The Celtic Fans Do Not Want It
This is the big one, right off.
Although little enclaves of Celtic supporters around the world might think bringing a Sevco game to their doorstep is an exciting idea, those of us who live here and understand the politics and the emotions better – and who buy season tickets and the bulk of the merchandise – are simply not interested in it at all.
We have to play this mob four times next season, at a minimum.
We’ll live with that because, frankly, we’ve got no other choice.
They got to the SPL and that means we have to deal with them as we would any other club.
But that’s where it ends.
The appetite for playing them again?
In a match where we’re not compelled to?
We’d rather not.
The so-called rivalry is something we no longer recognise. The “Old Firm” tag is one that for years we didn’t want. It slaps the two clubs together, two heads of the same coin, and I don’t know a single Celtic supporter – not one – who is comfortable with that idea.
On top of this, Stillitano talks about how the game would not raise any safety concerns because the less pleasant aspects of it would be diluted by a foreign audience.
That’s nice for him and for them, with the Atlantic Ocean between him and the mayhem, and it would be just peachy for fans in, say, Miami or wherever to go and watch it … but I’m confident that if the Wembley plan looked like it would go ahead that the Met would have something to say on it (nothing good) and that the chaos in Glasgow and elsewhere would be typical.
Jammed together, then, in a rivalry built on hate, and the promotion of that rivalry and that hate just to sell tickets for a friendly tournament?
No, no, thrice no.
Not interested. Not even remotely.
The idea offends me, actually, and I suspect it offends a lot of other Celtic supporters.
