Pathetic? Appears to have hit the spot though.
You are correct with our attendances have not been as good as usual however, booming, unlike 99% of Scottish clubs, is what our financial performance has been.
And massaging of crowd figures is not a game played solely by us is it??:smirk:
Is it incorrect doing this though? 20k season book holders have a ticket for this game that is bought and paid for but only 16k turn up plus 3k others yet it gets shown as a 23k crowd instead of 19k.
And here was me thinking it was only The Rangers fans who had an obsession with crown figures.
Pathetic? Appears to have hit the spot though.
You are correct with our attendances have not been as good as usual however, booming, unlike 99% of Scottish clubs, is what our financial performance has been.
And massaging of crowd figures is not a game played solely by us is it??:smirk:
Let me give you a couple of examples for this season taken randomly, there are others, every other week in fact
Celtic v Kilmarnock, 30 Jan 13, Attendance reported by Celtic FC - 43,652, actual attendance 23,942
Celtic v Motherwell, 2 Jan 13, Attendance reported by Celtic FC - 48,002, actual attendance 34,907
Now they would be pretty good figures in the English Championship but hang on a minute, aren't you meant to be the biggest club in the world?
Should you doubt the accuracy of the figures I have given then let me know and I will post you the source link.
Which is rather ironic for a club that had a reputation for actual declaring fairly low attendances in the days of pay at the gate - one of your ex-player turned radio pundit rather stupidly confirmed this on the radio earlier in the season.
I was not disputing it happens thanks merely pointing out we are not the sole club to massage figures.East Fife was around the 1m mark supposedly although it was later discovered to be around the 38k mark.
Let me give you a couple of examples for this season taken randomly, there are others, every other week in fact
Celtic v Kilmarnock, 30 Jan 13, Attendance reported by Celtic FC - 43,652, actual attendance 23,942
Celtic v Motherwell, 2 Jan 13, Attendance reported by Celtic FC - 48,002, actual attendance 34,907
Now they would be pretty good figures in the English Championship but hang on a minute, aren't you meant to be the biggest club in the world?
Should you doubt the accuracy of the figures I have given then let me know and I will post you the source link.
Which is rather ironic for a club that had a reputation for actual declaring fairly low attendances in the days of pay at the gate - one of your ex-player turned radio pundit rather stupidly confirmed this on the radio earlier in the season.
