POLICE SCOTLAND’S COWARDICE ON SHOW ONCE AGAIN AS CELTIC AND RANGERS VIDEO EMERGES
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- 2 days ago
- 3 min read
Remember the wee bhoy who got manhandled by several stewards as police watched and laughed at the end of Celtic’s recent 3-1 win over Aberdeen?
It was the second time in as many months we'd seen a young, solitary Celtic fan being set upon by a bully in a hi-vis jacket.
Well, just when you thought Police Scotland’s two-tiered approach to policing Celtic and Rangers fans couldn’t get any worse, I saw this online today.
Clearest Evidence Yet of Obvious Bias in the Treatment of Celtic and Rangers Fans by Police
Now, context is key, of course, but the video does appear to clearly show a police officer approaching a Celtic fan and grabbing him from behind in what, looks on the surface anyway, to be a cowardly and unnecessary escalation.
Meanwhile, go ahead and look up the scenes when Rangers scored their 3rd goal yesterday. A number of their fans not only climb over the barriers, but they do so in the full view of several police officers, who not only do nothing to stop them, but also happily shuffle them back over the barriers to their seats without so much as a talking to once things have calmed down.
I guess it’s too much effort to actually enforce the law when it’s grown men and not helpless kids you’re manhandling, right?
Or maybe they were just caught up in the joy of seeing their side actually win a game for once!
Or perhaps they are just waiting for the appropriate time and opportunity to raise this vital issue of Police Scotland's fundamental flaws... and blame it on The Green Brigade.
Try and tell me there wouldn’t have been multiple arrests, newspaper thought pieces decrying the “scourge of Old Firm violence” and probably political interventions from opportunistic MPs had the Green Brigade even attempted to do the same at Ibrox.
We all know there’s an institutional hatred towards Celtic and our support among the high ranks not just of the police but of many influential institutions across Scottish public life.
I don’t think I’ve seen our collective noses rubbed in it as blatantly as it was yesterday though.
And the worst part is, we all know there won’t be a word from the club, either in defense of the fan who was “huckled” to use local vernacular, or in condemnation of Scotland’s Shame once again embarrassing themselves despite actually winning for a change.
Let’s face it, the Celtic board were probably quite happy to see that Celtic fan getting dragged away. It’s one less piece of “riff-raff” they need bother with.
And that’s the hardest part of all of this to take. I can take losing to the £1.49ers. I can take seeing Police Scotland continue to stomp around like Ivan Drago when it’s a young Celtic fan, and hide like the cowards they are when it’s grown men in ill-fitting, beer-stained Rangers shirts they have to confront. Growing up in the West of Scotland, I’ve come to expect no less.
What I can’t stomach though, and what I refuse to remain quite about is the, and I’ll be generous and assume its only tacit, endorsement of these tactics from the current custodians of our club who claim to be “Celtic men”, yet seem utterly incapable of actually speaking to Celtic fans when they don’t have an AI-generated statement to hide behind.
Getting gubbed on the park by a team we should beat is one thing. Having our own board sit back as the police gleefully brutalize our supporters in an entirely different matter.
I will not let this go unchallenged, and neither should you.