The acts of self sabotage from Michael Nicholson continued into 2026 with Celtic losing the Glasgow Derby.
As an added bonus the Celtic CEO was able to tap his toes to the racist anthems from the away support.
Celtic dominated the first half, led 1-0 then completely collapsed after the break. Losing 3-1. The moment that they lost an equaliser the match was over as a contest.
The match was a perfect summary of Celtic under Wilfried Nancy. The outstanding candidate to replace Brendan Rodgers according to the club CEO.
Nancy has been an unmitigated disaster. Just like Mark Lawwell and Paul Tisdale, the other executive appointments made by Nicholson..
After eight matches of the Nancy Revolution the Frenchman has six defeats on his CV alongside a media conference that overshadowed peak Pedro Caixinha.
Thousands of angry Celtic fans have gathered outside Parkhead in protest against the board after today’s 3-1 defeat to Rangers. pic.twitter.com/xdR1Hvbnhi
— Ryan McDonald (@rmcd93) January 3, 2026
UNMANAGED DECLINE FROM NICHOLSON
All part of the un-managed decline that Nicholson put in place at the turn of the year.
The purpose was to expose and undermine Brendan Rodgers. It has been wildly successful with Celtic having lost six out of 20 matches in the SPFL Premiership.
The League Cup was lost to St Mirren. In the Europa League Celtic have picked up seven points from six matches.
A year ago Celtic had won the League Cup, were13 points ahead in the SPFL and had nine points from six Champions League matches.
All under the watch of Nicholson.
He sold Kyogo in January to boardroom applause. In July he sold Nicolas Kuhn to Como and banked the £17m fee. To top things off, as the window was closing Adam Idah was sold to Swansea.
Head of Football Operations Tisdale signed up Shin Yamada to make up for the lost goals.
In the final week of the transfer window £10m was wasted on Sebastian Tounekti and Michel-Ange Balikwisha.
GETTING LUCKY WITH O’NEILL
After hearing the January transfer plan of Nicholson Rodgers resigned on October 27.
Dermot Desmond through a double six by bringing in Martin O’Neill. He delivered seven domestic wins out of seven.
He gifted Nancy the chance to go top of the SPFL table in his first match. The Frenchman blew it.
Nancy’s third match was a cup final, he delivered the trophy to St Mirren and so on.
Today’s defeat surprised no Celtic fan.
With months to prepare for a vital transfer window Nicholson brought in Julian Aaraujo on loan from Bournenmouth.
The Celtic support has reached breaking point. Even the happy clappers are doubting their corporate heroes.
BOYCOTT- OFFICIAL OR UNOFFICIAL
Thousands of Season Ticket holders won’t be attending next week’s match at home to Dundee United.
Now is the perfect time for the Celtic Fans Collective to call for a boycott of home matches.
Not even sacking Nancy can save Nicholson, his failings as CEO were masked by Ange Postecoglou and Rodgers.
With both of them quitting there is no shield for the so-called leading sports lawyer.
The sacking of Nicholson can’t come a minute too soon.
Next Saturday Celtic are at home to Dundee United followed by a midweek trip to Falkirk. Only a complete fool would back Nancy to win either match. After that is the now ominous clash with Auchinleck Talbot in the Scottish Cup.
Nicholson could well be that fool. He has shown to sign of leadership in four years picking up a salary as CEO.
Celtic won’t move on until Nicholson, Tisdale and Nancy are sacked. Plus those involved in recruiting them.
Get it done Dermot.
🍀 “We are really close to doing good things”
🗣️ “We deserve better”A must-watch interview with Wilfried Nancy, who has a message for Celtic fans after the home defeat to Rangers 🚨 pic.twitter.com/tveS6v16jQ
— Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) January 3, 2026
8 Comments
by Dando
We have now lost the most games out of the top 6 teams
HH
by gav
The most obvious example of institutional self-harm since Brexit…….all to show that two men, Nicholson And Lawell had more power than BR……well, loving yourself above the club has led to this. Lifelong Celtic fans, my arse. Narcissists at worst, sociopath, more likely. End this now.
by Bigb
Desmond’s Nicholson, Tisdale and Nancy can all go
by Lubla
This all belongs at peter lawells door ,using fans as an excuse to jump ship ,whats the saying about rats an ships again ,its all been created by him since 2012 zero ambition
by Bhoy4life
MN can’t go for a piss without DD’s say so.
DD is a narcissist, and narcissists don’t do what you tell them to.
Narcissists will torch everything rather than take blame or lose.
I’m probably completely wrong, but I think we are stuck with WN as getting rid means the whole hierarchy are wrong including the tash.
by Balloon Heid Boyd
And so it has come to pass.
As stated earlier this week Nancy Bhoy has equalled our domestic record for defeats for the whole of last season in 8 games !
Let that sink in…..We lost 4 in the league and a Scottish Cup Final and this obstinate arsewipe has managed to emulate (if that’s the correct choice of word) without the stress of extra time and s penalty shootout.
I called for a full stadium protest after today as l knew it wasn’t feasible to ask our supporters to stay away from a huns game.
My season book is going into cold storage after this f**kfest today as I am not going to put myself at risk of arrest going to watch the sh**e being served up at the moment.
by Steve Mckenzie
It’s time to walk away until MN Tisdale and Nancy are all gone.
by Ross Smith
The gloves need to come off now as Board are destroying our club.
1. Issue an ultimatum that Nancy needs removed and Ange or MON put in place with backing early this week.
2. Call for a home game boycott until the manager is removed.
3. Call for a financial boycott of the club until Nicholson and Tisdale are removed.
We need to consider how else to legally impact the club eg. demanding sponsors don’t renew their co tracts