Thousands of Celtic supporters took advantage of the city of Barcelona’s hospitality this week just walking along the Ramblas or specially by turning up at the meeting point specifically arranged for these visitors. From Sunday March 2 when the first visitors landed at Barcelona airport and specially from 11am on Tuesday March 4 the Celtic faithful arrived en masse at Montjuic Park for a day of live music, eating and drinking and relaxation ahead of the sell-out match at Camp Nou. The crowd was entertained by the BibleCode Sundays who had flown in from London and by Glasgow and Donegal’s Crooked Reel. There was also other live music, a Celtic DJ and a whole host of other events including a place to drinking beer and eating a portion from two huge paellas – capable of feeding 5,000 people. The party celebration was both indoors and outdoors in an Exhibition Hall and while the bands performed in the Barcelona sunshine, there was plenty to do inside the hall including table tennis, bar football, jump on elastics beds or a bronco-bull riding and as well as sheltering from a brief but fairly cold storm. There were also four enormous screens indoors showing Celtic historical and later on in the day those screens will also broadcast the match live between Barcelona and Celtic Glasgow (with English commentary) for those who travelled to the city without match tickets.
The Barcelona Police had no problems with the thousands who invaded the city for two days and mentioned that their behaviour both in the centre of the city, at Montjuic or at the Camp Nou was fantastic.”
