Glasgow and Edinburgh have four stadiums with a capacity of 50,000 people or more: Murrayfield, Hampden, Celtic Park and Ibrox. Hampden will be under lease to Uefa at the time of the Scottish Cup Final on 22 May. This arrangement permits games to take place but prohibits fans from attending.
The Scottish Government (I’m not a fan, but to their credit), would almost certainly permit fans to attend, as their example-setters in London have already indicated they would do the same before that date. Given this opportunity to have thousands of fans at a showpiece game, if you were in charge of the SFA you would move it from Hampden to Celtic Park, Ibrox, Murrayfield (my preference). If necessary, you would move it to Cliftonhill to permit “the lifeblood of the game” to be in attendance.
However, you are not in charge of the SFA. Given a choice between holding the Cup Final with fans at another venue, or holding it at an empty Hampden, the Association decided on the latter option. These people!
Five Newco players were caught, red handed, breaking restrictions on Valentine’s Day. They are free to face Celtic on Scottish Cup duty next weekend, nine weeks later. Thanks to the SFA, suspensions will kick in days later. Celtic broke zero restrictions in January, but rules were changed on-the-fly by the aforementioned Scottish Government, forcing Celtic to play two games at a critical time of the season without 16 players.
Don’t try to wreck your brain looking for fairness or consistency here, you’re in Scotland, wise up.
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Good morning cqn from a frosty Garngad
If it’s not Howe, please get someone in pronto to give them a fighting chance for next season.
Unbelievable dithering from our custodians who would have thought that.
Notfitforpurposecsc
D :)
There are MILLIONS of folk all over the UK who STILL cant leave home for various reasons including COVID, and yet the Cooncil TV Channels yesterday were filled up with the CRAP about how feckin wonderful Phil was ?
MILLIONS of older folk in particular saw their favourite TV programmes cancelled etc, at a time when they cant leave their Homes for fear of Covid.
Did Phil EVER have to chose between EATING or Heating his Home EVERY Winter ?
WHAT did he ACTUALLY do to earn ALL those War Medals…likewise his offspring Charles ?
Sir Captain Tom Moore…NOW….their was a Man who deserved RESPECT.
So we are to have 8 days of all this tripe about what a great human being the greek guy was. So is it possible all the CORRECT ENGLISH SCOLARS on here could put their heads together and pen an open letter to MR PUTIN in MOSCOW and ask him to invade us just for a few weeks like. Nae raping and pillaging or carting the locals aff tae America to be slaves ,goodness knows this country has had it’s full of that.
.Naw jist take over the tv stations and put some old films or quiz or cooking programs on.
PPPPLLLLLEEEEEAAAAAASSSSEEEE.
quick
someone make a pun about prince philip or say something disparaging about Peter Lawell
PHILBHOY on 10TH APRIL 2021 7:48 AM
BIG JIMMY
Good morning!
Do you need to open an account with a bookie to place a bet on the National today?
I take it the betting shops are closed.
…………………
Ive had an ONLINE Account with BET365 for around 6 years now.
I havent been IN a Bookies for about 3 years now…and I like to place my Bets as early as possible ( maybe 5/6/7 AM)….to get the best prices/odds.
Bet365, sometimes give me ( and others probably) £5 FREE Bets every so often.
The Owner ( Louise Coates ?) of Bet365 was given around £461 Million in Salary in the last year !
HH.
Good Morning all.
Hot Smoked: congratulations on your hole in one. Did you have to get off your bike first…😉😊
Come on you Bhoys in Green this afternoon.
HH
BIG JIMMY
£461,000,000!!
Obscene.
BIG JIMMY on 10TH APRIL 2021 8:02 AM
Well said.
Louise Coates £461 Million.?……Hawf of her Salary was MY Money !
LOL.
HH.
PHILBHOY
You beat me to it. Re JHB
I used to wear two pairs of trousers when I placed Golf…in case I got a Hole in One !
I’ll get ma coat…if there isnt a hole in that too ?
LOL
HH
I want EVERY Horse to come back safe and sound in ANY Race….
I also loved Anton Rogan…apparently he visited Bairds Bar once or twice, and he was a very pleasant well mannered young chap.
I must have missed him…but I would loved to have met Anton.
There was a Bhoy who gave 100% in EVERY game.
HH.
Masters Golf…
Did Justin Thomas make ” The Cut” ?
I placed a Bet on him at the start.
HH.
BIG JIMMY
Yes!
Tied 6th .
“FRIESDORFER on 10TH APRIL 2021 8:36 AM
Good Morning all.
Hot Smoked: congratulations on your hole in one. Did you have to get off your bike first…😉😊”
Had I stayed on the bike, it might have too much resmbled polo and I don`t think that is appropriate at the moment :-)
I am , however, just about to go out on the bike now and will be heading Monifieth way.
Hot Smoked
Indeed. Enjoy your outing.
HH
Big Jimmy
This from the BBC:
`Missed cut: +5 D Johnson (US), L Westwood (Eng); +6 R McIlroy (NI)`
Morning all on one of my fav days of the year
Grand National Day.
My donkey for the big race is Mr Malarkey
Stay well clear.
Come on the Hoops
Spiers from the Times today.
Just checking…
I commend Rangers FC, the club I supported passionately as a kid but have been extremely critical of in my working life, for their anti-racism stand in the wake of the Glen Kamara outrage. The rise of racism in our society is worrying — fuelled by social media — and football can play its part. But I do just want to check: Rangers FC are just as animated and passionate, aren’t they, about fighting anti-Catholic and anti-Irish bigotry, which have been blights around the club for decades? They are, aren’t they?
……….thur no’
And they wullnae
Well done Smokie Bhoy………the cyber pints are on you.
HH.
Will any of our politicians dare to repeat what Speirs has written? I doubt it very much. It would be a help if their local MSP took a lead. Come on, Nicola.
Emdae got a steer on organisations looking to accept a box full of Celtic strips in good condition? Sort of recall that someone was taking such donations to an African project, maybe Malawi?
HH
dont remember any of the local politicians of the various ibrox clubs over the years ever calling out their racism so dont expect it to start now
its the great unspeakable
Has a manager been announced yet?
Speirs can be a bit bumptious at times but credit to him for today’s piece. Gerrard- who more and more has alot to say for himself – may wish to address that specific point head on at his next presser. No chance.
Heart 80s still playing appropriate music for Phil
Currently John Waite – ‘I aint missing you at all’
DJ will get sacked
Good luck to the Celts today. Past time to slap down Martindale.
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now if spiers would ask him that specific question at the next presser it would be good to see how Slippy G wriggles out of it
FRIESDORFER on 10TH APRIL 2021 10:19 AM
Here’s the gent I think you mean….
https://twitter.com/pdronyi/status/1380616855111532550?s=21
HH jg
PHILBHOY…
Cheers mate, I managed to watch the Golf highlights show on BBC2 this morning, so I saw that the USA’s Justin Thomas was well placed to pounce for the Green Jacket for Today and Sunday.
I think I backed him at 11/ or 12/1…I would need to double check.
I know nothing about the Guy…it was just some Golf Pundit who was talking him up a few days ago.
HH.
I miss the days when a Centre Forward was allowed to stand in front of Goalies when they had possession, and try and put the Goalies off when the tried to kink the ball out from their hands….that was real Fitba !
LOL
I seem to remember Georgie Best doing exactly that against England at Windsor Park, and actually kicking ball away from the English Goalies ( Gordon Banks ?) hands AFTER the Goalie had threw it up in the air to kick it upfield, and Best knocked it away to the side, and then put the ball into the empty English Net……the Ref DISALLOWED it…which was a joke, as Best did NOT Kick it out of the Goalies hands, as the ball was in mid air….and his Boot wasnt too high either…
Great play from Georgie Best IMHO.
HH.
kink ?….KICK !
I was always trying to put the Goalies aff when I played in my younger days….Many of them didnae like it.
LOL
HH.
BIG JIMMY
Justin Thomas/Dustin Johnson
Sorry for my earlier post. I got them mixed up !!
I had thought that some of fervour for Royalty had dimished considerably over the years. The media response to the Duke`s death has proven me wrong.
I have not made a point of watching the `news` but in the snippets I have seen, I am surprised that I had been largely unaware of just how wonderful a man was in my presence all these years. How am I going to cope without him?
My friends in Celtic,
Hun believable. Slippy G must be taken to task over his racism comments. He cannot be allowed to rewrite history. ( Again ).
It is outrageous to let a newbie manager of a newbie club take the moral high ground on a subject that they are up to their knees in.
The old Rangers and the new club have a shameful record of racism / sectarianism and he conveniently forgets that only recently they had a section of the ground shut down against Legia Warsaw due to racism.
In general we have the most spineless, inept and pitiful bunch of journalists and politicians that ever lived.
HH to all and COYBIG.
BIG JIMMY
Justin Thomas’s caddie is Jimmy Johnstone
I’ve got a fiver ew @ 10s