http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/sco...ide-story-Yobs-who-shamed-Celtic-at-Dens.html Can anyone who went to the game confirm any of this? Harry aulluded to some fans being arseholes ... If even halfway true, they need routed out and given lifetime bans! http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/4715552/Hoops-vow-to-ban-all-thugs.html
Depressing isn't it. It's the same type of drunken ****headedness as that which led to alcohol being banned in stadiums and most Old Firm games being scheduled before lunch.
Lawwell didn't say what the problem was. A mate at the game told me that loads of folk were just hammered and acting like hammered folk. He said he heard there were a few bloodied faces about but he reckoned a lot of that was from guys just stacking it. Guys were getting irate at folk pushing in queues as apparently there were only a few turnstyles on the go. Of course that doesn't excuse anything. That is third hand coming from one guy. I don't know about the other stuff.
He's not obsessed though...anyhoo. A different perspective from FB: [h=5]A Dundee official has labelled trouble within Dens Park on Boxing Day as ‘serious disorder’ and that scenes were ‘a throwback to the 70s’, as Celtic fans fought among themselves inside the stadium’s concourse. Celtic secured all three points against Dundee thanks to goals for Georgios Samaras and Gary Hooper, but the shock for Dundee came from the visiting support and their booze fuelled behaviour. Dundee FC operations manager Jim Thomson, said: “There was widespread drunkenness, and I mean widespread, within the Celtic support. We were confiscating drink from supporters in the concourse leading to the turnstiles. They were clearly drunk coming in and we had a decision to make on whether we let them in and we took the decision that we had to let them in because we would have had other consequences if we didn’t. “Once in, they were abusing our turnstile staff, our canteen staff and even fighting among themselves, and I mean serious disorder within the concourse. All in all it was just not a nice experience. In the 20 years I’ve been organising games here at Dens Park I have never seen anything like that – it was a throwback to the 70s that we are all probably ashamed of. “I would say that the scheduling of the fixture didn’t help. Nonetheless, I don’t want to make light of it, but I can have a skinful but I’m not going to go and behave like people did last night. It’s just not acceptable.” According to further reports drunken Celtic fans urinated where they stood and trashed the away end toilets. Thomson claimed that he stopped counting those fans ejected when he got to 40 in number, but one erroneous report claimed over 70 Celtic fans were involved in running battles, a Scotzine source put the number at around 30 Celtic fans, with the trouble starting before kick off as fans were being penned in towards the turnstiles outside the away end – far from the running battles that the newspaper paints a scene of. One Celtic supporter reportedly blocked the way of a number of younger fans, creating a flash point in which the fan refusing to move was pushed back and through the turnstiles, when the three fans were through they were targeted by the fan and members of a Celtic supporters club, which escalated in Fuelled by booze other so-called fans got involved as Tayside Police along with Stewards, according to our sources ‘lost control of the situation and let the fans fight among themselves’. A Tayside Police spokesperson confirmed that five supporters had been arrested, four Celtic supporters and one Dundee fan, she said: “There was a level of disturbance at the match, primarily within the Celtic section of the stadium. Five people are to be reported to the procurator fiscal for alleged football-related offences. Officers responded to the incidents quickly and took appropriate action.” Meanwhile, Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell has apologised to Dundee, he said: “We are very proud that Celtic supporters enjoy such a great reputation and it is therefore extremely disappointing that the behaviour of a small minority has tarnished the good name of the club and our fans in this way. “Clearly, we apologise to Dundee Football Club – we will work with them and look into any incident which is raised and if we can identify any individuals involved, we will obviously take the strongest possible action. “We have received a number of complaints today from our own supporters about the conduct of this minority – we cannot allow our supporters’ enjoyment of our matches to be affected in this way and we will not sit and allow the club’s reputation to be damaged. Our supporters over many years have earned such a fantastic reputation for positively supporting the club, we will not allow this to be taken from them. It is time for all our true supporters who care about Celtic to unite with the club and find a solution to this problem.” The police, authorities and even the broadcaster showing the game on Boxing Day night have been criticised by some quarters for allowing the game to go ahead at 7.30pm, which gave fans plenty of time to get boozed up. Thomson added: “The game should never have kicked off at 7.30pm on Boxing Day. It was a disaster waiting to happen. It gave the supporters too much time to get drunk. It’s just a joke to play a game at that time on that day. Everyone knows this time was chosen to fit in with the TV schedule but the atmosphere at the game was just frightening. “That was meant to be the Celtic v Rangers game as we got Rangers’ place in the SPL. If that had been an Old Firm match do you think it would have been played at that time? I very much doubt it.” Celtic could face sanctions from the Scottish Premier League over the trouble, if it is noted in the referee’s report.[/h]
The bit where he says "i can have a skinful and not act the ****"... (I'm paraphrasing here)...that appears to be the sum of it.
“That was meant to be the Celtic v Rangers game as we got Rangers’ place in the SPL. If that had been an Old Firm match do you think it would have been played at that time? I very much doubt it. ”http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2011/dec/28/celtic-rangers-old-firm-derby-live
Ah you know what he meant. It wiznae a bank holiday. One year to the day since Joseph Christopher Ledley sent the Hoops tap o ra league. Time flies when yer havin fun,
Actual footage from the ground: [video=youtube;C6ebK817wQI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C6ebK817wQI&feature=player_embedded&ytsess ion=r5VKm1wwPFM7A2r_VvJ5_2qtfQthwmPODOpWDgbFoXe_ON L2PUz6B0Jjkz8ir32v7rLr55YajMFcGiERnyl4r8sF08sWIbJz z-rVIBryTUjkrG8v41ISRrX3ULqFUJTPB1s0fL3Eqbl5q4EAYo0D yFJZWaBe-GgB45BewBYidD0pdvlTZWjW_ETv5GO59T5usCPhdOptyBEa-iNLk0HDaFJlWBCwtTm8Z_GdSlj-KboN-gFmOI0T0A3XmvWVqesecq8dRJmKNNgbwNyEsRCYwKMoGtQkIgD vioP4XURKkpI[/video]
This guy's reporting whit he wants I think, just by chance I suppose he never heard the Dundee fans giving it laldy with " Ya dirty fenian basturds" Selective hearing and vision the choob.
Wouldn't excuse bad behaviour from our 'fans' under any circumstances but watching on TV I thought I heard the 'Billy Boys' and suchlike being sung/chanted by Dundee fans?
"fans" you mean the guys who follow your team everywhere they go? The guys who buy tickets week in week out? Real fans
not one dundee fan was drunk or acted like an arsehole! not one! trev, the moral high ground is full.
Your team fans made crimewatch ,Trevor . I posted early Thursday morning how disgusted I was at our fans behaviour , but the media have gone over the top on what actually happened
