If Scott Brown thinks that Celtic fan media are vultures, then he’s choosing to be blind to what’s really wrong at the club

Scott Brown has ruffled a lot of people’s feathers with his comments on Celtic fan media yesterday in the SMSM.

Feathers that belong to vultures, according to him.

Listen, I have the utmost respect for Scott Brown and what he achieved as captain of our club.

He is a legend.

But I can also see what he is doing with his comments yesterday.

Brown sees himself in a role at Celtic in the future, in order for that to happen, he cannot be seen to denigrate the current Celtic hierarchy in any way.

However, that doesn’t mean that he needed to attack the people who tell the truth about Celtic.

Celtic fan media are not vultures.

The majority of blogs and podcasts out there care deeply about Celtic.

We don’t make fortunes in the media like Brown and other former players do.

For us, this is a labour of love.

And when we speak about Celtic, it comes from a place of love, not a place of spite.

If Scott Brown cannot see that the problems at Celtic all emanate from the boardroom, then he’s choosing to be blind to what’s really wrong at the club.

Here are some of the comments he made in the Record yesterday:

There are a lot of vultures out there on social media and podcasts who think they know how to run the club better. It’s as if people think Celtic can just go out and spend £20m on a player because the money is in the bank.

But if you do that and then you don’t make the Champions League then what happens? The club starts going into the red.

So everyone has to come together because that’s one of the biggest things in football – togetherness. The fans, the players and the board need to come together for what’s left of the season and then some big decisions can be made in the summer on what direction they go in from there.

None of us thinks we know how to run a club, but common sense dictates that the people in charge of Celtic clearly don’t know how to do it either.

If they did, Celtic wouldn’t be in the mess it finds itself in right now.

Calling that out does not make us vultures.

We don’t want the club to go out and spend £20 million on any player.

And to be fair to everyone in fan media, nobody has ever demanded that Celtic go out and spend that kind of money on a player.

To actually spend any kind of money on a player these days would be a bonus.

As for coming together?

We have done that.

We’ve done it in unity to get behind the club, and in unity against this board.

Because everybody has had enough of them at this point.

Scott Brown should recognise that the future is not going to involve this board.

Especially if the fans have their way.

Labelling fan media as vultures to ingratiate yourself with a failing regime isn’t a smart move.

As I stated before, Scott Brown is a legend.

And yes, he probably owes a lot to the likes of Peter Lawwell and Michael Nicholson.

But surely even he can recognise the damage they have done, and continue to do at Celtic?

Brown lived through the Covid season.

He saw how quickly they lost control of the club that season.

The fact that he’s choosing to ignore that, and calling out fan media for making their lives difficult means he’s failing to read the room.

He might want to think differently when it comes to that in the future.

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