As six Celtic fans face the prospect of months in a Dutch jail if police evidence is preferred, take a look at this CCTV video from the Euro Pub in Dam Square:
This is no more than the strong bullying the vulnerable. It is shocking and affected more than just Celtic fans, other innocent bystanders were picked on.
What can you do about it? We’re looking for around 40 more bucketeers to collect before the Aberdeen game on Saturday for the legal defence of the six Celtic fans. You’ll need to get to the stadium a bit early, bucket shaking will be required. That’s all.
If you can help, email dambhoys8@yahoo.co.uk for more information. You’ll enjoy it.
Thank you.
Remember the Q&A in the Columba Club, Blantyre, tomorrow. I’ll be there with Phil Mac Giolla Bhain and Paul McConville. Tickets available at the door, we get underway at 8pm. See you there.
If you have not been to Celtic Park since the last home game, be prepared for pandemonium around London Road on Saturday. No one will be able to walk or drive from London Road up Kerrydale Street to the Park. Check out the open routes here and get there early.
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South Of Tunis
Looking at the footage I think it was a wrong place at wrong time scenario. Not into violence at the fitba myself. Would probably stop going altogether if it was a regular occurence at games.
Celtic_First
I’m not sure it is legal to drink on the streets of Amsterdam. A mate of mine lives there and said as much. These are the type of things that need educated to fans travelling.
LB
Summa of Sammi….
11:58 on
22 November, 2013
Your question was do I expect fans to behave the same way 40 years on?
When it comes to Celtic fans then the answer is “yes” and I don’t think that is being naive.
Seville reawakened the idea of the great huge travelling party support — just like Lisbon all those years before. Different generations, same ethos…… and it has become part of our support’s psyche — we go to party, to represent Celtic and its support and not to cause trouble.
That will be the same in two decades time hopefully.
BOBBY MURDOCH’S CURLED-UP WINKLEPICKERS backs Resolution 12
12:01 on
22 November, 2013
You pick me up wrongly— see what happens when I try brevity?
The legal logic I was referring to was yours. If you are being attacked by someone with no way of knowing that this is an officer of the law who is apparently going about the business of maintaining order, then you have every right to presume that this is someone who is intent on doing you harm and so are entitled to defend yourself.
I will go further– even if you know it is a police officer and you genuinely believe he is using, or is about to use, unreasonable force— you are still allowed to defend yourself and you should not be punished for it provided your response is reasonable in the circumstances.
If your response is excessive and it is deemed you have committed an offence, then as the judge says, if you did not know it was a Police officer, then you cannot be penalised for the supposedly aggravated offence of striking an officer of the law in the course of his duty.
Giving up on brevity– it doesn’y work!
SUMMA OF SAMMI
I know that many Arsenal fans still bear a grudge at us booing the soldiers who presented the trophy at the Emirates Cup a coupla years back.
My argument is that had we known they were gonna do that,we wouldn’t have turned up.
We were Stitched Up.
End of…
Terrible thing ! Many of us belong to a people who have been stitched up for 800 years.
Can we do anything about it ?
Not really. It is their game played to their rules.
What we CAN do, is what we are doing. Support those caught up in this disgraceful sham in every way we can,.. financially & in any other practical way we can meet their needs.
We will, of course, learn from this harsh lesson.
We can decide that we will have no more to do with those who have so abused us so unfairly.
We can hit them through staying away from their boring country & refusing to buy their inferior beers or their plastic cheeses. God knows, that won’t be any ordeal.
Don’t get mad…. Get even,.. each of us in his own small way.
God Bless our young comrades.
BROGAN ROGAN TREVINO & HOGAN
Thanks for the explanation,bud. Really appreciated.
I have no-one to blame for the misunderstanding,other than myself.
It is no less than I deserve for my tongue in cheek dig at you last week!
Though,as you rightly pointed out….
35-26!!
new article posted.
Summa…..
Sorry mate but totally disagree with your predictions about crowd trouble if Celtic were in the EPL.
The English cops are very good at controlling football crowds in general.
.
Brogan..
Celtic Fans ..Reacted.. in Amsterdam..
And that should be their Only Defence..
No Celtic fan before has been Attacked in this Way..
Summa
Summa of Sammi….
12:23 on 22 November, 2013
There’s more of a residue of goodwill between our supporters and the supporters of most EPL clubs than there is between us and any Scottish club.
In an ideal world if we got into the EPL without being shackled to sevco all the bigotry and sectarian baggage could be left at the border.
Kilbowie Kelt:
Dutch cheese is the most revolting cheese made by man. How do I know, well try and toast it… then come back to me.
And as for the beer… Kestral is better. (is it dutch?)
Shameless gratuitous attempt at last post again.
neganon2
Was up at the WACA this afternoon for a look at the Warriors v Vics, place is looking good for the test match. Just drop me a mail whenever the bhoys send you my e-mail address.
AR
Kilbowie Kelt,
Very Well Said.
Amsterdam is enticing to many, hopefully this will put them off.
Nothing like Cold Hard in yer face things to divert people from the Romanticism. I believe in telling people the Cold HARSH realities.
Keep posting the Truth KK.
001:
Celtic fans have been attacked, on several occasions, worse than what happened in Amsterdam.
https://twitter.com/craiguito/status/403861598978060289
Ah just larks
I travelled to Amsterdam in 1982 on a supporters bus with no loo.
No Easy Jet or Ryanair in those days, tough journey there and back but great result in the old Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam.
From a football perspective certainly not a welcoming city even back then..
Having travelled a lot over the years following Celtic in Europe, the only country in my opinion who know how to police football properly and fairly is Germany. They are used to large travelling supports on a weekly basis and from my experience when we played in Dortmund they tend to understand football fans and how to police properly.
Glasgow Trouble
We invited 3,000 Ajax fans with tickets to Glasgow and 2,500 behaved themselves and were true supporters , 500 were fannies who wouldn’t last a minute on there own in any Glasgow pub on a Saturday night.
Amsterdam Trouble
They invited 2,500 Celtic fans with tickets to Amsterdam and all behaved themselves.
Another 10,000 Celtic fans travelled without a match invitation to have a party.
Some of the 10,000 uninvited (without a match invitation) additional happy people who had turned up for a party were targeted by the local fannies (hooligan fans and hooligan police).They proceeded to take their anger and brutality out on the partygoers.
Lessons to be learned :
Don’t go to uninvited football party’s in shit hole cities where some of the local fans and police are fannies.
Don’t give presents of 2 million euros to shit hole cities where the fannies stay.
Message to Celtic Players please do your best to finish second in our group with Milan finishing third.
To the many good people of Amsterdam and true supporters of Ajax you have been badly let down by your hooligan fans and hooligan police.
Justice will prevail !! … Hail Hail
Alfie Sherrin 14:25 Haydock
14:25 @ Haydock Park – Gullinbursti – NAP!
Good luck everybody.
Special Catch 1.50 Haydock.
Good luck.
Lads,
CQN Saturday naps here please…
fleagle1888
Haydock 13:50
HOME RUN
good luck all and thanks fleagle
Morning all.
Fiddlers Bid
Ascot 1300.
Arra best.
Drumshambo in the 3:15 at Ascot.
Gave me my only winning nap three weeks ago, although it’s raised 9lbs for that. Reason I picked it was the amazing progress it showed this time last year, so I’m hoping for similar this year!
T4
Morning Lhads
Going for ‘Sir Pedro’ 2.35 Lingfield…named after our great leader.hh
Victorian Number 1.25 Lingfield.
Think this nag will come on a few pounds today for the extra furlong and the steering of the Head Waiter.
Twisty/T4
what was the Robeson horse that was being touted yesterday?
Awrabest Bhoys
15:35 Haydock – Noble Legend
Happy Punting
Saved By John…………….15:15 @ Ascot
Sir Pedro 2:35 Ling
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The Stig 12.35 Huntingdon
Fastest thing around
More Of That 1:50 Haydock……on a desperate run,maybe
AP can end it……good luck everyone.
Gregori 15-10 Lingfield
Lads,
my nap is Sexy Secret (Lingfield 11.50)
Good Luck everyone…
fleagle1888
Would like to think the Celtic Board would read this piece by Glen Gibbons in todays Scotsman.
Resisting Bangura could have paid staff a living wage
In A business in which hypocrisy has been playing a blinder for over 100 years, few people, if any, would be shocked to discover that Celtic, the self-proclaimed, all-inclusive champion of the poor and downtrodden, currently employ 178 workers who are paid less than the rate prescribed by government as “a living wage”.
This should not be confused with the minimum wage, a considerably lower hourly remuneration, and a legal obligation imposed on all employers. If Peter Lawwell should have been discomfited by any issue to emerge from his club’s annual meeting, it should have been by the protest from Jeanette Findlay, chair of the Celtic Trust, over his board’s rejection of a motion to make the club a living-wage employer.
The argument by the Celtic chairman, Ian Bankier, that most of the lower-paid were match-day casual labour and, therefore, supplementing their income from their primary work, was a feeble attempt at a defence which simply body-swerved the moral point at the core of Findlay’s passionate protest. It is that, to comply with the club’s supposedly traditional rectitude, no employee, in any capacity, should earn less than the living wage. Clearly not given to pussyfooting, she referred to the board’s decision as “one that shames you and shames us”.
Bankier gathered no support, either, from revealing that adopting Resolution 11 would cost £500,000 a year. In today’s market, that sum would not buy a bad player. In this light, Neil Lennon could restore the directors to righteousness.
The manager could strike a deal with the board whereby, when he feels the once-a-year urge to sign a Mo Bangura, he could instruct the directors instead to lodge the fee (£2.2 million) and the player’s earnings for the term of the contract (about the same again) with the wages department, assuring the full workforce of their due for the next eight years.
Haydock 335 Sydney Paget.
Good luck everyone.
Golden Desert …..1.25 Lingfield.
Good Luck, Lhads.
Gevrey Chambertin 2.25 at Haydock for me please , be lucky bhoys