Celtic fined 25k, Dida banned for 2 matches. 
Fair outcome.
Yeah it is fair. Celtic deserved to be fined but UEFA obviously realised that with no fences allowed there are limited measures they can take. I’d imagine there is a good behaviour condition and we’ll need to have far more pitch side stewards in future (for CL games anyway).
Glad to see Dida getting banned. He cheated.
Source?
Good outcome I suppose.
In addition to what you mentioned I suspect we may have to leave more of the front rows empty. I know this is so the advertisements are seen clearly but it is also probably a measure they can use to make it harder for any fan getting on again. Half of that fine is suspended for two years and only applied if there is a similar offence. Hard to believe now that there was so much panic about the reprucussions in the hours and days after the match.
Bandage wrote:
Source?
Good outcome I suppose.
larryduff wrote:
In addition to what you mentioned I suspect we may have to leave more of the front rows empty. I know this is so the advertisements are seen clearly but it is also probably a measure they can use to make it harder for any fan getting on again. Half of that fine is suspended for two years and only applied if there is a similar offence. Hard to believe now that there was so much panic about the reprucussions in the hours and days after the match.
I was thinking that myself but there are exits at the bottom level of the ground as far as I know. One of the reasons the guy got on the pitch was when McDonald scored he ran to the corner of the pitch near an exit. Every fool who was leaving early rushed back in which caused the advertisement hoarding to collapse and kept all the stewards occupied over there so nobody had a chance to look behind them.
You can’t close the exits obviously for health and safety reasons so there’s not much point in having empty rows near the corners if people can walk through there anyway to go out.
Flano and Maldini, two peas in a pod. Obviously Paulo lacks Flanos football skills though.
Just because the supporter ran onto the pitch it doesn’t automatically follow that this gave Dida the right to do what he did. It’s obvious he wouldn’t have gone down quicker than Clarkey’s ma on a Saturday night had the supporter not ran by and tickled his shoulder but it doesn’t in any way excuse what he did. In fairness that guy wasn’t the first supporter, and nor will he be the last, to run onto the pitch to celebrate a last minute winner. On the other hand what Dida did was appalling and blatant cheating. Delighted for the coooooont.
As I said to Ben literally 30 seconds after the incident, “I think he slashed him”