The no win no fee lawyer has had many months to issue court papers against Celtic and then take his case to court to be heard. If he believed he had a strong case then he would have done that already. Perhaps he feels he would be unsuccessful in court so is trying to embarrass Celtic through the media into settling. He then gets his % commission. He knows that there is substantial 'public interest' in this case fuelled by the Ibrox bigots - yesterday Graham Spiers tweeted this "Many Rangers fans exercised and excited on here re this Celtic Boys Club tragedy. What a spectacle it is: the worst expression of transparent glee and oneupmanship I think I’ll ever see in football. Over child sex abuse."
Recently there was a victim of child abuse at Rangers who contacted the Ibrox club and was told that it was nothing to do with them and that he should direct his concern to the liquidators. Conveniently blanked by this horrible lot at Ibrox.
The fact is that the response from Rangers (founded in 2012 by Charles Green) is correct. Any claim died with the old club.
And the other fact is that Celtic never 'owned or operated' that Boys club. Today Celtic have many hundreds of non football playing employees - back then there were only a handful of staff working at Celtic Park. The lessons have been learned and Celtic now operate the youth system to the highest standards.
Celtic can and will do or say nothing so long as this No Win No Fee lawyers hammers his drum and makes his increasingly hollow threats. Celtic are a PLC, the board's duty is to the shareholders and as a PLC they quite reasonably do not expect to be liable for the actions of entirely separate organisations.
If this goes to court - and you can never totally be sure what will happen in any case - Celtic's lawyers will be confident that they would win. It would be expensive for the % cut lawyer as he'd have his own costs, the court costs and the substantial Celtic legal bill to pay - so you can see why he's reluctant.
At that stage Celtic could look if they were minded, to offering some support to the victims but at the moment they are unable to do anything other than the statement that was previously released.
In many ways it would be good if this did go to court so everyone could get closure.