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Let’s get something absolutely crystal clear with zero bias whatsoever.
Football fans have been running onto the pitch after last-minute winners or huge moments for generations. It happens because of pure excitement and emotion. The key thing is always how people conduct themselves afterwards.
Yesterday Celtic fans spilled onto the pitch to celebrate a penalty shoot-out victory at the home of their fiercest rivals. They celebrated with their own players nothing more, nothing less.
Now we’re hearing Rangers fans claim Celtic supporters behaved appallingly, but let’s be honest here. Rangers fans have been spilling onto pitches for years. We’ve all seen it countless times, and when it happens the opposition supporters don’t run on to attack them. Even yesterday, when Rangers thought they had scored before it was ruled out, some of their fans were already breaking onto the side of the pitch and Celtic fans didn’t retaliate.
What happened yesterday was very clear. Celtic fans went on to celebrate with their team. Rangers fans came on looking for confrontation. There really isn’t any grey area about that.
Every time fans run on in moments of celebration you don’t see supporters of clubs like St Mirren, Kilmarnock or Dundee United charging onto the pitch to start fights. Yet time and time again Celtic fans and even staff have ended up being targeted at Ibrox.
The media need to stop pushing false narratives and call it exactly what it was. Yesterday’s trouble didn’t start because Celtic fans celebrated, it started because Rangers supporters chose to turn it into something else.
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