You win five-in-a-row and go 24 points clear but it’s not until you propose to build an architecturally pleasing hotel and museum that the penny begins to drop with some that you are, in fact, an exceptionally well run football club.
I loved reading how we are interpreted on the other side of the city in yesterday’s CQN Magazine article, Simply Depressed:
“Commercially trolling us now. Light years ahead in income plans.
“It’s a source of revenue (and a fantastic bit of PR)….. It can pull an entire local community together and actually create new followers.
“If we ever get our act together, it will take years if at all to get anywhere near them financially, we can slaughter Lhiewell (sic.) all we want, but the bottom line is he is delivering for them.
“It’s a good initiative, having a hotel allows you to have certain events that were not previously possible. Media and corporate sponsorship will increase, new hospitality packages will be created, money from concerts will increase, supporters will hire function rooms and stay the nights more often.
“Just feel we are getting left behind commercially and will be seen as the poor football relation in Glasgow…this one highlights the growing gap between us and them it’s depressing.”
Pulling this together has taken years. Internal voices have dampened expectations during this period, a few times over the years I’ve heard: “There’s a long way to go, remember “floating pitches and super-casinos”” – a valuable lesson, thanks, Sir David. Celtic didn’t want to break ranks on this until the necessary money and commercial partnerships were lined up.
Don’t think this will see The Celtic Triangle finished, either, this is just the next step. The club have learned lessons from every noteworthy stadium of every sport in the world. European club football facilities miles behind where top US sports are at present.
We’re not there yet, but we’re on the road, and this is one journey that’s very enjoyable.
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Bada
Showing 28th Feb at earliest for delivery or buy and fit
Cowie
You tried ebay or gumtree? Where I get parts and tyres. Good luck pal.
BB & FGF
Condolences to you both
After all the posts about the ’82 Brazil side, I went looking for the official film. It’s narrated by Sean Connery, and is called G’olé.
I’ve seen bits of it, but has anyone seen the whole ae G’olé?
FGF and BB …. really sad news. Condolences.
Beatbhoy
I was going out with a lovely Italian/Glaswegian ghirl in 1982. Watched the final with her family in Bearsden, then drove to George Square for a proper Tally party. :)
Cowiebhoy
https://www.google.co.uk/maps/dir/Manchester+Victoria,+Manchester/Larbert/@54.7306744,-5.281877,7z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m14!4m13!1m5!1m1!1s0x487bb1c633f448ed:0xec056cb8d175d5b0!2m2!1d-2.2426!2d53.48748!1m5!1m1!1s0x48887a2fddccbf3d:0x94aa0fafb652c87f!2m2!1d-3.8360606!2d56.0196754!3e2
Hope this helps. If you set off now, you will be home for the 26th and your Fatbhoys Slim weigh in this week, will be exceptionally good :-)
Sent you a mail and text.
HH
CRC
Watching Question Time and I see that the Stoke FC Chairman is on.
I wonder how our chairman would come across given tonight’s questions.
Four Green Fields and Bundoran Bhoy –
Thoughts and prayers for your Mum, family and friends at this time.
Jock Stein Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOdwwCS0ToM
The plans for a hotel will only have been released once a feasibility study had been done and showed that it is workable, the plc, are no mugs when it comes to numbers.
people talking about issues with filling it due to lack of activities around the ground on non-match days are missing the point;
People using the hotel to come to games, football tourists and booking receptions for weddings etc… as a result of football is an added bonus. The centre across London road holds events all year round and again this is a bonus. General tourism and business people attend events throughout Glasgow i.e. Hyrdo etc… and Glasgow needs more room capacity for that never mind the other stuff above;
The EERR will be complete (joining the two main motorways in Glasgow) by 2019 and runs by celtic park which will make the route more important and accessible as we move forward with better links will come more activity and more business potential. On the same road Shawfield Business Park will be situated (1 1/2 miles away) with capacity for 5000 workers based in an out of town office park, again bringing business people into the area for work;
Celtic park is 2 miles from the town centre, it is 1 mile from a much improved dalmarnock train statin and the physical environment is changing around the whole area for the better. Homes are being built throughout the area also. These will assist in making the area significantly more friendly in appearance and presentable to visitors from far and wide and will give he local community and opportunity to thrive.
There is a 20 year project (10 years in) in place called the Clyde gateway tasked to repopulate the east end with business and people. Celtic’s proposal will add to the positive changes and given the drive in the Glasgow and in the east end this is a winner for everyone.
if we are gonna go into partnership then we should be looking to make sure we are 50/50 partners in the hotel, otherwise we should be going it alone afterall lots of our board members have vast experience in this area so its not exactly new to them
oh and I want the best team on the pitch, truth is we need to find more revenue to do that and the celtic hotel etc… is a step in the right direction. lets hope It becomes a reality
HH
Saint Stivs
I have the second CQN badge design completed
Be in touch soon
HH
CRC
Possible scenario.Warbiola gets the Leicester job saves them from relegation then goes on to win the Champions League.
Clint Hill out of ICT game with whiplash …….must have got it looking for Moussa….:))
HT
Obnoxiously I suspect.
I have less than no time for our chairman, and Riley. Pair o’ wrang yins!
STEPHBHOY on 23RD FEBRUARY 2017 11:37 PM
articulate, and sober,
you bring facts to the table.
I still have nightmares about the 82 world cup…..
I went to a small high school. Being a Catholic school, of the maybe 1000 students, about 500 were italian (the rest were portugese, filipino, and a few irish ….)
in 1981, about 40 lads tried out for the school football team ….
the following autumn, after Italy won the world cup, about 480 of the school’s italians decided that football was in their blood, and basically every Italian in the school decided that they would try out .. about 90% of them were overweight (to be polite),. and almost to a person, they were wearing blue Paolo Rossi shirts that were so small and stretched so tight, you expected the seams to burst at any moment …. and that was just the girls!
the sight of them running laps that first day of try-outs was something I will never forget …. fortunately, about 450 of them decided that running wasn’t for them, and didn’t bother showing up the next day.
I think I still suffer PTSD from that day.
CRC @11:37
Interesting any guess at a eta for it!
DD
Have you read the post I made?
Bang on mo chara.
MWD
If your starting point is that Celtic are being run for the sole objective of enriching PL then whatever meaning you give to events will be coloured by that perspective.
I can think of many reasons why matters happened as they did and am not persuaded that is the starting point.
Whether you wish to change your perception is indeed up to you, as is being open to the idea you might be wrong and other factors might have played their part.
What we see is what we get.
tontinetim @11.01
a bit harsh.
HT
No mate. Bankier and Riley are not for us.
Behave ourselves. Green huns wearing our tie.
PP
It says 72 hrs, but doesn’t account for any interaction with Doris who I hear is a storm :-)
HH
CRC
Night Night. HH
MiT
Sorry, but I adored Paolo Rossi in ’82. Kept my Italian girlfriend’s family happy. Great Italian food and love I remember the summer I turned 17. :)
CRC
Your taking this 3 day walk home gag too far. Hahaha
Get you at corner after match. Remember to be tooled up for the Brigton mob. AK47 preferable. :)
DD … well, I’m glad at least something good came out of it for you. (I feel better about it now. As they say, it is no loss what a friend gains.
Delaneys Dunky
Gutted as I was that Italy had knocked out the ‘Golden Team’ in that unforgettable match, I was rooting for them in the final. No way did I want to see a guy who should have been up for attempted murder getting a WC winner’s medal.
Sure you enjoyed being an honorary Italian for the night!
MiT
Haha. Gracias Mi Amigo as they don’t say in Italy or Canada or Clydebank. Sounded good tae me. :)
How many maple leaf bhoys n ghirls coming to Lisbon in May?
Hope you are one of them. Would love to meet you soon.
HH
Mike In Toronto
My experience in the Summer of ’82 was a bit different from Delaney’s.
I watched the ’82 final at my then girlfriend’s flat in London. I knew I was about to get dumped, and had been considering a pre-emptive strike, but I’d bought a ton of bevvy in and I wanted to see the final.
So she got in first, but, I’ll tell you, had Brazil been in that final and won, I doubt I’d have been bothered. I loved them more than her!
Beatbhoy
Great time. Lovely Italian people adopted me.
DD
Brazil got dumped, I got dumped, Suckin’ Fummer of ’82!
Next World Cup in Mexico, well that was a different story with a much, much happier ending!
This is not a slight against anyone but I have reached a stage where any nostalgia that doesn’t mention Celtic doesn’t really interest me.
Yep I need to broaden my horizons but tbh haven’t found one yet
DD …. I know Torntony and a few others from here will be over in Lisbon …. I wont be joining them, but I know they will do Canada proud!
I am saving my holidays for later in the year …. I am hoping to get away in the fall with KT for a few weeks to do a cycling tour in Italy …. I’ll need to start getting in shape for that one!
but I do have to get back to Scotland and Ireland soon …. too many nice people on here that I have yet to meet in person
Beatbhoy …. we dont need to hear about your ‘happy endings’ …. this is a family site (if your family is a bit crazy, mind!)
L)
Shame to rerad back and hear of FGF and BD’s loss. Condolences.
Brazil-Italy 1982 World Cup – one of the greatest football matches ever witnessed; complete game with everything skilfull, spectacular, beautiful, brilliant joyful, heartbreaking and ecstatic about the sport in one 90-minute mindblowing contest.
If you saw that live and didn’t fall in love with the drama of football there was no hope for you. Just a clip of it on tv and I’m thrown back, heart bursting with the recalled excitement of that match’s ridiculous -but peculiarly accepted, given the natural footballing brilliance on the park – twists and turns.
The football fan’s football match.
Sipsini
Saw your earlier post. I’ll try to see the programme on catch up and see if I can see ‘M’.
MIT
Actually, it’s a very romantic tale. There’s the rub!