Clement reacts to Kennedy and O’Riley Ibrox incidents

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.