The Celtic board are in contempt for abandoning their own four core promises to supporters

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The relationship between the Celtic board and the fans has never been so stretched since the dark days of the 1990s.

Back then, a fan uprising forced the stranglehold of the Kellys and Whites to an end as Celtic’s financial difficulties almost forced the club to close.

Demonstrations and Celtic fan boycotts on matchday were just two of the tactics used to force the old Celtic board out and herald the Fergus McCann era.

Whilst Celtic are nowhere near the financial perils of the past, many Hoops supporters believe the Parkhead executives are holding the club back with their dealings in the transfer market and the constant failures in Europe.

With pressure from the Celtic Fans Collective building, all this could have been avoided if the board stuck to four key promises they made to fans as set out in the Supporters Charter back in 2019.

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Four ‘key themes’ the Celtic board promised the fans

Celtic have a duty to ensure that the supporters’ voices are heard and that they look after their interests in any and all of the club’s business.

However, it appears that four ‘key themes’ from a promise crafted to the fans by the Celtic board have been discarded in just over five years.

Hidden deep inside Celtic’s own official website, the key themes of the Supporters Charter updated in February 2019 are:

How the Celtic board broke each of the four vows they made to supporters

Many fans will agree that every one of these promises has effectively, and shamefully, been broken since they were written and updated back in 2019.

And here is how.

• 1. Ross Desmond’s stunning attack on Celtic supporters coupled with the blanket ban of the Green Brigade has been a gross break of their promise to treat all fans fairly.
• 2. Where to start with this. How about the fan survey that took almost a year to publish? Or voting down a resolution to provide fans with a three to five year plan on taking the club forward? Or how about Celtic’s embarrassing reasons for not investing in the summer transfer window?
• 3. The first-class matchday experience evaporated with heavy-handed policing in the March Glasgow Derby and the Celtic board’s failure to act on it. Even the stewarding at home games has come into serious question. And as for the handling of away ticket allocations? Celtic’s silence on the matter has been culpable.
• 4. Last but not least, facing barriers to make a complaint? The cowardly action of shutting down the Celtic AGM put paid to that. As did ignoring weeks of emails from the Green Brigade highlighting the unfair treatment of fans by police and stewards before the club decided to ban them after an alleged incident prior to the 4-0 win over Falkirk.

We could go on with even more examples, but you get the drift. The Celtic board should, and must, hold their hands up and admit that they have failed the supporters with a charter that they promised they would follow.

If they can do that then maybe the cracks that have appeared can slowly be healed. Maybe.