Three match silent protest announced by Celtic Fans Collective | OneFootball

There will be a silent protest at the next three Celtic matches, all of which take place at Celtic Park, starting tomorrow afternoon against Hibs and continuing at the Europa League match against Braga and the game against Motherwell next weekend…

Celtic fan protest. Partick Thistle v Celtic. Premier Sports League Cup. Sunday 21 September. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

The Celtic Fans Collective this morning released details of the protest which is designed to show the board what Celtic games without fans would sound like.  The update from the Collective, released at 11am this morning states:

Following a successful protest against the Board at Partick Thistle over the weekend, we are writing to share the next agreed steps and actions in our campaign.

As the Celtic board continues to ignore the concerns of the Celtic support, we are launching a three-match home package which reflects their silence.

The silences are designed to reinforce the importance of Celtic fans to Celtic Football Club by demonstrating how a silent stadium is in nobody’s interest.

The silence during this weekend’s match against Hibs will once again represent the fanbase standing as the 12th Man – a powerful symbol of the influence and importance supporters hold within our club. The upcoming silences during the Braga and Motherwell fixtures will mark the number of days the Celtic Board has failed to acknowledge the open letter signed by fans – a clear reflection of the disregard shown toward their own supporters.

We hope that the silent package may be called off, at any point, should reasonable progress be made by Celtic Football Club engaging in credible communication with supporters or there being movement in personnel from the Celtic board.

The Celtic board cannot continue to commodify our passion while ignoring our concerns.

Partick Thistle v Celtic. Premier Sports League Cup. Sunday 21 September. Photo Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)

The wish is clearly there from the support to engage with the Celtic Board in meaningful and credible communication and surely this is something that the Celtic Board must now do?. The longer they hold out the more damage is going to be done to Celtic as a club and to the relationship between the support and those in the boardroom. Celtic CEO Michael Nicholson has failed to speak directly to the support for a number of years.

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