“If I hadn’t seen such riches, I could live with being poor.” When Celtic Park hosted the Commonwealth games in 2014, we played Champions League qualifiers at Murrayfield. It was an eye-opener. Entrance and egress, catering and shops, space and the feeling of safety and comfort were a level above what I was used to in the at the back row of the North Stand at Celtic Park (since moved).
Last month, I engaged the club on the need to improve the spectator experience, spend some money, be more like Murrayfield. I received an off the cuff but still detailed response on the millions spent each year to maintain and improve the stadium.
Property maintenance is a continuous job, especially in Scotland for buildings erected in the second half of the 20th century. If you cut corners, you have a bigger job and a higher price to pay down the road.
Newco are caught in a property renovation bind that could be straight out of an episode of Grand Designs. “Billy, a tax accountant from Glasgow, is building an eight-bedroom hovering home and has decided to project manage himself. Billy remembers ordering the steel girders, but the Chinese supplier is no longer answering the phone.” We are right to mock Billy.
You, me and James have seen such riches. We want to sit down in a stadium fit for the middle of the 21st century. What else are we going to do with all those millions?
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Every time comments come up abut mcsleekit and/or naesurname being huns the usual “a but they carried Tommy Burns coffin” be lets be clear here it was Tommy’s wife who asked them and how would it look if they had said naw.
When Beri Vogts was given the sugar lump from the national side’s manger position, Tommy took over in an interim basis for 1 game before naesurname was hired bringing with him mcsleekit.
After bader came calling both of them left their country in the lurch but instead of campaigning for TB to get the job it went tae mcleish, so no that much of a pal were they.
TONTINE TIM on 23RD JUNE 2024 11:07 PM
Every time comments come up abut mcsleekit and/or naesurname being huns the usual “a but they carried Tommy Burns coffin” be lets be clear here it was Tommy’s wife who asked them and how would it look if they had said naw
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Do you really think the wife and family of Tommy Birns would ask a bigot to carry his coffin ?
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I want a Celtic fc that adds on to the mission statement of the club…
“Celtic players will NOT be made available to ANY Scottish National manager coz basically we are a club who play in beautiful Green and White, and Celtic players look like, ugly, hideous, Hun Orc Extras, in Imperialist Red, White, and Blue. So we at Celtic will not tarnish the image of our beautiful club, by having our players representing such ugliness. ” 👀 👀
PS, Is that the dodgy Michael O`Leary now smeared as “Racist Vermin” by CQNers for calling out the fakeugees? 👀 👀
https://x.com/IrishmanIRL/status/1802663734332063973
Hmmm. 👀 👀
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….oot.
Not convinced it was a penalty Clarke is an uber defensive coach,as we knew,time is up,the stats in the 3 games don’t lie
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GENE on 23RD JUNE 2024 9:21 PM
MOM Tony Ralston
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I AGREE GENE.
I watched Tony Ralston throughout the game and he never did much wrong. In fact he was better than most.
I also think that Clarke left his substitutions far too late in a game that Scotland HAD to Win. Maybe he could have went with TWO Strikers for the whole of the 2nd half ?
The Hungarian Goalie never got his gloves dirty.
I hope that you and the family are all good GENE Bhoy.
HH Mate.
Good morning all from Govanhill. Another magical Monday. 👍
As for a Penalty for the challenge on Armstrong….maybe it wasn’t a Penalty, but I thought that the VAR SHOULD have had a look at it at least ?
HH.
As for my CRAP SUPERBRU selections so far, I stupidly made all my picks BEFORE a Ball was kicked in the Tournament. Next time, I will make my selections every Two or Three days.
Sometimes I can be a CHUMP….LOL !
So far Ive also had bets on correct scores for every game so I have also lost a few Quid.
I had a few good winners at Royal Ascot last week, but I still lost out to Mr Bookie overall.
Things can only get better.
HH.
I wish that bing bang would make up his mind. Today the red, white and blue is a bad thing?
Confused CSC.
On last nights possible penalty. I thought it should have been given. Armstrong should have been smarter and took a touch before the impact.
I think we know there are players and teams that would have been given that. However having said that I thought we were rotten and deserved to go out.
Ho hum, back to supporting anyone playing engurland.
Scotland fail to score yet again…I BLAME SHANKLANDS ” Red , White and Blue Boots “. Who is he trying to impress I wonder ?
Could he not find Maroon Boots ?
Morning from Lisboa – we went to Estadio Nacional two days ago and loved it.
On the game, I was disappointed about the penalty but then watched the highlights immediately after and realized we just didn’t compete well enough.
We have a lot to improve up front for sure.
Although I’m from the green and misty isle naturally I was rooting for Scotland last night. I agree with posters that this match was crying out for James Forrest with 20 minutes to go, he has the skill to open up a defence in the blink of an eye and is also a goalscorer just like a Greizman or Mbappe.
I see the ref was Argentinian so I’m not surprised he did not award the penalty to what he would regard as a British team.
I hope that Scotland being out means that McMoist is finished commenting.. Actually, I was reduced to
watching the games in which he commented on with the sound off. Likewise McCann will not be telling us how bad Celtic players are and that wee Billy is a must as he is such a great player, Strange he was substituted in the last two games.
podium chasers assemble
UEFA has 55 National Associations
If you take out the smaller Nations;
San Marino;Gibraltar;Andorra;Luxembourg;Faroes;Liechenstein and Malta that leaves 48
(Though the above are not necessarily the lowest ranked)
24 Nations qualified for Germany 2024, 50% or a 1 in 2 chance of getting there.
Still an achievement to get there but not epoch making.
Once there 16 teams qualify for the knockout stage, only 2 3rd place teams do not qualify, ie difficult not to qualify. Scotland did it though. All this talk about making history is just that all talk. We are not comparing like for like, not compared to the Euros and WC of the past, the Brazils, Netherlands, Germany’s or England’s come to that. The next World Cup will have 48 qualifiers, when only 16 in the not so distant past.
One in four participants will go to the USA, or Canada or Mexico.
We qualified for the 2023 through the back door, played 3, lost 2, drew 1, scored 1, two of our games were home games plus one at Wembley. This time we played 3, lost 2 drew 1, scored 2. Steve Clarke will call that progress. His approach in the first half last night played right into Hungary’s trap. Not one shot on target. Lot of the ball, lot of possession, one up front, a complete waste of forty five minutes. Steve Clarke all over.
We were probably the least effective least adventurous team out there, certainly the one with least attacking threat. Clarke says “We go again”. Please No.
new article posted.
oh no there isnt