No-one knows who appointed Nancy, what the process was, who interviewed him, what his strengths are. What qualities made Nancy the number one candidate. How he was identified as a candidate in the first place by a CEO with little real football knowledge or experience.
Nicholson provides Celtic with nothing. Celtic provides Nicholson with a salary that he wouldn’t get near elsewhere. He owes his grossly inflated salary to Peter Lawwell. Like most employees at Celtic Park.
The teams were roared onto the pitch. The Europa League anthem played then it all went quiet. Except for 2,500 Roma fans. They sang throughout the match. They had cause to do so.
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…
That’s why the collective and the unity of Celtic support is all the more important. Because when the Celtic support is mobilised and united, we’re a formidable force and will eventually win. We think that will be the case here as well.
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.
Once in the door at Celtic last summer as a consultant Tisdale didn’t hesitate to start putting together his empire. Firstly by trashing everything that was in already in place.
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.