Minutes released from Celtic Fans Collective meeting with Celtic FC

The Celtic Fans Collective were being chased at the weekend to release the minutes of the recent meeting with the club…

This led to one unfortunate exchange on social media which is no worse than much of what you see on there It also gave an insight into the additional pressures that the Celtic supporters working on The Celtic Fans Collective have had to endure in recent months, alongside their usual responsibilities in their lives and jobs.

Then we had the four podcasters, three from the fan media and one from a mainstream outlet, accepting an invitation to a Celtic Park corporate box at the weekend. You would have thought it was the crime of the century again judging by responses on social media.

Perhaps not reading the room is a valid criticism but that’s it really. The pile on was atrocious as was some fan media sites getting involved but it was a nothing incident perhaps worthy of a few snide remarks, like the one shown above but nothing more. Posting the photo was the real issue – why bother doing that? Surely the inevitable feedback would be expected, especially as tensions as so high at the moment.

ACSOM resigning from the Celtic Fans Collective as a result is regrettable and most I would imagine would regard it as unnecessary. Hopefully that decision will be reconsidered in the interests of Celtic – a better Celtic, when the heat comes out of this nothing incident.

Moving onto more important matters and today The Collective have updated its members – that’s supporters associations, independent supporters buses, various Celtic media outlets including The Celtic Star and other Celtic organisations together forming a vast section of the entire Celtic support – about the meeting with Celtic last Wednesday.

Before showing you the minutes here’s a little explanation from the Celtic Fans Collective.

“Firstly, thank you for your patience while awaiting the minutes from last week’s meeting with Celtic FC. The Club had indicated they hoped to provide their version by close of business on Friday. However, we only received a draft this morning and we felt this had key information and discussions omitted.

“In the interest of transparency, we have decided to publish our own version today. These are broadly aligned with the Club’s draft, but include the omitted detail.”

So presumably Celtic will release their own minutes and it’s worth noting for the person who was impatient to see these at the weekend, that the group of Celtic supporters in the Celtic Fans Collective have addressed this to produce the minutes quicker than Celtic PLC with all its resources.  Worth remembering that folks.

Here are the minutes from The Celtic Fans Collective from the meeting with Brian Wilson and other senior management personnel from Celtic FC…

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