Celtic are facing questions from the SPFL over a ticket allocation for a match more than four months away.
After news leaked out that Celtic won’t be taking any tickets for their visit to Ibrox on September 3 the positions of both clubs has become entrenched.
SPFL rules stipulate that away clubs must be given a reasonable ticket allocation with that definition wide open to interpretation.
Celtic don’t feel that the tickets they have been offered for Ibrox are safe with the spotlight now falling towards how they deal with their home match on December 30.
Writing in the Daily Mail, Stephen McGowan explains:
Rangers have written to the SPFL outlining their expectation of a ticket allocation for away fans when they face Celtic at Parkhead in December.
The move comes after Celtic turned down tickets for their trip to Ibrox next month.
Rangers offered their bitter rivals an allocation of 708 briefs for the first Old Firm clash of the season on September 3.
However, Celtic favour a return to larger ticket allocations for the derbies.
Before declining the tickets, they raised concerns over safety issues and claimed their fans had been struck with glass bottles during previous visits.
Now Rangers have contacted the league to reinforce their desire for tickets for the return game on the other side of the city on December 30.
Without any definition of reasonable it seems impossible for the SPFL to step in and solve a dispute involving their two most powerful clubs.
In the Scottish Cup the SFA has rules that away clubs must be given 20% of the available tickets.
Unless something major changes before September 3 this row is going to summer on through until the end of the year.
They started it by reducing numbers to suit their own scummy fans.
We have every right, and responsibility, to refuse to accept tickets on safety grounds and the proof is available to prove that midden is not a safe place for ANY supporters but especially ours.
The SPFL will try to fudge something here and we should NOT accept anything other than an acceptable outcome to our club. They’re trouble, fans of BOTH teams from Ibrox, always have been always will be. All those years ago Rangers FC “started it” by refusing to accept RCs. Personally I’m sick to the back teeth of them and just want them gone.
Our current Chairman could have facilitated their permanent end and shat the bed and fell for the 5(6) Way. He’s NO FRIEND of Celtic FC and its supporters.
Never forget that and that ‘they’ started it.
Hail! Hail! The Glasgow Celtic.
Tell them to feck right off…I am sick and tired of this new club telling us to fall into line with their requirements…End of…??
CELTIC are facing questions… Utterly incredible if true… There again it’s from The Scottish Media so who the hell knows if it’s true or not…
But if it is indeed true… (and they do probably get about 1 in 50 articles correct – or they did so 20 years ago anyway)…
Over something that SEVCO started… And CELTIC ARE THE ONES FACING QUESTIONS…
The media are siding with Sevco – No surprise there then, but I’m in control and don’t buy them…
I can’t control The SFA or The SPFL –
But my goodness – What a bloody banana republic of a football country we live in !
And claimed they had been hit by bottles, is McGowan blind and deaf. There’s a guy sitting in a prison cell because he was found guilty of doing so. That factual piece of information obviously escaped his journalist nose in actually telling the facts. That’s not to mention the coins, lighters and piss thats rained down on our supporters. Would someone like to explain to me how putting up a netting barrier for safety reasons is going to stop any liquid form coming through. Zero, zilch, nada, tickets for December and who cares what the animals say.