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City aren’t expecting a sell-out – not even for loyalty points. The third tier of the main stands won’t be open. Away fans sit behind the goal – tickets cost £15.
Manchester City v Wigan Athletic – Information for home fans
Tuesday 24th September 2013 Kick off – 7.45pm
Supporters are advised that Colin Bell Stand Level 3 and East Stand Level 3 will be closed for this game.
Tickets will be priced; Colin Bell and East Stand Level 2 Adults: £20.00 16-21s / Over 65s: £10 Under 16s: £5 Disabled £10
All other areas: Adults: £15.00 16-21s / Over 65s: £10 Under 16s: £5 Disabled: £10
I don’t think Celtic are anywhere near the level of the top four/five in England.
Like a newly-promoted team, they would take some time to get up to speed. The players and the fans alike would have to accept that they could no longer take home wins for granted.
They would have to strengthen their squad for the weekly struggle of the Premier league, and strengthen it again if they had to face the extra burden of mid-week European games.
But until it happens, it can only be a matter of opinion how Celtic would get on.
The dilemma for Celtic is that they would like to play in the English Premier League where the broadcasting fees are so much bigger.
However, if they did this, they would have to give up their automatic place in the Champions League. Celtic could hardly expect to compete with the top four/five of the Premier League.
Coyle may have been a Celtic supporter as a boy, but even he turned down their invitation to be their manager. He chose instead to stay with newly-promoted Burnley. He preferred Burnley to Celtic, and then preferred Bolton to Burnley. That must tell you something about the status of Celtic today.
Celtic play their home games in a 60,000 seater stadium.
But it isn’t always full!
Celtic 2012/13 Scottish Premier League
Highest home attendance 60,000 v Juventus (12 February 2013)
Lowest home attendance 14,399 v St Johnstone (30 October 2012)Wigan 2012/13 Premier League
Highest home attendance 23,001 v Aston Villa
Lowest home attendance 15,436 v ReadingThere are lots of great teams in the history of soccer.
Today, most Premier League clubs are bigger than Celtic. And Coyle chose to stick with Burnley rather than go to Celtic.
Celtic have never won the FA Cup – that must be why they want to join the Premier League!
Maribor 2012/13
Average home attendance 4,746 – all competitions
Highest home attendance 12,420 v Dinamo Zagreb 28 August 2012.That would be close to capacity. Maribor (Slovenia) to Zagreb (Croatia) is only an hour and a half drive. They also drew Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), a further four and a half hours drive beyond Zagreb.
Away fans are usually given a complete section of the ground, and this determines the actual number of seats they get.
Last season, Wigan were cheapest in the Premier League for a pie and a cup of tea. I’m quite partial to a meat and potato pie.
Dave did have an interest in Poole’s Pies. However, he put the company into administration in August and sold it to Midland Bakery.
2010/11 CELTIC
Wage bill: £32.66m
Difference from 2010: Down £3.82m
Turnover: £52.56m2011/12 WIGAN Premier League
Turnover: £53m
Wages as proportion of turnover 72%
Wagebill: £38mWigan, as a Premier League club, would be as big – and even bigger with the new broadcasting revenue – as Celtic. It would be better for Coyle to get Wigan into the Premier League and stick with them.
That’s just what he did with Burnley when Celtic called for him – until Wanderers called more loudly, that is.
There are three ferry companies in Dover running nine ships on the Dover-Calais route with 43 sailings a day out of Dover. And there’s Eurotunnel too.
I don’t think any have a disco. You have to go Hull-Zeebrugge for that.
However, Whelan stated: “One thing [Owen] said to me when I gave him the job was ‘If Celtic ever come in I want the job at Celtic’. That’s one thing I respect.”
Coyle had been approached by Celtic after Gordon Strachan resigned as Celtic manager in 2009, however the then-Burnley manager decided to take the English side into the English Premier League after winning promotion.
I hope he leads us back into the Premier League too.
Bronx – Radio Five is broadcasting baseball matches!
The next is Thursday 12 September 2013; Baseball commentary from the MLB regular season as Washington Nationals face the New York Mets.
BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra Thursday 12 September 2013 18:00 Duration 4 hours
IMPORTANT: On police instructions, supporters will also be asked to provide their travel details before purchasing tickets, outline their method of travelling, times of arrival in Brugge and accommodation details.
Read more at http://www.wiganlatics.co.uk/news/article/13-09-09-ticket-news-zulte-waregem-a-1025181.aspx#tkKtE4cK7jHsFgRq.99The Ukraine is a different country. Kiev to Kazan is 1,000 miles. However, racist chanting against black players is common in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
In a recent survey, Moscow Protestant Chaplaincy found that over half of Africans in Moscow had been physically attacked in the past. Attacks in the Moscow Metro are common, and “monkey” insults are so frequent that students have ceased reporting them.
In Russian slang, Caucasian peoples fall into the category of black, despite the fact that almost all of them are white-skinned. In December 2010, there was a massive outbreak of hostility towards Caucasians, culminating in nationalist protests in Moscow and in other cities.
A string of violent attacks by Islamic militants has shattered [Kazan’s] reputation as a citadel of religious tolerance and unnerved federal officials in Moscow, who have worked for decades to prevent the spread of radical Islam out of the southern borderlands and into places like this city 500 miles east of Moscow.
11 April 2013; In Moscow, Rubin Kazan won a thrilling match 3-2 against Chelsea, though the result was not good enough to see them through, in front of a crowd of just 20,000 at Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium, a ground with a capacity of just under 80,000. Their usual stadium, the 28,500-capacity Central Stadium in Kazan, is an 11-hour drive away from Moscow.
The attendance in the Luzhniki was in fact a season high for a Rubin home-leg at this stadium in the Europa League – against Atletico Madrid there were just 3,000 in the stadium and against Levante a meagre 1,000 people turned up.
In their own stadium however, the Rubin fans do offer firm support. In the group stages against Azerbaijani minnows Neftchi Baku 15,000 attended, and 18,000 were in their ground when Internazionale rolled into town.
Jupiler is a 5.2% abv, pale lager. It is the biggest-selling beer in Belgium. Jupiler is the main sponsor of the Belgian Pro League.
Stella Artois is a 5.2% ABV lager beer brewed in Leuven, Belgium, since 1926. A lower alcohol content (4% ABV) version is sold in the UK.
Hoegaarden Brewery is also in Belgium. Hoegaarden is a wheat beer spiced with coriander and orange peel. It is unfiltered and therefore has a cloudy appearance. It has an alcoholic content of 4.9%.
Gueuze comes from the area around Brussels and is made by blending young and old lambic (spontaneously fermented) beers. Oude (Old) Gueuze has a sour taste, but commercial brews are much sweeter. Fruit may be added too; the cherry beer is called kriek.
Belle-Vue is the biggest producer of gueuze with 5.5% alcohol; it makes Gueuze, Kriek, Kriek Extra and Raspberry.
There are lots of local breweries producing beers in their own regional style, including Rodenbach, a brewery in Roeselare, Belgium. It is noted for its production of barrel-aged sour beers in the Flemish tradition. Rodenbach Original is 5% alcohol.
