Former Crystal Place owner and TalkSport pundit Simon Jordan hit the nail on the head when talking about the current ticket allocation issues for Glasgow Derbies.
The pundit branded the current lock out as a ‘tragedy’, but lay the blame for the issues at the door of the Ibrox club.
Jordan said he was up in Glasgow 18 months ago and the sentiment was very much that the ibrox club had taken the hump after Celtic kept getting the better of their rivals at Ibrox.
Under Brendan Rodgers, Celtic racked up win after win at the home of their rivals. Celtic fans partying in the stands time and time again. It got to the point they couldn’t take it any more and decided to cut the allocation down to the bear minimum without any conversations with Celtic.
It was a pathetic move, and it’s even more pathetic now the media in this country put this down as a tit for tat exercise – when it’s anything but that!
Jordan told TalkSport: “That’s a tragedy.
“We were up there 18 months ago and the sentiment, I was being led to believe, was that Celtic players were celebrating so many times at Ibrox that Rangers got the hump with it. Or the other way round it might’ve been, might’ve been Rangers celebrating so many times at Celtic. No, it would’ve been Celtic wouldn’t it?”
There will be no away fans in the stadium for home and away derbies between now and the end of the season.
Celtic wanted the full allocation back or they could not accept the paltry number of briefs in the corner of Ibrox where Celtic fans were subjected to vile attacks from the stand above. At least one fan needing stitches at the last game between the two in Govan when a bottle was thrown at his head.
