Rangers pack out Ibrox on a weekly basis regardless of opposition.
The Rangers fans always show up for their team and the club and it shows when the attendances are made public.
The same cannot be said for the rest of the Scottish Premiership clubs and it is a sad indictment of our game when the Sky Sports pictures pick up thousands of empty seats at other grounds across the country.
Still, it doesn’t justify Richard Foster’s latest suggestion regarding potential groundshares in Scotland being one option to end the lack of punters inside stadiums.
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The unthinkable Rangers and Celtic groundshare option was floated
Dundee and Dundee United were named as two clubs who might benefit, but the former Gers defender inexplicably mentioned Rangers and Celtic in the same sentence.
Albeit he did acknowledge it would be unthinkable to do so without a “seismic shift” that will never come.
“No, it’s not (a good look when you see so many empty seats when Scottish games are live on Sky Sports),” Foster said on GO Radio.
“I think, in this country, we are probably one of the only countries in the world where our teams don’t share stadiums.
“There would need to be a seismic shift in the world for Rangers and Celtic to share a stadium. People in Dundee will think the same about those two clubs.
“But if you look at the finances and the other teams around the world who do it, it would probably be a worthwhile exercise.
“Get a brand new stadium, fit for purpose for both, they can flip the colours. It isn’t going to be an Allianz Arena, for example. It can be done, and for me, as an outsider, it would be exciting. But I don’t have anything invested in Dundee or Dundee United, so it’s a tough one.”
Other clubs who groundshare around the globe
Plenty of clubs around Europe do share grounds including the likes of AC and Inter Milan, AS Roma and Lazio and Flamengo and Fluminense in Brazil.
That doesn’t mean Rangers or Celtic would or could ever even humour the notion.
The rivalry demands an incredible atmosphere at both Ibrox and in the east end of Glasgow and that’s another reason the clubs agreed to let away fans back in.
- AC Milan and Inter – San Siro
- Roma and Lazio – Stadio Olimpico
- Atlas & Universidad de Guadalajara – Estadio Jalisco
- FC Zurich & Grasshoppers – Letzigrund
- Sassuolo & Reggiana – Città del Tricolore
- Flamengo & Fluminense – Maracanã
- Genoa & Sampdoria – Stadio Luigi Ferraris
- Club Brugge & Cercle Brugge – Jan Breydel Stadium
