It has created a gap which keeps growing and challenges any club playing in a smaller European league. Most supporters understand that. Of course, clubs can still punch above their financial weight, and we should aspire to that.
The club has been holding talks in London this week with various targets as they search for a new manager.
Occasionally there is a real left field move, such as Ange Postecoglou or Ronny Deila but generally there is a pattern that revolves around the contact book of Dermot Desmond.
Now we are left to cross our fingers and hope that Desmond, a wealthy Irish shareholder who holds no official position at our club, picks the right manager.
Kennedy is given the same ‘respect’ as Adam Sadler, Jack Lyons and Glen Driscoll. All four have left the club, no reasons are given, no gushing comments. Not a peep from Michael Nicholson, Peter Lawwell.
Way back, just after the First World War; in terms of the British Army; a group called the Black and Tans coming in and just running amok – these type of things have happened. And so that is historical, and that has had an effect.
Martin O’Neill has slammed Graeme Souness over being delusional in his views of the Glasgow Derby.Despite Celtic’s long run of success in the fixture, highlighted by Sunday’s 3-0 victory Souness was adamant that there was no major difference between the two clubs with the most recent fixture conforming that Brendan…
I’m actually pleased as well too that he got a bit prickly. I’ve done interviews that I’ve regretted. And I have got to say I was really pleased that he got a bit prickly. I would have done the same thing.