Let’s get the basic facts out of the way first. The people to blame for Saturday’s pitch invasion at. Parkhead are the idiots who thought it would be a good idea to run on the park in the first place.
The same goes for the individuals who threw bottles and cans at police in Glasgow city centre in the hours after the game.
All parties involved in the title decider – including the SFA, SPFL and the clubs themselves – already agree that what happened in the immediate aftermath of Celtic’s third goal was unacceptable.
There are already laws in place to deal with such behaviour. But there is a clear need for a full and frank debate on how fan disorder is handled and how clubs are punished.
That conversation needs to happen between police, the football authorities and the Scottish Government.
There is an argument to be made that police already have the powers needed to clamp down on the kind of behaviour witnessed on Saturday, and no new legislation is required.
What is clear, however, is that the Scottish football authorities have not done enough to punish violence and disorder – from any club.
The time has come for the introduction of “strict liability”, where clubs are directly punished with fines or football sanctions if fans create havoc.
Only then will real fans get the message – hooliganism will cost your club money AND possibly trophies.
Standing back and doing nothing – or kicking the matter into a lengthy “inquiry” – are the normal ways football chiefs handle these things.
That won’t do here. Scottish football has been dragged through the gutter and only immediate action will restore the reputation of our national sport.
An inspirational terminal cancer patient has donated part of his brain to help find a cure for Alzheimer’s disease.
Aidan McAllister, 28, underwent the ground-breaking operation as a live donor in a world-first dementia experiment carried out at the Department of Clinical Neurosciences in Edinburgh.
It’s hoped that medics studying Aidan’s live brain cells will be able to better understand Alzheimer’s and, hopefully, come up with new forms of therapy.
There are few families in Scotland and around the world unaffected by dementia and Alzheimer’s is a disease with a tragic effect on sufferers.
If Aidan’s donation can help find a cure or better treatments, he will truly have changed the world.
They say that not all heroes wear capes – and in Aidan’s case that’s certainly true.
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