Celtic’s email to those who had their season tickets suspended yesterday, in the Green Brigade section, alleges a series of incidents, including “intimidating and threatening behaviour towards staff” on multiple occasions, “forcing open fire exits to permit access to individuals without tickets” at Fir Park, a list of pyrotechnic and banner violations and several other transgressions, which they hold the Green Brigade responsible for.
Consequences extend beyond staff wellbeing and Uefa fines. Last season, Glasgow City Council’s Safety Advisory Group, who licence the stadium to open for spectators, wrote with “concerns regarding the conduct of certain spectators located within the north-east curve area”. As a result, Celtic have to report to the Safety Advisory Group after every home game. Hoped for progress has not been made.
The Uefa fines mount up but alone were not going to move the dial. Behaviour towards staff, forcing open gates and the Council’s safety certifiers are absolutes. No one should be threatened at work without their employer taking appropriate action. Organised groups of people cannot try to open gates to allow additional number in. The Safety Certificate is non-negotiable. Inevitably, Celtic had to be prodded into action.
I witnessed none of this (apart from the pyro and banners, obviously) and it could be a different group of lads behind everything. Talks will inevitably take place to resolve the issue; we can hope.
St Mirren are third in the league and absolutely rocking. They got the St Johnstone manager the sack at the weekend and only went behind at Ibrox after a red card and a penalty kick. We are not short of big games but this could be a significant one come the end of the season. An early goal for the good guys tonight would be very welcome.
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While we expect any fair-minded person will see through the flimsy litany of allegations (shamefully attempting to use fan media and national press to do bidding on their behalf)
They will be deleting Jordanian national flags next
4 still to trap for tonight’s Superbru – Belmont Brian, Chalmersbhoy, Clinko and wee McCaff
SFA officials arrive at Dens park for tonight’s game
https://x.com/CarlJungleBhoy/status/1719704993458999414?s=20
Seems someone is lying amid this fiasco and i know which of the parties involved have previous telling tall tales to the support.
Cold here on the East Coast, radio said it’s going to freeze. It’s times like this i wish i had a heated driveway.
European
Last month 4 members of the ‘Casuals’, a Futbol Club Barcelona supporters group, were arrested in connection with a murder. The Boixos Nois and The Casuals have been banned from the Catalan club’s ground for some time already
The name ‘Casuals’ was used in Scotland in the early 1980’s for a group of Aberdeen supporters mainly although I can see Hearts fitting into the mould as well. These supporters wore expensive casual clothing, like Pringle jerseys, did not show any club colours, travelled by train and got into fights. Because Aberdeen was benefitting financially from the oil Industry the youth there could afford the designer clothes. Glasgow meanwhile was on its uppers, as the industrial recession continued and many youths became unemployed with no money to buy the gear. As a result no strong casuals group emerged among Celtic supporters as the leading, most hooligan part, well at least publicly. In the 1990s everyone was focused on sack the board, which when it finally came to fruition led to an even greater unity among Celtic supporters. Since then The GB is only a recent phenomenon and is credited with reviving the ‘atmosphere’ in the stadium, starting from around about the 2010 period. What is new however, like in Barcelona, is a supporters group mixing geo-politics with football.
AURORABOREALIS79 on 1ST NOVEMBER 2023 4:43 PM
TOM MCLAUGHLIN on 1ST NOVEMBER 2023 4:23 PM
Listen to this hypocrite. The statement below it, US House speak, Johnston, is even more cringe: “As a Christian, the Bible teaches very clearly, we are to stand with Israel.” This is clear as day a Christian extremist point of view. People who use such rhetoric are typically branded terrorists.
*naw this is tangerine heid talkin as he disnae want tae upset his buddy who is tarnished with the same brush as him in trying tae stay out of jail.
Anyway as a practicing Catholic our Catechism never told us that but stated a Galilean Jew was the son of god who established Christianity whereas in contrast, Judaism rejects the belief that Jesus was the awaited messiah, arguing that he did not fulfill messianic prophecies and was not lawfully anointed and was neither divine nor resurrected.
!!BADA BING!! on 1ST NOVEMBER 2023 5:40 PM
SFA officials arrive at Dens park for tonight’s game
is that not the rowing club that founded the ranger you know them gallent pioneers
APPLES IN MODERATION
Nothing worse than a frozen radio
Any team news?
Bernardo or Holm?
PHILBHOY
James Forrest
STV…………….. The unbeaten Baldy Beale arrives with his team in Dundee
Noice, the GB issue a statement a couple of hours before the team they love is due to kick off.
This of course has nothing to do with attention seeking or grabbing headlines. Nope, nothing at all.
Faithful through and through, they are.
no ccv wtf mm
STV reporter at Dens wearing a red/white/blue tie!
At least TRY to show some professionalism ya pwick.
GM,
do you trhink the players will be online just now to find out how the GB are doing, gies peace.
CELTIC: Hart, Johnston, Phillips, Scales, Taylor, McGregor, O’Riley, Turnbull, Forrest, Kyogo, Palma.
Subs: Bain, Yang, Holm, Nawrocki, Oh, Iwata, Bernardo, Maeda, Ralston
Huke evens
celtic go into this match out of sorts.
Let’s see how much of the manager’s mental energy is taken up responding to questions about this.
Free the Green Brigade and sack the board.
No ccv tonight and back to Turnbull and Jamsie🙈 how many transfer windows have passed and we have not got anything better. Not my cup of tea.
That said I pray and hope they turn it on tonight.
Meanwhile the great Mikey J is at Nandos at the Fort.🤣
Anyway 2-1 but the board might have a say in tonights result after banning the GB.
D :)
Mikey Johnston appears on Saturday then disappears
Who would win in a fight between TavPen and TavPens?
CCV got a knock on Saturday
Of course , on the back of a poor Hibs results, we will worry about tonight’s game but……….
We are at home
It is just St. Mirren
We should win- that’s realism, not complacency.
It doesn’t mean we can’t draw or lose- there’s always a competitive risk, but Nat Phillips is a solid replacement for CCV, Turnbull is a goal threat and more experienced than Paolo Bernardo. Jamesie is currently not as much of a threat as Maeda but he was lively at the weekend and I believe he is playing his 300th match for Celtic so I expect a goal.
Live updates up
THEMS GAME DELAYED, hope it goes ahead then called off
Mrs jackiemac says ‘put a wash on’
I put a wash on.
Mrs Jackiemac sees the wash I put on and goes mental
I am not aware of what is handwash only
I say ‘sorry’
Mrs Jackiemac demands the telly controls in retaliation
I hope there are links to the game
bournesouprecipe on 1st November 2023 6:16 pm
Do you also write such comedic gems in a professional capacity or just for those lucky enough to be on here?
I could put you in contact with a good agent. Mrs Browns Boys were advertising for script writers not last week in The Stage.
CQN,reporting from Gaza tonight.
” Celtic FC are all liars,
GB are all put upon little innocents.
Gullibles,that have cheek to call out the scum for being the same.Spoilt brats cant get their way,wailing out at the club who have paid out almost £ 250,000 in fines for their rule breaking.
Now when the club says”Enough” they will play the Flag card for sympathy,and the gullibles will fall for it.
Did the club enforce any ban on the Flags in the last 3 games?.Nope,there were thousands on display.
Not good enough for the brats,who will happily split the support in their tantrum.
Grown men being led a dance by Wee Spoilt Pricks. ( Who I sometimes like.They cant help it,you can)
Turkeybhoy
Live updates up
In any commercial environment you can understand how breaches need to be investigated and met by appropriate actions if there’s any compliance, insurance, regulation compromises yada yada…
But when I read ‘concerns; like ‘No one should be threatened at work without their employer taking appropriate action. Organised groups of people cannot try to open gates to allow additional number in.’ I can’t help feel these first world, disposable income concerns truly pale compared to the unbridled death carnage taking place in Gaza and Israel, far less how quickly any new Ukraine War atrocities seem to be totally fading off the media agenda and into the rearview.
We see the persecution and plight of Catholics in Sri Lanka, Hazara in Afghanistan, Rohingy in Myanmar and Uighurs in China etc: They’re all notorious oppressions so why is it just Palestine that some Celtic fans seem to rightly rally behind? Was it becos the timelines of Gaza armed conflict kinda paralleled the troubles in Ireland ? Mibby our activists support the other causes cited and I’m just out the knowledge loop overseas…
Good solid 2-0 win anyway!