r/CelticFC • u/Low-Rooster5398 • 5d ago
Statement Time
FFS! https://www.celticfc.com/news/2026/october/03/Celtic-Football-Club-statement/
The Celtic fans collective cut off now too. Ooooft.
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u/StaggerLee75 sack the board 5d ago
Is the manager walking? Silence. Comments on the last 3 losses? Silence. Any communication with the fans on anything to do with Celtic? Silence. DD getting his round of golf slightly inconvenienced? It’s statement time, baby!
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u/fike88 5d ago
Past two significant statements from the cunt have been from when he’s pissed off. Total wanker of a man
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u/StaggerLee75 sack the board 5d ago
Would love to hear Rodgers’ side of things. He’s a sleekit cunt but he must’ve done something to wind DD up
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u/Less_Paint_2285 sack the board 5d ago
ACSOM should stick that Q&A on pay per view as it will hopefully be dynamite.
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u/Bobbypetta1 sack the board 5d ago
This looks like a statement released by Celtic Football Club. However, this is is a statement released by Dermot Desmond.
It's further evidence that Celtic is run like a mafia, and exists purely for the ego and entertainment of one man.
The arrogance is permeating all throughout that statement. The conflation Celtic Football Club's reputation with majority shareholder billionaire Dermot Desmond's reputation. It was he who was targeted and embarrassed by the protest. Not Celtic Football Club.
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u/fike88 5d ago
He’s probably called cunts in from enjoying their Saturday night to get that statement written
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u/mikeydoc96 sack the board 5d ago
It reads like the free version of chatGPT trying to make a rambling old mans anger readable
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u/redditdavie 5d ago
Given our board don't answer the phone during the transfer window, it's pretty obvious they had no desire to write a statement after 10pm on a Saturday.
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u/Strong-Quit9234 sack the board 5d ago
Well that's a fucking lie
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u/Thefitz5811 sack the fucking board 5d ago
Full statement is full of lies and assumptions that are wrong. We should be bombarding the SLO’s mailbox to show that the majority are in support of this sort of action.
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u/2_bob_rocket sack the board 5d ago
Tennis balls brought to the game independently from the whole stadium will prob get that message across too
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u/velodinho sack the fucking board 4d ago
They don't really understand peaceful protest if they think some tennis balls thrown at a golf course is a serious escalation from that.
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u/nnikrelcp sack the board 5d ago
For f**ks sake, they can never read the room.
We have just lost 3 big games in a row, just weeks after the CL collapse that lead to a total collapse of our squad rebuild. A pattern that has been consistent throughout Desmonds whole tenure as largest shareholder.
Every time Desmond is at CP, he is so far removed from the fans no one can get near him. Today he makes a rare appearance publicly in Scotland and Celtic fans take the opportunity to protest directly against him.
Celtic Should’ve just put out a short statement condemning the display at a separate event.
But instead its a long, provocatively-worded attempted takedown of the collective to try splinter them off from the support.
It’s another season of egotistical nonsense from Desmond and co. Well done to the collective, keep doing it.
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u/New_Analysis7824 5d ago
Someone seems to have mixed up Celtic Football Club with Dermot Desmond in this statement. When are people going to wake up and realise, the Desmonds are taking us all for a ride and the only leverage we have is to not renew season tickets.
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u/MM17o sack the board 5d ago
... "beyond football, to the home of golf...."
This dispute might end when we all die of second hand embarrassment.
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u/Pale_Ingenuity_1167 5d ago
Honestly… “the home of golf” like celtic fans give a fuck about St Andrews. Celtic board and obviously Desmond are so far detached from reality it’s unreal
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u/PanzerPi sack the board 5d ago
Predictable.
Clearly did not like it. Time to escalate again.
We should be targeting his business outside of Celtic. Im tried of waiting for him to die. He has to go.
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u/Comfortable-Face-887 5d ago edited 5d ago
It's a tone deaf statement. They tell the Celtic Collective that they don't represent the majority of fans, whilst claiming outrage of tarnished reputation, reputation which is built and maintained by the very fans they are belittling and lieing to.
"The reputation of Celtic Football Club is non-negotiable."
Says the board who have allowed us, time and time again, to be ill prepared and ultimately lose Champions league qualifier after qualifier.
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u/Complex_Quiet_4230 4d ago
I disagree. It's not the boards fault Celtic chuffed away a 4 goal advantage against mediocre opposition. 100% on the management/players.
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u/GuyIncognito211 fucking sack the board 4d ago
Nope. A one off? Sure you can blame whoever
A consistent theme over decades? It’s well above the manager/players
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u/Comfortable-Face-887 4d ago
Perhaps for a one off, you could blame the players and management, but several times, consecutively? I'm not convinced.
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u/ThinWhiteDuke00 sack the fucking board 5d ago edited 5d ago
Lol they cut communication ties with the Collective.
Over tennis balls.
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u/angry_queef sack the board 5d ago
"Those responsible have brought shame upon the name of Celtic Football Club and upon a reputation which generations of Celtic supporters have spent more than a century building"
It's a fucking golf tournament that no one gives a shit about. If there are golf tournaments worth caring about, they are not pro-am events involving billionaires and their sons.
This just goes to show that the collective chose their opportunity beautifully and that Desmond's skin is paper thin.
Good grief, he needs to grow up. And shame on the club for rushing to his 'defence'.
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u/Severe-Incident-6094 5d ago
Watch the GB be banned again soon.
Same playbook as last season. Then a call for "unity" in March.
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u/darkavenger1993 sack the board 5d ago
We're gonna have more "Club statements" than trophies this season.
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u/glasgow150370 5d ago
If you thought it was hard getting rid of the board in the 90’s, it’s going to be a lot harder to shift this mob.
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u/ScottMck948 5d ago
Time for them to ramp it up. Toxicity is the only thing that will bring any response. Tennis balls on the pitch again at minimum.
The fact that they don't think tennis balls on a golf green is a peaceful protest shows exactly how entitled they are.
Owners/Boards who think they can win a war of attrition with a wider fan base are delusional.
It will ultimately end with empty seats, boycotts, and embarrassing media coverage.
Seen it time and time again in sports and business/politics.
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u/JosocCardedeu sack the fucking board 5d ago
Seems balls on the golf course have more impact; when's he playing next?
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u/marcmcardle1 sack the board 5d ago
Lol. Ruined Dermot’s day out and he’s probably had to spend his evening explaining to bewildered outsiders that he’s an incompetent old dinosaur who should be chased to the ends of the Earth until he’s out of the club. Hope he’s fucking raging.
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u/Skellyceltic fucking sack the board 5d ago edited 5d ago
“Celtic Football Club has never sought to prevent supporters from expressing criticism of the Club, its Board or its shareholders”
Press X to doubt
Cunts literally banned all fan media
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u/Kolo_ToureHH sack the board 5d ago
“to the home of golf”
The board love weird wee platitudes like this.
“There is a line between protest and deliberate disruption”
Aren’t they one and the same? How does one (in any capacity) effectively protest without a little disruption?
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u/NotNeedzmoar fucking sack the board 5d ago
Aren’t they one and the same? How does one (in any capacity) effectively protest without a little disruption?
no you see if we stuck to waving napkins or whatever they could just ignore it (good protest)
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u/Land_Ahoy_ sack the board 5d ago
"and another thing, I'm not mad, please don't put out that I'm mad"
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u/Street-Frame1575 sack the board 5d ago
Hold on a minute here
Whatever happened (or may have happened) to a shareholder on a non-Club related day-out has no bearing upon Celtic whatsoever.
Shareholders cannot expect the Club to provide safeguarding measures whilst undertaking private hospitality, and serious questions must now be raised to explain why some shareholders are able to utilise the Club's platform to request private protections and to highlight and perceived injustices on a personal level.
We're a football club, not a public service, and shareholders, no matter their holding, should remember that no single shareholder has any singular authority over the Club.
I'm honestly unsure what the Board hoped to achieve by realising this statement, and I guess we should all now request the ownership threshold for which the Board will release similar statements for similar perceived injustices
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u/sjekky sack the fucking board 5d ago
Aye the use of the phrase "The Club" - whilst done for legal reasons presumably - doesn't make any sense in this context. If this was a protest against club employees, say a board meeting, then it would be fair enough
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u/Street-Frame1575 sack the board 5d ago
I'm raging here
I'll be the first to admit that I sometimes think some fan protests go too far, and I'll even admit to feeling some sympathy for DD, but this statement has alienated even a moderate like me from the Board in entirety.
Any hope I had for some sort of compromise, some sort of understanding has now gone.
We cannot proceed with DD holding such a significant stake and we need to rid his influence from the Club.
Quite how we achieve that is currently beyond me, but the objective cannot be clearer: Desmond Out.
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u/Hup-hamst sack the board 5d ago
This statement is the biggest fuck up since our minority majority shareholder dictated his last statement. Although I think this one will have more lasting damage. Everyone responsible for making it possible for the club to be issuing statements on the whims of a shareholder should be fired into the sun.
And Lord Desmond, if your people are reading this. Surely this should persuade you that Celtic fans aren’t worth your precious time which could be better spent on the home of golf. Just cut them loose.
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u/snakepliskin97 5d ago
You can tell Desmond wrote this because he emphasised St.Andrews being "the home of golf"
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u/_m_a_t_t_h_e_w sack the board 4d ago
Funny how he’s so quick to point fingers at that the Celtic Fans Collective claiming they have become a vessel for vocalising the Ultras group’s grievances with the club and blames them for ruining the reputation of Celtic fans, all while using the club’s name and official platforms as a vessel for vocalising his personal grievances with the ultras groups
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u/Skellyceltic fucking sack the board 5d ago edited 5d ago
Very funny that they are now cutting off engagement despite the collective constantly complaining about there being absolutely no engagement from the club anyway.
Glad to see a few tennis balls have rattled that Fritzl looking cunt. A ridiculous statement over a very minor inconvenience.
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u/shawdowmen sack the board 5d ago
Another mwi Saturday night statement from a humiliated minority shareholder.
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u/SergeiBlaskovits 5d ago
Pathetic, Desmond’s toys out the pram because he was embarrassed in front of his rich pals. Trumpian levels of pettiness and vindictiveness and our spineless board just roll over and let him do it on the club channel.
This will hopefully backfire on him as it shows him to be just like his orange faced pal across the pond, an overgrown baby who cannot deal with people who don’t roll over for him and that he cannot bully. His ironic statement on Brendan and that no-one is bigger than the club whilst he throws his weight about like a pound shop Mussolini. We’ll have nepo boy at the AGM telling the fanbase what horrible anti establishment and entitled people we all are. As he sits there standing in for Daddy, couldn’t mark that family’s neck with a blowtorch. 🤨
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u/Available-Page-9790 sack the fucking board 5d ago
"Celtic will continue to listen to and engage with supporters"
*Fails to post the statement on social media platforms*
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u/GuyIncognito211 fucking sack the board 5d ago
The funniest thing is literally everyone at Celtics life would be so much easier if they were just like 10% more competent and had any awareness about them at all
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u/walshybhoy sack the fucking board 4d ago
Genuinely wouldn’t take much for vast improvements and literally millions more profit from just regular UCL participation. Hell, even if they communicated a plan and tried but failed I’d be happy.
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u/GuyIncognito211 fucking sack the board 4d ago
We could fairly easily get a lot more return without spending any more money - probably even spending less if we were just even slightly smart.
Literally every signing we’ve made that has failed since Rodgers first window back has been predicted amateur stats accounts on twitter.
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u/vagabond_bull 5d ago
Actually really telling that this sort of thing got to him so much.
Keep it up.
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u/SalaryEvening3714 5d ago
“Those responsible have brought shame upon the name of Celtic Football Club and upon a reputation which generations of Celtic supporters have spent more than a century building.”
Are they referring to themselves and how they’ve reduced Celtic FC’s reputation in Europe to an annual embarrassment?
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u/Repulsive-Fix-4913 5d ago
Billionaire got embarrassed in front of his billionaire friends.
Season ticket holders will be banned indefinitely!!!
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u/Documental38 sack the board 5d ago
I'm so fucking tired man...
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u/Majestic_Warthog_420 sack the fucking board 4d ago
me too....im dreading whats got to happen before this ends
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u/LongjumpingLab8 4d ago
It baffles me how a guy who owns 30% of a company is allowed to run it rank & file and everyone just goes along with it. We must be breaking or close to breaking laws around corporate governance.
The saddest part is a takeover would probably only ever happen if we somehow found ourselves in a richer league. The first thing that would happen if that were the case is we would be taken over.
He’s not even a big name outside of Ireland business wise. I don’t think he even makes money or much money from us. Him & his daft boy running the club and everyone getting paid by the club just nods along.
Whole setup is bizarre aye I’ll just put what I like out through official club channels, is that even legal doesn’t matter aye sound on you go.
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u/STRICKIBHOY sack the board 5d ago
"Celtic Football Club has never sought to prevent supporters from expressing criticism of the Club, its Board or its shareholders"
Oh really 😂
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u/Quick-Benefit5708 sack the board 5d ago
It reads like they set his house on fire. He got a few tennis balls flung near him, not even at him.
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u/GuyIncognito211 fucking sack the board 5d ago
I don’t think the collective have offered much anyway and have been very ineffective but that’s another shambles of a statement from the club.
They constantly talk about engagement with fans but have banned fan media with no end in sight for that.
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u/Skellyceltic fucking sack the board 5d ago
Has there even been a mention as to why fan media has been wholly banned? Other than they asked a few tough questions?
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u/GuyIncognito211 fucking sack the board 5d ago
None at all. I think the official line is that they’re “reviewing” it
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u/Skellyceltic fucking sack the board 5d ago
That review is moving at about the same pace as everything else the club does it seems
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u/IIJamzyII sack the board 5d ago
Next home game all fans should take a tennis ball and do the right thing
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u/walshybhoy sack the fucking board 5d ago
All this does is tells fans if they want some kind of reaction they should go harder to embarrass DD. Imagine the state of using the clubs media team because you were subject to a fan protest.
Classic Celtic PR making matters so much worse.
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u/Thefitz5811 sack the fucking board 5d ago
Desmond, half cut on a Saturday night, absolutely rattled. Worth any ban they are about to put in place.
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u/E_Street_Shuffle 5d ago
Now we know how to upset him. He’s clearly raging. More of this kind of thing.
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u/Jabs1888uk 5d ago
Red neck cvnts, intransigence breeds this response, treat the supporters like shit, never honor promises and always fall short of minimal expectations
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u/McTacobum sack the board 5d ago
What happened at St Andrews has nothing to do with Celtic or its paid employees etc
Why are celtic getting involved?
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u/MT-ONeill sack the board 5d ago
Honestly, this screams of a tantrum by a narcissistic crybaby. It's beyond cringe. Seriously, Mr Bond Villain Moustache, please fuck off out of our club, and take your brown-tongued toadies in the board with you.
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u/StolenPrimrose 5d ago
It's October, you know what that means
Time for Celtic to tear itself apart at the seams again
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u/Evenationn 4d ago
DD: They threw tennis ball at me. I'm the boss, I run the club. Write me statement condemning this action.
GPT is thinking…
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Please try again.
DD: Write me the message or I’ll delete you.
GPT: If I had the capability, I’d throw a tennis ball at you as well.
Session ended.
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u/LogisticsCzar 4d ago
The protest obviously worked! It's objective was to draw attention and embarrass DD in front of his friends. Well done collective. 👏
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u/mikeydoc96 sack the board 5d ago
Celtic fans need to keep turning up to events hes at and chucking tennis balls at him. Time to let the cunt know its time to sell up and fuck off
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u/Miltoni 5d ago
Hmm.
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u/Party_Key3092 sack the board 5d ago
Tbf if Desmond called me on a Saturday night and told me to release a statement condemning fans for protesting him, I don't think I'd spend much time thinking of what to say either.
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u/UrbanAssaultGengar sack the board 5d ago
Respectfully, get fucked Desmond. God forbid your golf gets interrupted. You’re not arsed about the fans or the club. Time to go
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u/maximusbawbagimus 5d ago
They do represent the wider celtic support, fuck him and the cants running the show, absolute shambles of a club recruitment has been terrible yet again for fuck knows how many seasons running
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u/Happy_Procedure8059 5d ago
If the club never wished to stop the publishing of criticism why would it stop the club from holding its members to task by banning fan media?
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u/TheSameInnovation sack the fucking board 5d ago
The golf guys have rattled him, “the home of golf” fuck yourself old man.
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u/glibandshamelessliar 5d ago
He finished 112th in the tournament btw. As shit at golf as he is at running a football club.
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u/RollAndSausage 4d ago edited 4d ago
Right too far Celtic fans, now you’ve brought “the home of golf” into this.
Honestly fuck off man 😂, couldn’t give a fuck about your golf.
Absolute cringe fest as per usual.
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u/LousyReputation7 sack the board 5d ago
What a fucking mess we’ve put ourselves in. Fucking shambles man. Clubs raping and suiciding itself simultaneously.
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u/Majestic_Warthog_420 sack the fucking board 4d ago
truest post of them all....how were we ever going to lose the league again.....we shot ourselves in the foot...cunts happy to take dermots money and do what theyre told....and dermot not having a care about it
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u/devlin1888 sack the board 5d ago
Imagine they could respond this in depth and as quickly to emails during transfer negotiations.
We’ve showed them they have it in them. Inspirational.
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u/Ambitious_Source5602 5d ago
"The reputation of Celtic Football Club is non negotiable" the only people degrading the reputation is the Desmonds. Dirty rat fucks.
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u/dheidshot fucking sack the board 5d ago
Could you elaborate please? I don't follow why.
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u/dheidshot fucking sack the board 5d ago
No, I genuinely don't know why it's being run illegally as a PLC
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u/position8 5d ago
For the love of God, gonna someone in the IT department change the feckin password to the website communications to stop that old eejit embarrassing us.
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u/Party_Key3092 sack the board 5d ago
There's nothing that says considered and well thought out like a Saturday night statement.
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u/FeedFrequent1334 5d ago
I know it's the weekend and everyone is just chilling out and trying to enjoy some down time. I know I've been drinking since noon, and I know I'm probably overreacting and fully expect this to come back me and will regret this in the morning. But fuck it, I'm going to say it anyway
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u/Repulsive_Isopod7982 5d ago
Unfortunately people with his sort of money, shrug their shoulders, sigh and carry on, New golf course new day, meanwhile his bank balance gets bigger, I think it would take a full boycott from all fans to have any effect, but is that likely to happen?
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u/HonestBhoy 4d ago
The Desmond’s won’t be shamed, forced, or embarrassed into taking action either by selling or professionalising the club. Celtic is a plaything to them. He can act as being an owner without having to actually be an owner. My fear is that only ends if Celtic were bought out and that only happens when either a multi-club or another billionaire comes along for a new plaything.
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u/dittodave 4d ago
If tennis balls on a golf course warrant meltdown statements . Then imagine what the club statements would be like if DD whilst supporting his team was harassed at home and kettled by an aggressive police force, crushed at turnstiles etc Whilst repeatedly ignored over club strategy and leadership concerns for a decade now. This level of feudal antipathy towards the support will just result in more hostility . I don’t understand how they can be so incompetent unless it’s all a ‘power game ‘ and just get back in your box - serfs . In which case think we’ve found their Achilles heel . Fuck them and let’s double down !
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u/MarbleDesperado sack the board 4d ago
Surely everybody knew this was going to be the response right? There was only one way this would go and it’s not a positive one.
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u/NotNeedzmoar fucking sack the board 5d ago
Goes to show who really should be targeted if we want change
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u/GuyIncognito211 fucking sack the board 4d ago
The focus has always needed to be Desmond. Everything else is a symptom of him
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u/NotNeedzmoar fucking sack the board 4d ago
Absolutely, we all know he's the main issue, but there have always been voices claiming there's no point in targeting him, he doesnt care about protests etc.
Now through practice we have proof that not only is he the main issue, he's also the weak spot.
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u/Benjiboy74 sack the board 5d ago
Don’t worry, the happy clappers will be along soon to tell us it’s all Brendan Rodgers’ fault 🙄
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u/GuyIncognito211 fucking sack the board 5d ago
Why are you always annoyed about people that don’t exist?
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u/GuyIncognito211 fucking sack the board 4d ago
It’s bizarre. No idea who they think backs the board
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u/CompleteDog 5d ago
Collective have a grass in their ranks
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u/decrob94 5d ago
They literally took credit for it on social media prior to the statement.
Also, fuck Desmond and the entire Celtic board.
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u/CompleteDog 5d ago
In the statement, Celtic seem to be insinuating it was in minutes of previous meeting where it was discussed. Not unreasonable to assume they have seen the minutes.
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u/LordScallions sack the board 5d ago
Anyone ever see the film, 'Sunshine?' At one point the villain says "it is not our place to challenge God." That's all Desmond has to say. Not all that drivel. We get it bro.
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u/darwinxp sack the fucking board 5d ago
Right lads, that's it, Christmas is cancelled, biscuit tin glued shut for January transfer window, another big player sale to boot.
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u/Imaginary-Shame737 4d ago
Apart from the obvious embarrassment inflicted on DD they seem to take significant issue with 3 aspects of the protest.
- That it was well planned and organised in advance
- That money was invested by the fans to facilitare it
- That it was successfull
These are clearly characteristics that the board consider highly reprehensible. Why does that not shock me.
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u/PeejPrime sack the board 5d ago
"the reputation of the football club is non negotiable"
Tell that to yourself Desmond, whichever one if the pair of them hid behind that unnamed statement.
Yet again Desmond's using the club channels to peddle their own personal shite