The picture above is a scene from last nights carnage at Firhill as Sevco u-17s won their first Glasgow Cup with a 3-2 win over Celtic. First, not 48th \u00a0as reported by SSN.<\/p>\n
As you can see from the picture, a supporter is passing a broken seat down to the front, so it doesn’t hurt anyone.<\/p>\n
“Fans ripped up seats, ” claims the article, \u00a0“threw flares and invaded the pitch during a kids Old Firm match last night.”<\/p>\n
Objective reporting at its best.<\/p>\n
“Trouble flared even before the game as fans of both hurled abuse at each other” At a football match? Really? Almost never happens<\/p>\n
“Tensions then escalated inside the stadium as supporters threw flares and smoke bombs.”<\/p>\n
“Cops and stewards looked on as supporters sang secterian songs and spat abuse.” Yes, you can see the hatred clearly on those faces above.<\/p>\n
“There were young boys set on by grown men in masks ”<\/p>\n
Then the voice of sanity-predictably from a Rangers supporter;<\/p>\n
“For a youth game to end up like this is embarrassing and shameful.”<\/p>\n
Hardly unexpected, there were fisticuffs and namecallings at last nights Youth Cup final. Hardly unexpected, the blame is shared equally between two sets of supporters.<\/p>\n
The BBC described it as “unrest”, The Daily Mail described it as “hostile “-no “Hurrah for the Blueshirts,” but you felt that was what he meant, though, and the Larkhall Flute called it “A \u00a0rampage of drunken bead rattlers kidnapping kids and beating up old women on their way to pour abuse on the victims of the Ibrox Disaster.”<\/p>\n
Hardly anyone mentioned the two Sevco fans who invaded the pitch, no-one mentioned the Union Bears arriving mob handed, and flares thrown at Celtic players was completely missed. Like the flare did, actually.<\/p>\n
Anyone still want the “return” of the senior fixture?<\/p>\n
For Celtic fans, it was a chance to see the youth team in action, and perhaps give them a bit of support in the face of a predictably large Sevco support, pandering back to the times when they had big games against big clubs.<\/p>\n
Sifting through social media and various forums this morning, it looks like there was a wee bit of bother, and it was followed by a dreadful game, where the atmosphere of hate clearly got to the youngsters. Oh, and our Under 17 side has adopted company policy of shipping three poor goals to the opposition. At least its consistent.<\/p>\n
Whats more sinister, and certainly more worrying for the game in Scotland, is this scene from the game, overlooked by all the MSM;<\/p>\n
That handshake \u00a0confirms just how close these two are, and adds bite to the line at the end of the Record report which said that Rangers and the SFA were unavailable for comment. Well, here they are at the game. Did they see anything?<\/p>\n Where have we seen that handshake before?<\/p>\n![\"handshake\"](\"https:\/\/etims.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/handshake.jpg\")
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