Green Brigade steps up their Palestine plan
Britain Football Soccer - Celtic v Hapoel Be?er-Sheva - UEFA Champions League Qualifying Play-Off First Leg - Celtic Park - 17/8/16 Celtic fans hold up Palestine flags Action Images via Reuters / Russell Cheyne Livepic EDITORIAL USE ONLY.
Two days before the Champions League tie against Atletico Madrid the Green Brigade is stepping up their support for Palestine.
The eyes of the media and almost certainly UEFA will be on Celtic Park where it is likely that thousands of Palestine flags will be viewed on prime time television across Europe and beyond.
Two weeks ago the Celtic board stated that the club isn’t a political organisation but politics will be to the fore at Wednesday’s match for many fans.
Fly the flag for Palestine
v Atletico Madrid, 25/10/23 pic.twitter.com/rTtLXwCjK3— North Curve Celtic (@NCCeltic) October 23, 2023
Last week word emerged that the Green Brigade were no longer being allocated tickets for away matches while Celtic conducted a review of recent incidents at away fixtures.
Despite that a large number of the 571 away fans at Tynecastle displayed the distinctive Palestine flag before yesterday’s 4-1 win over Hearts although they were kept off screen by Sky Sports.
With most of the ground expected to be showing the Palestine flag tomorrow it will be virtually impossible for TNT Sport not to show crowd scenes with many Scottish media outlets expected to push for heavy UEFA punishments.
In 2016 Celtic were fined by UEFA after thousands of fans displayed the Palestine flag at a match against Hapoel Be’er Sheva, fans responded with a fund raiser that paid the fine with over £100,000 donated to Palestine charities.