Celtic supervisor Martin O'Neill feels the choice to ban away supporters from matches between Celtic and Rangers this season was "inevitable".
The SPFL introduced the choice after Celtic challenged the choice by their Glasgow rivals to offer them simply 300 tickets for the League Cup conflict at Ibrox on 13 September.
For final season's Scottish Cup quarter-final, additionally at Ibrox, Celtic got the normal allocation of 8000 tickets however following crowd hassle at that sport, a lowered determine of 2500 was agreed.
However in gentle of Celtic's resolution to problem the 300 ticket allocation, the league have determined to ban all away followers from the bottom.
"I believe that was inevitable, actually, when Rangers had been providing 300 tickets, and we refused that," O'Neill mentioned of the choice.
"Actually unhappy, I need to admit, simply from a standard punter's viewpoint. It's an excellent, nice fixture when the bottom is completely full. And I believe the away followers make this.
"I can suppose again of the years gone previous, firstly of the century, after I was concerned, they usually had been magnificent fixtures, completely implausible. It’s fairly unhappy.
"Hopefully the 2 golf equipment will possibly get collectively at some stage or one other and attempt to iron out the actual issues.
"It's to not say that we haven't had just a few issues previously, however they appear to have escalated during the last variety of seasons, which is an issue."
