CELTIC GET “NOTICE OF COMPLAINT” IBROX BOTTLE THROWERS GET A FREE PASS
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- Jun 13
- 2 min read
Just when you think the authorities that run Scottish football couldn’t do anything more stupefying, The SPFL stands up and proudly proclaims “hold my, erm, whatever it is you peasants have to drink in stadiums since we don’t allow beer!”
Three clubs have been served with notices of complaint today, for “unacceptable conduct” towards the end of last season.
Celtic Cited As Rangers Fans Get Away with Thuggery Yet Again
Now, surely the bottles, other missiles and the 90-minute barrage of racist abuse hurled towards the Celtic players, fans and staff at Ibrox would mean Rangers are one of those clubs, right?
Nope. It’s Celtic, Aberdeen and Partick Thistle.
Apparently throwing bottles at the Celtic goalkeeper doesn’t constitute “unacceptable conduct” in the SPFL’s eyes.
Honestly, if the conspiracies are true, and they really are all Rangers fans, trying their best to help their team, then they really need to make at least some effort to disguise it. At this point they have all the subtlety and delicate touch of an elephant trying to tap dance.
Scotland’s Shame continue to disgrace us all pretty much every time their team plays, and nothing is said. Some commentators even praised the “passionate” atmosphere at the last Glasgow Derby.
Maybe I’m crazy but to me passion at the football is about color, support for your team, and singing songs of triumph and glory.
It’s not flinging bucky bottles, glorifying genocide or branding your rivals “rebel scum”.
But apparently, based on today’s actions from the SPFL anyway, all of the above is acceptable. However, don’t you dare exercise your right to gather in a public place to celebrate your victory, which is what Celtic fans did.
Now Aberdeen is more of a clear-cut case. Although I’m not really sure it’s fair to blame the club for the isolated actions of one absolute halfwit in their support who decided to throw a seat at one of their own players.
What could Aberdeen actually have done differently to even predict such madness might happen, let alone prevent it?
On the other hand, there is plenty that Rangers, the SPFL and other stakeholders could do to prevent the obscene, and increasingly violent, hate fest we see every time Celtic visit Ibrox. They simply choose not to, because profit, and pandering to bigots comes before public safety in their eyes.
Partick Thistle, it seems, are being sanctioned because some of their supporters got into a confrontation with Ayr United fans ahead of their Championship Playoff.
However, I’ve yet to see any video evidence that shows the exchanges were anything other than verbal. At least, that’s my best guess, because there’s nothing else, I can find that suggests anything unacceptable from their fans.
Dare I say, Partick Thistle got hit simply because they are an easy target. Celtic copped it because some at Hampden just can’t handle the fact that we continue to dominate Scottish football.
And once again, Rangers get away with it, because the authorities are too gutless to stand up to them.
