After some recent frustrations over away allocations, it was good to hear of a big Celtic support being welcomed at Easter Road.
Yesterday, I spoke about the slow death of the away day in Scottish football. Following Celtic on the road is harder than ever given the number of sides who have cut our allocation in recent times.
The Hoops faithful will make up just 576 of the souls inside Tynecastle when we visit there after the international break. The following weekend, we go to Hibernian and will have 3,591 fans there. (@CelticFCTickets on Twitter)
It’ll be the full South Stand for the Celtic support, hopefully roaring the team on to victory. They’ll be heard roughly seven times as loudly as the week prior.
The game at Easter Road is currently down for 3pm on Saturday 28 October. It has not been chosen for live coverage by Sky Sports, which may be down to the league’s rules on broadcasting more than anything but is disappointing regardless.
Our recent visit to Motherwell suffered the same fate. However, sensing an opportunity, the home side soon looked to move the match to an earlier 12:30pm kick-off so it could be shown on their pay-per-view service.
Celtic and the police agreed to the change and the kick-off time was moved 16 days prior to the match.
We are currently 17 days ahead of our visit to Hibernian and it remains to be seen whether the scheduling will be changed for this one. With Celtic’s agreement, Hibs could very easily move the kick-off time and put the game on pay-per-view.
It’s one to keep an eye on. At least, if the rest of us can’t watch it legally, we’ll still have a big support actually at the game.
In other news, SFA chief delivers disappointing Hampden news; explains why Celtic Park wasn’t chosen for Euro bid
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