For Celtic, this has been the season of unwanted records.

Most Celtic fans will agree that it has undeniably been a tough 2025/2026 campaign for the Hoops. That is a tame description of the club’s fortunes, or misfortunes for that matter.

Over the course of this season, Celtic have broken records, and all for the wrong reasons, leaving supporters bewildered and bemused.

Those outside the club will be sniggering at our struggles. They will accuse Celtic fans of being entitled, of being spoilt. We know that is nonsense. Celtic supporters have always had ambition, both domestically and in Europe.

The problem is that the board does not appear to share those ambitions. That disconnect is the source of enormous frustration.

This has been the worst season since the COVID campaign. The team has haemorrhaged points both at home and away. We have lurched through a managerial merry-go-round. Along the way, long-standing and enviable records have been wiped out.

You would have to fall into the bracket of “eternal optimist” to believe that Celtic will retain the title. It is not mathematically over, but let’s be honest, can this side conjure up seven consecutive wins? I would wager not.

Take the Glasgow Derby in January.

Celtic took the lead through Yang, only to collapse into another powderpuff performance and lose 3-1. That defeat ended a remarkable record. It was the first time in 152 matches that Celtic had lost a home game after scoring first.

December 2025 was equally grim.

The team lost four consecutive matches, the first time that has happened since 1978. A proud 48-year record gone under Wilfried Nancy’s hapless tenure.

You could almost laugh at it if it wasn’t so painful. Wings had Mull of Kintyre. ABBA had Take A Chance. Brotherhood of Man had Figaro. Celtic, it seems, have spent this season collecting unwanted records of their own.

For many of us, that December period is where it all began to unravel. Had we picked up a couple of wins, we might be looking at a very different table.

Instead, the lack of investment in the squad, combined with long-term injuries to key players, left us exposed. By the end of January, the club had recorded a net spend on players of £0.00. That tells its own story.

And the damage did not stop there.

Between December 7th and January 3rd, Celtic lost six matches in just 27 days. For most supporters, myself included, that is unprecedented. Even during the ill-fated Barnes and Dalglish era, I cannot remember a run as bleak or as devoid of hope.

We have found ourselves in the unfamiliar position of relying on other teams to do us favours against Hearts and the Ibrox side. That is not entitlement. That is expectation. Celtic should never be in that position.

The disastrous appointment of Wilfried Nancy only compounded matters. He left with the lowest win percentage of any full-time Celtic manager in history. Sacked after just a month, he somehow managed to undercut even Lou Macari’s 35% from the 1993/94 season.

That took some doing.

Nancy also became the fastest Celtic manager in the modern Premiership era to rack up four consecutive league defeats. Sunday’s loss at Tannadice added another unwanted chapter. The last time Celtic lost twice to Dundee United at Tannadice in a single league campaign was back in 1990/91.

To make matters worse, Martin O’Neill had never tasted defeat there until now.

Tannadice has not been kind to us this season, and neither has Dens Park. Celtic lost there for the first time in 37 years under Brendan Rodgers’ previous tenure. Now we return again, hoping simply not to add to the growing list of unwanted milestones.

And then there is the managerial chaos. Celtic have effectively had four managers this season, with O’Neill stepping in twice. That alone tells you everything about the lack of stability at the club.

History also tells us that no team has ever won the league title after losing eight matches. Celtic have already reached that mark. If we somehow retain the title from here, it would be another record, but perhaps not one to celebrate.

Records, of course, are there to be broken.

But not these. Not like this.

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