Celtic reveals its contempt for its own fan media with Anfield blog interview.

Over the weekend, something happened south of the border that should cast a very dark shadow over Celtic and everything going on at our club right now.

A Liverpool fan site ran an interview with Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. They were allowed to sit down with one of our players and conduct a proper interview.

That matters. It matters a lot. It comes at a time when Celtic’s own fan media remains effectively locked out of the club. People across that space are talking about it today, and rightly so, because it is staggering.

It not just as a decision taken in isolation, but as part of a pattern that has become impossible to ignore.

This isn’t simply about the club granting access to someone else. It’s about what that says. On top of the interview itself, the club would never give any Celtic fan outlet that level of access. None of us would get invited to Lennoxtown to sit down with a player like that. The club has never offered that. The media department has always guarded that territory tightly.

So, when the club makes an exception, and that exception benefits fans of another club, it tells you exactly where Celtic fan media sits in the pecking order. We’re nowhere.

Some people want their access back. I understand that. I respect it. But for me, that door is closed. I don’t expect to attend another Celtic media event under this board, this executive leadership, or under this culture of contempt, and I have no interest in doing so.

Because I’m not prepared to play along.

Access at Celtic was never truly open. It was always conditional. You were on the list as long as you behaved, as long as you stayed within certain lines, as long as you didn’t challenge too much or push too far. Step outside that, and the door closed quietly behind you.

That was always the reality.

Even when you were on the inside, access was limited. You’d get a press conference every so often. You’d get one question here, one question there. It never felt like real engagement. You couldn’t request in-depth interviews. You couldn’t explore areas of the club. The club always kept the important parts behind closed doors.

That was the deal, whether you liked it or not.

My own breaking point came at the AGM some years back, when Joe McHugh stood up to ask a question and Peter Lawwell dismissed him as a “blogger with an agenda.” That was one of our own shareholders. One of our own voices. The club treated him with open contempt.

That moment told me everything I needed to know.

I emailed the club that day and asked them to remove me from the list. I wasn’t going to be part of it anymore. There was no point in pretending that this was meaningful engagement, or that it offered anything of value to readers.

Because it didn’t.

What Celtic offered fan media was not access. It was the appearance of access. A box-ticking exercise dressed up as outreach. And even that came with strings attached. So, what we’ve seen this weekend isn’t just insulting. It’s revealing.

It shows a club that will open its doors when it suits them, but not to its own. A club that is comfortable extending hospitality externally while treating its own fan media with suspicion, restriction and, at times, outright disdain.

And that should anger people.

Not because anyone is desperate to sit in a press room or ask a question, but because of what it represents. It speaks to a mindset. A way of thinking that places distance between the club and the supporters who care most about it.

There are outlets who still want back in. I genuinely feel for them, because this feels like a slap in the face. It reinforces the idea that no matter how much you invest, how much you contribute, how seriously you take what you do, you are treated like shit.

And that is the real issue here.

Because this isn’t just about media access. It’s about respect. It’s about whether the club values the people who give it its voice, its reach and its identity. Right now, the answer looks painfully clear. They don’t care at all.

And until that changes, until the culture at the top changes, nothing else will. Until that changes, access granted or not, they can stick it. These people act as though we’re the enemy and I won’t play their game. They are the real enemies of Celtic.

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