We can do it again with Celtic Board & Sons

The Celtic support got rid of Kelly & Co. We can do the same with Celtic Board & Sons…

Ross Desmond at Celtic AGM. 21 November 2025.
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Once upon a time our football club was being harmed from within by a group of self-serving shysters, men in suits who cared only about themselves. Charlatans who treated the supporters, the lifeblood of the club with nothing but sheer contempt.

That was back in the early to mid 1990, when Michael Kelly and his board room chums so nearly ran our club to the brink of extinction. Had it not been for fan intervention, aided by a knight in shining armour by the name of Fergus McCann, then it could possibly have been the end of Celtic football club as we know it.

Before anyone points it out, yes the situations are entirely different, I lived through it, I know the story. Our current custodians for all their faults, aren’t playing cat and mouse with our financial wellbeing, they are great business minds if anything, but as much as they have the club on a secure financial footing, they have consistently neglected it on the area that matters the most, and that is primarily on the park.

The old board didn’t buy good players at that time because they had no money. Today’s board hasn’t invested enough in the playing squad especially in 2025 despite having loads of money.

And much like the Kelly dynasty, the current lot are treating the supporters with utter contempt and disrespect, which was yet again perfectly illustrated in yesterday’s shambles of an AGM, and their recent treatment of the Celtic shareholders, the entire Celtic support in general and the Green Brigade in particular.

Michael Kelly at Celtic Park September 1994

Our majority shareholder, and his band of merry men are so far removed from the ordinary every day supporter, they look upon us as nothing but mere subjects. We are their cash cow, nothing more. They factor in all sorts of contingencies – such as dropping into the Conference league as we heard from Dermot’s boy yesterday, but seem to take the support’s hard earned cash for granted.

It’s time we all pulled together, and put in motion a plan to force change and hopefully that is what is going to be discussed when the Celtic Fans Collective meets in Glasgow tomorrow night.

We’ve done it before, and I can see no reason why we can’t do it again.

Just an Ordinary Bhoy

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Celtic in the Eighties and Willie Fernie – Putting on the Style both by David Potter. Photo The Celtic Star

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