Celtic will receive £1.65m from the Uefa revenue distribution system for participating in the Champions League play-off round against Helsingborgs. Add to that around £1m gate money and the guarantee of at least three Europa League games, with Uefa distribution money, you can calculate the value of Wednesday’s win over HJK Helsinki as no less than £6m (all figures are net of vat). Quite a prize for one game.
Compare this to the projected income from newco The Rangers, who claimed to have sold 25,000 season tickets. If all sales were at full adult prices (£258 in vat), net income would be £5.375m.
Should Celtic overcome Helsingborgs and reach the Champions League group stage, the club will return to a remarkably strong financial footing.
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I had to come off Twitter.
Too many retweets to expose these filthy creatures (which I understand) but I feel physically ill reading them.
Charles Green was right in the wrong way – bigotry was behind them getting no free passes into the top or Division 1 – THEIR BIGOTRY.
The rest of us have had enough and eventually when they start falling away in number and taking up the golf or shopping we might, we just might be rid of them.
I doubt it but lets hope. We can all hope.
Also I think after three good results it must have been good for the team to play in Philly. We are a global brand, loved and respected for very good reasons. If we get into the CL proper then we are looking good for many years as P67 rightly said in his comment page. We have a young group who will take us forward and their value is massive. Who found all these players? Our league is tiny in every respect yet we continue to punch above our weight. Some one some where in our organisation made this happen and I salute you all for your input whoever you are. We are where we are despite being cheated of success. What monetary value have we been deprived of over the last 10 years? Where would be now if we had all the prize money we were due? Thanks. HH.
Check this out from Shallow Shallow
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It’s Time To Play Hardball, Charlie
It was never just a football club. It was a vehicle for the Catholic Church from the outset, and many would argue that it still is today.
It started well until it was put in its place by Rangers, and then it lagged behind Glasgow’s biggest club for decades.
Founded by a priest, Andrew Kerins, Celtic quickly became a vital tool for Glasgow’s Catholic community, and 125 years later, not much has changed.
Its sectarian origin, frequently ignored by history, is a subject that contemporary Scottish scribes are reluctant to investigate.
The way was clear then for the club to be reinvented by sympathetic apologists who portrayed 19th century Celtic as some kind of Glaswegian Mother Theresa: only better.
Interestingly, Marist Brother, Kerins, wanted Celtic to field an all-Catholic team, and as recently as 2005 he was was commemorated by the club in statue form outside the Celtic Park front door.
Unsurprisingly, his sectarian ambition for Celtic has been painted over, nailed down, covered up and locked away. A 19th century truth can be an unwelcome stranger in the 21st century.
If Celtic is about inclusivity, why immortalise a man who stood for the exact opposite? If sectarianism is wrong, why honour a man who had a sectarian motivation for founding Celtic? If truth is important, why hide it?
This is Celtic: a club with contradictions, inconsistencies – and clout. Unlike its rival across the city, Celtic was political from the first whistle. While Rangers mostly enjoyed superiority on the field, Celtic always had a greater appetite for being active off the park.
Even today, with the Commonwealth Games coming to Glasgow shortly, it is no surprise that Celtic Park is hosting the opening ceremony while Ibrox is effectively an afterthought in the proceedings.
Celtic has many friends in politics, especially in the Glasgow Labour Party, and it uses them well. Rangers, as it discovered to its cost recently, has no friends at all.
When Celtic Park was upgraded, it benefited from having neighbouring land ‘sold’ to it for a token amount, and yet the politicians who made the decision were nearly all Celtic shareholders or season ticketholders.
This translates into onfield advantage, but the Scottish press looked the other way: conveniently.
Celtic has become a very influential club in society. Scotland’s premier politician, Alex Salmond, a man the English fear, is reluctant to cross Celtic. He won’t risk it – he needs the Catholic vote, and yes, there is a Catholic vote in Scotland. Salmond knows that this vote could become a veto on his nationalist ambitions.
Politically then, Celtic have all bases covered. They have been married to Labour for years, but they can have flings with the SNP and call the shots as and when the need arises.
More than a club? Absolutely. Celtic has engineered a situation where the media and political class only ever say nice things about it.
Contrast this with Rangers, a fallen aristocrat down among the dead men, and getting a good kicking while it is weakened.
It has taken a while, but the ‘Old Firm’ tag, loathed by both sides, is now a historical relic. Never again will Glasgow’s two leading clubs be on the same page.
The future then, is uncertain. The Scottish game is in freefall, distrust abounds and a virulent hatred is growing. Celtic exerts more influence at the SFA than the rest of the nation’s clubs put together, and Rangers has effectively been swept away in an unprecedented coup.
This period in Scottish football awaits a judgement from history. Supporters are so close to the situation that they can hardly make a call on it.
So much depends now on Rangers under new management. If it is as powerful as it needs to be – off the park as well as on it – it could be a rebirth for Rangers.
If, however, it is as inept and incompetent as previous regimes, Celtic will be Scottish football’s new king: unchallenged, and maybe for years to come.
The lesson is this: for Rangers FC to be as influential as it needs to be to survive and flourish, it has to be a political as well as a sporting club.
Finally, after 140 years of naivety, it has to grow up. Size doesn’t matter if there is no intelligence to exploit the advantage.
Rangers now has to be what Celtic always was – politically active, influential, relentless in pursuit of ambition, and willing to engage with its enemies head on. If it does this, the Rangers support will back the club to the hilt.
If it doesn’t, this episode in Scottish football will likely be written up as the end of Rangers as a true giant in the game: just like Queens Park all those years ago.
I hope Charles Green knows what he has got himself into. With each passing day, I suspect that he does.
It’s time to play hardball, Charlie.
Don’t take any prisoners.
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Answers on the back of a stamp please…..Z.
Why is it that when people come on the blog and post utter drivel and then get a reaction they don’t like, they then come out with the usual “I’m allowed to have an opinion too y’know!” and act like a victim?
Yes – you are allowed an opinion. And you expressed it. No-one stopped you having an opinion or expressing it. It’s just that, in others people’s opinion, your opinion is pish. And they’re allowed to express their opinion of your pish opinion. So they did.
If you want to avoid it, spend some time thinking before expressing opinionated pish.
Kayal and Izzy are not far off what they are capable of. When you think of the injuries they have endured,
It’s great to see them on the mend.
Dontbrattbakkinanger on 11 August, 2012 at 23:01 said:
Scandalous!! Not as shan as what happened to Carlos & Smith, but pretty shan (after 22 yrs in Edinburgh Ah’m beginnin to pick up on the patois!) all the same; It’s all part of the same imperialist, racist shite. The three of them are heroes. Glad that they can be celebrated on CQN.
Hail hail the internet bampots!!
PV
Watched the game with 30 odd Real fans, they were well impressed with the Celtic de Glasgow.
They were even more impressed when I told them our squad tonight only cost a couple of million, though most didn’t believe me :>)
Young Dylan was getting much praise as well, pray to god he is ok.
Can’t remember who done him, he had no chance of getting the ball, bad challenge imo, and the opinion of the Spanish comentators.
I agree that the run out was worth it, a few hours on a plane, a few bob in the bank, a week to prepare for Ross Cty, injuries happen in any game, Stokes got injured in the warm up, these things happen, tis football.
Much more positives than negatives tonight.
The Real fans saw what a bunch of kids can do against their superstars.
Well done Celtic.
Percy Vere
No worries. With hindsight, my comment about his name not being very British was quite crass and irrelevant as his father was born in England and he’s lived here since he was eight.
What he’s achieved is fantastic. I’ve had a few bevvies too and enjoyed our young team’s performance tonight.
Cheers.
Expressing an opinion that’s opionated pish is ‘like a new signing’ -Mark Hately.
theglasgowcelticway on 11 August, 2012 at 23:16 said:
Not sure mate,but if you can cast your mind back to the season before last – he played at left back then,and he was POTY.The link-up play between Emilio,JL and Kris Commons was magnificent.It was frightening at times,how they destroyed opposing teams down the left flank.
I just think he needs more time to adjust,he was out for nearly a season don’t forget.Hopefully once he gets back up to speed,we will see the real player once more.
Just my opinion obviously,it’s far too early to write him off.
Dontbrattbakkinanger on 11 August, 2012 at 23:26 said:
Malkyed…
TOTP 2 STARTING NOW …………………
BIT OF SOUIXSIE ………..AND BOW WOW WOW ….OTHER THAN FLOYD OR RUSH THAT WILL DO FER ME
Join the fight against the Koch brothers.
HH
Thought the best aspect tonight was that we kept our shape for most of the game,invaluable experience against guys with movement and pace of the highest order.
We would have spanked them tonight if Big Daryl hadn’t gone off injured, they don’t know how lucky they were :>)
THE EXILED TIM on 11 August, 2012 at 23:24 said:
Perspective,indeed.
Good post.
Dontbrattbakkinanger on 11 August, 2012 at 23:26 said:
Hately certainly knows his opinionated pish all right!
BIG PHIL ON BBC2 ………………che ray dum a doo dum a dye,,lol class
Headtheball on 11 August, 2012 at 23:25 said:
Appreciate that.
Hail Hail
PV
16 Roads
Thanks, just say things like I see it, causes problems at times, but hey, it’s a blog….
The main thing,after tonight’s game,is to hope that young Dylan,is ok.
How lucky we are,as Celtic supporters,that we have young players,that express themselves,and show such delight in putting on the Celtic jersey,the future is bright,the future is Green and White.HH
Sixteen roads to Golgotha on 11 August, 2012 at 23:13 said:
I’m sure you’re right.
HH
PV
TET
donde es tu en espana??? sur o norte???
Everybody,
A wee thought (or prayer) for young Dylan. I hope he makes a full recovery and takes US to success this season.
Weefra HH
Feel a wee bit more relaxed going in against Helsingborg now.
Hopefully big Sammi and Hooper will a have the appetite
Has there been any update on Dylan, only read back a couple of pages ?
THE EXILED TIM on 11 August, 2012 at 23:41 said:
He’s in hospital TET with a suspected broken jaw..
eddie reader doin support for annie lennox the noo on bbc 2
the good start to the season continues. real madrid are the best all round club side in the world imo.
it says a lot about the depth of quality in our squad that mcgeogh was our best player before he went off.
we should stop playing down what a good footballer charlie mulgrew is, a centre back who was poty last season, and who supplied a moment of real quality that was the important moment in the game on wednesday. our back 5 is one good centre back away from being the best we have had in a very long time.
oh feck its delores …………………..ahhhhh i melt…………..even the wife lets me have this one lol
Goodnight all and God Bless The Glasgow Celtic,
Goodnight Celts, tomorrow is another day in Celtic Land..
Bring on the Swedes…
MHARK67
Sur.
En las montañas en Granada provencia.
Good to see a good support in the crowd
Reading back the blog tend to agree that our academy has failed to deliver a conveyor belt of talent to 1st team squad
And what on earth was Daryl Murphy doing in USA
A total embarrassment to the hoops
Free transfer to anybody
And just shows how poor our youth teams are if none of them can take his seat on the plane to USA
ST
antes dos anos yo vivo en adalucia circa malaga un pequeno pueblo nom de nerja tu save?? and thats about all the spanish i have mate my kids are fluent lol
Starry P
Thanks, shocking challenge btw, the fella had no chance of getting the ball.
Jose has a lot to answer for imo, he is a thug maker, his teams have no need to resort to thuggery, but like the huns, his Real team get away with it, and his Porto team, his Chelsea team, his Inter team, don’t have a any time for him.
and on the night when we are plagued by anti-Celtic numpties, right on cue the chief numptie appears………………………….. a lot of Celtic supporters on here but it seems there are just as many who don’t know the meaning of support
THE EXILED TIM on 11 August, 2012 at 23:38 said:
Not a bother chara.We all want Celtic to be the best,but there is no perfect Celtic,nothing is perfect.
Once (imho) in our history,we were perfecto,and that was John Stein’s Lions,and more than a few of his Celtic sides that followed were almost perfect,but not quite.
It is my belief,that what we are witnessing here is progress – it maybe slow,too slow for some of our support,but it is progression none-the-less;and,i hasten to add,it is progression under the most difficult of circumstances.
We are on the march once again.
GBNL.