Peter Lawwell’s comments on Friday that Celtic receive no support from Glasgow City or Scottish Government circles reflects years of plans being frustrated by incoherent rejections.
Were it not for the Commonwealth Games being hosted in the city in 2014, planning permission to redevelop the area to the front of Celtic Park would continue to be rejected. The reality that the Queen would drive past a derelict former school, with vegetation growing from every nook, was sufficient motivation for the Council to allow Celtic to remove the building and landscape the area. You have Her Mag. to thank for the Celtic Way.
Celtic would like a fanzone. Somewhere you can congregate before a match, where you might even be able to visit a toilet, but the Council doesn’t want it. Planning permission is sought for the hotel. On the face of it, this is a fantastic initiative for a long-deprived area of the city, the Council should be doing their best to encourage Celtic into spending the money, not looking disinterested.
Then we have the proposed no parking zone, which would see it illegal for you to park within one mile of Celtic Park on match days. Parking would start at the one mile limit, but would surely extend a couple of miles beyond this before we are all accommodated. Public transport to and from the area is vastly under served, there simply isn’t the capacity to cope with many football fans. Your choice will be to walk miles to and from the game, or stop going.
The likely change of administration at the Council, from Labour to SNP isn’t necessarily going to help, either. A councillor from the latter camp raised concerns when Celtic asked for permission to build the Superstore, citing that it could damage trade going to local supermarkets. This is the environment we have to operate in!
The Scottish Government set their faces to stone on the subject of Celtic when Alex Salmond decided to get involved in Scottish football in 2011, leaving us with the ludicrous Offensive Behaviour’ Act.
The Scottish Parliament voted to repeal this act last year, after countless football fans, and Celtic, campaigned on the issue. However, the will of the Scottish Parliament isn’t always respected by the Scottish Government, who ignored the vote, before setting their 2017 agenda on inducing moral outrage when the will of the Scottish Parliament is ignored.
The irony should be disappointing, but it’s not even surprising. Scammers, one and all.
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NEIL LENNON & MCCARTNEY on 11TH APRIL 2017 10:54 AM
Rube v Barca ~ who are the biggest cheats?
Over time I would say Rube, but Barca catching up fast IMO
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Splitting hairs.
The dead club were worse than both probably, however they are no longer relevant.
That mob from Catalonia are most blatant.PSG should be playing against Juventus by right.
It’ll be an affront to sport if the dope fiends win that competition, all the financial corruption they are involved in, and still they required the assistance of match officials to progress.
HH.
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SofaTunis….The Bleeding Heart Social Justice Warrior….
Just how many asylum seekers has Israel……
That “Light Unto The World”….
Accepted Over The Last Few Years…?
Most Of Eritreans,Sudanese,And Somali Brothers …..
Who Make It Over The Border…
Are Held In ‘Detention Camps” In The Negev Desert….
Which Would Make Manus Islands Seem Like Florida Disneyworld.
“Interior Minister Eli Yishai vowed Thursday to exert every effort to see that ‘the last of the infiltrators return to their countries,’ referring to the some 50,000 African economic migrants, asylum seekers and refugees currently in Israel.”(2012)
http://www.jpost.com/National-News/Yishai-Well-work-to-deport-of-all-illegal-Africans
Whilst Israel Bribes The Corrupt Dictators Of Third Countries, To Resettle Them.
Or,Failing That, “Sweden Just Can’t Get Enough…”
The Suicidal Swedes Agreed To Accept 500 Eritrean Asylum Seekers From ISRAEL….
Only Last Year…
Netanyahu Has Declared That Accepting Non-Jewish Refugees…
Would Damage The “Essential Jewish Nature” Of The Zionist State….
Quite Ironic That It Is The Zionist Neocons Running The US Govt…
With Their Masonic Skull & Bones Enablers…
Who Are Responsible For Creating All The Chaos And Bloodshed In The Middle East…
Implementation Of The YINON/Hard Stop/PNAC Plan…
Causing Disintegration Of The Arab States….
In The Phony “Arab Spring”…
Leaving Them Weakened, Fragmented,And Balkanized…
Resulting In A Tsunami Of Refugees Into Christian Europe….
Which Will Destroy The Integrity And Cohesion Of Our Ancient Societies..
And Maybe WORSE..!
But If It Leads To A Greater(Eretz) Israel
Stretching From The Nile To The Euphrates River….
What A Small Price To Pay..!
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Barbara Lerner Spectre Is An American Jewish Political Activist,Who Immigrated To Israel…
Before Moving To Sweden ‘On A Mission’ For A Jewish NGO….
She Makes “Unguarded” Comments In An Israeli TV Interview…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ
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Word Of The Day…
Chutzpa….(Yiddish)
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16 Roads. I very much doubt Barcelona will win the competition.
JJ
TUNELESS AND CLUELESS AKA THE RUBBER ROOM MAN
Remember what nurse told you —
Keep your legs together when you are talking -you’ve got bad breath .
You’re unravelling like the ball of wool you are .
Hot Smoked – Hopefully you are correct.
Ya never know what’s possible though with those dodgy referees always helping them on their way.
Anyway one would need to be able to see into the future to predict the outcome of those two games tonight.
Over 9.5 corners is the bet.
Laters.
KTF.
Unguarded is an understatement.
THE DONALD on 11TH APRIL 2017 11:15 AM
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Barbara Lerner Spectre Is An American Jewish Political Activist,Who Immigrated To Israel…
Before Moving To Sweden ‘On A Mission’ For A Jewish NGO….
She Makes “Unguarded” Comments In An Israeli TV Interview…
https://youtube.com/watch?v=MFE0qAiofMQ
SofaTunis…
When Is Your Next “VICTORY TOUR”…
Of The Destroyed Arab States…
You Visited Lebanon And Sudan Recently…
Jordan And Yemen, Mebbies ?
They’ll Be Dancin’ In The Streets Of Tel Aviv & Palermo….
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SOUTHOFTUNIS
Rubber room guy?
Not only very apt and descriptive but an opportunity for this.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=85wZw1O83aE
Good lad!
Aw ffs there’s two of them!
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South of Tunis, thanks for the reply.
Enrico Chiesa was a fine player and I enjoyed watching him play for his numerous clubs. i think he played for Nazio, Sampdoria and Fiorentina also.
That Parma team in the nineties he played for were very good . A lot of good players like Dino Baggio, Apolloni, Sensini , Melli and Zola were well managed by Nevio Scala.
Are Parma like the huns , defunct now or has another team been set up in the city.
I know when Parmalat went out of business, Parma’s troubles started.
I watched this program last night I was very uncomfortable with it, to me it looked like the BBC used these poor people for an agenda, these people should be getting helped, and hopefully the police have been informed, because if it is just left, then what was the point, poor souls.
http://etims.net/?p=11078
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 11TH APRIL 2017 10:33 AM
HOTSMOKED
JIMTIM mentioned it last night.
£210 to £334
Can’t see it myself, looks like someone causing it :))
Necause my ST money had not been deducted yet, I queried if the transaction had gone through and whilst on, asked for last years cost for my ticket.
I received this from Celtic FC :
” Your season ticket last season was priced at £282. ”
This year, I have just bought my ticket, same seat, for £ 307.
Roughly a 10 % increase.
JJ
DALLASDALLAS
Nazio?
That’s brilliant,given their right-wing support.
HH
A STOR MHA CHROI on 11TH APRIL 2017 11:10 AM
Desparate people do desperate things, hence the boats will keep coming until there is another more humane way to get people out.
This has method of escape and relocation has been ongoing since the late ’70’s (remember the Vietnamese Boat people?) and will continue to do so until the developed world manages it better.
What I find incongruous is the policy that because you escaped in a boat you will not be resettled! Maybe these people couldn’t get to the UNHCR camps or the urban areas in Lebanon, Jordan or Turkey. It hasn’t really been made easy for the refugees to cross the borders. Neither is it an easy trip to get from Syria to Australia by boat. These people are doing it through desperation and the primeval instinct to survive.
IMHO a refugee is a refugee irrespective of mode of transport and entry to the country and the UK, Australia and other countries should recognise them as such!
KTF
Necause? That is a nice word. Any of the definition Bhoys care to hazard a guess?
JJ
DALLAS DALLAS .
Parma FC were declared bankrupt in 2015 . A new club was formed – Parma Calcio 1913 . Using existing Legislation they applied for and were granted entry to Serie D . They were promoted and currently play in Lega Pro.
Season ticket prices from official site.
http://seasontickets.celticfc.net/prices/
Bobby , by coincidence they also have SS in their full club title .
One of my pals started calling them Nazio a few years back .
They had or have an African player playing for them called Onazi which I found quite funny as some of their support are openly very right wing.
VFR
If people trafficking is a criminal act,why should victims of crime be punished?
16 ROADS – CELTIC ÜBER ALLES… on 11TH APRIL 2017 10:49 AM
Hopefully Juventus crush that mob tonight.
Anybody bar Barcelona.
Worse cheats than the zombies they are.
Hail Hail.
Yes,and juventus are as pure as the driven snow.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 11TH APRIL 2017 11:30 AM
Not a patch on this………
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7LvjhASLIg
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS on 11TH APRIL 2017 11:53 AM
VFR
If people trafficking is a criminal act,why should victims of crime be punished?
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Because paying people to perform a criminal act is in itself a crime.
Irrespective of the consequences.
Mini BT has had her ticket renewed and increased because she is now 17
No complaints from her, well as I’m paying there wouldn’t be
The dons enjoy a good recalitrant while playing in the hills of the Highlands. Which probably goes a long way to explaining their wobbly legs in rje dying minutes of their game against the hapless huns on sunday
HOT SMOKED on 11TH APRIL 2017 11:45 AM
Necause my ST money had not been deducted yet, I queried if the transaction had gone through and whilst on, asked for last years cost for my ticket.
I received this from Celtic FC :
” Your season ticket last season was priced at £282. ”
This year, I have just bought my ticket, same seat, for £ 307.
Roughly a 10 % increase.
Shush,that is not the info some want.Get onto the agenda,man.
South of Tunis, its good the city has a pro team playing in it
One of the original club’s fans used to wear a Boston Celtic’s baseball style jacket and it caught my attention. I had a liking for Parma, as well as the good football they played , after that.
Parma played the their fellow now defunct club in uefa cup game about twenty years ago. It was a lunchtime kick off and was on tv here.
The Glasgow bankrupt club went one up and a big hun I worked with was high fiving everyone in the pub then came back to work when his lunch was finished , all glad as his team was one nil up.
Parma scored two or three in the second half to put them out and the big hun sloped down in his desk until someone came up and askedthem what the score was. He went into a rant about the ref being nobbled by Parma and how corrupt uefa were.
Another hun with no sense of reality.
TURKEYBHOY on 11TH APRIL 2017 11:53 AM
Thanks for taking the time away from your champagne and lobster diet to post that :)
Rubber ?
Has to be this —
7 ” -Porter Wagoner — The Rubber Room (RCA )
Produced by the great Chet Atkins. Jerry Reed on guitar.
I remember the boat people of the late early 70’s, they came to Australia (in the main) because Australia was America’s ‘fighting’ allay in that sad war.
It was not easy to get to America by boat from Vietnam then, however some did and I used to play football with a kid from Vietnam called Tree, a good player too, we played together in midfield and we beat UCLA and USC and quite a few others too but they didn’t like it too much because we were ‘poor’ and they ganged together not to play us again and have us excluded from the league. We also beat Clairmont, Los Angeles, we didn’t just beat them, we thrashed them, and in doing so the heavens opened and they wanted the game abandoned because they were getting wet, I ran that team at the time and was offered a scholarship at the university if I would agree to the game being nulled.
In the rain I looked at Tree and he just smiled and shook his head, and we played on. And we did thrash them.
The Australian antipathy against the boats is – in part – relative to the risk of human deaths.
new article posted.
DALLAS DALLAS .
I remember Parma v The Deady Bears . One of Parma’s goals was a penalty scored by Enrico Chiesa .
The day after the game , Parma’s Daily Paper saw fit to ponder why so many of the away support had missed out on toilet training .
Could not really give a toss about the rights and wrongs of the big Euro teams,Barca etc.They are all financially doped in some way.To me its about watching,Messi,Neymar,Suarez,weave their magic.The sheer innocent brilliance of Monaco.The fantastic football played by PSG,but as I say,all backed by mega money.Does not stop the entertainment on the field though.