New fan footage from Ibrox appears to show just how ugly Sunday’s post-match chaos became, and Celtic should not let anyone smooth it over with a lazy “both sides” argument.
The clip, now circulating online, appears to show a Rangers supporter running at Celtic defender Julian Araujo at full-time and trying to kick him. Araujo steps away, the swipe misses, and other Rangers fans are nearby as the scene turns ugly.
It is not an isolated clip. It sits alongside wider reporting from the aftermath of Celtic’s Scottish Cup penalty shootout win, when multiple outlets described Rangers supporters coming onto the pitch with far more than simple frustration in the mix after their team lost to Celtic on penalties.
STV reported that after dozens of Celtic fans spilled onto the pitch in celebration, this then triggered an invasion from hundreds of Rangers supporters at the opposite end, with stewarding breached.
Nobody sensible is arguing that pitch invasions should be treated as normal. They are not allowed, and Celtic fans who ran on in celebration should not have done it.
But football has seen that kind of emotional overflow plenty of times, supporters getting carried away after a major result. What came next from the Rangers end was of a different order.
Police Scotland called the disorder “shameful” and said officers and stewards were met with “extreme hostility and violence over a sustained period”. They also said many involved had armed themselves with items “clearly intended to cause harm”. That is not the language of routine post-match chaos. It points to a serious public order incident.
There has already been broader reporting around Araujo’s involvement in the disorder, along with claims that a member of Celtic’s backroom staff was caught up in it too.
So no, these scenes should not be bundled together as though both sets of supporters went onto the pitch with the same purpose.
One group came on to celebrate a cup win. The other, on the evidence of the footage and the reporting that followed, included supporters looking for confrontation. When fans are running at opposition players and staff, trying to kick them and helping turn a chaotic moment into a dangerous one, that should be described plainly.
Rangers should deal with it. The authorities should deal with it. Scottish football, too, should be careful not to airbrush what happened by pretending everyone on that pitch was there for the same reason.
A kick aimed at Araujo of Celtic by a Rangers fan, as he leaves the field.
There is also a man dressed in blue that runs up to Aruaja at the end of this, does anyone have more footage of this incident? pic.twitter.com/bnQfJygT0Y
— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) March 9, 2026
Unfit nedz should pick oawn somewanz their ain size
like a sleepin fellow hooded hun infant ??
Don’t think ‘stoate tha baw’ huz even kicked anythin higher than a deid seagull.
Footbawerz, could kick huz wee diddie hooded hied clean aff.
But they did smoke a couple O’pipe vapez before goin o’er tha placards.
Surely wae awe that camera footage available, tha beared babalon can put together a very wide lenz view of where tha Onion nursery ran Fae, pulled Aff their baby grow blue and orange confederate skip caps and pulled Doon their wrestlers masks.
Fuc&en bunch of 69’er munch.
Az they awe said ‘Honey Badger, Ur tea’z oot’ and then fell oawn their nappied arses (efter trippin over a hun pal steward) and ran back tae suckle at their big brotherz teatz.