WE are in the twilight zone now! Andy Walker is on Sky Sports championing Celtic fans this week and explaining how many of them feel after a season of discontent.
Neil Lennon and the coaching team have overseen a colossal fall from grace since the start of this term and show no signs of recovery.
Many thought the Ross County defeat would be the end of it for Neil Lennon but after the protests outside Celtic Park, the board appear to be doubling down on their manager rather than being seen to bow to a few idiots who took it too far.
Andy Walkers doesn’t pull any punches as he describes the current situation at the club.
“If Lennon turns things around and somehow gets his players back onside, I’ll be the first to admit I got it wrong and acknowledge what a remarkable job he has done. But what if Dermot Desmond and the Celtic board are blindly sticking by him, refusing to bow to mob rule but ignoring the obvious out of spite?” Walker told Sky Sports as reported by the Daily Record.
“Let’s disregard the mob mentality for a moment. What about the thousands of decent, reasonable and concerned Celtic fans who do want to see a change of manager? I reckon they’ll easily outnumber the attention-seeking and self-important mob who think they can behave in a vile and vulgar manner.
“Were Celtic so disgusted by the fans’ behaviour that they refuse to bow to mob rule and in an act of defiance, won’t change the manager?
“Peter Lawwell, the chief executive, has called for unity and insists ‘there is no complacency whatsoever’ at the club. I beg to differ. It’s extremely complacent to replace a manager of the calibre of Brendan Rodgers by appointing an out-of-work manager in Lennon and not allowing him any coaching staff of his own.
“It’s also arrogant to completely disregard the growing threat of your one and only rival for the title. Too many people at Celtic have been laughing at Rangers for too long and didn’t take the progress under Steven Gerrard seriously.
“Why do the Celtic fans see a change as necessary? Well, despite an extraordinary financial advantage, their team has been eliminated from the Champions League, Europa League and Scottish League Cup before December having spent millions on players who can’t get a game.”
The game against Milan is a dead rubber, it’s all about the St Johnstone game and if the bhoys can’t get a win in that tie, it could be all over for the manager. We need a reaction and every time we have lost a big game this season we hear about team meetings and everyone pulling in the same direction only for us to go out and get beat again. Not only beaten but beaten well by teams we should be much more competitive against.
It’s time for the players to stand up and be counted, the manager has to make tough decisions on who isn’t performing and he must make them starting tonight in Milan.
