Brian Wilson has spent his day flip-flopping around trying to avoid responsibility. The fans aren’t rolling over for tea and biscuits this time.
The Interim Chairman finally met up with the Celtic Fans Collective at 3pm today in a stalling exercise to prevent further exposure of the failings of the board and specifically Michael Nicholson.
As a former colleague of Peter Mandelson Wilson knows all of the dark arts to stall, delay and deflect. And deny.
His first call for unity was on January 5 followed by a month concentrating on transfer failings.
On February 5 ahead of a boycott of the Dundee Scottish Cup tie he went on Celtic TV to claim meetings were being held.
Today, February 18 he finally met with the Collective. Last week’s meeting was postponed in order to bring in members of the Celtic executive.
Media and Marketing suit Kevin McQuillan was added to the club team. Alongside Wilson, Head of Legal George Campbell and SLO John Paul Taylor.
WILSON TRIES TO MANIPULATE THE CELTIC SUPPORT- MANDELSON STYLE
The bottom line from today’s meeting is that the Green Brigade remain suspended from Celtic Park.
Or do they?
The meeting at Celtic Park finished at 5pm. At 8pm the Collective held a zoom meeting to update fans on how the meeting had gone.
Ten minutes into the meeting it emerged that Wilson was messaging the Green Brigade.
Tactics straight out of Mandelson’s New Labour Control Manual.
After the ‘horrors’ of the Falkirk match on October 29 it seems that the current excuse for the Green Brigade ban were words said to Mark Hargreaves in broad daylight, indoors at the Celtic AGM. Hargreaves is believed to be on annual leave- despite representing Celtic at the Europa League draw.
Fortunately Blair, Brown and the rest of that mob have been side-lined.
In 2026 people are well clued up and connected.
Wilson can’t pick groups or individuals off.
When the Collective asked Wilson and his chums what they had brought to the meeting the answer was vague.
Nothing could be decided by the interim Chairman.
Almost certainly Nicholson and Chris McKay were sitting in a nearby room waiting for feedback.
DEMONSTRATIONS PLANNED FOR STUTTGART MATCH
Part of that feedback is that there are a number of options in place for the Europa League match with Stuttgart on Thursday night.
Corporate Celtic seem rattled by that. Letting their own inadequacies being exposed across Europe.
It wouldn’t be a surprise if Wilson reported straight to Nicholson once the Collective had left the building.
So far the Collective have enjoyed incredible success.
One Chairman has bolted, a dud manager and fake Head of Football Operations have left the club. The hologram of a CEO is keeping an even lower profile than usual.
Barely 20,000 Celtic fans attended a Scottish Cup tie against Dundee.
Kieran Tierney, Julian Araujo and Martin O’Neill have all called for a full restoration of the Celtic support.
Meanwhile Wilson has Lawrence Donegan name calling from California.
Time is up for Wilson and his fellow freeloaders.
Their inaction has galvanised the Celtic support.
All that is left for them is to minimise how despised and detested they are when they step down.
The Collective and social media will ensure that there is no whitewashing of the harm that they have caused the club.
RELATED READING
9 Comments
by Anthony monaghan
Get the board out now I’m not coming back to parkhead . now it’s about time the players down tools and stood up for the fans we pay their wages
by David Banks
Sadly, I have to agree with your assessment of the current situation.
My own opinion is the board have been scrambling from one fire alarm to another for a long time now and it’s not the look I want for my club. These figures for attendances and the ‘not a penny’ campaign will clearly affect the turnover and a pathway to self harm.
Celtic is the fans always has been always will be and current major share holders delusions of thinking they are doing a slick professional job in an ever changing environment.
Let the egos deflate and start providing our team the best chance of winning home games of football. It’s our biggest advantage and we managed to fuck that up as well 💚🍀
by Dan
I read your article with interest and i believe that both the collective and the board are as bad as each other. Nicholson and Hargreaves need to go and probably will at the end of the financial year. The colletive is a group led by faceless people who dont speak for as many as they say and yheir not a penny more campaign will have a negative effect long term and the same fans will continue to complain. We have the most toxic fans in football and its a disgrace. The GB think they can do what they want with pyros and political views, why? They need to behave like evrryone else
by Stevie
Dan
Some will fight for the club, some like yourself will sit back and hope it all goes away.
Head over to Celtic thick news they’ll listen.
by Jim
Dan, there are no ‘faceless men’, there are 19 representatives, every single one known and named, and through consultation and democratic means, they represent the broader fan base.
If you had any real interest in this, this would have been known to yourself, as would their freely available names. Strikes me that you’d rather grind some personal axe, from a position of ignorance, rather than save the soul of you’re club.
by Sean
Celtic collective made up of a wide range of the support. All known and elected. Sit with your fingers in your ears Dan
by Stephen Gormley
Celtic are nothing without the fans….stole from the great jock stien….clowns at the top need to go…..always have always will be Celtic,board must step down
by Valentine's day massacre
Why does Brian Wilson look like he’s been stuck in a snowed in Winter’s cabin with big fake Kris Boyd on speed for a holiday weekend ? 6 ft of thick snow , impossible to open the door or Mork and Mindy’s , with Boyd babbling about extra minutes advantage for Celtic on loop ! It would half explain the long face ….
by Albert Wilson
Times up…sack the board…if Desmond actually cared for the club, he’d sign his shares over to the Celtic Supporters Limited and clear off.