The Celtic Fans Collective have called for a boycott of the Scottish Cup tie against Dundee.
Repeated attempts by fans to reach out to the club have been rebuffed time and time again throughout the season.
Indeed, the club have chosen to vilify and punish supporters at every opportunity rather than engage.
A merchandise boycott, stadium displays, leafleting, marches to the stadium – all ignored by CEO Michael Nicholson.
At most clubs a boycott of all official merchandise by the majority of supporters would trigger panic stations.
Not so at Celtic.
CEO NICHOLSON COSTING CELTIC MILLIONS
And when you consider Nicholson and co would rather lose millions of pounds at the tills of the club stores than engage with us fans, you realise why a boycott is necessary.
Instead of taking heed of supporter unrest, Nicholson has chosen to suspend the Green Brigade indefinitely and level serious criminal accusations at all fans.
Ross Desmond and Peter Lawwell have joined in those attacks at the abandoned 2025 Celtic AGM.
The club’s war against its own support is evident in the dreadful atmosphere at Celtic Park.
New security chief Mark Hargreaves has introduced a security crackdown on home fans while at the same time warmly welcoming fans of The Rangers to sing anti-Irish racist anthems in Paradise.
Opposition fans are openly taunting the board with chants of “Keep the Board”, but again Nicholson and co pay no heed.
Enough is enough.
Faced with unprecedented levels of hostility and vindictiveness, and having tried all other options, the Collective have now called for a boycott.
There is also a strong feeling that the current board cannot remain in place to oversee the required overhaul of the first team in the summer.
Nicholson’s handling of recent transfer windows has been nothing short of disastrous.
So much so that we now find ourselves third in the league despite having almost £80 million of supporters cash sitting in the bank.
Only loan signings have been recruited to save the title defence.
WHY NICHOLSON HAS TO GO
Having called for the boycott the immediate demand of the Collective is the removal of CEO Nicholson and the lifting of the bans on the Green Brigade and fan media.
Further actions are in the pipeline.
The call for a boycott came following a meeting of the Celtic Fans Collective on Tuesday night.
And it prompted a quite baffling response from interim chairman Brian Wilson last night.
Speaking to Gerry McCulloch for a mere five minutes Wilson claimed the reason he has ignored supporters this past month was his focus was on transfers.
Seriously?
Just how much scouting work Brian Wilson carried out in January remains to be seen but I’d guess it wasn’t very much.
He found the time to call for unity but didn’t manage to find an hour or two to actually do anything about it.
WILSON BACKING THE BAN
Wilson also informed us that he wants a full Celtic Park to help the team push for the league title.
But 245 fanatical Celtic fans still have their Season Tickets suspended for no reason whatsoever.
Despite the best efforts of Hargreaves and Police Scotland, these 245 fans face no legal sanction whatsoever over the now infamous “incident” at the Falkirk home game back in October last year.
And yet Celtic have chosen to ban them from all games.
That ban continues under the chairmanship of Wilson, no matter what he says about unity or his desire for a full stadium.
COLLECTIVE STRENGTH
And as Wilson is only too well aware, the horrific attitude the club has adopted towards us fans goes back much longer than this past month.
There is no excuse for him having waited a full month to address fans.
And what he has said doesn’t even scratch the surface of what is required to repair the damage his board has done to relations with supporters.
This past week has seen the transfer window close followed by a call from the Collective for a boycott.
And Nicholson has yet to utter one word.
The exact same contribution he made at the recent AGM.
Our millionaire CEO only seems to find his voice when he is throwing criminal accusations at supporters. Or talking up the brilliance of the worst manager in Celtic’s history.
The boycott of Saturday’s home game against Dundee goes ahead and fans are being asked to take this difficult step and join in.
The Celtic board could have avoided it getting to this stage at any time this season, but they chose to attack us at every turn.
The boycott is the last resort that fans have been driven to and sadly there is no other option to have our voices heard.
