Celtic Fans Watch With Interest As Dundee Get The Green Light To Play At Home.

Dundee’s pitch has been passed as fit for their game against the Ibrox club tomorrow night; this brings to an end the saga which certain people hoped would end in the game being played somewhere else without the home support behind them.

A dry day, and a forecast which looks pretty decent, along with a pitch inspection this afternoon, has seen the pitch get green-lit. This is good news for Celtic fans. For openers, that field is not going to be in great nick, even though it’s been deemed playable, and the Ibrox club is now facing the tough away fixture they had wanted to avoid.

The Ibrox club will go into that game tomorrow four points behind us, knowing that the slightest slip will almost certainly prove to be fatal.

The last thing they wanted was a game on a Wednesday night on a less than pristine playing surface, but that’s exactly what they’ve got. There was talk of moving it to Perth – which wouldn’t have been ideal, but a lot better than Ibrox’s breathtakingly cynical suggestion to move it to Paisley or even play it at their ground, in front of no fans.

Dundee will have the benefits of home field advantage and their own supporters in the ground. That’s all a team can ask for, and it’s all the rest of us can ask for as well. Sporting integrity is what got the green light today, not just a game of football.

We all understand there is a schedule to keep here, and that it has to be respected, at least to a point. But sporting integrity is best served by having the games played where they are supposed to be, to make sure that no team is disadvantaged.

Sporting integrity is important. That’s why I have to laugh at the people – mostly of a Sevconian persuasion – who are banging on about how Dundee should have sacrificed spending on their playing squad and sunk their money into the pitch.

These people make me laugh. Ibrox has been floating on a dirty river of directors’ loans for the past 10 years, and Rangers won its latter trophies by operating a tax fraud; they have some balls lecturing people on spending their money responsibly. How many companies did Rangers leave out of pocket when they went bust?

These people have got no shame whatsoever. Dundee re-laid their pitch at the start of the season, so it’s nonsense to say they’ve not spent properly on their infrastructure. The Ibrox club risked fan safety for years by setting aside ground repairs and other essential stuff … and for what? To finish behind Celtic regardless. They shouldn’t be lecturing anyone.