CELTIC have issued the following statement, relating to the crush in the tunnel behind the North stand prior to to kick-off on Sunday.
As I was in that crush I will be writing to Fairhurst, the consultant specialists that have been appointed by the club – if you were in the crush please do the same. Here is the statement from the club…
Celtic Football Club Statement
“Following the events prior to kick-off at the match on Sunday 2 September, the Club has instructed Fairhurst, consultants specialising in sports event safety management, to conduct an independent review to identify the contributory factors to the incident, any issues that require to be addressed and what improvements might be made to prevent a recurrence.
“The Club has requested that Fairhurst consider feedback from supporters who attended the match.
“Any supporters who attended the match and would like to provide information to Fairhurst, please do so direct to 020918feedback@fairhurst.co.uk .
Any information already provided to the Club will be passed on to Fairhurst.”
This is the article that we published immediately after the game on Sunday – it would have been up sooner but the lack of wifi or 4G in the stadium was proving challenging…read HERE.
And our thoughts on the cause of this crush…see HERE.
This was the worst crush involving Celtic fans since the Nottingham Forrest game in the mid 80s. Lessons were not learnt from that and English football had a terrible price to pay for the way football fans were being treated at large capacity games.
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