Bisgrove’s Latest Claims About Celtic Are More Disingenuous Spin From A Desperate Man.

James Bisgrove is in the headlines again, for talking about Celtic once more. I don’t know which outlet he was talking to or whether it was yet another meeting with the fans, but he’s repeated his “we shall not be moved from 5%” mantra, and he’s gone even further by claiming that the reason there were no fans at the derbies this season were issues relating to the stadiums, issues which are being rectified by some refurbishment work.

This is such dire nonsense that it’s infuriating to even have to knock it down. Celtic refused tickets for Ibrox because that ground is unsafe.

They were told they weren’t getting tickets for Celtic Park because they point blank refused to take that seriously. The suggestion he seems to be making here, that there were problems on both sides and that there was some sort of mutual decision not to let rival fans into the grounds is manifestly false.

And the reason you know it’s manifestly false is that his club confirmed that we had turned our tickets down when they went running to the SFA after we’d told them they weren’t getting any as a result of that.

There was nothing mutual about this. There were no “issues” on both sides, or any security problems with Celtic Park.

Let’s face it, if there had been, why did they scream and stamp their feet like children when they weren’t given any tickets? If those problems were so serious, the police themselves would have raised them. I know they’ve raised serious security concerns about Ibrox with the people running the show over there.

So what exactly is this all about? What’s Bisgrove up to?

Well, you have to remember, first and foremost, that this is a guy who has been humiliated by Celtic over this issue.

They were going to stick us with a lousy 700 tickets and they were adamant we would get no more.

They sold the season tickets for that end of the ground and this same guy who is telling them that they’ll not concede one more seat basically guaranteed their fans that they would be able to sit in their current ones and not worry about it.

And yet here we are, getting a European level allocation, which they did not want to give us, and those same fans are getting booted out of their seats to accommodate us.

He’s been made to look like a fool, and it seems to me that he’s determined to blow enough smoke that it covers that fact.

But the stuff he’s said here is so obviously contradicted by the facts that as far as I can see he’s only making himself look like an even bigger one.

Of course, the media has let him get away with that.

But none of the rest of us should, and even his own fans should demand that he shut up about it.

Because they know as well as we do that we’ve shown them up. We defied the SPFL over this and proved how powerless they were to stop us. But in doing it we also proved that those are Ibrox are essentially spineless as well. They stamped their feet, they made a lot of noise, but ultimately they rowed back from their extreme position and gave up ground, and everyone who is capable of looking at this reasonably knows that full well.

No higher than 5% though, eah?

We’ll see about that.