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I’m of the opinion that Hearts will bottle it, second will be seen as success for them and Bloom especially so if Celtic do not win the league, it’s essential we sign the players we need to strengthen the squad and first team this week.We have a slim chance as the signings don’t seem to be close. 4 away games coming we need to win 3 here and a draw at Bologna would be a great effort.
EK Bhoy ,
aye but should have been on baord 15 year ago the first couple.
These barnacles on the board, cemented in place by our own money to scheme against us, will be prised off. This charade is finished. The only question is how much more damage they do before they fall.
Nicholson and McKay: your jotters are ready. The others will follow.
Their show is over. The unterschweine at the trough can only choose when the curtain falls. But fall it will.
Maolmuire O Muirgheasa on 11th January 2026 1:03 pm
You are using the language of racist scum
Why do you persist in doing so?
A poster overnight advised you to stop
Yet you persist
Racist scum like you like you are shite at the allegory
Have you not got ambulances to chase you absolute fraud.
Celtic in for Bowie
Maestro on 11th January 2026 1:24 pm
Celtic in for Bowie
He’s been dead 10 years….
maestro
Ten years too late sadly….
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Magic o’ mushroom
Is that a fraud that calls refugees “invaders”
Fraud is the laborious allegory you type.
Underneath you are a wee excluded racist
Wee see you skank
You are shite at the allegory
MAESTRO on 11TH JANUARY 2026 1:03 PM
EK Bhoy ,
aye but should have been on baord 15 year ago the first couple.
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If memory fails didn’t Willie get ejected from the Board ( around Fergus time) for getting caught red handed leaking info to the media , apologies to his Lordship if I’m mistaken or the evidence wouldn’t stand up in court. Other than standing next to Fergus in photos and being an Accountant what would David Low bring to the party?
Apologies I’ve got my cynical head on ….
HH
Perhaps we could have a fixed side-blog for people to post confrontational, argumentative character assassinating and slagging posts.
This would keep the main channels clear for on-topic courteous, civil and respectful comment and debate, thereby reducing the need for the majority of readers and posters to have to scroll past myriad acrimonious and sometimes aggressive noise in order to read anything relevant to the theme of the thread or the here and now.
Just saying…
B78 @ 12.02 – aye, let’s get rid of the manager, Head of Football Operations and the executive directors in one fell swoop during the transfer window. I’ll say no more.
Unless they can find someone sympathetic to their views/politics with a spare £125/£130m, there’s little chance of a change in ownership that would be to their liking.
Re. NEDS, given he appears responsible for the appointment of Rodgers Mk2, Tisdale (and by extension Nancy), I think it’s time for Desmond to relinquish his de facto operational control. Like Hertz, he should have someone on the board to represent his views. Otherwise he should be willing to be held accountable by installing his son as CEO with an experienced COO running day-to-day operations.
Is the Bowie from Hibs rumour coming from the Herald?
If so, the substance of it is not exactly encouraging. It goes along the lines of “It’s suggested Celtic have asked the player’s representatives to keep them informed of any transfer developments, similar to Rangers.”
Hibs are thought to be looking for a fee in the region of £6.5million.
Will that be followed in 2-3 weeks by a statement saying we tried to sign him . . . ?
I would expect Hibs to negotiate hard and ask for more than they will eventually get. But if MoN and Shaun think he is the best striker available and ready to slot straight into the team, then asking his agent to keep in touch if another club comes in for the player is pretty damming.
World Class at everything we do.
BigChips
It won’t happen
Racism can only be met with aggression
And on here we have some folk imbuing themselves of all things Celtic,omitting our foundation as a club founded by and for refugees!!
HH
The Blogger Formerly Known As GM
Installing Des Jr. as CEO would be like installing the Tsar himself as CEO by proxy . And ,given Jr’s performance at the AGM what would the outlook be for board/fan relations ?
I agree DD should be subject to accountability in a way he doesn’t seem to be at present but I’m not sure it would work like that in practice .
The Blogger Formerly Known As GM on 11th January 2026 1:53 pm
B78 @ 12.02 – aye, let’s get rid of the manager, Head of Football Operations and the executive directors in one fell swoop during the transfer window. I’ll say no more.
Unless they can find someone sympathetic to their views/politics with a spare £125/£130m, there’s little chance of a change in ownership that would be to their liking.
Re. NEDS, given he appears responsible for the appointment of Rodgers Mk2, Tisdale (and by extension Nancy), I think it’s time for Desmond to relinquish his de facto operational control. Like Hertz, he should have someone on the board to represent his views. Otherwise he should be willing to be held accountable by installing his son as CEO with an experienced COO running day-to-day operations.
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Change will be evolution not revolution imo
Peter Lawell has gone
Michael Nicholson i feel will be gone soon
Chris Mackay will stay.
A review of all neds,their function and contribution
BR was a DD appointment
His board were against
Well we seen the resultant chaos.
He is the puppeteer.
The same “min”s/h template is used in some of his companies
And you know if there is dysfunction at the top it comes down and it did.
It is a little bit comical you feel he is not represented at board level he controls all GM.
Anyways was at the corner yesterday.
Did you make it?
If you are ever looking for a ticket just shout GM
Hail Hail
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Interview by Hugh McDonald 2014
I would rather have David Low as Chairman rather than the present incumbent or Ian Bankier who straddled the clyde
It beggars belief some posters don’t give Low the credit he deserves in saving Celtic
David Low had more than a ringside seat for the battle for Celtic in 1994.
He was Fergus McCann’s corner man when his strategy of usurping the incumbent board through receiving the proxy votes on shares was the principal weapon in bringing the fight for the very existence of Celtic to a dramatic conclusion. On the 20th anniversary of the McCann-led takeover, Low, a financial analyst still based in Glasgow, can look back on the events of 1994 with the wisdom of experience but his retellling of the key moments reveals how close Celtic came to going out of business and how McCann was bold, even reckless, as the crisis mounted. This is the inside story of how a club came back from the brink in the words of someone who was there at all the crucial moments.
The First Meeting with Fergus McCann
There was a meeting of a few Celtic fans who were worried about what was happening at Celtic.
This was in 1992. David Murray was borrowing more money, Rangers were having more success, Celtic did not have a proper stadium with the Taylor report kicking in and the board clearly did not have access to any money.I met a few like-minded wealthy Celtic fans who shared the concerns I had. One of them suggested I meet this strange fellow called Fergus McCann who seemed determined to help Celtic.
I went over to see him in his apartment in Montreal in the winter of 1992. He invited me in and made me a cup of coffee. I remember this meeting clearly because the cup of coffee was brimming to the full and I had to concentrate on it not spilling on his table.
He said: “Ok, Mr Low. Who are you, why are you here and what do you want?”
I loved that directness. It wasn’t said in a cold way but in a business-like, no bullshit manner. This saves time. Most of the business world is populated by timewasters. He wasn’t one.
I liked him and what he stood for almost from that second. In the whole time I have known him – and I talked to him this week – he has not changed one iota. You always know where you are with Fergus whether you agree with him or not.
His determination was obvious. He explained he had been trying to help Celtic since 1988. The board didn’t want to know.
The Plan
I unveiled my plan as an investment analyst, having dissected the share register and the articles of association. It was to acquire shares quietly from disenfranchised, dislocated and disrespected shareholders. My proposal was to gain their support. We wanted to pick up enough shares or support to call a general meeting and replace the board in conjunction with a capital injection from Fergus and other wealthy fans.
Fergus asked lots of questions. I told him that the three families who owned Celtic did not get on and he should not look upon them as a group. About 40% of shares were held outside the board. When I visited shareholders you found they were unhappy. There was an issue over the registering of shares.The board had a right of veto but I had a cunning plan. I told Fergus that if we got them to sign a stock transfer form we could have an irrevocable proxy for their votes.
The share register does not change but we control those shares and when we get control we will then register them .
He said: “This is a very good plan, Mr Low, and I wish you all the luck in the world but I cannot support you on that.”
I said: “Why not?”
He replied: “All the money I have, Mr Low, is going in the club. I am not going to reward these guys for the state they have put the club in. If you succeed, I will be first in the queue for money for the club.”
That was good enough for me. He was committing funds to the club. I left that meeting a very happy bunny. I felt I had an ally.
I was proved right. He always delivered on the button.
The Gathering of the Shares
We were always a loose coalition. Me, Fergus, Brian Dempsey, John Keane, Eddie Keane, Jack Flanagan, Michael McDonald. The only thing we had in common was our love of Celtic.I went about acquiring shares and it was easier than I thought.
Shareholders kept saying “we are with you”, from Canada to the north of Ireland. Within three months I had 40% of Celtic in this office and the board did not have not a Scooby.
But we needed 51%. We spoke to a shareholder who feigned support but promptly called the Whites or the Kellys. The cat was out the bag. But they did not know the extent of our endeavours. That was when we started hitting turbulence.
We were at war. We ended up fighting for two years.
The Fight
Celtic are getting worse, Rangers are getting stronger and it is getting nearer nine titles. We called an egm in November 1993. Celtic needed money and we came up with a plan for a cash injection of £17.9m. The board rejected that. Everybody was depressed as the club was clearly heading for the buffers. The team was terrible and the fans are agitating. There was a feeling of ‘let’s pack our tents and go’.
I said: “What do you mean? This is the end of the board. They cannot reject such a capital injection. It is a matter of time before they collapse. The next call they will receive is form the bank saying: ‘How could you do that?'”
They were into the Bank of Scotland for £5m. Within three months, the bank wanted its money back. It wanted the money or personal guarantees.
Eight Minutes from the EndIt was eight minutes and I can say that with certainty. I was there. It was the end of February when the bank said to the board: “Give us our money back or give us personal guarantees from all of you.”
These were not wealthy men.
Kevin Kelly and Jack McGinn came to see us in an office in Park Terrace and told us the bank wanted money. They said they had a meeting with Gerald Weisfeld who was going to pay off the overdraft but there was no plan for the future.
I told them not to go to the meeting with Weisfeld but to tell the bank that a solution could be found. The bank then basically said: “We want a million within 48 hours and another four million by the end of the week.”
I phoned up Fergus and got him off the golf course in Phoenix, Arizona. I told him: “Your time has come. They want £1m.”
He says “okay.”
He authorises the £1m and books a flight to Glasgow. He arrives on the morning of the fourth of March.
We then had a meeting and then went to the bank. The deadline was 12 noon. We stayed until the money arrived as these were as the days before immediate transfers.
We picked up a banker’s draft and briskly walked, not ran, up to the Bank of Scotland and gave them the draft.
The paperwork was signed, with me as a witness, and that is when the 11.52 comes in. I remember looking at my watch and noting the time.
Four days later, the other £4m was paid. That was all a reckless risk on the part of Fergus. It says Fergus is a blind, mad Celtic fan or he was confident in his business plan.Maybe both.
All he had achieved by then was to become Celtic’s largest unsecure creditor. He was not on the board, he has no share. We all trail up to Celtic Park to get control of the club. We have to get Fergus on to the board.
I can only remember getting Fergus to change his mind twice. The first one was supporting my plan over shares and then other was giving the board members money.
He was against that but bowed to reality. We were in control. We then had to have a general meeting to convert his loans into equity and to register the shares and put in more money. Michael McDonald and Willie Haughey joined the board and we then had the big share issue in December ’94.
The Fans
At the end of season 1993/94, I remember sitting in an office in Parkhead thinking: ‘What have we here, it is a bag of crap . . .’
Due diligence showed it was far worse than we thought. Everybody was owed money. It was a tough gig. Then there is the move to have the share issue on the AIM market that took from March to December.
When we announced it after being beaten by Raith Rovers in the league cup final no-one knew how successful it would be. But we seemed to have unleashed some sort of pent-up enthusiasm in the Celtic support. The genie was out the bottle. We had to have a second offer to meet the demand. It was the most successful football share offer ever, maybe still is.
We had the funding to build the stadium. This is the story of the business machinations. There is one to be told about the way the fans had a major part to play in the momentum that forced change.They were the energy behind change.
Fergus the man
I genuinely think he is a top man because he tells the truth. He usually gets the big decisions right and pursues his objectives ruthlessly and efficiently. He is not a saint but he was very refreshing. It is unusual to meet someone like him in business.
He did three unusual things: First, he invested blind. Second, he put in such a significant proportion of his wealth, some say 80%. Third, he changed his mind over paying the board money to leave.
It is difficult to come to any other conclusion than he was a big Celtic fan. He is synonymous with good business practice but there was more than that. He did not screw anybody either. The fans bought the shares at the same price as Fergus. He was honest in all his dealings and that is unusual in business.
The Legacy
All those tough decisions that he and the board had to make have been proven to have been as sound as a pound. The pressure came from the world and his wife, some fans being manipulated by the mainstream media, some from the displaced and the disgruntled.
The press was getting worked. This was making his job very difficult. But he stuck to the tough decisions. And that was 100% the right thing to do. We had to spend money on a stadium so that impacted on paying for the squad. Looking back, we were right and David Murray was wrong.
That is why we are where we are and Rangers are where Rangers are.
Future for Celtic
I actually believe Celtic face a bigger crisis now than they did in the early nineties. The team I started to go to see in the 60s was then experiencing an upswing under Jock Stein. There were the two European Cup finals and the losing semi-finals too.
I see no prospect of Celtic of competing at that level. Celtic have to get out of Scotland. They are trying to run up a down escalator and that is extremely difficult.
UEFA is adamant that the rules stay whereby if you have a football association then you have to play in that country.
Don’t the Welsh have an association?
Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and Wrexham are all in Wales but registered with the FA
Hertz go 1-0 up at Dens. Scored by Braga, who I suggested we should sign to improve our own CF threat whilst also reducing that of Hertz.
If we have to pay £6M each for Bowie and Braga, giving ourselves a real goalscoring threat and weakening our main challengers at the same time, is this any worse than paying a similar or greater amount for a couple of overseas strikers who may not adapt to the SPL and/or who may not be as good as their agents suggest?
At least with Bowie and Braga we know what we’re getting.
UEFA generally requires clubs to play within their own national association’s league system, but exceptions exist for specific historical, geographical, or administrative reasons. Known examples include Welsh teams in English leagues (e.g., Cardiff City), Derry City (Northern Ireland) playing in the Republic of Ireland, and AS Monaco in the French league.
Key details regarding this, based on UEFA and related regulations:
Existing Cross-Border Leagues: While not common, some leagues allow teams from other associations, such as English clubs from Guernsey, Jersey, and the Isle of Man playing in the English pyramid.
UEFA Competition Eligibility: Welsh clubs playing in the English system can represent England in UEFA competitions if they qualify.
Multi-Club Ownership Rules: UEFA strict rules prohibit clubs with the same owner from competing in the same European competition, though they can play in different ones.
Recent Developments: While allowing these specific historic setups, UEFA has generally reiterated opposition to domestic league matches being played outside their home country, though they have allowed exceptions.
Hearts 1 up but their goalkeeper might be getting sent off for foul outside the box . . . gone to the screen.
Keeper off.
So at end of first half they are down to 10 men.
Braga taken off now to allow Craig Gordon to come on.
So Gordon replaces the keeper…and Braga is taken off!
And Gordon saves very well from the free kick. HALF TIME
Got to hope Dundee can find a way to pressure a 43 year old keeper who’ll be rustier than the Tin Man.
murdochbhoy on 11th January 2026 8:02 am
lets all do the huddle on 10th January 2026 5:18 pm
How many fouls did Celtic concede today? Any younger statisticians around?
we conceded 12 fouls today.
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To add some much needed perspective. Let’s use yesterday’s game.
Celtic were not in possession of the ball (defending) for 19.8 mins yesterday and during that time they committed 12 fouls, that’s an average of a foul every 1.65 mins.
Dundee Utd were not in possession of the ball for 70.2 minute and during that time they committed 5 fouls, that’s an average of a foul every 14.04
No, I’m thinking of situations, where, too often when we’re pressing, for example when we’re pressing defenders deep in their own territory and they’re facing their own goal and they fall over, inevitably receiving
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One incident of note: the united keeper held on to the ball too long with diazan meada about 5 yards away from the box, The ref blew the whistle for what should have been a foul agsinst the keeper for holding the ball too long (++8 seconds) but instead gave a foul against daizan. That incident sums it im a nutshell. The cheating is no longer hidden
Clearly the Hertz hierarchy have picked up on the CQN rumours of a money spinning transfer for Braga and have brought him off to avoid him picking up an injury and jeopardising any imminent transfer! 😂
anyone bu celtic ,,,,,, the beeb ………
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Sorry our football is a farce – the free-kick taken by Hearts about 10 yards ahead and potentially a moving ball – yet VAR says it’s OK? What’s the point of the rules?
Iain
Absolutely horrendous refereeing again… 15-yard advantage at the free-kick.
Parkheadcumsalford
GENE
Don’t forget Derry City?
smarter way to protest.
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AuroraBorealis79, we must have missed the introduction of the new rule that prohibits standing 5 yards from an opponent during open play (i.e. other than not being within 10 yards of the ball at a set piece). But at least they can claim that it didn’t have a material impact on the outcome of the game, as Celtic won 4-0 in any case.
Hopefully it’ll even itself out in a match when an opponent of Hearts or Rangers DO get a freekick (from which they score) in a similar situation in the last minute of a match today was otherwise heading for a draw. Though I won’t hold my breath.
I miss BelmontBrian and Big Jimmy for their first class jokes. Said nobody ever. 🙄
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