ian1964 10,720 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 Any request by Celtic to play one of their home Champions League fixtures in either England or Ireland next season will be denied by European governing body Uefa. If Celtic win the Scottish league title this season they will be required to play a two-legged Champions League qualifying match next summer. But with Celtic Park, along with Ibrox and Hampden, all in use as Commonwealth Games venues, a new location for the game would need to be found. Celtic's chief executive Peter Lawwell had asked Uefa to look at options for the tie, including stadiums outside Scotland. Regulation 12.07: Venues Celtic Park crowd In principle, a club must play all its matches in the competition at one and the same ground. Matches may be played either at the ground of the home club or at another ground in the same or another city within the territory of its association, or, if so decided by the Uefa administration and/or the Uefa disciplinary bodies, in the territory of another Uefa member association for reasons of safety or as a result of a disciplinary measure. Speaking earlier this week Lawwell said: "We are currently in discussion with Uefa in terms of what options we have. "Once they are happy with those options then we will go and speak to the relevant owners of the stadia, possibly outside Scotland. "It could be England or Ireland, the Aviva in Dublin or Croke Park or maybe even down south at a northern Premier League club. We have a big support in Dublin and the stadium was full when we played Liverpool in the summer there, so that would be great." But BBC Sport have been told that Uefa, under its current rules, would deny any request to play the game outside Scotland, citing rule 12.7 of Champions League regulations. It states Champions League matches must be played "either at the ground of the home club or at another ground in the same or another city within the territory of its association". The only exemptions under the rule are for safety issues or as the result of a disciplinary measure. Celtic are citing their European Cup Winners Cup game at Old Trafford in 1984 against Rapid Vienna as a potential precedent for moving the game. But that match was only played at Manchester United's stadium after Uefa ordered a replay at a neutral ground at least 100 miles away from Glasgow following a controversial end to the second-leg at Celtic Park. The club are also thought to be considering the 67,800 capacity Murrayfield stadium in Edinburgh, the home of Scottish rugby, with Uefa's regulations now making it the leading contender to host the potential game. What a shower of low life cunts 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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ian1964 10,720 Posted October 31, 2013 Author Share Posted October 31, 2013 http://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2009/oct/01/celtic-rapid-vienna-reunion This long story is not particularly easy to cut short. Celtic had lost a bad-tempered Cup Winners' Cup first leg in Vienna 3–1, with Alan McInally sent off and Peter Grant accused of stamping on one of the Austrian players. The Parkhead side were later fined by Uefa on account of their players' behaviour; it was the start of European football's governing body's crucial influence on the tie. A rousing night in the east end saw Celtic overturn the deficit to win 4-3 on aggregate. Their third goal, seen in the context of modern football laws, involved a clear foul by Tommy Burns on the Rapid goalkeeper, and was quite enough for the visiting players. They wanted an alternative way out. A bottle landed on the pitch, thrown from the Celtic support. Depending on your witness, this landed either five feet or 20 metres away from Rapid's goalkeeper, Herbert Feurer, who promptly collapsed in a heap, left the field bandaged up and led those within the Austrian camp to seek, unsuccessfully, the abandonment of the game. Ten minutes of stoppage time were required following this unseemly scene. It later transpired that the linesman on Celtic Park's former "Jungle" side had been struck by all kinds of missiles, mainly coins. Somehow aware of this, Rapid adopted a tale that Feurer had merely been struck by an object, rather than the bottle, in lodging a formal complaint to Uefa. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gribz 837 Posted October 31, 2013 Share Posted October 31, 2013 If this was Rangers then Murrayfield would be the only option discussed. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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