WHAT TOOK YOU SO LONG?

From green adidas trainers to early crushing defeats and THAT tactics board... Nancy never stood a chance. The big question for Desmond is...

- MICHAEL GANNON

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.

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 to budge.

Old Trafford, he simply refused, The Portuguese famously said "not even the Pope" could convince him to change his approach.

He might just have had a point, mind you. Pope Leo is apparently a Roma fan - where legendary Italian boss Gian Piero Gasperini is one of the few gaffers in top-level football to make 3-4-3 sing.

Celtic fans got to see it in action a few weeks ago only the Hoops didn't have a prayer.