Crowd Trouble at Clydeholm 1925

“Tried to storm the boys’ gate”
Police and football crowds in conflict
Glasgow Herald 24/08/1925

Disorderly scenes were witnessed outside Clydebank F.C. grounds and Clydeholm on Saturday prior to the match between Clydebank and Celtic as the result of an attempt by a crowd of young men from Glasgow to secure admission by the boys’ gate, which was refused. The appeals of the police officers to line up at the ordinary entrances were resented by the disorderly element of the crowd, and on the boys’ gate being closed the mob pressed against several of the entrances and the officers were hemmed in against the barricades. Latterly the police were compelled to draw their batons and in the melee some of the crowd received nasty knocks, and one man’s face was streaming with blood. In 15 minutes the street had been cleared. Another section sought to gain free admission to the ground by moving round the back of Yoker Post Office and tramping across a number of gardens. The barricade was scaled, and it is calculated that some hundreds reached the field this way before the police were able to drive the others off. No arrests were made, and those who suffered in the fracas had apparently been assisted out of the way by their friends.

(Elsewhere) After the referee had given a penalty which won the match against Arthurlie at Barrhead for Third Lanark the crowd invaded the field and the referee, it is alleged, was severely handled before he gained saftey. No arrests were made.