How celebrating Scotland fans won over Uefa in a story of redemption to rival the Grinch
Uefa finally sees sense after forcing videos of celebrating Scotland fans to be removed from social media
Scotland’s qualification for the football World Cup this week was a monumental event that caused an outpouring of unbridled joy across the nation. But, it seems, someone is always around to try to rain on the parade of those having a good time.
Step forward, the officials of Uefa, otherwise known as the Three Horse-faced Killjoys of the Bureaucra-pocalypse – Ebenezer Scrooge, the Grinch and the Anti-Santa. For Uefa is “the exclusive owner of all intellectual property rights of the competition, including any current or future rights in all types of audio and visual material of the competition”.
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And that meant, according to their lawyers, fans were not allowed to post videos on social media showing rapturous celebrations of Scotland’s goals in pubs if it was possible to see the TV footage in the background. Videos shared by the Scottish Football Supporters Association on social media were taken down and its X account was blocked.
Thankfully, amid considerable uproar, Uefa finally saw sense and apologised. The Grinch turned out to have a heart after all...
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