Leggo - CELTIC FANS AND TROUBLE AT TYNECASTLE

[ian1964 10,622]

CELTIC supporters have once again caused outrage in Edinburgh after their latest visit to Tynecastle.

 

For there are reports of the Hearts ball boys and girls having to be rushed to safety, away from their positions in front of the stand housing Celtic supporters, after being targeted by a hail of missiles.

 

Last season one ball boy was smacked on the head by a coin thrown by Celtic fans and needed hospital treatment for a brain injury.

 

Now I understand various groups of Hearts supporters now plan to approach Edinburgh and Borders Police to demand an answer as to why there was not a stronger and more visible police presence among the Celtic supporters this week, given what happened last season.

 

Hearts will also come under fire from their own supporters for the lack of a stronger and more proactive presence of stewards in the stand taken over by the IRA singing and chanting Celtic supporters.

 

It is also believed that a ten-year-old schoolboy was struck by a coin. The primary schoolboy was in the area of the Wheatfield stand within missile throwing range of Celtic supporters in the away stand and was felled when things turned ugly at half time.

 

There are fears among Heart of Midlothian supporters that their club and Edinburgh and Borders Police backed off as they feared a backlash from Celtic following an outcry from Parkhead supporters against police officers who attempted to control the Celtic supporters who were on the brink of rioting at Tynecastle last season.

 

Television and newspapers made an attack on Celtic manager Neil Lennon by one deranged Hearts nut, who was promptly arrested, almost their only focus, all but ignoring the mayhem which went on in the stand occupied by Celtic zealots.

 

But the media did give huge prominence to wild and totally unsubstantiated claims by Celtic supporters of heavy handed policing and stewarding.

 

It is a tactic which seems to be working for Celtic fans as it appears to have put police on the back foot, with the stand where Celtic fans gather at Tynecastle becoming a virtual no-go area for the police.

 

As well as ball boys and girls having to be removed from in front of Celticâ??s IRA chanting supporters for their own safety as missiles rained down on them and the injury to one primary schoolboy in the Wheatfield Stand, hit by a missile, there was also considerable damage to a number of the seats in the stand where Celtic supporters congregated.

 

Following the knife attack on a Celtic supporter in the Celtic stand at Inverness and the Inverness steward who was spat on by a drunk Celtic fan before the match, there is now a real fear that the extreme element of IRA supporting zealots among travelling Celtic fans have scared off decent Celtic supporters from following their club.

 

And that can only be bad news for all other Scottish Premier League clubs and their supporters, who must now brace themselves for trouble when the IRA zealots arrive in town brandishing Celtic colours and flying the Tricolour of the Republic of Ireland.

 

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[GovanAllan 0]

Sweep Sweep nothing to see here move on. Rangers are the story not the biggest shower of scum you will ever meet and Scotland's real shame.