When the hierarchy has gone as stale as the team it's clear regime change might cross the mind of the disaffected & disillusioned

But when the hierarchy has gone as stale as the team on the park it is clear regime change might cross the mind of the disaffected and disillusioned.

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It's quite a trick to have more money in the bank than all of your league competitors combined, and with 13 of the last 14 titles on your record, yet to have brought your fan base to the brink of revolt.

An orchestrated withdrawal of money from the club has taken place during the international break, with supporters cancelling ticket-buying schemes and refusing Europa League packages.

Fans propose to boycott home matches in Europe and domestic games while the atmosphere at the club is, as I wrote three weeks ago, more 1994 than 2025.

But there are subtle differences.

When I ended up, along with McCann, in the back of an outside broadcast van in Celtic’s car park, following our curt removal from the stadium, I knew two things to be fact.

He was the right man for Celtic and revolution was in the air.

The sitting board was too vulnerable to resist removal and not long after Brian Dempsey, who had sought out McCann to save the institution, uttered the immortal words: “The battle is over. The rebels have won.”