First Minister John Swinney vows to tackle ‘unacceptable’ Old Firm violence

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Scotland’s First Minister, John Swinney, vowed to work with Rangers and Celtic and the football authorities to address the trouble that followed Sunday’s Scottish Gas Scottish Cup tie.Supporters clashed on the Ibrox pitch after Celtic knocked Rangers out on penalties.About 200 Rangers fans charged towards the Broomloan Stand housing the visiting fans after dozens of them had spilled on to the pitch to celebrate as Tomas Cvancara sealed a shoot-out win.

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00:23The violence after the Old Firm game yesterday at Ibrox was completely and utterly unacceptable.

00:29There is no justification for it whatsoever.

00:31There was severe danger applied to fans and to police officers and to stewards.

00:38It was completely unacceptable in every respect.

00:42So what I want to make clear is the police have my full support in pursuing everyone involved in this

00:48incident.

00:49Also that we will work constructively with the clubs who must be horrified by the scenes that they witnessed as

00:55well

00:55to address this situation to work with the Scottish Football Association

01:00to make sure that collaboratively and collectively we do all that we can to make sure that these type of

01:07incidents have no place in Scottish football.

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