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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Fantastic game Wits, I wish everyone in the blog could have seen it on TV, a brilliant advertisement for Hurling.
Yes we should have won it but we could easily have lost it too.
Nash pulled off the save of the year with about 5 minutes to go.
Probably a lack of experience prevented us from closing it out but overall I’m Happy with the draw,
A win in either of our two remaining games should put us in the Munster Final, that will do for me,
Leinster Football Championship is now a sick joke, Dublin, Longford Carlow, God Help us all.
WHAT IS THE STARS
Remind me …when was the last time you were right :))
DD @ 6.56…re dugs and trust…a wee anecdote from the other day…I have two dogs. One is a 55 kilo Akita, a big boy, the other a German Shepherd. Grown men have been known to cross the road rather than walk past them. It seems only little old ladies and little children have no fear of them…a pair of cuddly teddies they are, my three year old grandson adores them and they him…I digress…whilst out walking, the Akita caught his paw in some metal. He started roaring in pain, trying to free himself…it was one of his pads that was trapped. It took two or three minutes to free him but in that time he clamped his jaws on my hands three times as the pain hit him…and at one point I got a wee bit nervous as he was roaring like a wild animal…he only broke the skin of one finger ever so slightly. When we got home I took off their leashes and he came towards me, low-howling (akitas do that) and rubbed his head on my legs…that was mutual trust…(phew!)
G64
Bale’s goal last night was almost as good as my favourite ever goal in a European Cup final. Tommy Gemmell in Lisbon will never be beaten. ZZ and Gareth came close wi their efforts in Glasgow and Kiev.
HH
Marspapa
Last time I was right..? Hmm let me think
Might have been last Sept before a Hibs game. I was in the Blane Valley and you turned up. My cousin says to me as we left “He was a nice chap ” and I said “Yes he was “
Marspapa
Wish I’d won as many for playing football, but I was never that good.
WITS
Sounds good to me.
WEEBOBBYCOLLINS
While on about dogs – been looking after Jenson, for a fortnight – he goes back home tomorrow – will miss him and his 5 walks a day.
woofwoofCSC
Florence and the machine – not started well – where’s dylan and zebedee
A good day for Celtic Women.
1st team beat Forfar 2.1
U/19s beat Accies 5.1
Academy beat Sevco 7.0.
Hail Hail
AULDHEID @ 12:05 AM
That was an interesting post…
Although there are many to choose from, that is one of my favourite passages from “The Prophet”.
I think people have to be open minded when you are discussing things at this level, in my experience few are.
Yet it’s one thing to have a closed mind, it’s quite another thing to be accused of bigotry.
There are some on here that say we should call “it” for what it is, racism. To me they are quite correct, in Scotland now the term bigotry has no substantive meaning.
When you can accuse someone of bigotry over a spat (all be it a serious one) about Football and let’s face it this spat has nothing to do with Religion. The word is used as meaningless invective. It’s a leveller, ones as bad as the other.
It is interesting the mindset of many Rangers Supporters, the way they reject or twist facts, the way they fail to interact socially and the way they ignore the basic truths surrounding their Football Clubs. To me smacks of group psychosis.
That is why, to my mind, you have, what seems like very decent reasonable folk being so irrational in this regard.
GREENPINATA @ 8:08 PM,
Very good post… puts things in perspective…
Hail Hail
Up the Dubs.
Gutenberg
Played football through my youth and the first medal I won was when I was well into my forties as league winners at Cricket
Sorry Florence – not for me
Thunder Road is such a nice ghuy like so many on CQN. His drawing skills and ability are off this planet!
HH
CRC
Good evening bhoys and ghirls!
First of all a great big thanks to BRTH for another great celebration on Friday for the day the big cup went North!
Great food, great company and so much happiness and love.
I read all 30 pages of the blog over the last hour and a half and was truly dismayed by some of the stuff last night regarding Liverpool.
I was in the jungle in the late 70’s and early 80’s singing “they’re the shite of Merseyside” but having lived in NW England I can honestly say that times have changed.
Liverpool have a huge Celtic following. Just ask the Spirit of Shankly and Justice for the 96 guys but so too do Everton which is more based on the old tradition where Everton were the catholic club in the city and Liverpool were prods.
Basically, Liverpool and Everton now are no longer based on a religious divide and there’s a lot to be said for that. For what it’s worth, last night I was supporting the Reds and if it had been Everton I would have been supporting them too. Why?
Because 90% of the people I’ve met from Liverpool, whether red or blue are like most of us on here in terms of their world view and are on the side of the poor and disenfranchised and anti-establishment. They are not Huns.
As for BP, I really hope he is ok as he was so full of contradictions and misplaced facts that I think he needs help.
Anyway, the highlight of Friday night for me was BRTH telling us about Pope John Paul’s vision at Bellahouston and how he turned to Cardinal Winning….
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OdPyp5OPFLk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rydu3XHSB3Q
Hail Hail
The question regarding the gas. I’m a gas engineer. Is there a tee piece on the riser pipe. If not they would need to get every1 in and cut into the supply. 420 for a new supply sounds reasonable. Failing that a homer is a shout. Digvyhe garden and do a bypass and keep the flats live and u get a supply from it.
‘GIVE US MUCH MAUR Chelsea told to double £3.5millio offer to land Maurizio Sarri as manager’
jeez, that’s some money!!!
WBC
My German Shepherd was a British Army trained working dog. He gave me great respect in Knightswood when I walked him. There was no way our house was getting burgled if Hans was at home. Beautiful long haired black coat. Solid muscle and tallest in our house on his hind legs. Man’s best friend was Hans.
Corkcelt.
Ryecatcher became Rudicantfail and posted some of the worse abuse to a fellow poster I have ever read on here.
He used to put music links up etc, he particularly liked The Clash.
I know what you mean about Liverpool and the abuse last night but I’m fairly confident Big Packy is not the afore mentioned.
There is no doubt, in my mind though, that he trolled people, you were one, as was Garry. I actually mailed two esteemed posters to ask about him, as I could read what was going on and it was irking me that people were stopping posting.
I’m with Marsapa in that I think B.P. should seek help. My opinion is that he needs therapy and possibly a big hug too.
Then again, it’s only my opinion and God knows, I’ve made many mistakes in my own life and have been wrong more times than I care to remember.
Hail Hail
WHAT IS THE STARS
I said to Almore on Friday I love your wit and delivery:))
hope the next time there will be more chance for a blether .
Gene
Agree. Saw Florence live in Spain. She gave me a sore heid but I blamed the tequila shots. She is giving me a sore heid again tonight wi nae tequila. Florence aint my cup of tea. Looking forward to Liam Gallagher after her.
The Junior Cup Final.
I didn’t see it, but by all accounts what an ending, Auchinleck were losing 2.1 to Hurlford and then scored two goals in stoppage time 90plus 1and 90plus 4. to win 3.2.
I read that Tony McInally, the Pollok manager was the pundit at the game.
Get Tony doing the SPFL games, he’s Celtic to the core.
Hail Hail
DD
Turned over
GUISEPPE67 on 27TH MAY 2018 9:25
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Thanks for the reply about the gas. I’m happy with that. Always ask an expert ?
I’m just surprised Ernie didn’t beat you to it ??
I’m on the left The Pipe
‘Glasgow Rangers’ are seeded, along with hibs in the europa
https://kassiesa.home.xs4all.nl/bert/uefa/seedel2018.html
DD…burglar alarm sir?
What for?
Keep the burglars out?
Let them in… :-)
Good reading on the blog today, said before and will say again better camaraderie on here since DD came back on . Regarding BP remember his original spat with DD as well their was another poster at that time can’t remember his name always posted music he was stirring it up at the time anyways BP hoodwinked me but that’s no hard
Oh well looking at those seedings sevco aint getting through 2 qualifyijng rounds
JimmynotPaul, You could well be right, that is the problem with a faceless blog, you just don’t know anything about a Poster only what they tell you. If they for any reason are not telling the truth, you don’t know who or what you are dealing with.
I rarely have a spat with anyone but I genuinely felt he was taking the mickey out of the blog,
I called him out initially about 7 or 8 weeks ago but got no support whatever, I then decided to leave the Blog because I absolutely knew if I stayed I would have a row with him.
When I saw DD take him on last night, I felt I had to back him.
If he has a problem I would be happy to bury the hatchet and offer my support.
Anyhow as I said earlier I just want to forget altogether about the whole thing& move on.
What a good sermon- worth a watch if you can spare a few mins https://youtu.be/WysUzNnT4i0
that’s a y valve on the left side. They would need to lay a new pipe. A don’t know why they didn’t leave a stub on that side. How many properties in the close. I’m only at Crookston. Where r u. I could look at it. I’m a winealley bhoy
WBC
Hans was trained to kill. 007 dug and my best bhoyhood friend. Come ahead ya robbers. ??
I’m sure I read u r dumbreck. Lurked a long time
night night bhoys – amazing to see people talking about the referendum result, giving personal stories andbeing given respect by those who disagree with their viewpoints – a nice place after all is cqn. Helluva long way to go to a stevieskelp.
Sid1888
Well said mate. My wee 60 year old Kopite work mate is a season book holder now at Parkhead. Im intrigued by his stories and takes on English clubs’ views on rivalry and for what it’s worth, us and the Huns. The scouse reds hate Man U full stop.
When it comes to us and them, of course religion will sway, but the last I checked, Liverpool has more Catholics per capita than any city in the UK.
I stood on the Kop 1977 and heard chants of CELTIC RANGERS during the whole game btw a league decider v Man City. My Kopite mate Chris just recently informed me that the Kop had a Celtic and Rangers end in the 70s. The CELTIC chant was loudest.
Liverpool in my opinion are the most pro Celtic club in England. I’ve had this discussion on Facebook since last night and I’m disappointed at some of the hostility towards them.
Lastly..i’ve probably been to twenty testimonials home and away over the years. Liverpool in my memory do not wind us up with Hun songs/chants like eg Man Utd do.
Delaneys,
orderedthe Snow Patrol album,
only heard a couple of tracks from it so far,
like what ive heard
Corkcelt
Thanks for watching my back last night T.
In truth I don’t need hauners, but appreciate your backing mo chara.
YNWA