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Snow-trapped Celtic fans due home Celtic fans home after blizzard
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Eighty Celtic supporters are due to finally make it home after being trapped in the Pyrenees by a blizzard. A group of football fans who were trapped overnight in the Pyrenees by a freak blizzard have arrived home.
The group, from the Saltmarket supporters' club, had travelled to Barcelona where they saw their team lose in the Champions League. The Celtic supporters were on their way back from Barcelona following Tuesday night's Champion's League match when their bus got stuck.
They ran into white-out conditions on the coach journey home in the early hours of Wednesday morning. The group of 80 were forced to abandon their coach and walk almost a mile to a ski lodge for shelter on the advice of French police.
Local police advised them to stay on board until daylight before taking shelter in a ski lodge a mile away. Many of them were dressed in just shorts and football shirts.
Many of the fans were dressed only in shorts and football tops as they hiked through blizzard conditions. The fans from Saltmarket Celtic Supporters Club set off from the Porte Puymorens ski resort in the same bus at around 1700 GMT on Thursday and arrived in Glasgow on Friday evening.
Ronnie Mitchell, who is from the supporters' club, said: "Even the police said they hadn't experienced those kind of conditions in years. 'Safe and fine'
"We were all dressed for travelling on a bus so it came as a bit of a shock." The club's Ronnie Mitchell said the supporters had weathered the epic journey cheerfully.
He said the fans remained in good spirits. Celtic were beaten 1-0 by Barcelona and knocked out of the Champions League. He said: "Everyone is really bright. They are a credit to us and a credit to the club.
"It has been an adventure and people are looking on it as something they have had an adventure with rather than an ordeal. We are all safe and fine."
The fans left Barcelona soon after their team's 1-0 defeat, hitting the blizzard in the Pyrenees at around 0002 GMT.
They contacted the emergency services who told them to wait until daylight before leaving the coach.
At about 0800 GMT the fans, including several youngsters aged 11 and 12, walked to a lodge before being transferred to a resort for the night.
However, the ordeal has not put them off bus journeys. About 54 of them will be boarding a coach again on Sunday for the journey to Aberdeen to watch their team play.