There is an agreed etiquette between football clubs regarding the hospitality shown to the official party of the visitors.
Last Sunday at the stadium Mr John Brown played for the Transcendental Chairman and was, as ever, a gracious host.
However, today, I learned that immediately after the match, a senior member of the visiting delegation raised his concerns about the safety of Celtic players and staff from the missile-throwing patrons of Ibrox.
It was pointed out to the Sevco supremo that when his team visits Parkhead, they are not subjected to the same threat of objects raining down on their technical area.
My information is that this had the Dalai Lama of the Blue Room approaching peak tranquillity, at one with the universe.
The situation of bottles and coins being thrown at Celtic players and staff is truly baffling, especially considering the excellent stewarding arrangements at Ibrox.
I mean, it isn’t like they’ve got work experience chaps in for, well, the match day experience.
This isn’t a “bring your own hi-vis jacket” kind of operation because if that were the case, then I’m sure the local media would sense there was a major story with the health and safety angle.
You know, something in the public interest.
So, that can’t be the case in this instance.
Now I’m sure that the Match Commander, the police chappie, will take on board what the Celtic delegation put to him about the ongoing safety problems at Ibrox.
Apparently, the SPFL Match Delegate on the day was a retired senior copper, so his report should make for interesting reading.
Overall, this is the sort of situation that might engage the attention of an independent football regulator if there was such a thing in Fair Caledonia.
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Celtic FC have responsibility for the safety of their employees, the attacks on medical staff,coaching staff and Players with coins, bottles, lighters and broken glass thrown on to the playing surface over the past few seasons has disgraced Scottish Football. These scenes haven’t even created a ripple of condemnation from the SFA, SPFL, The Scottish Media both print and broadcasting.
Celtic have been the leading club both financially and competitively this century yet our board don’t seem to be able to exert enough pressure on The Football Authorities to protect their employees when playing at Ibrox Park.
The Rangers FC have the cheek today in officially complaining and requesting some kind of punishment for Dundee FC regarding the state of their pitch and more or less accusing them of negligence in the maintenance of the surface.
The Irony of the double standards of the Ibrox club not being able to create a safe environment for a fellow SPFL club whilst playing at Ibrox Park seems to be lost on the media here in Scotland [no surprise there].
Something needs to be done regarding the number of incidents which have occurred over there involving celtic staff and/or players.
It’s not a safe environment. Simple as that. So many incidents involving broken glass on the pitch. Bottles thrown at the players. Objects thrown at backroom staff and coins/Objects thrown at the celtic dugout.
Something has to be done about holding them to account before someone is severely injured. It makes the blood boil 🤬🤬🤬