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Originally Posted by harmitage
I'm a Celtic fan (as some will have gathered by some of my previous posts) but have total sympathy for those people who went down there, many with children, to enjoy a carnival type atmosphere. Even before the muppets kicked off in the evening it was clear that Manchester City authorities were ill prepared for so many people. Some of my friends who were there (Rangers fans but nobody's perfect  ) said it was quite clear by early afternoon that there was insufficient basic facilities laid on. Not enought toilets, no litter bins, accidentally broken glass on the street at that stage without any signs of their being any attempts to clean it up. The Manchester authorites were quite happy to boast about the £25 million pounds the final was bringing to the local economy. They might have used a small fraction of that to provide decent sanitation facilities.
There are also some reports that a large section of the 200 baying mob who attacked the lone PC had Mancunian accents!! |
I would not have been suprised if there was a few local hangers on
Celtic fan here too but as I remember we took near the same amount of fans to our UEFA Cup final and there was not a problem
. I guess with it being so close to Glasgow and Belfast (both Rangers and Celtic have big a Irish support) It was easy for the pondlife to get there