{"id":350807,"date":"2025-12-15T21:26:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/350807\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T21:26:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-15T21:26:08","slug":"celtic-and-a-bona-fide-bin-fire-that-was-utterly-avoidable-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/350807\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtic and a bona-fide bin-fire that was utterly avoidable | Celtic"},"content":{"rendered":"

In keeping with pretty much everything else you\u2019ve read, seen or heard about the Scottish League Cup final, you\u2019d be forgiven for presuming today\u2019s Football Daily will almost entirely be devoted to the fact Celtic<\/a> is run by an incompetent bunch of cheapskates who appear to consider their paying customers an entitled rabble of insubordinate plebs, with only a cursory mention of plucky little St Mirren\u2019s actual triumph at the end. Except that\u2019s not how this daily football email rolls and by sneering at everyone else\u2019s coverage of the Buddies\u2019 not-entirely-surprising Hampden Park triumph, we\u2019ve now mentioned their win twice already, which means we can exclusively devote what remains of this section to going in two-footed with our views on the Scottish champions.<\/p>\n

While the rivalry between Celtic and Rangers is rooted in deep-seated, historically complex social, political, and sectarian divisions that make even the most trivial slight feel like a declaration of war, Football Daily has been highly amused to note that it is fuelled by even more absurd levels of pettiness than even grizzled cynics like us thought possible. Not content with seeing Rangers descend into the status of bona fide bin-fire at the beginning of this season, the Celtic board couldn\u2019t just revel in their rival\u2019s misfortune but instead felt compelled to shout \u201cHaud ma bevvy!\u201d and try to out-do them in the utterly avoidable self-harm stakes.<\/p>\n

Where to start? There was that miserliness in the transfer window. The embarrassingly early exit<\/a> from Bigger Cup. The resignation of Brendan Rodgers and subsequent divisive and self-serving statement<\/a> from majority shareholder Dermot Desmond accusing the recently departed head coach of being \u201cdivisive\u201d and \u201cself-serving\u201d. There was the AGM, abandoned<\/a> shortly after it started due in no small part to the fact both Desmond\u2019s son, Ross, and the Celtic chief suit, Peter Lawwell, treated their audience with such condescending disdain, it\u2019s small wonder the fans present didn\u2019t raze Celtic Park to the ground in righteous anger, rather than just shout a few entirely justified unpleasantries at assorted members of their club\u2019s breathtakingly arrogant hierarchy.<\/p>\n

Upon realising they\u2019d dropped a massive b0llock by treating the customers who keep the club\u2019s vast reservoir of cash topped up, Celtic set about trying to appease them but obviously couldn\u2019t even get that right. Having welcomed back the popular Martin O\u2019Neill as interim head coach until they found somebody the fans were inevitably going to consider a downgrade, the Celtic board will have been pleased this elderly but safe pair of hands managed to steady the ship on and off the field. However, rather than hang on to their favourite Martin, Desmond, Lawell and chums elected to bid him farewell in order to appoint somebody new ahead of a trio of big games against the league leaders, a team of Serie A grandees and a rabble of comparative church mice in a major cup final.<\/p>\n

And this morning, after Celtic were subjected to back-to-back-to-back trimmings by Hearts, Roma and St Mirren, the club\u2019s top brass will have listened in mounting horror as O\u2019Neill sat in the TalkSport radio studio, trying his best to sound more diplomatic than smug as he revealed he would have happily stayed at the club for longer and fielded a succession of calls from distraught Glaswegians all begging him to return immediately if not sooner. We can\u2019t help but feel genuinely sorry for Wilfried Nancy; through no great fault of his own, Celtic\u2019s new boss already looks like a dead man walking just eight days and three matches into his reign because the geniuses in the boardroom couldn\u2019t wait an extra week to stick a contract under his nose. Still though. St Mirren, eh? Weren\u2019t they absolutely marvellous?<\/p>\n

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\u201cSo many times I saw him FaceTime his family and friends, telling them what he was going to do and, more often than not, he would do it. In those games, he would pick up the ball and go past five, six players. He made me look like a really good coach\u201d \u2013 Cardiff boss Brian Barry-Murphy gets his chat on<\/a> with Ben Fisher about the joy of coaching Cole Palmer at Manchester City Under-21s and how he can\u2019t wait to face his old mentor Enzo Maresca when Chelsea come to town in the Fizzy Cup quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

Brian Barry-Murphy, earlier. Photograph: Francesca Jones\/The Guardian<\/p>\n

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So Nottingham Forest beat Spurs 3-0<\/a> (lol) after Spurs beat West Ham 3-0<\/a>, in turn, following West Ham beating Nottingham Forest 3-0<\/a>, which is the Premier League equivalent of an Escher drawing<\/a>. As Danny Baker used to say, \u2018football is chaos\u2019…\u201d \u2013 Noble Francis.<\/p>\n

Is anybody else looking back with fondness to a time when Sepp Blatter was Fifa\u2019s chief suit?\u201d \u2013 Gary McGuinness.<\/p>\n

As a compatriot of Tyler T (Friday\u2019s Football Daily letters), may I add a preemptive global apology for anything Alexi Lalas says? There\u2019s really no excuse. As a people, we should have long ago endeavoured to make sure he never actually speaks into a live microphone. And I\u2019m sorry to Tyler as well for bandwagoning his letter\u201d \u2013 Daniel Stauss.<\/p>\n

Re: rival fans being nice (Football Daily letters passim) \u2013 my friend, a lifelong Coventry fan, asked me to join him at the Spurs v Coventry FA Cup final in 1987. Unfortunately he could only get tickets in the middle of a Tottenham section. Notwithstanding this he wore his Coventry scarf and we both were on our feet cheering when Coventry equalised, without any adverse reaction from the Spurs fans. Not only that, after Coventry won the match \u2013 and the Cup \u2013 the Spurs fans remained in their seats and clapped the Coventry team when they came round celebrating their win. Those were the days\u201d \u2013 Danny Sullivan.<\/p>\n

Send letters to the.boss@theguardian.com<\/a>. Today\u2019s prizeless letter o\u2019 the day winner is \u2026 Danny Sullivan. Terms and conditions for our competitions, when we run them, can be viewed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In keeping with pretty much everything else you\u2019ve read, seen or heard about the Scottish League Cup final,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-350807","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}