“The war is over, the rebels have won” – March 4th, 1994.
Fergus McCann paid the banks and took over Celtic, overthrowing a century of the Whyte’s and Kelly’s running the club and so created the modern day Celtic.
It could’ve ended up so differently.
God bless Fergus.
Bhean on Twitter this morning.
There’s a very special new podcast scheduled for this evening but given it’s 4 March today, it is worth giving another shout out for the David Low podcast on The Celtic Star which was posted a week ago. Many thousands of you have already listened to it already but if you haven’t make sure that you do.
Especially on 4 March.
David Low played a crucial role in the struggle against the Old Board and helped Fergus McCann gain control of Celtic and transform the club from top to bottom.
Here are some of the highlights in this podcast:
• That Weisfeld still nipped in at the end, before McCann took over. Weisfeld’s step-son, Michael McDonald, is still on the board.
• That Celtic had 5,000 Rangers shares in 1994 and they were quickly sold.
• Craig Whyte found and sold shares in Arsenal when he took over at Ibrox.
• That it was definitely Michael Kelly and Chris White who held out for a wedge, and that Tom Grant, Kevin Kelly and Jack McGinn didn’t; and they still go to Celtic Park unlike the others.
• That the Masterton / Murray relationship had nothing to do with the hardball tactics from the bank towards Celtic.
• Low gives Celts for Change their place, he describes them as a “street movement” who wouldn’t have forced change without the ‘money men’.
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