The acts of self sabotage from Michael Nicholson continued into 2026 with Celtic losing the Glasgow Derby.

As an added bonus the Celtic CEO was able to tap his toes to the racist anthems from the away support.

Celtic dominated the first half, led 1-0 then completely collapsed after the break. Losing 3-1. The moment that they lost an equaliser the match was over as a contest.

The match was a perfect summary of Celtic under Wilfried Nancy. The outstanding candidate to replace Brendan Rodgers according to the club CEO.

Nancy has been an unmitigated disaster. Just like Mark Lawwell and Paul Tisdale, the other executive appointments made by Nicholson..

After eight matches of the Nancy Revolution the Frenchman has six defeats on his CV alongside a media conference that overshadowed peak Pedro Caixinha.

UNMANAGED DECLINE FROM NICHOLSON

All part of the un-managed decline that Nicholson put in place at the turn of the year.

The purpose was to expose and undermine Brendan Rodgers. It has been wildly successful with Celtic having lost six out of 20 matches in the SPFL Premiership.

The League Cup was lost to St Mirren. In the Europa League Celtic have picked up seven points from six matches.

A year ago Celtic had won the League Cup, were13 points ahead in the SPFL and had nine points from six Champions League matches.

All under the watch of Nicholson.

He sold Kyogo in January to boardroom applause. In July he sold Nicolas Kuhn to Como and banked the £17m fee. To top things off, as the window was closing Adam Idah was sold to Swansea.

Head of Football Operations Tisdale signed up Shin Yamada to make up for the lost goals.

In the final week of the transfer window £10m was wasted on Sebastian Tounekti and Michel-Ange Balikwisha.

GETTING LUCKY WITH O’NEILL

After hearing the January transfer plan of Nicholson Rodgers resigned on October 27.

Dermot Desmond through a double six by bringing in Martin O’Neill. He delivered seven domestic wins out of seven.

He gifted Nancy the chance to go top of the SPFL table in his first match. The Frenchman blew it.

Nancy’s third match was a cup final, he delivered the trophy to St Mirren and so on.

Today’s defeat surprised no Celtic fan.

With months to prepare for a vital transfer window Nicholson brought in Julian Aaraujo on loan from Bournenmouth.

The Celtic support has reached breaking point. Even the happy clappers are doubting their corporate heroes.

BOYCOTT- OFFICIAL OR UNOFFICIAL

Thousands of Season Ticket holders won’t be attending next week’s match at home to Dundee United.

Now is the perfect time for the Celtic Fans Collective to call for a boycott of home matches.

Not even sacking Nancy can save Nicholson, his failings as CEO were masked by Ange Postecoglou and Rodgers.

With both of them quitting there is no shield for the so-called leading sports lawyer.

The sacking of Nicholson can’t come a minute too soon.

Next Saturday Celtic are at home to Dundee United followed by a midweek trip to Falkirk. Only a complete fool would back Nancy to win either match. After that is the now ominous clash with Auchinleck Talbot in the Scottish Cup.

Nicholson could well be that fool. He has shown to sign of leadership in four years picking up a salary as CEO.

Celtic won’t move on until Nicholson, Tisdale and Nancy are sacked. Plus those involved in recruiting them.

Get it done Dermot.