{"id":529631,"date":"2026-04-14T03:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529631\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T03:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T03:05:09","slug":"falkirk-will-learn-lessons-after-alleged-rangers-crowd-disorder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/529631\/","title":{"rendered":"Falkirk will &#8216;learn lessons&#8217; after alleged Rangers crowd disorder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Following yesterday&#8217;s match, many Falkirk fans have contacted us about away fans obtaining tickets for the home end and the behaviour of these fans, which included a steward requiring medical attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We have also received complaints about sectarian singing from a large proportion of away fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Football is passionate, but none of this is acceptable. We condemn all of the aforementioned incidents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We therefore apologise to our fans for the deeply unpleasant experience they were subjected to.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Falkirk FC will work with Police Scotland, stewarding partners, our colleagues at other clubs, the SPFL and SFA, and endeavour to improve the experience for our fans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The club already had a robust plan in place for the final game of the season, with enhanced measures in place given the potential significance of the fixture.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We are now considering further the implications of yesterday&#8217;s incidents for future matches against Rangers, including security and ticketing arrangements, and will inform our fans once a decision has been taken.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In an additional post on X, Falkirk chief executive Jamie Swinney said: &#8220;We apologise profusely to our fans for what occurred within our ground yesterday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I assure all of our fans that lessons will be learned &amp; that we will consider a variety of measures to control what we can control for future games.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Following yesterday&#8217;s match, many Falkirk fans have contacted us about away fans obtaining tickets for the home end&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-529631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}