A month of Sundays for Celtic, just one more sleep before we’re back in Paradise…
Sunday’s match day for Celtic, we’d better get used to it
Celtic’s new season kicks off on Sunday with an unfamiliar 4.30pm kick off time. Granted our opponents Kilmarnock were playing in Europe last night, but it doesn’t end there as all our fixtures for the month of August all fall on the Sabbath, with two of those games tough away fixtures.
Next Sunday sees us travel to Easter Road to play Hibs before hosting the Edinburgh club a week later at Celtic park in the League Cup.
Next up is a trip to Paisley to face St Mirren also on a Sunday, before we start September with a home game against theRangers in a Glasgow Derby on you guessed it, a Sunday.
Celtic is box office for broadcasters
Contrast that to our rivals theRangers who kick off their campaign on lunchtime today (Saturday)with a routine (for them) three points at Tynecastle before enjoying ‘home’ games (at Hampden) on three Saturdays in succession against Motherwell, St Johnstone in the League Cup, and then Ross County before heading to Celtic park at the start of September for their first Sunday match.
theRangers getting the advantage of playing a bulk of the opening first and mostly with ‘home’ advantage. Who’d have thought it?
But there’s no conspiracy theory on this one, it’s mostly down to the broadcasters and their desire to feature the finest team in Scotland in their schedules. So we can’t really complain. One more sleep until we’re back in Paradise, bet you can’t wait!
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