Celtic

Tom Shields in his excellent sports column in the Sunday Herald makes the interesting claim that:

Camp Nou was turned into a concentration camp by police… The fans sporting green and white, even those with ingeniously secured tickets for expensive seats at the Camp Nou, were herded through a gauntlet of riot police into a small section at the very top of the stadium. While large tracts of the stadium lay empty, these supporters were crammed into a steep enclosure and forced to sit three people to a step because there were not enough seats.

Caitlin, a corporate lawyer from Dublin … [said]: “It was so crowded and dangerous that some supporters actually jumped down into the level below to get away from the crush. At one moment I thought it could become another Heysel situation.”

I didn’t catch the match, being off singing, but if that’s true then it’s completely ridiculous. I came through the centre of town afterwards and I’ve never seen such a well-behaved group of fans. However, the big match news was the presence of members of the Israeli Kfar Saba Celtic Supporters Club:

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