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Green Brigade brilliantly call out Celtic board on Champions League playoff disasters…

Celtic fans banner marking poor European performances displayed by the Green Brigade. Celtic v Falkirk, Scottish Premiership, Celtic Park – 29 August 2026 Photo Stuart Wallace Shutterstock/IMAGO

After the disastrous defeat in Linz on Tuesday evening, we returned to Celtic Park to face Falkirk on domestic duty.

While the crowd was fully behind the manager and his players, the Celtic board were quite rightly taken to task by the Green Brigade who captured the overall feeling of the entire support, as they highlighted their anger at the Celtic Park hierarchy for another costly calamity in the Champions League.

Our crushing defeat to LASK wasn’t only a major embarrassment after being four goals ahead, it also meant missing out on a potential £40 million payday, and the chance to once again compete with Europe’s elite.

Brian Wilson, Dermot Desmond and Michael Nicholson overseeing 2 x £40m Champions League misses…

The majority of that blame lays solely at the hands of our incompetent hierarchy, whose failings on the recruitment side of things are the biggest contributor in our European failure year after year after year.

Finishing the game with a side consisting of players who aren’t of the required quality for that level of football was the main complaint, and justifiably so. And no blame should be laid at the feet of the Luke McCowan, Anthony Ralston and Dane Murray, three Scottish players playing their part in fulfilling the UEFA homegrown requirement.

Celtic fans banner marking poor European performances displayed by the Green Brigade. Celtic v Falkirk, Scottish Premiership, Celtic Park – 29 August 2026 Photo Stuart Wallace Shutterstock/IMAGO

The North Curve brilliantly called out just that yesterday afternoon, and Tuesday’s calamity wasn’t the only focal point, but numerous other examples of the Celtic board’s flawed strategy and gross incompetence that’s cost us dearly in European competition throughout the years.

The GB produced a banner which perfectly highlighted the negligence that Dermot Desmond his cronies have committed in the past decade, costing the club a fortune in the process. Whilst also ridiculing the  Celtic Chief Executive Michael Nicholson’s preachings of ‘world class in everything we do’. Someone should ask him to give some examples. The squad? Nope. The stadium? No chance! The engagement with fans? You must be flaming joking…

The protest banners read:

“World class embarrassment. Legia, Maribor, Malmo, AEK Athens, Cluj, Ferencvaros, Midtjylland, Kairat, LASK.”

LASK vs Celtic, Linz 25 August 2026 – UEFA Champions League, play-off, the disappointment of Luke McCowan, Reo Hatate and Kasper Hogh. GEPA pictures/Manuel Binder/ IMAGO

It’s of course a reference to Celtic’s costly early exits from Europe’s elite competition against sides we should be more than capable of overcoming. The lost revenue will total over £200m, an incredible sum to lose out on from a Board who actually think that they are world class performers.

All of these clubs mentioned in the Green Brigade banner yesterday have one thing in common. They all operate on a much lower budget than Celtic.

That’s all down to our incompetent custodians, and once again they have been called out in a very public way by the Celtic supporters in the North Curve.

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