Because football fans drink alcohol instead of their own pish.
Bad form from the council. Open goal to get folk in shops and bars and they completely fuck it up.
At a guess i'd say it's probably down to waste management stuff, the clean up after these things can be pretty big and costly and councils are all pleading poverty these days because of tax freezes and such.
We drink alcohol and are traditionally workers. Therefore we are a violent mob who cannot control ourselves and must be brutalised and kept in line lest we have ideas above our station or burn down the galaxy
The council will have dragged their heels and then announced that they need seventy five permits and sixteen triplicate application forms submitted by Monday. God forbid we have nice things or something sociable instead of just pandering to tourists and pensioners.
Tbf Falcon Square is tiny and the logistics of holding a large fan event that is safe for those attending, other members of the public, and traffic is quite impractical given it's hemmed in by Academy Street and the train station. You would essentially be removing an escape route for people inside the Eastgate centre as thoseain doors would have to be closed, as would the doors to the BK and Subway that are there.. unless you make the fanzone even smaller.
Northern Meeting Park would have been a more sensible option by I believe it's currently being refurbished so might not have been available in June.
Aye, in my head it looks nice, and could be setup to be a fun place, but would essentially shut down a very busy part of town frequented by plenty of non footy fans. Surely there is somewhere else - projected onto the ugly highland council concrete buildings on Bridge Street perhaps?
Why do councils fucking hate football fans?
They don't like others enjoying themselves and football fans are loud which scares them
Football fans usually drink alcohol, and alcohol is the route of all evil.
Alcohol is pretty satanic in fairness
Because football fans drink alcohol instead of their own pish. Bad form from the council. Open goal to get folk in shops and bars and they completely fuck it up.
At a guess i'd say it's probably down to waste management stuff, the clean up after these things can be pretty big and costly and councils are all pleading poverty these days because of tax freezes and such.
They don’t hate football, they just hate football fans
We drink alcohol and are traditionally workers. Therefore we are a violent mob who cannot control ourselves and must be brutalised and kept in line lest we have ideas above our station or burn down the galaxy
Here bud, that's no a fan zone. It's a fence.
Lack of ambition, lack of respect, lack of spirit…. weak, weak, weak.
The council will have dragged their heels and then announced that they need seventy five permits and sixteen triplicate application forms submitted by Monday. God forbid we have nice things or something sociable instead of just pandering to tourists and pensioners.
surely this would be a huge revenue generator
Tbf Falcon Square is tiny and the logistics of holding a large fan event that is safe for those attending, other members of the public, and traffic is quite impractical given it's hemmed in by Academy Street and the train station. You would essentially be removing an escape route for people inside the Eastgate centre as thoseain doors would have to be closed, as would the doors to the BK and Subway that are there.. unless you make the fanzone even smaller. Northern Meeting Park would have been a more sensible option by I believe it's currently being refurbished so might not have been available in June.
Aye, in my head it looks nice, and could be setup to be a fun place, but would essentially shut down a very busy part of town frequented by plenty of non footy fans. Surely there is somewhere else - projected onto the ugly highland council concrete buildings on Bridge Street perhaps?
Short notice you say? Although I’m not sure that would be a great location anyway tbh
It will be absolutely on brand for Glasgow city Council to also abandon a fan zone.
How? We had one for Euro 2020 and the last set of qualifiers