The multiple problems at Celtic came to the fore tonight as they crashed to a 3-0 Europa League defeat from Roma.It could have been more, from the early stages the team was bereft of any confidence or ability against opponents who have suffered back to back defeats in Serie A.Roma…
There are strong reasons for concern but no Celtic fan is fooled by the tag team of Ryan Stevenson and Keith Jackson in the Daily Record.
No introduction to the fans, no Green Brigade, fan media banned as well, the Sunday Mail attack, the board done everything they could to hinder Nancy for his first game.
Instead we have a dirty war with the club turning to their friends at the Daily Record to smear the Celtic support, the Collective in particular.
The story in the Record is copper bottomed. It isn’t a tabloid flying a kite. The Record put the by-lines of their Editor and News Editor against the story.
Naturally the resignation of Rodgers was one of the subjects brought up. Four days later Cowan decided to discuss the issue on Off The Ball with Stuart Cosgrove, tellingly he revealed that Gordon Strachan expected a December appointment.
The one thing to take from events this season is that the efforts of Nicholson, Lawwell and the Desmond family have created the Celtic Fans Collective. Every move by the club has been an own goal of varying degrees
Rather than hold a media conference today Celtic have concentrated on a favoured deflection exercise. Sharing lots of short video clips of the new manager. By 6pm the day after being appointed there is no scheduled media conference to introduce the new manager.
Last night the front section of the Standing Section was closed off and covered up. From the video clip below it seems that some of those banned were able to enter the stadium.
Since Desmond Senior turned up for a match supporters have had three ‘updates’ and the angry outburst from Desmond Mini at the AGM. The CEO has suddenly become energised.
