Celtic Diary Monday November 24 2025: Hearts Are Falling Apart Again

At around a quarter to ten on Saturday night, there wouldn’t have been a single one of us who thought that less than twenty four hours later, Celtic would be in a position that could mean that the hoops would overtake Hearts at the top of the table within a couple of weeks.

Calum McGregors late winner in Paisley combined with Aberdeen’s win over Derek McInnes’s Hearts yesterday means that Celtic have somehow pulled the gap back to four points, and Celts have a game in hand and a home fixture against Hearts on December 7.

Feyenoord, our next opponents on Thursday in the Europa League were beaten at home yesterday as well . Has the sun finally come out for the season ?

There is certainly a more positive vibe, if not an actual buzz around the place this morning, but there are still one or two minor issues to be dealt with. Some within our control,  some without.

Celtic PLC held their AGM on Friday morning, and closed it a few minutes later in case anyone wanted to ask any awkward questions of the board, such as “what the fuck are you playing at ? ”

The board got their awkward question in sooner, when shareholders ignored the fact that they were at a multi million pound business shareholders meeting, choosing instead to pretend it was an away game and held up red cards and booed a lot.

Prompting the board to ask “What the fuck are you playing at ? ”

Then they took their ball and went home, so the upshot was that no one got to play the fuck at anything anyway, and the media had a field day, with everyone adding their overvalued tuppence worth, and no one actually trying to analyse what the fuck had actually just happened.

Ross Desmond, appointed by proxy to represent his Dad, who, as usual, couldn’t be arsed to show up, made a statement which didn’t so much as add fuel to the fire but caused an explosion that is still sending out shockwaves.

In a similar vein to his Dad’s anti Brendan Rodgers rant a few weeks ago, the young pretender lashed out at fans who he said were “anti establishment “, showing that he knows absolutely nothing about his customer base, but fortunately for him, he won;t have to bother himself finding out because most of them may well have decided to chuck it.

Peter Lawwel then threw a blackboard duster into the assembled audience and told them to behave, although he stopped short of asking them to write a hundred lines about their unruliness.

Some say it was all pre planned by the board to give them an excuse to close up shop, but that, I fear, would be to confuse lethargy and strategy.

When you actually try to look at what did happen, and the order in which it happened, the board wanted to show a thirty minute video on the subject of why they are so good, and the shareholders didn’t want to waste time on it, as the board had already said that the meeting would close at 12.30.

Jeannette Findlay, who is not shy of asking questions, stepped forward, and without breaking the Articles of Association, asked to skip the video and move onto the any other business section. A perfectly reasonable request which seemed to shake the board a little.

They had a break, it appears, and came back with Ross Desmond and his , er , attempt to pacify things.

For an AGM, it raises more questions than it answered. It gave the impression that the board wanted to do their show , and they wanted the audince to watch it, and possibly even thank them for all they have done.

In fact, they should have realised that shareholders do have some serious questions about the way the club is being ran, and wanted assurances about visions, strategy, investments and responsibility within the management and directorial structure.

As the shareholders should have had those questions ready..it wouldn’t have hurt to submit them beforehand to allow for careful consideration of the answers…the board should have been aware of these concerns and sought to address them.

That way, everyone would have known what everyone else is up to. Which is actually all laid out in Company Law.

But I guess someone on the board didn;t actually expect shareholders to be aware of such things as Company Law.

Instead of reassurance and a clear view of the future of the club, we got a shitshow.

Instead of trying to move forward together in tandem, we went our separate ways, shouting insults over our shoulders to whoever could hear them.

And it will be months before either side gets a chance to hold out an olive branch.

While all this was dominating the news, the club who identify as Rangers slipped out their latest financial report. The gist of which was that they are still losing around £1,25m a month, and unless they get significant European prize money, it’s going to get worse.

Happily, John Beaton, so often an ally on the pitch , was in the VAR room to interpret the rules surrounding a penalty kick in his own novel and refreshing way.

Video evidence showed clearly that Livingston should have had a penalty when an Ibrox defender moved his hand to block a shot and the ball connected with his arm. Word crept through to the tv commentators that the penalty wasn’t even looked at because the ball had hit the defenders body first, and it wasn’t his fault.

It didn’t. It was a penalty.

That decision may well have earned “rangers ” two points, which could be crucial when European spots are decided in May.

A couple of wins have seen “rangers ” climb up the table, and their season may indeed recover from a shocking start, what seems to be the case though, is history repeating itself in that when they need a helping hand, they get one.

Should another Ibrox club/company go under, then it’s hard to see how those in the SFA and SPFL can possibly survive in their positions.

Call it paranoia if you want, but you do have to remember we weren’t paranoid enough last time.

This time we could call it awareness.

The last caption competition image seems to have disappeared, so we’ll start fresh with this one..