Scottish football authorities have been accused of sitting back as an impending pyro crisis threatens to blow up in their faces. Fears have been raised that fans could “suffer catastrophic phosphorous burns or worse” if nothing is done to stop the use of fireworks and flares in stadiums.
It is claimed that procedures set in place to combat fan use of pyrotechnics have all but been abandoned, despite a huge rise in incidents. Training regimes that were being formed after a panic over flares in 2016 have allegedly fallen by the wayside, as clubs and football authorities have failed to adopt any education or security initiatives to stem the rising tide.
We can also reveal that the recent Old Firm clash in the Viaplay Cup final at Hampden resulted in so many flares and rockets being set off in the stadium that a specialist pyro company was called in to safely remove the debris.
