Celtic to face Class Action over Boy's Club abuse

At the very least we should be setting up an external independant anti abuse team that includes investigators counsellors etc, with anyone in the club able to contact anonimously if they wish to and raise any issues that arise within the club at all levels.

Never again must be the ethos.

 

Hopefully, the victims and survivors will be able to find some form of peace of mind and psychological support.

I want the club to offer face-to-face apologies and issue a statement explaining why they handled things the way they did. Celtic's previous statement that we take our responsibilities seriously because we had strong links to the BC sounds pathetic, given that the court rejected our separate entity defence.

As I said earlier, the current board aren't guilty of any crimes — previous board members surely had questions to answer — but their image, and therefore the club’s image, has been tarnished probably beyond repair.

The priority is the victims, though, and an out-of-court settlement is an admission that the separate entity argument was f*ckin’ awful.

 

Nine more victims have come forward, and there will likely be far more.

It’s well past the point that the board needs to be proactive and behave like human beings.

The club and the BC were linked. Celtic managers, owners and the club newspaper saw the BC as an integral part of the Celtic pyramid. We are only admitting it now because we had no choice.

It’s horrendous what happened to these boys, and yes, it was rife in Scottish football, but it was off the scale at Celtic and the BC.

Sick fed up of their nonsense statements and * taking now.

I would also welcome a full, independent enquiry about who did or didn't do what, going right back to Michael Kelly and any other people still alive from back then.

The board don't seem to give a toss about the damage done to the victims or the embarrassment and conflict the Celtic support feels.

 

Another shameful embarrassment which has been handled in a completely dispassionate and cack-handed way by the board.

 

They need to get right to f**k, mate

 

Totally agree.