Longer term plans around stadium expansion with the preferred option to drop pitch which would add in roughly 4000 seats. No time scales given and all options still being explored.
Like the approach to football matters employed under Michael Nicholson the club does the bare minimum in every other area. If it isn’t broke why fix it seems to be the mantra but that approach is showing up all around the dilapidated stadium and the under utilised footprint.
That’s club-speak for police and stewards will once again be forming human barriers to prevent fans from leaving their section, all the while being spoken to like potential criminals.
What we were told beforehand would be “concourse ticket checks” turned out to be wave after wave of densely staffed and policed human barriers preventing fans moving around the stadium.
So money will have to be spent on it. And if you wanted to increase it from the current 7,000 up to 12,000 to make it up to 65,000, I suspect the cost is in excess of £100 million at least, at least. And to do that the club can…
It isn’t an exact science but between the bank account, a new share issue and some limited borrowing a new structure could be built in one year without impacting on the team.
They have the cash in the bank as well, they could introduce some modest debt if they had to, the same way as we did back in the day for the refurb (in 1987) that is now old so I absolutely reject any suggestion whatsoever that Celtic cannot afford to…
Following a popular theme in Celtic history the 23/24 title was clinched away from home with Rugby Park following on from Tynecastle and Tannadice over the previous two seasons.
Strangely with such demand Celtic don’t offer any type of Season Ticket resale scheme on a match by match basis, something that almost all EPL clubs have which expands ticket access.
The modern Celtic Park is well recorded in print with numerous images inside and outside the ground easily accessible on social media.