Three weeks before the SPFL opener the promises of Brian Wilson are ringing more hollow than ever.
On June 11, looking like he had been dragged away from his allotment, Wilson sat down with Gerry McCulloch to outline how Celtic were facing a very active few weeks.
Earlier that day Celtic had rushed out the announcement that Martin O’Neill had been appointed as permanent manager.
No word on his assistants or backroom team.
Word was that Shaun Maloney and Mark Fotheringham were being low-balled with offers.
Pre-season training was two weeks away. No players had been signed. Kelechi Iheanacho and Marcelo Saracchi were in the dark about their futures.
Wilson is a life long Labour politician.
A huge amount of voters treat politicians with utter contempt. Choosing to believe nothing that they say. Seeing them as self serving with no interest other than their place on the gravy train.
Wilson has been a Non Executive Director at Celtic since 2005.
We haven’t even been linked to anyone new since Duran signed which is very worrying. Only been linked with the two that were here last season
— Noah (@CelticNoah) July 13, 2026
It took three weeks from the first mention of Camilo Duran in the media for the player to sign for Celtic. The Sun had the story first, the newspaper that put the boot into Brendan Rodgers through a top boardroom source.
CHAIRMAN WILSON FAILS TO DELIVER
In-between times Wilson, Michael Nicholson and Martin O’Neill dropped in on the AGM or the AICSC in Cork. That ticked a fan engagement box.
On June 9 Celtic Supporters Limited requested a meeting with Wilson to discuss their 64 page Celtic Paradox.
Chairman Wilson hasn’t even acknowledged receiving the invite.
On Saturday Celtic host Middlesbrough in a pre-season friendly. Sales of home tickets are light, the match is likely to turn into a Reform Rally with 9,000 visiting fans in town. Wilson will be able to tap his toes to their songs.
Five weeks tomorrow Celtic will be involved in a Champions League Play Off.
A year ago the feeble defeat to Kairat Almaty triggered an incredible series of events.
The club manager and Chairman were gone within four months. Wilson approved the appointment of Wilfried Nancy.
After six months as Interim Chairman it seems only a matter of time before Wilson is confirmed as the permanent Chairman of Celtic.
Those anti-establishment fans know exactly what to expect from the 77-year-old former Labour MP.
Like many other Celtic fans I’m of the opinion that the current Celtic Board are deliberately downsizing the Club. My great fear is that Glasgow Celtic will end up in the same situation as Belfast Celtic did in 1948-49 due to ‘orchestrated rioting’ by Sevco fans at Celtic Park in the near future. History has a habit of repeating itself. I have every faith in Martin O’Neil as manager. He makes all the right noises in public that the Board like to hear but we all know from experience that he has a mind of his own.
On the subject of Silent Mike…. in the 1980s and 1990s there was an iconic street performer on Dublin’s Grafton Street called The Diceman. Tom McGinty, from Strathclyde. Call up “The Diceman Dublin” and watch the videos of him in action. Silent Mike obviously has the same DNA as this guy. Enjoy the heatwave.
What does anyone fu**in expected from a Labour (who are loyalists to the core) Bastard like Wilson !
Unity Wilson An old worn out political nobody, imagine Blair,Starmer. And whomever is puppeteering now in Scotland, this is what Celtic chose to waste money on.?
Just what makes our club perform like this.
Hopefully, someone invites Count Binface to the game, to keep the Far Rage types in their place.
Being There
So the down-to-earth Wilson has apparently been reinterred as Chairman, when he can’t spare the thyme to turnip for meetings or discuss the growing problems at Celtic with the CSL, but doesn’t mind talking dirty, sitting under the home groan mistletoe, whispering sweet nothings about the e-lose-ive Winifred Nancy. Oh, what a whopper!
Instead of going to ground, he needs to grow a pear and face the black-eyed peas, or they will plot his downfall. I think there is pumpkin cognitive wrong with him, he doesn’t belong in the greenhouse. “All I’ve got left is that room upstairs.”