Last Sunday must be a watershed moment for Celtic

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·24 marzo 2026

Last Sunday must be a watershed moment for Celtic

Last Sunday needs to be a watershed moment for Celtic. We need a complete overhaul on and off the park this summer regardless of the outcome of the title race and the destination of the Scottish Cup…

Celtic fans and the Celtic Board at Tannadice. Dundee Utd v Celtic. Sunday 22 March 2026. Photograph by Vagelis Georgariou

Sunday heralded a new low in the fortunes of Celtic football club in the 21st century. Comfortably beaten by a bang average Dundee United side who will most likely finish in the bottom six, and not for the first time this campaign, we very much resembled a bottom six side ourselves.

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That is yet another damning indictment in the way our club is being run and Chris Sutton’s summary on the Record Podcast was spot on. Forget all the excuses over injured players, we should still have more than enough to win this title, much much more.

Will Ferry of Dundee United scores his team’s first goal during the Scottish Premiership match between Dundee United and Celtic at Tannadice Park on March 22, 2026. (Photo by Zak Mauger/Getty Images)

The sole root of our problems lay firmly at the door of our custodians who have been slowly but surely destroying our club from within, with their self-preservation and outright incompetence. Add to that their sneering distain for the Celtic support and it adds up to a lethal cocktail for Celtic Football Club who are on the ropes and suffering from one self inflicted blow after another.

Emmanuel Agyei of Dundee United scores his team’s second goal during the Scottish Premiership match between Dundee United and Celtic at Tannadice Park on March 22, 2026. (Photo by Zak Mauger/Getty Images)

They are slowly killing us from the inside, but they can be stopped from inflicting further damage, and even eradicated if they are completely removed from the host, but we act fast. This summer is going to be a watershed period in our club’s history, we need to get things back on track and the sheer size of the task is overwhelming. We don’t have competent executives running our club, the Desmond family are a huge part of the problem, we have no manager or director of football. We have no strategy. We have a squad that needs the biggest ever overhaul and we have no direction whatsoever.

Referee Nick Walsh at Tannadice. Dundee Utd v Celtic. Sunday 22 March 2026. Photograph by Vagelis Georgariou

As much as we need change behind the scenes, we also badly require a radical overhaul of our playing squad, and that’s not an exaggeration. We have a mixture of players who have been here too long, and ones who aren’t of the required standard.

An entire clean sweep of the boardroom is required, and whoever is handed the keys to the manager’s office needs a bumper transfer kitty to revamp the playing squad.

Martin O’Neill at Tannadice. Dundee Utd v Celtic. Sunday 22 March 2026. Photograph by Vagelis Georgariou

That might seem a bit drastic to some outside the Celtic bubble, but it’s what’s required to freshen up our club, and keep us at a level of success we have become accustomed to.

Such wholesale changes could well take a while to fully transition, but it’s for the better in the long run. Our club has gone stale, and is starting to rot from the top down. We as Celtic supporters must act now to stop it fully setting in. If those who are running the club cannot reach out to work with the supporters then they have to step aside.

UEFA Nations League: Portugal – Denmark. Referee Slavko Vincic looks at Denmark’s goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel, who is in pain in the shoulder during the UEFA Nations League playoff match in League A at JosÃ Alvalade Stadium in Lisbon, Portugal on Sunday, March 23, 2025. (Photo: Bo Amstrup Ritzau Scanpix)

And as we approach the final eight or hopefully nine games of the season they really need to pause their dispute with the Green Brigade and allow them back into Celtic Park. All shoulders (except Kasper’s obviously) to the wheel to try to win this title surely – even to the Celtic Board – makes sense.

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