ALISON McCONNELL

all decisions, there was little appreciation for changing economic circumstances as clubs put out their season ticket renewals to their fanbase.

Asking people to pay – handsomely – for a product that is essentially not there does more than just rely on goodwill. It exploits the emotional attachment that many people have to their club.

Covid-19 restrictions will mean that the reality is that it will be the turn of the year, at best, before supporters can look at getting back into a stadium and back into the seat that they have paid for.

Households with multiple season tickets will need to renew expensive books with the likelihood being that they will then watch the game from the same screen and from the same sofa as it is broadcast out via live stream.

Motherwell have cushioned their appeal by insisting that their fans are assured of 19 home league games, whenever that may actually be possible. The understanding there is that costs this season can

CRAIG GORDON’S path could have deviated from Celtic’s in 2017 when Chelsea wanted him as understudy to their then firstchoice stopper, Thibaut Courtois.

Brendan Rodgers was unwilling to sell the Scotland internationalist with a new contract and a place among Celtic’s Invincibles keeping him in Glasgow.

There is another choice now to be made for the keeper who has turned down Celtic’s most recent offer of a short-term deal this week.

Hearts, depending on where they will be playing their football next season, would be interested in Gordon while Jim Goodwin has shown considerable ambition on trying to get hold of the keeper for St Mirren next season.

With Fraser Forster’s situation equally clouded as England looks to finish the Premier League, it is an interesting dilemma for both club and player. Forster’s weekly salary is believed to come in at around £90k a week with Southampton.

Celtic’s only genuine aspirations of keeping him for a second term will realistically rely on a second loan deal. But with permanent interest liable to come from the English top flight who can still afford to pay top dollar for Forster, there is every chance that he may go elsewhere.

If that’s the case then keeping Gordon at Celtic still makes a bit of sense.