[h=1]Scottish League Cup final: Celtic Park hosts Aberdeen v Inverness[/h] Celtic Park will host the Scottish League Cup between Aberdeen and Inverness Caledonian Thistle on Sunday 16 March. Hampden Park is unavailable as the national stadium is being redeveloped for Glasgow's Commonwealth Games. Inverness beat Hearts on penalties to reach the final a day after Aberdeen had beaten St Johnstone in their semi-final on Saturday. Celtic's ground will also host the Scottish Cup final in May. Dons manager Derek McInnes had told BBC Scotland he hoped the final would be played in Glasgow. "I don't think anywhere else would be able to cope with it," he explained. "Whatever ground it is, hopefully it will be full of Aberdeen fans getting behind their team."
was reading over the weekend it could generate £1m, so you are not wrong there. Cant see how it could get anywhere near that level though?
They won't like this at all, they only have a couple of semis...otherwise known as Durrant and McCoist.
Probably just as well. Lennon would just waste it on some striker who couldn't score in an Aberdonian brothel.
Ibrox is falling to bits...last thing you need is thousands of Dons there, who will inevitably kick **** out of it.
I'm hoping the green brigade try to attend and avenge Neil Lennon. Should make for despicable scenes... Lovely
Really pleased the Scottish Professional Football League have awarded the League Cup Final to Scotland’s largest football stadium, Celtic Park. We are now hosting the League and Scottish Cup finals, as well as the head of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, at the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. So with the Commonwealth and Scottish Cup gigs going to Celtic, why didn’t Newco Rangers get the other final at their 50,000 capacity facility? Back in the days such certification existed, Ibrox was a Uefa five star venue, whereas Celtic Park was four star, but maintaining those standards takes, well, maintenance, which has not been a priority in some parts. Celtic Park remains highly functional, and safe. There is also the hazard of planning an event, even six weeks out, at a venue owned (cough) by a company which does not have bank credit facilities and who are broadcasting financial distress signals like some kind of insolvency Batman call. These perfectly valid reasons are, of course, a mere distraction from the real reason, the Co-op Bank, which controls Glasgow City Council, is also able to manipulate league football in Scotland and decided to award the final to their partner organisation, while cutting their borrowing rate, by way of compensation.
Whitabootery: The fallacy of relative privation is an informal fallacy which attempts to suggest that the opponent's argument should be ignored because there are more important problems in the world - despite the fact that these issues are often completely unrelated to the subject under discussion.
Have to say, the financial difficulties at Ibrox can easily be solved Think about it All they have to do is sell some of that History that Chuckles got at a knock down price Cha-ching ££££
