Scott Brown makes astonishing Celtic season ticket claim as he insists they’re OVER performing in Champions League

Scott Brown puts Celtic in the top 10 biggest clubs in EUROPE, with a revelation that 28,000 fans are waiting to get their hands on season tickets.

Over a decade of almost unbroken success has seen punters pack out Parkhead – at least for the big Premiership and Champions League games – as Neil Lennon, Ronny Deila, Brendan Rodgers and Ange Postecoglou delivered trophy after trophy, and in some cases, Treble after Treble, with Rangers finally managing to briefly break their rivals' stranglehold in 2021.

Success on the park breeds success of it, and fans have snapped up season tickets summer after summer, with thousands on the waiting list for a chance to secure a regular seat. Now former captain Brown has put a figure on those watching on from the outside waiting for their chance, claiming that 28,000 – almost half the capacity of the stadium – have their names down to see the Hoops.

“Celtic is a huge club. I’d say they’re easily in the top 10 biggest clubs in Europe, especially when you consider the size of the fanbase," he told William Hill and Footy Accumulators’ podcast, No Tippy Tappy Football. "The only way English people would be able to understand the full extent of the size of Celtic and Rangers is if they were to join the Premier League.

“Celtic have 60,000 season ticket holders and another 28,000 on standby, they could double the size of their stadium if they were playing in the English leagues. They’ve got such a strong fanbase in Scotland and obviously you have the fans coming over from Ireland as well, but they’ve also got fans all over the world. Wherever the players go they’re always recognised, but if you played for a mid-table Premier League team and went on holiday to Dubai, for example, you might not