The collapse of Desmond’s regime at Celtic is under way. Everybody recognises this but him and his useless cabal of minions

After yesterday’s events, and the events of the last week, Celtic Park now reeks of the pungent odour of mediocrity and risk aversion.

Everybody knows it.

Everybody recognises it.

I don’t think Celtic are at a point where they are a laughing stock any longer.

No, I think at this point – from an outsider’s perspective – we are to be more pitied than laughed at.

A collapsing regime, folding under the pressures of the modern game, while being run by a bunch of clueless old men.

Who are out of touch, and now fast running out of time.

It looks pitiful.

They have – in fact – been out of touch for the better part of 20 years.

Make no mistake, Desmond’s regime is collapsing, and he and his board of utter incompetents are the architects of their own downfall.

Yesterday, I wrote an article focusing on the fact that the incompetence at Celtic Park is ‘engineered incompetence’.

Engineered and driven entirely by Desmond.

None of the men on the Celtic board are stupid.

None of them are incompetent.

But they are being made to look that way by a despot dictator who does not care anymore about the damage he is causing to Celtic Football Club.

Yet, day after day, they go along with this complete farce.

In doing so, they are complicit in the destruction of the football club they are supposed to be custodians of.

All because they are afraid to grow a pair of balls and stand up to a bitter old fart like Desmond.

As custodians, they are entrusted with the care, safeguarding, and maintenance of Glasgow Celtic Football Club.

Are they fulfilling that role?

These men that apparently ‘bleed Celtic’?

How can they call themselves fans of our club when they are wholeheartedly participating in the destruction of it?

They have destroyed our reputation as a respected institution.

They have transformed us into a pariah in the European transfer market.

Nobody wants to deal with Celtic.

The Celtic manager’s job was once a coveted role.

Now no football manager with any self-respect will come near our club.

Why would they?

Everybody has seen how managers who deliver success are treated at this club.

Most managers aspire to deliver success at every football club they manage, but naturally, they expect that success is built upon.

At Celtic, success is rewarded with the asset stripping of the the football squad that helped deliver said success.

The more you deliver success, the less you will be given to maintain it.

No forward momentum is ever built upon at Celtic.

Every football manager worth his salt out there now knows that.

Even the 74 year old one we have at the moment is starting to understand that.

But it is now becoming clear as to why Martin O’Neill continues to cooperate with the current shitshow at Celtic.

Rumours are starting to circulate that because O’Neill is in serious debt, the Celtic job is a huge help to him financially.

This is the ‘favour’ that Desmond has done for him.

Essentially, Desmond has O’Neill over the barrel of a financial gun.

Hence O’Neill’s continued cooperation with the destruction of this football club.

It has become so bad now, that players have no qualms when it comes to speaking openly about their treatment at the hands of our ‘world class’ custodians.

Both Kelechi Iheanacho and Marcelo Saracchi confirmed they would not be returning to the club yesterday.

Both confirmed they did their absolute best and tried everything in their power to return to the club.

The loss of these two players is a damning indictment of the current situation at Celtic.

A situation that has now gone beyond untenable.

This is uncharted territory at Celtic.

I have never seen it so bad at the club that players have to speak openly about their mistreatment.

This regime is collapsing in real time.

All regimes in their death throes resemble what Celtic resembles at this moment time.

Mistakes that shock the entire fanbase are considered normality by a cabal of people who cannot recognise that this is gone beyond the point of no return.

They believe they can do no wrong.

Simply because a geriatric ‘double billionaire’ tells them so.

The army of happy clappers dwindles by the day.

Their voices retreat into the shadows because they are beginning to understand that defending this utter shitshow only makes them look more foolish than they already are.

You cannot defend the indefensible.

Last season Brendan Rodgers stated that he had been given the keys to a Honda Civic and expected to drive it like a Ferrari.

It looks like this season, Martin O’Neill has been given the keys to a Toyota Aygo, and expected to drive it like a Honda Civic.

This, indeed, is the perfect metaphor for Celtic’s inexplicable continued downsizing.

Bungling Michael Nicholson stated, and I quote, that the ‘easy signings are the players that are out of contract and these are being worked on immediately‘.

Somehow, he still even managed to f*** those up.

These f*** ups are no longer acceptable.

The season opener is a fortnight away, and already – before a ball is kicked in anger – almost the entire fanbase is heartily sick of the current regime.

Nobody is looking forward to the commencement of this campaign.

It is being met with a sense of dread and impending doom.

Today sees the first fixture played out at Celtic Park, with the friendly against Middlesboro.

It is the first chance for Celtic fans to express their discontent with this regime.

There are no chances left for them now.

Yesterday proved they are not, and have not been for a long time, fit for purpose.

The beginning of the end starts today.

And every day from here on out until they are gone.

We want our club back.

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