Hugh Keevins makes an outrageous accusation towards the Celtic fans as he rewrites COVID history

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.