I’m led to understand that the Saints have a decent enough support this season and feel they can do this without adversely affecting their budget. Truly?
As my brother Craig Henderson pointed out, not one of his entourage – lifelong home and away stalwarts at Parkhead – managed to snag a brief for this tussle. The lads reckon there will still be empty seats among the black-and-white support whilst transmitting those dull, embarrassing scenes across the footballing globe-shamefully.
We witnessed this annoying trend play out at Easter Road last week as Hibernian were played off the park by Brendan Rodgers’ Champions-elect, (according to Paddy Power). The Hibees in their wisdom draped huge tarps over a huge section of the stand normally reserved for away fans, losing thousands of pounds in revenue.
Their bosom brothers, Hearts have not been slow to demonstrate their abject hatred for Celtic fans over many years by adopting this bizarre strategy in a bid to…what?
Kilmarnock, Motherwell, A.N.Other…They claim they don’t wish to be outnumbered and outsung by a clearly superior brand of support despite the fact that they cannot fill their own stands, so they prevent others doing so in a petulant and childish manner.
First and foremost, they owe their fans a duty of care in tending to their club’s finances – the club cash is generated by the support, not the board of directors. The suits have no right to deny vital funds to the people who prop up their huge salaries week-in, week-out, despite their clear bitterness against CelticSecondly, they have no right to accuse Celtic of Lording it over them with cash riches if they choose to deny bread-and-butter resources to their own; it is hypocritical in the extreme, but I don’t hear their props in the stands complaining..
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