Newco fans climbed over the wall of the Sandy Jardine Stand to celebrate what they thought was the opening goal on Sunday. It was ill-advised, but not aggressive. The same was true when Celtic fans climbed over to celebrate the win. This copycat behaviour happened at Motherwell in 2023, when the home side scored a late equaliser, then Celtic scored an even-later winner.
With two incursions in the bank and Celtic fans on their pitch, were Newco ultras just going to turn and go home? Of course not. It looked like adrenaline-fuelled cosplaying adolescents. Unfortunately, this can never happen without the violently-inclined getting involved. They attach to marginal transgressors for cover.
The media and politicians can spare me their hand-wringing. They love it. They live for it. It gives the media audience. Finding news is hard work, this story was a gift for hard working news journos. Politicians are platformed to give a censorious lecture with commitments to act tough. The late Alex Salmond pitifully grabbed the spotlight in 2011. It is just an opportunity for politicians, the same again next week would suit them fine. It beats explaining their own performance on healthcare, education, the judicial system, social care and management of our towns and cities.
As for the good of Scottish football? The worst thing that can happen to Scottish football is that it becomes irrelevant. Today, the product looks like it has the edgiest game in the world. Scottish football could not afford all the media coverage it got for free this week.
There were two groups of fans at the game on Sunday. One who went to see a game of football, one who wanted to stick it to the man. One of the latter group walked out of the Broomloan Road Stand beside me, “I broke a seat!”, he yelled, waving his trophy above his head. He was not as young as you would hope.
The problem is not the adolescents. It is not football fans, or even ultras. It is people. When there are no personal consequences, some people take advantage. Even when there are consequences, some are too daft to consider them.
Police deserve a rocket up their backsides. In a previous era, Strathclyde Police patrolled pitch side. Now, Police Scotland sit back and let £13/hour stewards ‘police’ crowds. To gain entry to the Broomloan Stand, fans had to filter through multiple lines of police and two ticket inspection challenges (one by police, one by stewards). That fans without tickets found another route into the ground means that police strategy, despite being on the heavy side to normal fans, was a failure. Police are paid very well for these events and if they do a poor job, are able to demand they are paid more next time. They are negatively incentivised and have yet to be held to account. The Police Scotland – Scottish Government – Licensing Board cartel is quite an outfit.
The lad who walked out of the Broomloan carrying a piece of blue plastic above his head didn’t look like someone who had a lot of trophies in his life. That’s the takeaway from Sunday. What you see as chaos is someone else’s sense of achievement.
This is not a football problem, shops now put packets of butter in tagged containers because society has a Live Without Consequences underbelly. But it’s violent edge is almost always a male problem. Fixing that is one for the ages.
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PLB
Your comments feel pretty accurate from what I saw.
I see the Barton case has settled on £339,000 compensation for Aluko.
Not a fan of either protagonist in this one.
It will be interesting to see how either of their careers progress from here.
No hun in Paradise ever again.
AT- One charged married to a cop
BRRB- Always been my opinion
47, 54, and 54.
not young men.
Bada Bing
Seen that, and the ‘coach’ too who i am sure will now be sanctioned due to pvg.i cant c&p that over at min.
HH
Does anyone have a frequent problem logging or once logged in, get logged out again soon?
Does anyone log in regularly and never have any kind of problem?
Happens when I use duck duck or Google.
Best article for a while Paul.
The chatter is only covering for the fact Celtic supporters were on celebrating,taking selfies,the others on to cause harm.Its all there on film whatever the Media spin is.
Only hope is it finishes the ground sharing for these games.
Ziggydoc
yip, it’s chronically bad on the mobile with google. Near impossible to maintain the page as current.
On the laptop I will be randomly logged out, most frustratingly when I press “Post Comment” 🤦♂️
B78
Barton arrested for fighting on the way to court apparently
What a Dick………..
Excellent article. Would also note that James Forrest, who disgraced himself on here a few weeks ago, has written some very good articles on The Celtic Blog in recent days.
Glad to hear the Helen St situation was picked up. Really nasty stuff there.
Spikeysauldman
I remember the Bobby McKean stuff being sung. You are right that there was always that element.
Not something we can be proud of for sure.
PLB
Sign Big Tam !
HH
Sionnaigh on 10th March 2026 12:48 pm
Happy St. John Ogilvie Day!
*As well as St Kessog first patron saint of Scotland prior to the reformation, in the movie Braveheart when Mel Gibson is charging down the hill to battle the hunterlopers lol, he is chanting in gaelic “For St Kessog and Scotland”.
He was an Irish missionary of the mid-sixth century active in the Lennox area and southern Perthshire. Son of the king of Cashel in Ireland, Kessog is said to have worked miracles, even as a child. He left Ireland and became a missionary bishop in Scotland. Using Monks’ Island in Loch Lomond as his headquarters, he evangelized the surrounding area until he was martyred, supposedly at Bandry, where a heap of stones was known as St Kessog’s Cairn. Kessog was killed in 520 AD.
The St Kessog’s church in Luss on the banks of Loch Lomond is named after Kessog and the church contains an effigy of the saint. There is a Roman Catholic church in the nearby town of Balloch also named after him. Kessog is claimed to have brought Christianity to the area around Luss in 510 AD and 1500 years of continuous Christian presence in the area was celebrated in 2010.
that was the other thing about sunday – totally different parking arrangements and route to get there than when we previously had the full end.
celtic had specificallly said that helen street was a complete no-go for celtic fans this time and that celtic fans would be sent away from there if they went near it.
unfortunately not everyone got the memo, with serious repercussions for that chap.
I can`t remember a better article, Paul. Well done.
RUGBY FANS
Has Oscar Jégou been `sentenced ` yet?
I’m still celebrating. Unfortunately the horses at Cheltenham are not joining in. 🙄. Must be hun. 😁
simply ecstatic – no violence
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/x1G8hHQm5BM
Smokey – the hearing is supposedly today. I haven’t seen or heard anything about the outcome👍
Paul 67
There is now way any decent Celtic fan will condone the ridiculous wanton vandalism to the Broomloan stand.
From a behavioural aspect I have been proud in the knowledge that we are way better than the scum from Greyskull, way better. Just look at the Seville game, 80,000 Celtic fans, only 5 arrests for urinating in a public place.
But the one brain cell muppets think they have been clever. They never stop to think of the fall out , no
Clubs reputation shattered, Financial costs of repair, being laughed at by the football media worldwide.
Oh, I forgot, it’s an Old Firm thing, one’s as bad as the other, two cheeks of the same arse, bla bla bla
It wasnt the Green brigade either, but I bet the will be further banned from Parkhead
Very sad
kingLUBO
Be proud, be very proud
oh, I forgot, huge fine too, what’s not to like
However, vandalism apart, I feel strongly our fans did very little wrong. sure the jumped on the field behind the goal and tried to get a selfie with their heroes.
We simply must get out of Scottish football, or better still, get rid of the Hun
kingLUBO
also. it isnt the fault of the Police that Rangers did not pay for them to police the place, corner cutting again
St John Ogilvie
Big mad priest at All Saints, Barmulloch used to be priest in Easterhouse or thereabouts when the “miracle” took place which turned John from Blessed John to Saint John. Father Fitzgibbons. When i was a wee guy he reminded me of a white Idi Amin – big booming voice and “fatter” than the photo in the link below. He probably looked nothing like him !
https://www.dioceseoflansing.org/news/read-father-fitzgibbons-and-miracle-made-scottish-saint-david-kerr
All Saints chapel is now Robroyston Amateur Boxing Club – good Tim/family friend runs the Boxing Circuits side of things. Great classes.
With AJ posting on social media that he is back in training and running again, here’s hoping he can return to his best form without any setbacks.
Question, even if fully fit does he get picked ahead of Araujo? I think the Mexican shades it and would love to see him here for another season. As an added bonus, he is the best since Broonie at noising up the opposition.
DB- play both
Re Helen St. I didn’t realise there would be rangers buses there AND the road right down to Govan x. I merely thought we were not to access via Helen St itself. No indication pre game as early as we arrived.
Police didn’t bother us in the industrial estates off the Main Street. Assumed it would be fine.
It clearly wasn’t. There were a few fairly one sided skirmishes for sure. Not many police in sight for a fair time.
TBB – would love to see that. On the other side we could have KT and Any Robertson 😃
Andy
Does anyone know please, if or when out long terms casualties , might be back before the end of the season
AJ maybe, but why risk him when we have SuperMex
kingLUBO
Vatican & World News 10.03.2026 Anno Domini
https://youtu.be/Z2GNAJucGDk?si=-JzQOSruMLtY7mKu
Ave Ave
That is just Hunlike entitled cancel culture.
Dave King started this recent ban away fans stupidity trying to copy David Murray because he was terrified of uppity LOU MACARI, so he got the cops to break Broomloan rd seats and blamed Celtic supporters for it and, MACARI was the only Celtic FC employee who asked for visual/video proof of Celtic fans breaking seats, on STV’s “SPORT IN QUESTION” and other media, citing that: “we are never done hearing that Ibrox has Fort Knox like security, yet there is no evidence of a single Celtic fan breaking a single seat inside Ibrox.”
It is Hunlike Imperialist arrogant stupidity to ban away fans.
Celtic should have held a press conference stating why it is wrong to ban fans simply because you don’t like them, or because they annoy you.
We now have waggle your wallies Brian Wilson to front our case, maybe we need to look at ourselves to see how stupid and insincere Celtic fans really are that they have sat on their fat spoiled erchies and accepted that THAT is the case?
But Celtic played along with the cancel culture like the spineless clique that they are.
What is worse for me in all of this is that Celtic supporters, almost 8,000 of them, inside Ibrox from 10:00 am until nearly 4:00 pm and not once did they sing YNWA.
We are losing our identity.
We are forgetting who we are.
Can’t sing YNWA but can spray paint about the Ibrox disaster is a Celtic supporter base that is now deeply hollowed out, but uppity leadership with plenty of erchie kicking home truths can reverse that.
We are now drum beating for cancel culture for fans to be banned.
We are now wearing David Murray’s auld stinking drawers FFS!
We are the other Old Firm erchie cheek because fans have had ZERO leadership inside the club since young MON was strutting his stuff back in the day!
We need to run the clock back to pre “THE TAYLOR REPORT” era, as that is when we have become sectioned off into sweetie wife cliques through season ticket distributions by postcode.
I don’t want to sit with bible thumpers!
I don’t want to sit with Celtic View brainwashed anoraks!
I don’t want to sit with David Murray Cancel Culture drum beaters!
I don’t want to sit with i love Nicola Zoomers!
I want to STAND with uppity rebelliious JUNGLISTS on the UNSEATED Terraces!!
I don’t want to lose my identity because the majority are now mind warped since all seating was pushed onto fans with 1993/94 Jack McGinn led Celtic on its knees with ZERO Resistance to this “TAYLOR REPORT” shaft of innocent Football fans!
Cancel Culture is for SNP/TORY/DavidMurray/HUNS!
Get rid of the seats and we can have 20,000 away fans until we screw the nut and buy Hampden and turn it into the 100,00 stadium capacity Old Firm San Siro Citadel!
Or some other holy name.
See my post from previous article.
We need both sets of fans back to old ticket distributions or we are hiding from something?
Fearful Tims will only make any problems that we have even greater.
Imho.
HH.
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Greenpinata on 10th March 2026 9:00 am
“No huns in Celtic Park.
While i love MON to bits, he is wrong to advocate allowing the huns to have a full complement to enhance the atmosphere and create a great spectacle.
We are not performing seals to create a great spectacle for armchair viewers.
I do think that recent events will make that possibility very unlikely going forward, however even one hun in Parkhead is one too many.”
para bilbar la bamba
Uefa fears impact of new EPL spending rules
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c8r1m4mr2k8o
HH
Flynn
you dont go – by choice – you dont have a say
away and take gg’s pants aff yer face
They just do not do insight.
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HH