‘Did Nicola appoint NL in the showers’ ‘Utterly pathetic’ ‘A permanent embarrassment’ Bankier’s Scottish Government attack backfires

Off script Ian Bankier isn’t really the type of Chairman that you would want to be representing your club.

At the AGM he handled the procedural side of things with ease. With 10 years experience he was able to go through the resolutions, take a vote and tick all the boxes.

There was a tense atmosphere in the room yesterday, silence greeted the announcement of each director present while the introductions to Ange Postecoglou and Fran Alonso were met with cheers and applause.

Bankier’s attempts at small talk and humour went down like a lead balloon, he wisely avoided all mention of Neil Lennon with just a passing tribute to Peter Lawwell which brought no response from the shareholders.

When the Q and A got underway the chairman was off-script.

He could hardly restrain himself when one shareholder asked about the way that the club was treated by the SFA and the Scottish Government during Lockdown.

The Daily Record captured his reply, The Metro took it a stage further with Celtic fans reacting on Twitter to their Chairman’s attempt at passing the buck for multiple failings inside the club throughout last season.

Oh I’m in no doubt that we had the worst rub of the green that you could possibly imagine. You couldn’t have written it down on a piece of paper the number of things that went wrong.

I think we were astonishingly treated by the Scottish Government. We were the only employer in Scotland to be given sanctions for an employee breaching rules.

That was the start of the downward slide, or the loss of momentum early last season, where we and Aberdeen were banned from playing for two games. It stopped the momentum.

After having matches against Aberdeen and St Mirren postponed Celtic went on to beat Dundee United, Motherwell, Ross County, St Mirren, Livingston, Hibs and St Johnstone- seven wins on the bounce which was the best run of the season. Not really breaking any momentum.

It seems that Bankier doesn’t know the history.

Whatever your politics are it is best to lobby in private rather than use an AGM to critcise and blame a government with a massive mandate across the entire country.

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