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...managed to do something very clever. It conflated the alleged Bolshevism of Glasgow with its slums. The deviant slum image of the middle of the nineteenth century had been resuscitated, amplified, and was to have a long history. As the 1920s persisted the image of Glasgow became steadily worse. The new horror story was gang warfare. A combination of heavy policing and...

...managing traffic patterns, and crucially keeping home and away fans separate, and away from football team coaches. Radio communication intensified as plans were adapted. Inside the stadium, I observed operations from behind the stewards and in the control room. During several incidents, officers made measured decisions about whether to arrest, eject, or de-escalate, again...