Another great interview , Adam was actually a guy I often thought Celtic might take a chance on but he had a good career , I had no idea he broke in at stoke so well so young, it’s a shame Tony Pulis didn’t bother his arse with kids but Hes made his career on being good for a few months every few season
Did you have a bus to catch Si, wound up the interview rather quickly or was Rooney on double time after 2 hours ?, Great interview tho, disappointed Derek McInnes didn't take him aside in his last few months at Aberdeen and explain that he wasn't going to be 1st choice.
The Zulu warriors were a football hooligans group back in 80s si, not sure if there’s still a group of ultras at Birmingham call themselves that still but aren’t the original hooligan group
5 WAYS CELTIC PARK SHOULD BE UPGRADED! 🍀 Celtic Park is one of the best stadiums in world football, with the atmosphere being among the elite. However there are certain ways in which we could still improve the stadium. Here's what I would do if I was Peter Lawwell... UPGRADE STADIUM CAPACITY This is probably one of the biggest and most obvious changes that needs to be made. Celtic Park's current official capacity is 60,411. This season Celtic reported that they swiftly sold out their 55,000 season ticket allocation, however despite these incredible numbers, they also reported that there is a 17,000 fans still on the waiting list! Now according to Celtic's website they say "Secure your place for the 2020/21 season now with Adult Season Tickets priced from £510". So let's say for arguments sake those 17,000 ST's are sold at £510 each (some cheaper - children, some more expensive depending on location of seat). If we sold those 17,000 ST's at £510 each that works out at a staggering £8.67 Million! That would pay for the improvements in one season surely! Two max. Celtic Park's capacity should be upgraded to 80/85,000! The additional Season Ticket revenue would be insane and if we have one of the best atmosphere's in world football at 60,000 fans, imagine our atmosphere at 85,000! EXTEND RAIL SEATING Celtic in 2016 revolutionised Celtic Park when they added a rail-seating section with a capacity of 3,000. It's been phenomenal. It's fair to say that at some smaller home matches the atmosphere can be somewhat flat and far from what you imagine Celtic Park to be. Rail-seating however has majorly boosted that with the allocation being sold-out and yet another waiting list being formed. We should extend this rail-seating to however much is realistically possible. I know from a personal perspective I much prefer standing at football matches and it is a very popular option among the fans so would have no trouble selling out! The dream would be to take inspiration from Borussia Dortmund and their Signal Iduna Park with their famous 'Yellow Wall'. I understand this is probably slightly unrealistic, certainly for the time being, however it certainly is possible to increase the rail-seating capacity as it has already been discussed at the club! UPGRADE THE CHANGING ROOMS A team's changing room for me should be the staple of their stadium. It's where the players will spend so much time both before, during and after games. When I first saw the Celtic home dressing room I was left severely disappointed. It's just an ordinary changing that you'd find in a public high school with some old wooden benches. I don't really know what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn't that! My favourite dressing room, and the one I would like us to emulate, is that of Atlético Madrid in the spectacular new 'Wanda Metropolitano' Stadium. If you haven't already seen it, quickly Google it now. It's a more spacious, luxurious, modernised hub that you would expect for a top professional football team. It's got slightly dimmed lighting (almost like a cinema) but it is illuminated in Atlético's colours. There is a massive illuminated Atlético badge in the middle of the ceiling, with an LED-ring going round it. The seats look like luxurious leather chairs (a far cry from our cupboard with old scabby benches) and each player has an illuminated board above their station with a picture of them in their home kit and their number on it. It looks incredible. (Porto's changing rooms also look similarly modernised and amazing, check them out too!) I'm not sure how far a modernised, luxurious changing room would go in terms of attracting higher-end players, but it certainly wouldn't hurt! Not only that but is would just raise the profile of the stadium in general and make it more of the grand spectacle that Celtic Park should be! The best part is that it wouldn't even cost that much! I'm sure for a few hundred thousand you could EASILY completely revamp our changing rooms into a far more grand occasion. I mean c'mon. You would never walk into the LA Lakers changing room or the Dallas Cowboys and find a tiny cupboard with some dated-looking benches as their changing room, would you? GREEN UNDER-GLOW The three previous suggestions are facts. They would make Celtic Park a more attractive stadium. This one however is slightly more of an opinion. We go back to Germany again for the inspiration, but this time to Borussia Mönchengladbach. Going back to 2016 when we were drawn against the German outfit in the group stages of the Champions League, one of the things which stood out to me was their stadium. It was excellent. The main thing which caught my eye however was the green under-glow which they had installed underneath the roof of the stadium. It looked brilliant and gave the stadium a real modern vibe about it. I seem to recall lots of other Celtic fans saying the same thing! The reason I say that this is more of a personal opinion/taste though is that some people may feel that adding too much green to the stadium may seem almost tacky. This is obviously a feature in which we would only really see at night time but I understand that Celtic Park at night is almost perfect, with the black-out crowd and the torches on the phones lighting the stadium up is wonderful. Would the green under-glow ruin this? Possibly. GREEN GOAL NETS They look cool and it would practically be free. No more needs said. WILDCARD SUGGESTION This isn't something that is directly upgrading the stadium, but more taking advantage of its beauty. For me, Celtic Park at night is the most beautiful stadium in the world. From the 'Celtic Way' being lit up with the team buses arriving down it, to the outside of the stadium being lit-up in green, to the world-renowned atmosphere inside. The cold Glaswegian air making it even more special for me. Sadly however we only ever get to take advantage of this in Europe. League games are never scheduled for say 7:45 on a Saturday night. Maybe 5:30 during the winter when it gets dark earlier. I'm aware this is probably because travel arrangements may be slightly more awkward for travelling fans, but with the Celtic hotel hopefully getting constructed in the near future, that would make staying overnight easier. A night time kick off would just make for a far more special atmosphere, enhancing the sometimes flat games against smaller league opposition. Just a suggestion though! Thanks for reading and please let me know if there’s any additional upgrades you would like to see at Celtic Park! HH 🍀
5 REASONS THE OLD FIRM SHOULD MOVE TO THE EFL (SUMMARISED VERSION) 🍀🏴🐻🇬🇧 COMPETITION: * Every single team in the SPFL play 10 men behind the ball, it’s boring and does not test our defensive capabilities in anyway * 5-0 thumping’s are commonly dished out by the Old Firm and nobody bats an eyelid - teaches us nothing * Our horrific standard of domestic football is one of the reasons we have failed to make the UCL group stages three seasons in a row - You wouldn’t go from running around your neighbourhood once at night to doing a full marathon the next week, would you? You’d consistently attempt marathon-type distances to prepare you for the marathon. Going from 10 men behind the ball against St Mirren to playing AEK Athens in Greece in a £30-40m UCL play-off match 5 days later is doing that. A consistently higher level of domestic football would do us wonders and would prepare us far better for the tougher, important matches FINANCIAL REWARD: * Fulham will receive £166,000,000 (before gate receipts and merchandise sales) for winning the play-off final and gaining promotion to the Premier League - imagine what Celtic and Rangers could do with the kind of cash GK: Fraser Forster 🏴 CB: Filip Benković 🇭🇷 CB: Virgil Van Dijk 🇳🇱 CB: Jason Denayer 🇧🇪 CM: Callum McGregor 🏴 CM: Olivier Ntcham 🇫🇷 LM: Kieran Tierney 🏴 RM: Karamoko Dembele 🏴 CAM: Mohamed Elyounoussi 🇳🇴 ST: Odsonne Édouard 🇫🇷 ST: Moussa Dembélé 🇫🇷 * This is is the kind of team we could build if we had PL income. Possibly even better. No longer would we be a selling club! FANS/ATMOSPHERE: * Celtic and Rangers have the two best/most passionate supports/atmospheres in British football. Even in the world. * Celtic sold 55,000 season tickets this year with a 17,000 waiting list. Rangers sold around 50,000 ST’s with a similarly big waiting list * Rangers broke the world record for getting an attendance of 49,118 to a FOURTH division match vs East Stirlingshire in 2012. (Season average of 45,744 which is also a record) * Away fans are also the two best in the UK. See video’s of Celtic/Rangers away days for reference. Watch Rangers away to Sheffield Wednesday in 2017 to get an idea of the away support we’d bring to England - would be even better for a competitive match/bigger opposition * Celtic Park and Ibrox would the epitome of a fortress - our home record(s) would be brilliant TO SILENCE THE ENGLISH/PUNDITS: * Our game constantly talked down by English fans and pundits, despite our record against English teams being good UEFA Champions League Group Stage 2016 🏴 CELTIC 3 - 3 Manchester City 🏴 🏴 Manchester City 1 - 1 CELTIC 🏴 (Pep Guardiola had yet to drop a single point with Man City until he faced Celtic - Celtic broke Pep’s 100% record) Dafabet Cup/Friendly 2017 🏴 Sunderland 0 - 5 Celtic 🏴 (Celtic played a ‘B Team’ whilst Sunderland were their full-strength Premier League team) Friendlies 2013 - 2016 🏴 CELTIC 1 - 1 Leicester City 🏴 (Leicester just crowned Premier League Champions) 🏴 Brentford 1 - 2 CELTIC 🏴 Friendlies 2017-19 🏴 Sheffield Wednesday 0 - 2 RANGERS 🏴 🏴 RANGERS 1 - 1 Blackburn 🏴 🏴 RANGERS 1 - 0 Derby County 🏴 UEFA Europa League Qualifiers 2018 🏴 ABERDEEN 1 - 1 Burnley 🏴 🏴 Burnley 1 - 1 ABERDEEN 🏴 Or if you’d like to go further back to times before SKY/Oil money came about... UEFA Champions League Group Stage 2006 🏴 CELTIC 1 - 0 Manchester United 🏴 🏴 Manchester United 3 - 2 CELTIC 🏴 UEFA Cup 2003 🏴 Celtic 1 - 1 Liverpool 🏴 🏴 Liverpool 0 - 2 CELTIC 🏴 UEFA Cup 2002 🏴 CELTIC 1 - 0 Blackburn 🏴 🏴 Blackburn 0 - 2 CELTIC 🏴 UEFA Cup 1997 🏴 CELTIC 2 - 2 Liverpool 🏴 🏴 Liverpool 0 - 0 CELTIC 🏴 UFEA Champions League 2nd Round 1992 🏴 RANGERS 2 - 1 Leeds United 🏴 🏴 Leeds United 1 - 2 RANGERS 🏴 * Bearing in mind we’ve achieved these results working on a budget of a tenner compared to these clubs - imagine what we’d do if our finances were equal or even superior! ALLOW OUR CLUBS TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL: * Celtic and Rangers are footballing institutions - We’re far too big for the Scottish Premiership. You wouldn’t keep two Great White’s in a small pond * When Kieran Tierney left Celtic for Arsenal, he didn’t leave because he wanted to go to a bigger CLUB, he left because he wanted to go to a bigger LEAGUE. It’s the same with Moussa Dembélé and Lyon, the same with Virgil Van Dijk and Southampton! I mean c’mon, you didn’t really think Van Dijk left playing in front of 60,000 of the best fans in the world and playing European football with Celtic because he thought mid-table Southampton were a bigger club, did you? Of course not! He left because the Premier League is a far greater attraction than the Scottish Premiership and he got a bigger wage! So you would take away the league and money aspect from the likes of Southampton over us, and it would purely come down to the club. A player would chose us 10 times out of 10 over 99% of the teams in England So to summarise, combine everything I’ve just said. The bigger league, the bigger finances, the superior fans/stadium, the better history and the first class youth systems. It would be a no-brainer! Every player would want to play for the Old Firm in the English leagues! We’d be top 4 within 5 seasons. (Celtic would be at least). To any English fan reading this (thank you first and foremost), surely you would rather have Celtic and Rangers your league rather than say, Cardiff and Swansea? Away days to Celtic Park and Ibrox over the Liberty Stadium and the Millennium stadium? (Could be wrong with those Welsh stadium names - no one really gives a f***)
Rooney, Hayes and mcginn were aberdeens holy trinity
got to get greegsy on would be some interview
Rooney sounds like John fury on a mixture of speed & helium 🤔
Didnae even know the guy was Irish until i heard him speak here. Good interview, decent career.
Another great interview , Adam was actually a guy I often thought Celtic might take a chance on but he had a good career , I had no idea he broke in at stoke so well so young, it’s a shame Tony Pulis didn’t bother his arse with kids but Hes made his career on being good for a few months every few season
Did you have a bus to catch Si, wound up the interview rather quickly or was Rooney on double time after 2 hours ?, Great interview tho, disappointed Derek McInnes didn't take him aside in his last few months at Aberdeen and explain that he wasn't going to be 1st choice.
wnen is write in the coupon back ???
The Zulu warriors were a football hooligans group back in 80s si, not sure if there’s still a group of ultras at Birmingham call themselves that still but aren’t the original hooligan group
Keep it up 👍 Simon
Top bloke
Tremendous again young man 😉👌👍
Tremendous
Class si
Asking Rooney about the Zulus! haha!
Class again .. be better if they’re was subtitles that accent is thick as fuck lol
Didn't understand a word
5 WAYS CELTIC PARK SHOULD BE UPGRADED! 🍀
Celtic Park is one of the best stadiums in world football, with the atmosphere being among the elite. However there are certain ways in which we could still improve the stadium. Here's what I would do if I was Peter Lawwell...
UPGRADE STADIUM CAPACITY
This is probably one of the biggest and most obvious changes that needs to be made. Celtic Park's current official capacity is 60,411. This season Celtic reported that they swiftly sold out their 55,000 season ticket allocation, however despite these incredible numbers, they also reported that there is a 17,000 fans still on the waiting list!
Now according to Celtic's website they say "Secure your place for the 2020/21 season now with Adult Season Tickets priced from £510". So let's say for arguments sake those 17,000 ST's are sold at £510 each (some cheaper - children, some more expensive depending on location of seat). If we sold those 17,000 ST's at £510 each that works out at a staggering £8.67 Million! That would pay for the improvements in one season surely! Two max.
Celtic Park's capacity should be upgraded to 80/85,000! The additional Season Ticket revenue would be insane and if we have one of the best atmosphere's in world football at 60,000 fans, imagine our atmosphere at 85,000!
EXTEND RAIL SEATING
Celtic in 2016 revolutionised Celtic Park when they added a rail-seating section with a capacity of 3,000. It's been phenomenal. It's fair to say that at some smaller home matches the atmosphere can be somewhat flat and far from what you imagine Celtic Park to be. Rail-seating however has majorly boosted that with the allocation being sold-out and yet another waiting list being formed.
We should extend this rail-seating to however much is realistically possible. I know from a personal perspective I much prefer standing at football matches and it is a very popular option among the fans so would have no trouble selling out! The dream would be to take inspiration from Borussia Dortmund and their Signal Iduna Park with their famous 'Yellow Wall'. I understand this is probably slightly unrealistic, certainly for the time being, however it certainly is possible to increase the rail-seating capacity as it has already been discussed at the club!
UPGRADE THE CHANGING ROOMS
A team's changing room for me should be the staple of their stadium. It's where the players will spend so much time both before, during and after games. When I first saw the Celtic home dressing room I was left severely disappointed. It's just an ordinary changing that you'd find in a public high school with some old wooden benches. I don't really know what I was expecting, but it certainly wasn't that!
My favourite dressing room, and the one I would like us to emulate, is that of Atlético Madrid in the spectacular new 'Wanda Metropolitano' Stadium. If you haven't already seen it, quickly Google it now. It's a more spacious, luxurious, modernised hub that you would expect for a top professional football team. It's got slightly dimmed lighting (almost like a cinema) but it is illuminated in Atlético's colours. There is a massive illuminated Atlético badge in the middle of the ceiling, with an LED-ring going round it. The seats look like luxurious leather chairs (a far cry from our cupboard with old scabby benches) and each player has an illuminated board above their station with a picture of them in their home kit and their number on it. It looks incredible. (Porto's changing rooms also look similarly modernised and amazing, check them out too!)
I'm not sure how far a modernised, luxurious changing room would go in terms of attracting higher-end players, but it certainly wouldn't hurt! Not only that but is would just raise the profile of the stadium in general and make it more of the grand spectacle that Celtic Park should be! The best part is that it wouldn't even cost that much! I'm sure for a few hundred thousand you could EASILY completely revamp our changing rooms into a far more grand occasion. I mean c'mon. You would never walk into the LA Lakers changing room or the Dallas Cowboys and find a tiny cupboard with some dated-looking benches as their changing room, would you?
GREEN UNDER-GLOW
The three previous suggestions are facts. They would make Celtic Park a more attractive stadium. This one however is slightly more of an opinion. We go back to Germany again for the inspiration, but this time to Borussia Mönchengladbach.
Going back to 2016 when we were drawn against the German outfit in the group stages of the Champions League, one of the things which stood out to me was their stadium. It was excellent. The main thing which caught my eye however was the green under-glow which they had installed underneath the roof of the stadium. It looked brilliant and gave the stadium a real modern vibe about it. I seem to recall lots of other Celtic fans saying the same thing!
The reason I say that this is more of a personal opinion/taste though is that some people may feel that adding too much green to the stadium may seem almost tacky. This is obviously a feature in which we would only really see at night time but I understand that Celtic Park at night is almost perfect, with the black-out crowd and the torches on the phones lighting the stadium up is wonderful. Would the green under-glow ruin this? Possibly.
GREEN GOAL NETS
They look cool and it would practically be free. No more needs said.
WILDCARD SUGGESTION
This isn't something that is directly upgrading the stadium, but more taking advantage of its beauty. For me, Celtic Park at night is the most beautiful stadium in the world. From the 'Celtic Way' being lit up with the team buses arriving down it, to the outside of the stadium being lit-up in green, to the world-renowned atmosphere inside. The cold Glaswegian air making it even more special for me.
Sadly however we only ever get to take advantage of this in Europe. League games are never scheduled for say 7:45 on a Saturday night. Maybe 5:30 during the winter when it gets dark earlier. I'm aware this is probably because travel arrangements may be slightly more awkward for travelling fans, but with the Celtic hotel hopefully getting constructed in the near future, that would make staying overnight easier. A night time kick off would just make for a far more special atmosphere, enhancing the sometimes flat games against smaller league opposition. Just a suggestion though!
Thanks for reading and please let me know if there’s any additional upgrades you would like to see at Celtic Park! HH 🍀
Any chance you two jokers can come back to swindon again ?
First
5 REASONS THE OLD FIRM SHOULD MOVE TO THE EFL (SUMMARISED VERSION) 🍀🏴🐻🇬🇧
COMPETITION:
* Every single team in the SPFL play 10 men behind the ball, it’s boring and does not test our defensive capabilities in anyway
* 5-0 thumping’s are commonly dished out by the Old Firm and nobody bats an eyelid - teaches us nothing
* Our horrific standard of domestic football is one of the reasons we have failed to make the UCL group stages three seasons in a row - You wouldn’t go from running around your neighbourhood once at night to doing a full marathon the next week, would you? You’d consistently attempt marathon-type distances to prepare you for the marathon. Going from 10 men behind the ball against St Mirren to playing AEK Athens in Greece in a £30-40m UCL play-off match 5 days later is doing that. A consistently higher level of domestic football would do us wonders and would prepare us far better for the tougher, important matches
FINANCIAL REWARD:
* Fulham will receive £166,000,000 (before gate receipts and merchandise sales) for winning the play-off final and gaining promotion to the Premier League - imagine what Celtic and Rangers could do with the kind of cash
GK: Fraser Forster 🏴
CB: Filip Benković 🇭🇷
CB: Virgil Van Dijk 🇳🇱
CB: Jason Denayer 🇧🇪
CM: Callum McGregor 🏴
CM: Olivier Ntcham 🇫🇷
LM: Kieran Tierney 🏴
RM: Karamoko Dembele 🏴
CAM: Mohamed Elyounoussi 🇳🇴
ST: Odsonne Édouard 🇫🇷
ST: Moussa Dembélé 🇫🇷
* This is is the kind of team we could build if we had PL income. Possibly even better. No longer would we be a selling club!
FANS/ATMOSPHERE:
* Celtic and Rangers have the two best/most passionate supports/atmospheres in British football. Even in the world.
* Celtic sold 55,000 season tickets this year with a 17,000 waiting list. Rangers sold around 50,000 ST’s with a similarly big waiting list
* Rangers broke the world record for getting an attendance of 49,118 to a FOURTH division match vs East Stirlingshire in 2012. (Season average of 45,744 which is also a record)
* Away fans are also the two best in the UK. See video’s of Celtic/Rangers away days for reference. Watch Rangers away to Sheffield Wednesday in 2017 to get an idea of the away support we’d bring to England - would be even better for a competitive match/bigger opposition
* Celtic Park and Ibrox would the epitome of a fortress - our home record(s) would be brilliant
TO SILENCE THE ENGLISH/PUNDITS:
* Our game constantly talked down by English fans and pundits, despite our record against English teams being good
UEFA Champions League Group Stage 2016
🏴 CELTIC 3 - 3 Manchester City 🏴
🏴 Manchester City 1 - 1 CELTIC 🏴
(Pep Guardiola had yet to drop a single point with Man City until he faced Celtic - Celtic broke Pep’s 100% record)
Dafabet Cup/Friendly 2017
🏴 Sunderland 0 - 5 Celtic 🏴
(Celtic played a ‘B Team’ whilst Sunderland were their full-strength Premier League team)
Friendlies 2013 - 2016
🏴 CELTIC 1 - 1 Leicester City 🏴 (Leicester just crowned Premier League Champions)
🏴 Brentford 1 - 2 CELTIC 🏴
Friendlies 2017-19
🏴 Sheffield Wednesday 0 - 2 RANGERS 🏴
🏴 RANGERS 1 - 1 Blackburn 🏴
🏴 RANGERS 1 - 0 Derby County 🏴
UEFA Europa League Qualifiers 2018
🏴 ABERDEEN 1 - 1 Burnley 🏴
🏴 Burnley 1 - 1 ABERDEEN 🏴
Or if you’d like to go further back to times before SKY/Oil money came about...
UEFA Champions League Group Stage 2006
🏴 CELTIC 1 - 0 Manchester United 🏴
🏴 Manchester United 3 - 2 CELTIC 🏴
UEFA Cup 2003
🏴 Celtic 1 - 1 Liverpool 🏴
🏴 Liverpool 0 - 2 CELTIC 🏴
UEFA Cup 2002
🏴 CELTIC 1 - 0 Blackburn 🏴
🏴 Blackburn 0 - 2 CELTIC 🏴
UEFA Cup 1997
🏴 CELTIC 2 - 2 Liverpool 🏴
🏴 Liverpool 0 - 0 CELTIC 🏴
UFEA Champions League 2nd Round 1992
🏴 RANGERS 2 - 1 Leeds United 🏴
🏴 Leeds United 1 - 2 RANGERS 🏴
* Bearing in mind we’ve achieved these results working on a budget of a tenner compared to these clubs - imagine what we’d do if our finances were equal or even superior!
ALLOW OUR CLUBS TO REACH THEIR FULL POTENTIAL:
* Celtic and Rangers are footballing institutions - We’re far too big for the Scottish Premiership. You wouldn’t keep two Great White’s in a small pond
* When Kieran Tierney left Celtic for Arsenal, he didn’t leave because he wanted to go to a bigger CLUB, he left because he wanted to go to a bigger LEAGUE. It’s the same with Moussa Dembélé and Lyon, the same with Virgil Van Dijk and Southampton! I mean c’mon, you didn’t really think Van Dijk left playing in front of 60,000 of the best fans in the world and playing European football with Celtic because he thought mid-table Southampton were a bigger club, did you? Of course not! He left because the Premier League is a far greater attraction than the Scottish Premiership and he got a bigger wage! So you would take away the league and money aspect from the likes of Southampton over us, and it would purely come down to the club. A player would chose us 10 times out of 10 over 99% of the teams in England
So to summarise, combine everything I’ve just said. The bigger league, the bigger finances, the superior fans/stadium, the better history and the first class youth systems. It would be a no-brainer! Every player would want to play for the Old Firm in the English leagues! We’d be top 4 within 5 seasons. (Celtic would be at least).
To any English fan reading this (thank you first and foremost), surely you would rather have Celtic and Rangers your league rather than say, Cardiff and Swansea? Away days to Celtic Park and Ibrox over the Liberty Stadium and the Millennium stadium? (Could be wrong with those Welsh stadium names - no one really gives a f***)