{"id":18073,"date":"2022-12-05T13:13:55","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:13:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=18073"},"modified":"2022-12-05T13:13:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:13:55","slug":"celtic-diary-monday-december-5-we-fought-the-lawwell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=18073","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Monday December 5: We Fought The Lawwell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Will the Lawwell win ?<\/p>\n

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Keith Jackson in the Record today offered his tuppence worth on the return of the man, albeit in a reduced capacity…..<\/p>\n

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Peter Lawwell stabilised Celtic with last CEO act and return shouldn’t be resented as twisted point of principle –<\/h2>\n

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I’ve read that three times now and still haven’t got the faintest idea what it means.<\/p>\n

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Reading the Record can do that to you, often you can feel your IQ lowering as you stare at the words.<\/p>\n

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Our man reckons Ange Postecoglou’s stamp of approval should be enough for sceptical supporters and that Rangers could do with a figure like the 62-year-old.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sceptical supporters ? Is he having a pop and calling us septic ?<\/p>\n

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So he reckons “rangers ” could do with a figure like Lawwell ?<\/p>\n

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\"Eureka<\/p>\n

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Well, it’s just occured to me that there is a way to make everyone happy.<\/p>\n

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But of course, Lawwell won’t go to Ibrox, and perish the thought that he would, as for all his faults fiscal ignorance is not one of them.<\/p>\n

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But he certainly has a ways to go when it comes to understanding PR, and how to get his point across.<\/p>\n

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Unless, of course, all of these thoughts are indeed Jackson’s own….. as he revisits a meeting with Lawwell when Celtic were on seven or eight in a row and doing quite well….<\/p>\n

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if memory serves, seven or eight successive Premiership titles had been secured under his watch and there seemed very little indication that this trophy sweep would be coming to an end any time soon. And that\u2019s when he said it. \u201cWhat you have to realise is we\u2019ll be hammered if we don\u2019t win the ten,\u201d or words to that effect.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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Lawwell summoned Jackson to tell him that ?<\/p>\n

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All things considered, it felt like an absurdity. After all,\u00a0Walter Smith\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0legendary status had long since been secured – and for the rest of time – on the other side of the city as the man who led Rangers to nine in a row. Never once had the great man been denigrated as the manager who failed to win a tenth.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYeah but the rules are different for us,” was Lawwell\u2019s punchy, rather startling response. It certainly felt like a curious way of looking at things and maybe even an insinuation of some sort. As it turned out, he was spot on. But it wasn\u2019t the papers or the press who lacerated Lawwell when the time came. Ultimately, it was Celtic\u2019s own supporters who could not forgive the man in charge for falling at the final hurdle and, when it happened, their furious, foaming mouthed response meant he effectively had to leave the premises out of the back door with a blanket over his head.<\/em><\/p>\n

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That always felt like something of a travesty given the vast scale of Lawwell\u2019s achievements during his 17 silverlined years at the helm, during which time 29 trophies were piled up outside that little meeting room. So it now seems perfectly fitting that he is to return to the nerve centre as newly appointed chairman now that Celtic\u2019s situation has been stabilised, as a direct result of his last major act as the outgoing CEO.<\/em><\/p>\n

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So now someone else has fixed the mess he left, he can come back ?<\/p>\n

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But wait, Lawwell, it appears, had fixed it before he left, presumably we didn’t hear him do it as his head was under a blanket<\/p>\n

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Over the last 18 months, many may have tried to take the credit for\u00a0Ange Postecoglou\u2019s<\/a>\u00a0appointment but, be in no doubt, when Eddie Howe baulked at the thought of trying to reconnect the club with a support running riot in the car park, it was Lawwell who identified the big Aussie as the man best qualified for the job. It was Lawwell who made that phone call and it was Lawwell who talked him all the way into the departure lounge at Yokohama airport.<\/em><\/p>\n

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And it was Lawwell, presumably, who sanctioned the wait for Howe to make his mind up that left us rudderless and ill prepared for last season…..<\/p>\n

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Oddly enough, that bit got left out, even if, as Ange has said, Lawwell was instrumental in bringing him to the club.<\/p>\n

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So it defies any kind of logic then that some Celtic fans fear Lawwell\u2019s imminent return to the club might somehow derail the progress Postecoglou is putting together on the pitch. On the contrary, Lawwell\u2019s comeback to the corridors of power will only underpin Celtic\u2019s recovery rather than do anything to undermine it.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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That Lawwell has turned to Jackson to trumpet his triumphs is more than enough to make me suspicious.<\/p>\n

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Lawwell , as the Diary said yesterday, has got a way out.<\/p>\n

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That’s what diplomacy is, the art of leaving someone with the chance to make things right.<\/p>\n

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All he has to do is outlined in the Diary yesterday.<\/p>\n

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And he should do that, he does have a lot to offer, as long as he sticks to his own job and doesn’t try to run the team.<\/p>\n

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I think each and every Celtic fan would accept that, and it’s down to him to make the first move, to offer the olive branch , because quite frankly, he’s the one who has by previous actions brought on the air of suspicion and lack of trust we have in him.<\/p>\n

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And by putting his case for redemption in the Record….<\/p>\n

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\"Fuck<\/p>\n

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That just shows how detached he has become from our world.<\/p>\n

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