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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BT, what time do the speakers start talking?
Hrvatski Jim
Thanks for the excerpt from Bobby’s autobiography – I can even see my copy not seven feet away as I type!
Doh!CSC
blantyretim
I will be in the same boat as Jobo ( masell ), what time is the kick aff.
Awerabest PJ
Sorry BT, can you send me the postcode on FB, on here if you’re happy to post it. Sat Nav will get us there.
Happy Birthday Vmhan, Vicenzo!
doc
no idea think P67 has a better idea than I do.. o))
Papa john
just ask for me again…we will have a few cqn fellows I imagine…
Bt
Dont forget to mention the pie n chips
Celtic Joe has a really interesting post on the Sevco thread of KDS. Showing potential 23 yo links with David Murray and Whyte’s crew.
Via twitter.
BT, will try to get there early them, just in case.
Doc… if you tell cowiebhoy to come off the east kilbride expressway at asda blanytre ( nip in and get me a plain loaf ) then follow the road through blantyre until he comes to the roundabout at the west end bar ( nip in and tell big michael hes a miserable sod )
Take a right at that roundabout and its about 100m on your right
blantyretim
Thankyou for the info,look forward to seeing faces, although yur in fur a shock when yae see mine, Nae Hair, Nae Teeth, Nae ,Memory.
Awerabest PJ
hen1rik
post a link
MWD
Papa john , HH
Sannabhoy@thekanofoundation.com
Henr1k
This one……
There was something about that Craig Whyte – Worthington Group tie-up that was bugging me. So I had a wee look over my notes again.
Worthington Group has paid Whyte £250,000 for a share in his new company that is suing Rangers, claiming they own the assets. That’s Worthington Group, who agreed to give Whyte a £3m loan from one of their pension funds (Jerome Group) but now want it back.
That’s Worthington Group, whose previous owner, chairman and chief executive was Joe Dwek, a close ally of Whyte and his pals the Earleys. Dwek is still a major shareholder in Worthington Group.
That’s the same Joe Dwek who is an inspiration to Richard Hughes, a co-founder of Zeus Capital (who are running Rangers right now). In 2005 a profile of Zeus Capital said: “Dwek has provided Hughes in particular with guidance and advice as he has seen the potential to transform them from hustlers into owners of a business with depth.”
Hughes said: “Joe Dwek is one of the most impressive people I’ve ever met, real class.”
Dwek, though, really made his name as Executive Chairman and Chief Executive of Bodycote plc from 1972 to 1998. He transformed the company from mainly textiles manufacturers to specialists in the heat treatment of metals for engineering and transport companies.
And one deal in particular helped Dwek’s firm make that transformation:
In 1990 Bodycote acquired Metallurgical Testing Services Ltd (MTS) of Edinburgh, Scotland, from Murray International Holdings plc, laying the foundations for what would become Bodycote’s world-class Materials Testing business.
So . . . Minty knows Dwek who knows Whyte who knows Dwek who knows Zeus.
Probably just a big coincidence.
sannabhoy
Cheers will be in touch.
Awerabest PJ
Celtic_First
22:01 on 8 May, 2013
Tontine Tim
21:58
Excellent. Were they allowed a sub?
*I don’t think so don’t think subs were allowed then.
This victory was on a Friday night 6 days after we won the Scottish Cup against the Pars and 2 days after losing 1-5 in a League game against the same side at East end Park.
TET
Excellent. Whoever joined those dots needs to send that to the Financial Times.
Hen1rik/TET
cheers
MWD
BT, thanks, we’ll find it.
A bhoy called Celtic Joe posted it on KDS.
Quality spade work.
Jimbo 67
I have dusted down a few old books and am working through them.
Just finished Ronnie Simpson’s “Sure its a Grand old Team to Play For” which was the first biography that I got (signed by Ronnie himself). It is probably the best I have read due to his amazing career from amateur status to winning the FA Cup, to virtually falling out of the game only to win a first cap aged 36 and all the honours with Celtic.
Now started on Lubo’s “A life less Ordinary” which I found on a shelf – I think it must have been acquired when my father in law died as I did not have my own copy of this one.
Players’ stories vary a lot depending usually on when they were written, either at the end of a real career or after a couple of seasons to coin in the cash, and the quality of the writer they use to help them.
Alan Herron wrote for Ronnie Simpson and Mark Guidi wrote for Stillian Petrov. No medals for working out the more accomplished read.
TET 22.21
Superb
HH
Petec – from earlier ….. Apologies must have imagined that! No doubt it was someone else i am thinking of.
Keep the vids coming…..
gallagher
I only copy and pasted it, still it’s quality >}
CRC, check your email.
TET.
Thanks for that…murray has always been the one that i want to answer questions and be held responsible for the death of the hun.
Msm if your lurking…do the job you are paid to fulfil.
im sure I read on here that fergies dad was a big celtic as was his brother,also supposed to have run a celtic bus in govan,
Doc, Columba Club, Blantyre, you can’t go wrong.
Papa John, see you there.
Evening Celts que pasa?
no Sevco implosion as the house of crooks come a tumbling down?
ach well always maniana!
Wayne Rooney asks Manchester United for transfer. Chelsea make their move. More in tmrw’s Mail and on Mail Online.
I tried to send the link to the FT sport and leisure industry correspondent. He may pick it up from Twitter.
sipsini
I have a feeling that something will come to fruition that exposes minty.
He will never get his just deserts, but something will happen, of that I’m certain.
Congratulations to my wee nephew Martin McCorkell who still competes in the Scottish Open at youth level, he went for an interview to St Andrews today and was unconditionally accepted for a course leading to a qualification in Golf and sport sciences, his dream is to become a golf pro, well on the way to achieving it.
V
Celtic_First
Nice one.
When decent jurnos get involved, the fun will be our daily fix.
HH
Met Alex Ferguson when he attended an organised Tribute weekend for Sean Fallon in Sligo a few years back. He was a big presence although never tried to steal the limelight,and spoke well about Sean and his achievements. A really down to earth guy who told some good story’s about Sean & Jock and their times discussing football over a cup of tea in particular cafes in Glasgow back in the day..
Went with my son often to Man Urd training ground at The Cliff.
Fergie made sure all the players came out and signed autographs for the fans after training.
Met him a few times with the kids and always signed their books.
Went once with ma lad with his Celtic top on and he signed with the comment “are you Celtic or United?”
“Both” ma son said.
“”Yer no a bad judge son”
Paul67, BT has sent the address, Sat Nav, sorted, see you there.
TET
It’s just the kind of wee breakthrough that’s maybe needed to push things along. . .
HH