Stewart Paterson seems like a broken man after discovering litter in Glasgow city centre this morning. Perhaps he has been on the moon for the last decade or just operating to instructions as the Political Correspondent of the Glasgow Evening Times or whatever it calls itself.
As almost every Glaswegian knows Celtic collected the SPFL Premiership trophy yesterday with a good number of the 60,000 fans at the match making their way to the Merchant City to carry on the celebrations.
Not only was Paterson shocked, so too was his phone which was unable to properly picture the scale of the destruction across the city. The wrappings from a fish supper were found in one street, there was a broken bottle in another with reports of a Sainsbury’s carrier bag blowing around George Square. Some puke was also found on a city street.
The good news for Paterson and his employers at the Glasgow Evening Times is that the city is no longer in Tier 4 of a Lockdown as it was a year ago. FIFTEEN THOUSANDS chose to break the law with outbreaks of violence among themselves and fighting with Police Officers was reported during a pandemic.
For a real horror story about litter Paterson should keep in touch with his colleagues in Seville this week, with German and Spanish media also looking in a cover-up will be hard to pull off.
Every Saturday and Sunday morning there is excess litter in the streets of Glasgow city centre, it also happens in other cities across the UK and beyond.
With the Newsquest Group too embarrassed to publish print sales dipping below 10,000 a day Similar Web can reveal that the Glasgow Times website, with privileged access to two city football clubs managed just 1.9m pageviews during April.
Glasgow’s city centre has been left in a total state this morning. Broken glass, cans rubbish all over the place. It’s worse than my pics can show. pic.twitter.com/PrC9u2iDm4
— stewart paterson (@patersonHT) May 15, 2022
Jeezo, look at this! pic.twitter.com/JfZ2Sqgogk
— Paul Murray (@RealPaulMurray) May 15, 2022
— ???????Micheil McBotnot?? (@m1kks) May 15, 2022
What a total desperate wee tool u are mate worse than my pics can make it. Couple broken bottles up Mitchell lane nowhere near where fans where bravo. Can see what team u support imbecile.
— angball2022 (@ballinacup69) May 15, 2022
Wow. This looks like a disaster movie. I’ve never seen such wanton destruction in my life. Probably making global news it’s that bad.
— ? Gastro Celtic ? – ??? (@Gastro_Celtic) May 15, 2022
Seriously man, that’s just simply pathetic ?? hope ye have a riddy after putting yer name to that..
— Just Joe (@1969_Just_Joe) May 15, 2022
That’s what Glasgow looks like on a Tuesday morning in February.
Have a look at the state of Govanhill. Maybe you can blame that on Celtic fans too?— Scottsman78 ? (@Scottsman1978) May 15, 2022
To be honest the littering was way worse than your pics. But if the celebration went off without too much incident then what’s your point? Wider issue is Glasgow has went downhill over the past few years which is far more alarming
— Derek Kirwan (@dkirwan68) May 15, 2022
That’s the tidiest I’ve seen Mitchell Lane in 44 years ??? pic.twitter.com/xhJ1UBetWs
— Slimshady (@Slimshady1961) May 15, 2022
He was too hungover to notice last year.
— MarkQuigley80 (@MQuigley80) May 15, 2022