It was manufactured, it was ultimately more a noise-up that went horribly wrong, it was an unimaginative marketing ploy there to be easily exploited, we all bought into it – guilty as charged – and so did the opposition down river, at a great financial cost which will soon be determined.
Months after the dust has settled both sides were thrown out of the Champions League to Scandinavian opposition, both currently sit pointless and in rock bottom positions in their Europa League groups. That perhaps is the real legacy to losing and stopping the ten.
Like all jobs, it depends what the owners/board want you to do.
If you have a common vision.
My vision for celtic would be internationally best in class pound for pound in football ops, and using leading edge marketing/content tech to build the unique diaspora that is Celtic.
— RP Mitchell (@RPMComo) October 6, 2021
Roger Mitchell, the former SPL Chief Executive has been talking about Celtic on social media this week, amid stories circulation that he is a candidate to replace Dom McKay as the Celtic CEO. Not too sure that Celtic are ready to go down that particular path but it’s worth noting that Mitchell reckons that Celtic’s attention should be firmly focused on building a club and a squad able to compete in European football and that as a result of doing that success in domestic football will inevitably take care of itself.
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— RP Mitchell (@RPMComo) October 6, 2021
It is of course easier said than done but at least Mitchell has identified where the Celtic focus should be. Last season we signed loan players to help win the ten, kept want-aways who had no business hanging around and certainly little desire to do so, money was squandered in the transfer market on players like Ajeti and Barkas – incredibly around £10m on these two along – and first team veterans Hayes, Gordon and Simunovic were released to make way.
It was Peter Lawwell’s last season and he too had bought into winning the ten as part of his own personal legacy. It was of course flawed. The rest of Scottish football couldn’t care less and no-one outside of Scotland understood or had any interest whatsoever in what was a personal vendetta between Celtic and theRangers.
The supporters pitched in to fund the show, 60,000 Celtic season tickets were sold, 50,000 at Ibrox all at full price and all receiving no more than a delayed stream service. No other football clubs in world football got this kind of backing from their supporters during the pandemic and it was all down to one thing, the ten in a row noise-up.
“When I came in to Celtic I didn’t realise how important 10-in-a-row was,” former Celtic striker Patryk Klimala told Football ScotlandC, the Reach owned website. Reach also publish Daily Record.
“But during the season I knew it was really big. I spoke with the guys and they would tell me how important it was.
“But we played bad football, that’s the reason we didn’t win. Our performance on the field. Everyone, I think, is on the same page as me, we played bad football and that’s why we lost.
“It’s hard to explain why exactly we did so badly. I can’t say, ‘Yes it was because of the coach’ or, ‘Yes it was because of the players’. It wasn’t like that.
“We tried to do our best on the field and we weren’t good enough. I only played one game against (the)Rangers but I can’t say anything about the atmosphere because we played without fans,” he added.
“It’s hard to say but in the locker room the atmosphere was really good. One thing I regret was that I never played with fans at Celtic Park. I never had that pleasure.
“I was on good terms with the fans, I spoke a lot with them in the city at the shops or wherever I met them. I really respect Celtic fans and I’ll always like them. I’ll always be watching out for what they’re doing.”
He sounds like someone pitching for a job tbh.