No Matter What Happens Next, Peter Lawwell Is Finished.
So much of what has already been written can be laid at Lawwell’s door.
This man does not know his place within the club and sometimes seems to treat it as if it is his own personal plaything to do with as he wishes.
I’ll be commenting on the boardroom last, but this needs to be said; the useless shower who masquerade as our directors have allowed the CEO this freedom and the responsibility for what he does now lies heavily on them, and Desmond in particular.
Lawwell is way too over-mighty for a mere corporate pen-pusher and in an era were CEO’s are replaced as regularly as the office lightbulbs he’s been at Celtic way too long. Whatever bright and brilliant ideas he had have long since been tried and tested.
There are so many ugly elements to his time in the role too.
Added to them was the recent revelation that he may have lied to the Celtic AGM in 2019, when he was asked about the Five Way Agreement.
His reputation was already badly damaged before that story broke this week. Now it is positively in the toilet, with the Requisitioners explicitly demanding that he play no further part in the club’s dealings with them.
That is a damning indictment of the man.
No winning run will save that man from the place now laid out for him by future Celtic historians; they will record his time as a litany of controversies and failures burnished only be the successes of managers he either underfunded or undermined and on a handful of occasions both. He prides himself on being a great gambler, so let me pose a question to those who will try and vindicate him if this greatest gamble of them all somehow pays off.
Imagine you were a passenger on a bus in one of those Central American countries you see on shows like World’s Most Dangerous Roads.
And imagine your driver was a crazy redneck who tried to take a corner at breakneck, suicidal speed out of bravado and ego and in doing so risked your life and the lives of everyone on the bus. But he made it.
How many stops along the way before you got off the bus? And wouldn’t you have a choice words for the guy – and maybe a lot more – before you did? What you wouldn’t do is risk the rest of the journey and congratulate him on his driving at the end of it.