Ian Bankier unloaded on the Scottish Government for their "astonishing treatment" of Celtic during last season's Covid-19 disruption.
The chairman answered questions during the club's AGM on Wednesday and it didn't take long before their disrupted start to the 2020/21 season came up.
The Hoops had two games postponed after Boli Bolingoli breached Covid regulations by flying out to Spain during the first wave of the pandemic and featured against Kilmarnock without isolating.
Aberdeen were given the same treatment after eight players went to a bar, with two contracting the virus, and the clubs were singled out by First Minister Nicola Sturgeon who declared it a "yellow card" to Scottish football.
Bankier says the disruption caused by the postponed games commenced the downward spiral that led to Rangers storming away with the Premiership title.
And he said the treatment of the club was "astonishing."
"Oh I'm in no doubt that we had the worst rub of the green that you could possibly imagine," he said.
"You couldn't have written it down on a piece of paper the number of things that went wrong.
"I think we were astonishingly treated by the Scottish Government. We were the only employer in Scotland to be given sanctions for an employee breaching rules.
"That was the start of the downward slide, or the loss of momentum early last season, where we and Aberdeen were banned from playing for two games.
"It stopped the momentum.
"We also had an undue course of luck in terms of injuries through international breaks.
"We had James Forrest out, we had a lot of things go wrong. It was almost 'what's going to go wrong next?'
"It was terrible, absolutely terrible, but I'm not shying away from the fact that there were other aspects of the season where we just might have done a bit better, but we didn't do.
"But yeah, I'm absolutely a supporter on that."
Asked from the body of the hall what he had done about it at that time, Bankier was less bullish.
He replied: "Well, if the First Minister of Scotland stands up and says I want a red card or a yellow card to be shown to Celtic Football Club, what is it you do? Do you take them on?
"We made our views really clear to the Scottish FA, which is our conduit for communication.
"If you go toe-to-toe with an organisation with the scale, breadth and power of a government, you will almost certainly make things a lot worse, therefore we chose not to do that.
"We had to get back to playing our games."
