Celtic despair. Motherwell v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. 30 December 2025 Photo by Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
LORD KATSUMOTO – 2/10 – The idea of having Daizen Maeda in your team is that if you’re chasing a game, you’ve got a closing-down machine who’ll bust a gut running around like a demented dug, just looking for the scraps to get you back in it. Or, if you’re in the ascendency, a speed-merchant of reknown who’ll cause backlines to think again and freeze in hesitation. I know this, and someone flipped the kettle off before I was fully boiled. YOU know this because you’ve just read the above and nodded internally…
And so to the fall of Wilifred Nancy, #2; who apparently doesn’t know this. And he’s the manager! Cymbals crash, drum roll, a clown pops out from behind the curtain, ‘Da-Daaaaa!’. And look – it’s flaming Pennywise…
Yang. Motherwell v Celtic, Scottish Premiership. 30 December 2025 Photo by Vagelis Georgariou (The Celtic Star)
YING – 3/10 – Almost balancing his enthusiasm for the Birmingham Bullring with charging about like a young bullock with brain-damage for an hour. Almost, but not quite…
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Excellent, if depressing synopsis David. Invest some time in mentoring your colleagues in the art of fine writing in 2026….
Difficult to disagree with any of that and it’s about time you got brutal with certain players.
This is the poorest Celtic team I’ve watched, since the eighties, just dire. Far too many just not good enough, or just stale. Absolutely awful at the back, a goalie who gives me palpitations with every attempted piece of ‘distribution’, a midfield with zero creativity, including the captain, a succession of wingers who, simply, just can’t cross a ball and a raft of strikers who couldn’t score in the old ‘Palais de Dance!’
If we don’t have better than that, in the academy…..then what’s the point of an academy.
Nancy , Tisdale and most of the Board who formed a concensus to bring these two Saboteur (Duds) to Celtic Park should be instantly dismissed . Add to that , get rid of the over-rated players commanding good salaries with Celtic , starting with :- Engels , Hetate , Tierney , McCowan , Yang , Ralston , McGregor ( who , like Brendan before him ) is off to SAUDI to continue their jersey kissing in warmer climes .
It could take years to sort-out this mess —-Time for an instant S.O.S. to ANGE and Martin O’ Neil —-Who would hopefully come to oversee a REBUILD and put our Great Club back to where it should be in both Scotland and Europe . In the past we have had some crap players who lacked ability but made-up for this with effort and pride in the jersey they wore sadly those days are gone with crowd of impostors who now wear the Celtic shirt .
Jock Stein said that , ” The Celtic jersey did not shrink to fit inferior players ” , unfortunately , it has shrunk for many over the last few seasons .