Any Hearts fan that fancies watching their team on Sunday can click on to their club website and buy a ticket or two, apparently there is quite a lot of choice.
Any Celtic fan wanting to watch the champions in action will have to settle for Sky Sports with just 571 tickets given to away fans.
There has been lots of chat about allocations this week with Brendan Rodgers and Steven Naismith involved without any conclusion as the Away Day becomes a rarity in Scottish football.
Naismith talked about growing the fan base but watching his style of football isn’t going to encourage many Jambos to part with £33 when they can watch the game in the pub with some lunch or dinner and come home with change compared to a trip to Tynecastle.
When Celtic won 3-0 in the Scottish Cup at the start of March they had 3,500 fans in the Roseburn Stand, clinching the SPFL title in May the ticket allocation was down to 1,200.
Hearts are perfectly entitled to do anything that they like for SPFL matches at Tynecastle, just as they can appoint any rookie manager to take charge of the first team.
Next Saturday at Easter Road Celtic will have 3,591 tickets for a match not on Sky Sports.
CLICK HERE if you are a Hearts member and want to buy tickets for the match.
As it stands… this will be our first home game this season that’s not a sell-out.. Celtic at home?The club have cut that lot to look after our own.. where’s the fans that want season tickets???
— Ryan Sclater (@Ryannsclater) October 20, 2023
Hell slap it up them
Naismith isn’t merely a rookie manager, he is an unqualified rookie manager lacking a UEFA Pro Licence*, hence the ludicrous situation of him being ‘technical director’ while Frankie McAvoy was nominally ‘head coach’ until they helpfully got themselves knocked out of Europe and could make Naismith the manager…. at least until they sack him, which with 3 wins from 8 might not be too far in the future! The inevitable 6-0 defeat to Sevco in the League Cup semi-final might be the moment.
*although you have to wonder how difficult it must be to get one if Alex Rae did!
What an ugly wrinkled looking old boot that Hearts chairperson looks in that photo…
Today’s Cheats with whistles, flags and monitors might make her smile a bit more though –