GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - DECEMBER 11: Celtic Chief Executive Michael Nicholson during a UEFA Europa League 2025/26 League Phase MD6 match between Celtic and AS Roma at Celtic Park, on December 11, 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Craig Williamson/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Andy Walker has called out the arrogance that is crippling Celtic- highlighting the aborted 2025 AGM.
Within a month of running out of the AGM Peter Lawwell resigned as Chairman but his toxic influence covers every area of the club.
Every person employed by Celtic was appointed or promoted by Lawwell or his gormless clone Michael Nicholson.
Talent and ability have been pushed aside for obedience.
Without a strong manager such as Brendan Rodgers or Ange Postecoglou in the dug-out the infrastructure of the club is laid bare with supporters highlighting those issues.
Any sort of criticism is taken as an affront to #thecelticfamily.
That attitude allows Nicholson to appoint no-users such as Mark Lawwwell, Paul Tisdale and Wilfried Nancy into senior positions.
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Martin O’Neill is dealing with the consequences with Celtic sitting in third place with a bank balance around the £70m mark.
Peter Lawwell’s contempt for fans was obvious at the AGM. His last public act was to get Ross Desmond to attack the support, anti-establishment fans as he put it.
Walker has absolutely no ties to Celtic.
He isn’t on the rota for Celtic TV or appear in the hospitality lounges or at club events.
He might have played along with the O** F*** lies pushed by legacy media outlets but he does have the independence to call Celtic matters as he sees it.
Listening to the former striker on Go Radio, the Daily Record reports Walker saying:
I think just in a general sense Celtic as a club would do well to get rid of their arrogance and their condescending tone when they speak to supporters.
And I know they’ve got some difficult supporters to deal with … but by and large – and you saw it at the AGM – the arrogance and the condescending tone that shone through – and it has been going on far too long.
As well as cutting short the AGM during Desmond’s attack on shareholders Celtic haven’t held a quarterly Fans Forum since May2025.
Since January 5 Brian Wilson has been on a tyre kicking exercise to bring unity to the club.
At the February 18 meeting with the Collective he spent some time doodling. A promise was made to hold a follow up meeting within a month, on February 25 the Collective are still waiting for that meeting.
Wilson also told the Green Brigade that their suspension is due to the Safety Advisory Group of Glasgow City Council. SAG has no such power as their name explains.
After watching players and staff assaulted at Ibrox on March 8 Celtic have made no comment on those matters.
Wilson will soon be switching all of his energy into bad mouthing the SNP in the lead up to the Holyrood election on May 7.
Club’s finished till the parasites are gone.
The Bunnet went to great lengths to get rid of people like this.
In a short time after he left, it’s went back to the cartel it was before he stepped in.
In a way we are no different to Sevco when it comes to the suits, the only difference being
the money & success that’s hid it up until now, a bit like the eye of sauron, when everything’s rosy you aren’t paying attention while you get screwed.
Personally, I have no idea what DD gets out of being involved in Celtic.
It’s not like he’s a permanent fixture at games, or at meetings or AGM’s, in fact he never seems to find the time to even talk about Celtic, he certainly ain’t no Abramovic who was always front and centre at Chelsea for example.
It can’t surely be as base as, he’s Irish, Celtic have Irish roots & links so therefore it’s the kudos of being “the man”.
Is that the depth of his affection?
He brings nothing to the table as far as I can see, apart from he invested his money in shares, shares which don’t even give him a majority but for some reason the suits all bow to him?
MN is utterly unsuited to the role he gets paid for, a gutless spineless lawyer with zero personality, but DD is the man that is holding back Celtic.
It’s his play thing, he’s the man, he’s the billionaire businessman that won’t be told by anyone.
A stone cold narcissist that has every intention of the Desmond dynasty continuing at Celtic no matter the protests.
That’s why MN & co are still there, DD will decide, not the fans, cos he’s the man, and the more we protest, the deeper he will dig in, like all narcissists do, they have to win, even if they lose, they make sure you lose too.
The Grand Old Duke of Cork purchased his stake in the club anticipating an invite to the EPL or the creation of the fabled European Super League and selling it at a large profit. Not only has neither event occurred, neither has looked less likely in 25 years – the prospect of either occurring is in fact currently the square root of **** all (as my granny used to say). The best thing he could do is sell up, certainly for the benefit of the club and also to find a better investment vehicle for his cash. I suspect it’s only a combination of ego and bloody-mindedness which prevents him.
Excellent point. I always thought that the reason Desmond got involved was two fold-
His mates Magnier and McManus were both shareholders in that other bastion of Irish Footballness MUFC and, more importantly probably for the Billionaire, Peter Lawwell offered him such a sweetheart deal, eternal guaranteed dividends etc, that it was a no brainer for what was pin money for him and a guaranteed ROI at a decent multiplier.
Bhoy4life I think you do a disservice to the sevco board, especially before the present board came here,That guy that owns park’s of Hamilton and other of their board members were continually dipping into their children’s inheritance to keep sevco afloat,whereas our greedy bastards have never once contributed one thing dime to the club, desmond,nicholson, liewell etc all they ever did was take money out,and they have never stuck up for Celtic when there’s been plenty of injustices been done to us by the SFA and referees etc,the sevco board always call it out ,that’s how they get better treatment.
Our spineless lot are quite happy to sit at the back of the bus, desmond and liewell knew about the 5 way agreement and sanctioned it,if we still had the bunnet sevco would have died for good, remember if the board sticks up for the club they get results,the bunnet made short work of that Hun bastard Jim Farrie,so at times I wish we had a board like sevco who will spend if they need to,make no mistake if they or the diet’s win the league and get into CL with all it’s riches they’ll spend it to improve the team,not like our lot who would just add it to the 70 million.
Absolutely spot on with your comments, Mr Duffy, re the Sevco board and ours. The main reason for Rangers’ problems was Sir David Murray (why has he not been stripped of his knighthood?), aided and abetted by Fergus McCann’s brilliant revival of Celtic that propelled Murray and his brittle ego along the path to madness. Murray – like our fat regency oaf, Lawwell – bailed out before the shit hit the fan!