Delighted for Martin. Also feel vindicated as I wanted him to replace Gaz a few years back.
“I think I am in a good direction with the players,” Nancy said after his fourth defeat in a row in his new job, a 2-1 loss at struggling Dundee United.
“Today you saw we had a good performance,” he stated. “We are improving,” he insisted. “We were close to winning… keep the faith.”
All around him now there are football atheists. There really can’t be many believers left. As Nancy spoke, it was hard to avoid wincing and wincing and wincing again.
As he made his way through his post-match assessment, the temptation was to shout, ‘Stop… stop talking… stop explaining because when you’re explaining, you’re losing, again’.
Dodds must have gotten a new job as Nancy’s speech writer
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Nancy talks about performance in the manner of a man who has time. He doesn’t. The one unalienable truth about his job is that winning is everything, no matter how it happens.
Martin O’Neill would have spelled that out to him had Nancy spent more than 15 minutes picking the brains of a guy who knows Celtic’s past and Celtic’s present better than anybody.
It sounds like Nancy passed on the opportunity to mine the interim manager for information, which is incredible given he’s a man at a new club in a new league in a new continent.
Glad it went well, as it was quite a risky move, even for a short term fill in job.
But it’s gone almost ideally. Went in, lifted performances and results, disappeared, back to pony. Fans still love him.
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like clockwork
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Hang on - Paul Tisdale was their “Head of Football Operations”?! Good grief.
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yeah, I didn’t notice that till later
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Maybe they will poach Dan Rice
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They couldn’t poach an egg. Or something.
From the BBC….How rude….
The former Leicester City, Aston Villa, Sunderland and Nottingham Forrest boss won all five league matches after replacing Rodgers, conceding one goal.
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The problem for Martin is, it’s only downhill from there.
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I had a look at the table and assumed Celtic would be miles off top.
So was surprised to see they’re just 3 points off 1st and a game more played.
Hardly a disaster is it? You wouldn’t back against MON winning them the league which would he an incredible late career hurrah.
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Much as I want success for Martin, the last time Celtic or Rangers didn’t win the top tier was in 84/85 (Aberdeen). It would be good for Scottish football if another team won it.
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