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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I told you !
GFTB
My two favourite snooker players were Alex Higgins and Jimmy White because my dad was a fan of Ray Reardon and Steve Davis. The start of my rebel years. ?
V.P.
What a ghuy, I’m loving it.
I remember when I first posted.
I was asked if I was a hun, then I was asked to tell my favourite Celtic story which involved me going to a game.
None of this coming on and asking loads of questions malarkey.
You had to pass an initiation test.
I was doing alright until I said Hamiltontim was a friend, then half the blog blanked me. :-) :-)
Hail Hail
Mail addy as suggested below is
bmcuwp@gmail.com
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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.
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).
I will translate for Gearoid
The walking tour will be done on foot by the enlisted men while the officer corps will be chauffeured around in a limo while being served champagne and canapaes.
Long live the workers republic ??????
JIMMYNOTPAUL
Aye. Including Hamiltontim!
DD
Funnily enough hurricane & the Whirlwind were my mums favourites my father had no time for Higgins, even as a very young teenager I loved Steve Davis’s safety play more the the extravagant pots of the others
BMCUW. 7.49.
Brilliant M.
That made me laugh out loud.
Hail Hail
BMCUW
Why are you not answering my posts?
I feel needy tonight. Potential meltdown and flounce material. ??
Big Billy is now officially my agent. Hope you’re well big mhan.
Wits
Genuine lol moment there……and so true.
Don’t you be starting any fights in the Felons now.
HH
From Twitter
Neale Cooper in Fergie Rises: “He (Franz Beckenbauer) said I was possibly the closest he had seen to a player like himself at that age. That was quite a compliment. But I always say that it goes to show, even Franz Beckenbauer can talk some amount of shite.”
WHATISTHESTARS
Sadly,everyone who watched Blackadder IV knew what Melchett represented.
That was the tragedy of it.
GFTB
Bet you are a snooker fiend when you play pool. ????????
DELANEYSDUNKY
Always available for a blether,me oul’ pal.
Was on the blower to Joe earlier,looks like he’s another starter for Belfast.
JIMMYNOTPAUL
Ah,wee e-mail heading your way,mate.
Gearoid
Are West Brit Dubs allowed in The Felons these days? ??
Jimmynotpaul, I live in hope that Osdonne ‘s transfer is announced this Friday.
I saw some of the second half yesterday . I heard Tony’s input . He was good .
It would be good if Paddy’s Cumbernauld played Pollok in the Central League Cup final.
BMCUW
Loved our blether on phone yesterday. Prefer the real blether in your company. Less than two weeks till that happens. Magic. See you soon mo chara.
YNWA
DD 7.58pm
So true
I used to bore the “pool” players into mistakes … I think ma pool playing muckers introduced all they daft rules about having to hit a cushion after every shot to get me back :-)
Cooper was a vital player in Fergie’s Aberdeen team, he done Charlie Nick on a regular basis, done a great impression of Ferguson as well, very sad, too young.
Dallas.
Yes, would be nice.
Pollok are a round further away than we thought, when we spoke last week.
They have Wishaw mid week in last 16!!! then Rutherglen await the winners in quarters, then Glasgow Perthshire, I think, are in the semi.
The other semi, straightforward Cumbernauld v Blantyre Vics.
There has been loads of shocks in the Central Cup this year.
Hail Hail
R.I.P Neale Cooper.
DELANEYSDUNKY
Aye,me too
Still,ten days or so,we can put the world to rights.
Again!!!
SFTB
I agree with your comments on fittest athletes I “tried” cross country skiing in an indoor venue ( yes I know, only in Sweden) this time last year and quickly feigned an injury after an hour.
It was torture and I thought I was reasonably fit, when 40 year old women and 15 year old kids left me trailing I decided to cop out.
Incidentally, next door to the venue they has indoor beach volleyball courts set up. Again, only in Sweden, I found that much more to my liking. Enjoy the late sunshine fellow Celts! HH
Dallas
I am praying for OE and SA to announce they will be signing 4 year contracts. Friday would be nice. Stuart signing an extension would be nicer, any day soon.
Sad news indeed about Neale Cooper.
His goal against deceased Rangers at Hampden, in the Scottish Cup Final for Aberdeen, would be my favourite memory from his career.
2 inches out, open goal, he absolutely belts it, then celebrates like crazy, by tumbling his wilkies in front of the ever enraged Rangers fans.
Hail Hail
BMCUWP-Eddie Sinclair was my coach on a Sunday morning down in the Davis club in Hamilton around 85/86.Brilliant guy
G
Everyone welcome. Inclusivity r us. Even sorting out his butler.
Re Neale Cooper.
Think him doing Charlie Nick was fastest booking in League. Ran across centre circle and bingoed him. Depending on source….from 4s to 8s. Given Charlie’s recent conversion to “Arsenalism” hopefully Neale will be well looked after.
GFTB
I would enjoy a game of pool against you. I like playing tactical snooker players. Makes my 50p last longer. ?
G98- Neale Cooper done Nicholas as soon as he took kick off, for Aston Villa in a pre-season ‘friendly’ at CP, pretty sure the red told the AV bench to hook him before half time…
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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Count me and S in too my friend, thank you.
Been on a tour previously, very poignant.
HH
DD 8.21pm
Just a pity it isn’t in Belfast in a fortnight, that would have been good
Gearoid, that tackle on Nicholas at Pittodrie , Cooper never got booked , only spoken to. It would be a straight red now . Neale Cooper was eventually booked later in the game.
FB
Eddie Sinclair was my dad’s weekend Partick drinking buddy. I grew up and went to school with his son’s Edward and James. His daughter attended Notre Dame. Mr Sinclair as I called him, was a gentleman in our street.
HH
Jimmynotpaul, Clydebank were put out by East Kilbride Thistle . The game at the East Kilbride showpark had been postponed twice. It was eventually played at Clydebank’s ‘home ‘ ground .
Thistle won 3 1 after the two Bankies centre backs were sent off for boxing with each other.
Delaney’s , I agree. Osdonne and Stuart signing and getting an extended contract respectivley would, ideally , be announced this Friday.
Almore, count me in please. Hh
GFTB
Someday soon pal.
I am a bit bemused at the Belfast Hoot. The following weekend, Richard Ashcroft and Liam Gallagher are playing in Ormeau Park. Looking like I will be in Belfast two weekends in a row. It is for my birthday on June 5. Share June 5 birthday wi Kieran Tierney. Most famous person born on my birthday is KT now.
YNWA