City Fans In Glasgow

Anyone else have a bad policing experience last night?

We were clearly away fans as we walked out of the away exit, asking police were the away coaches where located.
We were given directions and followed them correctly....

To end up amongst a huge amount of coaches that Were All Celtic Supporters.
How fucking dangerous and thick can police be to send a group of us into what would've been a lions den if Celtic fans and us lot wanted to fight.

And to note, this instruction was given to us on two separate occasions on our way to this area by separate police.

It's fucking outrageous.

Luckily for us we managed to get away from the home coach section and came across other Blues who were heading to the away coach area.

Disgraceful and the Scottish Police should hang their heads in shame.

Where and how do I go about filing a police complaint?
Sadly I don't have their badge numbers but I'm sure they are having a good giggle today "after winding up those English bastards"
 
CitizenTID said:
Didn't hear this? I heard the Guardiola song. What was the crowd banter like, anyone there? Any gooduns we sang at 'em?

I wouldn't even know where to begin with the lyrics to Rule Britannia anyway, surprised enough else would.
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Just like Manchester your city is blue wasn't bad.
 
Why Always Ste said:
Anyone else have a bad policing experience last night?

We were clearly away fans as we walked out of the away exit, asking police were the away coaches where located.
We were given directions and followed them correctly....

To end up amongst a huge amount of coaches that Were All Celtic Supporters.
How fucking dangerous and thick can police be to send a group of us into what would've been a lions den if Celtic fans and us lot wanted to fight.

And to note, this instruction was given to us on two separate occasions on our way to this area by separate police.

It's fucking outrageous.

Luckily for us we managed to get away from the home coach section and came across other Blues who were heading to the away coach area.

Disgraceful and the Scottish Police should hang their heads in shame.

Where and how do I go about filing a police complaint?
Sadly I don't have their badge numbers but I'm sure they are having a good giggle today "after winding up those English bastards"
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I couldn't see the logic of holding us back, but then letting us out whilst thousands of Celtic fans were still around the stadium.

To be honest I didn't see any aggro/aggression from Celtic fans, just a few City fans trying to stoke things up with "no surrender" type songs.

Overall it was quite a strange matchday. Not like a typical CL away, not like a PL away midweek game. After leaving the ticket collection point I only saw half a dozen City fans all afternoon. Although with so few City fans wearing colours (less than 10%?) I probably passed hundreds without knowing it.

The weather didn't help. Drenched going to the game, drenched after the game.
 
Why Always Ste said:
Anyone else have a bad policing experience last night?

We were clearly away fans as we walked out of the away exit, asking police were the away coaches where located.
We were given directions and followed them correctly....

To end up amongst a huge amount of coaches that Were All Celtic Supporters.
How fucking dangerous and thick can police be to send a group of us into what would've been a lions den if Celtic fans and us lot wanted to fight.

And to note, this instruction was given to us on two separate occasions on our way to this area by separate police.

It's fucking outrageous.

Luckily for us we managed to get away from the home coach section and came across other Blues who were heading to the away coach area.

Disgraceful and the Scottish Police should hang their heads in shame.

Where and how do I go about filing a police complaint?
Sadly I don't have their badge numbers but I'm sure they are having a good giggle today "after winding up those English bastards"
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The police on Springfield Road down to coach park were from Edinburgh, not local, so probably weren't convinced themselves. Yes, I know they should have been briefed but it's easy overtime for them so they don't care. I found my three separate encounters with police in Glasgow to be very smiley and friendly.

The taxi drivers are cunts though.

I didn't exactly get the sensation of being in a lion's den, more like a pretend ceilidh.
 
We had no problems with them at all, we were in the Springfield Tavern and they were all very friendly and good natured towards us.
 
We had a proper day out in Bar square first (nearly a tenner for 2 pints) quickly moved to Maggie Mays left as it started filling with Celtic fans( they might have had a flag I could have got offend about) then to walkabout bar packed with blues cheap ish beer,good sing song no trouble that I saw. Then finished in a pub down the road met Billy McNeills daughter wouldn't have said no but alas she didn't offer. when left there couldn't get a taxi and clock was ticking so Big Big shout to the 3 Celtic fans who offered to show us the train station sorted tickets and took us straight to away entrance thanks lads we owe you a beer top guys (although being packed onto a train with 700 Celtic fans and us was an experience to remember) to be fair the banter was just banter.
 
CitizenTID said:
I wouldn't even know where to begin with the lyrics to Rule Britannia anyway, surprised enough else would.
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Rule Britannia marmalade and jam five Chinese crackers up your arsehole BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG
( now sing it to yourself)
 
To be fair, the Celtic fans I encountered were far more friendly than I was led to believe, and just like Roma and PSG were quick to praise us for being the friendliest English supporters to visit their city.
Obviously it helped that our Rangers influence were otherwise engaged with Parlane and Gordon Smith at Ibrox.
 
Went in a right weird bar near Parched, proper Republican one. Strange going up there for the first time and the differences from in Manchester. That said the Celtic fans were really friendly, in that said pub they were all mobbing us to have a chat. The way you're led to believe, it was a very good surprise.
 
bakerdave76 said:
Just seen this on Twitter blazingsquad?
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That was the crowd from United's FA Cup open top bus parade last season.
 
Hope all the Blues that came up to Glesga for the match enjoyed themselves. I've not heard of any trouble anyway. We're any of you up here for the 1st time btw ? Roll on with the double header v Barca,it's about time we gave them a doing. Great game,it was a bit weird for me cheering EVERY goal. My Mrs thinks I'm a fukn nutjob....so what.
 
TTTCITYBHOY said:
Hope all the Blues that came up to Glesga for the match enjoyed themselves. I've not heard of any trouble anyway. We're any of you up here for the 1st time btw ? Roll on with the double header v Barca,it's about time we gave them a doing. Great game,it was a bit weird for me cheering EVERY goal. My Mrs thinks I'm a fukn nutjob....so what.
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Yes was my first time in Glasgow, and in reference to another comment above the city did actually remind me very much like Manchester in terms of the way the locals were, many buildings, the vibe in general was like town.
Haven't heard of any hassle either. Was around shit loads of Celtic fans on many occasions and every one of them was either sound and cheerful or just going about their own business.

Was looking at their safe standing section with envious eyes... That is fucking awesome and we desperately need one.
 
CitizenTID said:
Ha, interesting comments. Been to Edinburgh, not Glasgow. Always got the impression Glaswegians were similar to Mancs and probably the cities too - are they?
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Been many times to both cities. Glasgow very much in your face, Edinburgh has a thin veneer of refinement and is more reserved. The "locals" in both places are easy to get on with, and I have had no problems being a sassenach!
As they say up there, there's more life in a Glaswegian funeral than there is in an Edinburgh wedding! I can believe it.
 
Had a few pints bought for me in The Real McCoy bar next to the stadium by their fans. Plenty of good natured banter. Atmosphere was great. They make some serious noise.
 
crazyg said:
Been many times to both cities. Glasgow very much in your face, Edinburgh has a thin veneer of refinement and is more reserved. The "locals" in both places are easy to get on with, and I have had no problems being a sassenach!
As they say up there, there's more life in a Glaswegian funeral than there is in an Edinburgh wedding! I can believe it.
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I live in Edinburgh and work in Glasgow. The difference is that the Weegies are very good at telling everyone how welcoming they are, hence your quote above. They are very similar to Scousers in this respect. They have a very similar culture, both port cities with a high proportion of the population of Irish decent. The Glasgow-Edinburgh divide is remarkably similar to the Liverpool-Manchester split.

In Edinburgh as long as you keep away from the New Town residents you will find the locals very friendly.
 
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