Firstly, this isn\u2019t about Sunday. Honestly. Even with the dust settling and anger rising. Palpably. This is penned more in a culmination of anger mixed with a fear of the unknown. Quite how far we\u2019ve been conned into falling \u2013 and I mean, we\u2019ve been conned – is an award winning achievement in sleight of hand, the art of sophist – the wordsmith liar – and the terrible consequence of lethargy. Goebbels himself would have struggled to concoct such a potent poison of malaise, underperformance and misappropriation and assume he\u2019d get away with it. Yet what we now have is an awakening from a terrible dream. A truly disconcerting reality stares us in the face now. And at its\u2019 heart\u00a0 is a \u00a31M per year CEO,whose policies have hypnotised through corporate doublespeak and hoodwinked through faux-action for so long we\u2019ve awoken and staggered comatose into a nightmare from the disconcerting dream. This isn\u2019t even the slow lane. We\u2019ve broken down on the hard shoulder.<\/p>\n
All this on Peters\u2019 watch.<\/p>\n
As to how we\u2019ve landed here, I genuinely actually felt worse after the Ross County League Cup Semi-Final defeat. Europe \u2013 and Malmo in particular \u2013 was shocking in its impact though when the 2nd<\/sup> goal went in at Celtic Park in the Malmo tie I just didn\u2019t believe we\u2019d go through. We simply lack character, belief and that champion mentality. But domestically this is unreal. Ross County outplayed us. Let that sink in. Ross F**king County. A professional football club who couldn\u2019t sell tickets online recently because \u201ctheir website got accidentally deleted\u201d. That’s how low we’ve fallen. Actually, no. That’s how low we’ve been dragged in a slumber by a bunch of hand picked Tory overlords and an absentee owner who\u2019s as much in common with the average fan struggling to pay the inflated price of a ticket for a home game against Motherwell as I do with DUP doctrine.<\/p>\n All this on Peters\u2019 watch.<\/p>\n Ronny Deila is out of his depth. Then again, to be handed the top job and told \u201cthese are the backroom team you have to work with. Hope it all works out\u201d isn\u2019t exactly the way to start building your empire. Talking tactics and bromance by moving Salt cellars over dinner with Collins is one thing, trying to do that when he\u2019s challenging you to a sit-up contest in the middle of the restaurant should have set the alarm bells ringing. That the club is so utterly quiet on the fate of an utterly decent yet totally exposed employee is another Tory fuelled by-product of a culture that\u2019s on life support and in dire need of help. The consequence of jettisoning the very fabric of the club; community, connection, a club of the people, \u201cmore than just a club\u201d, yet observe the position on the living wage, the lip servile approach to Walfrid\u2019s mantra that “A football club will be formed for the maintenance of dinner tables for the children and the unemployed.”; it\u2019s left to the Green Bridage, the very component of the Clubs fabric which it has attempted to neuter and has complicity allowed Police Scotland to criminalise, to at least keep Walfrid\u2019s vision on life support.<\/p>\n All this on Peters\u2019 watch.<\/p>\n At least with Mowbray there was a hope that he’d sort it, turn it round, get a spine to go with the attacking openness. But this is awful. No spine, shape, pattern, structure, fight, bottle, pace, press, pressure, flair. It’s just fcuking awful and that’s what pains me most. We see it in the odd game \u2013 in the way that a misfiring engine every 30 or so strokes sounds good – but it’s just so bad.<\/p>\n All this on Peters\u2019 watch.<\/p>\n If the table below showing asalary increase 5 fold and a 10 fold bonus increase, while simultaneously shrinking the arse out of the club over the past decade doesn\u2019t annoy you nothing will. You\u2019re actually a bigger part of the problem. Think about it. A 5 fold increase in base salary and a bonus of the same handed to the CEO, while everything else is cut to shreds, the club refuse to pay the living wage and downsize across all football operations.<\/p>\n All on Peter\u2019s watch.<\/p>\n If the table below doesn\u2019t annoy you in terms of Sunday\u2019s contest then nothing will. You\u2019re actually a bigger part of the problem. Think about it. That team of journeymen costs less than our CEO takes out of our club in a year (assuming that any moneys paid for Wallace were spread out over a 3 year period \u2013 or indeed, paid at all by RIFC IL). Take him out of the equation and our CEO takes home nearly 4 times more than it cost for that entire squad.<\/p>\n All on Peter\u2019s watch.<\/p>\n I\u2019m struggling to wrap up anything approaching a balanced position here. I keep defaulting back to the initial thoughts since I started this. The position of the CEO of Celtic Football Club is simply untenable. The salary unjustifiable.The damage done to our football club unforgiveable. He didn\u2019t liquidate us \u2013 the ultimate betrayal for anyone assuming there\u2019s RIFC (IL) in this article \u2013 but by fcuk he\u2019s fairly added to his own liquidity.<\/p>\n F**k off to Sunderland and all that entails Peter. Go make the big bucks there and give us back the soul of the comatose football club you\u2019ve presided over. 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