But lo and behold the elderly golfer is none too happy with the Celtic support again and everyone and their dog knows the first port of call when he’s in that mood.
Bottles can crack the heads of Celtic fans and staff and the club can sink to the position of European also rans and the Celtic board and executive have not one single word to say.
That statement has revived the Celtic support. Given the Collective fresh fuel. The Collective is a rallying point for supporter anger.
Celtic have too often appeared to operate according to the preferences of Dermot Desmond rather than the requirements of a major European football club.
Temporary solutions have become permanent strategies. The overwhelming impression is not of a club relentlessly pursuing excellence, but of a club repeatedly choosing the safety of control over the risks required for genuine progress.
And with that O’Neill knew that he was in a corner. He didn’t have a gag or a wacky aside to excuse serial failure. He faced a relevant follow up question. A rarity.
Martin O'Neill had his company hat on as he faced the media following Celtic's Champions League exit.There were no gags or funny quips about his age as the veteran manager took responsibility for another humiliating exit from UEFA's premier competition.And no-one in the Scottish media was going to ask the…
One match does not prove that a club’s entire strategy has failed. But two decades of abject failure, losing to teams that we should be playing off the park, exposes the total incompetence of the Celtic Board.
Successful football clubs invest in infrastructure, talent, and long term competitiveness. They build squads capable of thriving in Europe, not merely surviving domestically. They treat profit as a means to an end, not the end itself.
There is no way back for Nicholson and Wilson. They can delay the inevitable. But they can’t even hold an AGM. Their CEO hides from club media, he admits that he can’t deal with football agents!