Celtic issued selected statement over crowd allegations

Celtic have issued a statement to BBC Scotland about crowd incidents at today’s Glasgow Derby. There was no comment on Celtic’s website or Twitter account at 8.20pm tonight

Trouble occurred after the final whistle when it appears that bottles and other missiles were thrown across the segregation cordon. 

Today’s visitors were quick off the mark with a statement given to their media partners at The Herald, an hour or so later Chris McLaughlin of BBC Scotland was tweeting about a statement from Celtic. 

The 800 visiting fans are all well known to their club, they were escorted into the ground between 10 and 10.30am this morning then held behind until after the Celtic support had left. 

Today’s match was the first derby in more than two years with visiting supporters inside Celtic Park. 

After three derby fixtures in five weeks Police Scotland will be relieved that the two clubs won’t meet again for four or five months with the issue of away fans bound to be questioned again.