Simon Jordan tells Celtic fans if he would have kept the AGM going after it was cancelled

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The Celtic board ran away pretty quickly when they had to face the music during Friday’s AGM.

This was the chance for the powers that be to witness, hear and feel how the Celtic supporters truly felt after a summer and season of discontent.

However, as soon as the Celtic board members started feeling the heat, including the raising of red cards, and chants of ‘sack the board’, the AGM was brought to a halt by Peter Lawwell.

But Simon Jordan made it clear that he would have gone about it a different way.

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Would Simon Jordan have kept Celtic’s AGM going?

Jordan was the owner of Crystal Palace for ten years, until the club was put into administration in 2010.

The English businessman, who has been part of many AGMs, told the Celtic Park faithful on talkSPORT that he would have kept things going.

According to Jordan, if people on the other side were in the wrong, then he would have loved to have ‘put people back in their box.’

Jordan admits it’s ‘easier said than done’, but he wouldn’t have followed Lawwell’s actions, and also noted how ‘there are passions’, and there are ‘passionate ways of dealing with it.’

Perhaps Celtic should invite Jordan to their next AGM. That way, supporters might just be able to get their voices across rather than this sensitive board doing what pleases them, and them only.

“I don’t think you can be surprised by anything, in terms of people’s expectations and what they are entitled to say and entitled to view,” said Jordan.

“There are passions, and there are passionate ways of dealing with it. Whether it’s the right thing to stop an AGM rather than row back hard. I don’t know.

“Dermot made a decision, didn’t he? He made a decision to go after Brendan, and to do something perhaps most people wouldn’t have done, which is to say, ‘I am not having that. I am not having what you did. What you said, and the way that you said it. The narrative you wanted to seed, and the backlash that is coming our way, as a result of it.’ He went after him in that press statement.

“The fans are saying their point of view. Whether there is balance in it, I don’t know. Whether the right thing to do was to stop the meeting? I don’t know. It’s easier said than done.

“I like to put people back in their box. If you have an argument with me on the phone, I will never put the phone down. That’s the sort of mentality I have. If I put the phone down, then I have lost the argument.

“So, I won’t be putting the phone down or calling off a meeting.”

Jim White: “You would have kept the thing going?”

Jordan: “I think so, yeah. Easier said than done.”