At the start of this season they stood staunchly together.
Chairman, Sporting Director, Managing Director and of course the team manager.
As their team head to Hampden on Saturday Stewart Robertson will be lingering on, as ineffectual as Ian Bankier, Dougie Park will be out the firing line in a hospitality lounge, Ross Wilson saving Nottingham Forrest from relegation and Giovanni van Bronckhorst following Feyenoord as he enjoys his lavish pay off from Ibrox.
The hopes of the summer are dead in the water, the joy of Eindhoven led to an unwelcome place in the record books of the Champions League with Robertson joining the executive exodus yesterday. Collapsing like a back of cards as one shrewd observer predicted, or was it a screwed observer?
Meanwhile the former Chairman, and still largest shareholder, Mister King will be watching from the sidelines with a statement poised for his media messengers knowing that unrest is high among disgruntled bears.
Of course it is unlikely that anyone will question King on one of his most famous quotes- the demise of Celtic on the back of losing an SPFL title.
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— Tam sellic son (@TamseIIicsonIII) April 25, 2023
We appoint a manager who can win games, with more resources, and we take one league away from Celtic. We only need one league. We don’t need two or three. We need one. Once we take one away, it’s a pack of cards.
Celtic’s costs structure is more like we were 10 years ago. We needed Champions League football and if we went into the Europa League we were in trouble because the cost structure was so high.
Take that away for one season and it will change the numbers in the Celtic side very, very quickly.
They have the comfort levels we once had of knowing we were going to get Champions League money. We have to take that away from them and hopefully we have started that process on Friday.
The question is, that with Celtic’s resources, does it put you beyond them forever? The answer is clearly no.
We have seen the cycle. I was with Rangers when we thought Celtic would never catch up – never in a hundred years. Dick Advocaat said they would never, ever catch up. I think it lasted 17 minutes of the next game we played against them (Celtic’s 6-2 win in August 2000.)
They caught up with us 17 minutes into the next game and then went past us because Martin O’Neill came in and figured out a different way to do it.
You need the right management structure to do it. We have now gone very, very strong in the management squad.
This morning’s newspapers are full of comments from Dave King, with the Rangers chairman saying Celtic can fold like “a pack of cards” if the Ibrox club manage a single title win… ????
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— BBC Sport Scotland (@BBCSportScot) May 8, 2018
Celtic fans too busy laughing at Rangers have missed Dave King’s ‘pack of cards’ prophecy coming true | Ibrox blogger @jamiecurrie89 https://t.co/cU2DWe6v0e pic.twitter.com/mDasYrjvK2
— Record Rangers Podcast (@DR_Rangers) December 1, 2020
‘I think there’s a lot of uncertainty, let’s say, on the Celtic side, as to how they’re going to be for the rest of the season.’
Ex-Rangers chairman Dave King stands by his previous claim that Celtic would ‘fold like a pack of cards’.
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— STV Sport (@STVSport) December 4, 2020
Never take the word of a verified
“Glib And Shameless Liar”.
Especially if he’s illiterate as well!