{"id":397845,"date":"2026-01-07T16:21:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/397845\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T16:21:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T16:21:07","slug":"the-driving-force-behind-wilfried-nancys-celtic-sacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/397845\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;driving force&#8217; behind Wilfried Nancy&#8217;s Celtic sacking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Michael Nicholson has been credited as the man who sought to bring about another change in the dugout after last weekend&#8217;s defeat to arch-rivals Rangers.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Nancy was sacked after just 33 days in charge, where he lost six of his eight games.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Martin O&#8217;Neill was drafted back in, again, to succeed him as interim manager. The club legend has been appointed until the end of the season.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The Hoops are six points behind league leaders Hearts &#8211; and are now three behind Rangers after their victory over Aberdeen on Tuesday night, albeit, they have now played an extra game.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Read more:\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Mark Guidi, speaking on Go Radio, said: \u201cI believe that Michael Nicholson \u2013 the Celtic chief executive who\u2019s had a lot of criticism, a lot of abuse \u2013 I believe that Michael was the driving force for change in the past 48 hours in terms of going to Dermot Desmond and saying, \u2018We need to do something. This cannot go on\u2019.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;So Michael Nicholson, I think, deserves credit where it\u2019s due for putting that on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michael Nicholson has been credited as the man who sought to bring about another change in the dugout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397846,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-397845","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397845\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}