Kettling, def., the confinement by police of a group of demonstrators or protesters in a small area, as a method of crowd control. The kettling of football fans now appears to be a standard part of police armoury, in Glasgow as well as in Paris. As a fan, it feels that police don’t like fans congregating, or even queueing, outside a ground, they would prefer to ‘kettle’ them in a claustrophobic area, where a small number of officers and horses can establish authority over the crowd.
When kettled, you are immediately aware of the danger. A crowd is a dynamic entity. Crushing is not inevitable, but everyone is vulnerable to a few bad actors. Decision making police always seem to be far away from the kettle. Policies were laid down, probably days earlier, the officers, vehicles and horses involved in the enforcement are, at best, several minutes away from an authorised action to de-escalate an incident.
What happened at the Champions League final, hours before kick-off, a kilometre from the stadium, was lazy and dangerous policing. French politicians and Uefa officials immediately blamed fans, that hoary old habit. Fans – people – deserve better.
The police actions in Paris on Saturday evening did not happen spontaneously. Rioting has been a growing problem in French football since the return of crowds, culminating in an out of control pitch invasion by Saint Etienne fans last night, after a penalty competition consigned them to Ligue 2 next season. Police response to a legitimate issue, was to profile football fans prejudicial manner.
For decades across Europe, authoritites too lazy or understaffed to police properly, expose fans to danger and intimidation.
After a two year hiatus, the CQN Charity Golf Day will take place at Aberdour on Friday 2 September 2022. Details will be available soon.
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champions which one, Scottish League champions or the now famous Scottish Cup champions😱😵
Apart from now leading the poll of best ever club side on 33%, the Lisbon Lions are the only team featured without a photo. Hurting’ Hun involved?
I see it reported that Celtic are interested in AIK defender Erick otieno , this one I hope is just click bait . This player is just 5 foot 5 inch just what we need to defend cross balls into our box , but having said that he is the size we do sign .
Does that means that the Lisbon Lions have now won a unique sextuple?…ooh err missus
Boli Bolingoli is 1.8 metres
Have you met him?…..that’ll be a no.
A plant.a troll.
Does not attend Celtic Park.
Correction Tom- You Tom,think I associate myself with him I don’t. Your post carried the association.error!
F… off wi the take yourself to seriously comment Tom 🤣🤣🤣
Keep it real Tom.you have a good day,got a busy day ahead and night ending at Celtic Park God willing.
Humour is needed Tom,associating me wi trolls is not.
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Erick Otieno is 5ft 7in.
I have met about half-a-dozen CQNers. Are all the others trolls?
https://twitter.com/i/status/1531276358323736578
Liam Scales is 1.88 metres
new article posted.
KDS at the moment is like a WW2 espionage documentary.
Some very interesting chat about spying vs signal intelligence.
WW2 — the German’s kept looking for spies when in fact it was Enigma signal intelligence.
1990’s — FMcC thought “Sir” DM had a mole at P/head when in fact he might have been dabbling in phone hacking.
SDM was very involved with a couple of Scum roasters / journalists so he might have learned about the dark arts from early practitioners out in Kinning Park.
From distant memories — the TFOD1.0 ability back in the day to know our business and alert the papers was something that did not make sense at the time.