For me the message would be simple but long...
Peter, we know your a Celtic fan, it was the job of your dreams, you got it, you came with a fantastic CV, deservedly, and were held in such regards that you were chosen to follow a former deputy governor of the Bank of England. You were employed as THE choice of a billionaire, massive kudos and a massive challenge despite what people think you walked into.
You came in on the back of the Seville year, we had the opportunity to win everything, won nothing except praise. Despite getting to UEFA final, we lost £12 million and were £39 million in the red. Your remit was finance, your forte, and your mission was to stabilise the Club.
Over the years you became the pantomine villain at times. Fergus was the saviour, even he was booed. If he was booed, then clearly there's an element that will never be happy.
But, put simply, when the team wins everyone else involved becomes a footnote. The board are invisible when the fans are content. Thats the basics of a successful club.
You have without doubt been a massive success to a point, the facts are there to speak for themselves. But unfortunately for you, your place in history and your stewardship of our club went the way of the original huns. From that 'armageddon' moment on its been an epic disaster, your stewardship has been a fucking disaster for you, your legacy, the club and us supporters.
When faced with the greatest opportunity to become a Celtic legend without kicking a ball you have in reality become the single biggest fucking failure and history will judge so. We will remember you as the man that failed and was the sole inhibitor in our quest for justice, taking Scottish football and subsequently society to task.
We faced cutbacks after Seville, downsizing after the MON years but you gave us wee Gordy. As shrewd an appointment as you will ever make. Emotion rules in the moment but history reflects and ultimately records the unvarnished truth. now i'm going to waver down memory lane and show a willingness to accept when he was right and i was wrong.
WGS, as unpopular as a haemorroid, before, during and even years after was your decision and possibly your best. Went with your plan, never made a single complaint ie 'previous managers had X,Y,Z and i have this. Off went the big earners, Sutty, Hartson, Thompson etc.
WGS with a nod to the finances available bought the best of Scottish talent. I'm not going to get quality but i'll get players that understand the club and will give their all. Never had a fraction of the quality of previous managers but despite that delivered where they failed. WGS played the company man but more importantly achieved. Imagine a Tommy Burns type achieved what WGS did, they'd have been revered to this day, unlike Gordon.
The job is to deliver and WGS delivered much more than your budget should have made possible. Signed a load of shite aye but somehow managed to get that shite to do the business. The last Celtic team to consistently hold their own in Europe despite the gulf in finance and quality. Should have had a penalty before Kaka scored. Fuck off Fergie etc
My reflection above is simple, never mind the noise, you get it right on the park, it doesnt matter who is in charge, the football we play etc. ach, we'll always find a complaint, but not a loud one.
Now Deila was a cheap curveball, not Celtic class, a classy human being but a manager given the opportunity to manage a club that he couldnt refuse, but should never have been given the chance. A project which PL seems to like but ultimately an appointment which showed his apathy to the support. No Rangers, so instead of giving them something to put fire in the belly, we'll downgrade to a level that financially suits his budget and the quality of our most important objective which is football mind. We gave Ronny the respect WGS never got. He was a free hit, a mild success and ultimately provided a huge number of signings that would form the basis of the invincibles.
But back to the death of the huns. They're deed, we know it, SFA know it, the MSM knew it, PL knows it, but for the sake of finance lets it go. We need finance, we need Rangers. He at that time stated 'we don't need anyone else' but behaved differently. Without a doubt he let them off, let the SFA off and made a decision to cut the ambillico chord of the new huns whatever the cost.
He thought that we needed them to flourish despite publicly stating otherwise, grandiose cunt. He turned our clubs back back on us. He should have realised he needs our money, not anyone elses. We will always be there and ready to support/invest, but we have to feel that investment is our investment.
We didnt want death of newco. We didnt want titles other than the cheated years. Go for 48, not this 55 pish. We wanted justice. If they were found guilty of cheating and hands up admitted it then fine, justice and acknowledgement does me. If the SFA admitted a serious failure of governance then fine. I was never after burning crosses or people, but what i know to be true is acknowledged, so i'll move on.
But to choose to disabuse your own supporters for the sake of NEWCO is ultimately the behaviour of a masonic referee in a game giving them a decision. PL chose to appease hun supporters over his own and can't live with the stain. Res 12 will expose him, thats his fear. Its not the outcome for Rangers, its the exposure of his decisions he fears. The death of oldco brought about the demise of his being with the same supporter he used to be a part of.
PL chose for finance, an acceptance of cheating, dishonesty and agreed to cover up the opportunity to expose a long standing bias against our Club at all levels of governance.
After a century of being victimised, cheated and oppressed, given the opportunity to expose these apparent paranoid delusions as fact, he chose to stand in the corner of those that have cost us games, goals, titles, caps and glory.
Oh and i've not even said hes shite a scouting
You have lost your way Peter, you've become an accountant with no soul, your not the same guy that stood on the terraces, you instead have an apathy for us.
Celtic will always have us, our club is more than a club, despite you. The next time you think of that muttering may a shiver come over you, you were a Celtic supporter, but you've become a sum of the parts that we have always derided,
You Peter Lawell will have your place in history, but unfortunately your legacy will not be the good youve no doubt played in our recent success, it will be remembered as the man that decided to fuck over our support and integrity for the sake of your bonus
PS As an addendum, the success we have had of late is despite you. If you had half a brain you'd realise, get a top class manager in and he'll turn your job into the easiest job ever. The invisible CEO is the guy that has a class act in charge. Turn projects into players and pish into winners, butits always been about
