Celtic will welcome their favoured media partners to Lennoxtown today.
Martin O’Neill and a player will be made available to discuss Saturday’s match at home to Motherwell.
Broadcasters will get a slot that will be released on You Tube in mid-afternoon.
Celtic Communications Manager Iain Jamieson will then put on a separate session for newspaper partners which will be embargoed until 10.30pm tonight.
There will barely be a mention about Motherwell. All attention will be on the events at Ibrox, the actions of the Celtic fans and the likely return of an away fan ban.
Of course no fan media outlets will be invited. They were excluded at the start of December, a month after the Green Brigade were suspended from using their Season Tickets.
On February 18 Brian Wilson and head of club media Kevin McQuillan told a meeting with the Celtic Fans Collective that they didn’t know who had ended access for fan media outlets.
Around a dozen websites and podcasts were on a rota for a monthly invite to ask one question then go away.
Celtic’s favoured broadcasters include BBC Scotland, STV, Sky Sports and Radio Clyde.
The newspapers include the Daily Record, The Scottish Sun, The Daily Mail, Scotsman and Newsquest which covers The Herald, Rangers Review and the Celtic Way.
CELTIC AND THEIR LEGACY MEDIA PARTNERS
Since Sunday at Ibrox there has been an all out attack on Celtic fans by the club’s media partners.
You won’t have read or heard a word of criticism about the club Directors.
About the three month silence from CEO Michael Nicholson.
Or the deflection tactics of Brian Unity Wilson.
Or the failings of Mark Hargreaves in relation to security issues with a change in coach parking and 7,000 Celtic fans going through an area designed for 2,000 supporters.
Not a peep of criticism.
But they were all entitled to weigh in on the Green Brigade. According to a number of media outlets the Green Brigade were inside Ibrox and instigating violence and trouble.
Rangers release a statement.
So @ClydeSSB use a picture of Celtic fans rather than Rangers fans assualting people. https://t.co/odYOukC9n8
— Fr Jeb (@FrJeb) March 12, 2026
Following the statement from Ibrox yesterday Radio Clyde decided to use an image of Celtic fans behind a line of Police Officers alongside the story. Favoured pundit Andy Halliday has been broadcasting that he saw Celtic fans in the centre circle goading the home fans. It never happened.
Celtic and Radio Clyde enjoy a long standing advertising partnership
@STVNews @STVSport My screenshot of Tav’s missed pen shows @unibet and @32Red where they appear in your footage. Earlier, when @RangersFC tried to handle the ball in, @WilliamHill and #RhinoExpress are visible in the #FreeBroomloan Stand. Doesn’t add up. @Ofcom https://t.co/DHGv7ieQLK pic.twitter.com/VPSB0YkTu0
— Celts On TV (@CeltsOnTV) March 9, 2026
To highlight a story about allegations of damage to seats caused by Celtic fans STV News played a video clip showing the damaged seats in the Copland Road Stand. Where the Union Bears are based.
Up yeez your own footage shows sore loser fc fans being responsible pic.twitter.com/vZqpwc2JZH
— Henrik (@HenrikVegetable) March 8, 2026
CELTIC AND THEIR FRIENDS AT THE RECORD
Straight away, as if on auto-pilot the Daily Record had both sets of fans equally to blame even though their own footage completely contradicted that view. The Record are long time partners of Celtic, especially former CEO Peter Lawwell.
The bitterness spewing out from Tom English is tremendous. Celtic with a horrendous injury list travel to their rivals back yard and win what most observers say was an exciting game. Their fans like Dunfermline fans last night ran on the pitch to celebrate. pic.twitter.com/HcjaBkkrY6
— Laurence with a u (@lordo1000) March 8, 2026
Tom English is the Chief Sports Writer at the state broadcaster.
When Brendan Rodgers returned as manager of Celtic in June 2023 English launched a very personal attack on the new manager.
Celtic withdrew the invite to BBC Scotland to their media conferences. Since Rodgers resigned in October Celtic have welcomed back their friends at BBC Scotland.
Played the full version of a Tina Turner song so 42,000 could shout fuck the Pope.
Pitch invasion after a subsequent disallowed home own goal.
Scores of home ultras running onto the park with the sole intention of a riot.
Celtic coaching staff attacked.
Parallel universe.
— Johannes (@_johannes__) March 12, 2026
McFarlane is Head of Digital Sport at Newsquest. Publishers of The Herald, Rangers Review, The Celtic Way, The National and Glasgow Times. Titles that are hugely dependent on access to Celtic.
None of those titles will question or criticise the Celtic board. They regularly slam and blame the Celtic support. Print circulation is down the pan, digital subscriptions bring in pitiful sums.
The Celtic fans celebrated with their own team — I’m not condoning it, but that’s all it was. Did they sprint the length of the pitch to attack Rangers fans or staff? No. It was Rangers fans who lost the head and went looking for chaos. That’s the reality. Not “we” — them.
— leec2599 (@leec2599) March 8, 2026
Bill Leckie refreshes the ‘Their both as bad as each other’ template. It has been regularly used over the last 30 plus years.
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