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As if the Levein Affair isn\u2019t bad enough we now have arguably the most hopeless Celtic Manager in living memory ( yes even worse than Macari, Brady and Barnes!), Tony Mowbray playing the Martyr Card and claiming he was hard done by at Celtic Park. To say there is cause for debate within Mowbray\u2019s moans is being economical. Lets review his thoughts on his tenure :<\/p>\n
“My time at Celtic, for me, was one of those scenarios that you sometimes have to go through. When I got there I was told to totally rip it up and start again and they lost patience with that, which is fine. I’ve no problem with that. But in this job at Boro, I am hoping there is a bit more patience at this club than there was at my last one. You have your own vision of what you want to do when going into a club for the first time, but there is no magic wand. If you want the team to play a certain way you need to get the right players in. Or in the short-term you work with what you’ve got and try to get the very best out of them, then change it when you can<\/em>.”<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Mowbray is obviously looking through Tony colour glasses here. Its nice to see his Middlesbrough coming good and good luck to them, especially wee Scott MacDonald, but in respect to your time at Celtic Tony, do us a favour and keep quiet. Mowbray\u2019s claims that the Board didn\u2019t give him enough time will be the same issued by Levein. Pure denial. It would be near impossoble to find any Celtic fan suggesting the Board were to blame or even let Tony Mowbray down when he was at Celtic. \u00a0The Man came, the man saw and the man was found totally wanting. The result at love Street will forever be etched on my memory as one of utter embarrassment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n I recall when we signed Tony Mowbray, the most worrying report in the Press came from West Brom fan Frank Skinner who said “Tony’s a lovely man, And I wish Celtic well under Tony. But am I sorry to see him leave the Albion? No, not really. His puritanical approach to football is unworkable. So I think we did well staying bottom of the (league] for months and then getting \u00a32 million for our manager. He would have been sacked but Celtic gave us all that money. That’s quite a sleight of hand. I’m not saying the Albion weren’t entertaining under him; they were. But what does ‘football’ mean? It can’t just mean pretty passing. There are other aspects, like defending and making sure one of your midfielders is a holding player.<\/em>“<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n You could imagine the self-believing Mowbray to read than and only see the positive “I’m worth \u00a32m me!” rather than a man who had clearly been found not up to the task. This actually IS<\/strong> a question on which the Celtic Board could do with some soul-searching. Peter Lawwell tried to claim Mowbray was the man we wanted \u201d Folk complained about Gordon Strachan\u2019s football so we got Tony<\/em>.<\/span><\/strong>\u201d. It was strange that the Board felt a need to \u201cPlay better football\u201d \u00a0meant paying \u00a32m for a Manager who had just got his side relegated. Despite Mowbrays links with the Celtic Support from his huddle introducing playing days, Nice giy Tony was never the man for the Celtic job. \u00a0Mowbray “the Nice man” is a tag that we hear for him \u00a0and in truth its helped Mowbray get an easier ride from most Celtic fans than his results deserve. \u00a0While Mowbray the man will be viewed sympathetically for his personal loss, \u00a0professionally he was just awful for Celtic. No amount of denial or “woulda-could-shoulda” will remove this terrible stain from Celtics Management history.<\/p>\n
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