Police Scotland Chief Constable Phil Gormley has praised the behaviour of supporters at the December 31 Glasgow derby.
Before the match there was the usual warnings of zero tolerance but before and during the match the hatred of catholics was chanted regularly by home supporters.
With close to 40,000 season ticket holders and 7,500 visiting fans inside Ibrox identification of the bigots should be a straightforward task.
Six months after the Scottish Cup Final the police were still issueing pictures of fans on the park with over 100 arrests made.
It seems that constant anti-catholic hate songs are acceptable to Police Scotland with Gormley keen to praise the 50,000 fans inside Ibrox.
Picking up on a radio interview Glasgow Live reported the chief constable saying: “There has been a lot of legitimate interest in the scheduling of the Old Firm match last Saturday, particularly with predictions of murder and mayhem all across the place really, so I went out over to Glasgow on the morning of New Year’s Eve and went to the supervisors briefing.
“I went out in uniform with officers throughout the match and saw what was a first-class policing operation and it passed off very well. It was one of the least violent New Year’s weekends we’ve had.”
With their song book overlooked by the police Ibrox season ticket holders can now crank up their chants after a deaf ear was turned on December 31, at least there was no murders.
It seems that singing and chanting hatred of catholics is acceptable in Scotland 2017, with zero tolerance really meaning anything goes except murder.
