We took our
last Subway trip of the day back to St. Enoch’s station and took a
66 bus from the city to Parkhead. Celtic’s stadium felt far more welcoming
to us than Ibrox had. I’m not sure which factor contributed to this
more: a psychological predisposition caused by years of
preconditioning/fandom or the hundreds of Irish tricolours dotted
around the stadium (with hundreds more draping the stands inside).
Monday, March 3, 2014
Glasgow diary 2014: Firhill - the stadium you won't see unless you're looking for it.
Following Jon’s
instructions, we made our way back to the Ibrox subway station and headed for St. George’s
Cross in Glasgow’s West End. A twenty minute slog along Maryhill Road awaited
us.
Glasgow diary 2014: Ibrox - football stadium or office block?
The most ironic
thing about us visiting Ibrox is that the stadium, in its current guise, was
modelled on Dortmund’s Westfalenstadion (not something I knew before writing
this piece, I admit).
Glasgow diary 2014: Introduction.
Last weekend,
myself and Anto Gallagher continued our tradition of taking in one random game abroad
a year by visiting Glasgow to see Celtic face Inverness in the Scottish
Professional Football League (SPFL). Our early flight meant a 4a.m. start, but
this put us in Glasgow city centre at eight, giving us ample time to decide
what we should do with our solitary full day in Scotland’s largest city.
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