With a UK work permit attained and (I presume) Uefa coaching badges secured, Wilfried Nancy yesterday became the 20th permanent manager in Celtic’s history. The 48-year-old has four years managerial experience in Major League Soccer with CF Montreal and Columbus Crew.
In his first season, he won the Canadian Championship. The following year, he took Montreal to the CONCACAF Champions League quarter final, where they lost to Mexican side Cruz Azul. An interesting insight into his character revealed that year, when Wilfried got into a spat with the owner of Montreal after a bad defeat. Nancy asked to be relieved from his contract with immediate effect, but was talked into staying until the end of the season.
Three years ago this Friday Columbus Crew bought out his Montreal contract and brought Wilfried to Ohio as their new head coach. In his first season at Columbus he won the MLS Cup and in 2024 he won the Leagues Cup. He also got to the Champions League Final that term and won the MLS Coach of the Year award. The season which ended last month was less successful, with Columbus finishing the MLS in 7th place.
The strength of character he so publicly displayed at Montreal will be an asset in Glasgow; this is not a city which rewards meekness in its football employees. His core talent is that of a tactician, with his favoured style regarded as attacking (which also known as risky).
I watched last night’s performance through the prism of what the new manager would make of his players. Auston Trusty broke through the lines and was regularly found on the wings in an attacking position; consistent with how Nancy setup at Columbus.
That aside, watching last night’s performance, Wilfried will have a good idea why the job became available. Celtic moved to joint top of the table last night, rescued from aimlessness by an heroic effort from Martin O’Neill, but I am sure the message was made clear to him at interview, this is Celtic at the bottom of the curve. The team needs to be rebuilt in 2026.
The immediate task is to deal with Hearts on Sunday. Hearts maybe in a rut, but they are better than Dundee, Sunday will be a challenge. To those who would prefer Wilfried’s competitive introduction was against lesser opponents, need I remind you of Lincoln Red Imps, or Artmedia Bratislava?
My finger in the air reading of the reaction to the appointment is that some people have learned from their deranged response to the appointment of Ange Postecoglou in 2021. That day’s comments on CQN are worth a revisit. Wilfried is an unknown quantity in European football, his merits were earned in an environment often overlooked. At 48, he is seven years younger than Ange when he arrived from Japan and transformed the club. The parallels are not perfect, but they are bound to have given Celtic some comfort that appointing a middle aged coach who is not on the UK/European circuit can offer a greater return.
Brother Walfried takes over from the Blessed Martin. Martin O’Neill answered the call with Celtic in a tailspin having lost their previous two Premiership games. In his short time, he collected 15 points from five league games, won a League Cup semifinal and beat Feyenoord at De Kuip, the only reversal at Midtjylland.
That is a remarkable return for a remarkable football manager and man. His charm has been inspiring and his considerable legacy enhanced. Who thought that possible?
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Kev
A club run by and supported by shifty liars cannot stand.
Had we got 10 in a row…000s of Rangers fans would have chucked it….Sky TV would have negotiated down on any tv deal….
Can we really blame the shifty liars from throwing the league?…..
31003 on 5th December 2025 12:34 am
David Murray abused the tax system, he was the controller of Rangers.
BUT.
David Murray didn’t get punished because Celtic refused to finger him as the culprit.
Why?
Who knows?
David Murray lost all of his businesses but after the news cycle moved on he got most of his businesses back.
Maybe David Murray and Celtic PLC arranged a £49/Treason/Ticket/Cover/Up for further down the line?
Why when Celtic fans were cheated out of 20+ trophies did Celtic PLC say that the Hun Tax stuff was none of their business?
Where was the protests from the COLLECTIVE?
Celtic fans paying into a rigged gameis none of Celtic’s business?
So who’s business is it then?
Who is charged with safeguarding Celtic supporters from being mugged off?
This is the same PLC who told CBC abuse victims that they were never part of Celtic anyway, and tried to throw the victims under each and every bus.
And then the same PLC said that they stood with the victims all of the way through these cases?!
Where was the COLLECTIVE at the much more important CBC abuse cases than to sob with lying Rofgers after EVERY Transfer Window?
Where ws the paper aeroplanes for the CBC abuse victims?
31003sy love you mhan take care.
HH
oot.
Final post before bed…
We have filled the stadium playing the so called worst teams in European competitions…why?…because we seen the end goal…
We could fill the stadium playing the so called worst teams in the English leagues…why?….cause we’d know the end goal….apply to join the fourth division in England now….for the sake of our future and survival…
KevJungle on 4th December 2025 7:56 pm
SFTB – If you are reading this from above, hopefully you now know that I and a lot of others were only trying to help, and make sure that you would still be here kicking my erchie up and down the blog?
……………………..
WHO were the ” LOT OF OTHERS” ????????
It was YOU ALONE who claimed that SFTB had died on December 4th 2024….and NOT the real date of December 3rd 2024. NO ONE else on here made the same FALSE CLAIM that YOU did !
YOU were/are GUILTY of TRYING to ” Score Points” on the passing of someone who was a very dear FRIEND to many for years. YOU claimed that you had ” PROOF” that SFTB had responded to YOU on December 4th 2024, but YOU PROVIDED ” NO PROOF” of YOUR Claim ?
YOU did NOT CARE about upsetting SFTB’s Family when YOU Posted your DELIBERATE LIES on the 1st Anniversary of TONYS Passing ( DECEMBER 3rd 2024 ).
As I Posted on here on December 3rd…Myself and others who attended TONYS Funeral have ” WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION” of SFTBs DATE of Passing as PROOF of when he actually died.
YOU only attempted to show that YOU were ” RIGHT” and everyone else was ” WRONG ” in order to somehow ” SCORE POINTS” ! That is ” WHY” OTHERS on here including myself were/are ANGRY at YOUR FALSE CLAIM.
SCUMBAG of the highest order !
YOU are a LYING REPTILE who belongs on FF.
Just Crawl back under your Rock and stay there.
BelmontBrian on 4th December 2025 8:17 pm
BANGER
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You are CORRECT BELMONT BRIAN, but ” KEVJUNGLE” is so much MORE than just a ” BANGER”….Hes a LYING TWISTED REPTILE, and a poor excuse as a MAN !
HH BRIAN BHOY.
KevJungle on 4th December 2025 7:56 pm
SFTB – If you are reading this from above, hopefully you now know that I and a lot of others were only trying to help, and make sure that you would still be here kicking my erchie up and down the blog?
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I will ask again…WHO EXACTY were the ” LOT OF OTHERS” that YOU Claim to KNOW OF…Why don’t you NAME NAMES ?
Another Deliberate LIE from the LYING REPTILE that is ” KEVJUNGLE”….A SCUMBAG 100%.
Big Jimmy
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I wish he was still here as well man.
Go and look at when SFTB last posted on CQN and how many hours until the first post revealing the terrible news.
The last thing he’d want would be posts full of raging sweary words.
The lots of others were CANAMALAR, TET, BURNLEY 78, and dozens of others who were banned for trying to help their fellow Celts to NOT be deceived by the medias lies about vaccines being safe and effective.
The Government/Media/Polis/etc all knew what was going on and got people fired from their jobs for not taking the vaccine, whilst hospitals were empty and media said that ambulances were queued for miles outside them.
The lies that these monsters told was utterly horrible.
They are giving out flu shots just now which started a few weeks ago and now everybody is getting flu from the vaccines.
This is what they are like.
5 years this has been going on for.
Valerie Anne Smith
@ValerieAnne1970
🚨Oncology Prof. Angus Dalgleish…”‘The Pfizer shots are all full of SV40. SV40 was what we put into mice to make them grow tumors…These people behind Moderna & Pfizer are pure evil & they must be held to account.”
A 2025 study confirms residual SV40 promoter DNA in vials
https://x.com/ValerieAnne1970/status/1995801595158688090#m
Many people thought that we were lying when saying this.
No wonder its like a horror movie in real life.
The Snp/Greens/Lab/Lib/Con/Ref/SF/FF/FG all lied their asses off and now they are protected because the media won’t all real questions to be asked.
Take care Big Jimmy.
HH
oot.
allow real questions
KevJungle
One of the problems in getting the truth out is the excuses made not to read evidence.
Phil Mac had a wide readership and was just a vehicle for getting the evidence out there.
It is so much more convenient to make an excuse for not reading evidence than to do the hard work not only of reading it but thinking about what the evidence shows.
However although some are not prepared to do the hard work of reading and thinking and complain when it takes up time or space on a blog, hopefully some will read and as a result change their understanding.
Phils article contained links to documentation that shows the duplicity of the very folk in green and white that speak with forked tongue.
They were worse than opposition to Res12 from the huns.
KevJungle
On vaccinations.
My wife was discharged from hospital on Tuesday after an 8 day stay because of lung infection that had flu symptoms.
I think I may have passed on what she caught.
I was laid low but recovered after 7 days
My wife had to be hospitalised.
The difference? I had vaccinations she didnt as I”m older.
I caught a mild Covid infection around 2 years ago after vaccinations.
Given the size of the population there will always be a number that the vaccine did not help but to brand vaccinations as you do is just ignorance of the numbers helped by it.
Whatever you think you know or any of us know, it is a grain of sand in the Sahara compared to what we don’t know.
Auldheid on 5th December 2025 4:19 am
Sorry to hear that about your wife and your goodself.
You say about the amount of people that vaccines help?
Do you have evidence for that or did you hear it from the fake news media?
I’m not being funny but you should have thrown your TV out of the window when CANAMALAR and others told you to.
You say about me not reading evidence, about what?
Res12?
5WA?
49 Quid Treason Tickets[ which were only mentioned by me]
I’m tying my best here but what was I supposed to learn from this evidence when I knew from day 1 and said so from day 1, that no matter the amount of evidence a “bent” Celtic board will put a knife into its back, knowing full well that 60,000 will sell the park out on season ticket renewal day.
RES12, 5WA, 49Quid Treason Tickets were all born out of the Thatcher All Seating, All Ticket, Trap, which will stay a trap until all of these unneeded seats are removed, 40,000 out of Parkhead in our case, and then fans will get some power back to make boards scared of THEM, not the upside down way it has been since 1994, but in truth it has been like that since Souness and David Murray ended 50-50 gate receipts share, which meant we had some decent opposition, opposed to the boring procession that we now have.
I don’t mean to sully your and RES12 teams hard work, but when it is partly dependent on a “bent” board playing ball, then RES12 was dead at birth with the benefit of hindsight I say it looks that way.
When we had 30,000-ish crowds before 1994 and then 30,000 non Junglists were added, then the Celtic FC Socialist Workers Party became, the Celtic FC Tory Party.
The working class Celtic was over.
Trying to get a Rising going out of those kind of demographics is like trying to get blood out of a stone.
Seats are for the Cinema.
Terraces were for fans putting a shift in to get the bhoys over the line.
Now the Green Brigade are banned and the library was evident the other night.
I hope Wilf dizny come across as an idealistic dreamer or his dream could be over before it starts.
I hope not but a lot of this is making no sense.
That is for another day eh.
Take care Mr & Mrs Auldheid get rid of your TV and howl at the moon along with me.
Its a lot safer.
Much too serious to be flippant about.
Remember you called me a Tinfoil Hat Loon.
Well:
TPV Sean
@tpvsean
“NASA Drops Bombshell, Finally Admits ‘We Didn’t Go To the Moon’
NASA just dropped the mother of all bombshells, and the mainstream media quickly covered it up.
They’ve finally admitted it: we never went to the Moon. The Apollo landings? Total Hollywood production.”
https://x.com/tpvsean/status/1996305507569557532#m
Tke care man.
HH
oot
Good Morning Fholk – Grand Day To Be A Tim…
Bigbhoy @ 8:55 pm,
“Wilfred and his coaches should be given the opportunities to make mistakes and errors of judgement as is natural, The comparison should be a declining Rodgers and not the Temporary Manager O’Neill, Remember There will be a bedding in period and a period for the players learning what the coaches want,
It is certainly alarming the amount of folk that had it in for our highly successful manager, who departed in October – are making excuses and managing expectations from our new Management, Coaching team before a ball is hit.
BR&Co had a successful season in 2024/25 – yet many on here were saying domestically and in Europe they fell short.
Brendan Rodgers and several of his backroom staff left in October as their “declining” results weren’t good enough.
Now “declining Rodgers” is where the bar is set!?
Not A Chance – Get Real…
What we expect from Wilfried and Co is an improvement, a big improvement
Put simply, if BR&Co 2024/25 wasn’t good enough – Wilfried Nancy must be expected to hit above that.
There is absolutely no reason why he can’t – he will surely be backed by the Board, even if it is to prove a point.
One thing Wilfried and Co has; the Board, the Collective and all decent Celtic supporters wishing him the best.
An “innocent” party with a clean sheet.
No excuses will be asked for or given.
Aff oot
Hail Hail
Your pets are not safe either.
I’m glad my Tim paranoia from the Jungle days has never left my side.
Valerie Anne Smith
@ValerieAnne1970
😡 “YOUR DOG IS DYING 10 YEARS EARLY & YOU’RE PAYING THE OFFENDERS. FACT: U.S. dog lifespan has CRASHED from 15+ years (1970s) to barely 10 today. FACT: Cancer now kills 50% of dogs over 10 — virtually unheard of 50 years ago. FACT: Kidney failure, allergies, obesity, arthritis — ALL exploding since “premium” kibble became king. Your $400 bag of “science diet” actually contains: • Ground-up euthanized animals (pentobarbital still inside) • Glyphosate-soaked grains (levels higher than human junk food) • Antibiotics banned in 37 countries • Nutrients cooked to death at 400°F then synthetic vitamins sprayed back on Meanwhile raw-fed dogs in Italy & villages worldwide hit 18–22 with zero cancer or vet bills. Big Pet Food is running the biggest silent genocide in history
https://x.com/ValerieAnne1970/status/1996659775640137750#m
The monsters are even genociding dogs.
What a world man.
HH
oot.
Wow what a read back, well skipped most of it as most probably will. It takes some energy to be so twisted as to literally argue black is white………
Any chance blog can do anything to dial the volume in a bit?
Good morning all.
Good Morning CQN
scrolled by in record time
When supporters get demonised and the authorities protected
Those who disgrace themselves and their office by incompetence dismissing human beings as not worthy escaping justice
The link below is Charlotte Hennessy recounts the emotional story behind her father’s unlawful death in the Hillsborough Disaster.
Well worth the listen, what an inspiring woman Charlotte is
https://youtu.be/j_DXYqNgNek?si=CpkXPB6QwunKexuo
MOISEY17 on 5TH DECEMBER 2025 6:28 AM
Its a commercial enterprise, footfall is advertising revenue
Kev J I scroll by, you are troubled, but as far as the COVID rabbit hole goes my Dad died of covid before the vaccine was available. Today’s covid is like the flu compared to the original.
Getting back to brother Wilfried. I agree with Chairbhoy on this one almost everyone supporters, players, staff, board MoN, club all want Wilfried to succeed. He will need time and two transfer windows. Let’s give him that much time, time for all of us to get back on the one road. Hail Hail.
KevJungle on 5th December 2025 3:57 am
Big Jimmy
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I wish he was still here as well man.
Go and look at when SFTB last posted on CQN and how many hours until the first post revealing the terrible news.
The last thing he’d want would be posts full of raging sweary words.
The lots of others were CANAMALAR, TET, BURNLEY 78, and dozens of others who were banned for trying to help their fellow Celts to NOT be deceived by the medias lies about vaccines being safe and effective.
The Government/Media/Polis/etc all knew what was going on and got people fired from their jobs for not taking the vaccine, whilst hospitals were empty
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WHAT THE FECK ?
I did NOT ask you anything about COVID and/or VACCINES, or who were losing their Jobs etc etc…What the feck are you on about ? BURNLEY, CANALMAR or whoever may Posted about Covid have NOTHING to do with the FACTUAL DATE that Tony died and/or YOUR Claim, so WHY are you naming them ?
COVID has NOTHING to do with any of this…?
You WRONGLY STATED that SFTB had died on December 4th 2024, and NOT on December 3rd 2024.
Myself and others on here were/are disgusted when YOU made that FALSE CLAIM on here on Wednesday 3rd December 2025, as MYSELF and probably others who attended Tonys Funeral have WRITTEN EVIDENCE from his Funeral Service which was held on Wednesday 18th December 2024.
According to you… EVERYONE ELSE is wrong….( INCLUDING the FUNERAL DIRECTORS ????? )….and YOU are RIGHT ?
I do NOT have to try and find any Post from Tony to you on the 4th December 2024,as it does NOT EXIST !
YOU couldnt give a Feck about upsetting Tonys Family, or his friends with your DELIBERATE LIE that you Posted on here in order to try and ” SCORE POINTS” in your ill advised SICK MIND.
I hope that none of Tonys family read your INACCURATE POST ?
I have WRITTEN EVIDENCE of WHEN Tony passed away….What have YOU GOT….FECK ALL !
Never mind trying to tell me to ” TAKE CARE”…YOU are a Deliberate TWISTED LIAR….with a TWISTED MIND……in other words YOU ARE A SICK FUCK !
Good morning CQN.
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Auldheid on 5th December 2025 4:01 am
One of the problems in getting the truth out is the excuses made not to read evidence.
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Nice one, Auldheid
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just heard that the J-League is going thru a reset, that will see a hiatus for many top players for around 5/6months. The J-League is trying to align its league with many more in the region or something.
Given our love of a loan deal, I wonder if our recruiters could be scanning the J-League for a cheeky loan to cover – say – the imminent exit of oor Daizen ?
Celt55
Maybe Brother Wilfried should do a cover of Glen Daly’s ‘The Celtic Song’
“We support the SELTEEEEK as they are the finest in the land”
Chairbhoy
“Put simply, if BR&Co 2024/25 wasn’t good enough – Wilfried Nancy must be expected to hit above that.”
Absolutely!
Purely in terms of the league – which is all we have as an apples:apples comparator – we should benchmark 2.5 points per match average to win a competitive league: 95 points. There’s a small margin of error.
BR was running at 1.88 points per match this season after 25% of the matches played. Extrapolated, that’s 72 points for the season – a distant 2nd place most seasons.
We’re currently sitting at 2.28 points per match after MON’s intervention: extrapolated, 86 points. Probably good enough this season, but outside the margin of error.
Nancy’s target is plainly to improve that number.
Regression to BR’s performance level would yield 77 points for the season – not good enough.
Can’t admit there’s much of value in the above, but hey, I’m agreeing with you 👍
Morning, all.
Some very odd contributions ay the moment. I have bypassed so many.
All I will say with regard to getting jags is that I have been encouraged by the doctor to have the flu one for at least 10 years. I have had the covid one since the outbreak. I would thoroughly recommend anyone to have them.
never had a flu jag or a covid jag – might reconsider as i enter my 60’s
the covid jag didnt sit right with all the profiteering that was going on during covid
the information from the govt changed too from day1 to jag1 to booster1 to booster2 etc etc
Welcome Brother Wilfried!
I thought the covid jabs gave ‘Permanent Immunity’ and that the recipient of the vaccine could not get or spread covid?
As P.T Barnum was once alleged to have said “There’s a sucker born every minute”
Moisey17 on 5th December 2025 6:28 am
Wow what a read back, well skipped most of it as most probably will. It takes some energy to be so twisted as to literally argue black is white………
Any chance blog can do anything to dial the volume in a bit?
Moisey ……. correct, just scroll (quickly) by. Engagement just encourages.
Ave Ave
From the rantings of a demented poster all night,to the Vaccine Luddites.
Time for another break until January.The window will help get things back to football madness.
KevJungle
Last word.
Have you ever considered that had Res12 not happened you would be alone in your own world?
It gave you something more to howl about.
It gave others something to think about.
Some gave up their STs which would be a big loss to them.
For those who carried on regardless Ive been and am grateful, for without them there would be no Celtic left to support.
We all have our individual understafing of reality. None wrong per se. Just different.
For me life provides the time and opportunity for reality to remove the differences that separates us by opening our minds, being less certain in our perceptions.
My last word . It will disappear in the next article.
chairbhoy@5.18am
“No excuses will be asked for or given”
Mmmm
Here’s another one;
“Winners deliver results. ….Losers deliver excuses”
Brendan Rodgers delivered results…..until he didn’t….
Then he started delivering excuses…
Celticmac
After which trophy did BR turn i to a lower?
Aberdeen??
That post serves what?
To demean BR on behalf of someone like DD
Fuqoff wi that
You lot,and there’s more than you,have got to explain why the seething bitterness towards BR?
It serves nothing.
It most definitely is a new thing,do tell when did this ailment came on,after which trophy.
HH
Into a loser not lower
new article posted.
an tearmann
Brendan rodgers was a very good manager @ Liverpool….until he wasn’t
He was a very good manager @ Celtic first time around …..until he jumped ship
He was a very good manager @ Leicester…..until he wasn’t….
He was a very good manager @ Celtic second time around, and a Maeda miss late in the SC final from another treble in May of this year.
He was no longer a good manager @ Celtic, and no longer wanted to be the Celtic manager
And now he isn’t.
That’s All Folks!
MOM
I thought the covid jabs gave ‘Permanent Immunity’ and that the recipient of the vaccine could not get or spread covid?
As P.T Barnum was once alleged to have said “There’s a sucker born every minute”
Aw don’t be so hard on yourself.