The I'm not you know Hello and welcome to the Celtic Way, a mini podcast series where we talk to fans who've been involved in successful campaigns around Celtic. Through the series we'll talk to three individuals

about their fight for change, what made their campaign successful and what lessons can be taken

from their work in light of the current situation. In this series as well as finding out about

the people and the organisations, we hope that we can start to find ways and develop ideas about

how change can happen at Celtic going forward. In this episode, Claire Wilde talks to Paul

Quigley of fans against criminalisation about what they've achieved, how they've managed their own

campaign and what lessons have been learned. Hello and welcome, I'm Claire Wilde and I am here today with Paul Quigley from the FACC campaign. Now, hi Paul, how are you?

Hi, Claire. I'm great. Thanks. How are you?

I'm very well. Quickly explain to us what FAC stands for and what the FAC campaign is before we get into the meat of having a chat.

Yeah, of course. So FAC stands for fans against criminalisation. We were set up. There's a campaigning group, I guess, a single issue group back in 2011,

founded by at the time the kind of five main Celtic fan organisations to oppose the Offensive Behaviour Football Act.

But we sort of became a broader movement that was inclusive of all fans as things changes as we kind of moved on.

And we kind of campaigned initially to try and prevent the act coming in but then

campaigned to have it repealed yeah and how did you I mean what's your sort of personal

story in terms of like being a Celtic fan and then getting into this when obviously the

law was going through the parliament.

So fact would have been formed and I think it would have been the summer of 2011. So the offensive behaviour that came about sort of partially at least as a result of the kind of shame game that happened in February, March of that year, we'll

maybe go into that a bit later.

But what then happens is once the kind of legislation had been drafted by the Scottish government,

they attempted to bring it in just before the summer recess, before Scotland went to vote, there was Scottish elections at May.

But it was eventually shelved because of some disastrous performances from some Scottish ministers

at the Scottish Parliament. So what happened then was the Celtic support, I think, as a whole,

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