Perhaps the most maligned group of Celtic fans in recent times, the North Curve have played a blinder thus far, outflanking Celtic’s salaried media team of thirty hearty souls.
As if using The Sun newspaper to attack former Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers wasn’t bad enough, the Celtic CEO managed to put out a Saturday night statement that took “Rolling A Jobby In Glitter” to unprecedented new heights.
The club used their newspaper of choice to undermine the manager and completely ignore all the concerns raised by the fans.
Old and new, traditional supporters clubs, podcasts, websites and others. Groups with a variety of shades of opinion but drawn together by a succession of issues culminating in the carnage created by Nicholson’s transfer window activities.
“There’s conditions we want to be able to improve because I’m not the type of manager that’s good at maintaining anything. If there’s just something to maintain, I’m not the manager for Celtic.”
No Champions League, a depleted squad, an elite manager working his notice and a board and CEO with nothing to say about anything – fans have reached breaking point.
That’s club-speak for police and stewards will once again be forming human barriers to prevent fans from leaving their section, all the while being spoken to like potential criminals.
What we were told beforehand would be “concourse ticket checks” turned out to be wave after wave of densely staffed and policed human barriers preventing fans moving around the stadium.
Nygren’s pace, power and technique was crucial to Celtic’s win against Aberdeen on Sunday as the Swede scored his first goal and set up Reo Hatate for the second.
Celtic’s policy of outright hostility towards the Green Brigade and lack of communication with Celtic fans in general cannot continue.