WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?

THERE may have been a fair few Celtic fans who got excited yesterday when news broke about a big team binning a manager who was wedded to his system but failing to get results.

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Those same hearts will have sunk when they learned it was Ruben Amorim staggering out of Old Trafford with the plant pot under his arm rather than the current incumbent of the smouldering Parkhead hot seat.

Turns out they only needed to wait a few hours. But, for many, even that was too long.

Yesterday afternoon, Wilfried Nancy was finally sacked by Dermot Desmond.

Eight games and two wins. Much of the support will be wondering why it took so long. There are plenty of parallels that could be drawn between Nancy and Amorim. There’s the formation for a start.

Like the now ex-Manchester United boss, Nancy is a disciple of the flexible 3-4-3 set up, despite it being notoriously difficult without a specific set of players.

Amorim did bend a tad this season when he was starting to look doomed but even in his darkest days in the second half of last season at Old Trafford, he simply refused to budge.

The Portuguese famously said “not even the Pope” could convince him to change his approach.