Social media was awash with brutal criticism of Celtic’s Champions League exit but one tweet in particular caught the attention.
Kellybaby3 decided to reply to quotes from Neil Lennon on Celtic’s official twitter feed, pointing the blame as the manager for his positioning of Callum McGregor and decision to bench Christopher Jullien.
It was the two common strands of the night for those critical of the Celtic boss, what happened next was incredible with Scott Brown liking that comment! It was almost certainly done accidentally but it does seem very strange that within an hour of a highly damaging defeat the club captain is looking through responses on social media to the official line from the club.
LENNON come on to f**k your to blame you played McGregor at LB didn’t you learn when BR played him n look you’ve made him look awful when he’s a magnificent player tell ya some of the players even @ScottBrown8 need to say to lennon hes to blame this time and Chris benched REALLY
— Kelly McGeachy (@kellybaby3) August 13, 2019
That comment was liked by Scott Brown, something that was quickly picked up on by fans with the club captain returning later to apologise.
Was just flicking through Twitter must of touched the button by accident.. Not my style to slag anyone off on Twitter. I am fully behind the manager and all the players are as well. If anyone should be getting a slagging or a abuse it’s all on me tonight as didn’t perform. Sorry
— Scott Brown (@ScottBrown8) August 13, 2019
Kelly argued her points sensibly, sticking to tactical points without getting hysterical or abusive. She was factual.
The Sun quickly picked up on Brown liking the tweet and suddenly the Celtic fan was in the spotlight.
https://t.co/kz9FZ7Zu0V ARE YOU KIDDING ME @TheSun THATS GOOD JUST YOU PUT MY TWEET EVERYWHERE BELLENDS.!! WHATS THE BIG DEAL IDIOTS.!!!
— Kelly McGeachy (@kellybaby3) August 13, 2019
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Thanks brown for putting this up I’m mortified a tweet and it’s everywhere and everyone makes a big deal of it now in the sun etc I’m raging trying to say to folk no big deal prob a mistake god you can’t do nothing on social media for people jumping the gun pal ????????
— Kelly McGeachy (@kellybaby3) August 13, 2019
After the twitter exchange Celtic have a major task picking up on last night’s disastrous performance which exposed failings at every level of the club.
For at least a year it was known that a wholly reshaped defence was needed, amazingly with Dedryck Boyata, Filip Benkovic and Mikael Lustig leaving the club selling Kieran Tierney appears to have been the transfer priority.
No new signings featured in the pre-season matches in Austria and Switzerland meaning that Boli Bolingoli and Christopher Jullien were trying to adapt to new team-mates during Champions League qualifiers. Last night both players watched from the bench as a series of errors saw Celtic twice toss away winning positions to lose out on a potential place in the group stage of the Champions League.
Peter Lawwell used to be fond of telling people that Celtic were a Champions League club, perhaps when he is next sitting down with the Remuneration Committee he can explain four failures to reach the group stage in the last six years.
Meanwhile the guessing begins over who whether it will be Callum McGregor, James Forrest, Kris Ajer, Odsonne Edouard or Kris Ajer that is sold to ensure that the spreadheets that dominate the club remain firmly in the black.
