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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So it transpires that Lenny isn’t even on Everton’s radar to replace Moyes. Martinez or Laudrup are the names on Kenwright’s list.
Come on you Spurs…
sorry, is he bringing smyth as a director ofattacking football ?
67heaven
Honesty ….??
A foreign concept to that mob
Interesting suggesting that Green misled Whyte….misled….downright theft more like
Speirs is just another Hun cheerleader ….
Ten men
Good news, as I posted earlier, Everton and Lenny don’t fit . Celtic and Lennon are a perfect fit.
Neil will be here for 10 in a row.
Hail Hail
Neil is too good for Everton
Hots stuff 2-2.
FT 2 to 2
Good game, good game!
The Generation Game Brake Club
Paddy Power have Neil as 12/1 3rd favourite to be next Everton manager. He’s behind Martines (5/6) and Malky MacKay (10/1). Can’t see any mention of Sally.
On ssb
“Theyve OFFERED Brown a one game ban” What the hell does that mean?
The area surrounding Celtic Park – as well as CP itself – is lights years away from what it was some twenty years ago.
There is still a lot to do, but the possibilities are endless.
HH!!
when ferguson nutted bobby murdoch i loved the
way bobby just shrugged his shoulders smiled and
walked away.pure class
he was and always will be my greatest ever celt
among many
gene’s a bhoy’s name
19:58 on 8 May, 2013
Man marking at the corner -oh dear
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Jude
What Broonie getting a ban for?
He ain’t played for weeks !!!!
Jobo, for Swally to have odds given regarding another managerial post would not be dignified.
If it is decided that it is time for the fastest wee manager ever to depart Govan, he will be parachuted directly into the position in a sensational swoop, that will stagger the footballing world, and leave the Govan and Milngavie Greggs bankrupt, as well as a tribute act football club.
Just sayin’
I know wee shrimpie is the C F ref. Who are the other 5 officials?
Burghbhoy
It’s a special one game ban for daring to try to get fit for the Scottish Cup Final..
Ally McCoist has ruled himself out of the Man U job. He wants to see things through to the end at Sevco just as he did with Rangers.
Some of us have our other voluntary job in the morning so it’s goodnight from me. Keep the place tidy, now.
B b
HBH!!!
The Yo-Yo of Honour
Thank you to everyone below who has donated . I’m at almost double the original target but everything helps.
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Thank you , one and all .
The Kano Foundation (and yours truly ) are taking part in a fundraising Bungee jump at Xscape , Braehead on 11th May .
I’m not sure if i’m getting thrown off the crane or if i can jump off shouting ‘KANO’ so as not to confuse it with a scream.
http://www.virginmoneygiving.com/team/KanoBungee
Sanna
Bomber btw
Starry Plough
The audacity of that man Broonie!!
Imagine trying to get fit for the final.
Clearly , hurting Huns need to punish him.
I’m sure they would have no trouble extending it to a 3 game Euro ban !!
EDB
No. Sounds like your disappointed or sceptical. Should have been done from the start but when you see what we have been up against i.e Green Hornet . I think its an accomplishment. Another step in the right direction. Next step delivery of youth players. It definitely day s to me STICK YOUR FLOATING CASINO’S UP YOUR ARSE YOU PROVEN THIEVES LIARS CRIMINALS. It will hopefully eventually become a comfortable mecca for all of us rather than a shoap and a burger van. Next step after YOUTH fill the stadium architecturally …increase attendances yes even in these hard days. The schackels are loosening. Its a positive sign for the future. Too many Scots believing their own press I feel. Old Firm dead. Cheats and scum possibly fatally wounded. The future is bright its green and white. I am feeling positive. Very.
HH
Martinez…..why ??
Did well at Swansea ……but….Wigan….great escape every year …perhaps not this year
If he wins the cup he deserves plaudits ..if not …just another moderate EPL manager
True story from Willie Henderson re Ferguson. He was told to block Mc Neill at corners and block his run ins. Corner kick comes over Bertie runs off the post Billy comes in one nil. Where was Ferguson? Standing near the centre circle.
5-2 for Real Madrid. Modric.
jimbo67,
It was Bobby whom SAF struck. Bobby just looked at him with total disdain.
The architecture of Glasgow has been a miss mash that has lacked cohesiveness ever since the M8 and Kingston Bridge approaches cut great swathes of it down.
Personally I would demolish it and the ticket office and double the width of Kerrydale Street to create an avenue that would draw the eye up towards the statuary in front of the stadium maybe with in ground lights along each side.
Just a thought ;)
….pfayr
21:33 on 8 May, 2013
Absolutely ……. If greenco ‘conned’ Agent Whyte, and he openly admitted that he did, then THAT is fraud……no doubt about it, and the Serious Fraud Squad won’t have ‘missed’ that little FACT….!!!!!!!!
Celtic_First
21:11 on 8 May, 2013
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?
*aye in a Glasgow Cup game at CP which we won 3-1 deid team goalie norrie martin broke a couple of fingers trying tae save a big Yogi pile driver.
No way for the Spanish first division to be decided tonight now. I’m going to listen to the World Tonight instead.
So, as they say in the Buena Vista Social Club: “Ahora si quieren bailer, busquen otro timbalero.”
bailar.
Tontine Tim
21:58
Excellent. Were they allowed a sub?
Re 1969 Scottish Cup Final. In Bobby Murdoch’s biography “All the Way with Celtic” he explains:
“Fergie! Now there a player who gets really caught up in the Old Firm ferment. He takes a real bit of stick from our players during a match and time and time is told: “Hey, if you ever lose your elbows you’d be out of the game”
Alex wades in as if his life depended on it and has no friends in green and white when he is on the field! To prove how carried away a player can get in this match, I recall very clearly an incident with Alex Ferguson late in the Scottish Cup final at Hampden in April 1969.
Rangers were 3 – 0 down with most of the game gone but they hadn’t quit. Ferguson was still running hard, chasing the goal which might unsettle us.
He and Billy McNeill clashed in the middle of the field and went down. McNeill got up first. Fergie followed and gave McNeill a real mouthful..
I ran across and shouted at the Rangers striker “You’re always looking for a fight” Fergie came at me, and tried to butt me.
I turned my head, felt his head brush my cheek, but I kept on going. I didn’t want to become involved. Alex had simply lost control”
The incident was captured on BBC in close up. Maybe we should report it to Vincent Lunny.
Burghbhoy
20:28 on 8 May, 2013
Although I disliked Swalex for his cynical Aberdeen team, I suppose I’ve mellowed since my youth and have to say his achievements are superb, his response when asked to go to the Bigotdome as manager was admirable and his socialist principles have not left him.
*Socialists don’t accept titles.
Sanna
Been absent from the blog due to domestic circumstances, have missed my daily dose, only been getting snippits now and again, re your fundraising JUMP can I contact you by Email, as I dont do Tinternet Banking.
BT, could you please inform me regarding Friday evening, and could I attend, ur is it fullup
Awerabest Papa John
Papa John
pay at the door.. £5 per head first come first served as they say…