GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - AUGUST 23: Peter Lawwell (L) and Michael Nicholson at full time during a William Hill Premiership match between Celtic and Livingston at Celtic Park, on August 23, 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Foy/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Celtic weren’t involved in today’s Champions League draw in Monacco but Peter Lawwell wasn’t going to let the unfortunate result in Kazakhstan deny him a free lunch, a few overnights and some top scran while the South Stand at Celtic Park can’t muster up hot water outside of the executive lounges.
The big hitters in football such as Quarabag, Bodo Glimt and Kairat Almaty were finding out their eight fixtures while the Celtic chairman pressed his face against the window waiting on Friday’s consolation prizes for the club that likes to declare itself as the best run on the continent..
Lawwell of course has nothing whatsoever to do with the running of Celtic- well that is the message faithfully put out by his neywork of messengers who will never publish anything negative about the great leader who has guided Celtic through more than 20 years without winning a knock-out tie across three UEFA competitions.
The managers come and go but the outcome never varies as the best run club in Europe with world class standards constantly fails on that troublesome football pitch.
The messengers claim that their man is a big hitter in the corridors of power, the reality is that Lawwell is a committee man in the European Clubs Association, a talking shop for minnows while the UEFA executive shape tournaments with six English clubs enjoying direct entry to the Champions League with Celtic stuck on the Thursday night margins.
Is that actually him, btw?
I thought it was when I watched it but wasn’t sure, some doppelganger if it isn’t?
— J1888 (@John1888P) August 28, 2025
Lawwell is well used to missing out on the main event, as CEO he guided Celtic to qualifying defeats against Maribo, Malmo, AEK Athens, Cluj and Ferencvaros who were lower ranked and couldn’t call upon a £3.5m a year CEO.
When he did step down he presented Dom McKay with the handover from hell, it would have taken more than Liam Shaw and Osaze Urhoghide to overcome Midtjylland in Ange Postecoglou’s first two matches in charge.
Tomorrow the Celtic Chairman will be back for more as Bayern Munich, Real Madrid, Manchester City and Inter Milan make way for the minnows to fill up the TV schedules after the Tuesday and Wednesday fixtures are arranged.
Back in Glasgow Michael Nicholson is stepping up his efforts to sell players to make Brendan Rodgers’ final season as manager as exciting as possible.
He’s got a feckin cheek turning up, and on expenses paid by us as well. He is happy to be at the top table but he doesn’t think it’s worth trying to ensure that the team is. He is a disgrace. @CelticFC
— LombardiaNumeroQuattro (@Lothianno4) August 28, 2025
Perfect for his ego. He thinks he is the main man. He has held the club back on the football pitch ever since he has been at the club!
— Mitch (@Mitch111078) August 28, 2025
— EM (@EdBhoy1888) August 28, 2025
The arrogance of booking for the CL draw in advance tells you all you need to know
— John McCabe (@JohnMcCabe28) August 28, 2025
Absolutely twat wonder what’s going through his head !!! Inter , real , Brugge sporting Lisbon olympiacos pafos probably a gd thing we went out ?
— celtnapoli 10 (@13_azzuri) August 28, 2025
We could have been dining at the top table with Real Madrid as well if only a small % of the millions we have in the bank were released 2-3 months ago
— Velocity (@chivs1O5) August 28, 2025
Gravy train, no money for transfers but enough for business trips.
— JimLeitrim2 (@JimLeitrim2) August 28, 2025

Frank Trimboli was wholly responsible for getting Ange Postecoglou the Celtic job, eventually getting through to Dermot Desmond who was impressed by the Yokohama F Marinos boss to set up the appointment.



PL is not the brightest, is he?
He’s certainly not a “world class” chairman… and a bit tone deaf!
True to form. He is there in his capacity as a tight-fisted, free -loading, conniving , dirty stinking….woman’s private vaginal body part.
There probably a single word that covers all of that, …but I can’t think of it right now, as I am so annoyed.
As an aside £10 million for Igamane? Anybody buying it?
As Plato said “Everything you see on Google is lies”
Rumour that DD is in Glasgow.prob a good time for Lawwell to be out the road for himself..Brendan on the other hand…
He has a world class brass neck
Talk about zero self awareness.
Absolutely the traits of a narcissist.
This man has no shame or self awareness, imagine if a chairman from a club that’s in the CL group stages was to say to him,” why are you here, you’re piss poor club never made it, you’re at the wrong draw”
I believe the llack of respect for Lawwell, Nicholson and the absentee landlord is well deserved. These people care only about themselves and seem to dislike any identification with the truth.
Dominic MacKay was respected for his openness and ability which puts these charlatans to shame. In my opinion they sacked Dom because they were afraid of his professionalism and ability to get things done that needed to be done, which would show them up.
They only have their own interests at heart, not Celtic’s nor the fans. Their actions are shameful and narcissistic indeed.
Directly or indirectly…the 3 amigos must be aware of the huge anger of the support… But do they attempt to address it or explain matters…??… No …Lawwell flies off on a jolly without a care in the world…and there’s your answer…We get what we deserve.
I’ve had a bit of time to reflect on Tuesday night’s fiasco and the resultant fallout,Joe.
I then thought,is it part of the secret 5 way agreement that Celtic should be tethered to Sevco ad infinitum so that Scottish football doesn’t become a one trick pony and Celtic fans will only be bothered to come to games they feel are important to them and the team,leaving the other games sparsely attended but having paid admittance through their season book purchase.
Maybe a plan along those lines was hatched so that attendances in Scotland would still retain the number 1 position in fan attendance(per capita) and also maintain the vast profits made on pies,bovril and other such shite.
Then I thought, “Nah,not possible, as Celtic PLC were not signatories of the agreement and honest Pete the Parasite has sworn at a club AGM that he had NEVER seen the agreement in any form.”
There must be another reason for this shitshow rather than the chairman who does the square root of fuck all but takes home £120k pee annum,plus expenses and club sponsored trips like that which he gatecrashed earlier today.
If he loves Celtic as much as he says he does he should remove himself forthwith from his current position at the club and retire to count the millions he has scooped up during his long and painful (for the fanbase)encampment in the Celtic boardroom.
If pigs could fly (like they do in this suggestion),he’d be a Wing Commander.
To be fair if it was booked and already paid for he should go. And a good networking opportunity especially if he is currently loading cash to allow DD to sell off his shareholding from that Pesky Soccer Business. Though DD has trousered annual guaranteed dividends since he made his initial investment and is guaranteed his dividends in perpetuity maybe the share price given the capital reserves wil make for a decent return at the moment?
We won’t have to worry about the CL draw in seasons ahead. Scotland now 18th in coefficient ranking. That means only one place in CL starting in Q2. Only cup winner in EL and that is Q1. Conference league for league runners up and third place. Footballing powerhouse of Cyprus now ranked above us!!
I stated earlier that one of our problems in Europe is the poor state of Scottish football in general,us and sevco relegated to Europa league,all other Scottish contenders go out Europe early every year usually beaten by so called diddy clubs. There’s something wrong with football in the UK as opposed to European football,coaching perhaps,the only way the English teams have success is due to the vast amounts of cash available to scoop up the best players and managers but Scotland unfortunately is a backwater and our lowly position in Europe confirms that, even Scottish refs are piss poor that’s why they never get invited to participate in any FIFA or UEFA tournaments.
Must do a cracking buffet at these sort of gigs. The once-lithe chap in a sharp grey suit is looking more Kim Jong Un than Nelson Mandela these days…. Nothing like a good regular roughing to keep your tailor busy.
That was “troughing” before spellcheck done me up like a kipper there! “Roughing” makes no sense!
A world class brass neck.