The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[Tommo2]

The money men couldn't afford for sevco to go bust again. If rangers fail, Celtic make less money ala 2012-2016. Sevco in so much debt this year, that if they don't qualify for champions league, they are gone again. Money men made a decision to effectively forfeit the league to keep sevco alive. 10 in a row would be great for the support, but money men don't care about that. Lennon is just the fall guy.

[sid waddell]

What a sad fcking day.  The fact it was a must win is in itself a tragedy.   

The lockdown should have presented the opportunity to see Rangers bankrupt again but the board pissed away millions on average players, penny pinched on real quality like John McGinn to save 500k and then went for a cheap manager in Lennon thinking he could beat a Rangers who were in financial diffs again.

Gerrard will probably get them into the UCL group stages and clear their debt in one go. Joke

It was a football match FFS

50 years ago to the day when Rangers played Celtic at Ibrox, now that was a tragedy

[RedHand88]

The money men couldn't afford for sevco to go bust again. If rangers fail, Celtic make less money ala 2012-2016. Sevco in so much debt this year, that if they don't qualify for champions league, they are gone again. Money men made a decision to effectively forfeit the league to keep sevco alive. 10 in a row would be great for the support, but money men don't care about that. Lennon is just the fall guy.

Or maybe, maybe... Celtic are just crap?

[From the Bunker]

The money men couldn't afford for sevco to go bust again. If rangers fail, Celtic make less money ala 2012-2016. Sevco in so much debt this year, that if they don't qualify for champions league, they are gone again. Money men made a decision to effectively forfeit the league to keep sevco alive. 10 in a row would be great for the support, but money men don't care about that. Lennon is just the fall guy.

Have heard of that sort of stuff before. Back 20+ years ago when Rangers were very strong and a plethora of points in front in the League, Rangers would throw a League game the week before the scheduled Old Firm Derby. In doing so they'd offer a (very) small window of opportunity to Celtic. This would heighten the profile and interest of the upcoming game. Fans would go crazy for tickets. Betting on the game would go up! It also helped make the League look competitive - even if it was not!

I think of the Dublin Football team in AI finals the last couple of years where they take the foot off the pedal and try to make the final score as if the final was not a mis-match.

[Mikhail Prokhorov]

The money men couldn't afford for sevco to go bust again. If rangers fail, Celtic make less money ala 2012-2016. Sevco in so much debt this year, that if they don't qualify for champions league, they are gone again. Money men made a decision to effectively forfeit the league to keep sevco alive. 10 in a row would be great for the support, but money men don't care about that. Lennon is just the fall guy.

Have heard of that sort of stuff before. Back 20+ years ago when Rangers were very strong and a plethora of points in front in the League, Rangers would throw a League game the week before the scheduled Old Firm Derby. In doing so they'd offer a (very) small window of opportunity to Celtic. This would heighten the profile and interest of the upcoming game. Fans would go crazy for tickets. Betting on the game would go up! It also helped make the League look competitive - even if it was not!

I think of the Dublin Football team in AI finals the last couple of years where they take the foot off the pedal and try to make the final score as if the final was not a mis-match.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vz1nIHv6P6Q

[trailer]

The money men couldn't afford for sevco to go bust again. If rangers fail, Celtic make less money ala 2012-2016. Sevco in so much debt this year, that if they don't qualify for champions league, they are gone again. Money men made a decision to effectively forfeit the league to keep sevco alive. 10 in a row would be great for the support, but money men don't care about that. Lennon is just the fall guy.

f**k me, this is up there with Bill Gates is injecting us with microchips.

[Godsown]

The money men couldn't afford for sevco to go bust again. If rangers fail, Celtic make less money ala 2012-2016. Sevco in so much debt this year, that if they don't qualify for champions league, they are gone again. Money men made a decision to effectively forfeit the league to keep sevco alive. 10 in a row would be great for the support, but money men don't care about that. Lennon is just the fall guy.

Or maybe, maybe... Celtic are just crap?

That's it in a nutshell and Rangers just a little bit less crap

[sid waddell]

The money men couldn't afford for sevco to go bust again. If rangers fail, Celtic make less money ala 2012-2016. Sevco in so much debt this year, that if they don't qualify for champions league, they are gone again. Money men made a decision to effectively forfeit the league to keep sevco alive. 10 in a row would be great for the support, but money men don't care about that. Lennon is just the fall guy.

Have heard of that sort of stuff before. Back 20+ years ago when Rangers were very strong and a plethora of points in front in the League, Rangers would throw a League game the week before the scheduled Old Firm Derby. In doing so they'd offer a (very) small window of opportunity to Celtic. This would heighten the profile and interest of the upcoming game. Fans would go crazy for tickets. Betting on the game would go up! It also helped make the League look competitive - even if it was not!

I think of the Dublin Football team in AI finals the last couple of years where they take the foot off the pedal and try to make the final score as if the final was not a mis-match.

More complete nonsense

The conspiracy theories that fly with some Celtic supporters are hilarious

Celtic aren't alone in Scottish football as regards conspiracy theories - when Jim McClean died last week the theory that Dundee United were cheated by a bent ref against Roma in 1984 was thrown around - more complete nonsense - the reality is they froze in the second leg and were well beaten

[illdecide]

How do we fix this? There are so many factors here...Manager?, Board?, Sevco improvements?. We have totally neglected the factor SG has had, they're undefeated in league and more importantly in Europe and are actually feared whereas we're a laughing stock. Even under the great BR we were crap in Europe.

[Angelo]

Conspiracy theories?

Aye. Jim Farry never intervened to stop a Celtic signing from playing in an Old Firm game.

You'd need to by some deranged nutjob not to accept that the SFA has always had an extreme bias to Rangers.

[JimStynes]

Are rangers really that much in debt?

[illdecide]

Are rangers really that much in debt?

I read a few weeks ago that they need £25m by June this year to finish off the year

[JimStynes]

Are rangers really that much in debt?

I read a few weeks ago that they need £25m by June this year to finish off the year

https://twitter.com/swissramble/status/1333303869334548481?s=21

Just reading this again. It doesn't seem as bad as it used to be. Celtic don't exactly seem flush either. Celtic are only in decent shape because of the sale of KT. The old firm need out of the SPL. It's even behind Austria in terms of revenue ffs.

[michaelg]

Conspiracy theories?

Aye. Jim Farry never intervened to stop a Celtic signing from playing in an Old Firm game.

You'd need to by some deranged nutjob not to accept that the SFA has always had an extreme bias to Rangers.

Do you really think a club that has won the league title 51 times have been subject to bias against them?

[Tony Baloney]

Conspiracy theories?

Aye. Jim Farry never intervened to stop a Celtic signing from playing in an Old Firm game.

You'd need to by some deranged nutjob not to accept that the SFA has always had an extreme bias to Rangers.

Do you really think a club that has won the league title 51 times have been subject to bias against them?

I have no skin in the game here as I'm not an active Celtic supporter (although I do keep an eye out for their scores), however I dont think anyone can claim they haven't been shafted over a period of many years by biased referees, protected by the SFA. Scottish football is rife with sectarianism (you may have noticed  ) and the refereeing and SFA fraternity have done little to separate themselves from it. The majority of issues that I can see are explicitly targeting Celtic and therefore implicitly benefitting Rangers, who let's face it are always going to benefit from a dodgy penalty decision or sending off against Celtic even when they aren't playing them.