BBC journalist Tom English calls for stricter punishments after Rangers incidents v Celtic
Tom English has called for stricter punishments after Rangers fan trouble in the 2-1 defeat against Celtic on Sunday.
SPFL chief Neil Doncaster has spoken out at the start of this week, insisting that repeated fines simply don’t work as proven in recent years.
BBC journalist, English, suggested closing stands and even deducting points if serious incidents continue to happen.
Writing on his personal Twitter account, English was reacting to quotes from Neil Doncaster at the start of this week.
“Fines don’t work, it’s true,” he said.
“Far too simplistic to therefore conclude that SL doesn’t/cannot work. Close a stand for serious repeat offenders. Close a stadium. Deduct points. See what happens.
“We can debate the rights and wrongs but Scottish clubs will never, ever vote for this.”
Extreme.
We cannot punish the other 99% of Rangers fans that behaved perfectly on Sunday, making it a hostile environment in the right ways.
Everyone admits that those found guilty of throwing glass bottles should be banned for life and are not welcome to follow this club.
English does get one thing right that Scottish clubs would never push this through, especially after only just getting fans back.
That is no excuse though, and the club will no doubt be working as hard as possible to find those guilty and punish them.
These incidents shine a bad light on Scottish football in general, too, and we still can’t believe this even went through someone’s head.
Find them, and make sure they never come back to Ibrox.
In other Rangers news, Michael Stewart has shared his reaction to a “huge” development at Ibrox to come in April