Ok, we’re there… At a crossroads, not just the team, not the support… The whole club.
Where do we go from here? After today’s result we’ve seen a whole gamut of emotions on display… Anger, frustration, hurt, embarrassment, annoyance but here’s where it really becomes concerning no one had yet to say to me that they were shocked!
Apathy has set in within and unless it’s rooted out it’ll take hold in a way so worrying that it might take us years to recover. This morning Celtic is broken so we need to figure out how we are going to fix it.
Neil Lennon unfortunately has been the man in the firing line while those behind the wheels are happy to blindfold him and tie him to a post.
For as long as I can remember the criticism aimed at the boardroom over the years has been “we never strengthen from a position of strength”.
“Those that fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it”.
How many legends over the years have been hung out to dry by successive boards who lack ambition and take success based on the here and now.
We’re talking about real club legends here.
Billy McNeill, David Hay and Neil Lennon. Add Jock Stein who was offered a job at Celtic Pools when his time as manager was up, rather than a seat on the Celtic Board.
How many players have been lost to this blind faith and thinking?
In recent weeks I’ve been one of Neil Lennon’s biggest critics and I think it’s been warranted… Unfortunately yesterday’s result just reinforces that belief… but I wish I was wrong.
The current board has to be held to account starting with Peter Lawwell and his boss Dermot Desmond.
I believe Neil Lennon feels our pain as much as we feel his. But he was an easy option for Peter Lawwell and he wasn’t even allowed to bring in his own backroom staff. Many people have said he was the “cheap option” with this I completely disagree.
We were never going to get Mourinho or Ancellotti, but what it did was illustrate was how much our expectations had been raised by Brendan Rodgers and dangerously so.
When he came in Neil Lennon – without his own men alongside him – was in a no win situation.
Secure the league and it was Rodgers team. Fail and it was Neil Lennon’s fault.
Neil Lennon along with the current Celtic board are equally responsible for the malaise that is Celtic Football Club at the present time.
Dermot Desmond now has to step in and take control the way he has in the past and put us firmly back on track.
Let’s hope Mr Desmond acts and learns from history repeating itself and past mistakes by Celtic Boards.
Hail Hail
David Early
