Oh Gary, how bitter and deluded. It did give us all a good laugh though…

Gary Keown who writes for the Scottish Daily Mail is currently trending on X due to his ill fated comments on Brendan Rodgers a year ago. Gary in his weekly column boldly predicted that Brendan would fail in his second spell in the Celtic dugout.

Fair enough if that’s his opinion, but he worded it as ‘Brendan failed first time around at Celtic – and all evidence suggests he will fail again’. Failed first time around! Really Gary? Seven domestic trophies out of a possible seven? An Invincible treble? A Double Treble? Creating Scottish football history?

If that’s failure I want more failure this time around! Although we only managed the double in Brendan’s first season this time around so maybe Gary is right!

Gary focused on Brendan’s European record as some sort of credibility for his inane drivel. Yes it wasn’t the most successful record on the big stage, but we were mainly playing in the biggest competition in world football in the champions league. A competition we were hardly going to win. We played Manchester City who came to Glasgow having won every game in the Premier League up to that point and they were lucky to get out of Paradise with a draw in that remarkable 3-3 draw. We also got a draw down at their place too.

Brendan gave us unsurpassed domestic success, and has continued that in his second spell. Europe is a challenge for next year, when he has starts to see a squad that he has an impact on. This time around Brendan Rodgers used what was there, gave all the summer projects their place and only really had one signing that was his own idea and that was Adam Idah, in the loan deal from Norwich City at the end of January. Remind us how that one worked out Gary?

To say Brendan was a failure first time around is nothing but sheer delusion. Let’s hope the failure continues for the next couple of years.

Just an Ordinary Bhoy