From obscurity to Parkhead: The self-titled Football doctor & analytics nobody, the MLS manager he championed, and the systemic rot at Celtic Park under Dermot Desmond and the Celtic board.
Excellent and in depth analysis of the football doctor Paul Tisdale's reign of confusion, internal incompetence and boardroom machinations, all to the general detriment of Celtic FC, if ever anything was more evident that a hostile takeover of this Celtic Board, by a beneficial and forward thinking consortium, was essential, then this expose by Andy Muirhead underlines that fact. I agree the shady Ampadu connection is the smoking gun here too, and reflects a systemic disease of cronyism and patronage at the heart of this out of touch and autocratic Celtic Board and its absentee landlord Desmond.
Outstanding breakdown of how institutional dysfunction compounds over time. The Ampadu connection to Nancy is the smoking gun here, shows how personal networks trump actual merit when boards lack proper oversight. I've seen similar patterns in corporate restructuring where shadow authority figures make decisions without visible accountabilty. The real tragedy is how Tisdale's nine rules never got implemnted because the board was already committed to project signings.
Excellent and thorough article, Andy, and I agree with almost everything except the bit about "Michael Nicholson, as CEO, should function as a check on board-level decision-making and as a guarantor of professional standards". In any normal organisation, it should be the other way round - the CEO sets the vision and is responsible for strategic execution, the board is there to scrutinise, support and maintain the highest standards of professional governance. Either way, the club has a dysfunctional approach mediated through mediocre, unfit for purpose executive personnel.
Excellent and in depth analysis of the football doctor Paul Tisdale's reign of confusion, internal incompetence and boardroom machinations, all to the general detriment of Celtic FC, if ever anything was more evident that a hostile takeover of this Celtic Board, by a beneficial and forward thinking consortium, was essential, then this expose by Andy Muirhead underlines that fact. I agree the shady Ampadu connection is the smoking gun here too, and reflects a systemic disease of cronyism and patronage at the heart of this out of touch and autocratic Celtic Board and its absentee landlord Desmond.
Outstanding breakdown of how institutional dysfunction compounds over time. The Ampadu connection to Nancy is the smoking gun here, shows how personal networks trump actual merit when boards lack proper oversight. I've seen similar patterns in corporate restructuring where shadow authority figures make decisions without visible accountabilty. The real tragedy is how Tisdale's nine rules never got implemnted because the board was already committed to project signings.
Tisdale was a subservient fig leaf for the Politburo Celtic Board.
Excellent and thorough article, Andy, and I agree with almost everything except the bit about "Michael Nicholson, as CEO, should function as a check on board-level decision-making and as a guarantor of professional standards". In any normal organisation, it should be the other way round - the CEO sets the vision and is responsible for strategic execution, the board is there to scrutinise, support and maintain the highest standards of professional governance. Either way, the club has a dysfunctional approach mediated through mediocre, unfit for purpose executive personnel.