At the end of last season around 45,000 Celtic fans were inside Hampden for the Scottish Cup Final win over Inverness Caley Thistle.
Over recent seasons the notion of an away support is being put under threat with clubs like Kilmarnock and Motherwell preferring empty seats to picking up an easy £30 from Celtic fans once or twice a season.
Livingston remain realistic, they happily welcome 7,000 Celtic fans to the Tony Macaroni. There seems to be no pressure on the club to put Celtic fans in one stand to showcase thousands of yellow seats on Sky Sports.
More realistic it seems that Hearts are about to Follow Follow instructions from Ibrox by cutting the Celtic support at Tynecastle down towards 600 from the already paltry 1,264.
According to one well informed Twitter account it seems that Celtic may be about to say no-thanks to the allocation for Tynecastle on October 21, similar to the prospect of taking 700 tickets for Ibrox on September 3.
Allocations in that range really aren’t worth the bother. Once staff are given an allocation corporate clients are expecting a cut before the hard core support get their hands on any tickets.
Fans that have taken away tickets for any match offered over the last six or seven years are about to miss out.
Celtic are rumoured to be considering taking no tickets for Ibrox and no tickets for Tynecastle.
— Celticunderground (@celticrumours) July 10, 2023
At Ibrox the away support have to be in place two hours before kick-off for the dubious pleasure of being surrounded on all sides with a dodgy CCTV system offering little protection.
Without any explanation Celtic refused tickets for the second Ibrox fixture of last season- the spotlight is now on Michael Nicholson due to James Bisgrove setting the agenda.
For this Editor anything that diminishes the gory allure of the Glasgow Derby is to be welcomed but there are plenty of Celtic fans that want to be at Ibrox regardless of circumstances to lend their support.
Please leave comments in the box provided, there is a variety of views on how the diminishing ticket allocations should be handled.
Good. And give neither of them tickets for CP.
— Celtic Symphony (@DM8883) July 10, 2023
No
We need our people there
Also it’s bargaining leverage
Give us 800 tickets – we’ll take them
— DrSeanJHudd (@S_J_H1978) July 10, 2023
Celtic now need to give serious thought to finding a way out the Scottish League! It makes a mockery of an already poor setup, when Celtics 2 biggest away games are sabotaged for the travelling fans. Really, really poor
— Graeme McQuade (@GMcQ29) July 10, 2023
700 may aswell be none. Saves all the fking about having to go in 2 hours before and getting boxed in by cops etc.
Decent allocation or fk it.
— JC 🍀 (@1888_JC) July 10, 2023
Quite right, there is no way to ensure the safety of 700 fans in either from an access, egress or when in the ground.
— Pud (@pd71pud) July 10, 2023
