Celtic Diary Friday March 25: Let Us Down Easy

The Celtic board capitulated yesterday and accepted an offer of 700 tickets for the next league fixture at Ibrox, allowing a PR victory for their under pressure business partners at Ibrox.

A complete u turn on the previous thinking of only a week or two ago.

The Ibrox club/company got to start this particular issue, and we allowed them to finish it on their own terms.

Seems like they get whatever they want as Scottish football does it’s best to placate them.

Former CEO Lawwell may have been a key part in bringing Ange Postecoglou to the club, or at least a key part of the mechanism that brought him, but his true legacy is that the current board have exactly the same sense of purpose when it comes to keeping alive the Old Firm brand.

Tickets will be offered in the first instance to those massively inconvenienced when they couldn’t go back in 2020.

When the last meeting of the season rolls around, don’t be surprised if Celtic up the away allocation after pressure from their business partners, and try to sell it to us as giving us back that special atmosphere, which in turn will delight Sky TV, who despite only throwing a few pennies towards us, hold way too much sway over our game.

Well, there’s a cheery start to the weekend.

Still, pop babe Miley Cyrus was unhurt when her lane was struck by lightning, so I suppose these things balance each other out.

Things do balance each other out most of the time.

The international week has seen an injury to recent signing Jonny Kenny, who was stretchered off playing for Ireland’s u19 side, but he is expected to recover before his debut next season. But it does mean he’ll miss the match at Ibrox.

Alfredo Morelos , the chunky forward at Ibrox…so chunky now that he rolls around the pitch rather than run, hasn’t been selected for the Colombian national team, despite travelling with the squad.

Apparently, he has a muscle overload , which is defined as

Put simply, overload is what makes your muscles grow. The only way your body changes is if the muscles are taxed to the point where they must grow stronger to lift that weight. Overload causes the muscle fibers to become strong enough to handle the extra resistance  

A polite way of saying he’s a fat trump.

That means there is a doubt over him appearing in the next match as well, which is a shame as he provides much mirth and even greater girth.

the Record described the situation as

Alfredo Morelos in Rangers injury sweat for Celtic clash as ‘muscle overload’ rules him out for Colombia

Presumably, thats a lot of sweat …..

Meanwhile, one or two of us have noticed that Karamoke Dembele is more involved with the team than we could have expected for a player who is out of contract at the end of the season.

Especially as Ange Postecoglou has stated he only wants to work with people who want to work with him.

Could this mean that he’s merely in the shop window, or does it mean that the player has decided his future lies with the club ?

How the fuck am i supposed to know ?

I thought we weren’t getting any Ibrox briefs.

Anyhoo, the signs and sounds from Lennoxtown are that Dembele has changed his attitude and as such is now in the managers plans, but as to whether he’ll stay or not ?

Well, he has forced his way into the squad….

Those of us who are considering a wee break now that the government has decided to export Coronavirus, possibly the only growth industry left under their disastrous twelve year reign, might want to look at where we watch the upcoming games.

One particular bar has attracted a bit of attention on social media…

Well, quite a lot of attention….

It seems the establishment is happy to show Celtic games, and earn a bob or two from them, but would rather his own favourites , didn’t…..

It’s in a place called Fuengirola, which is near some of the more popular holiday spots…

I’d find somewhere a wee bit more friendly to take a refreshment….despite their overtures, it seems quite dark beneath.

Friday, of course, means it’s time for the Etims

Knob of the Week

And it was close this week, real close.

Celtic site Hail Hail 67 did a bit of digging, and found that one particular pundit, the articulate and intelligent Kris Boyd, had written back in July.

“Ange Postecoglou has no authority at Celtic, no backing, no support from the board — and virtually no chance of being successful. Right now, if I was him I’d pack my bags and go. Postecoglou might as well hand in his resignation and take himself back to Australia. 

Bearing this in mind, it can’t be long before he succeeds the visionary Hugh Keevins at Radio Clyde, a man also known for his exceptional insight.

But as Boyd write those comments some time ago, he doesn’t qualify to be a knob this week, but i’m sure he’ll bounce back soon.

No, the accolade has to go to the flexible new CEO at Celtic, Michael Nicholson.

Celtic are projecting an image of being a secondary partner in a partnership that none of their customers or shareholders want to be in.

What we have seen is that showing weakness, as the BBC, the media, the SFA and the SPFL have done to whichever entity pays the bills  ( sort of ) at Ibrox always ends in tears.

Michael Nicholson is this weeks Etims

 Knob of the Week  

He needs to take that message on board, because I don’t want to have to repeat myself.

Yesterday, we had this…

Una 

 Young African kids get to see the caged zoo animal belonging to the queen  

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