Why won’t Humza Yousaf condemn C****c fans? (article)

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Saturday saw celtic lift the Scottish Premiership trophy after a 5-0 victory over Aberdeen. Fans crammed into Parkhead, in Glasgow’s east end, to watch goals from Kyogo Furuhashi, Hyeon-Gyu Oh and Carl Starfelt. By way of celebration, Hoops supporters painted the town green — and then some. 

Ten people were arrested on suspicion of assault, police assault and public order offences. Three men were hospitalised after being ‘seriously assaulted’. Video footage shows a firework being set off among a crowd of fans while a viral clip has captured the scale of the clean-up operation faced by Glasgow City Council after supporters dumped litter throughout the city’s streets. 

A senior police officer has blasted the revellers for ‘an unacceptable level of anti-social behaviour and incidents of disorder’. Alison Thewliss, SNP MP for Glasgow Central, called on celtic FC to foot the cleaning bill. But one person who has yet to comment is Humza Yousaf, Scotland’s first minister and one of its most prominent celtic fans. Both his political and ministerial Twitter accounts are silent on the weekend’s events. 

You might not expect a senior politician to remark on such things, but Yousaf has long used his Twitter account as a moralistic soapbox to pass judgement on everything from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the murder of George Floyd to Donald Trump and gun control in the United States. Normally, he can be relied upon to tweet his condemnation of bad behaviour by football clubs and their fans, at least when it comes to celtic’s arch rivals, Rangers FC. 

When Rangers fans swarmed Glasgow’s George Square to celebrate their club clinching the league trophy in May 2021, police reported public disorder, property damage and assaults, including the firing of flares at officers. This was, Yousaf tweeted at the time, ‘disgraceful’ and ‘thuggery’. 

Yousaf has even used social media to endorse criminal investigation of his team’s rivals, and while he was Scotland’s justice secretary no less. May 2021 was clearly a busy month for him because it also saw him tweet about a TikTok video claiming to show Rangers players singing anti-Catholic songs. Yousaf, then serving as Nicola Sturgeon’s justice secretary, said it was ‘right’ for Police Scotland to investigate the video and, if found to be genuine, for Rangers to sack anyone involved in the offensive chants. Detectives investigated but concluded: ‘[E]xtensive enquiries have been carried out and no criminality has been established’, later saying they believed the clip to have been ‘edited to include sectarian language’. Yousaf refused to back down. 

Yousaf’s silence so far on Saturday’s scenes is, as the kids say, Not A Good Look. Bill Shankly said football was more important than life and death. In Glasgow, celtic and Rangers are more important than football. At its best, their rivalry heightens the stakes of the game in Glasgow and the west of Scotland. At its worst, it is a divisive cultural phenomenon commonly associated with religious prejudice and sectarianism, a reputation Scottish football and wider society have strived to shake off. 

Humza Yousaf follows a long line of senior politicians who have worn their Old Firm allegiances on their sleeves, but no previous first minister has been so openly and doggedly tribal. Then again, celtic fans are generally seen as sympathetic to the SNP after generations of voting Labour. (The political sympathies of Old Firm supporters are actually more complicated.)

Given the polls show him haemorrhaging seats to Labour ahead of the next general election, maybe Yousaf figures he can’t afford to alienate anyone else. 

 

[The Specky Forum Organiser 61,129]

We all know the answer to that. 

[Loyal72 6,527]

We know why 

 

[SeparateEntityMyArse 52,050]

He has.

He called it a "small minority" in a release that looked like it was written by Lawell. 😂😂

He's yet another republican appeaser/ sympathiser who'll not jeopardise his core vote by calling them out. Ira songs, disorder, CSA - ssshhhhhhhhh.

He'll not be FM long, but the next along will likely be as bad.

 

 

[Gman36 3,436]

At the point with some of this stuff now I just shrug my shoulders and think, this is how it is now.

Enough folk with enough of an agenda in positions of power or influence that we now have a very blatant societal bias. It's taken years or decades to get to this point, there's no moving back the way any time soon.

A defeatist attitude, because in essence we have been defeated. It'll be a long road back the way and I don't think the appetite is there for definite change. 

[JackAlex93 9,337]

Supports Celtic and doesn't want to upset the SNP's core voters. This country has gone to the dogs.

[Essandoh 20,703]

Because he’s an objectively bad person with objectively bad motives.

[Bears r us 29,984]

19 minutes ago, SeparateEntityMyArse said:

He has.

He called it a "small minority" in a release that looked like it was written by Lawell. 😂😂

He's yet another republican appeaser/ sympathiser who'll not jeopardise his core vote by calling them out. Ira songs, disorder, CSA - ssshhhhhhhhh.

He'll not be FM long, but the next along will likely be as bad.

 

 

It probably was written by 'Liewall'. 

[Malkytfp1 17,772]

Seen another pape sounding MSP called him out over it.

 

[RFC55 104,046]

1 hour ago, Malkytfp1 said:

Seen another pape sounding MSP called him out over it.

 

Wouldn’t say that’s a pape sounding msp  

[cr3_bear 14,278]

I would have been more shocked if he did make a worthwhile condemnation of the scenes 

Fuck him

[Malkytfp1 17,772]

17 minutes ago, RFC55 said:

Wouldn’t say that’s a pape sounding msp  

No shit mate 😂 I was being sarcastic 

[RFC55 104,046]

32 minutes ago, Malkytfp1 said:

No shit mate 😂 I was being sarcastic 

Hmmmm not so sure I agree 

[Malkytfp1 17,772]

1 minute ago, RFC55 said:

Hmmmm not so sure I agree 

Hunners of fucks given

[Swagger 7,015]

SNP - says it all. 

[Bristoe1872 2,438]

Murdo Fraser should ask him to condemn it next first ministers questions. Be interesting to hear his response. 

[goaaaal 854]

Who didn't expect the chicanery when apportioning blame fucking hypocrites

 

[My Fathers Scarf 1,144]

And yet some bears still vote snp. Utterly baffling. 

[Somemightsay7 1,923]

 

Interesting how he manages to bring Rangers into it in his one statement he makes which was only in response to being asked.

 

Speaking to Radio Clyde News Humza Yousaf said: “I think it's a pretty sensible suggestion from Alison Thewliss.

“The vast majority of football fans, if they are celtic fans or indeed Rangers fans or any other fans frankly, celebrate in a way that is acceptable.

“They celebrate the important achievements of their club.

“It is that small minority I'm afraid of that really celebrates in a way that is simply unacceptable.

“That disorder that we saw, elements of that disorder we saw of course over the weekend, was just not acceptable.

“I do think clubs should pay a greater toll and certainly when it comes to celebrations.

“Perhaps there's something the clubs should do to facilitate that celebration, perhaps within their own stadiums or in another way.

“I would like clubs to take more responsibility for title celebrations that ensue.”

 

[will2203 792]

5 hours ago, Loyal72 said:

We know why 

 

Fuck…..that made me puke! 

[The Ibrox Derry 8,286]

He said the behaviour was completely unacceptable.

 

[Smile 26,533]

He's a wank.

[Tiger Shaw 28,410]

This is fantastic don’t care if it’s already been posted 

 “wits he dain , wit u dain wit u dainnnn ya fannnnny  ” 

🤣🤣🤣

 

 

[Tiger Shaw 28,410]

Memories of Milltown 🤣🤣

[Darth Bear 14,562]

Cunt being a cunt, no surprise.

Nice to see the SNP getting called out for their hypocrisy a little more though.