An article from the Celtic View is to be used as new evidence by lawyers who are seeking compensation for decades of abuse suffered at the Boys’ Club.
Celtic View - the club's official publication - published a management structure chart for Celtic with the Boys' Club in the 1990s.
Lawyers claim the article is significant because Celtic claimed the Boys' Club is a "separate organisation" from the club itself.
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However, the article from the Hoops' club magazine suggests significant connections between the two organisations.
Thompson's Solicitors have lodged formal legal action against the club, seeking compensation for decades of sexual abuse.
The "School for Bhoys" article, from February 8, 1995, talks of a new centre of excellence to be based at Helenvale Park in Glasgow’s East End.
Alongside the flowchart, youth development officer at the time, Willie McStay, said: “Each of the boys’ clubs under the umbrella will be given equal rights as part of the Celtic network.”
Thompson's currently represent 25 alleged victims of the Celtic Boys Club.
Patrick McGuire, a partner at Thompsons, told the Daily Record: “This is yet more evidence showing the intimate connections between Celtic and their feeder organisation Celtic Boys’ Club.
“The fact that relationship is laid out with a diagram in the Celtic View only makes the club’s denial of any responsibility for the abuse of children on their watch even more disgraceful.”
Four men who held senior roles with Celtic Boys Club have been convicted of sexual abuse - spanning across four decades.
In February, Celtic Football Club apolgised for the abuse that took place, however insisted the boys club was an “entirely separate” organisation.
Celtic Football Club have been approached for comment.
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