Dermot Desmond’s Celtic power is finally under threat
Shareholders are reportedly questioning how Celtic are being run, with pressure building for change at boardroom level.
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Earlier this week, I took a trip down the Barras to visit the Kitback pop-up shop.
Over 1,000 shirts all in immaculate condition and looking for new homes.
Check the collection out during the World Cup - it’s all for a wonderful cause 💚
Tommy Burns' Celtic side played some of the best attacking football you could wish to see. You could argue that if a good defender and a good forward were on the market, Tommy would go for the forward.
ITV football panel attributing this quotation to Bobby Robson (a man I greatly admired) demonstrates the lack of football knowledge some 'pundits' have.
✍️ In life and in football, you sometimes just have to be in the right place at the right time. For Agathe, that was Easter Road in August 2000.
Making his third appearance for the Leith club, Agathe scored twice in a 5-1 win over Dundee.
Then-Celtic manager Martin O'Neill was in the stands to scout goalkeeper Rab Douglas. He ultimately killed two birds with one stone, promptly securing the services of Agathe, too.
"Martin was late for the game," Agathe says, 25 years on. "He saw one of the goals. And after the game, he called me.
"I didn't believe him. My English was still very poor. At the time it was very, very bad. So I put the phone down.
"Then he called me back. And the day after I was at Celtic, I negotiated my contract with him. Amazing.
"I think sometimes life is very funny. You need to be in a certain place, and Martin was the right manager for me."
Agathe initially failed his Celtic medical. But O'Neill overruled the conditioning staff and forced the transfer through.
It bore significant fruit, with Agathe enjoying a career most youngsters from his native Reunion Island could only dream of.
🗣️ Didier Agathe opens up on his £50,000 move to Celtic in an exclusive interview with @JoshMcCafferty7.
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When Artur Boruc was at Celtic, there was one thing players were told not to do after an Old Firm game.
Do not go into Glasgow city centre.
It did not matter if you had won, lost, played well, played badly, or just wanted something to eat.
Celtic against Rangers was different, and once the game was over, the sensible thing was to get yourself away from it.
Boruc did not really work like that.
“He was a f****** maniac.”
In one of Boruc’s first Old Firm games for Celtic.
They had played Rangers at home, and once the match finished, the trouble around Glasgow had already started.
Boruc finished the game, got showered, got changed, and walked into town.
By that point, somebody had seen where he was going and phoned security.
“There’s f****** 300 fans ready to kill Artur Boruc.”
So someone had to go and find him before he got there.
They caught up with him and asked him what he was doing.
Boruc could not understand the fuss.
“It’s normal.”
“If they want to fight, I’ll just fight them.”
He genuinely seemed to think this was a reasonable solution.
And with Boruc, it was not even completely out of character.
Another time at Ibrox, Celtic won a tight game.
Boruc went over to the Celtic end, took an Irish flag from the crowd, walked back out, and planted it in the centre circle.
“He was never aware of anything around him.”
“He just didn’t care.”
That was why the Celtic fans loved him.
He was a brilliant goalkeeper, but he also had this way of acting like the most hostile place in Scottish football was just somewhere he happened to be standing.
The police had already cautioned him in 2006 for making a V sign at Rangers fans before a game.
In 2008, after another Old Firm derby, he held up a shirt that said:
“God bless the Pope.”
And after Celtic had won the league in 2007, he waved a champions flag in front of the Ibrox crowd.
When Boruc was asked about that one afterwards, he did not make it complicated.
“It was simple.”
“I was just celebrating that we are the champions.”
“I don’t see anything weird with this.”
That was Artur Boruc at Celtic.
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I always liked this banner, it reflected the old stain glass window that used to be above the front door of Celtic park and was later rescued from a skip.