Philippe Clement never noticed the coins thrown at the Celtic management team during Sunday’s Glasgow Derby at Ibrox.
It has been claimed that Police Scotland are investigating the incident but so far there has been no on the record comment from either club, the SFA or SPFL.
Coverage from Celtic TV also showed that a bottle of Buckfast was thrown at Matt O’Riley after he scored a penalty, none of Sunday’s broadcasters noticed that incident.
Yesterday Clement staged a media conference to preview tonight’s match at Dundee with the Glasgow Times reporting the former Monaco boss reacting to those incidents by saying:
I didn’t see that, I hear that. I don’t want that things are thrown on the pitch, not at Ibrox. We had it a few times at other pitches against us so it is not a good thing. So the club is busy with that, to see who is doing that. It is not what we want in our club.
Of course the support we received was positive. And everyone wants that and nobody wants anything else. I didn’t see it, but I hear that it happened. The club is investigating this.
Pyro at football matches seem to be the big concern at the moment but with more than 90% of fans attending matches Season Ticket holders a working CCTV system should pick out the culprits.
Both clubs try to play down these sort of incidents but with alocohol banned from football stadiums in Scotland security needs to be stepped up to prevent glass bottles being taken in and subsequently thrown onto the pitch.
So he never witnessed police speaking to John Kennedy who was only yards away from him , conclusion born liar.
The pre-paid meter for the camera to capture the incident would have run out of credit at that time so it wasn’t recorded.
As for our own club to make a statement on the incident we have a better chance of seeing Lord Lucan or Shergar making an appearance.
Off topic Joe…but why would Celtic help Dundee to get the game on ?…Am I missing something ?
Editor: It is a 50-50 call whether it is good for tonight’s match to go ahead. Sunday took a lot out of them, the Dundee pitch will be far from perfect but I’m expecting a Beaton type performance from Don Robertson- just like at Tynecastle and Livi over the last few weeks.
Just heard…there’s another inspection this afternoon…Pitch playable at moment…Mr. Clement will be bealin’…YA BEAUTY…MON TONY DOC’S BOYS.
Like to know what the few times it’s happened to us “sevco” that Clement’s referring to regarding things getting thrown at players.
I can’t explain it , but every time I hear the name Phillipe Clem – on mentioned ,the Jackson Browne tune “- The Pretender “- enters my mind and stays with me for quite a while ? Part of the lyrics by Browne is that he is going to be a ” happy idiot !” Yeah , that song stays in my mind for quite a while ,alright !
“I never seen it happen (so it couldn’t have then)…
Now get a move on ya pesky Tims to the back of the bus !