Celtic chief executive peter lawwell vows to ban yobs

[ian1964 10,625]

PETER LAWWELL last night vowed to nail the yobs who lit flares, flew a foul-mouthed banner and attacked a Celtic club steward in Italy.

 

The Hoops were fined £12,700 by UEFA this week over pro-IRA chanting earlier in the Europa League campaign.

 

And they are in hot water with the authorities once again, with Danish delegate Steen Dahrup having reported details of a “F*** UEFA” banner and the throwing of flares before the 1-1 Group I draw with Udinese.

 

Spanish champions Barcelona were fined a whopping £87,000 earlier this season after fans threw 10 flares during the Super Cup clash with FC Porto in Monaco.

 

Chief executive Lawwell, who was involved in a confrontation with a fan at Trieste Airport yesterday as Celtic prepared to leave Italy, warned the club will wage all-out war on those shaming Celtic.

 

He said: “We don’t know what will happen yet, but the flares and the banner are in the delegate’s report. UEFA will get back to us in a couple of days. It deflected from a fantastic performance by Neil Lennon and the players.

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These people can’t love Celtic, given the amount of damage they have inflicted on us.

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Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell

 

“Off the pitch, over the last decade, we have built a fantastic reputation around Europe which we are all very proud of and basically want to protect.

 

“Clearly, there is a very small, rogue element that has developed within our support which we have got to weed out.

 

“We are not going to tolerate it.

 

“The guy who had the banner assaulted one of our stewards.

 

“He was arrested, spent the night in an Italian jail and he will be banned for life.

 

“We are very hopeful of identifying the other guys who had the flares and the other people with the banners.

 

“We’ve got video of the guys with the flares and we’ll look at pictures of the guys that held the banner.

 

“We will identify them and take appropriate action.

 

“I don’t know what their motivation is, but we are going to stop it.

 

“These people can’t love Celtic, given the amount of damage they have inflicted on us.”

 

Lawwell added: “This could well be the tipping point. People are sick of it.

 

“In 2003, our four supporters’ groups stood at Celtic Park and collected the UEFA Fair Play award.

 

“Eight years later, these banners go up.

“It’s just not right, it’s not Celtic. A rogue element has infiltrated our support with whatever objective they have.

 

“There is no logic to this. If it was logical, it would be easy to sort out – but there is no logic to it.”

 

Chairman Ian Bankier called on Hoops supporters to help him hammer the neds.

 

Bankier said: “We’re looking for the people in the travelling crowd to self-police the way the Tartan Army do.

 

“We’re looking to take every measure we can take to stop this. It has to stop.”

 

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/290427/Celtic-chief-executive-Peter-Lawwell-vows-to-ban-yobs

Edited December 17, 2011 by ian1964

[Guest Dutchy]

I can remember many well publisied statements about what's going to happen to the septic support, but I never hear equally well publisied folk being banned. Same old, same old if you ask me.

[stewarty 1,923]

Does he not have a post-season tour of Japan or somewhere to organise? Deny, deflect, condone. Tis the Septic way.