Rodgers is guilty of the occasion tall tale about Danny McGrain or the Clyde Tunnel but this was taking things way too far. The final say over all football matters? Seriously.
Failure born from a decade of short-termism, underinvestment, and a boardroom that treats football as an inconvenience to its balance sheet. This is Celtic.
Chris Sutton presented the sensible balanced case. In the studio Lennon and Boyd were like a tag team with one idea being shared. Operation demonise Brendan!
The temper of the Chairman is bound to be tested. If he can’t be bothered attending matches he isn’t going to enjoy hearing Nicholson grilled about downsizing from fans/shareholders.
Longer term plans around stadium expansion with the preferred option to drop pitch which would add in roughly 4000 seats. No time scales given and all options still being explored.
Later that season, when Celtic won the league, Santa was wheeled out again on trophy day. The crowd laughed, applauded, played along. Harmless fun? Not quite. The joke’s target wasn’t Santa — it was the fans. The message: You booed when told to clap. Now you’ll clap when we tell…
Nicholson is paid a pretty penny to be the man at the helm, to do the part that Desmond doesn’t fancy, but he is clearly no leader. And that lack of leadership can be seen all across the club, especially on the pitch.
This entire shambles is of the boards making. They oversee the sell off of our best players, and at the same time hamstring the manager with sub par replacements whilst assassinating his character behind his back. Is that the kind of people we want representing our club at the highest…
During podcasts reporters can often give away too much information. On the Rangers Review podcast Malloy admitted ‘we’ve been fed this line’. Exactly.
Eventually a steward turns up to confront the angry bear, instantly he is called a nut-job. Soon he is called a doughnut, as the trek up the stairs and out the stadium begins he is turned into a specky doughnut!