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Celtic Must Not Give Sevco A Full Ticket Allocation For Celtic Park If Ours Is Cut At Ibrox.

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This one has been lingering in my in-tray for about a week now; “Have I heard anything about Celtic giving Sevco their full allocation to Celtic Park?”

The answer is no. I know there was an article from Joe at the CSA on this matter, asking fans for their opinions but my thoughts on that are the same, I’m sure, as most of yours; “What’s still to decide here? What good will our opinions do?”

If Sevco is cutting Celtic’s allocation for the Vomitorium then our response kicks in automatically; that’s what I was led to believe. They announced what they’d done, and in keeping with what I expected we announced a reciprocal policy.

Simple as that. Nothing left to debate.

Or is there? Because now I hear that Celtic is really asking this, they really want fan opinion on it, they really want to know. And I ask again; “What’s there to decide?”

This is not a complicated matter. They have deliberately disenfranchised thousands of our supporters. They have done this in part out of sheer spite. There’s nothing to debate as far as I’m concerned. We respond in kind to that, as we would with any other club.

It’s the mealy-mouthed tone of this that concerns me; “Should we be above that?” is one such example of it.

Above what? Treating people as they treat us?

We should “act like the big club here” is another.

And big clubs allow smaller clubs to take the piss do they?

Save those arguments. They are transparently weak.

I mean, are we mugs here? Are we to let people walk all over us, these Peepul in particular?

This is Dave King we’re talking about here.

Are we supposed to hand that sneering crook another PR windfall?

To do what? To claim some moral high-ground?

Utter nonsense. Sell that crap somewhere else.

Does King just get to take a shot like this and slip away without any comeback?

The idea that we should give them 7000 tickets and get the money up front, as some have suggested, that’s just nonsense as well.

What, are we going to tip them over the edge with that are we?

You want to talk about action that will look snide and petty and drop us to their level?

That would do it.

Giving them 7000 or more tickets hands them a win, and it doesn’t matter how it’s dressed up. Moral victories are great in theory; in practice you’re tying one hand behind your back and inviting people to laugh at you.

Where’s the gain in looking like fools, in being seen to be fools?

If the police tell the two clubs that an allocation cut to that level leaves fans vulnerable and is unenforceable and reverses Sevco’s decision then fair enough. If Sevco gets back enough of its own common sense to not play these shitty games and decides to continue as the clubs always have then that too is fair enough and it’s everyone back to their corners.

Otherwise what are we discussing here except a climbdown?

Cause that’s what this will be.

The vast majority of people I speak to wouldn’t have any of their supporters in our ground, period.

The one thing that stood in the way of removing them, or at least reducing their number to one that’s easier to police, easier to keep on top of, and therefore less likely to wreck parts of the ground, was that we get 7000 ticket for Ibrox.

The argument in favour of keeping things are they are has gone.

It’s been erased, and they erased it.

Having announced our intentions in the aftermath of that, we’re going to what?

Be charitable? Play nice? Do “the right thing?”

The right thing is to proceed exactly as we said we would, to treat these Peepul as they’ve treated us.

As they have treated us.

No better, no worse.

That’s proportional. It is sensible. It is fair. It is reasonable.

Anything else is a joke, and the joke is on us.

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