{"id":447700,"date":"2026-02-27T01:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447700\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T01:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T01:59:09","slug":"willie-haughey-pledges-millions-to-buy-celtic-shares-if-backed-by-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/447700\/","title":{"rendered":"Willie Haughey pledges millions to buy Celtic shares if backed by fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Haughey plans to launch &#8216;The Celtic Season Ticket Alliance&#8217; in a bid to give fans a voice in boardroom matters.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Over the last few months, I&#8217;ve been looking at what&#8217;s been going on, and if you&#8217;ve not got harmony in a business, then you&#8217;ve got no chance,&#8221; he said live on Go Radio. &#8220;Some of the stuff has been a distraction over the past few months.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;After last week, and the fantastic and all that to be killed within two minutes, I think we need to come up with a better solution about how the fans can get a voice.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I&#8217;m going to look at setting something up. I believe that the 54,000 season ticket holders are the core. They are the heartbeat of Celtic. I&#8217;m going to set up a thing called The Celtic Season Ticket Alliance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I want the 54,000 people, whether you&#8217;re in corporate, the directors&#8217; box, whether you&#8217;re in the standing section, I&#8217;m going to set up an office, a small secretary &#8211; I will pay for it. I&#8217;m not looking for money from anybody.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I want the 54,000 individuals &#8211; all we need is your email address or your mobile number. You get a number, and you&#8217;ll be part of that season ticket alliance.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;For every 10,000 fans that join this, I will put \u00a32million in to buy shares for this trust&#8230; If everyone joins, it&#8217;s \u00a310m.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;Let&#8217;s get harmony, let&#8217;s get the Green Brigade back in the stadium, and let&#8217;s get everybody singing from the same hymn sheet.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I&#8217;m going to get a Celtic legend to front it&#8230; Over the next few weeks, there will be more and more details about how people can become a part of this.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Haughey plans to launch &#8216;The Celtic Season Ticket Alliance&#8217; in a bid to give fans a voice in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-447700","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\/447700","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=447700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}