Celtic Banter Archive March 03 2014

03 Mar 2014 18:28:33
Looks like you might have been right all along about Lawwell looking for a position with UEFA ED007. This'll be a step in the right direction for him anyways.

By: Newsroom Staff on 03 Mar, 2014 18:11

CELTIC Football Club is delighted to announce that Chief Executive Peter Lawwell has been elected to serve on the main Executive Board of the European Club Association.

Peter will join other existing Board members including Chairman Karl-Heinz Rummenigge of Bayern Munich, AC Milan's Umberto Gandini, Edwin van der Sar of Ajax and Arsenal's representative Ivan Gazidis.

The European Club Association is the sole, independent body directly representing football clubs at European level. It is the authoritative, independent voice of European club football, the lifeblood of the European game.

ECA exists to protect and promote European club football. Its aim is to create a new, more democratic governance model that truly reflects the key role of the clubs.

ECA will act to strengthen each of the clubs for the benefit of all and to ensure that club football is recognised by decision-makers as the most direct link to the fans and their communities. The ECA currently represents 214 clubs from 53 nations.

Peter Lawwell said: "This is a tremendous honour and a role which I very much look forward to undertaking.

"European football is an ever-changing landscape and from the perspective of Celtic, it is vital that we ensure we are at the heart of the action and at the centre of discussions regarding the development of the game.

"As we look to the future, I look forward to representing Celtic, Scottish clubs and the other clubs in Europe to ensure that the voice of these clubs and their supporters is heard."

{Ed007's Note - The ECA is an independent organisation which has no official connection with UEFA as such, it came about to replace the G14 group and will become very important when the inevitable European Super League is formed in the future.}

Surprise surprise, there was an agenda behind PL's treatment of the GB and not backing the fans up with UEFA fines after all.

@hamiltonbhoy as I've said before, I don't mind gb but they never done themselves any favours at fir park wrecking seats. There was parents there with children. So no wonder PL clamped down on them. There was no need for that carry on.

{Ed007's Note - The seats at Motherwell had nothing to do with any member of the GB, that has been well established now.}

@ed apologies, never knew they had been cleared.

{Ed007's Note - Out of the 128 who received the short bans over Fir Park none of them were GB members. Funnily enough the club, the media and the anti-GB members of the support didn't make as much of a fuss about that than they did at the time it happened.
Sadly it's what happens when people let their young teenage kids go to games without any proper adult supervision. Other fans, police or stewards aren't a free baby-sitting service.}

03 Mar 2014 15:46:13
Ed what's the score with fridjohannson(spelling) is he injured had heard a lot of good things about him from one or two of youth boys who a haven't seen in a wile or a would have asked them and do you think hel get a run this season a know tht might be unlikely with Lennon in charge but as a say supposedly he looks the part

{Ed007's Note - As far as I know he is out with an injured foot he sustained a few weeks ago against Hearts.}