{"id":190195,"date":"2025-10-10T10:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190195\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T10:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T10:09:10","slug":"considering-michael-nicholsons-busy-enough-as-it-is-remark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/190195\/","title":{"rendered":"Considering Michael Nicholson\u2019s \u201cbusy enough as it is\u201d remark"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\tWhen pressed on why no legal action has been taken against The Scottish Sun for their article on a club insider saying Brendan Rodgers is \u201cengineering his exit,\u201d Michael Nicholson insists Celtic were \u201cbusy enough as it is\u201d\u2026<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"891\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116854\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/new-celtic-manager-brendan-rodgers-press-conference-21.jpeg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-116854 size-full\" alt=\"Peter Lawwell, Brendan Rodgers and Michael Nicholson\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1280\/891;max-width:1024px\"\/>Peter Lawwell, Brendan Rodgers and Michael Nicholson. (Photo by Ian MacNicol\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The matter came up at Monday night\u2019s meeting between the board and fan representatives, as supporters sought clarification regarding a September report from The Scottish Sun that cited a senior Celtic figure accusing Rodgers of pandering to public opinion amid a difficult period for the club.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/thecelticstar.com\/read-the-minutes-of-monday-night-meeting-at-celtic-park\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">freshly published minutes<\/a> reveal as per Celtic FC that Chief Executive Michael Nicholson informed attendees the club had internally reviewed the article and deemed the issue \u201cclosed.\u201d When questioned about the absence of an official inquiry or legal response, Nicholson allegedly remarked that Celtic were \u201cbusy enough as it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"874\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-116853\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/new-celtic-manager-brendan-rodgers-press-conference-20.jpeg\" class=\"lazyload lazyload wp-image-116853 size-full\" alt=\"Peter Lawwell, Brendan Rodgers and Michael Nicholson\"  data- style=\"aspect-ratio:1280\/874;max-width:1024px\"\/>Peter Lawwell, Brendan Rodgers and Michael Nicholson (Photo by Ian MacNicol\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>The response by Nicholson has been viewed quite rightfully as weak, interpreting the article as an inside attack on the manager during a terrible time for the club, coming off an abysmal transfer window and a Champions League exit at the hands of Kazakh minnows Kairat Almaty.<\/p>\n<p>The debate <a href=\"https:\/\/thecelticstar.com\/video-sun-journalist-challenged-on-celtic-insider-story-on-superscoreboard\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">resurfaced this week on Clyde 1 Superscoreboard<\/a> after a listener phoned in to question Scottish Sun journalist Roger Hannah about the report.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83e\udd14 \u201cDo you stand by that article?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udc40 Roger Hannah breaks silence on story about Celtic insiders believing Brendan Rodgers wanted out \u2b07\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uNRKqOWOfy\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/uNRKqOWOfy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Clyde 1 Superscoreboard (@ClydeSSB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClydeSSB\/status\/1976010882187485654?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 8, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Continues on the next page\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When pressed on why no legal action has been taken against The Scottish Sun for their article on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":190196,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-190195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}