And it will come as no surprise to any Celtic fan that the paper concluded “The reality of events on the day bears little resemblance to the ‘both sides are as bad as each other’ favoured by the Scottish, Irish and British media.”
In fact none of the drivel you will hear about Celtic fans from legacy media this week will rival the smears put out by Nicholson, Hargreaves, Lawwell and Ross Desmond in the past eight months.
If Nicholson turns up at Monday’s meeting with the Green Brigade the obvious first question is over whether he can decide to lift the suspension of 250 Season Ticket holders.
Then last thing Martin O’Neill and his players need is another dead atmosphere at Celtic Park when Motherwell come visiting.
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…
There seems to be credible reports that interim Chairman Wilson and George Campbell are meeting with the Green Brigade today.
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.
Rather than sharing soundbites with McCulloch, Wilson could have been meeting members of the Collective.
Given that there was no announcement of Hargreaves appointment at the club it is strange that he has been given such a high profile gig.
Well there is one easy move Wilson could make to signal the end of the boards war on Celtic fans and boost the atmosphere massively – bring back the Green Brigade.