Journalist Bill Leckie has gone on an astonishing rant about Celtic fans and their sense of entitlement this season.
The support has watched the team bounce from one terrible performance to the next and listened to the same Neil Lennon post-match press conference over and over again with nothing changing.
Leckie believes the Celtic fans can’t handle it and have no coping mechanism when the game isn’t going there way. Writing in his SunSport column, Leckie didn’t pull any punches and recognised he can’t identify with the support who have seen so many trophies come their way over the past ten years:
Drowning in a sea of mistakes made by a manager and a team who really should know better, overwhelmed by a cacophony of abuse from legions of fans who believe they DESERVE better.
It’s like history has taught them nothing. It’s like they’ve spent the past nine years giving no thought to the fact that next season might be not just as easy as the last.
It’s like they have no concept of a coping mechanism for when everything stops going their way.
At a time when they’d struggle to stay close to their greatest rivals even if everyone was united, they’re tearing themselves apart.
Every sloppy performance, every post-match interview, every burst of Twitter outrage as misplaced as it is misspelled, it all makes the job of stopping ten in a row that little bit easier for Rangers.
As someone without a dog in this fight, it doesn’t bother me either way which of them wins the title this or any other season.
Maybe that’s why I just can’t get my head around the mentality that’s engulfing Parkhead, this ridiculous sense of entitlement that tells them Nine means nothing, that being 90 minutes from a quadruple Treble means nothing, if they don’t make it to the mythical Ten.
Everyone is on edge due to what’s at stake this season, the reaction to a loss or dropped points wouldn’t be so visceral in other circumstances. However, in the season of all seasons, trying to get to the ten is leaving everyone’s nerves shredded while the team has failed to turn up in many of the games.
Sitting eleven points behind our rivals is a major cause for concern and while some of the abuse has been unwarranted, it’s crazy to suggest people looking at Celtic’s current situation don’t see an issue with the management and the team but instead see the fans as the problem.
