The Tisdale/Nancy excuse is being used for the failure to have players in on January 1. There are no excuses for O’Neill having to wait 20 days to field a new signing.
We go into Sunday’s game six points behind. Twenty-two games played each. When O’Neill first arrived in October, it was eight points. These aren’t insurmountable gaps. They never were.
It seems clear that when Paul Tisdale was finally found out and shown the door, the club’s entire recruitment department and strategy went with him. A frightening thought.
Chris Sutton has called out Dermot Desmond over his notorious attack on Brendan Rodgers.Within 20 minutes of Celtic announcing the resignation of the former Liverpool boss Desmond launched an astonishing attack on the outgoing manager.Nothing was spared. Celtic were a brilliantly run club being undermined by Rodgers. Rodgers had been…
That ‘one individual’s desire’ was carrying the whole club. The success of Rodgers covered up the failings in every area as Nicholson and Co congratulated themselves on keeping ahead of the dross across Scottish football.
Since the dismissal of Nancy there has been no word from the Celtic Board as to how they plan to identify a permanent successor to the hapless Wilf and his band of assistants.
Jim Orr recently said on the ACSOM podcast that we have a Board which never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. Time and again the Board have demonstrated an inability to build from a position of strength.
At any comparable football club, and most much smaller, appointing someone to such a powerful role would involve a rigorous recruitment process to scrutinise and analyse candidates in great detail. Doctor Football strolled into the key off field job at Celtic.
Straight after the League Cup Final defeat to St Mirren this site called for Nancy, Tisdale and Nicholson to be sacked there and then. In the four disasters since they have only added more evidence to the cases for dismissal.
And still, their floor has kept them level with Hearts’ ceiling. I am not being arrogant. It’s history, data, and lived reality. Even when Celtic aren’t right, they’re relentless in a way no one else in this league can sustain.