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The Football Show · 7 October 2026
"You've got a receptionist just typing it." Alex Rae asks how the protests against Celtic's board actually affect Dermot Desmond, a man who isn't at Celtic Park every week, and Peter Martin explains why the Celtic Fans Collective went to him at St Andrews.
Peter says the rest of the board are left doing the day-to-day tasks while Desmond decides and dictates exactly what the club puts out, and he expects the unrest towards the board to carry on for the next four or five months.
Transcript:
Peter, when you talk about escalation, I think it's been fragmented for a little while now, where it's Nicholson and others have had a real... even Martin O'Neill starting to get a bit of grief as well. And I think there's a wee bit of a scattergun approach. However, when you talk about it escalating, how does it actually, and I don't mean this flippantly, how does it actually affect a guy who's not in situ every week? It's not as if he's sitting there, standing there going, you know. Whereas normally, if you go to a game where things are not quite going well, and you're in that stand on a weekly basis, your family's there and you get abuse, dog's abuse. So how does it really affect him?
Well, this is probably why they've looked at getting him at the Alfred Dunhill Cup, because they know he'll be there.
Yeah.
It's the only chance you can get to post your disagreement with the way the club's being run. The rest of the board are, in many people's view, just basically doing the menial tasks on a day-to-day basis. Certainly, as far as the PR is concerned, there's no advice going towards Dermot Desmond. He'll decide, and then he's dictating exactly what they're putting out. So if anything, you've got a receptionist just typing it. That's what the PR department do right now. So I think the escalation continues, with unrest towards the board. I think there will be, Roughy, over the next four or five months...
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