Celtic fined €50,000 over ‘illicit’ Bobby Sands banner

Celtic have been fined €50,000 after the controversial Green Brigade group unfurled a banner depicting IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands during last month’s clash with AC Milan.

Celtic fined €50,000 over ‘illicit’ Bobby Sands banner
Sat, 14 Dec, 2013 - 00:00
Andy Newport

Uefa’s control and disciplinary body found the club guilty of allowing an “illicit banner” to be displayed during the Champions League fixture on November 26.

It showed an image of Sands alongside another of Scottish nationalist icon William Wallace and a set of lyrics that included the line: ‘The terrorist or the dreamer?’

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