And it will come as no surprise to any Celtic fan that the paper concluded “The reality of events on the day bears little resemblance to the ‘both sides are as bad as each other’ favoured by the Scottish, Irish and British media.”
They decided to highlight the issue with a brief aerial clip of seat damage at Ibrox, attributing it to the away fans. No Celtic supporters were in the Copland Road Stand.
In fact none of the drivel you will hear about Celtic fans from legacy media this week will rival the smears put out by Nicholson, Hargreaves, Lawwell and Ross Desmond in the past eight months.
deeply saddening and frankly embarrassing that the club is now set to face significant sanctions for the actions of a very small minority.
Ashley viewed all that and was chased out of town. Militant fans and the media demonised him, campaigns against shop staff on Minimum Wage deals were fawningly covered, if big bad Mike could be ousted and ownership returned to Real Rinjurz men all would be well again in the world.
It seems that a perfect storm is brewing over the club, after the next domestic set-back the scenes are likely to become highly confrontational.
The Union Bears have been relocated this season to the Copland Road Stand, at the final whistle in front of a near empty stadium Phil Clement led his players to salute the fans who stood under a banner reading RANGERS RIOT CREW.
That shame doesn’t seem to be haunting Clement as he celebrated after the match with the Union Bears, the Belgian has several social media accounts and hasn’t criticised the attack on the St Johnstone SLO or offered sympathy to the victim.
English went into great depth about the atmosphere and passion created but chose to ignore one vital detail, a banner from the Union Bears that is certain to bring further sanctions and stand closures from UEFA.