Celtic fans were sickened by news that Hibs will be ‘watched’ by thousands of empty seats at Hampden today.
Live television, an early kick off, the game being staged in Glasgow and problems on the M8 can all be used but the bottom line is that thousands of season ticket holders are unable to attend a football match because of the pettiness of one club.The club of Rod Petrie who just wants Scottish football to move on despite a decade of cheating by a former member club.
Hibs yet again proving the nonsense of ‘demanding’ 50/50 tickets splits for Hampden. Thousands now locked out over a vanity issue.
— ByTheMinute Celtic (@ByTheMinCeltic) October 21, 2017
Hibs demanding a 50/50 split of the tickets now theres gonny be 10 thousand empty seats because they canny fill their allocation #shambles
— Swifty (@swiftybhoy) October 21, 2017
So Hibs moan about the size of their name in adverts when they can’t sell half their tickets. Aye nae bother…
— Paul (@phford40) October 21, 2017
Ultimately if Hibs haven’t sold tickets they have requested then that should be taken into consideration with future allocations.
— (ex)Lighting Monkey (@LightingMonkey) October 21, 2017
Hibs have NEVER taken more than 12500 fans to a LC semi final. Clubs played a blinder ensuring seats r empty rather than full of opp fans ????
— David Hogg (@TheHoggFelly) October 21, 2017
totally. Hibs will have known week ago that they had tons left. Weird they can’t sell for game 1hr away v team they nearly beat.
— Bobo Balti ???? (@bobobalti) October 21, 2017
Only 10k hibs fans is nippy and disappointing! We could have got more, shite for fans who missed out seeing that!
— kieran (@KieranDoherty67) October 21, 2017
While Motherwell took 10,000 tickets to play Sevco tomorrow and returned 1,000 Hibs demanded 20,000 and kept quiet about slow ticket sales.
Within a week of putting them on sale the Edinburgh side would have been able to predict the total number of sales.
Perhaps if they had had to pay for the tickets or put up a bond for unsold tickets they may have been less keen on denying Celtic fans the chance to watch their team.