Ajax-Celtic Fight: Fans Rip Seats, Break Through Police Barricade, Reports Say

AFC Ajax fans apparently broke through a police barricade in London to go after Celtic fans following Champion’s League match on Tuesday.
Ajax-Celtic Fight: Fans Rip Seats, Break Through Police Barricade, Reports Say
Jack Phillips
10/22/2013
Updated:
7/18/2015

AFC Ajax fans apparently broke through a police barricade in at Celtic Park in Glasgow to go after Celtic fans following Champion’s League match on Tuesday, according to reports and accounts on Twitter.

Celtic won the match 2-1 against Ajax.

Photos uploaded on Twitter show Ajax fans ripping up seats and throwing them at the Celtic fans.

The Herald Scotland reported that one of the seats appeared to land on a line of stewards and police officers.

A later photo showed some fans breaking a police barricade, although the details are unclear.

“Throwing seats, destroying Glasgow, trying to fight with Celtic supporters, just a disgrace to their club,” one person wrote on Twitter.

Police Scotland told the paper that officers “quickly got the situation under control.”

 

 

 

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article wrongly stated where the stadium is located. 

Jack Phillips is a breaking news reporter with 15 years experience who started as a local New York City reporter. Having joined The Epoch Times' news team in 2009, Jack was born and raised near Modesto in California's Central Valley. Follow him on X: https://twitter.com/jackphillips5
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