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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Petec,
He maybe potentially a betterplayerthan Russell,but at themoment, he lacks first team experience and toughness.
The catch22 situation is that, such are the pressures of Celtic’s first team,it will be difficult togain the necessary games.
JR is seasoned at that leveland anyway,they ate not like for likr players.
My point was that the loss to DU could be partly assuaged by gaining a player or two on loan.
A win win for me.
Embdy want to buy a delinquent ipad?
Ernie
I don’t entirely disagree with the sentiments regarding building preservation. As far as the school is concerned it would be difficult to incorporate the facade into the new structure due to the position it would have within that structure. The artists impression of the new layout shows the front of the new building at the main road whereas the school is set someway back due to the playground.
For me if buildings are declared as cat b it should go along with a legal requirement of the owner to maintain the structure otherwise the grading is meaningless and many of the buildings become derelict.
Panic on the streets of London
Panic on the streets of Birmingham
I wonder to myself
Could life ever be sane again ?
The Leeds side-streets that you slip down
I wonder to myself
Hopes may rise on the Grasmere
But Honey Pie, you’re not safe here
So you run down
To the safety of the town
But there’s Panic on the streets of Carlisle
Dublin, Dundee, Humberside
I wonder to myself
Burn down the disco
Hang the blessed DJ
Because the music that they constantly play
IT SAYS NOTHING TO ME ABOUT MY LIFE
Hang the blessed DJ
Because the music they constantly play
On the Leeds side-streets that you slip down
Provincial towns you jog ’round
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
HANG THE DJ, HANG THE DJ
Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ, Hang the DJ
HANG THE DJ
;))
………..I’ve an idea………
use the sandstone bricks to make hunners ‘ n’ hunners a wee BBQs aroon the carpark,
so that we can all have tailgate parties during the long balmy summer evenings
after a game
Summer Fitba CSC
Cheers!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_0PKpCwQszWM/S7zfkQ2QDCI/AAAAAAAAAEY/NZPxRREC3KA/s1600/creamola+foam.jpg
Bankiebhoy1,
Now yer using yet loaf
thomthethim
17:39 on 8 May, 2013
Petec,
He maybe potentially a betterplayerthan Russell,but at themoment, he lacks first team experience and toughness.
The catch22 situation is that, such are the pressures of Celtic’s first team,it will be difficult togain the necessary games.
JR is seasoned at that leveland anyway,they ate not like for likr players.
My point was that the loss to DU could be partly assuaged by gaining a player or two on loan.
A win win for me.
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I dinnae disagree with anything you are saying but, as SFTB, was always saying, it takes the very best of Talent to Stay in the Celtic First team.
We should always be looking now at Victor Wanyama level players, the finest in the World, even though we play in the SPHELL. ;)
C_F
Cheers. Anything else comes to mind let me know.
Excellent news.
…and not before bloody time!
Hope there will be room for an ice cream (and jelly) parlour.
HH!!
Artists impression – mini gazebo’s on the left
this will be worth a watch
swalex too Jock to Gothenburg with him
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01sc19t
For the cauld winter days outside CP how about a scattering of braziers like they have in Bruges and a wee supply of shovels n chestnuts for roasting and selling at some?
A pound a poke if you will pardon the expression. Give folk something unique like the Christmas markets to try before entering the stadium. The possibilities are endless.
bournesouprecipe
Horticulture is due a Boost, cannae see it myself in that timescale.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChErLmQY8s4
In my earlier football supporting life I remember watching and playing against guys like Tony Green and Jimmy Smith or watching a young Gordon Strachan or going back Wullie Hamilton at Hearts all of whom would have graced the creative Celtic jersey.
Russell and GMS come into that category for me.
What a lot of pash…
Spiers on Sport: the men who can stabilise
Rangers Wednesday 8 May 2013
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.
The ole Celtic Triangle
Little known facts about Fergie.
Not the longest serving manager. Ferguson was manager of Manchester United for 26-and-a-half years. The longest serving league manager in Europe was Guy Roux, who occupied the hotseat at French team Auxerre for 44 years, finally stepping down in 2005. Ferguson isn’t even the longest serving Scottish manager. Willie Maley was Celtic manager from 1897-1940, clocking up 43 years.
Gave the young Kenny Dalglish lifts. When Ferguson was at Rangers he gave lifts to a young Kenny Dalglish who was hoping to be signed. “Fergie used to give us a lift into town. He had such a big car,” Dalglish told the Guardian. When Dalglish was picked up by city rivals Celtic he was forced to play centre back and mark Ferguson in a reserve team game.
Home is called Fairfields. Ferguson lives in a mansion in Wilmslow, Cheshire. It is called Fairfields after the shipyard where his father worked.
GlassTwoThirdsFull
16:25 on
8 May, 2013
It will be Moyes – probably with Baines and Fellaini to follow.
Martinez to Everton.
Lenny not going anywhere.
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Are you sure?
As KJ says.
off oot, for a bit.
tiocfaidh ar la?
Ur ye Wim Dancing yet?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Retl499FhEU
Will the hun liquidation day become a fixture in Scottish football, a bit like guy fox day, the annual jelly and ice cream day
ASonOfDan
Written while Walter was patting him on the head…
Archie mac pherson on saf…social problems stopped him taking the hun job.
Why not just tell it as it was?
sipsini
wee Chic just told the true story on Shortbread; need to go and lie down;)
Swalex
On Jock Stein:
“I am proud to say that I knew Jock Stein as a manager, as a colleague and as a friend… he was the greatest manager in British football.”
Gutted Moyesiah leaving for Mancs but the job he has done for the Blues has been magnificent !
Expect Kenwright to have a few options one of whom will be Owen Coyle ! Right credentials but don’t rule out Rafa !!! Certainly will have scouseland buzzin !!!
A Celtic idiots honest thoughts……
1… I don’t EVER again want to play against any reincarnation of our dead & unlamented neighbours.
2… I don’t EVER again want to see the sale of alcohol at football grounds in Scotland.
3… I don’t EVER want to see Celtic playing their football in any English League.
Only a Celtic man with masochistic tendencies, or a very bad memory, would want a return to the horrors associated with 1 & 2.
Number 3 would see us the target for every violent BNP & UKIP faction, in every town ( Army Base towns in particular) in that green & pleasant land, at every away fixture we played.
I would love to see Celtic in some Atlantic League or any similar grouping, but I dread the very notion of becoming the focus of England’s ever more extreme elements.
ToffeeTim
Do you think they’ll ask Celtic about Neil?
Paul just catching up and that’s great news and a great piece of business’s by Celtic.
TET
Jock Stein told swalex to give the Gothenburg manager a bottle of champagne an tell him how great his team and he was before the game then get stuck in- they duly did
Toffetim.
Raffa?….The man who once described the Toffees as a “small team”.
Are you mad?
As a one time season ticket holder at The Old Lady (1987-1990) I say….
Never!
Never!
Never!
had we moved to Cambuslang the school wouldn’t be a problem now….
Just listened to STV with Erchie Mac, that’s the reason the cheats get away with it not 1 person will tell it like it is.
Not signing because his wife is a catholic is disgraceful, the day our media tell it like it is then and only then the cheats can move on.
wdh
All you are hearing is how swalex is the best ever.
Great manager, but I doubt it could have been done without the money he has had over the years.
Big Jock the best ever for me.
THE EXILED TIM
18:36 on
8 May, 2013
wdh
All you are hearing is how swalex is the best ever.
Great manager, but I doubt it could have been done without the money he has had over the years.
Big Jock the best ever for me.
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SAF would wholeheartedly agree with you
Toffee Tim
Can i ask why you feel Moyes has done a ‘magnificent’ job at Everton? Not having a go, just curious as to why certain people think that.
Roy Croppie… Yes m8 they will defo !
Dbb ….. Have been known to suffer from rasputinitis but nothing impossible in football !
Wouldn’t be my choice but Kenwright is friendly with him !
excathedra44
No!