Epic Scenes As Celtic Fans Launch Tennis Balls At Dermot Desmond During Dunhill Round

You have to laugh at this.

Dermot Desmond was trying to enjoy his round at the Alfred Dunhill Links Championship when Celtic supporters decided to make sure the club’s largest individual shareholder knew exactly how they were feeling.

And they did it with tennis balls.

As Desmond stood waiting to take his next shot, tennis balls started flying onto the course around him. The look on his face told its own story. He looked absolutely scunnered by the whole thing.

Epic scenes.

Look, if this is one of the only ways Celtic supporters can actually get their message anywhere near Dermot Desmond, then let it be.

I’ve seen people getting worked up about it and suggesting it was out of order. I’m miles away from that.

Nobody was hurt. Nobody needs threatened. There is obviously a line and nobody wants to see that crossed.

But throwing some tennis balls onto a golf course?

Come on.

It’s a comical, jovial way of letting the man at the top know that Celtic supporters are far from happy with what is happening at their football club.

Desmond isn’t exactly somebody supporters can bump into outside Celtic Park and ask what’s going on. He rarely speaks publicly about Celtic and opportunities for supporters to make their feelings known directly to him are few and far between.

Well, they found one.

The golf might have been taking place miles away from Celtic Park, but Desmond certainly wasn’t getting away from the feelings of the Celtic support.

And that’s really what this was about.

A few tennis balls, a very unhappy-looking Dermot Desmond and Celtic supporters finding another way of telling him that, in their eyes, he is currently persona non grata at Celtic Football Club.

If that interrupted his round for a couple of minutes?

I think he’ll survive.