Martin O’Neill popped into the media room at Celtic Park after attending today’s extraordinary AGM when another Dermot Desmond tirade was unleashed, this time not on the club’s official website but at the shareholders meeting…
The moment the AGM got a straight Red. #CelticAGM pic.twitter.com/8Ei4nzbfbn
— Glasgow Dave (@glasgowdave571) November 21, 2025
And it wasn’t delivered by the club’s principal shareholder directly, but instead by his son, Ross. Well, it was only fair as Peter Lawwell’s boy got a shot as Head of Recruitment, that time he spent £25m – the entire Jota money – on his Football manager team.
It was more of a chat from Martin than a meaningful pre-match media conference so there’s very little to report ahead of Celtic’s trip to Paisley tomorrow evening to take on St Mirren. Nothing on injuries, team news or anything like that. He did say he’d have to pick Kasper Schmeichel up off the floor after events at Hampden on Tuesday night, and mentioned that the timing of the AGM was hardly convenient for him given that the team were training this morning ahead of tomorrow’s match.
Here’s everything that was said as Martin O’Neill chatted to the media at Celtic Park and hinted that the next permanent manager could be in place in the very near future, contradicting the Columbus Crew assessment that we reported on this morning regarding no DIRECT contact from Celtic. (Agents; they’ve all got them you know).
A day or so ago that would have been big news, now though its all about the Celtic family at war and where the club is going from here on what is a very dark day for anyone with Celtic in their hearts. Martin’s comments in his Celtic TV interview and also in this media conference has resulted in some criticism being directed at him. He looked rather shocked by it all, he certainly wasn’t expecting it and he was always going to be on the side of the club if push came to shove. His remarks on Jock Stein might not have been as accurate as he thinks though and while it was a different board look at the way they treated him when he left the club?
The current lot did the same thing to Brendan Rodgers having taken the goals out of his team then sticking that video up about how Brendan’s team broke records last season for goals scored. They didn’t even notice the irony. And many of the supporters, so angry by Dermot’s boy’s out may reflect on the lack of support that their fellow ‘rebel’ Brendan Rodgers was given for taking them on himself. Makes you wonder what he thought when seeing that today? Probably glad to be well shot iof it…
Martin’s quotes continue on the next page…
