It wasn’t exactly a surprise that Celtic knocked back theRangers measly allocation of 700 tickets for Ibrox and it’s hardly a shock that the latest Ibrox club is nevertheless demanding an allocation from us for the December Glasgow Derby clash at Celtic Park either.

It was well publicised weeks ago, but yesterday it was confirmed by the two clubs and The Celtic Star last night brought us up to speed with the situation behind the scenes having spoken to a senior source at Parkhead. Now it seems theRangers have signalled their intent to write to the SPFL to demand an allocation for Celtic Park. Pity the poor SPFL official who will have to read their statement of conmplaint.

Why should Celtic give them an allocation? It may be in the rules, but stuff the rules, as David Murray once did when he decided to ban Celtic fans from a game at Ibrox. Anyone remember the consequences for him breaking the rules? And we all know that this latest Ibrox club have been making up their own rules since their inception.

Celtic should call the SPFL out on this and take them all the way if they try to back theRangers and instruct Celtic to give them an allocation for the game on 30 December.

The Rangers can’t guarantee our supporters safety at Ibrox, hell they can’t even guarantee the safety of our players on the field or pundits present for the media who used to play for our club. A senior Ibrox official has confirmed just that. That is scandalous. So Celtic are well within their rights not to take up an allocation at Ibrox and as a consequence refuse their request for tickets to Celtic Park until such times as it is agreed that Ibrox is a safe place for pour away supporter to visit.

If you missed it last night here’s what The Celtic Star Editor reported after contacting a senior contact inside Celtic Football club…

Just an Ordinary Bhoy

Senior Celtic Source – Rangers agreed that Ibrox corner is unsafe and plan to install nets

You’ll probably have noticed that theRangers Chief Executive James Bisgrove has been playing to the crowd today getting their pet hacks to ‘report’ on the Glasgow Derby ticket row very much from their disingenuous stance.

Now we are told Bisgrove is going to write to the SPFL to DEMAND tickets for the Glasgow Derby math at Celtic Park later this year. Well, The Celtic Star can do him a favour and save him the price of a stamp, because we can confirm this evening that after speaking to a senior source at Celtic this evening, there is NO CHANCE that there will be any tickets given to theRangers fans for the game at Celtic Park on Saturday 30 December.  NO CHANCE.

Rather than just print the spin being pushed by Bisgrove, ‘journalists’ at the Scottish mainstream media should perhaps have dug a little deeper to find out the real story that has been going on behind the scenes as the two Scottish Premiership clubs – Celtic and theRangers – have been in dialogue about the away ticket allocations and specifically the safety concerns surrounding that small away corner at Ibrox.

Had the hacks done this they might have discovered some of the facts that The Celtic Star can report on this evening, what’s that word they like to use? Yes, that’s it...EXCLUSIVE.

So here goes with some exclusive facts that the hacks are free to check for themselves.

Would you believe it if we told you that back in April 2023 theRangers accepted that the away corner at Ibrox was NOT safe for Celtic fans in particular, but actually away fans in general.  And of course that is why there were no away fans at the final two Scottish Premiership matches at the end of last season.

There has been no changes made to the proposed away area for Celtic fans over the summer so had Celtic accepted the tickets for Ibrox for the forthcoming fixture they would have been sending supporters into an area that Celtic FC and theRangers FC AGREED was unsafe.

And there’s more. Having AGREED that the away area at Ibrox is indeed unsafe theRangers have CONFIRMED to Celtic FC than they plan to install nets to prevent bottles and other missiles raining down on the away support at their stadium.  However theRangers then confirmed that these nets would NOT be in place for the first Glasgow Derby of the season at Ibrox on 3rd September.

“Why would they put up nets if they believe it’s safe?” our senior Celtic source rhetorically asked The Celtic Star this evening.  And there’s more. We understand that Celtic have had SEVEN supporters struck with glass bottles on the last two occasions we have played at Ibrox where Celtic have accepted an away allocation for that dangerous corner.

READ THIS…Jailed – Corporate thug who bottled Celtic coach at Ibrox behind bars after sentencing

And this doesn’t include near misses from bottles, coins, lighters and other missiles and of course there has been  plenty of trouble elsewhere inside Ibrox when Celtic have been there in recent times, including a member of Celtic’s staff being scared for life after being hit across the head with a glass bottle as he walked down the tunnel at the interval in April 2022. The culprit, from the corporate section in the main stand,  is currently residing at His Majesty’s pleasure.

A Rangers fan has been jailed for a year after throwing a bottle at a Celtic physiotherapist during an Old Firm game. pic.twitter.com/ebKZlWcOsr

— Sky Sports News (@SkySportsNews) March 29, 2023

So finally, about James Bisgrove’s plan to write to the SPFL to demand tickets for Celtic Park, how is that going to play out. Our senior source at Celtic told us that there is absolutely NO CHANCE of there being any of theRangers fans at the next SPFL match between the teams at Celtic Park.

Did CELTIC start the TICKET ALLOCATION WAR OF 2023!?!

Eh, no.

Another reminder… here is Gary Ralston, on the official Daily Record Rangers Podcast, August 2017… 2 0 1 7… vocalising the Rangers fans desire to cut allocation cause we scudded them.pic.twitter.com/OzIUn4s68y

— 🍔 Gastro Celtic 🍀 (@Gastro_Celtic) August 17, 2023