HAVE a look at David Low’s pinned tweet on his Twitter profile. It reads:”Fearless journalism and a succinct summary of the dishonesty and hypocrisy that pervades the SFA. Everyone that reads should RT it. Get it out there.” is his message from the start of this this year.
Fearless journalism and a succinct summary of the dishonesty and hypocrisy that pervades the SFA. Everyone that reads should RT it. Get it out there. https://t.co/amAK7WMtxg
— David Low (@Heavidor) January 5, 2020
David Low is best known to the Celtic support as a financial adviser and campaigner who helped bring Fergus McCann to the club and assisted in his ultimately hugely successful take-over, ousting the discredited and outdated old board in the process and setting Celtic on the road to a period of domination. Indirectly too these events sent Rangers FC on the road to the graveyard.
If you follow David Low on social media or have read his book or listened to him on various podcasts you will know he ‘gets it’, he is no mug, he absolutely knows his stuff and would be a match for anyone involved in the game in Scotland if he were to be on the other side of an argument.
Stop and think for a minute, ask yourself why he’s never been asked by Celtic to go onto the board? Maybe the time for that is coming.
Last night David Low tweeted something else. In case you missed it, here is what he said. From The Celtic Trust website, David Low linked to their ‘Statement for New Chairman’ ie himself!
Here’s what the statement says:
Dear fellow Celtic shareholders and supporters,
First of all I’d like to thank the members for electing me chair of The Celtic Trust at their AGM. It’s a huge honour to represent an organisation with such grounded and supporter oriented ambitions for our club.
We all know owners, managers and players come and go but supporters are there from cradle to grave. I’ll be doing all I can to ensure supporters’ interests are not taken for granted and that their best interests are not neglected.
There will be a number of headline initiatives announced over the coming months which your Trustees hope will manifest in increased membership numbers and concomitant cashflow. Funds raised from membership subscriptions and donations will primarily be used to acquire shares in the club.
These initiatives start with the launch of this website which, inter alia, will contain information on The Trust’s constitution and new subscription rates. The website is still under construction and more information and news will be added over the coming weeks.
Serva Fidem et Pax Vobiscum
Yours faithfully
David Low
Chair
The Celtic Trust
The Latin at the end translates as ‘Keep the Faith, Peace by with you’ incidentally.
Statement from New Chairman – The Celtic Trust. That’s me. Get your sh*t together and stand up 😃🍀! https://t.co/7IkjhQua46
— David Low (@Heavidor) January 28, 2020
And here’s one of the first replies David Low received and it was from Auldheid.
“Helping bring Res12 to closure would be an encouraging start. Many behind it wish for greater shareholder and supporter involvement in the decision making process that produced the 5 Way Agreement and subsequent disquiet with current custodians. A small step to the longer aim.”
Helping bring Res12 to closure would be an encouraging start. Many behind it wish for greater shareholder and supporter involvement in the decision making process that produced the 5 Way Agreement and subsequent disquiet with current custodians. A small step to the longer aim.
— Auldheid (@Auldheid) January 28, 2020
This appointment could be a very interesting development as far as Res 12 goes. The Celtic Trust has previously campaigned on other areas to great effect – The Offensive Behaviour at Football Act, the Amsterdam Police assaults and arrests of entirely innocent Celtic Supporters, but they haven’t made much of an impact on putting a shoulder to the wheel as far as Resolution 12 is concerned, preferring to leave this to the 4 chief campaigners.
At the weekend there were two banner displays at each end of Celtic Park. The Bhoys campaigning for Twenty Pound tickets and The Green Brigade playing tribute to St Roch’s on their centenary. We covered this on Monday and mentioned that neither group had yet had a banner about Res 12.
The Celtic Trust with David Low in the chair have now the perfect opportunity to formally unite the Celtic Support behind Resolution 12 and indeed other areas. The recent side issue surrounding the email that Peter Lawwell may or may not have received – and the evidence is pretty convincing that he did indeed receive it and it is genuine – has allowed the trust between the support and the board to hit rock bottom.
On The Celtic Star at the weekend Niall J suggested that it was perhaps time to look at a representative of the support to join the Celtic Board. That person would have to be a bone fide fans representative not a board puppet and you could see arguments developing about who a suitable candidate would be.
Well David Low, as Chair of the Celtic Trust, a man who has earned our respect and gratitude for what he has already done for Celtic Football Club – more than many already on the Board – would certainly tick plenty of boxes, and you can probably assume that the likes of Auldheid might be happy with that too.
And the Chair of the Celtic Trust representing the support on the Celtic Board would surely be a progressive move that would be hard to argue against. The Celtic Trust will surely benefit considerably by having David Low as their Chair and you would imagine that the matters that appear on his twitter profile pinned to the top are going to be areas where we can expect him to focus on in his new role.
He certainly will have the support of The Celtic Star…
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