Celtic board and their smoke and mirrors act has distracted from vital decision

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The Celtic board are many things.

Successful? Yes. They run a club that’s not long won its 12th consecutive domestic trophy. They run a profitable business, even with the Covid down-turn. Celtic have established commercial links with global companies, while supporters buy season tickets every year, and league titles are (usually) assured.

While they’ve been questioned repeatedly over the last decade, this has been their annus horribillis. Supporters like the Green Brigade were called “entitled” when, during the 9IAR, they openly criticised the board. The “don’t sleep at the wheel” banner wasn’t universally popular when it was unfurled against AIK in 2019 [Glasgow Times].

Over the 20-21 season and further back, there were plenty of Celtic fans that weren’t happy with Neil Lennon being manager of the club. Equally, the standard of our transfer business continued to disillusion supporters. It wasn’t that Celtic were particularly amazing at times during 9IAR, it’s just that we were better than the opposition. In Europe, we were often shown up.

This was especially the case this season, however. And instead of making a change while the title was salvageable, the board waved an incoming CEO at us with one hand, while shuffling a document titled “Manager Review” into their back pocket with the other. It was a sleight of hand that was meant to pacify the Celtic support, but it just hasn’t worked.

Still, it feels like the righteous anger has turned into disappointment, then into apathy. Celtic matches are being played thick and fast during a tumultuous schedule, but they don’t feel like the events they did even a month or so ago. There’s just a yawning, an acceptance that Neil Lennon will be our manager until the summer at least.

That’s not on.

Celtic board may allow more lost ground to our rivals

In delaying the painful process of divorcing Neil Lennon from Celtic, the board have lost time to rebuild. A January transfer window that was key to how the club prepares for European qualifiers was a wash-out. If anything, we’re a weaker squad now, having lost Jeremie Frimpong.

In that time, the Bhoys could and should have brought some new blood in to energise an ailing squad. Instead, there was a trip to Dubai which ended up decimating the first-team, dropped points and more disappointment. It was shambolic, and yet nobody at the club has suffered for it.

Our chairman is so anonymous that it’s genuinely possible he might also be Hoopy the Huddle Hound. Bankier has barely exhaled within the same postcode as a member of the press over the course of the season. What he does is anyone’s guess, and his mate Peter Lawwell is taking a lot of the damage for him.

Dominic McKay, a potential Director of Football; all these things are great, but where is that hallowed review? By what metric in this universe, or any other dimension, is Neil Lennon still the right man to manage Celtic Football Club?

Yes, there are a million Lennon Out posts on social media. But the board seem to have sailed through this latest storm with barely a scratch. Meanwhile, Rangers did strengthen their team in the window, and have a young manager they believe in. They are set up, after so many hilarious years of mismanagement, to topple us as the dominant force in Scottish football.

We couldn’t have asked for a better head-start to bury our rivals for seasons to come. Instead, at the most historic hurdle, the board have blown it, and all they have to show for it is a drawn out retirement party.

TEAM NEWS: Neil Lennon has provided multiple updates on returning Celts.