Celtic Football Club today announces that it has decided to terminate the contract of manager Wilfried Nancy, with immediate effect. The Club can also confirm that Paul Tisdale has left his position as Head of Football Operations. We thank Paul for the contribution he has made in that role.
You would be forgiven for thinking managers are using Celtic’s dug - out as a ad-hoc work station. This permanent appointment was in charge for less than the interim one was.
We’re now looking for our 4th manager of the season.
What is quite astonishing is the fact that, despite how poorly the club handled footballing operations in the summer, they have managed to plummet to new depths of incompetence in the 5 months since.
There are risks to any appointment but no one could have envisaged such a monumental mess. An unmitigated disaster. Without being disingenuous, it’s ending has been the only positive of the whole tenure.
The reputation of the club has took a battering due to its ineptitude. Daily point and laugh dispatches from UK wide outlets, that rarely pay much attention to Scotland, have became common place in the last six months. Unedifying but engrossing, in the same way a car crash may be for passers by. Celtic have somehow managed to end up level on points with Rangers - who suffered their worst domestic start ever to a campaign.
The inception of Nancy’s appointment was Tisdale. A washed up, cravat wearing salesman, who made his bad name in the lower leagues of England. How he rose to such prominence within the club is truly bewildering, considering his CV. The footballing equivalent of a bogus gas man chapping doors. He somehow managed to sell this Celtic board a timeshare in Siberia.
He was given the keys to “footballing operations” - not really a thing - and asked to pick his driver. 33 days the soiree lasted.
Getting rid of these two is the biggest admittance of fault we could have hoped for. Regardless of the context, the right decision has been taken.
It’s now time for others to vacate the padded seats, they seem to have inherited for life.
Fumbling about in the dark
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Martin O’Neill is back for another interim spell. Quite what he’s thinking is beyond me but I’m at least grateful, that someone can stomach his employers.
The saving grace is that there is - miraculously - still something to play for. The opportunity for a domestic double and progress in the Europa, are still somewhat realistic.
If any of this is to be achieved, it will be done so, despite the kamikaze stewardship of the club. They chose not to fix the roof, on the off chance, it started raining.
They’re up to there necks in it now.
An apology, an explanation and a striker would be a good place to start.
