As expected, the club confirmed that Chris Jullien tested positive for covid-19, and worse than expected, thirteen players, one manager and one assistant manager were told they had to self isolate.
The statement from the club read;
Celtic Football Club confirmed today that Christopher Jullien has tested positive for Covid-19 and is self-isolating at home.
We wish Christopher a speedy recovery.
While all of the other members of the squad and backroom team have tested negative, we have been informed by the authorities that, having been deemed ‘close contacts’, Celtic manager Neil Lennon, assistant John Kennedy and 13 first-team players will be required to self-isolate on a precautionary basis as required by the current regulations.
The Club would like to thank the Scottish FA, JRG and the Scottish Government for their assistance in managing this case. Celtic will, of course, fulfill its fixture against Hibernian this evening.
Clearly we are hugely disappointed, as we know our supporters will be. The contacts were identified during the period from Wednesday last week, primarily around flight and team coach travel, during which time Celtic applied the same rigorous protocols used for pre-season training camps, UEFA match travel and for all domestic match arrangements in Scotland.
These protocols have served us well in the past, as the Club has not had one positive case in our own ‘bubble’ until now. As we have already stated, Celtic’s decision to travel to Dubai for a training camp was for performance reasons. Whilst we were in Dubai, the announcements made on January 4 significantly changed the COVID landscape.
The reality is that a case could well have occurred had the team remained in Scotland, as other cases have done in Scottish football and across UK sport in the past week.
Bollocks. The reality is that the case occured halfway round the world during a mid season jolly.
Celtic has done everything it can to ensure we have in place the very best procedures and protocols. From the outset of the pandemic, Celtic has worked closely with the Scottish Government and Scottish football and we will continue to do so.
Can I suggest that if this is an example of the very best procedures and protocols, it might be worth looking at a couple of alternatives ?
Such as not flying halfway round the fucking world, for instance ? I’ve noticed most people are staying at home these days, only going out when its essential, food, medicine and so on.
Thats what I’d call an example of the very best procedures and protocols.
What that statement doesn’t say is who sanctioned the trip. There is no mention of who came up with the idea, or who ultimately signed it off.
Someone withing the corridors of Celtic Park is responsible for making the decision that will ultimately be deemed to have driven an enormous wedge between an already disconnected boardroom and support.
We’ve heard a couple of excuses, in particular in relation to the decision to take Jullien on the trip. Gavin Strachan, who has taken temporary-I fucking hope its temporary- charge of team affairs said;
“It was to maintain his treatment with the backroom staff, he went over there so we can get him back as fast as we can.
Yet curiously, none of the backroom staff who were maintaining his treatment have been asked to self isolate, if you read the statement, and therefore one must assume he’s talking shite, presumably in a bid to secure the first team position on a more permanent basis.
Either that or the statement is wrong,
Or both.
So, with Hibernian, unsurprisingly, somewhat reluctant to take the field against Plague FC last night, viewers were treated to a watered down affair, with Celtic yet again failing to hold on to a lead and the game finishing 1-1.
That leaves the prospect of a tenth successive title fairly unlikely, although we shouldn’t give up until it’s actually lost.
There are few signs that the current side under the current leadership are capable of turning the season around, and a decision now has to be made on not whether or not Neil Lennon keeps the job, but on who replaces him.
The downward spiral, admittedly at the behest of a board conservative in politics and nature, has been frighteningly swift since the Lurgan man was given the remit to stop all that nonsense about taking fitness, training and diet seriously.
Players of the calibre of Keiran Tierney and Virgil van Dijk have been replaced by loannees, and furthermore, Piers Morgan, the fellow on Good Morning Britain, where people go to gaze at Susannah Reid , tweeted yesterday something that sticks , initally at least, in the craw of some supporters…
‘That leaves the prospect of a tenth successive title fairly unlikely, although we shouldn’t give up until it’s actually lost.’
Brilliant henke
Could he be the next manager Jimmy? Probably be an upgrade on the puppet.
Remember the days when we were forever squandering leads in Europe? We have fallen so far that we now regularly surrender winning positions to Scottish cannon fodder; worse, it doesn’t even surprise us. An absolute disgrace.
Not much I could add to this 100% accurate assessment of how ( not why ?). Our once proud club is being gradually dismantled by mr Desmonde and his lapdogs, with lawell being allowed by DD..to impliment his finger on the Putin button with his sheer arrogance towards the supporters
The Diary must be struggling to quote the weasel Morgan and to suggest the best we could get is the likes of Jack Ross continues in the downsizing thought process.
We snatched a draw from victory last night where the lump of phosphorus thrown in a puddle that is Laxalt charged in again to give away a free kick that the Keystone Cops, particularly Hazard again, failed to clear. Taylor for Rasputin Laxalt after we scored could have helped. Frimpong again poor, caught inside and ineffective going forward, Big Tom has done as much as he can and should be let go although having him press their centre half, such as it was, would not be his idea of how to win the game. Just on this, our total inability to press allowed them to fire forty and fifty yard balls at wide positions at will putting pressure on Soro and the full backs. In the game, we seem unable to press players in possession allowing them to pass between us and build moves up the park. It’s infuriating how we press like an amateur side giving encouragement to the opposition from the off. Disappointed in Harper who looked lost, Johnston who got lost and Duffy who should get lost. How did it come to this…? Eat Sleep Downsize Repeat.
Celtic supporters will follow the team, but the current board and management have sunk to the level of the Kelly’s and Whites. The attitude at Parkhead towards the fans in the old days was they know their place. This seems to be the mantra of DD and Lawell who clearly are not Celtic supporters, fans are different.
Last night the team was no worse than the full squad, plenty of rush at them but no finesse.
Sky TV and its progeny are loving this, where we go from here can only be upwards, but we need a strong leader, love the drivel that purports to be from the board, North Korea could not do any better.
2 games into the new year, still no win, just when is the manager performance review and what does it take for lennon to be sacked by the club for the 2nd time?
With regards to this ‘review’, exactly what are they reviewing?
Right Lemon, You got us pumped out of the Champions League whilst not playing with a striker and the advantage of one single home tie.
You got us pumped out of the League Cup by a second string Ross County…eh…really..ffs!
You got an expensively assembled squad taken to penalties by a lower league team to scramble a win in last seasons Scottish Cup.
You……….WTF!!…… is that the League table I’m looking at here?…ffs!!
Who the fvck thought this review was a good idea?
You really are the site Clown
won by a cancelled league, the most one sided cup final in living memory and a penalty shoot out agaisnt a championship side
He keeps posting pictures of Lawwell’s puppet for some strange reason,who won a treble hanging off the coat tails of the previous manager. After eroding the solid foundation put in place by Rodgers, what we are now witnessing the true capabilities of the puppet.
Dear me, more straw clutching.
None of that is relevant to how he’s performing as a manager ie shite.
Go and have a lie down and think about lennon real hard.
Oh dear, the next flounce off is coming, isn’t it?
I’ve had my life threatened by these cvnts on many an occasion and don’t get financially rewarded.Oh yeh, that’s right, you live in England you fvckin arse wipe, you are immune to what goes on up here. Go raffle yerself you absolute weapon.
Hahaha. What a pathetic moonhowler you are. So Lennon gets abused when some of his behaviour is very questionable, yet for just being a known Tim in Ayrshire it can be hanging offence to some. Your observations mean fvck all you soup taking rat b@stard..
Slurp Slurp.
14 years in not almost 20
and the last 5 years as manager, when he’s lost 3 leagues to the Huns.
Distinction?
Rodgers – Treble Treble
lennon – treble league losses either side of 9IAR thus depriving us (*) of a historic achievement
(*) us/we refers to Celtic fans and I can understand why you don’t consider yourself part of the collective.
Rodgers (sic) left when compo agreed (£10m, a decent wedge and enough to source a decent manager but…).
When he left, the league was in a similar position to as it was last season when it was called. No one other than Huns objected to that.
Lennon took over an all conquering side/squad/ethos and has totally decimated it.
In his first spell he won a pitiful 2 out of 9 Cups, when there was first a dying and then no top league Huns.
It’s easy to take over an all conquering side but building one from scratch is infinitely harder.
Destroying the former is an achievement but not a good one.
Just saw this, BG, in my haste to stop Duncan’s parroting of Lennon’s lie.
It’s 14 years, Duncan.
FOURTEEN YEARS.
And it will never be 20 no matter how many times you and the man himself might keep on saying it.
You’re a w@nker and you know it, Duncan.
The hospitals are empty.
Go see for yourself or if you really can’t bring yourself to leave your wee attic go to #FilmYourHospital and you’ll see that every hospital on Earth that these thousands of people do all nationalities have visited have turned up the same kind of footage …
That is, that the hospitals are empty.
I don’t need to add anything when all you have to do is take a look at yer phone to see the proof of what I’m saying.
This footage will prove to you from every country on Earth that there is conspiracy and it ain’t no theory.
Now Fvck off, w@nker.
The League Cup’s gone, The League’s on its way to Ibrox and it’ll require a vast improvement to retain the Scottish Cup.
Celtic fans are beelin’.
Not so much Lennon FC ones and, I hope, you enjoy the ride when he pitches up at Accrington Stanley or wherever his ‘talents’ take him.
Pwhah, pwah.
During the Treble Treble years, that you hated, you kept going on about how wonderfully well he was doing at Hibs.
** Spoiler alert: look away now kids if you don’t want to know how it ended **
Hibs were glad to get rid of him to avoid relegation.
✔️
You sound on the verge of tears.
Perhaps the cut and thrust of adult debate isn’t for you.
Cha, best ignore Lennon FC from now on. When you think that there’s some lads from Buenos Aires that have seen Celtic more times than him then you just have to take a step back and just laugh at the arsehole. His hatred of Rodgers is quite breathtaking when he obviously knows that Lawwell undermined him big time. A man with dignity and principals would not accept that position, so he left to go to a proper functioning club. On the other hand, we have Lawwell’s puppet, hanging about like a bad smell with his integrity diminishing daily. while plunging the club into some of its darkest days since 1994.
….. and you really are shite, clown.
Don’t forget henke humiliated by a reserve team in the europa, unable to beat the huns etc etc
Yeh Jimmy, I was quite busy today so didn’t have enough time to detail all the horror stories that have occurred in what has been the season from hell.
The only way we will get the set up at the Club right, is to organise a fans’ buy out. The current board are incompetent and not interested in the welfare of the Club or the supporters. They are happy to bank their dividends each year as they totally ignore our pleas for better governance throughout the Club. Dermot Desmond seems to have lost all interest in matters Celtic so it’s time for him to sell up and piss off with the rest of his merry band of profiteers.
The Celtic Trust – A Celtic Supporters’ Society
i wouldn’t trust the ‘Celtic ‘Trust’ to see me across the road.
If they won’t tackle Res 12 they’re as complicit as Lawwell himself.
To be fair, I know little of them, but must be worth a look. Any informed info is welcome and a seat on the board with a growing share base owned by Celtics real strength, it’s support, would make the board sit up and voted out as any ineptitude shows itself. Been so much in the last twenty years that it is criminal. HH!
Does that narcissic idiot Lawwell, who earns millions every season by sitting on his fat arse as a main player on club decisions, detemined to save every penny on new recruits, while costing us ONE HUNDRED and FIFTY millions in European Champs League losses, plus a full Celtic Park, he sits down with this responcibility, while he cannot decide which flavour banana he wants to suck on, realise sevco and so many others see Celtic as a complete laughing stock. Handed the flag to the other lot on a plate. Reminds me of George Bush, another idiot, reading childrens books to a school class with his security team while the twin towers collapsed. Not a clue. Just go Lawwell. Chaotic. HH!
Peter Lawwell as bad as Mo Johnston now
Judging by the comments on Celtic forums not so long ago, that’ll be just above brendan Rogers!!
dont think so. but he is down there
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Huns are the biggest fans of Lennon these days, apart from you.
“Apart”?
The only crumb of comfort in this is that we are still a better side than those across the city . There is a nucleas of a good team there, yes eddy and ajer will go, maybe Christie but they will be replaced and the bulk of the side is still in my opinion better than that group of ageing players and journey men . This is not an ageing team on its knees , we just need a new coach to take them to the next level . Philip cocu had a shocker at Derby but done great things with psv . He brought through young players who have went on to be super stars and created an identity for that club. He is available
What?
Sevco are far better than us m8 the table doesnt’t lie. Performances in Europe don’t lie.
I said it in here after the pre seasons friendly in France that the power had shifted we were behind them in preparation and fitness. Some mocked me for iit.Bolingoli left the country and no one noticed. It would never have happened under any other manager.
Lennon has to go now.
Sweeping changes are needed now
Bring in a new team and forget this season let’s prepare for next.
We have been second best and are second rate in our professionalism since Lennon came back.
“I warned you 18 month ago our results in Europe weren’t to be ignored.”
fixed that for you
I will take your word for that ya wee hun c_v_nt.
They are a better unit who are hard to beat and better coached , our players are better than there’s . There best player is older than brown! They got there other midfielder from dundee, let’s not pretend there world beaters. Are you telling me a team with players like turnbull mcgregor soro johnston griffiths and frimpong aren’t better than that lot. With the right coach we will be back
We have no goalkeeper to trust.
Our two first choice full backs can’t cross a ball into the box
We continue to rely on 2 midfielders to play centre back.
Is Frimpng better than tavernier no. We are not as good as you think we are
Edouard has given up has went backwards as has McGregor Ntcham and Rogic under Lennon.
It should have been sorted after the cup final he should have been thanked and sent on his way. Not given the job.
Yes a new manager will bring out fresh ideas but this squad is weak millions have been wasted on duds.
The smell of pipe smoke gently wafts around the SFA offices as President, Rob Petrie quietly sniggers away in the background… then bursts into loud laughter, hahahaha, diddy baws has finally got his comeuppance. Yeeesss, result.
I don’t give a fvck anymore…….i had other things on my mind to say but kept coming back to this.
I noted my most hated tory DRoss having a wee dig on the TV yesterday, saying he doesn’t see why lower league clubs should suffer because of the actions of one club!! He really is a snidey shyster.
It was even worse that that, as he stated “I don’t want to talk about individual clubs” and then went on to do so and, of course, not pulled up for it.
Personally, we’ve just got to suck all of this up, as this is their time and focus on the future.
We correct our problems, start getting things right then they will be back to moon howling.
Lets not get distracted on how the Huns wouldn’t be treated like this.
That’s not important right now, fixing our big issues is the only thing we should be concentrating on.
Oh the Huns will ne hoping that we don’t fix our problems, whereas Celtic fans will be hoping their addressed and start to be corrected ASAP.
You? Not so much so.
This is exactly it…everyone now utterly scunnered beyond reproach.
Desi,
The combination of Covid restrictions/Celtic & home learning today is taking me close to insanity.
I cannot recall feeling anything like this in during the bad days, sure there was pressure in those days but this is different, it’s worse.
Totally disillusioned!
when andy walker is the voice of reason you know you have a catastrophic problem
Andy Walker was absolutely bang on last night!
Fuck sake it’s only 12 points in it. A couple of quick wins we are back in it. In Neil Francis Lennon we trust. Peters doing a great job as well.
Its over ffs has been for a long while.
No one from our club knew Bolingoli was out the country ffs.
Jullien is injured but flies half way across the world to get medical attention please don’t insult us any more. Lennon has failed miserably.
He should have been sacked long ago. No other manager would have survived, this fuck up.
Stop blaming Lawwell Dermot or anyone else other than Lennon this season is on him.
The huns are walking it and are far better than some on here think they are. They breezed through their group for the second season in a row, they have a great chance to progress with the draw they got.
They have a manager who earns respect from players and others.
We had that once.
You get what you pay for my granny said.
We have a second rate manager and it shows.
Credit where credit is due. We’ve been completely dominant for 9 years, especially the last 4 when we won everything except the Scottish Grand National.
It must have been really difficult for the board to organise such a total failure in such a short time yet they managed. Not many people could have done that.
what about all the bummings in europe? selective memory csc
have we still got a c_v_nt for a manager?
oh dear
lets hear why lennon should not be sacked, i could do with a laugh
why do you always insult and slander people for having a different (and correct) opinion?
i dont think its coincidence that every time we suffer a defeat or a draw or a disaster like dubai you are the one trying to make light of everything
its guys like you that this mess is for, the happy clappers, the comical ali guys who think all is well and to give the manager chance after chance
guys that sit in their loft playing with action man and claiming to be ‘ready’ for going to war with iran
when the guys that keep the club going, travel 100s of miles a week are falling into despair and depression over the shambles that has been this season
100%
He hated the Treble Treble years and now revelling in our misery.
“The Celtic fans looked from Hun to Dunc, and from Dunc to Hun, and from Hun to Dunc again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.”
League Cup gone, League going and Scottish Cup outside bet.
What Celtic fan, apart from you, would celebrate that?
Lest we forget, a lot of the world’s problems are exacerbated by Trump supporting Tinfoil Hat Conspiracy Theory nutters like yourself.
are they awe fuddens as well
again, talking of backsides and all the rest
its a worry
i dont know of someone that is hated more than you on a football forum, of that you can be proud
keep it coming, as like at the last etims gathering we can all get a good laugh at your nonsense
I think it’s his Northern Ireland tour of …ahem duty. All those butch toy soldiers hanging about the barracks shower rooms. No PlayStation in those days, getting their thrills checking out Privates and privates.
Barracks memories.
Well that didn’t work. It’s a GIF, the guy sneezes and loses control of his bowels, needless to say, the guy at the back isn’t a happy chappy.
Squaddies gettin it on in the barracks Duncy. You should know that.
So you ask a question and answer it yourself? Oh my. There’s a condition known as schizotypal personality disorder, do yourself a favour and get help. Lennonitis doesn’t exist in the medical journals yet, but you could be an interesting case study.
Ewing Graham reports in today’s Times: A recent study by Equilar the California based company which provides data about the earnings and compensation packages of CEO, reveals that the median tenure for chief executives is 5 years. The reason for this turnover is because shareholders demand an injection of fresh ideas to avoid stagnation. Lawwell has been at Celtic since 2003. He appointed Neil Lennon as manager in the Hampden showers without interviewing other candidates. He failed to deliver on John McGinn (currently valued at £40.00 million) Resolution 12, or the ten. He signed off the ill judged Dubia debacle. Many supporters think that his time is up. No shit Sherlock. So, apart from stating the obvious Resolution 12 gets a mention despite an omerta like silence from the Scottish media.
That’s me banned on Twitter….again!
no here then … f_v_ck
just wow
taking the knee. Is it hypocritical to do the whole knee bending thing and pay fuck all tax, just like our whole team are doing right now.
taking the knee. Is it hypocritical to do the whole knee bending thing and pay f_v_ck all tax, just like our whole team are doing right now
BLM a bit but not enough to fork out some easy earned. hahahahahahahhaaha. keep it up bhoys
When you’ve all finished having a go at each other can someone tell me why Eduard, Bitton and Elhamed have to isolate when they have already had Covid? Is that not the reason the Health folk gave for allowing Tierney to play for Arsenal whilst making Christie isolate?
Its never been ruled out that you can catch the virus more than once.
I think Tierney was able to play due to different isolation periods in Scotland and England.
There may also be something that he was able to train on his own at Arsenal, whereas Eddy was stuck in a hotel room, so he may have been (just) out of isolation but unfit to play.
Ask Bgbhoy.
You have to feel for all those working in the NHS. The danger that they are all in, the sights that they see, death everywhere, its been a relentless slog for medics around the world for almost 12 months and they do such an amazing job. If we are, as we should be with failings of comical Ali in the Celtic boardroom, then we should put it into context for those wonderful people that serve the sick. Hero’s one and all.
Yes Mike I agree and by going on a needless jaunt half way around the world we put those same heroes at risk. Yet our board hide, when we need leadership and strength no one has stepped upto the plate.
Cowards the fuckin lot of them.
The hospitals are empty so no staff are getting sick.
Thats why they could afford to go outside and dance around the streets like fvckin monkeys every Thursday night while all the ‘thousands of Covid patients’ lay ‘dying’ inside …
Go to #FilmYourHospital for proof.
Or don’t.
But the hospitals are empty, Mike.
The staff told me.
Who is the club doctor? Did he/she sleep in when they covered infectious diseases? Few businesses are privileged to have a medical opinion on tap. Why is Celtic’s mute or was their opinion on the Dubaiious jolly ignored? The latter is a hanging offence.
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Ghirls and Bhoys; Peter Lawwell.
Celtic FC: Message to Our supporters. – YouTube
Who’s this twatter prick Ronnie O’Connor? Does he wear a fireman’s suit? Does he class himself as an Uber Celt? Is his tongue brown?
What a stronzo.
There’s a few of them in the Lawwell Loyal for whom the grate (sic) man can do no wrong.
There’s a teacher/education writer I follow, who echoed the criticism of Dubai that most people hold and he accused him of being a Hun and a moron.
It’s not natural that you get enraged by, effectively, strangers on Twitter, especially if they’re simply stating the majority view.
Whether he and the others are real people or bots or paid lackeys of Lawwell I don’t know.
And on the million of your money to help those less fortunate…”So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.” Indeed Peter you have. Arrogant fecker.
Rest in Peace Philip Tartaglia!
I will echo that statement, well said, RIP.
I’m having really weird dreams, last night I dreamt that I was at a works do, I met this lass and we hit it off, everybody was going home except her boss who went out for a slash, she leapt over me and we started having it full tilt, it wasn’t top sex, the ooh’s and ah’s, but it wasn’t bottom sex, it was very enjoyable but we had to stop as her boss was coming back, no, this was middle sex, middle sex FFS. Middlesex, hahahaha.