“It’s just a matter of when” James McFadden stated on BBC Sportscene. The former Motherwell and Scotland star was referring to Celtic manager Neil Lennon as the pundits picked over the bones of Celtic stunning collapse, the latest disaster in a woeful January – sadly part of a dreadful season – being the 2-1 home defeat to St Mirren.
This was no freak result, no smash ‘n’ grab by Jim Goodwin’s side, it was a thoroughly deserved victory against a Celtic side that has imploded this season and the most astonishing aspect is that Neil Lennon, John Kennedy and Gavin Strachan are all still in jobs.
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— BBC Sport Scotland (@BBCSportScot) January 31, 2021
“I think it’s more likely that there’s going to be a change,” McFadden continued. “I think the most important thing for Celtic is that’s there’s planning, it can’t be that they’ll wait and wait. Whatever it is they have to get the decision right, but there has to be a succession plan in place.
“For the last nine seasons it’s been brilliant but it seems to have just evaporated this season, so there has to be a plan in place.
“It feels like every week you’re asking ‘is the league over, is that it done?’ It’s been over for weeks now, and any chance Celtic had of getting back into the title race, however small that was, is totally gone.
“They look like a team that don’t believe they can go and win the relevant amount of games to even put some sort of pressure on.”
And fellow pundit Michael Stewart added his own thoughts to the Celtic season of distress noting that the campaign “is just whimpering to a sorry end”.
Stewart added: “I think we’ve got to the stage now where you can’t expect anything else from Celtic because they are psychologically done. They’re in the bin.
“They haven’t got anything else to give and the only way that’s going to change is a new season, which obviously isn’t going to happen until this one’s finished, or there’s changes.
“You can see the frustration in all aspects of Celtic’s game. There is no drive, there is no determination within the team. As soon as one little thing goes against them they fall apart.”
