GLASGOW, SCOTLAND - DECEMBER 14: Celtic Manager Wilfried Nancy during a Premier Sports Cup Final match between St Mirren and Celtic at Barclays Hampden, on December 14, 2025, in Glasgow, Scotland. (Photo by Paul Devlin/SNS Group via Getty Images)
Wilfried Nancy has blamed the mentality of the Celtic players for losing goals from corners!
In his first three matches in charge Celtic lost goals to corners from Hearts, Roma and St Mirren.
At Hampden in the League Cup Final the hoops went behind to a second minute goal. Reo Hatate was marking goal-scorer Marcus Fraser.
In contrast to Nancy Celtic lost two goals domestically in seven matches under Martin O’Neill. Both were dubious penalties awarded by Nick Walsh, one in the League Cup semi final and the other away to Hibs.
NANCY AND SELF DESTRUCTION
Since Nancy came in Celtic have lost seven goals in three matches.
League leaders Hearts cruised to a 2-1 victory at Celtic Park.
St Mirren went into the League Cup Final with three SPFL wins to their name. They took the trophy back to Paisley.
Dundee United also had just three SPFL wins to their name when Celtic visited Tannadice in midweek. They never mustered a goal against the hoops last season.
Over the course of three minutes they scored twice. Celtic lost. Again. Four defeats on the bounce for Nancy.
After the game on Wednesday Nancy had had an embargoed interview with daily newspapers.
At noon today the Daily Record reported the Celtic boss saying:
This is one of the most difficult things as a manager because set pieces, this is not about technique or tactics, this is mental.
This is 10 seconds. And we have conceded a lot with that.
On Wednesday we were good on the first contact, but the second contact or third contact, we struggled a bit. Before that, we were not good on the first contact.
So again, this is tough to concede like this because I think that we deserve better. But the reality is for the moment we concede many goals on that.
The worst manager in Celtic’s history added:
And that’s why this is tough. It’s difficult to explain to you what I feel. Because I really feel that we did well on Wednesday, but at the same time, we conceded like this.
Yeah it’s frustrating. But for me, my job is to help the players to find solutions to win games. And I think on Wednesday, we were close to doing it.
To be honest, I have nothing to tell them that they did bad. But the three minutes we conceded, it was difficult emotionally to come back
But we came back, we hit the post, we had two or three clear chances. And, yeah, this is tough.
I told the players, I’m going to take it. I’m going to take it because this is my job. But we also have to be better.
The players were coping just fine before Nancy arrived to impose his vision of playing 3-4-3.
Nancy and the Celtic board are in for a hot reception on Sunday for the match against Aberdeen.
There is no festive goodwill around the club as Michael Nicholson accelerates the decline he started during the January transfer window.
With the Collective pushing their Not Another Penny more campaign the income streams at Celtic are nose diving.
It is unlikely that Santa Clause will be around Celtic Park on Sunday other than in the Boardroom.
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Editor, I mentioned this a few threads back so you may well not have seen it.
Would you please liaise with the CSL (CFC guys) and maybe put a link up so that readers of this site know what’s happening on that front? We’ve got rid of one of the main frauds at CP but it’s got quite some way to go before we see essential, positive change at CP.
Thanks for all you do.
He’s just sat down at a table in club of delusional wafflers of scottish fitba. It’s a busy joint. Guys sit and talk for hours on end but never actually manage to say anything. Welcome Wilfred ‘the ball is ball’ Nancy we’ve sat you between Tony Mowbray and Mark Venus. Russel martin has sent you over a drink and Micheal beale says hello.
Celtic are now a laughing stock and it is totally due to the selfishness and arrogance of the board , new manager and Desmond, NOT the player As more comes to light, I would expect really good players to give us a wide berth now and I really would not blame them for not wishing to join. We fans have been betrayed.
If Nancy announces a 3-4-3 – yet again – on the hour before kick-off on Sunday,
he should be escorted off the premises immediately.
If he announces a 4-3-3, then he at least buys some time, [mibbees].
Whatever: have zero expectations against Aberdeen.
You can talk all the drivel in the world when you win. He may not have meant to but he is now calling into question the ‘mentality’ of players who have won four league championships in a row, and seven domestic matches in a row prior to his arrival.
Not only do they now not look like making it five consecutive championships, it’s difficult to envisage them even winning a football match under his coaching.
That’s him truly fucked now for sure…
No manager gets to throw his players under a bus nowadays the way Big Jock, Jock Wallace, Alex Ferguson, Jim McLean and The man with no surname (Walter) did…
They’d have dealt with that behind closed doors and it was why they were all successful although The man with no surname bought his trophies with dirty cash provided (stolen) by his dirty chairman !
Every exclusive golf course that DD visits should have at least 2 guys who start nudging each other and sniggering while nodding over towards him. His ego would react more to that than us losing 4 games under (I’ll take your words Joe), the worst manager in the history of our club.
Orville the duck – I seriously hope he follows his puppet hand(master) by summer; leaving him as ceo would be like a blind man organising the evacuation of a burning building whilst severely hungover.
But before even he goes, get rid of that parasite running recruitment. He looks like a southern jakey, half shaven, stinking of last night’s beer – mode of dress. He has to go before he wastes a penny in January. I’m surprised even the other directors don’t complain to DD about him. Maybe they have but he’s jumped the gun by getting into DD’s good books first.
I have no doubt we’ll be rid of the joke in the dugout by Jan 4th or 5th. Sadly, that means potentially 3 more games without a win but as awful as that is to contemplate, the sheer level of anger that the fans who are either not up to speed on the internal goings on or just not as invested in the fight (but still great fans!), – that anger after the sevco game will be unilateral. And perhaps enough to have both manager and his recruiter horsed out. Ideally it’ll be at least the manager after Sunday’s game but either way, I expect him to be gone before the schools go back. But dread to think what stage we’ll be at.
On a brighter note, I hope that, is it Sharon Whelan? I hope that she might come in to replace Orville by summer. And bring in her own team, gradually punting the ill looking old men we currently have gaslighting us. HH
I’d love to see Henrik and Lubo as co head coaches …the dream team ! If that happened the rest of Scottish football would be bricking it and we would be smokin’ once again particularly when they bring in their players to compete at the highest level . That would be the perfect antidote to counterbalance the poison engulfing Celtic FC right now . Make them an offer they can’t refuse !
Holding court over by the bar in the delusional wafflers club is Pedro caxinha. Resplendent in his tuxedo, he talks of barking dogs and caravans. Super salary’s moon face can be seen wildly guffawing before murty sets the room alight with his party piece of standing on his head. Back at the table. Wilfred is still insisting that ‘the ball is the ball’ as he sits alone.
As Wilfred sits alone in the delusional wafflers lounge muttering to himself while fiddling with little blue magnets on a tactics board, an elderly gentleman approaches. It’s ebbe skholdval. He watches over Wilfreds shoulder for a spell before saying ‘ the operation was a success but the patient died’ before shuffling off. The mad house of failed and delusional managers in scottish football. Please dont bring the king of kings and lubo into the club!
Not sure if the most magnificent players make magnificent managers Valentines…
Certainly not at Celtic…
Brady, Macari, Dalglish, Barnes, to name but a few !