GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - MAY 16: Police officers during a William Hill Premiership match between Celtic and Heart of Midlothian at Celtic Park, on May 16, 2026, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Foy/SNS Group via Getty Images)
According to a report in The Scottish Sun a Celtic fan has been charged with assaulting Frankie Kent on May 16.
After Callum Osmand scored Celtic’s third goal a few hundred fans were on the pitch for around three minutes.
With Osmand netting in the seventh minute of stoppage time match referee Don Robertson quickly consulted with Derek McInnes who agreed to finish the match.
Both sets of players could have been back on the pitch to play out the remaining seconds.
Within five minutes of Osmand’s goal the Hearts players were on the team bus making a sharp exit.
With fans on the park there were unsavory scenes.
A few Hearts players were taunted and goaded. It wasn’t needed, thousands of Celtic fans booed as they were denied the conclusion of the match and the SPFL campaign.
Typically a few idiots took things too far.
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Mobile phone footage did show one fan taunting Frankie Kent, the Hearts player appeared to knock a mobile phone out of the hand of the intruder.
Hearts made a couple of post-match statements which were quickly watered down
Sky Sports and BBC Scotland had multiple cameras at the match.
While unruly as the afternoon developed no footage surfaced to show any physical attacks on Hearts players.
Now it appears that Police Scotland have found evidence of an assault.
A court case will be held at a later date.
So far there has been no comment of statement from the SFA or SPFL about the widespread anti-Catholic singing at Ibrox on Sunday.
A week watching CCTV coverage alongside details of Ibrox Season Ticket holders should identify thousands of cases of sectarian singing.
Apparently four fans were arrested with just one, a 55-year-old for sectarian abuse. One other fan was arrested for assaulting a Police Officer.
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I arrived at the ground early recently and decided to kill time with a wander around the superstore.Alas it was impossible to enter as there was a massive queue! That tells me that the “not another penny” is not working.
Editor: No campaign has 100% support. There are many many Happy Clappers out there but without doubt NAP has worked very well. Thousands had reduced their spending, now they had something to get behind, to formalise their protest.
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Typical Scottish Media trying to deflect after all the usual bile coming from Ipox . Sectarian singing , a Tifo inciting violence , assaulting Police officers fighting among themselves , stabbing each other . Yeh but a Celtic fan goaded a Hearts player . Scottish Media are arseholes , arseholes are Scottish Media
An overstretched police Scotland who don’t have the manpower to protect supporters at castle greyskull have found evidence of an assault nearly 4 months later.
How many hours went into finding that little nugget through cctv. It’s astounding that this is the best use of their resources but when there’s a will there’s a way. I was livid about the pitch invasion.
Grown men who should know better taking selfies what for clicks on their FB. Everyone of them should be ashamed of their actions that day but obviously some don’t give a shit because it happened again at that cesspit.
As usual the minority affect the majority and we’re going to end up with some sort of barricade prevention around the park because these idiots think they have the right to do what they want.
I really hope this evidence is as flimsy as Police Scotland’s ability on crowd control but if it’s true then I have no sympathy if you’d stayed in your seat this wouldn’t be happening.
From the footage I saw if that incident
The fan looked like he was filming on his phone
Kent then appeared to knock the phone from his hand and began stamping on it.
To me only then did the supporter push Kent in an attempt toget him
Away from him deliberately attempting to stamp on it .
Exactly Fergus, knocking a phone out of someone’s hand is an assault and in this case followed by criminal damage. Kent needs to be arrested as our supporter was and charged. Outside of that I think the fans running onto the park was utterly stupid and should certainly not be applauded but, in general, it was just showing emotion and celebration. When that scum enter a football pitch it’s ALWAYS with violent intent and yet they’re NEVER called out for it, not by anyone including the wealthy morons whom we have to tolerate on our board. Now there’s a reason to take some action!
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Well posted, Fergus.
That footage clearly shows both Kent and then more so Shankland assaulting the fan and his phone. I hope he’s got that for court as with any decent lawyer if that’s the incident then the fan has no case to answer.
Whilst it was an unnecessary action and no fans should be on the pitch,
has Police Scotland decided that ‘goading’ was ‘putting a Hearts player in a state of fear and alarm’ [i.e. technically assaulted] ?
A bit of a big leap there, IF that is in fact the detail of the charge?
Rather flimsy?
The Sun has previous for telling lies about supporters who are hostile to their views.
Hillsborough being the classic and shameful example.
That rag should have been banned the same time as Liverpool banned them
A trumped up charge no doubt…what a load of b******s, not holding my breath waiting for 50k hun tramps to be charged with anti Catholic sectarian singing………just as well them smelly rats wasn’t singing about killing Jews or Muslims
C’mon the Celtic supporter…
Get Kent charged please…
An eye for an eye – A tooth for a tooth then !
We are utter sh**e, how can clubs in Europe with not a tenth of our support and capacity, swat us aside, thank f**k we never made the CL, I f**king despair how much we have degraded in Europe, all the diddly Euro clubs must love being drawn against, the mighty Glasgow Celtic.