The news yesterday from Glasgow City Council that Celtic’s planning application for the areas outside the stadium had been approved will do more than deliver shrubbery to a currently derelict landscape; your match day experience is about to be transformed.
Unless your ticket is for the executive lounges, your match day will involve turning up to a cold stadium (not a lot Celtic or the Council can do about the weather) and wait for the game to start, with rudimentary access to toilets (get in early if you want a hand towel), burgers and pies.
Celtic have been buying up land around their perimeter for years and with permission to remove the derelict London Road School, they are now in a position to provide restaurants, bars, pre and post-match entertainment. They will also be able to bring the many thousands of artefacts which tell the story of Celtic into a dedicated museum space.
Celtic Park will become a working, 7-day-a-week, tourist destination. It’s going to be phenomenal.
Plans have been before the Council for years but although they ticked all the boxes and made enormous economic sense for an area of the city badly in need of a boost, I hear one SNP councillor spoke against plans to move the superstore from its current location to a larger area, as he felt the need to protect the interests of local Asda and Tesco superstores!
Not everyone was happy to see the club, or the area, progress.
The new edition of CQN Magazine is out and packed with great articles for and by the Celtic support. You can flick through the magazine in the graphic below but it you want to actually read it, click on the double-headed arrow at the bottom right of the graphic.
Here we go………
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SAF’s da also worked in H&W
His Ma is from CO Armagh
His Da played for Glentoran
BB
Im not much of a reader but the SAF autobiography was a great read for me.
Till later all
TMWTL
He couldn’t have done any worse than their last manager.
aye BT BUT I would be round your gaff all the time !
Tet
Just made the same points to a colleague ( sheepie) … big jock.. won nine in a row when our neighbours were a top european team too. Not to mention a big cup win… final .. and semi . All done without money
WDH
your gaff would have been closer..
GlassTwoThirdsFull
18:40 on
8 May, 2013
excathedra44
No!
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Me neither,whats Hooper waiting for? a future destination with compliant Mgmt,just a thought.
Snake
Haha true.
I think Moyes has done a decent job but i wouldn’t mark his time at Everton as magnificent.
I think he is extremely lucky to be given such a prestigious post.
I wish him well but cannot see him being a success at OT.
Neil Lennon having an arguement with some bam called MacHuffy on Twitter.
Sometimes Neil I wonder if you forget you are the manager of Celtic and not just a fan…
I’d be for keeping the school. I’ve written about this before. It is not beyond the realms of imagination or indeed the talents of modern architects and builders to incorporate old and new – a building within a building perhaps.
If you throw everything away, change it totally then you can very quickly end up with nothing more than a ‘theme park’ feel about the place – it could all be a little too sterile. Glasgow has a great architectural heritage both industrial and domestic, it has also had some shameful episodes in that department. I’m excited about the developments but I am also concerned that we get it right for 100 years to come. This won’t be cheap but it’s a whole lot cheaper than having to replace tat in 30 years time instead of investing for the next century.
Do it right.
Ten men ….. Considering the riches available to the premiership clubs David Moyes IMO has worked with such a small budget and has given Evertonians a club which has competed considerably well against the clubs with serious financial clout !
Success in the premiership is different from club to club ! Getting to Europe and finishing in successive seasons above the red keech is seen as a pretty acceptable outcome in the premiership but as I said that my opinion ! HAIL HAIL !
LCT
Aye, he would.
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TBJ
I reckon Brian Clough was a better manager than swalex, for what he done at Derby then Forrest……..
But Big Jock the greatest ever.
This is long, but well worth the watch when you have a spare few hours.
http://www.theanfieldwrap.com/2011/12/hugh-mcilvanneys-arena-classic-busby-shankly-and-stein-the-football-men/
BBC
saying Romanov suffered a stroke, he was due to meet police..
The Boy Jinky 18:46
I think it’s sometimes overlooked how much of the Aberdeen side was actually built by Billy McNeill. Not to take away from the success Fergie had there, but he inherited a good team from Billy.
roy croppie
18:22 on 8 May, 2013
I’ll listen to it tomorrow in work.cheers .HH
Glass2/3rds
Swalex was a great manager. .. a legend indeed. Not detracting from his modern day achievements. ..
Just saying that in my opinion … big jock did it the hard way in much tougher times.
toptip; Guarantee thousands of laughs, by taking the camera crew from The One Show wherever you go.
Back in, mercy, merci, Mercedes.
Loving the tributes to the Brilliant Alex Ferguson, he learned from the very Best.
pressregulatorextraordinaire.csc
TET
Without the money………………
The biggest transfer fee big Jock spent = £90K on Jonny Doyle in 1976 – he also spent £30K on Willie Wallace in 1966 (seeing as he’s been topical on the blog this week).
In today’s money (real terms) – Doyle would = £640K and Wallace = £500K.
No comparison – Jock arrived and delivered immediately (including 1967) and for the next 10 years.
SAF took 4 years to win a cup and 7 years to win the league – and millions to do it!
Tommy at his brill best.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYaVEtaSR38&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Super Ally dream Job
http://www.s1jobs.com/job/484054621.html
Good Location also
If the wee school’s got to go and the news coming out of Moscow at the weekend is accurate-then what say we give the gig of demolishing it too wee Aidan?
Would be done in double quick time/therapeutic for our former star and during breaks we could have him posing for pics and signing autographs in the Superstore.
Everyone’s a winner.:-)
Exiled Tim – I would say it was really Clough and Taylor that had the success.
Neither did that well without the other – Forest were a good side in the late 80’s but not a force in Europe.
SAF won a European trophy with Aberdeen as well as many domestic honours, that shouldn’t be over-looked in his list of achievements. He earned his move to the big bucks league.
Toffee Tim
Cheers for the reply.
£15m for Felliani, £11.25m for Yakubu, £9m for Andy Johnson. Add in quite a number of £5-6m signings over the years as well as big wages on free transfers, and while he was never going to win the league i wouldn’t say he was starved of transfer money.
praecepta
As you say, no comparison.
The Master and the Apprentice.
Can you imagine is he had been english !!!
Italy appeal court upholds Silvio Berlusconi’s conviction for tax evasion, imposes 4 year prison sentence + 5 years ban from politics
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dt-camlEHuA
Dbb / Ten men ! What’s your opinion of Moyesiahs tenure at the school of science ?
What would consider as a successful season for the blues ? NSNO !
PeteTheBeat
I should have mentioned Peter Taylor, they were a double act.
Just in, footage of Ally the Pie Man McCoists latest embarrassing display in public:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8-FKffPfVY
Evening all.
I know SAF is the most successful manager in Britain but I can’t get my head round the adulation he is receiving. He stuck the head on Bobby Murdoch. Pure thug. Started life as a supporter of thon deid team but after being tossed out for marrying a Catholic, he refused to go back when they wanted him as manager. Fair enough but he seems to have retained the thug in the way he treated those who dared to question him.
TET
Where I will compliment him is on the youth system he set up at OT and the players that he helped develop and bring through.
Few clubs can rival him on that score bar Barca and lately Bayern.
Watching Sky News and Jeff Randall admits he is a Servconian. I knew there was something about him I did not like.
Hello this is WEE BGFC. Ye see big Fergie’s jacked it in and the guy called Neil Lennon, you’ll never guess. He’s going nowhere! Anyone who thought for a minute that Neil was going to go, I’ve got some news for you. Neil isn’t going anywhere for at least the next thirty year! I am 10 and he will still be in the job when I am 40!
Anyway I hope there is a full house at Celtic Park on Saturday to see us lift the trophy. As usual I’ll be there but I hope all you part-timers get out of your bed on saturday morning and see us lift the 2nd title in a row. Saturday predictions? 2-1 Celtic.
From WEE BGFC
Dbb…… Your right there has been some turkey signings but there has been some crackers too Baines WILL go for plenty as will big Fellaini ! Distan and Jags were financially shrewed signings ! But over the last eleven years DM has delivered a decent product on the park ! Hail hail !
Now that it loooks as if davy moyes will be man.u ‘s next manager..does anyone think any everton players are good enough to play with man.u?
Ten Men Won The League
19:13 on 8 May, 2013
Italy appeal court upholds Silvio Berlusconi’s conviction for tax evasion, imposes 4 year prison sentence + 5 years ban from politics
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Will the terrible Murdoch follow the same fate, we Live in hope, or we Pray and forgive all his transgressions. Judge Judy wid hiv a riddy.
Page 3 normality?csc
Goes back tae the Garden of Eden, it always does.