2008-03-04: Barcelona 1-0 Celtic, Champions League – Metro Directe article on Celtic fans

08-03-04: Barcelona 1-0 Celtic, Champions League - Metro Directe article on Celtic fans - Kerrydale Street

Metro Directe newspaper in Spain (thx to Sc0tsman form KStreet forum for this)

Translation
Celtic fans give an example of civility/politeness.

The presence of 10,000 Scottish people in Barcelona (Barcelona) ends without any incident.
The area of enjoyment arranged by the Town Council in Montjuïc didn't dissuade them from wandering and drinking through the city centre streets.

Celtic Glasgow fans' green and white dyed Barcelona’s centre yesterday, especially Plaça de Catalunya and Les Rambles. Hours before the match, in the area Barcelona Town Council had set at the pavilion no. 7 in Montjuïc, there were little more than one thousand Scottish supporters. “Peaceful” is the best word to define the green-and-white fans' behaviour yesterday. The opposite image to that of their fellow citizens supporting Rangers when they visited Barcelona last November, whose bad behaviour was the main character of the day.

Enrique Giné is the owner of Zurich bar, one of the most well known bars in the city centre, and he said that Catholics' behaviour was “correcte” (very good). Some people were fined for drinking in the streets but nobody was arrested.

Yesterday Montjuïc gave 5,000 portions of paella (12€ per dish and only 3,000 were served), more than 1,200 litres of beer (4€ per glass) and organized a place for enjoyment with concerts, games and big screens to watch the match. Supporters think that the value for money that the Town Council had prepared for them was “very good” and some admitted that they didn’t expect “so much hospitality”.

A half of the 10,000 Scots that moved to the Catalan capital didn't have tickets and the pavilion no.7 was the place where they enjoyed the Champions League match against FC Barcelona (Barça). The area around Camp Nou was the main point for Celtic supporters throughout the morning. Ticket prices from touts rose up to 200€ 8 hours before the match. The Mossos d’Esquadra (Catalan police) confiscated 80 of these tickets from Celtic supporters.

There was a lot of beer consumed all day but, unlike Glasgow Rangers fans – whom Celtic supporters call hooligans – they respected the city, and the living-together rules remained all day.