Why Celtic Board is to Blame: LASK Defeat Was Years in the Making

Class is earned in football. It is earned by how you conduct yourself on and off the park, and LASK proved to be a class act on Tuesday night. They utterly destroyed us on the pitch and showed themselves to be a cut above with their minute's silence for the tragic loss of one of our fellow Celts the week before. The Landstrassler, as the LASK ultras collective is known, are also worth a mention for their banner commemorating our fellow supporter.

Now, onto the game. Did anyone see that coming over in Austria? Did anyone point out that we got away with it the week before in the first leg? The quality of our goals glossed over the fact that LASK were the better team in that game. To be honest, yes, plenty did. If I am honest, though, I wasn't listening.

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I know Callum McGregor made an utterly damning and totally on the money appraisal after our gubbing, but maybe he should have made it after the first leg. Maybe it would have stirred something behind the scenes to rethink our tactics, and it certainly would have given deluded fools like me food for thought. Maybe the board and executive team should have worked harder and faster to sign players earlier, so we could have them fit and ready for what we all knew was a season-defining game. Hold on - there is no 'maybe' there.

We know how badly we were let down by the team the other night, but we have been let down for years by that lot. Every single problem Celtic faces can be traced back to one group of people. It is not the fans or the podcasters; it is the board.

They are as ineffective as a Luke McCowan forward pass and as adept at communication as an Eastern Bloc dictator. Oh, how I miss the heady days of getting my weekly Pravda. At least it was something.

Is it not pathetic that the old pre-Fergus board was better at getting its message out and maintaining a dialogue with fans than this current shower? The much-maligned Terry Cassidy fronted up at a fan rally and didn't dodge a single question. That is a touch of class, regardless of what you think of the man. Can you imagine any of our current board, or even our highly paid executive team, doing the same? Neither can I.

As I said earlier, class is earned, and sadly, we are in real danger of losing the little we have left in the bank.