Nicola Sturgeon has reacted to the events at Ibrox yesterday when broken glass thrown by theRangers support littered the Celtic goal-mouth at the start of the second half and that was after a Celtic staff member was hit in the head by a glass bottle thrown from the central area of the Main stand. This injury required urgent medical attention and several stitches were needed for the head wound that could have been much worse.
Celtic winger Jota was also targeted with bottles and coins thrown at his while he was preparing to take a corner kick, again at a different area of the ground an over at the other side Celtic players had to dodge bottles thrown at them after the final whistle as they celebrated with the brave 700 Celtic supporters, including Lub098 from The Celtic Star who reported back last night about the constant stream of missiles being thrown at the away section at Ibrox yesterday by a hateful and seeming out of control home support.
Now Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has had her say on what was a shameful day for the latest Ibrox club yesterday.
“This sort of behaviour is not acceptable, whether it happens at a football match or in the street. People throwing glass bottles is not acceptable, it’s mindless, thuggish behaviour and it has no place in any civilised society.
“But these are matters for the authorities, obviously for the football authorities and potentially for the Police and the criminal justice authorities. Football is something, regardless of what team you support, I’m not the world’s biggest football fan, as I think is well know – and not just because my team is Ayr Utd – but, people should be able to enjoy football, should be able to take their kids to and have a happy, joyful occasion. Behaviour like that whether its at an Old Firm (sic) match or any other football match and it should absolutely be seen as unacceptable.”
🗣 “It’s mindless, thuggish behaviour.”
First Minister @NicolaSturgeon is condemning the behaviour of some supporters at yesterday’s Old Firm match, after glass bottles were thrown from the stands at Ibrox 👇🏼 pic.twitter.com/AAl2Fvd4uK
— Radio Clyde News (@RadioClydeNews) April 4, 2022
Meanwhile the arched Old Firm branding which the two teams walked through as they entered the field of play yesterday afternoon appears to have been put out with the rubbish at Ibrox today, as you can see for this image below…
Stolen from BanjoBhoy on KDS. This is too good. Already in the bin 😂 pic.twitter.com/wc3dCEnhZ8
— Dan Tausney (@dantausney) April 4, 2022
Earlier today we told you about another incident that so far has gone unnoticed where a supporter attempted to run onto the field of player to get at the Celtic players celebrating Cameron Carter-Vickers’ goal.
