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Scottish cup final day and another big defeat for Hibs.
Stokes played very well, more the provider to Hooper, the finisher. Paddy McCourt came on as a late sub to a great reception, probably his last game for them.
Nice pre-match display from the Celtic fans, which helped ease the assault on the ears from the Hampden pk sound system.
1888 Brother Walfrid (could pass as an image of Neil Lennon)
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The silly season started early, yesterday...
http://joe.ie/football/football-news...nner-0038269-1
I see Celtic's attendances were down on average 4k per home game this season. I wonder why.
Disappointed for the Hibees and Pat Fenlon but they were very much second best on the day.
The continuing recession and missing around 14k visiting fans didn't help.
The biggest drop in Celtics' EPL home game attendance happened in 2009/10,Quote:
Originally Posted by ArdeeBhoy
average went down from 57k 2008/9 to 45k 2009/10 Probably the recession/depression affected sales of season tickets.
Went up to 51k last season, down to 47k this season.
This approx £1.5m drop in ticket income was easily offset, twenty or thirty times over, with 6 CL games at Celtic Pk and CL income.
Paranoid? Them? Surely not...
:waving:
They targeted the wrong island.
Fortunately the Gardai know what's what,
http://www.imcdb.org/i070107.jpg
but not where the real threat lurks.
Speed 3
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Celtic's profits "soar" to 10 million http://www.rte.ie/sport/soccer/scott...o-almost-l10m/
The use of the word soar is a bit of a hyperbole bearing in the mind that many of players of the teams they will meet in the CL would earn that in less than a year but it does show the importance of the CL run and what they are up against. Must be one of the few teams in the UK turning over a profit. Happy days for Dermot Desmond.
Doesnt include the 20m£ of player sales (Wanyama, Hooper and Wilson) since then nor indeed the Monley from this years CL qulaification and Group matches. Next years numbers should be equally healthy if not better. Of course the money is nothing in comparison to the big players as you state , though would be interesting to compare to Ajax for example.
There are quite a few similarities with Ajax. Both clubs need CL qualification.
Ajax have a bit more revenue, about 100m Eur and recorded a 10m profit.
Like Celtic, they end up selling their best players, not necessarily out of necessity but it's just the way of things.
Another comparison
Celtic shirt sponsorship worth maybe 2m p/a
Ajax's is Eur 8.8m
Good to see the club I support in Scotland, Raith Rovers, through to a Final, namely the Ramsdens Cup final where they'll be taking on Rangers. Raith has been a club in decline for a while but the past few years have seen a recovery. I remember them winning the League Cup many moons ago but other than that......not a lot to sing about. They were in the Scottish First Division as it was called then when I first started supporting them in the late 1960s and only because they were called Rovers like Shamrock Rovers. If I understood more of the origins of Celtic/Hibs at the time, I suspect I would have followed one of them.
Speaking of which I see Terry Butcher is the new Hibs manager. Will be interesting to see how he goes.
Really enjoyable game last night between Hibs and Hearts. Sell out match which Hibs played at huge pace throughout. Battered Hearts for most of the game but only went one up midway in the second half only for Hearts to equalise. Great atmosphere at the game and Hibs won it in the end with a late penalty. Nice also to see Paul Heffernan, once of Sheffield Wednesday, come on and do well for Hibs. Cracking game.
Not technically SPL but has anyone got the low down on the latest financial fiasco at Rangers and what the consequences of administration would be?
Where are you reading that?
It's all over the Scottish media Bonnie.
To answer Stutts, difficult to call given all the behind-the scenes machinations, but they're not looking overly healthy.
However can't imagine anything will happen before the summer, when the major cash-flow issues hit the fan.
Primarily are paying their players far too much to win that division and even the one above? And whilst their gates appear healthy, have cut their prices and being giving out loads of freebies to achieve this, so that's probably (& hopefully!) unsustainable.
Here's to Mark III, If we must.
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Not technically SPL, in any remote shape or form,
but here's a link to a photo from todays game East Fife v Rangers.
Any idea what the Leigh Griffiths racist song controversy is about?
He was caught singing a Hibs chant about former Hearts player Rudi Skacel being a refugee, which is apparently what qualifies for witty in Edinburgh. It was the same song Derek Riordan got caught on camera singing drunk a few years ago.
I think that was an afterthought charge by the SFA, Charlie.
Griffith was originally charged with singing some song about Hearts being in liquidation, just that and nothing more than that, and that was enough to inspire the SFA to charge him with making an offending remark against another club.
The original charge was ridiculous but now the SFA have managed to save their face with some other evidence.
Only a kangaroo court though could find him guilty of being a racist, seeing as how a refugee is not a race but the song in question was definitely stupid.