Celtic fans gave Murrayfield a qualified thumbs-up after last night’s visit to the capital to take on KR Reykjavik in the Champions League second qualifying round.
Three goals in the first half hour went down a treat with the travelling/home support but there were still thousands of fans outside when Virgil van Dijk opened the scoring.
Battling with rush hour traffic in two cities was always going to prove difficult with fans leaving Glasgow after 5pm struggling to make the 7.45 kick-off.
Inside the stadium proved a suitable replacement for Celtic Park with the majority of the stands well filled as the relocated Green Brigade tested the acoustics as the first three goals hit the net at their area of the stadium.
Summing up the stadium @celticservant tweeted: “Murraytfield. Good access. Good views throughout stadium. Areas for smokers. Good atmosphere. Knock Hampden down, move it here.”
@CelticGossip added: “I really enjoyed the murrayfield experience great stadium professional performance and the tri color flew on high HH.”
Staying with the positive @krys1888 suggested: “Totally convinced now. Absolutely no need for Hampden as a football venue. Play everything at Murrayfield. Better in every way. @scottishfa”
On a similar theme @kieran psyl tweeted: “Would like to see Murrayfield replace Hampden as the national stadium for football. Much better atmosphere. Keep Hampden for athletics.
Ronny Deila and Teemu Pukki expressed their satisfaction with the stadium where the newly laid pitch allowed the bhoys to ping the ball about in style.
St Pat’s or Legia Warsaw will provide the opposition in the next round in the first week of August but not every supporter was glowing about the trip east.
@Georgina87 revealed: “Just home from Murrayfield…lovely stadium good atmosphere! Absolute nightmare to get home from though! Up in 5hours shiiXXXX!!!!
Thousands of fans used Citylink to get to Murrayfield with organisation sadly lacking.
@unseenhand1888 tweeted: Hundreds of Celtic fans stranded on Roseburn Bridge all night,kids,elderly & disabled amongst them.@celticfc@ScotCitylink@CelticFCSLO.”
Similar thoughts were expressed by @thefrankiemacca who tweeted: “Well the Murrayfield experience wiz a mixed bag… Left Glasgow at 5.30pm and still missed KO by 30mins. Cracking stadium, good result.”
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