CELTIC BELONG IN EAST END, NOT ON EAST COAST

TIM KEYES, the American owner of Dundee, is working to take his club’s fixture with Celtic to a venue on the east coast. Now you may think Dundee is already on the east coast but it isn’t the Firth of Tay that Keyes has in his sights. He is thinking Boston or Philadelphia. It is a plan that has met with great enthusiasm among Celtic exiles. ‘If the NFL can take games to London I don’t see why the Scottish Premier League can’t allow a game to take place Stateside,’ said John Joe Devlin, of the Philadelphia Celtic Supporters Club. I can. It’s that bit about NFL clubs being franchises uprooted on a whim, and Celtic being a football club with their roots still firmly in Glasgow’s East End. And if their fans in Philadelphia don’t get that, they’re following the wrong team.