There’s not much that surprises me about Hugh Keevins.
But one thing is for sure, he is good for a headline. And a headache.
In his column today, Keevins took great pleasure in slating, quite rightly, Celtic’s disastrous AGM.
The yearly meeting was a shambolic as it was embarrassing but at least it did highlight one thing without any uncertainty. This current board are a shambles.
But Keevins loves the drama.
He loves controversy and that is exactly what he was aiming for this morning in his latest piece, “Failure to see that manager Neil Lennon had lost his way, and his composure, early in the season, and doing nothing about it until it was too late, did for Celtic’s season.
“By the time Lennon was removed in February the car park at Celtic’s ground had witnessed scenes of violence as fury got the better of fans who think public order offences are allowable when their team goes off the rails.
“What can you do when players don’t give 100 per cent,” Bankier said to the shareholders.
“No one could have disagreed with his observation because at one point Celtic’s players were being bussed to and from the ground so that they could park their cars a safe distance away to avoid the risk of personal attack.“
Not denying there was some unsavoury scenes at Celtic Park when the demonstrations against THE BOARD were going on. That was regrettable but his claim that the club had to bus the players to and from the ground for their own safety is very disingenuous at least, a blatant lie at the most.
The reason players were bussed from the ground, in SEVERAL busses I might add, was not to protect them from being attacked by the fans, it was to comply with strict Government COVID procedures.
Neil Lennon himself commented himself on many occasions about it.
Keevins assertion that the Celtic fans would attack their own players is slanderous. When in history has such an act taken place?
I do recall, however, Celtic players being attacked by opposing fans in Edinburgh and Ibrox, but never by their own fans.
Surely the club need to come and defend the fans on this?
No wait. I forgot. The board could not give a monkey’s about them.
As you were Hugh.
High Kevins is just an offensive person who is a total stranger to the truth.
Maybe you are overlooking how vile some of them are ….who on earth would boo a former manager on his return to support a cancer charity
Correct
Just as our board are strangers to us. 15 years without dermot Desmond at an agm is scandalous, and still some of our fans can’t see he is the problem.
Last thing our board will do is support our fans.
Mr Higgins will sort the fans out.
Somebody has to
First of all I am a celtic fan. I have to say though some of this article has been written with emerald green tinted specticals on. We seen first hand our fellow celtic fans attack the bus and hound the players. To say the players safety was guaranteed is bull. Our own fans disgraced our good name and should be ashamed of themselves . I can only assume and hope its those wee neds from the ‘green brigade’ because as a fan in my 40’s I know none of us were ever schooled better than to behave in such a disgraceful way. I enjoyed this site and the writers but let’s be frank we are all to blame for last year, stop passing the buck ,it’ll do us no good in the long run. HH
I’m told Keevins comes from a Celtic background but he hides it well if that’s true. He’s an idiot and suggesting that our fans would attack players is ludicrous. Ross Fullerton I don’t agree with your assertion that our fans would do such a thing either, also, this is how you spell spectacles. It was a couple of bits of crash barrier that was thrown and whilst it was wrong and an embarrassment I refute that the players were in danger in any way. Keevins is an old man trying to keep himself relevant by making insidious and outrageous comments on our support and the board should be fighting our corner more but I’m not holding my breath there. I’ll be trying to get on SSB tonight to pull the old fart up for his comments as we all know it was a covid issue that we were using 6 buses for and not to protect the players.