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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David66…re snooker players–I hope you saw my virtual tongue stuck in my virtual cheek… :-)
MIT 75 pints imagine going on a night out with him.. Ffs you would need a bank loan.
D. :)
WBC no worries, I did. ???
D. :)
Sad to hear of the death of Neale Cooper. Don’t get me wrong,I had no time for him on the pitch,but I wished him no malice off it.
R I P
Evening Bhoys.
Well done to BRTH on organising a brilliant Celtic night on Friday.
Only downer was I was up at 6.15 Saturday morning for work. What a long day that was!!!
Thanks to my chauffeur TAL who got me home for 2AM.
Great to say hello again and hello for the first time to many great CQNers.
Makes me realise what a brilliant community CQN is.
To many to mention , God bless all
HH
David66
And a lorry to get him home afterwards ….drinking 50 pints a day, he put on a lot of weight …..he was a very, very big boy by the end of his life
I think Bill Werbeniuk was diagnosed with Essential Tremor.
And,yes,it is controllable by alcohol.
Google it.
First pint gets spilled,fourth is sorted,after that everything is cool.
Bill,sadly,was an alcoholic. Couldn’t stop at four or twenty four.
Great player,though.
BMCUW
Wasn’t my favourite player either. Remember when he nailed Charlie at Pittodrie before he’d got out the Centre circle after kicking off!!
A tough player but by all accounts a really nice guy
RIP Neale Cooper
Weebobbycollins
I read a recent report about how more top athletes in all sports are developing the signs of asthma. They are not getting the condition but they are developing the symptoms. It was more prevalent in athletes that trained in high altitudes and those who were participating in endurance sports. The initial theory is it was down to intense training routines
MIT I remember him. He certainly had problems.
D. :)
Big Bills tremor came before the 50pints ! It was the other way round for me.
MIT
75 pints in a session ?
Sounds like Big Bill would have been right at home on our CSC
Wow,from Bill Werbeniuk Wikipedia page.
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Some of Werbeniuk’s most famous feats of drinking include: 76 cans of lager during a game with John Spencer in Australia in the 1970s;[1] 43 pints of lager in a snooker match/drinking contest against Scotsman Eddie Sinclair in which, after Sinclair had passed out following his 42nd pint, Werbeniuk was reported to say “I’m away to the bar now for a proper drink”;[6] 28 pints of lager and 16 whiskies over the course of 11 frames during a match against Nigel Bond, in January 1990 – after which Werbeniuk then consumed an entire bottle of Scotch to “drown his sorrows” after losing the match.[1]
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My mates and I would struggle to keep up with that. Between us!!!
Burghbhoy
Great to meet you on Friday and to find that I sit in your old seat 12 row Z in 102, and next to your and TAL’s mate wee Massive. The world got a bit smaller for me on Friday. Brilliant night organised by BRTH. Glad Jim survived the stress he was under.
YNWA
BURGHBHOY
That’s exactly what comes to mind. I remember it well.
BMCUWP
For a while, I was playing a bit of snooker, and used to kick about a few of the halls, although I was never a great player … Probably because he was Canadian, BW stories (often about his drinking) were told like he was this mythical creature … I never met him but.sadly, I suspect that your post on his problems with booze are probably closer to the truth.
Terrible news and circumstances on the passing of Neale Cooper former
Gothenburg hero.
R.I.P.
BMCUW
I stayed in the same street in Knightswood as Eddie Sinclair. Went to Saint Tams with his son’s Edward and James. Both were crackin fitba players and both made it as pro’s in the game. Edward played top flight in Australia. Their dad Eddie and my dad were great drinking buddies, but Eddie was better at snooker than my da. Edward and James were better at fitba than me.
HH
MIKEINTORONTO
He was close friends from early on with Cliff Thorburn. I knew some minor Scottish players in Edinburgh in the early 80s,he reckoned he’d never be as good as CT.
Maybe that pushed him over the edge,what’s the point? I dunno,but he sure didn’t care much.
Delaney’s Dunky
Great to meet u as well bro.
An amazing coincidence you are in my old seat.
I sat in that seat from the 1st day of the new North stand .
Had to relocate when my Bhoy got his 1st season ticket.
Nice to know my old seat is in safe hands!!!
God bless bro
Starry Plough at 3.08, sorry for not replying sooner.
I was advised by my wife I had to clear out or shed or else.
My sisters had a number of Motown chartbusters LP’s when I was 10 or 11. I would slag them for buying rubbish like that.
Fast forward 7 years later, when they were out , I would borrow the LP’s I previously slagged them for buying as I had eventually switched on the Motown light in my life.
Punk was really good but I’m so glad I got into soul , Motown and other forms of Black music.
South of Tunis re Jacob Rees Mogg
It’s an apt description of him “Ministe for the 17th Century”.
A complete and utter banger but a dangerous one at that.
HH
Yorkbhoy…I had never even heard of athsma until the late seventies…once upon a time sport was mainly amateur…athletics, tennis, cricket, rugby…(boxing was always the big money sport.) and pretty much stressless. Nowadays, the demands on sportspeople are immense…I’m surprised some of the big pharmaceutical companies aren’t sponsoring the Olympics…
May Neale Cooper’s soul rest in piece.
George Ezra is the greatest at the moment.
JTT53…are you George Ezra’s dad or agent?
I’ve just read my last post.
May Neale Cooper’s soul rest in peace
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
PAUL THE SPARK on 28TH MAY 2018 6:33 PM
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.
Is this the quickest flounder in the history of CQN?
Jeezo Paul, it could have been a lot worse, one is usually asked if they are
a hun. :-)
Keep posting. V.P. was just having a laugh.
Hail Hail
With Gerrard starting his new his job this Friday , could it be that if we have signed Osdonne , it wont be announced until this Friday ?
Ha flounder!!!
Should read flounce.
Hail Hail
Dallas 7.27.
I love that train of thought.
Did you notice that Tony McInally was the pundit at the junior cup final again.
Good on him.
Hail Hail
voguepunter on 28th May 2018 6:26 pm
Too many questions…..I’ve got one ,are you big Packy ?
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vp, is this the ‘welcome’ replacement for ‘Are you a hun’? :)
Hail Hail
Matt
All this snooker talk Bill Weirbunek & Kirk Stevens were two of my favourites although Steve Davis was the master when I was growing up, total pro
Fairhill Bhoy was Allan MacManus around your time at Holy Cross ?? By all accounts he used to dog School and play pool with one of my good mates, I used to wind him up saying I would have made a better story than that….then playing a works tournament in the Cue Club at Charing Cross, Alan McManus came straight over to speak to him, McManus was in the top group of players around that time
Belfast Hootenanny alert:
I’m trying to organize a walking tour of West Belfast for Saturday 9th.
It will be givenby an ex prisoner from the area.
The plan is to start the walk (after the initial gathering in the Short Strand) at 3.30pm near the bottom of the Falls Road. We would then make our way towards Milltown Cemetery via famous landmarks like Bombay Street.
The tour will cost £10 pp.
After the tour the plan would be to go to the Felons’ Club for a bite to eat and then a night of good Craic afterwards.
If interested, leave a message on the bhlog or contact BMCUWP by email. (I’m on my mobile so can’t post his email addy so he might come on and do that for me).
Almore
Count me in please for West Belfast walking tour.
HH
JIMMYNOTPAUL
It always begins the same ,tons of questions …a few replies …that’s me in now time to start spouting pish.
Matt
That deffo is new ‘welcome’ till moderator tells me to eff off.
hh
Just to add to Almores post the walk is about 3 and1/2 mile but I could take my car and ferry a couple to the next “point of interest”. The car would be available for those whose mortal shells are incapacitated by wear and tear not the demon drink lol.
It should take a couple of hours and will finish at the Republican plot in Milltown. Only problem I would envisage is Milltown closes at a set time so might need to discuss this with whoever doing the tour.
HH
ALMORE on 28TH MAY 2018 7:31 PM
Belfast Hootenanny alert:
I’m trying to organize a walking tour of West Belfast for Saturday 9th.
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Never mind a walking tour …get big Gearoid to drive you aboot in his big beemer…TOP BLOKE ! HH