This is a big night for the Celtic supporters’ Collective. They are holding a meeting at which, for the first time, they will open the floor to anyone who wants to attend. It will be interesting to see what comes out of it.

It is a good and necessary move.

We will only know if it proves effective when it finishes and the club publishes the minutes for the support to read.

Every pressure group and every organisation that launches a campaign encounters the same basic problems and the same resistance. It always starts with people telling you the goals cannot be achieved. That is par for the course.

The world is full of people who cannot imagine a way to do something and who then convince themselves it cannot be done. Fortunately, there are always others who step forward, look at problems and search for solutions and find them.

That is how progress, all progress, happens.

Celtic, at the moment, is a club in profound crisis.

It could have drifted along in that crisis for years. We could well end up trading trophy for trophy and title for title with the club across the city, and perhaps others,...