THERE was confirmation yesterday, as if any were needed, that winning invincible trebles is good for business.

It isn’t quite so good for the annual general meeting business, though, if by that you mean satisfying the vultures of the press who turn up at these affairs scavenging for their usual fill of drama and intrigue.

Armed with the human shield of Brendan Rodgers, the top table at Celtic’s annual do found themselves fielding love bombs rather than hand grenades. During one early lull in a general jovial question and answer session, chairman Ian Bankier even joked: “Surely you can’t be THAT happy.”

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Yes, by the usual standards of these affairs, this was what Bankier would call “boring” stuff with all the day’s resolutions comfortably passed, including a board-supported call for further disabled facilities at Celtic Park. Perhaps the day’s only genuine point of disagreement was whether a fans’ forum, set up at the behest of a resolution at last year’s AGM, was in fact a fans’ forum, or merely a talking shop where the fans did more listening than talking.

All directors who stood for re-election were returned to post. Not least of these was Dermot Desmond, the club’s flamboyant Irish single biggest shareholder, who was re-elected in absentia with a whopping 97.76% backing from shareholders, and only the merest mention of his exclusive private jet company being alleged to use an offshore tax haven to avoid taxes in a recent BBC Panorama programme into the Paradise Papers. In response to a question from the floor, Bankier let slip that he wasn’t a fan of the programme.

“As a club we deeply resent being associated with the scuttlebutt that was the Panorama programme last week,” the chairman said. “It has nothing to do with Celtic, nothing to do with the UK tax system - it had nothing to do anything. In fact it was one of the most boring programmes. If it didn’t have Celtic in the title I’d have switched off half way through. It had 15 minutes of a shopping centre. Boring stuff.”

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Little in the way of headlines then, but as a snapshot in the life of this club, and the lives of some people in this city, at times there was still great entertainment to be had. Only one man, for instance, who just happened to be chief executive Peter Lawwell, seemed prepared to utter the word ‘Rangers’ all day, with everyone else preferring to archly refer to ‘a certain other team on the other side of the water’.

Why, for instance, did Celtic persist in the use of Parks of Hamilton coaches, when the coach firm’s owner Douglas Park is a high-profile backer of … you know who. “We want to be above all that,” said Lawwell patiently. “And joining up using Parks of Hamilton to subsidising that other club across the water is a bit of a stretch. On a practical note it is very difficult to find an alternative and I don’t accept we are subsiding Rangers.”

Why not upgrade the old South Stand, given that Champions League matches, and matches against … you know who … could also be sure to sell out a 75,000-80,000 seater stadium? “We’re not thinking about that at the moment,” said Lawwell. “The main stand is getting old, 50 years old I think, it was ‘70-‘71 it was built and we are constantly looking at it ... but we think it would cost around £30 to £40m. It is about what you spend the cash on.”

One fan wise-cracked that ‘wee Fergus’ would have sorted it out, but gripes about poor catering and season ticket seats being set aside for Uefa corporate fat cats on Champions League nights were generally borne with patience considering how little Celtic can do about it. The mutal love-in continued with plentiful mentions to the now official ‘greatest fans in the world’ while when it comes to the club’s standing in the global marketplace, an underlining of how important continental qualification is to the club. While an additional qualifying round from this season onwards will make things “slightly” more difficult, the club are bullish about this and Lawwell, with his European Club Association hat on, feels that an expanded Europa League will help other Scottish sides too.

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Issues which could be filed pending include the hotel which the club have been granted planning permission for near Celtic Park and that perennial AGM chestnut once christened Resolution 12. While the board re-iterated their dismay that the SFA weren’t prepared to grant a full inquiry into the whole EBT affair and its aftermath at .. you know who .. they would await with interest the compliance officer’s assessment when it comes to any alleged irregularities into their granting of a licence to play in continental football in 2011.

Ultimately, though, having delivered the signature of Brendan Rodgers, with the promise of him staying until ten-in-a-row, this was anything but a tough crowd. “I don’t think anybody could have written the script to what was an extraordinary season - and of course Brendan was the leader,” said Lawwell. “He is an outstanding manager and coach, he is Celtic man and he carries those Celtic values and standards. At this moment I don’t think there is anybody else in world football I would rather have in charge.” In case you wondered, the motion was carried unanimously.