The Feyenoord Charity Smear
The Scottish mainstream media (SMSM) has taken a comprehensive booting in recent years for misreading the Rangers story, old and new. However, new lows were reached with coverage of a visit by fans of Dutch club Feyenoord to Glasgow from February 27th to March 1st. In February 2025, Celtic and Feyenoord fans combined under the banner "Together in Friendship 2025" (TIF) to raise funds for the Glasgow-based Kano Foundation, which takes children to Celtic matches for free, and the Rotterdam-based Daniel Den Hoed Stichting Foundation, which supports cancer research.
The initiative was a success, raising over £5,000 for the charities. The Feyenoord fans who attended the Celtic/Aberdeen Scottish Cup tie on February 8th were thanked on Celtic Park's big screens and presented a €4,000 cheque to the Daniel Den Hoed Stichting at Feyenoord's De Kuip stadium in June. "TIF 2025" quite naturally followed. And there was a third charity beneficiary, The Invisibles, which does an amount of work for registered homeless charities across Glasgow. A fundraising "music night" was arranged, the Feyenoord fans were again invited to Celtic Park for a match, and merchandise went on sale at the end of last year. All of the above was widely publicised on social media. On February 27th the Glasgow Evening Times newspaper (ET) offered a, ahem, 'different' perspective on TIF:
Police on alert as Dutch fans plan to travel to Glasgow for Celtic clash with Aberdeen, Rebecca Gray, crime reporter:
POLICE will deploy "hooligan spotters" in Glasgow today over fears Dutch fans are planning to fly in for Celtic's match against Aberdeen. Feyenoord supporters are understood to be planning a trip to the city at the weekend to attend the officers said they have "intelligence" from social media discussions between sections of the Celtic support and Dutch fans.
The Evening Times understands around 120 Feyenoord supporters plan to arrive in the city. A police insider said: "We know about them and we're ready." Police will have a specialist policing plan in place throughout the weekend. A Police Scotland spokesman said: "We are aware of discussion on the internet in relation to a section of travelling supporters." It comes days after some Feyenoord supporters became embroiled in a racism row during their side's Europa League match against Roma. The referee was forced to stop the match twice over the incidents during Thursday's game. Officers arrested more than a dozen Dutch nationals and five Italians before the match.
STV's Matt Coyle also ran with this story, noting that Glasgow's Victoria Night Club had cancelled the booking for the music night (a second venue, Keller's Bar, would follow suit) but studiously avoiding any mention of the charity fundraising until forced into a radical rewrite by furious complaints, notably from
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