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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3-1 Madrid.
Otzil.
Cristiano Ronaldo appears to have celebrated his goal by mouthing at the camera: “I’m staying here. I’m not going anywhere.”
Paul67
Maybe sdm will sell us his Casino plans for £2…..where’s the plans ?…..I want to know the name of the person who has them……it will be like a new signing…..
Stifling different views?
Bad News, Imo.
Tis why I luv the excellent BOBby.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BirclTYVh74
A great goal from Málaga’s Antúnez makes it 3-2.
Mon the Málaga.
Celticrollercoaster:
You have mail.
Keep the Faith!
Hail Hail!
tom mclaughlin
20:48 on 8 May, 2013Bada Bing -You needn’t worry. Celtic already have a manager.Hail Hail
That will be that then ,managers’ dont move to other clubs.The things you learn on here….
Jobo – would have loved to have been able to go along with you on Friday neighbour, maybe next time? Out with the family as compensation for the granting of an all day pass on Saturday! Some talk on here about Bobby Murdoch and Sir Alex…I was fortunate to know Bobby very well and I remember he said one day and I quote ” Fergie is the nearest to a Tim that you could get at Ibrox at that time”…….
Cristiano’s penalty was struck so hard that Willy Caballero is having to go off because of the injury he suffered to his ankle in saving the kick.
Did you ever see the like?
I’m not actually convinced that Fergie nutted Bobby Murdoch. It was, I think, the 1969 cup final, and no one saw it at the time. STV cameras were following Bobby, when Fergie passed and seemed to nut him. But Bobby never reacted, or even flinched. I suspect he was intimidating Bobby, but the camera angle made it look worse. Now, although Fergie has been a great manager, he is well capable of being a b****** when he wants, it’s just that I don’t think it happened this time. All football managers are capable of being nasty, comes with the job.
HH
The sevcovians want us to miss them,need us to miss them..By telling ALL the sevconians and the psycophantic SMSM that we certainly do NOT miss them,it increases their angst..
By missing them,we acknowledge a presence…
Tell everyone you know,that the oldco are gone and we re no…
HH
ps and Sevco are a charade..
CRC
Liquid International clearance could be an issue during a very busy period
A cycle visit on the 25 th could be a possibility, assuming you could drum up some sponsor support for me !
focus is on the 18th for moment, let me come back to you
Mouldy67
Graham Spiers….
Spiers on Sport: the men who can stabilise Rangers
Published on 8 May 2013
Spiers on Sport
It is no exaggeration to say that Rangers is going through a second fit of self-destruction, as if the events of the past 12 months have not been bad enough for the club’s supporters.
Malcolm Murray, the Ibrox chairman, will step down. Or, putting it more bluntly, he will be ousted. The independent investigation, commissioned by the club to Pinsent Masons, is causing growing boardroom ill-feeling, an ill-feeling which is spreading to others employed at the club.
Murray finds himself in a remarkable situation – by the quirks of his character he is trusted by just about no-one on the Rangers board to carry out the chairman’s job convincingly. He and Charles Green grew contemptuous of each other and the two men have contrived to secure their mutual demise.
Walter Smith, sooner or later, will step down from the Rangers board, having never fully been at ease in the role, even prior to the current upheaval. Smith often felt disdainful of the way Rangers’ business was done under Charles Green and Imran Ahmad.
Whatever Smith’s mood, when he leaves Ibrox he will be a loss to the club, simply for his presence and ballast as a knowledgeable Rangers figure. Smith, unlike Green or Ahmad, has nothing but the good of Rangers at heart.
Two other key figures at Ibrox, who are less well known to the public at large, are the non-execs, Ian Hart and Bryan Smart. These two men also now have the chance – and maybe the imperative – to stabilise and revive Rangers.
To those who know him, Hart is viewed as a determined, decent man, a lifelong Rangers supporter who does unsung charity work and has a successful business track-record.
Hart certainly has the gift and know-how to lead Rangers forward – it is a question of whether, amid this mess, he also has the inclination.
Some would like to see Hart installed as the next chairman of Rangers, though he himself might baulk at the prospect.
Smart is seen as another “straight up and down guy” with a city/finance background who could help pave a path out of this boardroom mess. A former director with Mercedes Benz, and a man with a penchant for classic cars, he is now viewed along with Hart as an essential, stable presence at Rangers.
More has emerged about the growing disenchantment with Green’s tenure at Ibrox – especially in his war-war rather than jaw-jaw approach to the football authorities in Scotland.
Green’s aggression in this context went down a storm with elements of the Rangers support – but not with men like Walter Smith, who desired a less confrontational and more consensual approach.
In recent months Smith had been lined up on behalf of Rangers to hold peace talks with both the SFA and SPL in the aftermath of Green’s belligerent style – though that has been temporarily shelved until the current Ibrox boardroom turbulence settles.
Ironically, although Green’s uncontrollable tongue, such as his disastrous interview using racist language, eventually brought him down, many inside Rangers still believe he will be largely exonerated by the Pinsent Masons report.
Green played hardball, to a point of misleading Craig Whyte, in the weeks prior to Rangers failing to secure a CVA last May, but he may be measured in the fullness of time as having done far more good than bad for The Rangers International Football Club.
Some Rangers figures remain convinced that Green made a fatal error in resigning when he did two weeks ago. The board were turning on him but, had he chosen, he could have hung in, at least until Rangers’ internal investigation was published.
A further question concerns new Rangers appointments. Martin Bain, the old club’s former CEO, would step back into the role in a whisper, though that scenario might be unlikely. Others hope that Paul Murray, a member of the old Ibrox board, who has been open and eloquent on the issues facing Rangers, can make a boardroom return.
Murray would make a welcome presence in the Ibrox boardroom. More than anything what Rangers require right now is an honest, emotional and intellectual understanding of the club’s needs. These are instincts, strangely, that many seem to lack.
CRC – next two Friday’s off for you, quizmeister!!
T4
Apricale
My faither was at the game and he defo nutted the great Bobby.
My faither carried a grudge for years and still does.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFUzvbkEvRk
TRANSHUmanISm.
kelvinbhoy –
and to make you feel even better I would have been your driver (St Leonard’s First Communion gig at 10.00am on Saturday). At least I’ll be (ahem) behaved this time.
Jimbo,
blantyretim has it in one, sad to say. Hearts nearly won the league (when we won it at Love Street) by replacing technique with running at a 100 mies an hour for 90 minutes. Scottish football has been on a downward spiral since then.
I was just thinking too that Bobby was kept out of the Scotland team by thon deid team’s greatest ever player, Greig. Says everything about Scottish football.
Charlie was so important to Celtic that when wee Bertie was seriously injured for the best part of a season, Charlie took his place and, if we went into a couple of goals lead, which was a regular occurrence, Charlie was taken off and put in moth balls til the next game. He was some footballer too.
Apricale
I thought it was Big Billy that SAF stuck the heid on. My dad and uncles always said that anyway.
Jimbo
4-2 for Real Madrid. Benzema.
Cristiano Ronaldo could have tried to score himself but squared to Benzema instead.
When did you ever see the like?
tommytwiststommyturns
21:13 on
8 May, 2013
Where are the quiz deputy’s when you need them? :-)
HH
CRC
The majestic Bobby Murdoch was, and still is, the best midfielder I have ever seen wearing the hoops.
Can still see him, arm aloft, after scoring against Leeds in the EC semi at Hampden in 1970.
A true Celtic great!
HH!!
But Cristiano Ronaldo was offside and De Michelis was booked there for pointing that out to the Extremaduran Craig Thompson.
Parkheadcumsalford
That’s pretty much how I remember it- think Bertie got injured around the New Year and Charlie got his longest run for years. Other than the famous Morton game where wee Bobby scored very late on I think we won about every game by at least three goals.
Jimbo
Celtic 1st
This referee is a cheat imho.
Hauf time.
Real Madrid 4-2 Málaga.
The title won’t be won tonight by the look of it.
As has been said before the longer I don’t see them the happier I am.
The fake celebratory crap I witnessed after thems winning a kids cup put things in perspective for me…as of I didnt know
already.
They show no remorse or ask to be forgiven for the shame they have brought
on themselves.
I hope this time they are gone for good.
Spurs deservedly level
Goal Spurs
Offside
Loud boos for José Mourinho at the start of the game tonight.
They read out the teams and when they got to the subs and read out Iker Casillas’s name, the crowd went loopy. Then they guy on the PA read out the coach’s name. Loud boos.
Mourinho seems to thrive on this nonsense. He’s a distraction.
Jobo, frightening that is a full year since we met at my son’s First Communion. I take it you have asked Cannon Mac to crank it up so you can make kick-off Celtic Park time..catch up soon
Is it a wind up that moyes is taking ogilvie to man u as director of tax affairs
I’ve deen the plans and it warms the cockles of my heart. Questions to answers posted in my head as a teenager answered. I hope the whole place is treated as hallowed and smacks of class culture and community.
Excellent news.
HH
LennyBhoy, it’ll be a big table, be there around 7:15-7:30pm.
Deen=seen
kelvinbhoy –
It’s the photographer I need to have a word with as last year I’m sure he did all of the assembled photo’s etc BEFORE then end of Mass, thus delaying my get away!
Likely that I’ll be doing my Clark Kent transformation in the car – suit off to reveal the hoops below…
Speak soon
Aw_Naw
Have you been Aw_Nawed?