Rangers: Peter Lawwell mocked for 'Sevco Joke Bingo' at Celtic AGM

Gary Keown has mocked former Celtic chief executive Peter Lawwell and current CEO Michael Nicholson for their attempted jibes at Rangers during the club's annual general meeting.

The journalist claimed they were taking part in the yearly sideshow of "Sevco Joke Bingo", seeing who could get the joke off first in a typically embarrassing fashion before even discussing more important matters.

Those important matters, Keown claims, should centralise around their expulsion of the Green Brigade and the ongoing embarrassment in the Champions League rather than aiming cheap digs at their rivals.

Writing for Mail+ [25 November], Keown joked: "Fair play to those most mighty craicsters Peter Lawwell and Michael Nicholson for hitting their mark in the great AGM sideshow of Sevco Joke Bingo.

"That one about Rangers last having a penalty given against them when John Greig touched the ball was a cracker. A wee one-liner about the face painter who never got paid — the oldies are always the goodies — and it would have been a full house.

"Shame it fell to the manager Brendan Rodgers, who really ought to be a bystander at such events, to even begin to address  seriously the two major issues of contention around Celtic at the moment — the  expulsion of the Green Brigade and the ongoing embarrassment of Europe."

Celtic continue to embarrass themselves

Celtic are bottom of their Champions League group with just one point from four games, have been battered 6-0 by Atletico Madrid, and have allowed their rivals back into the title fight via their own shortcomings, but at least they get to have their little laugh at Rangers while the house burns down around them.

While the season has been far from a disaster on the green side of Glasgow, it could quickly spiral into one given their form and the disappointing nature by which they have thrown away points.

Already out of the Viaplay Cup, a competition in which Rangers will compete in the final, getting smashed in Europe every other week, and seeing their runaway lead on the title slip at the same time, there are more pressing things to worry about than getting their Sevco jibes off.

But they all had a laugh so that's what's important, isn't it? Not the ongoing dispute with their own fanbase, nor the worrying trend of their season's direction. If Rangers can put together a run of results, they may well end up the ones laughing.

In other Ibrox news, an official Rangers partner reacted to the Celtic result yesterday.