When Celtic fans turn up for a match day, they take everything for granted. The stadium opening on time, the kiosks serving food and the watered down Coca Cola being poured.
Police Scotland are heavily involved in the security of the stadium on match days along with standard stewards.
The cost to the club is huge for every time they open the stadium.
Police Scotland has released figures for last season and how much Celtic spent on policing their games – the bhoys shelled out a whopping £470,794.
Not every game cots the same to police and obviously high risk ties like Glasgow derbies or European nights means more out the purse of the club.
Chief Superintendent Sharon Milton spoke about matchday policing and how figures are met, cited by the Scottish Sun: “The home club or event organiser is responsible for their event and the safety of those attending.
“Any match is risk assessed on its merits and this determines resources deployed within the agreed footprint of the venue.
“Factors in this process are the clubs involved, the design, condition and layout of the stadium, the day of the week, kick-off time, previous fixtures between the sides and intelligence.”
It’s a complex operation that not everybody feels is value for money. The relationship between football fans and police isn’t the best.
Football supporters feel they get a rough ride from the Police and the government when it comes to a lot of issues. Heavy handedness and constantly recording supporters inside grounds is the source of much debate.
In comparison, we see rugby goers not subject to the same sort of scrutiny.
Why do the club allow our fans to be treated so badly and yet pay so dearly for the privilege.
While some games attract different levels of security the lack of a basic plan is alarming. Additions and amendments to that basic plan should be able to be made but that does not seem to be the case, yet every match commander seems to desire to make his mark and so they throw out what has gone before and start with a blank sheet of paper.
That can’t be correct.
Lesser amount of half wits attend Rugby matches , much less of potential trouble, it’s a class thing . We all know that
NWA had a great song called F##K THA POLICE.
I think it is more relevant today that even when it was written in 1988.
You’d have to question the type of character who at 18 years of age believes “Yeah, i think a career in the police force would be a good option”
It truely is society’s dregs that end up in the blue uniform.
Those with Napoleon Complex and Little Man Syndrome.
Sounds like you . Wee brain syndrome. BTW truly not TRUELY. Eejits like you the first to call for polis when somebody pans yer windaes in.