Scales admits Celts have let punters down

IT'S felt like sorry has been the hardest word for Celtic fans to hear during a campaign defined by blistering rage.

- BY GRAEME YOUNG

week. We all just have to stick together to get through it. You know, we've had tough times before and we've just stuck together and got through it and we've had good times since.

Box-office statements over botched transfer windows and principal shareholders blasting departing managers, coupled with fan apoplexy at boiling point over a team on the slide.

Mea culpas have been in short supply. The old tactic of holding your hands up has been a missing art down Parkhead way.

However, it simply couldn't be avoided after St Mirren took a pale imitation of Scottish football's former dominators to the cleaners.

Celtic would point to board members saying sorry during their prerecorded statements at the club’s aborted AGM but that was forgotten after Ross Desmond grabbed the headlines with a stinging address then immediately felt the wrath of the club's shareholders.

Now Wilfried Nancy is feeling the heat after three consecutive defeats with the disastrous second half against the Buddies the most galling of the Frenchman's misfiring reign.

But Liam Scales made it his duty as he held his hands up for a nightmare day and a stuttering start as Nancy's early impact was yet to come good on the pitch.