It seems that in a short few months the SPL has gone from Sell Out Saturday to Buy One Get One Free. For Celtic’s next two home games over the festive period, the SPL champs will be giving away two free tickets to 5000 “lucky” season ticket holders.
The official website states, “As a special festive thank you to all of our season ticket holders we’d like to offer you the chance to claim TWO complimentary tickets for use by friends or family at either our match at Celtic Park against St Mirren on Saturday, December 15 or the home game against Ross County on Saturday, December 22”. Aberdeen has also offered its season ticket holders a similar deal for their game against Kilmarnock in the SPL. This after both clubs offered their tickets for sale on Groupon, the online discount website deal of the day.
The boast that fans would flock back to an SPL without Rangers seems to have been nothing more than foolish bravado. Celtic’s home attendances are verging on the same levels as when the club went bust, and were bought over by Fergus McCann in 1994. Only this year’s Champions League money has kept the heating on at Celtic Park.
You would think that someone in the Scottish football press would highlight the state that the so-called top tier in Scottish Football has got itself into. But no one in the media seems to be brave enough to highlight the stupidity of the SPL chairmen who voted Rangers out of the league on the word of the fans of these clubs that they would return in numbers if the now discredited Sporting Integrity was upheld.
It appears the supporters of all these clubs were lying when they said they would back their clubs. The authorities who run the game in Scotland continue to stick their heads in the sand and ignore the fact that the SPL in Scotland is on life support and the plug may be getting pulled at any moment.
The reality now for the SPL clubs is that from next season there will be no need to purchase a season ticket. They got away with it this year as most season books were already sold prior to Rangers demotion to the third division. There hasn’t been a single “sold out” sign put up outside any game and the new challenges have failed to happen.
SPL chairmen must be feeling worried as they watch Celtic, with their Champions League money buy yet another SPL title and move into the comfort zone financially while they struggle to pay the bills. With Rangers in the third division and the SPL won before a ball is kicked, Celtic now have a clear run at the Champions League money each season that will probably keep the wolves from the door at Celtic Park. It seems Sporting Integrity only goes one way. Celtic CEO Peter Lawwell must be laughing all the way to the bank as he sits down to his Christmas lunch knowing that turkeys, at least those that run the SPL clubs, do indeed vote for Christmas.
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This guy is embarrassing.
“rangers demotion” do you know what liquidation means?
Its no wonder your chairman has removed comical ally from broadcasting i e his latest video.
He knows the level of fanbase he has to address.
What an embarrassment.Best year of my life as a
human being and celtic fan.