{"id":6560,"date":"2015-02-09T13:54:03","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T13:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=6560"},"modified":"2015-02-09T13:54:03","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T13:54:03","slug":"ronnie-deila-an-apology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=6560","title":{"rendered":"Ronnie Deila &#8211; An Apology!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ronnie Deila &#8211; An Apology<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In recent months, we, The Scottish Media, along with ex Celtic Players, Managers, SPFL members, Radio Pundits, Radio Phone-In callers and anyone else willing to go on the record, may have given the impression that we believed that Ronnie Deila was:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Hopeless<\/li>\n<li>A dud<\/li>\n<li>A country bumpkin<\/li>\n<li>Not Celtic Minded<\/li>\n<li>Out of his depth<\/li>\n<li>Destroying the Club<\/li>\n<li>Destroying Kris Commons<\/li>\n<li>Did we mention Hopeless<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is now clear to all to see that this leaner, fitter, clean sheet collecting, goal-scoring, ultra-professional ball retaining, extremely close band of brothers style, team are in fact a representation of the perfect modern football side doing both the club and country proud.<\/p>\n<p>Any insinuation that was made about a bunch of disinterested players ready to rebel and stage a coup to get rid of their incompetent manger and backroom staff was clearly just an honest mistake on our part, and we shall take it on the chin.<\/p>\n<p>Any suggestion that Ronnie Deila and his ideas for\u00a0managing\u00a0Celtic football club\u00a0were causing a major rift between the club and its fan base were unfounded and on reflection, we may have been slightly premature in stating he was causing more Scandinavian damage on the west coast of Scotland since a bunch of drunk Vikings hit Largs in a longboat.<\/p>\n<p>We do of course offer this apology early in the seasons run in to ensure that we can either claim &#8220;See we called it right&#8221; when Ronnies team win the League and possibly even a Treble, or who knows a Quadruple, or we can claim &#8220;See we called it right!&#8221; when his team fail to cross the finish line and do not actually lift the Scottish Cup title in May or fail to beat Dundee United in the League Cup or fall to Aberdeen&#8217;s glorious pressure in The league.<\/p>\n<p>Yours<\/p>\n<p>The Scottish Media, and Hugh Keevins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ronnie Deila &#8211; An Apology In recent months, we, The Scottish Media, along with ex Celtic Players, Managers, SPFL members, Radio Pundits, Radio Phone-In callers&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/etims.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/Ronny-Roars.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2J7If-1HO","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6560"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6562,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6560\/revisions\/6562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}