SFA Cup semi finals

[Wide Boy]

I can understand the low attendance at Saturday's game, but can someone explain why most of the near 60,000 Celts who turn up at Parkhead for league and European games didn't go on Sunday?

[Scottish_Morton]

I don't understand either. Aren't celtic meant to have the best fans in the world?! :p

[Gordon EF]

I thought about that precise question myself.

Although to see only 13,000 for the Caley Thistle v Dunfermline semi was disappointing, there were reasons. (Although 8,000 from Dunfermline was shocking)

But the Sellick fans should be ashamed of themselves. I'm not sure of the numbers but it could not have been more than 30,000. I understand that there are some big games coming up and not everyone can afford to go to every game but that was a good chance for those without season tickets to go to a game. The game was also in Glasgow for Christ's sake.

[gr8fulbhoy]

I thought about that precise question myself.

Although to see only 13,000 for the Caley Thistle v Dunfermline semi was disappointing, there were reasons. (Although 8,000 from Dunfermline was shocking)

But the Sellick fans should be ashamed of themselves. I'm not sure of the numbers but it could not have been more than 30,000. I understand that there are some big games coming up and not everyone can afford to go to every game but that was a good chance for those without season tickets to go to a game. The game was also in Glasgow for Christ's sake.

Celtic have already played more than 60 competitive matches this season and at the exorbitant prices of the tickets I can understand why a lot of people just decided to watch it on the box (plus the weather sucked). i don't live in Scotland but family members tell me they have spent the equivalent of another season ticket charge for all of the additional games not covered by the season book so far - that's a lot of shekels

[Gordon EF]

I understand that following your team can be an expensive undertaking. But how many Sellick "fans" are there in Glasgow, never mind Scotland, who are not season ticket holders? Surely these people can go to a game on their own doorstep, especially since they are "The best fans in the world"(trademark).

I think it's virtually an admission of how tedious supporting the old firm has become.

I don't think they have a right to make those ridiculous boasts of 80,000 (or was it 130,000) fans in Seville when they got a pathetic crowd like that for a Scottish Cup semi final at Hampden.

[gr8fulbhoy]

The 80,000 at Seville was not a "boast" - it is historical fact (and don't forget the zero arrests). Some clubs' fans can't behave themselves even when they win - to lose and still take it in good humour was something Celtic and Scotland can be justly proud of. Maybe more Celtic fans didn't attend because they anticipated (and were proven correct) that it would be a"tedious" game, a foregone conclusion, because no-one else in Scotland (Rangers included) can offer anything but token opposition at this time. Is that Celtic's fault or the fault of the SFA, SPL and the other teams in Scotland?