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So, it's wrong that Lawwell is doing an interview with the Sun because he invited family members from the Hillsborough disaster to a game at Celtic Park?
Aside from it being poorly timed why would anybody want anything to do with a paper as shampoo as the Sun? He could have done an interview with the likes of Spiers who, whilst a bit of a dick, isn't a terrible journalist. The tabloids would still have picked up on any interesting titbits that he might have shared so his message would still have got out.
And yet nothing on their front page after the inquest verdict?
Oh yeah; not trying to excuse their original story or their lack of coverage of the inquest verdict. But it's often asserted that The Sun has never apologised for 'The Truth', and it undoubtedly has. Your mileage will vary on whether that is, or ever could be, enough.
As to why PL has given the interview to The Sun: I don't read it or the Daily Record, but the feeling I have - which could be entirely wrong - is that The Sun hasn't been unduly hostile to Celtic of late, unlike the Record. There may be some mutual back-scratching involved. I have no idea; just speculating.
So, it's wrong that Lawwell is doing an interview with the Sun because he invited family members from the Hillsborough disaster to a game at Celtic Park?
Is that the issue?
Yep. Got it in one.
The timing shows just how out of touch this bawbag is.
Aside from it being poorly timed why would anybody want anything to do with a paper as shampoo as the Sun? He could have done an interview with the likes of Spiers who, whilst a bit of a dick, isn't a terrible journalist. The tabloids would still have picked up on any interesting titbits that he might have shared so his message would still have got out.
While the broadsheets' football coverage has dumbed down to tabloid quality, they and their writers are still percieved by the wider newspaper-buying public to be too high falutin for their simple tastes, and presumably Lawwell wants to reach as many of those types as possible without having to use the Daily Record, hence The Scum. If there is anything tasty to be revealed, you can be sure the Record will twist it to suit it's/huns agenda, whereas both the Record and Sun would do so, had Lawwell went to The Herald or Scotsman.
So, it's wrong that Lawwell is doing an interview with the Sun because he invited family members from the Hillsborough disaster to a game at Celtic Park?
Is that the issue?
Yep. Got it in one.
The timing shows just how out of touch this bawbag is.
Aside from it being poorly timed why would anybody want anything to do with a paper as shampoo as the Sun? He could have done an interview with the likes of Spiers who, whilst a bit of a dick, isn't a terrible journalist. The tabloids would still have picked up on any interesting titbits that he might have shared so his message would still have got out.
While the broadsheets' football coverage has dumbed down to tabloid quality, they and their writers are still percieved by the wider newspaper-buying public to be too high falutin for their simple tastes, and presumably Lawwell wants to reach as many of those types as possible without having to use the Daily Record, hence The Scum. If there is anything tasty to be revealed, you can be sure the Record will twist it to suit it's/huns agenda, whereas both the Record and Sun would do so, had Lawwell went to The Herald or Scotsman.
So the Record would twist an interview with Lawwell to suit its agenda, both the Record & the Sun would twist Lawwell's interview with other papers, but the Sun wouldn't twist a Lawwell interview to suit its own agenda?
I mean the Record is awful but on balance it isn't quite as scummy as the Sun.
But Peter Lawwell — two Ws, not one — didn’t squirm or shift in his directors’ box seat as that banner was unfurled.
Instead he just shrugged.
Sure, the Parkhead chief executive would love to be Mr Popular with each and every one of the club’s 40,500 season-ticket holders.
But that’s just not realistic.
Not when the words ‘Lawwell and Desmond’s legacy, empty jerseys, empty hearts, empty dreams and empty stands’ are written in five-foot high letters.
But then if there’s one thing the 56-year-old has urged supporters to hold onto during his 12-year tenure at the club, it’s realism.
On and off the park that’s all he says he’s interested in — as he urges those fans who demand big changes and big-money signings to do the same.
Lawwell told SunSport: “Supporters are very much entitled to their opinion.
“When things don’t go as well as they hope then there is always somebody to blame. In terms of the banners I don’t take that personally.
“I take it as a sign of the times, but the answer is this: If I’m not here, then there will be a new me.
“And he’s not suddenly going to find tens of millions of pounds stuffed in the bottom drawer. And he’s only going to try and do the same things that I’ve been doing to maximise the future of this club.
“Listen, I can understand why people on the outside looking in have their opinions but they don’t actually know how the club is run.
“We see it at the Emirates, we see it at Goodison and Villa. That’s where we are in today’s society. When supporters become frustrated and disappointed they look for people to blame.
“At first it was Ronny who got it and he’s now going so the sights are trained on me but my view is that, as a club, we’re in very good shape.
“We’ve had a very, very tough year but we look forward with a new manager and a new beginning.
“At the moment I’m focused on getting the right manager in and preparing for the new season.
“Criticism is par for the course when you’ve been at the club as long as I have. There are going to be lows and you’re going to get it in the neck. It’s the same for Dermot who’s been here even longer.
“I can understand why it happens because the supporters always look for more. But my life is based on reality, not perception. I know exactly where we are as a club. We’re in a good place.
“If I decide to go or the board decides it’s time for me to go, then the club is merely going to get a new me. Now the new me might be better but he might not be as good. But the club will continue down the same track.”
Lawwell could have upped and left long ago. He could have easily accepted one of the enticing offers from England of much more money for far less grief.
And frankly when Celtic supporters think of that prospect there will be many of them who wish to hell he had. But he didn’t, for one reason.
Lawwell added: “I love the club. If it was about the money I wouldn’t be here. I’ve had opportunities to go — for a LOT of money — but I chose to stay.
“It’s not just been one opportunity either. But Celtic is my life. It’s more than a job, it’s a passion.
“I’ve supported Celtic all my life. I’d like to think when I do eventually go I can look back and say: ‘I did this, that and the next thing’.
“You’ve got social media and the bloggers, posters and trolls who think they know what’s going on at the club. They don’t.
“They don’t have all the information. The reality is different from their perception and I need to deal with reality every day.
“But criticism comes with living a public life in 2016. People dislike me having never met me, but that goes with the territory and you either put up with it or you don’t.
“And at the moment I’m putting up with it because I’ve got things to do. But I’ll be honest, the job is all-consuming, it’s 24/7.
“There is very little time in my life when I don’t think about Celtic and my job.”
Lawwell’s priority right now is to identify and appoint a manager to take Celtic into the Champions League. To do what Ronny Deila couldn’t.
But whether it’s Moyes, Rodgers, Lennon, Keane or AN Other what’s certain is that there isn’t going to be a huge pot of money to spend.
Lawwell added: “We’d love to go to the new manager and say we have a £40million warchest or a £50m warchest to buy the best and go for it.
“But we play in Scotland, we don’t have that. The reality is we don’t have an alternative to what we’re doing. For me that’s an exciting project for the right manager, the right guy. This is Celtic.
“It’s an iconic club, one of the biggest in the world. Even today we’re highly regarded as one of the best-run clubs in Europe.
“There is an excitement here which should be an attraction for somebody to come, get a hold of it and take us back into the Champions League.
“If your ambitions are to win the Scottish Premier League and move on then I can see that. But our ambition is to go further so for me it’s a very attractive proposition for somebody who wants to come in and create something.
“We get criticised for our strategy but I just don’t see any alternative. Everything we take out we put back in. But that’s it.
“We’re not going to take on any debt. We don’t have any other resources other than the ones we create for ourselves but that’s fine because we’ll spend everything we can. But it’s about getting the right manager to spend it wisely.”
Celtic won’t speculate to accumulate. The argument that spending just slightly more — say £20m on players — would boost their chances of reaching the Champions League group stages doesn’t wash with the Parkhead chief exec.
He added: “It might. But if we take the club into £20m worth of debt, and it doesn’t happen, where does that leave us?
“For a Scottish club to owe that kind of money leads to trouble. You don’t have to look very far to see the consequences of people trying things which ‘might’ happen.
“That is something we will not do. But it’s not like we don’t spend money — our average is £10m a year on transfers.
“We can be flexible but we’re not going to take on debt which could ultimately be very dangerous.”
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Lawwell on Broony...
PETER LAWWELL has defended under-fire Scott Brown and insisted criticism of the Celtic skipper is unfair.
The Parkhead chief executive paid a glowing tribute to the Scotland midfielder, branding him a true leader of men. Lawwell said: “Scott has had criticism which is a sign of the frustration and apathy.
“But then I don’t know who hasn’t been getting it tight around the place.
“But I would pay special tribute to Scott, who has held the team together in terms of his leadership.
“He’s played with his tendonitis and gone through a lot of games when he’s not been 100-per-cent fit.
“He’s now going to get a break, he’ll have seven weeks off, and I’m sure he’ll be back roaring.
“But he should take credit, not criticism, for being the leader and captain. He’s been fantastic and has already started coaching the younger lads, which is great.
“Hopefully there will be opportunities here for him later on.”
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Lawwell on Tierney...
PETER LAWWELL has confirmed Young Player of the Year Kieran Tierney is set to land a bumper new deal at Celtic.
SunSport revealed yesterday that the teenage left-back will be offered a five-year contract and a well-earned pay rise.
The home-grown kid has already been hailed as the best young player at the club’s end-of-season ceremony, and he was also named the PFA Scotland Young Player of the Year.
He’s a frontrunner for the Scottish Football Writers’ Association award in Glasgow this weekend.
Now Celts hope to protect their asset by securing him on a new deal, with talks expected to start with his agent within weeks.
Lawwell said: “Kieran has three years left after the summer.
“He’s done brilliantly well and normally when that happens we’ll sit down with them and try to reward them.
“We’ll do that with Kieran and look to extend his contract. I’m sure that’ll happen over the summer.
“The kid wants to stay and we’re eager for him to stay.”
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Lawwell on the Green Brigade...
PETER LAWWELL insists he does not have a broken relationship with the Green Brigade.
The Hoops supremo has held talks with the fans’ group after flashpoints at domestic and European games, and says they share the common goal of ensuring Celts improve on the field.
He said: “I’ve met with those boys on several occasions. They have come into Celtic Park and they’re nice lads.
“They’re Celtic supporters. Most of the time they’re so positive for the club but there are times when there is a display or flares which is disappointing.
“It’s not always necessarily the guys in the Green Brigade, there are fans who attach themselves to the group, so I think at times they get a hard time.
“It’s the times when things happen which tarnish the reputation of the club that are disappointing. It creates headlines around our supporters which I don’t think they deserve.
“It’s a broad church with hundreds of thousands of supporters and at times when a few let you down it tarnishes everybody.
“Every club has Ultra fans. They’re going to be at the games whether they’re up in the one section or somewhere else. But we have dialogue with them.”
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CELTIC chief Peter Lawwell says they are ready for ANY title challenge.
In a no holds barred SunSport exclusive, the Parkhead supremo roared: Bring it on.
Lawwell broke his silence in a frank and revealing interview on the key issues at Parkhead.
He’s hit back at his critics over the club’s signing policy and vowed to appoint a new boss within weeks.
Lawwell welcomes any title tilt from Rangers, Aberdeen and Hearts next season. He said: “If other teams, players and managers have confidence then, fantastic.
“We’ll be ready for them — I say that absolutely, 100 per cent. We have Five in a Row and want to make it six and go beyond that and we’re confident, but it’s good to hear Derek McInnes’ confidence and Robbie Neilson’s confidence.
“If these teams are going to strengthen and get better it makes for better competition. That will drive us, that will make us better.”
Celtic lost to Rangers in the Scottish Cup semi- final last month but Lawwell has hit back at those who insist the result proves there is not a significant gap between the Old Firm clubs
He added: “We are confident of where we’re sitting in terms of the league next year. We’ll get the right manager in and we’ll be confident of taking on the challenges.
“There is a good squad there but I’m sure there will be some changes. I relish next season.”
Celts expect to name Ronny Deila’s replacement by the end of the month — with Lawwell promsing exciting times ahead.
He added: “It’s an opportunity to change and reinvigorate. We have a long, long list which we’ll shorten. There are the usual suspects, if you like, but hopefully there will be others we talk to as well.
“The further afield you go the more risk there is. We need to ask: ‘Is that something we want to consider right now?’ or should we be taking a lower risk option with someone closer to home.
“We want somebody to create a team that will participate in the Champions League. We’re a Champions League club in everything we do.
“We’re a top-class professional football club and that being the case we should be in there.”
Aside from it being poorly timed why would anybody want anything to do with a paper as shampoo as the Sun? He could have done an interview with the likes of Spiers who, whilst a bit of a dick, isn't a terrible journalist. The tabloids would still have picked up on any interesting titbits that he might have shared so his message would still have got out.
While the broadsheets' football coverage has dumbed down to tabloid quality, they and their writers are still percieved by the wider newspaper-buying public to be too high falutin for their simple tastes, and presumably Lawwell wants to reach as many of those types as possible without having to use the Daily Record, hence The Scum. If there is anything tasty to be revealed, you can be sure the Record will twist it to suit it's/huns agenda, whereas both the Record and Sun would do so, had Lawwell went to The Herald or Scotsman.
So the Record would twist an interview with Lawwell to suit its agenda, both the Record & the Sun would twist Lawwell's interview with other papers, but the Sun wouldn't twist a Lawwell interview to suit its own agenda?
I mean the Record is awful but on balance it isn't quite as scummy as the Sun.
So the Record would twist an interview with Lawwell to suit its agenda, both the Record & the Sun would twist Lawwell's interview with other papers, but the Sun wouldn't twist a Lawwell interview to suit its own agenda?
I mean the Record is awful but on balance it isn't quite as scummy as the Sun.
But Peter Lawwell — two Ws, not one — didn’t squirm or shift in his directors’ box seat as that banner was unfurled.
Instead he just shrugged.
Sure, the Parkhead chief executive would love to be Mr Popular with each and every one of the club’s 40,500 season-ticket holders.
But that’s just not realistic.
Not when the words ‘Lawwell and Desmond’s legacy, empty jerseys, empty hearts, empty dreams and empty stands’ are written in five-foot high letters.
But then if there’s one thing the 56-year-old has urged supporters to hold onto during his 12-year tenure at the club, it’s realism.
On and off the park that’s all he says he’s interested in — as he urges those fans who demand big changes and big-money signings to do the same.
Lawwell told SunSport: “Supporters are very much entitled to their opinion.
“When things don’t go as well as they hope then there is always somebody to blame. In terms of the banners I don’t take that personally.
“I take it as a sign of the times, but the answer is this: If I’m not here, then there will be a new me.
“And he’s not suddenly going to find tens of millions of pounds stuffed in the bottom drawer. And he’s only going to try and do the same things that I’ve been doing to maximise the future of this club.
“Listen, I can understand why people on the outside looking in have their opinions but they don’t actually know how the club is run.
“We see it at the Emirates, we see it at Goodison and Villa. That’s where we are in today’s society. When supporters become frustrated and disappointed they look for people to blame.
“At first it was Ronny who got it and he’s now going so the sights are trained on me but my view is that, as a club, we’re in very good shape.
“We’ve had a very, very tough year but we look forward with a new manager and a new beginning.
“At the moment I’m focused on getting the right manager in and preparing for the new season.
“Criticism is par for the course when you’ve been at the club as long as I have. There are going to be lows and you’re going to get it in the neck. It’s the same for Dermot who’s been here even longer.
“I can understand why it happens because the supporters always look for more. But my life is based on reality, not perception. I know exactly where we are as a club. We’re in a good place.
“If I decide to go or the board decides it’s time for me to go, then the club is merely going to get a new me. Now the new me might be better but he might not be as good. But the club will continue down the same track.”
Lawwell could have upped and left long ago. He could have easily accepted one of the enticing offers from England of much more money for far less grief.
And frankly when Celtic supporters think of that prospect there will be many of them who wish to hell he had. But he didn’t, for one reason.
Lawwell added: “I love the club. If it was about the money I wouldn’t be here. I’ve had opportunities to go — for a LOT of money — but I chose to stay.
“It’s not just been one opportunity either. But Celtic is my life. It’s more than a job, it’s a passion.
“I’ve supported Celtic all my life. I’d like to think when I do eventually go I can look back and say: ‘I did this, that and the next thing’.
“You’ve got social media and the bloggers, posters and trolls who think they know what’s going on at the club. They don’t.
“They don’t have all the information. The reality is different from their perception and I need to deal with reality every day.
“But criticism comes with living a public life in 2016. People dislike me having never met me, but that goes with the territory and you either put up with it or you don’t.
“And at the moment I’m putting up with it because I’ve got things to do. But I’ll be honest, the job is all-consuming, it’s 24/7.
“There is very little time in my life when I don’t think about Celtic and my job.”
Lawwell’s priority right now is to identify and appoint a manager to take Celtic into the Champions League. To do what Ronny Deila couldn’t.
But whether it’s Moyes, Rodgers, Lennon, Keane or AN Other what’s certain is that there isn’t going to be a huge pot of money to spend.
Lawwell added: “We’d love to go to the new manager and say we have a £40million warchest or a £50m warchest to buy the best and go for it.
“But we play in Scotland, we don’t have that. The reality is we don’t have an alternative to what we’re doing. For me that’s an exciting project for the right manager, the right guy. This is Celtic.
“It’s an iconic club, one of the biggest in the world. Even today we’re highly regarded as one of the best-run clubs in Europe.
“There is an excitement here which should be an attraction for somebody to come, get a hold of it and take us back into the Champions League.
“If your ambitions are to win the Scottish Premier League and move on then I can see that. But our ambition is to go further so for me it’s a very attractive proposition for somebody who wants to come in and create something.
“We get criticised for our strategy but I just don’t see any alternative. Everything we take out we put back in. But that’s it.
“We’re not going to take on any debt. We don’t have any other resources other than the ones we create for ourselves but that’s fine because we’ll spend everything we can. But it’s about getting the right manager to spend it wisely.”
Celtic won’t speculate to accumulate. The argument that spending just slightly more — say £20m on players — would boost their chances of reaching the Champions League group stages doesn’t wash with the Parkhead chief exec.
He added: “It might. But if we take the club into £20m worth of debt, and it doesn’t happen, where does that leave us?
“For a Scottish club to owe that kind of money leads to trouble. You don’t have to look very far to see the consequences of people trying things which ‘might’ happen.
“That is something we will not do. But it’s not like we don’t spend money — our average is £10m a year on transfers.
“We can be flexible but we’re not going to take on debt which could ultimately be very dangerous.”
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Lawwell on Broony...
PETER LAWWELL has defended under-fire Scott Brown and insisted criticism of the Celtic skipper is unfair.
The Parkhead chief executive paid a glowing tribute to the Scotland midfielder, branding him a true leader of men. Lawwell said: “Scott has had criticism which is a sign of the frustration and apathy.
“But then I don’t know who hasn’t been getting it tight around the place.
“But I would pay special tribute to Scott, who has held the team together in terms of his leadership.
“He’s played with his tendonitis and gone through a lot of games when he’s not been 100-per-cent fit.
“He’s now going to get a break, he’ll have seven weeks off, and I’m sure he’ll be back roaring.
“But he should take credit, not criticism, for being the leader and captain. He’s been fantastic and has already started coaching the younger lads, which is great.
“Hopefully there will be opportunities here for him later on.”
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Lawwell on Tierney...
PETER LAWWELL has confirmed Young Player of the Year Kieran Tierney is set to land a bumper new deal at Celtic.
SunSport revealed yesterday that the teenage left-back will be offered a five-year contract and a well-earned pay rise.
The home-grown kid has already been hailed as the best young player at the club’s end-of-season ceremony, and he was also named the PFA Scotland Young Player of the Year.
He’s a frontrunner for the Scottish Football Writers’ Association award in Glasgow this weekend.
Now Celts hope to protect their asset by securing him on a new deal, with talks expected to start with his agent within weeks.
Lawwell said: “Kieran has three years left after the summer.
“He’s done brilliantly well and normally when that happens we’ll sit down with them and try to reward them.
“We’ll do that with Kieran and look to extend his contract. I’m sure that’ll happen over the summer.
“The kid wants to stay and we’re eager for him to stay.”
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Lawwell on the Green Brigade...
PETER LAWWELL insists he does not have a broken relationship with the Green Brigade.
The Hoops supremo has held talks with the fans’ group after flashpoints at domestic and European games, and says they share the common goal of ensuring Celts improve on the field.
He said: “I’ve met with those boys on several occasions. They have come into Celtic Park and they’re nice lads.
“They’re Celtic supporters. Most of the time they’re so positive for the club but there are times when there is a display or flares which is disappointing.
“It’s not always necessarily the guys in the Green Brigade, there are fans who attach themselves to the group, so I think at times they get a hard time.
“It’s the times when things happen which tarnish the reputation of the club that are disappointing. It creates headlines around our supporters which I don’t think they deserve.
“It’s a broad church with hundreds of thousands of supporters and at times when a few let you down it tarnishes everybody.
“Every club has Ultra fans. They’re going to be at the games whether they’re up in the one section or somewhere else. But we have dialogue with them.”
So this was the best his poodle hack at the Sun could effing do? Snidey remarks directed at the support, and a dig at some scheidt spelling?
To run the risk of repeating myself: Lawel Lawwell, GTF.
So basically I'd like the club to have money to spend but look a squirrel. (dig at huns) ...well run, one of the biggest in the world etc.... talking pish, football has moved on since our golden era and our failure to capitalise on Seville has seen us slide so far out the picture it's damn embarrassing.
No one's asking for more money. Just that it's not spent on shampooe after shampooe. And if it's not about the money for him then perhaps he'd fancy a pay cut?
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