Away Fans

Aye but that's just cos it's the season of goodwill.

 

Haha! To be fair, last night was mental - one of the best away days in years!

 

Atmosphere sounded electric on the telly.

 

It was mate, some brilliant songs too - personal favourite being 'you're only here cos Rangers died'!

 

I heard "Go home ya huns" when the Dundee fans started leaving early too. :smiley-laughing002:

 

Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell has apologised to Dundee after trouble in the away end during their Boxing Day game.

During the tie at Dens Park, Tayside Police dealt with a "level of disturbance primarily within the Celtic section of the stadium".

The trouble at the Scottish Premier League match included a series of bangers being set off in the away end during the first-half.

Police confirmed that five supporters, one for the home side Dundee and four following away team Celtic, will be reported to the Crown following the disturbance.

A force spokeswoman said: "There was a level of disturbance at the match, primarily within the Celtic section of the stadium.

"Five people are to be reported to the procurator fiscal for alleged football-related offences. Officers responded to the incidents quickly and took appropriate action."

Celtic Chief Executive Peter Lawwell responded: "We are very proud that Celtic supporters enjoy such a great reputation and it is therefore extremely disappointing that the behaviour of a small minority has tarnished the good name of the club and our fans in this way.

"Clearly, we apologise to Dundee Football Club - we will work with them and look into any incident which is raised and if we can identify any individuals involved, we will obviously take the strongest possible action.

"We have received a number of complaints today from our own supporters about the conduct of this minority - we cannot allow our supporters' enjoyment of our matches to be affected in this way and we will not sit and allow the club's reputation to be damaged. Our supporters over many years have earned such a fantastic repuation for positively supporting the club, we will not allow this to be taken from them. It is time for all our true supporters who care about Celtic to unite with the club and find a solution to this problem."

Celtic won the tie 2-0 with goals from Georgios Samaras and Gary Hooper.

Dundee FC operations manager Jim Thomson said that his staff were shocked at some of the behaviour by an element of the travelling support on Wednesday night.

He added: "There was widespread drunkenness, and I mean widespread, within the Celtic support. We were confiscating drink from supporters in the concourse leading to the turnstiles. They were clearly drunk coming in and we had a decision to make on whether we let them in and we took the decision that we had to let them in because we would have had other consequences if we didn't.

"Once in, they were abusing our turnstile staff, our canteen staff and even fighting among themselves, and I mean serious disorder within the concourse. All in all it was just not a nice experience. In the 20 years I've been organising games here at Dens Park I have never seen anything like that - it was a throwback to the 70s that we are all probably ashamed of.

"I would say that the scheduling of the fixture (it was televised on ESPN with a 7.30pm kick-off) didn't help. Nonetheless, I don't want to make light of it, but I can have a skinful but I'm not going to go and behave like people did last night. It's just not acceptable.

 

were is that from

 

http://news.stv.tv/tayside/207661-football-fans-reported-after-disturbance-at-dundee-v-celtic-game/

 

was there and there is to many fannys in our support but public apoligy for 4 people setting off bangers is harsh

 

shooting ourselves in the foot here ...Hope they get the ones responsible and Lawwell is true to his word ....Have a good time / yes but lets not destroy the good reputation we have ...Oh the press will have a field day with this one !!

 

Away days with celtic are far better than home games imo, the atmo is 100x better

 

Three things..................

1. It's * sickening to hear stories of Celtic fans fighting fellow Celtic fans. That should never happen. The fact that it does happen just goes to show we have our own fair share of dickheads within our support.

2. Twats letting off bangers and smoke bombs should be dealt with by the club. Hopefully they will be.

3. Last night's carry on just re-emphasises why we cannot have alcohol being sold en masse in Scottish Football grounds. We have a drink problem in this country and introducing alcohol into a volatile environment like a football match is just asking for trouble.


I know it's silly season but when you go to a match as a Celtic supporter you are representing the club as well as yourself as an individual. Turning up pished, fighting with your own and letting off bangers is not representing the club in an appropriate way.

 

Bit of drunkeness at a Football match,holy * batman the world is ending.

 

I'm not exactly shy about having a beer myself but, to be fair, if folk are that pished they start fighting with fellow Celtic fans then I think there's a problem.

 

Boxing day,late kick off,drink,drugs and lunatics.

If it ever becomes a regular occurance then i will think there is a problem.

 

I agree the kick-off time probably contributed to what happened last night. Still a bit sad that sort of behaviour was going on though.

 

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Ok I will re-phrase.........

People letting off bangers may not be twats full stop. But letting off bangers is twattish behaviour in my opinion.

 

sounds a bit less harsh,but the twats shouldn't be doing it

 

Agreed , especially amongst a crowd of people .....idiotic behaviour