The Green Brigade may be absent, but a group of supporters inside the stadium managed to get a powerful banner erected over the standing section aimed at the hapless Celtic board.
Before Celtic’s SPFL game against Falkirk on Sunday, a banner was unveiled with a powerful and topical twist. It depicted head of Celtic security Mark Hargreaves, CEO Michael Nicholson and CFO Chris McKay as ‘traitors’ dressed as traitors from the BBC show hit. The tagline read ‘ BANISH THE BOARD, END THE BANS’. It was a powerful and creative way to get their message across.
The Green Brigade as a collective have been banned for an incident that guilt has yet to be established, they have revoked access to both home and away tickets and refuse to meet up with the group to hash things out.
The Green brigade, this week, put out another message making it clear they have been rebuffed as they look for dialogue to end the ban. They made claims about the relationship between Michael Nicholson and Mark Hargreaves and their friendship prior to taking on a job at Celtic.
They also made mention of five of their members being arrested in dawn raids and who now must check into their local police station whenever Celtic are playing. While this due process goes on, Celtic have chosen to collectively punish without clear evidence or proof of guilt, no proccess has been followed and no route back to Celtic Park has been established.
This isn’t isolated, we at CeltsAreHere find ourselves banned from our media duties at Celtic Park and Lennoxtown for no other reason than we have been very critical of the direction of our club. While unfortunate, it will not stop us from scrutinising the ineptitude of the people who are running the club.
The banner today will be one that sticks in peoples minds. It was clever, it was creative and it hit the mark.
There was also anti board Celtic chants that carried throughout the stadium during the Falkirk tie. With Celtic in a massive three way title fight to retain their SPFL trophy, the absence of the Green brigade has had a profoundly negative effect on the atmosphere. While due process is being followed and those who are accused are not allowed to attend, why is the whole group being punished?
Away from that drama, our Celtic board and recruitment team are running around trying to get deals over the line in the last 24 hours of the deadline.
It looks as if they are set to secure striker Junior Adamu. With right sided winger Joel Mvuka also expected in Glasgow, time is of the essence. Celtic had all month to get players in and they have again dragged their heels until the very last moment. These deals look like they’ve come up late for the bhoys and it;s a case of hoping they’ve signed some talent rather than knowing.
