The Celtic Board appears to have identified 200 fans involved in ‘violent and intimidating behaviour towards Stewards’ at Easter Road on Saturday.
According to a club email sent out this afternoon members of the Green Brigade were responsible which has resulted in the suspension of Season Tickets to the ultras group.
Two weeks ago it was announced that away ticket allocations to the Green Brigade had been suspended starting the previous week at Tynecastle.
Breaches of stadium regulations were recorded at Celtic Park last week against Atletico Madrid with Green Brigade members informed this afternoon that their tickets for tomorrow’s match at home to St Mirren won’t be active.
The Celtic emailed states:
Abuse of matchday access at Celtic Park in advance of the match against Kilmarnock on 7 October and another unauthorised display, breaching the restrictions previously communicated, and intimidating and threatening behaviour towards staff;
Abuse of matchday access at Celtic Park in advance of the match against Atletico Madrid on 25 October and another unauthorised display, breaching the restrictions previously communicated, including circumvention of safety and security procedures and the migration of many members of the group (some of whom were wearing face coverings) out of the Rail Seating Section across the North Stand prior to kick off; and
Unsafe behaviour at Easter Road on 28 October, including violent and intimidating behaviour towards stewards.
Further, it was also clearly explained to the group to that, as a result of unacceptable behaviours during Season 2022/23, the Club was required to submit a report to the Safety Advisory Group of Glasgow City Council, following every home game in an attempt to address the SAG’s “concerns regarding the conduct of certain spectators located within the north-east curve area.
There seems to be very little prospect of middle ground to be formed in the latest dispute between the club and the Green Brigade.
Tomorrow’s match looks like being played in a fairly quiet atmosphere although there is another ultras group, The Bhoys, housed at the opposite corner of Celtic Park.
With the evidence that the club has for incidents at Easter Road it seems likely that police action will follow.
Are Celtic right to suspend Season Tickets for Green Brigade members?
Yes, the board are protecting their business
No, they are badly out of touch
About time causing problems, seem to think they can do what they want with bullying tactics not needed nor required at Celtic park
If you are experiencing bullying, you should do something about it yourself.
Focking coward!
Nothing new for Celtic (Board) to suspend members’ season tickets; (so long as they have already paid their subscription)!
(Insert ! Huf, Huf by Peter Lawwell.)
Money, Airegad, is Lawwell’s bewithall!
Morally he couldn’t give a fig, if sevco walked into the Celtic boardroom and physically remove the Scottish League Trophy!
Let us see your evidence of
“Violent And Intimidating Behaviour”.
I suspect that you have no such evidence.
Lest we forget!
The Celtic Board will intimidate (and insult) me if they make the Celtic players turn out at Ross County on Saturday with a bloodstained poppy emblazoned across ma beloved Hoops… (I am a pacifist) –
We are not a political club…
Or so The Board have robustly stated –
So Saturday should be non political then from the board and the manager, and the players !
Celtic, traditionally, do not wear the
“Poppy”
on their shirts.
Any deviation of this precept will be seen as an aberration from our traditional position.
A betrayal of our position.
Lest We Forget!
The tory Celtic board are liars, we all know this is over palestine.
The GB might make a lot of noise etc but in my experience (and I’m in the standing section) is that many of them are an objectionable bunch of self-righteous d1cks. They remind me of The Militant Tendency in the Labour Party – without the excuse of having any coherent political ideologies to fall back on.
Good riddance.
It is the Board who have objected to the GB. Where is there evidence of wrong-doing?
They haven’s any!
Imagine for a minute that Celtic Park is a pub, not a football ground.
The pub is viable and profitable, but a bit dull. It used to be a lot livelier than it is now.
Suddenly, a new group of punters start drinking there. They sing and dance all the time. It’s a party every time they are in. The atmosphere is improved and for a while everything is great.
Then the locals, who’ve drank there for years, begin to notice that this new group are dominating everything. Only they can play on the pool table. Only they can put records on the jukebox. Only they can express an opinion. But the atmosphere is good, so they let it slide. For a while.
Then the new group start imposing their political views on everyone in the pub. A lot of the existing punters broadly agreed with these politics to begin with – but many had their fingers burned before and now realise that waving flags and posturing achieves very little – and after a while it became a bit grating. A long way from the escapist fun that going to the pub used to be. It also started attracting a lot of unwanted attention from plod to the regulars, who preferred to be low-key rather than self-styled ‘political activists’, and to the landlord from the licensing board.
Then the regulars began to notice that the new group were demanding preferential treatment from the landlord and when they didn’t get it, they just elbowed the locals out the way, and got rather confrontational with it.
Before long, the pub began to get a dodgy reputation. Everyone who drank in the place was considered to be a troublemaker and no longer welcome in other pubs, regardless of whether they were one of the new group or one of the genial old regulars.
And when the landlord, who at the end of the day is just trying to run a business providing hospitality and entertainment, decides the new group are actually more bother than they are worth, and bars them all.
The new group howl and wail that the pub will never survive without them, that they made it everything it was and it will be nothing without them.
But they are totally wrong. Because the pub was there before them, and it will be there long after everyone has forgotten all about them.
You are missing the Big Picture with your analogy of the pub.
The Scottish Game is rotten to the core.
Wouldn’t you care to admit this?
Well why bother with it at all if it’s so corrupt then? Do a Belfast Celtic instead, withdraw and leave them to their irrelevant meaningless wee competitions. Take up golf or tennis instead. Hillwalking maybe.
Pray do enlighten me what the point I am missing is, then? Is it to play good football, win things and enjoy it? I hope so, because that’s why I’ve been going for the last 40 odd years. If you instead believe Celtic is in fact a some sort of focal point for protest politics, then that’s where we diverge significantly. Football is a very poor vehicle for engineering socio-political change, as many neo-nazis trying to use football for the advancement of their ‘cause’ will confirm. Netanyahu will not change his course of action because some fitba’ fans in a small far away country waved flags around. If you want to bring about meaningful change in the current conflict, target those who back the Israeli government financially, organise boycotts, protests and raise awareness of how they are funded and cut off their supply of money or goods and services. Waving flags at football matches will achieve the square root of hee-haw.
30 years ago, Celtic fans were howling for change and for the club to be run in a professional manner in order to compete with a big-spending rival…. maybe the change was too successful, as once it got going it was so relentless it drove the big-spending rival to the abyss and resulted in a period of utter dominance never seen before (which isn’t bad going given the game is corrupt to the core) and yet certain groups among the fans were very unhappy that they weren’t indulged by the slick, professional organisation they had so craved to engage in pointless, unwinnable confrontations with the governing bodies, plod, other clubs and the government, confrontations they didn’t themselves pay the price for.
I will be perfectly happy to see the back of the GB…. In fact, I see the back of them all the time (my ST is behind them), that’s when I can see for all the smoke, not to mention all the flags, one of which blocked my view of the first goal against Atletico Madrid last week.
The Scottish Game is corrupt to the core. The UCL is the same. The Board are making the GB scapegoats for this, so they can continue to collect their stipends, regardless of morality.
Spit the dummy and admit that the Scottish Game is Rotten To The Core!
What middle ground is needed?
Just support the team and enjoy the game, somewhere along the line they’ve decided they are a separate entity who don’t have to follow the same rules as the rest of the support.
Which in all honesty was probably the reason for their creation.
A lot is made of the batsh it crazy that attaches itself to thise across the city, is this any different?
Shut Up. You have nothing to say!
You don’t talk for them. You are just judgemental of others.
Pathetic, really!