Celtic

I've had this in my heid for a while, but it was never clear enough tae write down. Not until I seen Celtic get the arse ripped clean oot them by a bung average Polish mob, who drew on their home turf with St Patricks Athletic 3 weeks ago. Nae offence to Saint Pads, but fuck sake. We should not be getting a tanking aff a team like that. Not in a fuckin million years.

This season is the first season since I was 10 years old that I've not been able to call myself a Celtic season ticket holder. To give it up was heart wrenching. One of the hardest things I've ever had to do sadly, and I've done some hard shit. I gave up mixing vodka wae cider for example, cause it was making me spew up wee bits of my small intestine. So believe me. I've seen some shit. It hurt to give it up. A lifelong obsession had the shine took right aff it. Know why it happened though?

Cause they don't care.

Celtic aren't mediocre right now because the competition are too good, or they don't have any money tae spend. Celtic are shite because they chose tae be shite. Celtic are led by an unproven manager because they chose tae be lead by an unproven manager. Celtic don't invest in the squad cause Celtic chose not to invest in the squad. Are yees seeing what I'm getting at aye? Celtic are shite because they chose that path. Celtic sold Tony Watt for 1.3 million, not cause they thought he had nothing left to offer. It was cause they thought "1.3 million is pretty good for a guy whos only ever really done one notable thing" and they replaced him wae who? I'm willing to give the guy a chance n that, but who the fuck is Jo Inge Berget, and why are we replacing talented Scottish prospects wae Norweign guys who have yet tae look even remotely like fulfilling their potential? I hope he does well, but c'mon noo. That's no right.

Then ye look at the current squad, and who's really decent? The best two by a mile are the keeper and the centre half, and our defence is still shite, so what does that tell ye? Van Dijk is talented but a bit aff concentration wise, and Forster is one of the better keepers in Europe. Aside from that? Commons is hugely talented, but unproven at the top level, and not the fittest. Lustig is about as average as a right-back gets, but solid. These are the guys we look uptae noo. Middle of the road, potentially decent folk. Theres nae geniuses anymore. Theres nae magic anymore. Cannae even blame it on a transitional period really, cause its been this way since the middle of Strachans reign, and I fuckin loved that wee ginger cunt, but his teams were boring. Once Nakamura left, his teams made me fuckin sad tbh. Scott Mcdonald anaw. Ugh. Effective, but seeing him in the hoops made me feel ill. And he nicked the odd goal, but he was still always found wanting at the top level. Since then its been a barrage of mediocrity. Lennons teams were solid, and had some great moments, but that was just him doing what he knows. Filling his team full of workhorses. The best of the bunch were Wanyama, Ledley and Hooper. All good players. Rock solid. But nothing special. Wanyama maybe could be. But nothing amazing. Cause they stopped caring.

I suppose its a reflection on where we are in world football, financially secure but getting left behind. Even by the mid level teams.There wis once a time where I'd consider us favourites tae beat a lot of good teams. A lot of Portugese, French, German, Italian and even English teams. Now? I'd fear even bottom of the league teams would horse us. That's the truth. Think of the worst English Premier League team, and then look at their most recent big transfer. It'll be in the 5-6 million range at least. Players would rather go tae teams like Burnley than Celtic. Thats the reality of it. And it always will be until there's a willingness to improve and actually make an impression in Europe. We seem to have given up on that. Content to coast a shite league without any rivals. With Rangers out the picture, we should have been building a dynasty. All the best young players we had should have been in that team fae the start, with some experienced heads to help them though, we'd have won the league anyway. But naw. Short termism wins every time. We need tae win these cups, so we'll keep playing numpties like Ambrose, and bottom feeders like Leigh Griffiths and Anthony Stokes, but we'll let talented but inconsistent cunts like Samaras go. Short termism every time.

So I'm quite content no tae be forking out £400 odd quid for that. I miss the atmosphere and being amongst the buzz, but the fitbaw just isnae there anymore. I like Deila though, and if hes given even a wee bit of investment and enough time, I think he'll put a team out that I don't hate watching, but he'll never be given the chance to put a real Celtic team out there, and thats fuckin...sad.