Stephen McGowan has delivered a blistering attack on idiotic bloggers that seem to be causing him some difficulties.
On Saturday The Daily Mail reporter appeared on Off The Ball on Radio Scotland and clearly had a lot to get off his chest.
Since leaving the Celtic View McGowan has climbed the ladder from the Daily Express to the Daily Mail, in 2022 he was the only reporter from a Scottish publisher to attend the World Cup Finals in Qatar.
Down the years Peter Lawwell has been virtually exempt from any criticism by McGowan despite the stagnation in every area of Celtic, the failure to win a European knock out tie in 20 years and the downsizing of the club until Dermot Desmond appointed Brendan Rodgers in May 2016.
While fans can rattle off the names of Malmo, Maribor, Cluj, Ferencvaros and AEK Athens they’ll barely feature on the pages of the Mail, much like Marian Shved, Vakoun Bayo, Patryk Klimala, Ismaila Soro, Vasilis Barkas, Albian Ajeti, Oli Burke, Jeremy Toljan and Diego Laxalt to name a few flops snapped up by the former Celtic CEO.
Online only Paul67 on Celtic Quick News will praise the brilliance of Lawwell, as recently as Thursday Video Celts highlighted a Q and A between McGowan and Lawwell from 2014 where the CEO explained that every penny coming into the club is reinvested in the team. On Friday Celtic announced an end of year bank balance of £67m.
It didn’t take much to get McGowan upset and angry, one suggestion from Cowan 4 minutes and 40 seconds into Saturday’s show and the idiotic bloggers were in the firing line!
CLICK HERE to listen to the podcast, Saturday February 24.
Cowan: Three different people sent me a photo which I hope was Photoshopped of you getting a piggyback ride from Peter Lawwell. Folk suggesting that maybe you are a lapdog with Peter Lawwell. True or false?
McGowan: The biggest …… I can’t……
Cowan: Do you get this quite a lot?
McGowan: I get it every day
Cowan: It’s a great photo
McGowan: Every day of life, it’s nonsense.
Cowan: I’ve had three folk
McGowan: Yeah because they are spread by idiotic bloggers who’ve not got a scoobie
Cowan: Right, so what is happening
McGowan: You get, you are the board’s go-to man, I mean. Celtic don’t brief or leak anything. In fact I wish that they did, it would make life an awful lot easier.
Cowan: So Dermot Desmond, he is saying about a clear out at boardroom level (based solely on a tweet from Roger Mitchell). Peter Lawwell is apparently saying yes, yes you are right, I know it as well, we should have splashed the cash.
Celtic fans, they are still sitting up there, as Brendan Rodgers pointed out this week the league title is still in their hands because they are going to have two games still against Rangers of course.
You know, what is your take just now, where do you sit. I keep saying to Stuart
blah blah blah blah zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
McGowan: Listen, it is a very hard sell to justify having £67m or £72m in the bank when you are second to your biggest rivals and they have a very good chance of winning the league.
And all those zeros at the end of the bank balance they are absolutely no use whatsoever if you aren’t going to win the league and you’re going to let your rivals get to the Champions League.
There is a very good chance you would say of that with 12 games to go so for me Celtic had a get out of jail card in January. They had all that money in the bank, they were clearly not quite at it before Christmas although they obviously beat Rangers on the 30th of December.
So they had the real chance to splash some money about, they could have signed Bojan Miovski, give Aberdeen £6m or whatever. People say ‘oh we’re not paying that for an SPFL player’ well why not?
Because I think that if Bojan Miovski was up front for Celtic just now instead of Adam Idah I think that they’d still probably be top of the league.
I mean Peter Lawwell says in his statement yesterday ‘ah we tried to spend our money, clubs didn’t want our money’. Well every player is for sale, maybe they just weren’t offering enough of it.
The last bit he says seems to be all pretty true…
However he’s wrong about one thing –
We need the bloggers more than we ever ever before for sure…
Power be to all ye Celtic Bloggers !
But what he really meant was….
….mainstream hacks now have negligible influence on the Celtic fanbase – untrusted, disbelieved and derided as their titles circle the drain. Totally superseded by the blogs and only read by those too old or too stupid to operate a smartphone!
Joe, you’ve used TWO photos in this article and I have to say I find them both REALLY offensive. You KNOW none of the 4 of them are proper Celtic supporters yet you put them on a pedestal as they’re ALL wearing Celtic ties! FFS! On the less offensive, at least Bankier’s gone. Anyway, I’ll be delighted to see these pics once the other 2 free-masonic, tory bastards have followed Bankier out the door.
Otherwise good reading, cheers! 🙂
Editor: Designed to offend! Another day starts with the toxic influence of the Chairman choking the life out the club #celticfamily
Never mind the podcast shite at the end of the day we are back to the biscuit tin mentality when looking at players and that’s it.
I would believe Donald Trump telling me something before LIEWELL,and Trump has plenty of form for telling lies and issuing FAKE NEWS.
GET THEY TORIES SCUMBAGS OUT OF PARADISE BEFORE THEY DO ANYMORE DAMAGE TO OUR TEAM P.LAWWELL WANTS TOGIVE OUR TITLE OVER TO THE BIGGEST CHEATS IN SCOTTISH FOOTBALL TO SAVE THEM GOING UNDER AGAIN AND IF HE DIZ I HOPE A FAN OUR FANS SPIT IN THE LYING TORIE FACE HE’S A DIRTY RAT AND HIS BOY GET THEM TO FUCK BEFORE A NUT CASE GETS A HOLD OF HIM HE TOSSED 10INAROW AWAY AND NOW THIS TITLE LOOKS IN DANGER ALL FOR THE BLUE POUND EH ILL NEVER FORGET MURRAY TRYING TO SINK CELTIC IN 1994 WE HAVE HAD 2 GREAT CHANCES TO PUT THAT CLUB IN ITS GRAVE FOR GOOD ONLY FOR THE TORIES AT PARKHEAD GRABBING THE BLUE POUND…DIRTY TORY RATS THE LOT OF OUR BOARD..