It all seems a bit cloak and dagger to suggest that pyrotechnics are smuggled into football grounds inside flags and banners. I’d always assumed the ‘stick it up your jumper’ technique would have been the delivery mechanism, not that I’ve any experience of the subject.
Flares have been an increasing menace at football games across the UK in recent years, including earlier this season at a Europa League qualifying game at McDiarmid Park, which passed off without mention in the media, but police have previously limited their interventions to lectures and the occasional arrest.
Football clubs are dependent on Police Scotland for safety licenses for games, and in their wisdom, the police have determined this action will remove one method of entering a stadium with pyrotechnics and discharging them without detection. The ‘stick it up your jumper’ technique remains, as does ‘light it while pretending to tie your laces’. Jumpers and tie-up shoes are the real enemy here.
This is an arbitrary over-reaction to the criticism Police Scotland came under for failing to properly police the vandalism at Fir Park, it will not prevent anyone intent on letting off flares inside a football ground from doing so. Over-reacting after under-policing is a well-known phenomenon. Going after flags and banners feels provocative. Coincidence?
You’re likely to find out if you’re in a provocative mood on Thursday; Police Scotland will know that provoking a crowd seldom quietens things down. The reaction to Fir Park made me hopeful that we’d seen the last flare from the Celtic support, now who knows? We’re deep in muscle flexing territory here.
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For the BhoysOfOz..
Emirates are doing great Deals to Europe..
It’s a $150 dollars cheaper for a return to Glasgow than Dubai..Dublin is $200 Cheaper that Glagow @ $1,493..
Less than Half what l paid last Year..The Aussie dollar falling has some benefits..;-)
Summa
St Vincent de Paul have done some incredible work for my family, as I suspect they’ve done for others on this blog.
Is this what we’ve elected? Idiots.
67Heaven, see KK’s posts
KK, I’d love that… hopefully one day chief
JQB,
Read back, you don’t have to go far…
BankiebhoyCSC
Twitter.
So Celtic thought they were talking to St Johnstone about the ban but they were actually talking to Inverness? Yep, sheer genius this lot
Big Nan. St Vincent de Paul, really. I’m gobsmacked, just goes to show what you have been up against all this time. On the plus side though it means they are taking your petition seriously.
JimmyQuinnsBits
Are you any relation to the great man?
My Mother-In-Law, Betty Quinn,from Queenzieburn is related.
So Celtic weren’t party to the flag decision….wondered why all the protagonists had ‘disappeared’ from CQN tonight….gone all quiet on that front…….let’s wait and see what the LL can concoct tomorrow….
Watched Sportscene tonight……what a little bitter bhun that wee commentator is….hahahaha
hen1rik
23:46 on 23 December, 2013
Sorry, can you clarify, please…?
Jimmy Q’ s bits
As far as I remember the SVDP is very much parish-based and pretty autonomous. This has advantages and disadvantages. I’m talking from real ignorance here but I think that they ought get more involved in the food bank movement.
Are PS enforcing the laws against banned songs?
Just asking.
Summa
“Krist..!!
They will be Telling Us Jesus is Spelt Jeezus..
Still disnae make Him a Natural Goalscorer..;-)
Summa
Ps..Should it Not be Commons’s..Ha Ha”
Pps…No! It shouldn’t
:-)
KK
My first trip to Milford, Donegal was when I was 4……remember most of it to this day……
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RRC..
Peeps are Missing BlantyreTims spelling..Just doing ma Bit..;-(
Summa
Summa
Now that was funny
Gotcha… Keep up the good work
:-)
Here’s the thing…. how many posts start with that?
Somebody, sorry I can’t remember who, made a crackin post a couple of weeks ago on what Celtic meant to them. To me, it was the perfect balance between being open to all, whilst avoiding the bland “just a football club” mentality. That guy put it far more eloquently than I ever could.
This tolerance is important: we will disagree, argue, and sometimes get out of hand…. but life is too short for real enmity. I would ask for one thing, one piece of tolerance; that my view of Celtic as a symbol of my people be respected and understood.
Whether you like it or not, Celtic was established as an immigrant totem – there is nothing wrong with that. If this club had been founded by any immigrants other than Irish, it would be supported, fawned over and utilised by politicians as an example of multiculturalism.
You may support Celtic for other reasons, in some ways better reasons than mine. I respect yours… respect mine.
http://t.co/ciZLoTGUTN
Have to say this place is on fire tonight
Some great posts and dare I say it quite a sense of unity.
Certainly about Police: Scotland, should’ve called it Police:Celtic
HH
DD….thanks for the endorsement.
Still too many people getting worked up.
1. Get the money together for a legal fund
2. Force police scotland into court and explain themselves publicly
3. Force police scotland to comply with and enforce law, not make it up as they go along
4. Starve the away games of money…….without it they die and we can then go elsewhere to play our football (UEFA)
5. Make them accountable…..from messers salmon all the way down to messers house.
Fight smart not hard…….
My money is waiting…..is yours?
While I am for Scottish Independence in principal the behaviour of the SNP led Scottish Government over issues such as this is alienating voters………certainly the cohort I belong to.
Wither the political leadership and correct application of the law in Scotland from its Edinburgh capital?
jimmyquinnsbits
00:05 on 24 December, 2013
Must have been me…..no?
Billy Bhoy supports wee Oscar
BB, My Dad swears it, but I can’t see any link…. we were Possil tims, back in the days of the mines and canals
If the idea of a tenner a month is a goer I’m in
Count me in for a tenner a month
Estadio 23.26
I posted last night wondering how you are.
Have a merry Xmas.
TT
«@AllanRennie1 «@Daily_Record Today’s back page http://t.co/PFiH5VMbUk»» someone has had a howler here :(
Greendreamz
Agree 100%
Am in a tenner a month, for my 3 year old grandson, who will look amazing in his Gold away kit that Santa is bringing :)
Fritzsong,
just good people, giving
How they can be hooked in to the same classification as the freemasons…. mibbe SCIAF’s next.
It only takes five minutes research to establish this, why would this SNP tube come out with this? You can reasonably conclude that he’s a tit, fud, walloper, rocket, and dick.
I should be a scientist, you see what I could create out of that lot?
hen1rik
gettin “Page Doesn’t Exist” – have they pulled it?
If the club have any sense they will cease this opportunity to unite with the fans , and fight this crazy ban.
TT
hen1rik
Cheers, you have made my day. according to that link the page doesn’t exist. One page today tomorrow the paper.
If it sais on the ticket for the game, no banners or flags to be taken by the holder of this ticket into Mcd. Park, then that’s it you don’t and can’t do it, if it Doesent say that on the ticket, then no one can stop you, except here they will and it’s going to be a problem, it’s all right having a laugh and joke about it, as I said earlier this didn’t sit right with me yesterday, and it’s even worse this evening, the more this guy Lynch pops his head up, I can actually feel his anger and fury, this guy is acting like the original jobs worth, and he is going to have his cops well tooled up on Thursday, it’s alright saying cops are ok at away games, and there’s never any bother, and they prob. Are, and there prob. Isn’t, obviously I hope I am totally wrong here, but there’s some thing strange going on here it just Doesent sit well with me.
TT
Cease? Sieze shirley? :))
JimmyQuinnsBits
00:22 on 24 December, 2013
remove the “>> >>”
It is clear that celtic agreed to this ban and have been frightened by the reaction of the support. If st Johnstone and the police demand it is upheld them celtic should refuse to play. And make their disgust clear.
That would unite us. Over to you celtic.
Anyone still disagree with me from p.6 that the McDiarmid pyro-flag debacle has got nothing to do with safety and is just a symptom of national anti Celtic bias?
Tell you what though..today does give a glimpse of what an away boycott by Celtic supporters could do. Money talks! BS walks!
Just back from a good wee overnight stay in Leith.
A few Hibs displays on Xmas balconys.
I blame .
Naebuddy.
http://twitpic.com/dpqlks
Try this boys
Seriously? Celtic dialed ICT instead of SJ? Is this true?