Delighted for everyone involved in making Celtic the first club in Britain to be given permission to install Safe Standing facilities. There’s time for a seat but going to the football in Scotland was largely a standing undertaking for a century, for good reason.
Standing enables the creation of football’s now too scarce atmosphere, it allows people to shuffle in the cold and sing with projection. It’s also safer across more scenarios than sitting.
I have one (significant) problem with the plans……..
Celtic intend to install Safe Standing at the corner of the lower North and Lisbon Lions stands, including the Green Brigade’s area. The Green Brigade pitched up at this part of the ground one League Cup game several years ago, the area was no more or less appropriate for as a singing section than any other part of the ground.
The North Stand upper is the proper place for a Safe Standing section, front and centre of the stadium. It’s where the Jungle was, and if we’re going to come anywhere close to recreating the unique atmosphere of the Jungle in a modern stadium, we must select the appropriate area.
The Safe Standing section will have unique properties. The ability to stand all game, bounce around and generally be more active, will ensure it sells out, but it’s unlikely to attract the infirm, and it will never be part of the family section. It’s also not going to attract corporate business.
The decision where to locate this section is unlikely to be reversed until there is a major stadium renovation, and that’s likely to be decades away. A couple of decades out, there will be more demand for family and infirm sections, more demand for corporate and lounge facilities.
Football spent years failing to notice how people grew fond of comfort, shelter, safe and clean facilities. The trend is not over. Thousands will want to stand, but perhaps more will want access to lounges, video games for the kids and shops selling all sorts.
Celtic Park is magnificent building of its time but it’s not a 21st century stadium. The Celtic Way is genuinely stunning, but if we want to cater for fans in the decades to come we’ll need proper cafes, fan zones, bars, better toilets and a museum. We’ll need to make use of all that land we’ve acquired, but which largely lies undeveloped.
Real estate in the lower stands will be more of a premium in the future, we should plan for it now, make the Safe Standing section the New Jungle.
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Oh just before I go
I see Teemu Pukki, saying he will be back for pre-season trading with us ?
Bournes I think the point is that this country equates Celtic with Irish Catholicism. It can’t help it’s racist nature.
Motherwell and Hamilton fans are caught in the crossfire of the police state.
That doesn’t make it any better but that’s the game here.
what is the stars
23:12 on 10 June, 2015
Hamilton
I wish you well in your efforts to have the act/law repealed
Long hard road ahead of you I think
Unfortunately most people who dont fall foul of this (or any other law) find it hard to beleive that the police would lie or act unfairly and are quite happy that the police are given “all the powers they need” to deal with football hooligans,drug dealers,sex traffickers,terrorists or whatever particular your bogeyman you want
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It won’t be repealed in my opinion. I came to that conclusion when I read the Morrow Report.
I think the real battle will begin in August when the outcome of the review is published
Jamesgang
It’s a no brainer my friend family comes first.
DD
Weetabix? :-)
SOAL
I’ve no idea how far away that is.
NegAnon2
I agree, and so I believe do Celtic.
HT
Well best of luck in your endeavours anyway
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness
HT
About an hour
I will meet you before and we will arrange something
love
this is what matters to me ,
Bobby Sands and the 1981 Hungerstrike (Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXCfLT9WdU
Bourne/Neganon
The Act came out of the shame game and the political claim was that it was being introduced to tackle sectarianism.
The sectarian Billy Boys and the racist Famine Song could have been addressed under existing legislation so you’re right it was aimed at ‘evening up’.
Very quickly though the legislation evolved, probably through political direction but also polis abuse, and now we’re witnessing more and more cases of supporters from various clubs being brought before judges under extremely dubious circumstances and with questionable evidence.
Soal
One of your better plans.
Bournes the difference is Celtic supporters need to do something about it. Celtic don’t care.
what is the stars
23:27 on 10 June, 2015
HT
Well best of luck in your endeavours anyway
Better to light a candle than curse the darkness
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I’ve lit so many candles I’m starting to curse them! :-)
HT no argument there.
HT
Better than your plans Baldrick
love
the spirit of arthur lee
23:35 on 10 June, 2015
HT
Better than your plans Baldrick
love
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Better than being a Balddick.
X
HT
Ma mammy still says, “Eat your weetabix Garry, you will be bright eyed and bushy tailed!” :))
HT
Leave TTTT and Doc alone
TSOAL
Baldy Mafia!
I have read tonight, on both Celtic minded sites and also on Sevconian sites about how Ashley probably holds all the Aces in his poker game with the Sevco board. Both in terms of tomorrow’s court hearing and longer term with the commercial contracts.
Well to continue the card game analogue, it seems to me that the biggest problem for Sevco is not so much that Ashley holds all the Aces (which he does and which means that Sevco are gubbed) but more worryingly is that Ashley actually owns the company which makes the decks of cards that Sevco and he are playing with. . . . . .
http://www.therst.co.uk/news/rst-response-to-mike-ashley/
I got agitated reading this absolute shower! Ashley must be chuckling away
NegAnon
Celtic have gone public on the OBA. How pro active on change, is another matter. They can’t even tell us what the SFA said in reply to a polite question, about officiating in a game. In between the club suffers a maelstrom of abuse in SMSM.
Still nothing.
What chance on the legalities of government?
HT
Agree
TCC
If he does what he could do, and the big wrecking ball drives down Edmiston Dr and pulverises the glorified Victorian lavvy into the Clyde. I will believe that he is agent Saint Michael in this grand Vatican plan to rid Scotland of them. ;)))
Mike Ashley’s tanks?
Dave King?
https://youtu.be/tm1kaanjd8M
They don’t get that Ashley only deals in failed brands and juices the last bit o money left in them. This could get dirty.
About the exact width of Edmiston Drive as far as I’m aware …
Surprised Mr transparency didn’t see fit to inform the fans of imminent legal proceedings involving their club…
I wonder how many season tickets Mr transparency will be able to sell to same fans after the first £5million of sales have been ring fenced ?
Apols if already seen. Henke Larsson goal for Helsinborg. Shimmy, turn great left foot shot across the goalie and into the back of the net…..
http://gfycat.com/ElementaryMiniatureBrahmanbull
Ashley’s cash and tanks and funds
He AIMed them at the current buns
But every bam must stand behind
The Three Bears and the Liar!
On no! Have I broke the blog!
Delaneys Dunky
00:04 on
11 June, 2015
They don’t get that Ashley only deals in failed brands and juices the last bit o money left in them. This could get dirty.
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Exactly. He has made his millions by feeding off carrion. It’s what he does.
That’s why I don’t understand the fear that somehow he would be a good option for the Zombies.
I once watched an Anaconda slowly squeeze the life out of a rabbit, then gradually swallow it. Took ages. That’s Mister Sports Direct.
So the Zombie Huns have the choice of that, or Dave King.
I think the King option would provide more day-to-day laughs, but their end will be the same.
They are a sideshow now, and I hope and pray that in 5 years they won’t even be worthy of a post on a blog. We have better things to do.
Starting with winning the European Cup again. Call it the Champion’s League if you will, but it is the European Cup. And we won it once, should have won it twice or maybe even thrice.
We’ll win it again, but that is for the next generation I fear, not us. We will have to put up with the joy of being alive to witness the extinction of the Hun.
Which is a good thing of course, but it’s more to do with relief at seeing your obnoxious, loud, arrogant, loutish, racist oaf neighbours being led away in cuffs, than the joy of winning everything by playing pure, inventive, beautiful football.
Our kids and grandkids will breathe pure, unpoisoned air. And we will lift the European Cup again.
I bet ye a fiver.
DD
Sorry – got a bit carried away. Only the first 2-3 pars were replying to you.
The rest was what Martin Luther King would have said if he was a Celtic man, and temporarily pished.
I Have A Team
Theme from mash
Through ingrained hard wired bigotry
I’ve backed the gers unquestioningly
The Murray years were ecstasy
But now it’s worse than Moshni.
Though suicide is only the company shell.
We Cannae die. and we Cannae beat Motherwell
N’m no sure King’s the bear to get back where we belong
We shunned the games we followed true.
We did what Dave King said to do.
We starved the clump (with thanks to the clumpany) of revenue.
We never thought what that would do.
The only real time billionare
That would invest intae the gers
Has watched Dave King and the three bears
All forget their PIN numbers.
But suicide is not the end thsts taboo
It brings on feelings of déjà vu.
and I’ll feel just the same again.
Convolutedcsc
Compare and Contrast
Celtic número uno, rachem wahed, number one in Scotland.
Sevco number 13 and in the lower division
Celtic first in UK with rail seating to enable standing
Sevco first stadium in Europe held up by asbestos and duct tape.
Celtic honored and praised at last week’s Champions League soirée
Sevco summoned to appear in court.
Celtic selling > 44k season tickets
Sevco seiling space at their EGM
Celtic signing players for next season’s Champions League tilt.
Sevco releasing most of their first team and their last manager.
The only area where they outdo us is in senior management on gardening leave.
While it is correct that we continue to demand that our board, management, fans and players all strive for greater achievements and more success, we occasionally have to step back
Take a hard look at the progress we have made
Compare it with other clubs bearing in mind the market we operate in
And
Acknowledge and congratulate the people who contribute to that success, market value, financial viability, titles and charitable works in keeping with our history.
And
CLAP HAPPILY
gg
Aye but you never know what’s on the horizon.
Times are pretty good but expect nothing and you won’t be disappointed.
HH
I really like the new away kit.
Sorry
No witty qualification but the new away kit is green and beautiful.
I might just buy it.