Final decision time for Doncaster and friends
With Hampden out of bounds there should only be one choice to host the show-piece event ensuring that every supporter of Aberdeen or Inverness Caley Thistle gets to see their side go for silverware.
A stadium with a 60,000 capacity and lay out that allows tickets to be sold on a section by section basis avoiding the traditional ‘cup final ticket row’ that even cropped up for last season’s St Mirren v Hearts final at Hampden.
Over the last two seasons Celtic Park has hosted seven Champions League ties with the stadium spic and span offering everything needed for supporters and media.
As well as the obvious credentials Celtic’s contribution to Scottish football is beyond question with the SPL then SPFL receiving £1m plus from Celtic’s Champions League success over each of the last two seasons.
Celtic’s investment in Scottish footballers can be seen throughout the game with two and three former youth team players in opposition in a number of matches every weekend with players currently out on loan at Kilmarnock, Morton, Hamilton Accies, Dumbarton and Falkirk.
Whether Doncaster and his committee men at Hampden award the final to Celtic Park remains unclear.
Across the city there is a 50,000 capacity stadium at Ibrox that houses the black sheep of the Scottish game.
The club that harbours deep grudges despite being given the hand of friendship by being fast tracked into the professional game with the folly of overlooking the production of five years of audited accounts now coming home to roost.
Where the manager regularly fires off complaints about the treatment of his club while knowing the background to the Decisions he has queried.
As Hearts avoided a fine for administration Ally McCoist questioned why Rangers (IL) had been fined despite the Ibrox club requesting that type of punishment.
When McCoist asked ‘who are these people’ after the club was hit with a registration embargo his football administrator, Andrew Dickson, had sat through the hearing.
Every week across the country a group of fans pose for a picture with a banner proclaiming ‘SFA AND SPFL CORRUPT TO THE CORE’.
But will the SPFL hand that club the hosting of the League Cup Final?