Celtic swerve the Sevcoholics at AGM as board defuse a time bomb amid heckles and lingering uneasiness – Keith Jackson

dailyrecord.co.uk:

Celtic's annual general meeting is often a gloriously curious affair. Over the years this summit with the shareholders has become the perfect pre-Christmas pantomime.For more than a decade now the Parkhead hierarchy has been trotted out behind the top table to reflect on another 12 months where the cash has been flowing into the bank account as quickly as the silverware has been clogging up the trophy cabinet.

And yet, still, despite this unparalleled success story, they spend the next hour or so having verbal custard pies thrown at them by the boo-hiss brigade.For a long while they would queue up to ask about the financial affairs of their closest rivals, even if they could not quite bring themselves to mention them by name.

And if it wasn’t for questions from the Sevcoholics, the board would have to answer for the state of the matchday pies. The topics may have changed over time.

By recollection there was only one mention of the ‘tribute act from across the city’ yesterday and one reference to the ‘five way agreement’ which was made by a man so angry he has apparently lost the ability to blink.But the simmering sense of in house hostility is never too far from the surface regardless.