2) The manner in which Ronny leaves Celtic is sure to be very different from the way that MCoist parted company with Sevco.
When Ronny Deila arrived at Parkhead it’s fair to say that no more than a handful of our supporters knew who he was.
We wanted to like him, and most of us still do. For all the criticism of Ronny the Manager, Ronny the Man is a guy we all have tremendous affection for. The board might come to accept that the fit just isn’t right, but Ronny will retain their enormous respect and they will fashion for him an exit that gives him his due.
He didn’t arrive at Parkhead “one of us”, but he will leave that way.
McCoist, in contrast, took over at a club where he was already a legend and almost revered by the supporters.
During his time at Ibrox, he infuriated the fans so much with an inherent selfishness and arrogance few could believe, and a penchant for grubbing up money at a time when the club could ill afford it, that he left something of a hate figure to the very people who once held him in such esteem.
And worse than all that, his behaviour neither allowed for, nor was he given, the respect and dignity of a “mutual consenting.”
In fact, so keen were his club to get rid of him, they agreed to let him stuff himself every afternoon in the park, on full pay, rather than allow him near the dugout.
When a skint football club is so pissed off with you that they’d rather pay you a salary to stay the hell away from the place … man oh man, you must really reek as a boss.