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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Sorry to see the Boston Celtics eliminated last night, after a monumental campaign… Had a big note on the Cavaliers, in-play @ 7/5 when the Celtics were 7 points up.
Le Bron James is the greatest sportsman on the planet.
Period.
HH. ?
16 ROADS.
A pretty young team 16, they’ll only get better. LBJ was the difference.
HH
16 Roads…”Le Bron James is the greatest sportsman on the planet.”
No he’s not…It’s Keiran Tierney…’n’ Scott Brown…’n’… :-)
Biased yo?
SP – Fair play to the Celtics, remarkable campaign all things considered.
WBC – Can’t argue with that. ?
God bless the Celtic of Glasgow.
HH. ?
16 ROADS.
I’m not a big sports fan but I do enjoy watching The Celtics, I would love to go there one day and see it live!
HH
Only one sports team for me lads.
It’s the famous Glasgow Celtic ??? ? ???
Nobody does it better ………
D. :)
WBC beat me to it.
KT and the Magnificent Scott Brown
HH
D. :)
WBC
funny enough, that subject came up during a boy’s night out recently …. most seemed to think that basketball players, given their size, speed and strength were the best all ’round athletes … LBJ is a phenomenonal athlete … a mountain of a man, but as fast as and agile a gazelle….
there was one shout for F1 racers (and they are surpr9isingly good athletes … several run marathons for training, and the G force they are subjected to is scary) …
and one – Dan from Milan …. tried to convince everyone that hockey players were the best … but I think, as he is Canadian and a hockey player, his view was perhaps as biased as yours
:)
Same SP – Think the basketball is a brilliant sport, same as the hurling and the racing.
Celtic is something else tho.
Got that Centenary EP by the way, from discogs, it was a genuine white label believe it or not, brand new played perfectly.
Thanks for your help on that score.
HH. ?
16 Roads
Go Rockets ?
Game 7 tonight with home court advantage against GSW.
Harden needs to step up tonight ?
16 ROADS.
Excellent:))
Not bad the ole Discogs.
HH
The fittest sportsperson will be found in cross country skiing.
You’ll get no excitement in watching it, mind.
Think it was always the plan to return Erik Sviatchenko to his home club permanently when he was shipped back on loan, so no surprise there and thanks to Erik for his sterling efforts.
Always short of pace and fitness when he arrived but at least he grew into the position and had a great run in our side, so we can’t quite write off Marvin Compper though some fans would like to, for his sheer lack of visibility.
I hope BR would like another CB to partner Boyata or Ajer when both aren’t in a pair, and Erik’s paltry fee shows that Celtic would need to splash the cash for a defender with some proper European pedigree.
All bank holiday pie in the sky with most players on holiday, it’ll be endless speculation no doubt with all Celtic’s best players leaving all summer until they haven’t and the window has slammed shut.
This summers transfer market as always will be a measuring stick and the best indicator of the size of next years expected gap.
BATEEN BHOY on 28TH MAY 2018 4:46 PM
Houston/Celtics final would have been incredible.
Sometimes GSW bottle it, so the Rockets can definitely win the decider.
Chris Paul, Capela as James Harden are formidable.
The old moonhowler days, there was a poster, Fred C. Dobbs think he was called – always posted this song to calm the place down :
https://youtu.be/v2ssbgThljU
Powerful film, powerful song.
HH.
Bada Bing,you posted on here about Barrowfield Training Ground,having a indoor pitch ,anything else ,I mentioned a few times that our club ,should erect a couple of Stands,for parents and supporters,because quite frankly there is no cover,except for a old changing room,next to the social club,and surely if Celtic are spending 5 million pounds on Stadium improvements, surely a good lick of paint on the old stand wouldn’t go a miss.
Guys I would say that Tennis stars have to be up there for very fit athletic sportsmen/women.
No hiding in a game of singles in 100 degree heat for a few hours, sometimes 4 hours.
D. :)
Tho only thing this Summers transfer window will tell us is that we will be even further ahead.
Have no doubts.
I would love Armstrong to sign on again.
DAVID66
Not sure of that. Andy Murray has hinted VERY heavily on his suspicions.
Personally,I was amazed at the meteoric rise of Djokovic. Fell out wi some friends 5 or 6 years ago when I called him a drugs cheat.
I’ll let this article-which I posted a few days ago-explain my thoughts on some of it.
https://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/other-soccer/ewan-mackenna-murky-questions-surround-spanish-footballs-golden-era-and-people-might-not-like-the-answers-36943284.html
BMCUWP I understand were you are coming from.
A cheat is a cheat after all, but some of them must just be very fit, not all of them surely take enhancements.
Only my opinion. Then again supposidly cycling is rife with cheating.
D. :)
Maybes they should have a trophy for the best chemist……
David66…wot about snooker players? All that sitting around for hours while the other athletic snooker player knocks up a 147…and darts players? My god! are they fit anaw. Game after game, set after set, pint after pint…they’ve got to be fit as well…andy fordham?…he was my hero. I had his picture on my wall. It kept falling off, he was so strong…then I heard he was a hun…so picture in the bin. Bin men refused to take it away, it was so heavy…still there. Offers?
Question…why do the top cyclists always suffer from athsma?
And why do they call it evaporated milk? I opened a tin a wee while ago and it’s still there…full…right to the brim…
I think that, to play at a truly elite level in most of the major sports, a good number of the players have crossed the line at some point …
pretty hard not to, if you believe (probably correctly) that most others at the top level are doing it …
some are just stupid about it … the tennis player Peter Korda had one scrawny normal arm, but his other arm was bigger than his legs, (a popeye arm)… and then he wondered why he was selected for drug testing?!
the one that bothered me the most was Lance Armstrong … so many people, including many cancer survivors, were inspired by his tale, and he preyed upon those people to make money …. and, when some people came forward to challenge him, he used his considerable (and fraudulently obtained ) fortune to destroy them, to intimidate others into keeping his dirty secret …. a thoroughly bad man who, if he had been born in Scotland, I’s sure would have played for the zomibes …. glad that Sherl Crow dumped his ass.
The Exiled Tim,
Spot on.
The hipocrasy in sport reporting regarding drugs is incredible. Doping is something that Johnny Foreigner does….. but it wouldnt happen here….yeh right.
In athletics the podium tells all we need to know about who is taking the drugs. Press don’t want to rock the boat because the “good news” stories fill the back pages and sell the papers.. The tv channels are full of sport because it sells advertising so don’t expect a hard hitting investigation any time soon.
All the champion swimmers have asthma, ( or having asthma makes you a champion swimmer.. not sure which — that the drug helps open your airways is just a fortunate side effect.
Then the trip to the Palace and the knighthood and dames become bullet proof .
I don’t trust any of them …
If there is someone that you really, really believe is clean you may be proved correct.
If they are last over the finish line I may even believe it too.
The Onlooker.
WBC I don’t see darts and snooker as physical sports like the ones we have mentioned.
However hat doffed to them, and I do like to watch them.
There are many great, physically fit sportsmen and women out there, in all sports.
I admire tennis players and rugby players and although I am a football supporter, sadly football is away down the line in terms of fitness, for me. IMO only
D. :)
Weebobbyollins
Back in the 80’s the snooker players were using beta blockers to slow their heart rate.
Now banned.
THE Onlooker.
PAUL THE SPARK on 28TH MAY 2018 1:26 PM
I see we have been linked with Jordan Ayew of Swansea. Does anyone know if he is any good and how would he fit in to our team? Would it also mean someone would be leaving? Thanks in advance
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Too many questions…..I’ve got one ,are you big Packy ?
David66 on 28th May 2018 6:20 pm
I admire tennis players and rugby players and although I am a football supporter, sadly football is away down the line in terms of fitness, for me. IMO only
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There were always rumours about Nadal, and then his mysterious disappearance from the sport.
I was trying to find the link, but there was a list of fittest sportsmen and I’m sure footballer was number 1 or close to it. Some players cover a crazy distance in 90 minutes.
Bill Werbeniuk was a Canadian snooker player who suffered from a nerve disorder which caused his cueing arm to shake …. to combat it, he had to drink alcohol which reduced the tremors … he would start with a beer at breakfast, and sometimes had to drink as many as 50 beers a day if he was play in the morning and evening slots! He is said to have drank 75 pints during one match!
but, eventually, the drinking caused a problem with his heart, so he had to take indurol, a beta blocker, to deal with the problem.
but beta blockers are commonly used by athletes in precision sports, as they block the reception of adrenalin, and so can be used to, inter alia, stop shaky hands (marksmen, golfers with the yips, etc. are often suspected of using beta blockers)… and were eventually added to the list of banned substances in many sports
BW refused to stop taking them, and was effectively forced out of snooker before dying at age 56
Voguepunter
Yes got me hook line and sinker. Imagine having the audacity to ask a few football related questions on a football blog. Been a very long time lurker and I think I will just go back to that. Thanks for the warm welcome.
Hi Bhoy
On fit sportsmen. Remember the programme Superstars were famous or not so famous sportsmen took on each other in a kind of It’s A Knockout format. There was a guy called Brian Jacks wiped the floor with everybody. I think he was an Olympic Judo Player. Anyway that makes him the bestest ever so there.
KEEP THE FAITH
The Huddle I also read somewhere that the actual time that the ball is in play divided by the amount of players on the field = the time each player could expect to have the ball and it was quite an eye opener. I understdand that players do running off the ball etc.
I just think other sportsmen are fitter. Maybe if I read the article you did it would change my mind…
D. :)
PAUL THE SPARK
No bother.
I see Neale Cooper has passed away at the age of 54 ffs
May his soul rest in peace
Far too young to be taken from his family
D. :)
The Onlooker…I didn’t know that. There you go!
TonyRome
There was a similar show in North America … Superstars…. where athletes from various sports would compete ina series of events to see who was the top all around athlete …
Brian Budd, the Canadian soccer player, competed in it from 77 – 79 and won it every year, before they banned him from competing any more …
maybe the suggestion of soccer players being the best athletes isn’t so fanciful…
Neale Cooper passed away. He will be in Heaven now with Our Blessed Lord. Prayers for his family & friends.