to all intents and purposes what was a decent Rangers supporter in a local bar who thinks there are folk out there to kill off Rangers .
I draw his attention to what Gibran says of their pain in The Prophet
http://www.katsandogz.com/onpain.html
and am accused of being a bigot.
Either I and perhaps we are as Christians in empathy or there is no hope for them which is why I despair when I shouldn’t really gaf.
Hell mend them.
I love booze
Nice tan
Transformers You Got The Touch
https://youtu.be/Cf_qfX9cKsQ
Does anybody on here buy Bjork albums…apart from Gordybhoy64 ?
FB,
glad you liked it ;-))
BP That is an outrageous post. Hopefully the moderators will delete it.
Garry,
Absolutely dynamite.
The wee guy owns the sonics in the travels between Dumbarton & East Kilbride….. his playlist has many Smiths songs. Dance music gets no look in. :))
Marspapa,
aye and here i am ,sitting here minding my own business …………….
Post Script.
I think I might have given him something to think about but I wouldn’t bet on it.
Hope I’m wrong.
Me thinks BPs days on the blog are numbered. Woof woof.
Cheap drink as well.
£1.80 a pint in the city centre.
The Blur, or the Blob the place was called.
Half 11 in the morning and the place was packed.
No word of a lie.
gordybhoy64,
As I look up to the Sky
Dundee was Good.
Moderators Get this eedjit of the blog pronto. Hh
Some decent scousers
HALF MAN HALF BISCUIT – The Light At The End Of The Tunnel
https://youtu.be/fvn4CeaJp_s
GORDYBHOY64….lol
Watching JULES HOLLAND -while reading on here thinking this is getting weird, and then Bjork comes on as I read one of your posts … its just timing;))
Petec,
yeah Dundee was good,
unlike the majority of tunes you post ;-))