Martin has now become Nancy's worst nightmare

THE Celtic Fans Collective will surely put forward a motion to give Dermot Desmond a vote of thanks in the wake of the Europa League win over Feyenoord.

- HUGH KEEVINS

After all, it was Desmond's idea to put Martin O'Neill in interim charge after the principal shareholder had unceremoniously dumped Brendan Rodgers out in the street in a fit of pique last month.

Credit where it's due, right?

And, on that basis, Dermot and his son - Ross, the boss to be - can show their appreciation to O'Neill by offering him an apology.

Martin, when he arrived in Glasgow after a 20-year absence, immediately gave Celtic presence. Desmond, in return, gave him poverty.

There was poverty of choice, poverty of performance and poverty of ideas.

The stand-in manager highlighted the lack of quality available to him when the team he chose to start in Rotterdam on Thursday night contained none of the players brought to Celtic at a cost of millions of pounds in the summer transfer window.

The window that failed to provide Rodgers with additional players before the unmitigated disaster that was the home-and-away humiliation at the hands of Kairat Almaty in the Champions League playoff round.

O'Neill effectively marked Paul Tisdale's homework in the Netherlands and found the club's head of operations to be a dunce.

The rarely-spotted Tisdale has been getting away with murder.

One questionable buy after another and a complete lack of accountability. Until O'Neill shone a light on his shortcomings.

The problem is that Martin has now become Wilfried Nancy's worst nightmare.

The old guy will leave the building, temporarily at least, after Celtic have played Hibs at Easter Road today.

And with a lot of fans wondering if the right man's going out and the wrong man's coming in to take his place. Talk about a hard act to follow.

Now it’s all about Celtic's choreography on Wednesday night.