We’ve seen and heard it all before, when will the governing body and the authorities act? It’s happening every single time Celtic go to Ibrox and it’s not going to stop unless action is taken…
A sewer pit of hatred perfectly
Ibrox was yesterday yet again the usual sewer pit of hatred perfectly, illustrated by the home support with their vulgar banners and illicit racist chanting throughout the entirety of the Glasgow Derby. More alarmingly, one of our players subjected to objects being aimed in their direction thrown once again for the known racists – as confirmed recently by UEFA – in the Copeland Road stand.
Viljami Sinisalo was the unfortunate player who was the target of Scotland’s Shame within the Ibrox support in the wake of Celtic’s equaliser when a glass Buckfast bottle was aimed in his direction. This was clearly shown on television and here’s an image of the bottle being removed by one of theRangers subs.
Enough is enough
This latest flashpoint echoes the incident three years ago at the same venue, the one that seen Joe Hart exposed to harm when broken glass was scattered across his penalty area just before the restart in a 2-1 win for the hoops. The very same game in which the club physio was scarred for life after being struck with a bottle thrown by a thug in the Ibrox Main stand – the culprit who is currently residing at His Majesty’s pleasure was seated in the corporate area!
And in our last visit in January, despite them winning the match comfortably, Arne Engels was struck on the head by a coin of the same value that their former club was sold for to Craig Whyte, and objects were also thrown at Brendan Rodgers that day.
So it is beyond reasonable doubt that this is becoming something of a regular theme at Ibrox throughout the years of Celtic dominance with our players, coaching staff and supporters being subjected to the thuggish unruly behaviour of theRangers support in the form of missiles and even being confronted face to face by pitch invading ‘supporters’ as happened a few years back with Scott Brown.
No one should be subjected to that sort of intimidation, abuse and violence at their place of work
No one should be subjected to that sort of intimidation, abuse and violence at their place of work and footballers are no certainly no different. And their employers have also a duty of care to their staff and they should accordingly be doing something about it. Enough is enough.
Recently a Rangers supporter who plead guilty to throwing a bottle at Matt O’Riley last season after he scored for Celtic at Ibrox last season, avoided a prison sentence and instead was given a small fine. That was a chance for the courts to send a message. That chance was missed and we saw the consequences yesterday.
A statement from theRangers amid investment negotiations
Last night theRangers issued a statement condemning the actions and rightly so, but we’ve seen and heard it all before and you can bet your life that nothing will be done to stop it happening again. They failed to condemn previous incidents mentioned above, so the cynic in you might think that this out-break of doing the right thing is more to do with safeguarding their potential investment deal rather than anything else.
Doing nothing is not an option
The Governing body and the authorities need to get their act together and start imposing sanctions on the Ibrox club before one of our players gets seriously injured. And I will say it again, Celtic has a duty of care to the club’s employees. Doing nothing is not an option.
Celtic should be issuing a statement on this serious matter today.
Yet again bottles and missiles thrown in the direction of our players at Ibrox , from the same section of the ground.
Seems to be this behaviour is being normalised by the inaction of the home club and the authorities. pic.twitter.com/y4XLtWVOes— Highland__Paddy (@Highland__paddy) May 4, 2025
This is a disgrace time for all of the people mentioned below to grow a set and condemn this banner not to mention the shameful singing enough is enough 🤬@ScottishFA @PoliceScotland @JohnSwinney @CelticFC @glasgowcathcart pic.twitter.com/ns9vntHy6L
— Henriklubo (@Henriklubo) May 4, 2025
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if the sfa and spfl are not going to intervene then UEFA should take a stand, safety netting needs itstalled all round their stadium as no one is safe in this place ,or go back to refusing tickets
I don’t think our board understands the phrase duty of care, is it going to take the death of a Celtic employee before they act
Our board won’t do much if past experience is anything to go by. Refusing tickets isn’t the answer as our players are on their own then. Perhaps refuse to play and take a hit for the 3 points? Would make a massive statement, compared to being hit with a bottle though it ain’t much.
The whole thing is utterly ludicrous but yet somehow it has had less airtime than the Adam Idah night out. Once again we ask what would happen in another top league in Europe if one set of fans in a major city derby perennially endangered staff, players and fans from their rival team.
The offending fans need to get it in their thick, hate filled brains that these actions have consequences.
Bare minimum now should be a huge fine and installation of safety netting all around. A pen of sorts, if you will.
Further action should be closure of stands and an even bigger fine.
After that it’s points.
Seems straight forward. Hit them where it hurts. No action is just an invitation to “do what you want”.