Brian Wilson and Mark Hargreaves were both posted missing as Celtic visited Ibrox on Sunday.
The interim Chairman and Head of Safety and Security have an almost 100% attendance record in recent months.
The scheduling of the match was known months in advance but it seems that two key figures at Celtic had more important things to do than attend the Glasgow Derby.
Celtic’s official party was led by Michael Nicholson and Chris McKay. The CEO and CFO are both huge fans of the toxic O** F*** brand.
CELTIC SEE NO EVIL AT IBROX
Nicholson has watched multiple incidents at Ibrox expressing nothing more than a smug grin.
Glass appearing during the half time interval in Joe Hart’s penalty area? Nothing to see.
A bottle of Buckfast thrown at Matt O’Riley? All part of the banter.
Your physio permanently disfigured by a glass thrown from a corporate guest? Ah well.
Bottles, lighters and vapes aimed at Vil Sinisalo? All part of the matchday experience.
Wilson, Nicholson and McKay have appeared joined at the hip this season. If you see one you get the other two empty suits as part of the deal.
Since taking on the job of interim Chairman after Peter Lawwell’s hasty exit Wilson has raided his profile significantly.
Four times he has appealed for unity among supporters while doing nothing to achieve that.
The Green Brigade has been suspended for more than four months.
WILSON- MEETINGS ABOUT MEETINGS
Wilson has had face to face meeting with the Green Brigade and Celtic Fans Collective over the last month.
Strangely Celtic have failed to comment on these meetings despite the apparent eagerness of Wilson to fill every seat at Celtic Park.
Wilson is of course a full time politician. Worse than that a Labour politician who shared a cabinet with Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Peter Mandelson. Three men who made careers of avoiding the truth.
Nicholson and McKay sat comfortably in the centre of the Main Stand at Ibrox.
All around them the anthems of hate were being belted out. Including the Billy Boys, banned by UEFA but welcomed by the SPFL, SFA and Sky Sports.
Nicholson and McKay are more than comfortable with that song and others.
About the only achievement on Nicholson’s CV is raising the away fan ticket allocation at the Glasgow Derby to 5%.
NICHOLSON WELCOMES THE BILLY BOYS
The Billy Boys was sung regularly at Celtic Park on January 3.
Hargreaves seems to have turned a deaf ear to that song.
While his security teams clamp down on a variety of issues around Celtic Park no banning orders were issued following the January 3 Derby match.
In November Celtic released a long distance night time video clip to justify suspending the Green Brigade.
In January they had daytime conditions to identify the Ibrox Season Ticket holders bringing their poison to Celtic Park.
No video clips have been released.
Plans are at an advanced stage for a repeat in the post-split SPFL Premiership fixtures.
For whatever reasons Hargreaves had better things to do on Sunday than catch up with the current levels of poison and hatred from the stands at Ibrox.
Wilson and Hargreaves should be working all out on getting the Green Brigade back inside Celtic Park. Starting against Motherwell on March 14.
Anything less will be another failure in a season littered with failures and mistakes from the men charged with progressing Celtic at every level.
