'Prove your flags won't burn':...

[ian1964 10,720]

...Celtic and Rangers fans ridicule police safety warning ahead of Old Firm clash.

 

FANS who take flags to Sunday's League Cup semi final will be asked to prove they are fireproof by showing safety certificates to police.

 

FOOTBALL fans taking flags to Sunday’s Old Firm clash at Hampden will have to show safety certificates proving they are fireproof, it was revealed yesterday.

 

Celtic and Rangers fans have also been told all banners will be inspected before being allowed into the stadium.

 

Any banners or flags judged to have provocative, sectarian or objectionable messages or images will be confiscated.

 

It’s understood police will return the banners to their owners after the powder keg League Cup semi-final.

 

Celtic tweeted the warning to their fans and also told them that canes supporting flags must be a certain size or come with a safety certificate.

 

Celtic fan liasion officer John Paul Taylor said: “All banners will be subject to inspection and must be fire retardant material. Take a certificate if you have one.”

 

An insider said: “This is not a new requirement but it’s being enforced due to the background of the teams playing. Police are being extra cautious.”

 

Fans took to social media to mock the rules for attending the sell-out match, which will see the bitter rivals meet for the first time in three years.

 

Chaznoon tweeted: “Fireproof? Really?! In a non-smoking stadium? It’ll be no shell suits next!”

 

Another user, Croppybhoy69, said: “I take two flags to home games. No certificate ever asked for. Police are ridiculous.”

 

And Rodfather67 mocked the conditions imposed by Police, saying: “Obviously they are all proper militia fire retardant issue.”

 

Celtic have advised fans to attend their local fire station with their flags and firefighters will be able to check them and issue a safety certificate.

 

Police refused to comment.

 

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/prove-your-flags-wont-burn-5062138

[buster. 5,183]

North Korea v Burma would be dawdle compared to this.

 

Don't sing X, Y and Z

Don't take flags or banners

Don't offend anyone

Don't drink

etc.

 

Accept being treated like a human behaviour experiment (HBE) for a regime who are good at removing civil liberties on the quiet. A HBE that includes discrimination within legislation against football supporters compared to some other sports.

 

Oh and in this experiment we don't pay you, you pay.

Edited January 29, 2015 by buster.

[compo 7,030]

I can remember our own stewards taking banners from the fans at the broomloan end a few years ago at a game against hearts at the end of the season

[der Berliner 3,743]

It is more or less standard these days that especially large banners have to be safe from burning etc.. It is rather strange that this has not been implemented before.

[pete 2,499]

I actually do see a safety risk with flags as you do get idiots who want to burn them. As a safety measure it may be better to stop people taking lighters or matches into the stadium.

Clothes made in China?

[Juancornetto 1]

Cue fire stations besieged by slebbering hordes to "git ma flag checked big man".

[forlanssister 3,114]

Cue fire stations besieged by slebbering hordes to "git ma flag checked big man".

 

You get a certificate from the flag manufacturer.

[Darthter 542]

Tell the unwashed hoards that the only way to check is to set it alight - if it burns, it fails!!!

[Juancornetto 1]

You get a certificate from the flag manufacturer.

 

Apparently the club has told fans to go to fire stations and they'll certify it. More pandering to their idiotic hordes.

[andy steel 0]

RIght enough, because no-one has ever taken pyro in to a game before.

 

But it's not just petty point scoring. At some point in time both Rangers and celtc are going to have to face up to the level of contempt in which they are held by the rest of society. Just pretending it isn't so won't get us anywhere.