The Breakdown – When The Celtic Board Met The Fans
The Cynic | A Celtic FC Podcast
Christopher Gallagher
4.9 • 678 Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Martin attended the meeting and gives his thoughts on how it all transpired. We look over the minutes from the meeting and discuss the key points and how they were responded to by the Celtic Board.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to The Cynic. I am your host, Christopher Galaher. And today we've got a feature for you. |
| 0:30.2 | I am joined and delighted to be joined by our good friend Martin Gemmell. Hello, Martin. How are you, sir? |
| 0:35.5 | Hi, Chris. I'm good, mate. How's things we're out? Not too bad. |
| 0:38.9 | We're going to talk about the Celtic fan collectives meeting with Celtic, which took place on Monday, 6pm. |
| 0:47.4 | The minutes have been released, and we're going to talk through some of the key kind of points on it. |
| 0:52.7 | Just a quick timeline, if you're listening for the first time. |
| 0:57.4 | Martin, there was an open letter. |
| 0:59.9 | That open letter led to a meeting. |
| 1:01.8 | That meeting led to the Celtic fan collective being born. |
| 1:06.5 | It's been an incredible couple of, you know, weeks in Celtic fandom. |
| 1:10.7 | Can you give us a little bit of kind of your thoughts on it? |
| 1:13.1 | Yeah, sure, mate. |
| 1:14.6 | You're right. |
| 1:15.1 | It has been really incredible. |
| 1:19.1 | The passion and emotion, the set of course really came to the fore, I think. |
| 1:26.1 | And it's built into this. |
| 1:28.3 | It's definitely now a movement and are coming together our Celtic supporters, |
| 1:32.7 | which whenever this happens, it has happened over recent years in various forms. |
| 1:38.1 | Whenever that happens, it becomes an extremely formidable force. |
| 1:42.4 | And I think that's what we're seeing now. |
| 1:43.8 | So I'm delighted that we've managed to maintain momentum. |
| 1:48.4 | There was a common concern that anger would dissipate after a week or so of the transfer window. |
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