The Celtic Fans Collective are back in the headlines this week.
After a season of fan unrest and action, the Collective have now called a boycott of Celtic’s Scottish Cup tie against Dundee.
In their most drastic action yet, the group are acting in protest at an underwhelming January transfer window, as well as three holistic issues:
The ongoing lock-out of the Green Brigade from matches, the unexplained banning of fan media outlets from club press conferences and the ongoing influence of CEO Michael Nicholson.
Conversation on the radio reached the planned boycott, and Simon Jordan got on his high-horse as he so often does.
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Simon Jordan on the Celtic Fans Collective
The Collective represents the biggest mobilisation of Celtic supporters of the 21st century.
From the Not Another Penny Campaign to silent protests to AGM action, they have made the voices of a huge number of Celtic fans heard.
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But Jordan, for all his flaws, does offer a view into the mindset of the people who run football clubs, and how much they truly can look down on supporters.
His latest lecture on talkSPORT, bemoaning an ‘activist’ mentality among fans, was a telling listen.
Jordan said: “They’re not going to sack the CEO because a group of fans are activist in their mentality.
“They’re not going to let the Green Brigade back in, and neither should they. Some of their behaviour has merited them being excluded.
“The only thing they could possibly do is let the fan TV’s back in, because they’ve let them in previously. They’ve opened that door, if they want to let them back in again and cope with the fact that they’re a little bit dissentful. I think they can manage that.
“And they’ve got to win on the football field. That’s the job that Martin can do. Martin’s not the head of the UN; he’s not going to go in and make speeches on behalf of the board.
“He’s got to make a football team that wins. If his football team wins, some of the noise will drip down.
“Ever since Covid, we’ve got this activist mentality that’s increased in certain sections of supporter-bases. They’re fully entitled to their views; they’re a valuable part of the football club.
“There’s a balance between having a view and being dissenting, and having a view about the team’s performance and being militant and activist and disruptive.
“I think they’re veering towards that territory. There’s one thing saying that a club’s being run badly, there’s another thing adding no value yourselves.
“Because it’s all well and good shouting about what you want, it’s much more difficult to provide a solution. We can all tell people what we don’t like, it’s all well and good to do that. It’s about what you’re going to replace it with.
“I think Celtic may not be as well-run as it has been previously. They may well have made some mistakes. They may not be investing the money.
“But I’m telling you, some of the rabble-rousing and some of the context that’s been created by people like Brendan Rodgers that’s created and fuelled some of this is not right either.”
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The Celtic Fans Collective in 2026
The general feeling among fans is evident every time you watch a match at the moment.
Traitors-inspired Tifos were visible at Celtic’s 2-0 win over Falkirk, in another show of solidarity with the Green Brigade.
Celtic fans went on to sing ‘stand up if you hate the board’, in the latest of many anti-board chants heard at the stadium this season.
The Collective conceded that the boycott will have an ’emotional toll’ on supporters, but insisted that they felt the need to send a ‘clear and unequivocal’ message to the Parkhead hierarchy.
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