Stevie G and the wee donkey

A writer with a deadline lives the life of a hermit.

Thankfully the bean chéile doesn’t take it personally and leaves me be in my own corner here in Dún na nGall.

So, until the submission date, this is my reality.

Every fekkin waking hour…

So, in a genuflection to the pre-streaming age, I had only one engagement in the diary last night.

It all started with great writing and Jed Mercurio is a master of the craft.

But is he in THE Craft?

Is he “H”?

Although I told my usual network a few weeks ago that I was going off the grid.

However, last night they broke with that request and my phone started to levitate.

Dear reader, full disclosure, I was only mildly aware that Mr Let’s Go and his charges were in cup action.

Did I mention the hermit thing?

Well, I had a look at the highlights and the defending at that last corner was criminal.

My reaction on Twitter was immeidate.

Dear reader, good teams can do a double.

Serious outfits can wrack up a treble.

The team that has withered and perished in the Hoops this season delivered the Quadruple Treble.

It is worth noting that this period of unparalleled domestic dominance came about when a quality manager was in full control of all football matters. at Parkhead.

Sadly the man who claimed that he “was born into Celtic” discovered in February 2019 that he had been adopted.

Some years ago I recall Mr David Cunningham King referencing Leicester City at a presser. Essentially, he was saying that, on a rare occasion, the almost unforeseeable can happen in football.

Well, that has certainly happened this season in Scotland and, for me, it is Mr Lawwell’s lasting legacy. The bean counter myopia meant that Celtic downsized without building from a position of unassailable strength. Instead, the accountant’s world view had primacy at Parkhead.

You know the rest…

In the same presser, Mr King also said that if Celtic were to fail to win the league, even once, then it would be seismic and he deployed the “house of cards” figure of speech.

For the avoidance of doubt, what happens next season at Parkhead cannot resemble in any way Heated Driveway Productions.

As for this season, well Celtic did it to themselves.

It was self-harm by balance sheet.

Before going into manuscript purdah I was told from a Parkhead source that Mr Desmond had some very expensive consultants conducting an in-depth investigation into how the place was run.

I had never heard of this company so I spoke briefly to someone who operates in that world.

“No expense spared then” was his response when I told him the name of the consultants.

Of course, Celtic are the authors of their own misfortune going back long before this calamitous season.

The events of the summer of 2012 on Planet Fitba was crying out for their version of AC12.

On the steps of Hampden a decent, honourable man made an allegation of corruption.

I knew the man and he didn’t have an untruth in him.

People in positions of authority should have taken his words on the steps of Hampden as a rallying cry, but they wanted to bury the bad news and cover up wrongdoing.

On that very subject, this piece by James Forrest is worth your time.

Instead, the wagons circled around the Old Firm brand and some people at Celtic played a central part in that.

The old Rangers and their EBT scam was the sporting equivalent of an OCG.

Yet, the folks at Hampden pretended that it never happened.

Mother of God…

2 thoughts on “Stevie G and the wee donkey”

  1. We can all agree almost all of your post. Especially re Peter Lawell, investment from strength and his legacy. But as a Celtic fan I give credit to Rangers*. They haven’t lost a league game. They barely dropped points. Even if Celtic had won all three Rangers* matches we would still be points adrift. Celtic dipped but Rangers* improved massively. They could close on something like 105 points or more. Also please credit the Rangers* board they gambled and won. They got the one thing right they needed to. Stop ten and access Champions League funding.

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  2. Scottish Football needs a total restructure (2 leagues of 20) and a system of VAR, (TV at every ground this year, yet cant have VAR?.) as the standard of refereeing in the top flyte is a Joke along with the SFA and Referees being omniscient, and a compliance officer who only works on Rangers Games. ps when Rangers and Celtic get the invite to Super league or England the you can close down the scottish SFA and its draconian system.

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